The worst game world to be part of

[Leemaster777]

The Shin Megami Tensai universe.

No matter how hard you try, the end to your journey is NEVER EVER a good ending. Your journey in general isn't filled with sunshine and rainbows either... you'll wish you were in Persona's universe.

I just finished my first playthrough of SMT4 (and I've already restarted to get another ending), and I am forced to agree.

Persona is optimism and superpowers and the bonds of friendship.

SMT is pessimism and death and demons coming to fuck all of your shit.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I know it's probably inspired by some steampunk version of fascist era East-Germany,

Actually... you may be surprised, but it's actually based on London and Edinburgh. If you ever visit the old Victorian backstreets you will see. The Gothic Era buildings mixed with Victorian and Industrial Revolution crampedness.

OT: I would hate to live in Animal Crossing... Thousands of 'not quite the same' towns, filled with the same ugly, over cheery people and ruthless businessmen that tie you into unexpected contracts.

Your entire existance will be 15 mins of pulling weeds and watering plants whilst talking to people, trying to find that 1 FUCKING LAST FOSSIL, and hoping a baloon will fly over so you can shoot it down... even though you have at least one of every prize now.

Also... who wants to live in a world that is seemingly plagued with beetles?

 

[PsychoticHamster]

Any kingdom in the souls series.

 

[EyeReaper]

Wow, I'm kinda surprised nobody mentioned Pandora from Borderlands yet. That place is a giant shit hole. Absolutely everything is trying to either kill you, rob you, or do any number of unsavory or unpleasant things. To survive, you'll either need to fork over thousands of dollars to the Hyperion (who are all a bunch of asshats) or be the highest level of badass.
Pandora Sucks

 

[momijirabbit]

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Actually, Acolytes of a new god was re-used for the completely superior to Fallout 3, New Vegas.
New vegas was better in every single way.

 

[Truniron]

The forbidden land - Shadow of the Colossus. Do you like having nearby friends? Social Acctivity? Fuck that! You´re all alone. Have fun

The metro/overworld - Metro Last Light. Being forced to live underground where different factions with different mindset compeete to rule over the metro or an overworld where everything kills you, everything from the mutated wildlife to the grass. Does not sound like a nice place

 

[themilo504]

The Shin Megami Tensai universe.

No matter how hard you try, the end to your journey is NEVER EVER a good ending. Your journey in general isn't filled with sunshine and rainbows either... you'll wish you were in Persona's universe.

The shin megami tensei universe is indeed a terrible place to live, however most of the games do have happy endings, hell the neutral ending of nocturne is so happy I half expected the ninth doctor to come in screaming ?everybody lives rose, just this once everybody lives?.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

It would suck to be in any metroid game. High probability you are going to die because Samus blew up the ****ing planet again! Even if Samus herself didn't trigger it, she has a nasty habit of planets she visits getting blown up! Oh and who the hell spikes the ceilings? Also take your pick of getting frozen and then blown apart, incinerated, or just straight up have a missile shoved up your rear.

Hunter the Reckoning: Redeemer Set in the World of Darkness so things are bleak to begin with. Werewolves, vampires, zombies all the supernatural ghoulies, and as an ordinary person you are completely oblivious to them. one level particular, the nightclub. in come these nut jobs armed to the teeth just wasting people away (remember, you don't know they are vampires, they don't exist), oh and these loons have been terrorizing the streets, firing off rockets and blowing away cars, and the police are no where to be found (the monsters almost certainly own the police)

Fable, at least the first one anyways. If the player is evil and decides he gets bored, the guards are likely going to have no chance against him. So there is pretty much nothing to stop him from dropping a master level infernal wrath in the middle of town and obliterating everyone. Also sucks to be a merchant in that game, having to wander through monster ridden territory and the way the economy works in the game the player can make a fortune of you selling your own wares back to you!

 

[themilo504]

Any Bethesda game. No one acts naturally with many people saying the same things over again. They stand in the same spot for an eternity. The sights aren't that interesting (especially in FO3). Everyone looks like wooden puppets and they move like them too. No one can fight for crap, they just flail around their stiff arms to interact. At the very least you are technically invincible since you can have any limb blown clean off, just stick a needle in the wound and back it comes.

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Everyone, even the wildlife, also is courteous enough to freeze in their place while you browse your computer. It's just rude to interrupt someone trying to whip out their mini nukes so they can use it on you.

Ninja'd, might as well add to this...

Fallout has always been buggy, but even Fallout 2 was better than 3 (even worse, F2 was rushed while F3 took 4 fucking years). And no, I don't count a better ending you have to pay for as fixing the original before anyone leaps to use that defence.

And then there's the "atmosphere", Mark Morgan from the first two games offered to do the ambiance, but Bethsoft turned him down in favour of an "orchestral, cinematic" score that fits the Fallout world about as well as the rest of the game does, not at all.

