It Would Never Be Set There

[TheBluesader]

Okay, this idea started when me and one of my mates started talking about a setting in a game that was never used before.

The idea expanded and now, what do you think would be the one place in a game that has never been set in a game before.

Currently the winner I've thought of has been... Ireland.

This can be different time periods too.

The Brittanica expansion for Medieval Total War II had Ireland as a playable faction. You started on Erin proper, and could expand into Britain. All the general names were Anglicized stereotypes, and I tried to change that by updating the proper txt document, but it just destroyed the game and I had to reinstall. So if you don't mind playing as stereotypes, you too can forge a pan-Celtic Briton empire and give the Anglo-Saxon/French crown a run for it's money.

I'd set a game in Western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley, during the French and Indian War. But I assume the next Total War is probably going to do this, given the historical context, so we'll see how it goes.

 

[Jamash]

Maybe I don't know, but has there ever been a game set in Australia?

You could go to Australia in Tony Hawks Underground 2. Although it wasn't set entirely in Australia.

Okay, how about New Zealand? But Lord of the Rings doesn't count.

The New Zealand Story, 21 years ago.

 

[RebelRising]

Maybe I don't know, but has there ever been a game set in Australia?

You could go to Australia in Tony Hawks Underground 2. Although it wasn't set entirely in Australia.

Okay, how about New Zealand? But Lord of the Rings doesn't count.

The New Zealand Story, 21 years ago.

*Sigh*, fine. How about the Cote d'Ivoire? Beat that.

 

[Moonmover]

[sarcasm]Ooh! Ooh! I know!

The Second World War![/sarcasm]

Seriously, though, I've yet to see a video game set in the preColumbian Americas.

Inside a human body? Or did family guy or something do that already?

Back in the Ninties, when the rage was to put cheap computer games in cereal boxes, there was an in-name-only adaptation of the board game Operation in a ceral box. It took place mostly inside the human body.

 

[AceDiamond]

In a notebook where you need to get someone from point a to point b, but you have to compete against a rival "artist" spawning various enemies and obstacles by drawing your own paths and allies and so forth. Think Lemmings meets Comix Zone.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Inside a soda can...
inside an old television...
inside a nerd's bedroom... (all games do in a way...{JK})

 

[RavingPenguin]

Hmmm..
Tasmania?
Egypt?
Lebanon?
The sun?
have any of those been done?

 

[Grenbyron]

On a human face.
Comes equipped with a forest, 3 dungeons and a tentacle monster.

 

[Trivun]

Maybe I don't know, but has there ever been a game set in Australia?

You could go to Australia in Tony Hawks Underground 2. Although it wasn't set entirely in Australia.

Okay, how about New Zealand? But Lord of the Rings doesn't count.

The New Zealand Story, 21 years ago.

*Sigh*, fine. How about the Cote d'Ivoire? Beat that.

Ivory Coast, that's in Africa. Isn't RE5 set in or near there, or is it a different part? I don't know, Africa's a BIG place...

 

[Susurrus]

@ The Blue Sader..
I'm pretty sure you can just rename the provinces manually in game... Would have saved you a lot of time/reinstall. Sure, you have to capture them first, but if you're playing as Ireland and take them off the English, reverse Anglicanisation seems.. sensible..

 

[Moonmover]

Hmmm..
Tasmania?
Egypt?
Lebanon?
The sun?
have any of those been done?

Lots of games were set in Egypt.

Including Pharoah. Which is awesome. Buy it.

 

[bjj hero]

Hmmm..
Tasmania?
Egypt?
Lebanon?
The sun?
have any of those been done?

Numerous Tazmainian devil carts in the 16 but days
The egyptians are in Civ amongst other historical titles.
Leb must have been done at some point in the thousands of shooters out there.
Dont think the sun has been done.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

In a perpetual traffic jam in between the dimensions.

 

[Snowalker]

well, I don't know if this counts, but.. Imagen being so small, that even the little tiny bumps of friction get in your way.

 

[captain awesome 12]

Mongolia? Can't think of anything off the top of my head, unless they made a Ghengis Khan game.

 

[EeveeElectro]

What about a whole set inside....a washing machine...or a dryer....or even....a light bulb.

LittleBigPlanet people did a washing machine before.

So did Rayman. It was the level where you fought the space momma who had a rolling pin and sang opera.
Man, that game was fucked up.

 

[Resistance205]

Okay, this idea started when me and one of my mates started talking about a setting in a game that was never used before.

The idea expanded and now, what do you think would be the one place in a game that has never been set in a game before.

Currently the winner I've thought of has been... Ireland.

This can be different time periods too.

As another person said, Folklore was a game set in Ireland, but i think that is the only game that is set in Ireland...I also think that was the only reason i bought Folklore!

How about...a game set in a human eye!
a game set in a toaster!
In a...Limo!
Ooooo was there ever a game, purely set in a book?