What game settings would you NOT want to live in?

[GodzillaGuy92]

So, I'm guessing we've all seen at least one thread asking which video game world/universe you would most want to insert yourself into. But seeing another one today got me thinking about the inverse: Which video game world(s) would you wish to avoid at all costs?

Whittling down the answer is somewhat tricky since the overwhelming majority of game settings tend not to be in great shape by necessity. But for my part, one universe that stands out as particularly inhospitable is that of Dead Space. Even apart from the distressing matter of the body-mutilating alien devil pathogen

Spoiler

originating from a race of planetoid-sized eldritch abominations who, the last we saw of them, were the tiniest of steps away from outright destroying the Earth

, the human race has invented interstellar space travel but not interstellar colonization, necessitating that space travel be used for the purpose of destroying other planets for the sake of keeping the population of the resource-depleted Earth afloat. Then there's the Unitologists, who hold great influence across all of human civilization (and a religious monopoly, with all other faiths having died out) and were apparently able to topple EarthGov in a matter of hours (further suggesting that the world of Dead Space is helmed by bad writers a severely incompetent government). Even the environments seem actively hostile, with structures like the Ishimura basically being huge concentrations of shrieking metal and cold, uncaring automation.

So there's my pick (plus an obligatory mention of The Walking Dead for sheer emotional upheaval). What about you guys?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

That's easy enough: Silent Hill. What's worse than living in a place that tailors itself to physically and psychologically torture each and every one of its inhabitants on a deep, disturbing personal level?

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Gears of War. Seriously, fuck that shit. If the game wasn't a generic third person shooter you'd see that the setting is like stuff from your worst nightmares.

 

[wintercoat]

Any zombie apocalypse setting. Because I'd either be dead or a zombie, neither of which is very appealing.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Gears of War. Seriously, fuck that shit. If the game wasn't a generic third person shooter you'd see that the setting is like stuff from your worst nightmares.

Yeah this. Monsters coming up from the ground causing a mass genocide of most of the human population. Planet destroyed by orbital lasers, constant state of never ending warfare, many surviving humans enslaved and worked to death, almost all women relegated to solely birthing babies, almost all men conscripted to fight these monsters, imulsion fucking up everyones shit.

Not a nice place to live.

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Warhammer 40000. But wait, you might say, you could become a space marine! Yeah, no, very unlikely.
So, if you're just a regular person in Warhammer 40000 universe, what you should be afraid of? Well, there are numerous gangs that live on every city of every populated world. There are laws, for breaking which you might be turned into a lifeless husk of machine. There are cultists that may wish to sacrifice you to their Demon Gods. There are Inquisitors that will burn alive if they will smell a heretic miles away from your home. There are Tyranids that will devour your world and you. There are Necrons who will annihilate you just because you're alive. And lastly, there are Dark Eldar who will torture you so horribly and for so long you will wish for nothing but death.

 

[thesilentman]

I said Lordran in the past for the last thread, and I'm saying present (?) Lordran here. Just look at all of the shit that's happened after the fires were linked. That should be enough proof.

 

[Confidingtripod]

Fallout, not when the games are based where people are rebuilding but days after the bombs fall, when its like hell on earth, add in that everyone you've ever known and loved is probably dead and everyone else is trying to kill you and I'd rather just step into the nuclear fire and be done with it

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Pretty much all of them.

If you take out all the game settings that basically take place in reality, and therefore wouldn't really be different from where you live now, you end up with a shitload of settings were just everything is completely fucked. Monsters roaming the country side, giant abominations trying to destroy the planet, alien invasions, etc.

I mean, what do you do in most games? Kill tons of evil shit!

 

[King Billi]

Pong

Can you imagine how bloody monotonous it would become constantly being hit back and forth, back and forth over and over again. Not to mention the unbearable anxiety waiting for the inevitable when one of the paddles misses and you end up sailing off the edge of the screen into that vast and terrifying unknown.

 

[Leemaster777]

As much as I love Bioshock, being stuck in Rapture would be a nightmare.

