Most terrifying fictional world to live in?
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I agree with 40k - even the good guys in that universe make the Nazi Germany look like benevolant friendly government.
When I first read the title, my instant reaction was "1984 dystopia" and the world from Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, what with all the robots trying to kill you...
Having read the explanation, I'd be inclined to say the world from Elder Scrolls: Obilvion, mainly because seemingly innocuous things want you dead.
As beautiful as it is...deadly. Like a good woman.
Plus, imagine how quickly you'd go insane!
"Hail!"
"Didn't I just talk to you over there?"
"Indeed not! That is my neighbour, Borgir."
"But...you have the same voice. And you say the same things."
"STOP, CRIMINAL SCUM!"
"Oh, for fuck's sake..."
Having read the explanation, I'd be inclined to say the world from Elder Scrolls: Obilvion, mainly because seemingly innocuous things want you dead.
As beautiful as it is...deadly. Like a good woman.
Plus, imagine how quickly you'd go insane!
"Hail!"
"Didn't I just talk to you over there?"
"Indeed not! That is my neighbour, Borgir."
"But...you have the same voice. And you say the same things."
"STOP, CRIMINAL SCUM!"
"Oh, for fuck's sake..."
Oblivion would drive me insane too...
I wouldn't count Amnesia or other examples shown here because if you would be you then you wouldn't be in the same situation as characters from the game, hence you may not even encounter certain situations. A terrifying world would include horrible scenarios at every turn rather than being in a certain situation.
I wouldn't count Amnesia or other examples shown here because if you would be you then you wouldn't be in the same situation as characters from the game, hence you may not even encounter certain situations. A terrifying world would include horrible scenarios at every turn rather than being in a certain situation.
The Command and Conquer universe (Tiberium series, not the Red Alert spinoffs) is pretty damn messed up. I find myself frequently taking its crapsack-world setting for granted, without remembering that the world is being taken over by alien, radioactive crystals that leech minerals out of the ground, mutate organic beings horribly while killing everything else, and spread rapidly. Add to that a semi-fascist superpower trying to maintain order while struggling with not just nuclear-capable cultists with burrowing tanks that spit fire, but also aliens with enormous carriers that spit ground-attack fighters like a force-fed bulimic. Not to mention the ion storms.
Oh, and everybody's so corrupt that sending a lone engineer with a briefcase (presumably full of money) into a structure will make everyone defect long enough for the enemy to suck it into the earth and make a partial profit.
Oh, and everybody's so corrupt that sending a lone engineer with a briefcase (presumably full of money) into a structure will make everyone defect long enough for the enemy to suck it into the earth and make a partial profit.
They are worse than the ancient Romans.ninjastovall0 said:
Also, their National Wildlife surveys SUCK!
The Supernatural universe. Almost apocalypse RAWR
Another terrifying world would be the World of Darkness.
You've got werewolves, vampires, ghosts, mages, sin-eaters, kidnapping fairies, people who work as ghosts, clay golems, zealos hunters, demons, kuei-jin, the pure werewolves, mirrors that turn against you, skin-wearers, mummies...and they're all in your backyard.
You've got werewolves, vampires, ghosts, mages, sin-eaters, kidnapping fairies, people who work as ghosts, clay golems, zealos hunters, demons, kuei-jin, the pure werewolves, mirrors that turn against you, skin-wearers, mummies...and they're all in your backyard.
^Definately this.Greyfox105 said:
So, your choices in life are...die from a horrible daemonic disease, die from horrible daemons, die from scary space elves, die from your own side because you think too differently, die from a massive alien swarm which wants to eat you, die because you're unfortunate enough to be a psyker, NOT die and be captured by the Dark Eldar, die via gauss flayer, die by being hacked to pieces, die as a sacrifice to one of the four Chaos Gods...List goes on.
I dunno...while there may be plenty of places in the 40k universe that don't get it so bad, the general impression is that conflict and strife are omnipresant (even if you're not actively at war, there's always going to be the Inquisition and other religious bodies that will deem people as heretics and traitors for the slightest taint or mutation), and that it is only a matter of time before entities such as the Necrons or Tyranids wipe humanity out altogether (considering some of the nightmarish ways to die, and things that occur after death in some cases, this makes the setting very, very bleak and dismal).thaluikhain said:
This isn't even getting into the sense of worthlessness and insignificance that you'll see in the Imperial Guard (those poor conscripts...).
