Which Universe Would You Want To Live In And Who Would You Be?
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The Mass Effect universe seems like a fairly nice place to live (aside from the "The Reapers are going to kill us all" vibe that is), so i'd pick that. As for who I'd be, probably just myself, a normal guy living a normal life in a future setting.
No need to be someone special, that just tends to get you shot. =)
No need to be someone special, that just tends to get you shot. =)
There are not many fictional universes I would like to live in. Many of them tend to be crapsack worlds where even the tough stand a reasonably large chance of being ripped limb from limb.
I'd quite like to be a Hero from Fable II as it'd mean I couldn't die painfully.
Most childish franchises could be quite good place to take up residence in, many of them lack a serious tangible threat to me unless I happen to be in a plot-advancing area.
Universes I would like to avoid, even if I got to be something cool would be (In preferential order from least desireable to most desireable):
Warhammer, both flavours: Too many ways to die horribly and/or be turned into an "And I Must Scream" eldritch abomination.
Anywhere based on DnD: A universe where a housecat can kill the average guy on the street 25% of the time if it gets the drop... is one I'd like to avoid.
Anywhere written by Stephen King
Anywhere written by or based on the works of HP Lovecraft
Fallout: Do I really need to explain this one?
Half-Life: The world has been invaded by 2 waves of alien monsters, the first wave has ruined the ecosystem and makes it unsafe to go outside (or stay inside) the second wave has taken over and is systematically stripping the planet of resources and wiping humanity out. Even as Gordon Freeman I wouldn't enjoy having to live here.
Star Craft: Between the Facist humans, Omnicidal Zerg and Fanatical Protoss... no-where here is safe.
Terminator: Machines rule the future and send back assassins to kill off the hope for the survival of humanity, when the future finally arrives it's a bleak uncompromising place where machines gather us up with big claws and put us in flying cattle-trucks.
The Elder Scrolls: 1-3 are to an extent, crapsack worlds where I'd be in danger every time I left my house and quite often when I stayed in, 4 is just so damn wierd, everyone's obsessed with mudcrabs and the continuity would suddenly change completely in the four or so years since the end of 3... and it's still a bit of crapsack world.
Warcraft: No-one's really sympathetic, everyone likes to kill each other, between the Alliance, Horde, Old-Gods, Scourge, Burning Legion and those blood goblins in Booty Bay I'm dead one way or another... the chances are I'd be ganked by an Undead Rogue... unless I was a Raid Boss... then I'd still be ganked by and Undead Rogue, just he'd bring his mates.
Halo: Humanity is on the verge of extinction, an omnicidal zombie-form is somewhat at large in the galaxy, aliens exist but the vast majority of them like to kill humans for kicks.
I'd quite like to be a Hero from Fable II as it'd mean I couldn't die painfully.
Most childish franchises could be quite good place to take up residence in, many of them lack a serious tangible threat to me unless I happen to be in a plot-advancing area.
Universes I would like to avoid, even if I got to be something cool would be (In preferential order from least desireable to most desireable):
Warhammer, both flavours: Too many ways to die horribly and/or be turned into an "And I Must Scream" eldritch abomination.
Anywhere based on DnD: A universe where a housecat can kill the average guy on the street 25% of the time if it gets the drop... is one I'd like to avoid.
Anywhere written by Stephen King
Anywhere written by or based on the works of HP Lovecraft
Fallout: Do I really need to explain this one?
Half-Life: The world has been invaded by 2 waves of alien monsters, the first wave has ruined the ecosystem and makes it unsafe to go outside (or stay inside) the second wave has taken over and is systematically stripping the planet of resources and wiping humanity out. Even as Gordon Freeman I wouldn't enjoy having to live here.
Star Craft: Between the Facist humans, Omnicidal Zerg and Fanatical Protoss... no-where here is safe.
Terminator: Machines rule the future and send back assassins to kill off the hope for the survival of humanity, when the future finally arrives it's a bleak uncompromising place where machines gather us up with big claws and put us in flying cattle-trucks.
The Elder Scrolls: 1-3 are to an extent, crapsack worlds where I'd be in danger every time I left my house and quite often when I stayed in, 4 is just so damn wierd, everyone's obsessed with mudcrabs and the continuity would suddenly change completely in the four or so years since the end of 3... and it's still a bit of crapsack world.
