If you could live in any game world...

[Alexander Kirby]

So, if you could live in the world from any game, which would you choose? No limitations, but I'd ask you to consider how you'd live there on a day to day basis:

-Where in the world would you build your house?
-What obtainable materials would it be built from?
-How would you protect your home from any local pests?
-Where would you get your food, would you have a job?
-Who/what would your neighbors and friends, if any, be?
-And of course, why would you live there?

As I said, be as crazy as you want; you can eat nothing but candy if you want, if that's all that they have in that world. Your real life needs will not necessarily carry over depending on your game of choice, just make sure what you're eating etc. fits in with the world you choose.

So, what will it be?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I don't know, most video game worlds are generally pretty terrifying. There are a lot of monsters, demons, dragons ext that can end your life in a second. For this reason, I wouldn't choose anything in a medieval fantasy setting. Let's go back in time, but let's add dragons, because we don't have enough plague and war killing us already.

Okami? Demons run rampant in that world.

Pikmin? Don't go outside at night.

Kirby? That guy is insatiable, I hope you like living in his stomach.

Spoiler: Even Pokemon has balloons that kidnap small children.

It is whispered that any child who mistakes DRIFLOON for a balloon
and holds on to it could wind up missing.

Plain old boring reality sounds like a good fantasy world to live in.

 

[RJ 17]

I don't know, most video game worlds are generally pretty terrifying.

I was going to mention this as well. I mean hell, even something as innocuous as the Mario universe would be pretty frickin' scary. Giant angry mushrooms with vampire fangs walking around, big disgruntled turtles marching back and forth, not to mention a big dragon-turtle-guy running amuck every couple days.

I'll pick the safe answer and say I'd like to live in Minecraft Creative Mode world. :3

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Giant angry mushrooms with vampire fangs walking around, big disgruntled turtles marching back and forth, not to mention a big dragon-turtle-guy running amuck every couple days.

Don't forget the hammer brothers. Two dudes just... throwing hammers everywhere. Of course they're wearing helmets but the same can't be said for passersby. It's all fun and games until some innocent person gets brained.

 

[RJ 17]

Giant angry mushrooms with vampire fangs walking around, big disgruntled turtles marching back and forth, not to mention a big dragon-turtle-guy running amuck every couple days.

Don't forget the hammer brothers. Two dudes just... throwing hammers everywhere. Of course they're wearing helmets but the same can't be said for passersby. It's all fun and games until some innocent person gets brained.

And giant pipes everywhere that if you fall into one you'll never know where you'll end up, bottomless pits litter the land, man-eating-plants that spit fireballs. You play the games and have a grand ol' time in a fun, colorful universe...but to actually live there would be a fight for survival every day.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Probably something like Animal Crossing. That way I could still survive the same way I do now, except the world would be all colourful and happy and I wouldn't worry about being stabbed to death whenever I walk out the front door.

 

[LaoJim]

Dirt 2. You get to travel the world, Morocco, Malaysia, Japan and you get you're own trailer to sleep in. Plus no monsters. On a similar note, Test Drive Unlimited world is basically a Hawaiian island and you start with a free house and sports car. Works for me.

Mafia 2, I don't think there are any goons if you don't complete the first mission, and you can soak up the 1950's atmosphere. Seem to remember the starting house was pretty run down though. I'd say Saint's Row 3 might have a better crib, but then you started that game by jumping out of a plane with no parachute, so that's a no.

On a more fantastic note. Mass Effect 1. The reaper's won't arrive for years, and as long as you stay clear of Eden Prime, Zhu's hope and that ice world you won't get bothered by the Geth either. The Asari homeworld seemed pretty nice.

The other obvious, though slightly pervy answer would be Dead or Alive Extreme beach volleyball.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Probably something like Animal Crossing. That way I could still survive the same way I do now, except the world would be all colourful and happy and I wouldn't worry about being stabbed to death whenever I walk out the front door.

Realistically, I would probably choose Animal Crossing too if I want to have a pleasant, safe life in a video game world.

OT: Though, I will go with my mainstay choice of "live in a game world" threads. Pokemon! I know, Drifloon would want to steal my kids, Litwick wants my soul, Shuppet wants revenge on me etc. That's just the ghost Pokemon, they are a small percentage of all the mons out there. Most Pokemon want to be your friend as long as you put(trap) them in a nice convenient ball. It seems like the Pokemon world is pleasant enough, people give you random stuff when you intrude in their houses for example.

