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On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:37:06 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:


>Other games -including shooters - have used Korea as part of the
>setting but usually are focused on the post-war period. Flight-sims
>remained the most common: "Falcon 4.0" had a whole campaign set there,
>as did the Janes' Longbow expansion "Flashpoint Korea"; "A-10
>Thunderbolt II: Silent Thunder" had some missions set there as well.
>On the shooter front, I recall that one of the missions in "Splinter
>Cell II" had you infiltrate a North Korean Base, and the attrocious
>"Rogue Warrior" had some missions set there too. Arguably, all of the
>"Homefront" games are set in Korea, since that nation annexed the USA
>and all its territory is considered part of the greater korean empire
>;-)

Let's add to that list Crysis - North Korean soldiers!

>I think one of the major reasons that we don't see new games featuring
>that setting is that South Korea is a major market and they don't
>actually like thinking about that conflict too much (understandable,
>considering it is technically still in effect and the threat their
>Northern cousins still pose).  

I was having a conversation with some guys I used to play team
shooters with regularly, about why there were so few games that took
on the Vietnam war.  One of them suggested it is because its the war
that a lot of people in the US would like to forget -- a controversial
war that many were not in support of in the first place, and many
would now like to forget.  And, it ended up being a waste of
lives/time/effort/money since the country reverted to communism almost
immediately after we left anyway, and it didn't exactly turn out to be
a bad them for them or anyone else in the long run.

I actually thought that the controversy of the war, and everything
else that was going on in the USA during that time frame makes it an
even more interesting war to base a game on than most.  If so many
movies and TV shows were created around this war, why is the same not
true about games?   ...this was a question that his explanation did
not satisfy in my mind.