Warcraft: No-one's really sympathetic, everyone likes to kill each other, between the Alliance, Horde, Old-Gods, Scourge, Burning Legion and those blood goblins in Booty Bay I'm dead one way or another... the chances are I'd be ganked by an Undead Rogue... unless I was a Raid Boss... then I'd still be ganked by and Undead Rogue, just he'd bring his mates.
Halo: Humanity is on the verge of extinction, an omnicidal zombie-form is somewhat at large in the galaxy, aliens exist but the vast majority of them like to kill humans for kicks.
im gonna say the star trek universe and i would like to be the half human/half vulcan captain (yes like spock) of a niagara class vessel (search it if you dont know)
I wouldn't mind living on the Citadel in Mass Effect's universe. I could see myself applying to C-Sec and living amongst the various cultures of the galaxy. In a heartbeat.
Non-gaming related, I'd like to visit London Below from Neverwhere, but I'm not entirely sure I'd want to live there. The Marquis seems like a very interesting fellow, and a good one to have on your side if you can afford him.
Non-gaming related, I'd like to visit London Below from Neverwhere, but I'm not entirely sure I'd want to live there. The Marquis seems like a very interesting fellow, and a good one to have on your side if you can afford him.
I would be Abraham Lincoln or look near enough like him, with a monocle, in Unforgotten Realms. Or just a generic WoW character . Or maybe someone in the X-Men universe (provided I got a mutation)... Or even someone from DragonBall... or Pokemon... Too many options...
I would have said Pokemon, until someone recently pointed out how similar it was to cockfighting.
Anyone else just happy to live in this universe?
Anyone else just happy to live in this universe?
Ace Combat... and I would be the total badass ace who doesn't get hit by anything... Mobius One (see my avatar for the emblem)
Alternatively, I'd be in Osea's Sand Island Squadron or Cypher from ac0.
Alternatively, I'd be in Osea's Sand Island Squadron or Cypher from ac0.
I'd love to live in Westeros. Just the thought sounds freakin awesome.
As for who I would be...simple. I'd be a Faceless Man of Braavos.
As for who I would be...simple. I'd be a Faceless Man of Braavos.
My canidates are:
An SNES Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger. Airships are cool, and so is the art. I also want to find inexplicably advanced lost ruins.
Halo. Admit it, you want to be riding a Warthog with a friend, mowing down aliens and getting in high speed chases.
Left 4 Dead. I want to kill some zombies damnit!
Zelda. Just seems like a fun, adventurous universe where you have some epic battles.
Haruhi if I was in the SOS Brigade. Haruhi would be interesting, and so would everyone else in the brigade. It would fulfill my desire to go on random mysterious adventures, as that kind of what the series is about.
And for something rather unexpected, Evangelion, but to change it. I'd be the friendly (relatively)sane guy for the characters to come to when they inevitably have problems (and the only one qualified to do so) and who cheers them on. After several episodes of sitcom-esque life lesson learning the characters would be somewhat happier and less broken, making the movie end with Shinji getting in an epic mecha fight to save Asuka, in a happy comprehensible way, and maybe with a momentary third impact for a moment of enlightening trippiness that helps with the happy ending. A lofty goal to say the least, but at least I would have tried.
An SNES Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger. Airships are cool, and so is the art. I also want to find inexplicably advanced lost ruins.
Halo. Admit it, you want to be riding a Warthog with a friend, mowing down aliens and getting in high speed chases.
Left 4 Dead. I want to kill some zombies damnit!
Zelda. Just seems like a fun, adventurous universe where you have some epic battles.
Haruhi if I was in the SOS Brigade. Haruhi would be interesting, and so would everyone else in the brigade. It would fulfill my desire to go on random mysterious adventures, as that kind of what the series is about.
And for something rather unexpected, Evangelion, but to change it. I'd be the friendly (relatively)sane guy for the characters to come to when they inevitably have problems (and the only one qualified to do so) and who cheers them on. After several episodes of sitcom-esque life lesson learning the characters would be somewhat happier and less broken, making the movie end with Shinji getting in an epic mecha fight to save Asuka, in a happy comprehensible way, and maybe with a momentary third impact for a moment of enlightening trippiness that helps with the happy ending. A lofty goal to say the least, but at least I would have tried.
Star Wars probably, I don't know who or what I'd be, so much to choose from.
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