Plus, it's one of the only video game worlds where if you fail, you don't die. That is pretty nice. Of course you lose some money and scurry to the last Pokemon center you visited. It beats being shot, stabbed, or bitten to death by a long shot.

 

[Scootinfroodie]

Considering how incredibly dangerous or screwed up most game worlds are in, I'd probably pick something a little more mundane, but with silly rules
Say for instance The Sims
-Everything I want to master can be mastered in about a week, and I will become supreme ruler of the universe in no time at all (fingers crossed for either long timescale or no aging )
-I can get robot butlers and genies and stuff.
-I can tell the people I don't like to leave my house and they will be compelled to listen AND they wont make a fuss.
-I can change to whatever outfit I've bought by spinning in a circle, and everything fits in my pocket.
-I can buy pretty much everything without leaving my house, and I don't have to move it in through my front door or a window or anything.
-I get to live in a ridiculously pretty area with a potentially diverse group of people who don't get hung up on race/ethnicity/religion/social class/etc.
-If someone dies, they can become a ghost, and then I can have cool ghost friends once I get over having the crap scared out of me.

If we're ignoring how these games function on a mechanical level and that whole aspect of in-universe stuff, then I'd probably just pick a Sci-Fi game with the most stable situation for the average civilian, like one of the less crappy outcomes for Deus Ex, or maybe some point along the timeline in a franchise like Phantasy Star or Star Ocean. Food is pretty standard, I'd live in a cool little apartment and grab a tech related job.

Living in the Starbound universe (as a human, hylotl, grounded avian or floran), or taking the place of the main character (for that one ending that I wont mention in case someone here hasn't played it) in Bastion would be cool if I was a little less concerned about danger. Little more hunter-gatherer focused for a lot of stuff there, but that's alright

 

[Bureacreative]

Elder Scrolls probably. Not a lot of health problems if you have the money for a potion. Just after TES 3? no blight, plenty of houses available after the Nerevarine has gone through and accidentally killed some commoners. Political situation is unstable as all heck, but no one ever seems particularly bothered by it. Seems as long as you're not in the capital province, you could set up nicely doing some hunting or light adventuring.

 

[Floppertje]

I'm gonna go with the sims. getting married within 2 days of meeting someone, tons of sex, easy promotions to astronaut on hardly any danger of dying.
except for when the food catches fire and the door magically disappears...

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

BARNEY'S HIDE AND SEEK.

Thread over, I win.

No, seriously. Think about it.

There are no nasty monsters in BHaS. Nothing wants to kill you. Nothing scary happens. You can't physically do anything that will damage you. Ever tried to walk off a cliff in that game? You can't. And best of all, if you put the controller down, the game just plays itself for a bit. So you can be as industrious as you want, but if you just fancy hanging out, this game has you covered as well.

And you have loads of friendly company! All those kids, happily playing in the technicolour dreamworld, until for some reason they all run and hide in terror from the giant fat purple big-toothed monstrosity that never seems to eat anything else... well, except them, I guess. Plus there are no decent hiding places in that world because this is a game for three-year-olds. So Barney will get you, no matter what you do. Every. Single. Freaking. Time.

...Now that I come to think about it, maybe "Barney's Hide and Seek" isn't that good a choice. "Barbie's Dream House" maybe?

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Giant angry mushrooms with vampire fangs walking around, big disgruntled turtles marching back and forth, not to mention a big dragon-turtle-guy running amuck every couple days.

Don't forget the hammer brothers. Two dudes just... throwing hammers everywhere. Of course they're wearing helmets but the same can't be said for passersby. It's all fun and games until some innocent person gets brained.

And giant pipes everywhere that if you fall into one you'll never know where you'll end up, bottomless pits litter the land, man-eating-plants that spit fireballs. You play the games and have a grand ol' time in a fun, colorful universe...but to actually live there would be a fight for survival every day.

And those of you saying the Mushroom Kingdom would be a bad place to live, you haven't even thought through the half of it. You've all put yourselves on the side of the bad guys (Mario is unquestionably a bad guy, assisting the tyrant Peach in subjecting the common working-class goombas and koopas to the worst kind of class discrimination.)

But when you actually think about the odds, Bowser's minions outnumber Peach's by, what, a hundred to one? A thousand? So you'd probably be one of them. Enjoy being forced to patrol one tiny area, relentlessly, day in and day out, until you get ruthlessly kurb-stomped by some psychotic Italian dude who looks and talks like Joe Pesci from "Lethal Weapon 2". Let's face it, if you're a goomba then your life will end one of two ways: either being flattened while walking to the left, or falling down a bottomless pit while walking to the left. Which is arguably worse than being used as some guy's springboard if you're a Koopa Trooper. That or just spending eternity spinning endlessly between two indestructible blocks while inside an indestructible shell. While presumably continually vomiting from the horrific motion sickness. For eternity. Because Koopa Troopers can't die. Ever.