Want to hear some of Morgan's work?
That dark and sinister ost, he made THAT. He made those brilliant ambient tracks and Bethsoft turned him down in favour of a fucking orchestra composer (I don't have anything against orchestra or Inon Zur, but it DOES NOT fit a post-apocalyptic game like Fallout).

I won't get into detail with the rest (like the nonsensical story, the horrible dialogue, shitty characters, glitches, etc), but needless to say, Bethesda Softworks are shit at almost everything, if not everything period.

Basically, in Fallout 3 you'd have to live with the most boring threats to your life ever, you might actually die of boredom, with the many raiders (who are all boring idiots), lack of vegetation (can't have a world be too colourful and entertaining now can we), and factions who will gladly throw away any logic for a glorified brita filter. Fallout 3 may be first setting that's a horrible place to live in because you can facepalm yourself to death.

I played both fallout 1 and 2 and found them both lacking, the combat was boring as it felt like a strategy rpg without the strategy, I?m pretty sure that half of your skills are only used like 4 times in each game.

Random encounters almost never happen so most of the game is spent in towns, this results in the world feeling very small and disconnected, not like it matters since the world isn?t all that interesting anyway.

I would comment on the story but for most of the game there really isn?t one, just a lot of uninteresting and short sidequests, and for a game famous for its choices I honestly don?t remember a single choice that was actually interesting.

And the game has about as much atmosphere as mercury.

I do admit that the soundtrack is nice, still prefer the radio stations from fallout 3 and new vegas.

 

[gyrobot_v1legacy]

With GTA dying is mostly temporary if you are a "law abiding" citizen. The worst part is in GTA there are no moderates, every pedestrian is a vapid
Unaware pastiche of the worst parts about their subculture and cops are all corrupt beyond all measure.

Pre war fallout also sucks as well.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

Candy Crush. You're either a sad sack candy person waiting for a doughy cartoon girl to fix your candy problem with a piece of candy, or you're a piece of candy getting annihilated by other candy. Fucking candy.

I hate that game and everything it represents.

 

[kaizen2468]

one other person mentioned "I have no mouth and I must scream". If everyone knew it, they'd pick that without a doubt. Nothing compares to the horror of living in that world.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

Diablo
Every decade or so Hell invades your world and everyone and everything you know gets slaughtered and destroyed.

Starcraft
Average joe getting annahilated by Protoss worlddestroyers, marauding zerg or their own shitty governments.

 

[epicdwarf]

Habbo Hotel

As an NPC you would be doomed of a life mindlessly wandering, endless servitude, and yelling at 13 year olds for saying da swearz. You sometimes might have the chance to say a predetermined phrase or get someone a drink, but that is the extant of your existence. Truly a horrid place to be an NPC.

 

[Something Amyss]

Any GTA game...ever.

I actually had this conversation with my friends the last time I played GTA Online (which was a couple months ago): how much it would SUCK to live in this city. Think of what the San Andres nightly news would be like!

"Horror strikes again as a madman in a car mowed down 58 pedestrians while fleeing from the police and throwing C4 charges out the window, detonating them in the streets."

And that's every single day! I'd never leave the house, knowing that there's a high probability that I'll get absolutely obliterated by some random psycho driving around. Oh look! He brought a tank this time!

I think Saints Row is probably worse. I mean, not only do they have firearms, cars, and explosives, but you've got to deal with a player with default access to tanks, VTOL ships, mechs....

 

[Ihrgoth]

I would definitely say both Warhammer 40k and the cthulu universe. Warhammer because, "in the future there is only war." No hope in that world only the eternal conflict between chaos and order. And Cthulu because the battle is between enslave the human race or annihilate it, and there is no preventing it. Also all monsters if they don't kill you will drive you insane to the point of either suicide or spending the rest of your life in an asylum.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Any GTA game...ever.

I actually had this conversation with my friends the last time I played GTA Online (which was a couple months ago): how much it would SUCK to live in this city. Think of what the San Andres nightly news would be like!

"Horror strikes again as a madman in a car mowed down 58 pedestrians while fleeing from the police and throwing C4 charges out the window, detonating them in the streets."

And that's every single day! I'd never leave the house, knowing that there's a high probability that I'll get absolutely obliterated by some random psycho driving around. Oh look! He brought a tank this time!

And don't forget that the Manhunt series shares the same universe as GTA. So in addition to all the wanton theft, murder, and property damage, you also have to contend with snuff film rings that control entire towns populated by entire GANGS of insane psychopaths that engage in wanton theft, murder, and property damage.

 

[Me55enger]

Wouldn't that be the Warhammer 40,000 universe hands down?

This.

Reading this was hugely entertaining. Thank you.

Fallout is a good example, despite the fact that aside form looking grubby, everyone looks rather healthy and well fed for a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The Metro universe is very good at visualizing what the book describes. I wouldn't want to live in that.