Has a game ever been set in your home town?

[Lieju]

I'm pretty sure Resident Evil 4 took place in my home village. I know they claimed it's in Spain, but damn it looked familiar. Even some of the enemies look like our neigbours.

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

Holy crap, a game taking place in Orlando would probably be the best game ever.

It'd take place in and around our seven theme parks, with the tourists being the main thing at stake. There's tourists from just about everywhere in the city at any given moment, so everyone has some sort of tie to the story. Of course, it'd star me as the main good guy/badass, and everyone I know as supporting characters. There'd be levels set in Fantasyland, having a Peter Pan- themed rail shooter segment, another inside Space Mountain, a battle up to the top of the lighthouse at the entrance to Universal's Islands of Adventure, another among the inner workings of one of the dark rides at Disney, and an underwater level taking place in SeaWorld. Also, there'd be a few missions along International Drive (Wikipedia it). We'd also have an excuse not to have a sewer level, since it'd have to take place inside the Florida Aquifer, and that'd just be terrible.

Yup, best game ever. And that advergame Universal made way back when for the Gamecube doesn't count.

Honestly, though, Miami always gets a visit whenever the protagonists in any game, movie, or book go to Florida, and not Orlando. I've never been able to see why, though.

You know I've always thought it would be fun to be a native of an area with a lot of tourists just to mess with them, sadly while I live close most tourists stay in the city of Washington itself and not in surburbs of it where I live

Yeah, I live right in the middle of all the parks. I can see SeaWorld from my house, Disney is literally right down the street, and Universal is only about 15 minutes away. Thus, I'm almost always in contact with tourists. Apparently, none of them realize that just because they're on vacation doesn't mean that they're allowed to change how they behave normally. They're all either idiots who can't figure out the purpose of a line without someone telling them, or they're assholes, who think that everyone's there to further THEIR enjoyment of their vacation, and just get in the way. Honestly, they're too annoying to be able to mess with. Consider yourself lucky.

 

[digipinky75910]

Actually, the opening of Transformers 2 was shot at Bethlehem Steel in my hometown of Easton, PA. I look forward to playing it to see if I can blow up my house.

 

[Dahni]

In Glasgow?
not that I'm aware of.

that said, Glasgow would be a perfect place to set a GTA style game. We've already got our own gangs & mafias, known as "young teams" and "the fleeto". Plenty of prostitutes. Plenty of drugs. & so on.


EDIT:

I've never seen a game set in Scotland, let alone my town. GTA in Scotland would be awesome, though.

FUCK. ninja'd ¬.¬

 

[Red Right Hand]

Not as far as I know. Vancouver probably wouldn't make a very interesting setting.

Tony Hawks Underground

In Glasgow?
not that I'm aware of.

that said, Glasgow would be a perfect place to set a GTA style game. We've already got our own gangs & mafias, known as "young teams" and "the fleeto". Plenty of prostitutes. Plenty of drugs. & so on.


EDIT:

I've never seen a game set in Scotland, let alone my town. GTA in Scotland would be awesome, though.

FUCK. ninja'd ¬.¬

Yeah GTA: Easterhouse, THAT would be fucking cool. Having to fight off legion after legion of neds and bams. It would feel good.

 

[AdamG3691]

silent hill

nah, maybe if they made GTA 5 in north west england...

if they do, I demand they put in a secret cutscene:

Why so BRITISH?!?

 

[Ophiuchus]

My hometown: no. Where I currently live: yeah, plenty, London etc.

 

[geon106]

Yep

openBVE had a custom route that is the railway that runs through my local town, sadly it was very poorly made

 

[geon106]

silent hill

nah, maybe if they made GTA 5 in north west england...

if they do, I demand they put in a secret cutscene:

Why so BRITISH?!?

do you live in Liverpool? cuz i'm sure i've seen liverpool in a game recently? and no, not beatles rock band lol or flight sim

 

[atomictoast]

Closest I can think of is Guitar Hero: World Tour had a venue that was the Kentucky State Fair. That's as close to me as it can get.

Oh, also...Every Flight simulator ever.

 

[Caligulove]

I dont know.
Has anyone made a game about that short scene in Fargo where they drive through Minneapolis?

 

[Cucipher]

In coole, county Westmeath, Ireland?

*hollow laugh*

Don't think there are any set in Cork either.

Though we do get mentioned in a Metallica song (A cover version, but still Metallica)

I'd much rather we reference Thin Lizzy than those ponces. Maybe that's just me though.

 

[MarsProbe]

I've never seen a game set in Scotland, let alone my town. GTA in Scotland would be awesome, though.

Yeh, as unlikely as it may be, it would be a bit of a laugh to see either GTA: Edinburgh or GTA : Glasgow doing the rounds.

As for a game set in my hometown? I've certainly never seen one, which is just as well because such a game would likely be fairly atrocious. Unless it was included as an extra campaign for L4D, As fighting through the undead horde always tends to be fun, regardless of your location.

 

[Luke5515]

The pit is set in pittsburgh so i guess that counts, even though it's nothing like what it is now.

 

[likalaruku]

Lots of movies, but only 1 game I can think of: Rainbow 6 Vegas 1 & 2 (well, it's 8 hours from where I live) . Lots of movies have been filmed in the surrounding "ugliest most boring place on earth" CalNeva desert.

 

[Looking For Alaska]

My hometown is Detroit.

I'm sure there's a few out there.

 

[p3t3r]

unless there is gonna be a justin bieber game than no. ya that stupid person is from my home town