Poll: Would you like to play a video game set in your hometown/city?

[VeryOddGamer]

It would be kind of cool, yeah. Although the town I live in is pretty damn small with nothing interesting in it, so yeah. But then on the other hand, I could visit myself! Hooray!

Me, narcissistic? Somewhat.

 

[namhorFnodroG]

So... GTA in Stockholm. I'd like that.

 

[Angie7F]

Yeah, I guess, if only for the curiosity value and to see who would possibly want to set a game in Hobart, Australia. (That distant rumbling noise you can hear is all the other Aussies on the forum laughing at me.)

It would be pretty dull setting.

I lived in many cities, and I would all Perth and Tokyo my hometomes.

Tokyo obviously has tons of movies and games set in it, so I am no stranger to playing games set in my hometown.

Now, if there was a game set in Perth, it might be as dull as hobart.

 

[awmperry]

Of course! Any game that's set even nearby I tend to snatch up. "My town" is actually two areas; Stockholm, Sweden and Galloway, a rural area of Scotland. I bought Outpost (the film) just because it was filmed nearby (along with a fair number of other films), and Kirkcudbright would be a great setting for one of those slow-building, unsettling, creeping-horror games.

Similarly, Stockholm would be great for any number of genres. Why do you think I bought Krater?

 

[CleverNickname]

Düsseldorf would actually be pretty good for a video game - it's a "big city" but it's not terribly large. Manhatten always gets shrunk to about a quarter of its size in games, you wouldn't have to do that with Düsseldorf's important bits.

No stunt jumps, though, it's flat as hell here

 

[mgirl]

I would like to see the area I grew up in in a game like fallout or a zombie apocalypse game. Partly out of morbid curiosity to see what my home would look like in ruins or in that sort of situation, but also because the game would be that much more interesting to me if it was set somewhere I knew.

I've never seen a game set where I am, but that's because I'm in the north of england. Most games set in england only seem to care about London, somewhere I've only been a couple of times, so it doesn't mean anything to me.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Yeah, then I'd know my way around better. That is really the only appeal though, it is pretty boring here. And knowing this place it would be a religious game since there is at least one church on every corner.

 

[Brett Bowling]

A game in my hometown would essentially be old school Diablo
A bunch of Know-nots standing on their porches, drooling, unable to run their own errands, and prateling on about the end of the world.

 

[Wado Rhyu]

i come from a small fisher town in holland. but i geuss you could make a decent maffia game. or horror game of the place. would require alot of creativity. but it could be done and be awsome.

also, look at Vampire the Masquerade. great game but not alot of room to play in. so no matter how small the place you could make it work.

 

[tangoprime]

The Suffering: Ties that Bind was set in Baltimore Got to tear up monsters in a movie theatre I used to go to when I lived there. I remember an older ship combat game, Age of Sail, had a Battle of Baltimore scenario, where you ran a privateer ship against the British blockade, that was kind of neat. I'm really hoping to see if Baltimore shows up at all in Assassin's Creed 3, as I know at the least Battle of the Chesapeake was mentioned as one of the naval warfare segments of the game, and Baltimore was a major port in the region.

Edit: Oh, and I suppose Fallout 3 comes pretty close too, with a lot of recognizable locations along the DC/Baltimore corridor, actually the majority of the landmass, aside from being in the capital itself, is almost all southern Maryland, and Point Lookout is a real place. Lots of area references in Oblivion too.

 

[karcentric]

Ignoring the fact it's mainly bushland and farms... sure, as a FPS/RPG thing. Australia has enough dangerous wildlife to be the enemies.

 

[lunavixen]

I came from a smallish Australian country town, the biggest thing there is the university.

 

[bat32391]

Well I live in Dallas and I haven't heard of any good games taking place down here, so sure.

 

[marche45]

d I would've loved it. So I ask, if there was a game to be set in your city, would you play it? And for those of you that have - for example, New Yorkers (Christ knows how many games have been set in Manhattan alone) did you enjoy said game(s)?

Yeah,i did enjoy Spider-Man 2.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I'd rather see a game based on the Mexican drug wars. Sure it's not my hometown, but my hometown is way too boring to get it's own game.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I live in a tiny village with less than 600 inhabitants. You know what sort of game is set in my place? This:

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I would love it if it was an extremely accurate sandbox game of the area near my house. It would be so fun to get revenge on neighbors I don't like.

 

[Muspelheim]

Damn right, I would. And I suppose I can, technically. The thing that Cry of Fear (set in fictional Stockholm, scarier than it sounds) got right was the atmosphere. It just felt... Spot on. A cold, dark autumn night, when there is no one but you outside, and everything is too quiet.

But really, a horrorgame set in Gothenburg and concerning Innsmouth-y elements would be fantastic. In fact, here's an idea; the sea Draugr of old have had enough, and unleash a thick, mysterious fog on the city, invading the surface realm by the cover of the mist. With them comes horrible creatures from the depth, and it is clear this is only the beginning. You want out, but are forced by circumstance to head deeper into the mist and set things right. There, devs. Make it happen.

Or; after a freak storm, a rusted ghost hulk of a ship silently drifts into the harbour. The police and the port authorities send some people aboard to investigate. Then, everything goes wrong.
Even more or; the old mayor's residence got a reputation of being quite severely haunted. A group of scientists from the university heads out armed with experimental technology. It fails, and they punch a hole through overlapping realities, allowing all sorts of interdimensional horror to pass through. Guess who gets to fight their way back in and fix it?

Hmm, this was a fun exorcise! I really ought to get a Source mod on the subject together sometime.