If you could live in a game world...
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Pokemon, or Ratchet & Clank's world for two different reasons.
Pokemon - IT'S FUCKING POKEMON!
R&C - It actually feels like a proper universe, with legal bestiality. And sex dolls that aren't just dolls. And did I mention the weaponry?!
Pokemon - IT'S FUCKING POKEMON!
R&C - It actually feels like a proper universe, with legal bestiality. And sex dolls that aren't just dolls. And did I mention the weaponry?!
If I could be the focal point in some big thing set in the Assassin's Creed universe, that would do it for me.
Fallout. You and your skill with weapons make the law.
And if you're in power armor at the time... Who's going to stop a walking tank from having ALL THE MACARONI HE WANTS?
And if you're in power armor at the time... Who's going to stop a walking tank from having ALL THE MACARONI HE WANTS?
Nah, I outdrew him when he tried to kill Sheriff Simms. One .44 round to the head meant no one to get in the way of my consumption of delicious cheesy noodles.RustyMcPlwood said:
One of the following:
The Sims. Because all the women are so very easy to get to want you---just say the right things in the right order and it's high five sexy time! Plus, getting rich is so, SO very easy.
Oblivion. Get myself set up on the Anvil waterfront casting Illusion spells until the cows come home, then enchant myself a 100% Chameleon suit and the world is my oyster.
Fallout: New Vegas. I specify because the Capital Wasteland's a bit too bleak and humorless. The Mojave's got a lot more character to it, although having my life ended by a glitch in the Matrix wouldn't be much fun, and exploration would be a bear (or a Deathclaw, or a horde of Deathclaws, or getting stung by Cazadors...)
The Sims. Because all the women are so very easy to get to want you---just say the right things in the right order and it's high five sexy time! Plus, getting rich is so, SO very easy.
Oblivion. Get myself set up on the Anvil waterfront casting Illusion spells until the cows come home, then enchant myself a 100% Chameleon suit and the world is my oyster.
Fallout: New Vegas. I specify because the Capital Wasteland's a bit too bleak and humorless. The Mojave's got a lot more character to it, although having my life ended by a glitch in the Matrix wouldn't be much fun, and exploration would be a bear (or a Deathclaw, or a horde of Deathclaws, or getting stung by Cazadors...)
Well, to be entirely honest since most games are developed around the idea of adventure and excitement, not many of them would be very pleasant for *me* to live in.
The problem with questions like this is that most tend to think of the question in terms of "which game setting would I want to be a hero in". Well you (joe gamer) are not a hero. Simply being part of that world means that your liable to be a menial labourer in something like Fable (Crate Carrier, etc...), one of the many fearful ordinary joes (or someone who dies from lack of water, or from radiation) in say "Fallout", etc... etc...
I suppose in theory some of the more civilized universes like "Mass Effect" might be okay, but even so those games take place in "interesting times" (to referance the old Chinese curse). In that universe you have reasonably good odds of sitting around drinking your coffee and being gathered up for building components, turned into a husk, or used for rogue military experiments... depending on where you are of course. Given that most of the game takes place out on the fronteirs... well in that "game world" I can't think of many nice places where you could just mind your own business. I mean even "The Citadel" saw most of it's inhabitants used as wall paper at the end of the first game.
It's sort of like the question from "PnP" RPG games about whether someone would like to live in their campaign setting of choice. That's a big "oh yeah" until they realize that same rarity of heroes (so to speak) that makes their adventures signifigant means that they get to be 0 level peasants. That's not so fun.
It's sort of like how today our own world would be great if you got to be a multi-billionaire playboy adventurer, or something like that. However such people are as rare in proportion to our world as they are to fantasy worlds even if the games choose to focus on them. Someone who was viewing our world from the outside as a campaign world or something, with the action focused on say super-spies, real world adventurers, and a lot of the really cool stuff might think it sounds great themselves... until they realized that being here meant that they got to be you... ordinary Joe-Dude, depressed cog in the machine, guy who consumes fantasy as escapism because his life isn't exactly the stuff of legends.
The problem with questions like this is that most tend to think of the question in terms of "which game setting would I want to be a hero in". Well you (joe gamer) are not a hero. Simply being part of that world means that your liable to be a menial labourer in something like Fable (Crate Carrier, etc...), one of the many fearful ordinary joes (or someone who dies from lack of water, or from radiation) in say "Fallout", etc... etc...
I suppose in theory some of the more civilized universes like "Mass Effect" might be okay, but even so those games take place in "interesting times" (to referance the old Chinese curse). In that universe you have reasonably good odds of sitting around drinking your coffee and being gathered up for building components, turned into a husk, or used for rogue military experiments... depending on where you are of course. Given that most of the game takes place out on the fronteirs... well in that "game world" I can't think of many nice places where you could just mind your own business. I mean even "The Citadel" saw most of it's inhabitants used as wall paper at the end of the first game.
It's sort of like the question from "PnP" RPG games about whether someone would like to live in their campaign setting of choice. That's a big "oh yeah" until they realize that same rarity of heroes (so to speak) that makes their adventures signifigant means that they get to be 0 level peasants. That's not so fun.
It's sort of like how today our own world would be great if you got to be a multi-billionaire playboy adventurer, or something like that. However such people are as rare in proportion to our world as they are to fantasy worlds even if the games choose to focus on them. Someone who was viewing our world from the outside as a campaign world or something, with the action focused on say super-spies, real world adventurers, and a lot of the really cool stuff might think it sounds great themselves... until they realized that being here meant that they got to be you... ordinary Joe-Dude, depressed cog in the machine, guy who consumes fantasy as escapism because his life isn't exactly the stuff of legends.
...until you meet a Deathclaw/Group of Giant Radscorpions/Group of Cazadors that is...Instant K4rma said:
Hmmm, A game world to live in, huh? I'd guess I'd choose one of the Harvest Moon games. Seems like the safest bet. If not that, then the world of InFAMOUS with a Good version of Cole runnin' around.
Probably Nirn, the planet that the Elder Scrolls games are set in.
Mostly because it's probably one of, if not the easiest RPG game worlds to live in (at least Cyrodil is anyway).
Mostly because it's probably one of, if not the easiest RPG game worlds to live in (at least Cyrodil is anyway).