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Dead heat between Fallout and STALKER. Fallout for its art-deco/1950's pop culture pastiche, pathos, and brilliant black humor. STALKER for its gorgeous, living environments and its bleak survivalist milieu. It can also be pants-shitting scary from time to time.
Metro 2033. The sheer crowded squalor of the metro inhabitants punctuated with the numerous little life-goes-on touches really sold it to me. They're living out the nuclear apocalypse in an underground rail system, but they're still playing guitar around the campfire, arguing with their wives and discussing that cute guy down the road.
Also, the fact that you will only ever see the surface world through the misty glass of a gas mask, accompanied by the sound of your own wheezing, filtered breath.
Honorary mention to Fallout for reasons stated in above post, although I never really noticed the humour.
EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot about Enslaved, that one game that remembered that human civilisation going down the drain wouldn't cause all the plants to suddenly die.
Also, the fact that you will only ever see the surface world through the misty glass of a gas mask, accompanied by the sound of your own wheezing, filtered breath.
Honorary mention to Fallout for reasons stated in above post, although I never really noticed the humour.
EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot about Enslaved, that one game that remembered that human civilisation going down the drain wouldn't cause all the plants to suddenly die.
STALKER
METRO 2033
Fallout
for reasons so obvious they dont need stating.
Also, in a way, Half-Life 2 has a world that fits that definition.
The entire would outside the cities is destroyed, with portal storms frequently going off, the pulsewaves of each are slowly tearing apart what little remains outside, while hordes of alien species kill off what rmeains of earth's natural ecosystem.
As the same time The Combine walls tear apart what remains of the cities.
METRO 2033
Fallout
for reasons so obvious they dont need stating.
Also, in a way, Half-Life 2 has a world that fits that definition.
The entire would outside the cities is destroyed, with portal storms frequently going off, the pulsewaves of each are slowly tearing apart what little remains outside, while hordes of alien species kill off what rmeains of earth's natural ecosystem.
As the same time The Combine walls tear apart what remains of the cities.
I know that it has been said but I have always loved the slow decline of humanity in the Fallout story. The whole "these are the events that lead to the destruction of the world and its people" has always had something in it that made me love it.
Bastion was a pretty interesting one also. The whole "we destroyed ourselves" is a very common theme, but the game pulled it off very well.
Bastion was a pretty interesting one also. The whole "we destroyed ourselves" is a very common theme, but the game pulled it off very well.
Fallout games are definitely up there with STALKER. Metro 2033 especially as well. I'd like to say Gears of War as well, as it is post-apocalyptic, just not our planet.
The good ol' Fallout, STALKER and Metro for me, as well. Well, STALKER is a stretch, the rest of the world outside the Zone is fine (and probably in for improvement once the groundbreaking discoveries in the Zone begins to trickle out), but it still counts in my book.
One thing I like with Metro is that you don't get an explanation of what happened, except that a global nuclear war (with some new, nasty biological weapons into the mix as well, just in case) broke out at some point. According to the book (well, hinted at), it begun on July 5'th 20XX, and that's all you really get to know. It's a nice touch, and leaves you with a lot of questions.
Now, I would put the scenario from the Left 4 Dead-games up there, too, but... I'm so fed up with zombie apocalypses by now.
One thing I like with Metro is that you don't get an explanation of what happened, except that a global nuclear war (with some new, nasty biological weapons into the mix as well, just in case) broke out at some point. According to the book (well, hinted at), it begun on July 5'th 20XX, and that's all you really get to know. It's a nice touch, and leaves you with a lot of questions.
Now, I would put the scenario from the Left 4 Dead-games up there, too, but... I'm so fed up with zombie apocalypses by now.
Fallout has one of the most realized and evocative apocalypse and post-apocalyptic setting, so it gets my vote as favorite. As a long-time fan of the idea of a zombie apocalypse, I'll also say Left 4 Dead.
To be honest I can't say that I have a "favorite" yet because I don't think any of them come close to my idea of perfect. I've probably put the most time into Wasteland/Fallout so if I had to pick that would probably be it.
My favorite post-apocolypse settings tend to mostly be vintage RPG ones. Gamma World, Metamorphisis Alpha, Morrow Project (to an extent), and others with varying degrees of seriousness.
As cool as the idea is, as someone who is pretty much unfit to survive the collapse of civilization I'm not as into the idea as I once was. I'm a realist, when I was in better shape, and quite dangerous, the idea was sort of appealing on a primal level. All these retarded fat cat pencil pushers who haven't ever been in a situation where they had the slightest potential for danger, or done any real work either dead or having to deal with me, the mere security grunt in a situation where I'd be holding the cards (to so speak) not that I'd be brutal or anything, it's just that as far as the fantasy goes (and to be fair that's what it is) I could almost see it as a possibility.
The thing is that I am increasingly fatter and sicker, heavily medicated, and have brain damage that seems to be slowly having worse effects. I function as well as I do now largely because of the support of civilization to get medication, and an infrastructure that has made my family well off enough where I can get by living at home for the time, though when that situation changes, it's going to be touchy, and a lot depends on what's left of me.
Kind of depressing to say (though I've said it before), and the point it's to go Emo here, it's mostly just to point out that while I play post apocolyptic games, it's hard for me to really get into the "fun" of the fantasy they entail at times, because there isn't even the slight sssociation of "maybe I could survive" because I know I wouldn't. There was a time I could have done some of that action adventure stuff in the right circumstances (though it wouldn't like the movie version, it rarely is), now, not really. I can barely get my to or above my waist anymore, and can actually feel the fat on me jiggle (which is pretty bloody disturbing).
My favorite post-apocolypse settings tend to mostly be vintage RPG ones. Gamma World, Metamorphisis Alpha, Morrow Project (to an extent), and others with varying degrees of seriousness.
As cool as the idea is, as someone who is pretty much unfit to survive the collapse of civilization I'm not as into the idea as I once was. I'm a realist, when I was in better shape, and quite dangerous, the idea was sort of appealing on a primal level. All these retarded fat cat pencil pushers who haven't ever been in a situation where they had the slightest potential for danger, or done any real work either dead or having to deal with me, the mere security grunt in a situation where I'd be holding the cards (to so speak) not that I'd be brutal or anything, it's just that as far as the fantasy goes (and to be fair that's what it is) I could almost see it as a possibility.
The thing is that I am increasingly fatter and sicker, heavily medicated, and have brain damage that seems to be slowly having worse effects. I function as well as I do now largely because of the support of civilization to get medication, and an infrastructure that has made my family well off enough where I can get by living at home for the time, though when that situation changes, it's going to be touchy, and a lot depends on what's left of me.
Kind of depressing to say (though I've said it before), and the point it's to go Emo here, it's mostly just to point out that while I play post apocolyptic games, it's hard for me to really get into the "fun" of the fantasy they entail at times, because there isn't even the slight sssociation of "maybe I could survive" because I know I wouldn't. There was a time I could have done some of that action adventure stuff in the right circumstances (though it wouldn't like the movie version, it rarely is), now, not really. I can barely get my to or above my waist anymore, and can actually feel the fat on me jiggle (which is pretty bloody disturbing).