" @Genkkaku said:

" Not even one mention of Australia..  In this timeline were either to lazy or to drunk to care i guess "

the GKR or whatever actually took over Australia and now use it as their prison colony.  ironic huh "

" @Genkkaku said:

" Not even one mention of Australia..  In this timeline were either to lazy or to drunk to care i guess "

So par for the course then? "

" Hey man video games!! Fuck it how do you know Mass Effect won't happen in the future? "

And the cause of the U.S. dollar's demise is...?

You'd think that given the shenanigans that Korea had been up to for over a decade, the U.S. would have been better prepared for a Korean invasion by this point.    

 Magic science technology thing cripples all of America in one fell swoop.  How incredibly realistic.  

It is plausible that the already crippled USD would take a serious fall in light of oil prices going really high. But for the rest of the world to be unaffected is really, really implausible. In fact, I'd say impossible.

" Is leaving the body of a dead American in a Russian airport with the goal of starting a Russian invasion plausible? You'd think the place would have some security cameras.  "

Myeh, it's a video game story. 
 
Not like other military shooters do any better when it comes to alternate/future histories either.

• 2025: "The Greater Korean Republic has launched its latest communication satellite claiming it will bring a message of peace" This satellite is really a EMP that knocks out near all electronics in America. The Greater Korean Republic begin the invasion. Greater Korean Republic takes over Hawaii and San Francisco.

 
Magic science technology thing cripples all of America in one fell swoop.  How incredibly realistic.

" @Hailinel said:

• 2025: "The Greater Korean Republic has launched its latest communication satellite claiming it will bring a message of peace" This satellite is really a EMP that knocks out near all electronics in America. The Greater Korean Republic begin the invasion. Greater Korean Republic takes over Hawaii and San Francisco.

 
Magic science technology thing cripples all of America in one fell swoop.  How incredibly realistic.

Didn't Modern Warfare 2 teach you nothing??? :P  To be honest, I actually do want to play HomeFront's single-player at some point. It's simply too expensive right now on PC or consoles for a six hour experience. I'm not much into multi-player and I doubt the few hours I will play will, add only a few more hours to that play-time. The concept is complete garbage, but I really dig some of the sequences I've seen online. "

" @vidiot said:

" @Hailinel said:

• 2025: "The Greater Korean Republic has launched its latest communication satellite claiming it will bring a message of peace" This satellite is really a EMP that knocks out near all electronics in America. The Greater Korean Republic begin the invasion. Greater Korean Republic takes over Hawaii and San Francisco.

 
Magic science technology thing cripples all of America in one fell swoop.  How incredibly realistic.

Didn't Modern Warfare 2 teach you nothing??? :P  To be honest, I actually do want to play HomeFront's single-player at some point. It's simply too expensive right now on PC or consoles for a six hour experience. I'm not much into multi-player and I doubt the few hours I will play will, add only a few more hours to that play-time. The concept is complete garbage, but I really dig some of the sequences I've seen online. "

To be fair, apart from exploding the ISS with a shockwave (lolwut), the EMP generated would pretty much fry everything electronic on the surface in a fairly large radius, as demonstrated back in '62 with "Starfish Prime". The explosion was around 900 miles away from Hawaii and it still fried some street lights and a telephone companies' microwave link, whatever that is.

Anyway, Homefront seems interesting to just play, though I'll probably wait for the price to drop. I might get Killzone 3 in the meantime, or something, I'm not sure.

Edit: The nuke would probably fry a lot of Satellites in the area too, wouldn't it? Maybe even the ISS, just not, you know, exploding the thing. "

Wow that timeline is ridiculous. The only thing that I see kinda plausible would be that the U.S would be slow to take itself off of the use of oil and not embrace alternative energy sources faster. Getting to $20 gas without any real alternative for fuel is pretty insane to see happen. Also letting N. Korea become some kind of super power without any real opposition is stupid, but then again....VIDJA GAMEZ!!

To be honest at least they put some effort into explaining it as opposed to Russians just parachuting into Patrick Swayze's school. 

The more ridiculous the premise the better.

Today a friend of mine tried to argue that Homefront's story was realistic and that everything that occurs in it could totally happen in real life.

This game story is not true to life.

" To be honest at least they put some effort into explaining it as opposed to Russians just parachuting into Patrick Swayze's school.  "

Regardless of plotholes, the backhistory is still really interesting.  
 
Regardless, what about the U.S. Army post in South Korea? Where the hell was the U.S. and China when Japan was being invaded. Also, where the hell was Canada, Mexico, and Europe when the U.S. was being attacked!? 

" Breaking News: Hailinel doesn't like a western game. Latest Developments: Picks holes in fictional storyline; Thinks he's actually making a point. "

" Regardless of plotholes, the backhistory is still really interesting.   Regardless, what about the U.S. Army post in South Korea? Where the hell was the U.S. and China when Japan was being invaded. Also, where the hell was Canada, Mexico, and Europe when the U.S. was being attacked!?  "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" Breaking News: Hailinel doesn't like a western game. Latest Developments: Picks holes in fictional storyline; Thinks he's actually making a point. "

Normally I'd totally agree with you, but he's absolutely right about the plot being utter nonsense. Even Hitler wasn't appeased with nine sovereign nations before military action was taken. "

Plus I am sure a lot of it is plausible the only thing is the EMP bomb which of course is science fiction but hey suspense of disbelief.

Does the back story address the amount of civilian owned arms in our country?  I mean... I don't think a full out invasion would go as easily as portrayed.

" @blacklabeldomm said:

" Hey man video games!! Fuck it how do you know Mass Effect won't happen in the future? "

There are times when the "Because video games" argument just doesn't cut it anymore. "

" @President_Barackbar said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" Breaking News: Hailinel doesn't like a western game. Latest Developments: Picks holes in fictional storyline; Thinks he's actually making a point. "

Normally I'd totally agree with you, but he's absolutely right about the plot being utter nonsense. Even Hitler wasn't appeased with nine sovereign nations before military action was taken. "

Please tell me you're not using real world World War 2 factual history as a rebuttal to a fictional timeline. "