paragon1 said:
Cama Zots said:
I would love to live in the world of Star Trek.
Yeah, I know how nerdy that sounds, but
1) you never need to worry about being poor
2) they have the best health care system imaginable
3) you can explore strange new worlds
4) they have cool shit in space!
You forgot the hot alien women to have sex with. Or would that fall under numbers 3 and 4?
Yeah, I'd have to pick this one, so long as its post Next Generation. (Wouldn't want to fight Klingons or Romulans, and getting assimilated by the Borg looks VERY unpleasent).
might want to add post Voyager aswell, The borg are pretty much the most common foe in that one.
but yeah. i Don't know where i would like to live. So instead i will list worlds i would not like to live in and why:
Runequest (glorantha): I am not invincible in there, the EWF are crazy motherfuckers, i'm likely to be eaten by an Uz, everyone is racist. Chaos is a complete *****.
Warhammer 40k: errr brutaly horrible death awaits. unless you live on a tau or elder planet everyday life is rather shit, and i don't imnagine the tau communist ohilosphy to be much fun. Also everyone would be out to get me
Fallout universe: Mutants and stuff everywhere. death by starvation/mutation/radiation/mutants/unexploded bomb awaits. not to mention it's terribly violent and dangerous
Half-Life 2: Lets see, complete dystopian society, check, complete bastard ruler, check, citizens being beaten up for no reason, check, drugs in the water, check headcrabs and zombies, check, nova prospekt, check, antlions check, food rationing, check. Cool this place wins shithole award. that is unless you are a resistance member, then you get to be hunted down aswell even though you have some freedoms.
Portal: same world as HL2
Halo universe: An alien race hellbent on destroying humanity with giant fucking lazers... no thanks. not too good to be on the other side of the equation as there is now the entire human race trying to bust a cap in my ass and a superhuman has joined in on the fun.
Gears of War: lets see, entire cities being sunk and chainsaws are a common weapon used by an enemy that couldn't care less about civilians and number in their thousands.
Resistance: crawlers...up...my...nose...makes...me...mindless...drone! europe fell pretty damn quickly, a single civilian would barely have time to scream "OhShi-"
Guildwars: Ascalon. once again the same old horde coming down to wipe humanity out scenario. daily life also seems pretty boring, just standing around doing nothing.
Harry Potter: Despite the obvious awesomeness of magic something happens to go terribly wrong EVERY year.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Despite the obvious coolness of this world the sheer dangerousness of it all makes it a frightening place. on the flip side everyone is a mercenary like thing so i would be trained to survive.
Every zombie movie: did i mention zombies?
1984 world: lots of the same reasons as Half life 2, oppresive societies aren't too happy
Hellsing: not too bad as long as i'm not british but being killed by nazi vampires is not nice. mind you being a vampire would be cool
i'm not going to continue this list but you get the general idea. as a normal person in these worlds you wouldn't stand a chance, do you know why? because game worlds are meant to be dangerous worlds, game worlds are dangerous to be interesting, if it was a safe place the game wouldn't be interesting. and of course end of the world is a common interesting scenario as are dystopian environments. The same applies to movies and books. Of course there are exceptions with the likes of Star Trek where there are lots of safe places.
