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

[Fayathon]

I kinda got to with Honest Hearts in New Vegas, I was born in Utah, so quite a few of the locations in the DLC are familiar, at least in name to me. It was an interesting experience, but I wish that the locations looked a bit more like they do in real life, that alone was jarring enough to spoil some of my immersion.

>You have discovered North Fork Campground.

Except that's not what North Fork looks like game.....

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I would like to see my home town in a survival horror game. We have all the local cliche spots for just the genre: large local hospital, an ice rink, a small theatre, lots of parks and schools, and a church with basement floors.

One time, when I was coming back from college, it was about 7pm and as I made my way towards my town via the freeway, I could see thick fog surround the city and nothing else. When I drove into the fog, not only was it hard to see, but it was also an eerie atmosphere. There were no cars on the street and no people outside. It was also dead silent. I got home and I walked around a bit, then I had to go back home because I thought I saw something. Turns out it was just a hobo, but I was certain it was something terrifying.

 

[Lucem712]

I don't think it'd be terribly interesting, though it would be interesting to a native and kind of freaky, also.

This is what the game would look like set in small town, NM.

I know this is a long shot, but by any chance are you talking about Corrales?

Nope, sorry. About 5.5 hours SE of that, in the little south-eastern corner by Texas.

 

[Lucem712]

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[Bloodtrozorx]

I found the familiar names and landmarks only added to my experience playing Fallout 3 since I'm a DC native. It also led to moments of me standing in the wastes staring at a familiar landmark destroyed only to get blindsided by Super Mutants. My death highlighted by a strange sense of melancholy. It was awesome.

 

[Saregon]

"I've played a game set in my hometown and I enjoyed it" was what I chose, though it wasn't a game per se, but a mod (for Battlefield 1942)

I loved that map when it came out, my favorite one in that game along with El Alamein.

Anyway, no, there are no games set where I'm from as far as I know, but I would love to see it, and would definitely play it. My hometown of Måløy, Norway (that's right, two out of the three letters in the Norwegian alphabet I've never heard a native english speaker pronounce correctly are in the name) was the site of a fairly major sabotage/decoy operation in the Norwegian theatre of war, Operation Archery, which I would love to see as a map in BF3 for example.

Captcha: danish robot dancers. Wrong country captcha, sorry.

 

[Xiroh86]

Seeing as I live in Wheaton, IL, which has the most churches per capita in the USA (at least as of a couple years ago), I would be interested as long as it involved some kind of "religion brainwashing the masses" conspiracy.

 

[Zenn3k]

If it was an accurate recreation, absolutely. Would be a lot of fun to see my home town in a game and visit places in game that I know of in real life, like the place I work for example.

It would be even cooler if it was a post-apocalypse version and all run-down and what not.

I've made attempts in the past to recreate my home town in Sim City 4, but always found the scale to be a bit off, making it hard to create without using TONS of regions.

 

[Zenn3k]

Seeing as I live in Wheaton, IL, which has the most churches per capita in the USA (at least as of a couple years ago), I would be interested as long as it involved some kind of "religion brainwashing the masses" conspiracy.

Hey! I grew up in Glen Ellen (birth-13 y/o).

 

[Arif_Sohaib]

I would a game set in Karachi as long as it is not like the Peshawar level of Ghost Recon, where they did absolutely no research beyond hiring some guy who knows a bit of Urdu, and it shows some respect to the Pakistanis.
Modern Warfare 2 had a Karachi map but it looked nothing like the real thing and had Arabic written on a few places while very very few Pakistanis actually speak Arabic and most of Karachi's billboards and signs are in English, not even Urdu.

 

[Thomiroth]

I wouldn't mind a sandbox game set in my town, if only for the fact that, if it was accurate, I'd learn the names, directions and structure of the outlying areas.

That said, if it was being that realistic, it'd likely be about the whole religion side of things my home town is annoyingly known for, and I wouldn't want to take either side. In fact, that might be an interesting third option. Play as a completely unaligned crazy destroying the stuff of both sides because they're fed up with the ensuing crap that comes of it, but it would kind of defeat the purpose of the message...

 

[ultrabiome]

i currently live near Washington, DC and i did enjoy both of the games i can think of that i've played based here:

Fallout 3 and The Conduit

definitely neat to be in the metro tunnels that look so close to the real thing.

i always thought my frat house in college would be an awesome counter strike map... multiple floors with upper level decks connected to fire-escapes and a dual staircase inside.

 

[alandavidson]

Heck Yeah!

I know the city like the back of my hand, both above and below ground. Navigation would be a piece of cake.

 

[Fasckira]

So I've been playing a lot of Civ V recently with some friends, and I always rename (no matter what civ I'm playing as) the capital to Dundee (my hometown), the time I was playing today, we started discussing games and settings and remembered a rumour from a few years back saying that the next GTA would be set in Dundee, and you could see that logic behind it as the creator of GTA was a Dundonian and the first few games were made by DMA Design.

FYI, Im from Dundee too (though not living there now), and I once built a Half Life 1 map based on the main building of Dundee High School!

But yes, I'd love to play a full city wide sandbox game based on Dundee. It'd just be the general joy of "oh look, thats RS McColls newsagents! Oh, and the Odeon!" and so on. Multiplayer hide-and-seek DM would be great too!

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Hmm.... Well, I live in Mount Shasta. A town of about 3500 people where 3000 are paranoid conspiracy theorist hippies..... And 500 are rednecks.

I can see it now: You play Nathan Hoover. Retired FBI agent. You go on vacation to Mt. Shasta just to see the sights and have some kicks. While there, you get very, very bored, so you decide you're going to fuck with people.
The object of the game would be to make as many conspiracy theorists lose their minds or flee.
You would use a variety of tactics from walking around in suit and tie with dark sunglasses, to building a fake UFO and crashing into City Hall.

The primary enemy would be the rednecks, who would come after you with shotguns and you would have to find a way to get the hippies to fight them.

It would be glorious.

 

[Rariow]

Considering my hometown is five houses with twelve inhabitants (Counting me, and I moved out long ago), it wouldn't be a very good game, extremely small map and all. I'd be willing to play it though, if only for the curiosity factor of what story they cook up, and what would happen in that boring old place.

Damn. Now you've gone and made me homesick.

 

[Quala]

Why would I want to play a videogame of the place where I live... If I can go see it all myself?

I dunno, its kind of redundant.

Probably so you could do all the crazy screwing around that is much easier to get away with in a game than IRL. Like, a sandbox game that let you bomb the shit out of your high school, or have a shootout in the neighborhood you grew up in. If a game only let's you do things you could do in real life anyway, it'd probably be a pretty shitty game.

OT: Yeah, I've wondered what a game set here would be like. Not sure what you'd be able to do with a game set in a small town, though. Maybe a zombie survival type thing, like maybe Dead Rising but with a town instead of just a mall.

 

[Lev The Red]

remember Mama Dolce's from Fallout 3? my neighborhood (albeit greatly condensed) is right near there.

as an arlington native, F3 is very trippy. it's very odd to see stuff you look at every day completely destroyed. it's also weird being able to completely cross Arlington Cemetery (which is absolutely huge) in maybe a minute or two.

by the way, our metros don't look much better now.

 

[unstabLized]

I have already. Battlefield 3 takes place in Iran and I lived in the capitol, Tehran. There's a multiplayer map called Tehran Highway. Also in Armored Kill, there's Alborz Mountains, which I've visited

 

[RanD00M]

My home town is small as fuck, not a lot of settings that it could be used for. It might be suitable for MP maps in genericFPSgame#32464865 though.