You've basically got two options: 1. Don't splice up, find a hole, hide in it, and probably die to a random junkie. Or 2. Splice up, become a monster, lose your sanity, and still probably die to a Big Daddy.

 

[Miss G.]

Pokemon. Because when you get down to it, you have a bunch of kids running around with eldritch abominations at their command that can eat souls/people/drag people to hell, kidnap children, eat/destroy mountains, level cities when angered or knock down/chew through houses in general, cause terrible storms and other extreme weather conditions when they appear, cause earthquakes when they move - amongst other things too numerous to list. A regular crap-saccharine world if I ever saw one.

 

[Roxas1359]

Well time to bring out my good old list here:

Spoiler: Places in games Neronium would not want to live

[li]Rapture (BioShock)[/li]
[li]Capital Wasteland (Fallout 3)[/li]
[li]Mojave Wasteland (Fallout New Vegas)[/li]
[li]Sera (Gears of War)[/li]
[li]Greece (God of War)[/li]
[li]Ivalice (Final Fantasy)[/li]
[li]Earth (Halo)[/li]
[li]Nippon (Okami)[/li]
[li]Terra (Megaman Legends)[/li]
[li]Mushroom Kingdom (Mario series)[/li]
[li]Columbia (BioShock Infinite)[/li]
[li]Earth (Sonic series)[/li]

Some on that list could change, mainly the Sonic one and Terra, but not by much.

 

[Lilani]

Any sort of survival-horror settings. I think I can deal with survival, but survival-horror? No fucking way.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Any of the final fantasy games. Anywhere that a sword can do more damage than a bullet you know the physics is bound to make the world implode sooner or later.

Aw... But logical physics is boring... XD (Although... I'm not even so sure it's actually unreasonable to say a sword does more damage than a bullet if it's physics you're talking about... Biggest problems with swords compared to guns are that a sword has basically 0 range by comparison, and you need a serious amount of physical strength to wield one effectively.)

I'd be more concerned in general about a world where you can survive several dozen gunshot wounds and sword impacts with little problem, but then get killed by being stabbed once with a sword. Consistency, anyone? XD

 

[Saltyk]

Pretty much all of them.

If you take out all the game settings that basically take place in reality, and therefore wouldn't really be different from where you live now, you end up with a shitload of settings were just everything is completely fucked. Monsters roaming the country side, giant abominations trying to destroy the planet, alien invasions, etc.

I mean, what do you do in most games? Kill tons of evil shit!

This guy basically ninja'd me.

Think about it. Pick any game.

Skyrim. Tons of dragons flying around and terrorizing the populace on a regular basis.
Virtually any JRPG. Countless endless monsters roaming the countryside attacking anyone that wanders through.
Mass Effect. Take all of BS politics and issues and put it on a galactic scale with all the concerns that may bring. Do you support the Genophage? Keep in mind what it was intended for. Oh, and giant killer robot ships that will come kill all life periodically.

Seriously, even in Star Wars and Star Trek, the world's are seriously messed up. Star Wars has an active slave trade, drug use, overbearing imperial government, all on top of a constant grudge match between Jedi and Sith.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Any old-school RPG. I don't want to live in a world where some mute prick and his three or four friends can barge into my house and take my stuff. No, I don't care if that 5 gold in my dresser is all the stalwart hero of the realm needs to buy the Super-Uber-Fuckyou Sword in order to slay the demonic calamity, I'm not sharing.

 

[Anezay]

Literally any video game world would be a bad deal for me. I would be one of the many, many people to die in the backstory, one more statistical tick on the impressively large numbers of casualties they throw at you to set the stakes. Maybe if I'm lucky I'd be one of the hordes of foes mowed down by the player for the egregious crime of standing in the same room as the glorious hero of the land.

Edit: Harder game: Game settings that would actually be better to live in. Remember, you're still yourself, not the hero. I can't think of any off the top of my head.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Warhammer 40K.

I love the setting and I love the fiction.

But let's face it, it's a terrible place to live. As a bog standard human I could consider myself lucky if I managed to make it through life with a minimal amount of oppression and to die in the least violent manner possible.