Yeah, the Mushroom Kingdom would be the worst one.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

As always the answer is Pokemon. Trotting around the world beating up pets for easy money FTW.

 

[Eamar]

It would have to be Azeroth for me. Sure it's dangerous, but training yourself up to become a badass hero seems to be a legitimate lifestyle choice there, so no problem. The world's inhabitants and wildlife are even located according to level for your convenience!

- Assuming I'd be a human, I'd probably buy a house in Stormwind City purely for the convenience. I'd spend most of my time on the road though, staying in different inns, visiting friends or camping out so that I could spend time in all the ridiculously beautiful parts of the world. I'd definitely want to visit Sholazar Basin, the Cape of Stranglethorn, Dalaran and Feralas (among others) pretty regularly.

- The next two questions are largely negated by my home being in a city.

- Job would be travelling hero, and if the game is any indication I'd be able to make enough to live on that way. I'd probably also learn a profession like Inscription and/or Herbalism so I could easily gather and carry materials on my travels. I'd be able to buy food, but I'd also hunt.

- Friends would be people I met on my various adventures. I'd like to have a network of friends all across the world so I could go visit them. A mixture of more settled types and other adventurers I could band together with when necessary.

- Why would I live there? Because it's just the most gorgeous, fantastical, vibrant world imaginable. And I'd get to live out my lifelong dream of being an epic hero because, as I said, that's something that's realistically achievable there if you work at it. Life would be never be dull, that's for sure.

Spoiler: Seriously

Spoiler: Just

Spoiler: Look

Spoiler: At

Spoiler: It

 

[Aximili]

Probably the Elder Scrolls universe since sexism doesn't really exist in that area and everyone has equal opportunity to be a badass.

It's not a very challenging world to make your way in. And even if you don't want to live as a warrior, the craftsmen in the cities all look like the are living very comfortably-- except maybe the people in Windhelm since those stone houses always looked, on the inside at least, like they were not capable of keeping the cold out.

I would probably live in Falkreath or Whiterun where it is a bit warmer. Not Riften because of the high likelihood that I'd be robbed of everything I own.

 

[RJ 17]

(Mario is unquestionably a bad guy, assisting the tyrant Peach in subjecting the common working-class goombas and koopas to the worst kind of class discrimination.)

Spoiler: Oh, it's MUCH worse than you think...

That's right...Mario is THE worst person in the Mario universe.

if you're a goomba then your life will end one of two ways: either being flattened while walking to the left, or falling down a bottomless pit while walking to the left. Which is arguably worse than being used as some guy's springboard if you're a Koopa Trooper. That or just spending eternity spinning endlessly between two indestructible blocks while inside an indestructible shell. While presumably continually vomiting from the horrific motion sickness. For eternity. Because Koopa Troopers can't die. Ever.

Yeah, the Mushroom Kingdom would be the worst one.

I'm guessing you meant Green Shelled Koopa Troopa rather than Goomba, because despite their humble status, Goombas do at least have the common sense to turn around when they get to the edge of a bottomless pit. That said, they do still have to live in terror of an overweight Italian man jumping on them and smashing them into mush.

 

[RJ 17]

Snip.

Oh it is indeed a beautiful place to live in...until you consider the fact that you're not an epic hero, you're just a dime-a-dozen sell-sword going around running everyone's errands...like hunting down helpless critters for X amount of (fill in the blank). Behold your epic set of ultimate armor! And the 13,000 other people who specialized in the same class as you wearing the exact same armor!

HARK! There's an epic evil that must be faced down lest it threaten the existence of everyone in the world! I hope you brought your dancing shoes, because the only way to defeat said evil is by memorizing a very specific dance along with 20 (40 if you're from the old-school) other people! And if one person messes up a single step in that dance, the whole group ends up dead and the world as you know it is doomed.

 

[Bug MuIdoon]

Whatever the world's called in FEZ. Seriously, that place is beautiful looking. There's not really any dangers either, and if worst comes to worst and I fall off, I'll just respawn back on the map. I'd make my little hut/house in the forest/woodland part, near the quick fox and the brown dog. I wouldn't have a job. I'd just be a roaming vagabond, making the occasional trip to the starting village to see the adorable, square headed people and have a bash on Gomez' drumkit.

I wish I could live in Moomin Valley too, but that's not game related.