My Strangest Question yet

[bigfatcarp93]

Okay, Escapists, I have a bizarre query for you this time, to do with a couple of games I'm about to get, Dragon Age 2 (Spare me the ITZ SO SHITTY STAY AWAY stuff, please) and Silent Hill 2.

The odd question I have is: what is the climate in these games?

I don't mean the atmosphere, or the political or emotional climate or anything like that.

I mean weather and temperature. How rainy or warm is it, how cold or dry, are the leaves falling, whole deal.

Told you it was a weird question.

EDIT: Though I swear it's important, please answer, I need help.

 

[TheRiddler]

Based on what I know of Silent Hill 2, it's supposed to be foggy...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

No idea about Dragon Age 2, but Silent Hill 2 looks like it's late fall. The trees are bare so the leaves have already fallen, but it's not snowing yet (and the game takes place in a town in the North East so it shows like crazy there in the winter) and your character is always wearing a jacket.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Okay...

Silent Hill 2: Temperate climate, although things are rather strange at the time of the game. Things are always overcast and foggy. I want to say the town's in Maine so the climate is similar to there. Can't remember the time of year off the top of my head, I want to say Autumn, pretty sure it isn't winter though.

Dragon Age 2: Starts out in temperate Fereldan, it's pretty much fantasy England. Then early on they move to the the city state of Kirkwall in the Free Marches, for the most part it is also temperate but some places are pretty arid, definitely more than Fereldan is. I'd say it's warmer than Fereldan but still not overly hot, it seems to rain less than in Fereldan though, not based off in game rain but off what people in the Free Marches say about Fereldan. Fereldan does have variety in climate though, there are snow capped mountains in the west, vast forests in the south and area that are swampy. Likewise Kirkwall is just one city state in the region known as the Free Marches so it isn't the same for all of the Free Marches. In one of the DLCs you even go to a hot desert.

 

[Seishisha]

I'd have thought it would be easier to get this kind of information just from watching a video on youtube or somthing, though you have somwhat peaked my interest, exactly why is this important to you? (you don't have to answer if you don't want to)

*EDIT*

well apparently we posted at almost exactly the same time and now i look like a burk for asking you why directly as you answer!

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Thank you all very much. This has been helpful to a unique immersion tactic I'm experimenting with: playing games at a time when the temperature is the same as in the game, so I really FEEL the game world.

November's full, so I'm penciling SH2 in for December. Looks like poor DA2 will have to wait for May...

 

[bigfatcarp93]

I'd have thought it would be easier to get this kind of information just from watching a video on youtube or somthing, though you have somehat peaked my interest, exactly why is this important to you? (you don't have to answer if you don't want to)

I figured this was the best way to get the info quickly, concisely, and relatively spoiler-free.

 

[Seishisha]

I figured this was the best way to get the info quickly, concisely, and relatively spoiler-free.

Well i guess it worked for you so im the one with egg on my face as they say.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Thank you all very much. This has been helpful to a unique immersion tactic I'm experimenting with: playing games at a time when the temperature is the same as in the game, so I really FEEL the game world.

November's full, so I'm penciling SH2 in for December. Looks like poor DA2 will have to wait for May...

That sounds like an interesting way to play. Well, good luck. Obviously it wouldn't work for all games though, some take place in a variety of climates and seasons, others very alien ones and some in ones that are real but different from where you live. Like cold deserts, hot deserts and tropical rainforests are all pretty different from one another no matter what time of year it is.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Thank you all very much. This has been helpful to a unique immersion tactic I'm experimenting with: playing games at a time when the temperature is the same as in the game, so I really FEEL the game world.

November's full, so I'm penciling SH2 in for December. Looks like poor DA2 will have to wait for May...

That sounds like an interesting way to play. Well, good luck. Obviously it wouldn't work for all games though, some take place in a variety of climates and seasons, others very alien ones and some in ones that are real but different from where you live. Like cold deserts, hot deserts and tropical rainforests are all pretty different from one another no matter what time of year it is.

True, with those I just tend to wing it. For instance, you spend all of Portal 2 indoors, so I just toss that one in whenever.

 

[Auron225]

I've only played Silent Hill 2 - very foggy and overcast.

You're right, this is a strange question.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Silent Hill 2 takes place in a foggy, damp resort town, though it could all be in the protagonist's imagination. So, it could be sunny, or rainy, or just overcast.

Basically, in Silent Hill 2, there is no weather. The weather is different for everyone in the town. Nobody knows what the weather it looks like. Like the Dementors in Harry Potter, or something.

In Dragon Age 2, it seems sunny most of the time, and if it's warm during the day then the nights are probably cold and damp.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Silent Hill 2 - foggy with a chance of sexy monsters.

 

[Herman Hedning's mace]

Based on the geography I would guess that Fereldan's climate is somewhat similar to New Zealands. This guess is based on that Thedas is a planet and that maps are structured in the same way as here. To the far north we have Par Vollen, the homeland of the Qunari, that supposedly is covered mostly by rainforests and jungles so we can assume that Thedases equator is located somewhere around that latitude. To the south of Fereldan we have the Frozen Sea, so the south poll should be down there.

As for Kirkwall I would guess that it has the climate similar to northern Italy, considering it's distances from Antiva which supposedly is basically Spain.

If anyone have more knowledge than me when it comes to world climate (basically any) feel free to correct me.