I'd say your into high octane Masochism, because Silent Hill itself is the mystery, but from your perspective it pretty much just becomes your personal hell. That would probably be one of the worst video game universes to live in, though I suppose it is the normal world except for the town, so if you never got manipulated into going there it would be just like living now.Mr Binary said:I hope no one looks at me funny when I say I'd want to live in the Silent Hill universe. It's just an interesting place... conspiracies and stuff. I don't really know, it just seems neat.
Yeah but to be honest, I think it'd be fascinating to learn what my deepest, darkest fear is... Wow, I have issues I think. In all seriousness though, if others can adapt to it, I'm sure others would be able to as well.Therumancer said:I'd say your into high octane Masochism, because Silent Hill itself is the mystery, but from your perspective it pretty much just becomes your personal hell. That would probably be one of the worst video game universes to live in, though I suppose it is the normal world except for the town, so if you never got manipulated into going there it would be just like living now.Mr Binary said:I hope no one looks at me funny when I say I'd want to live in the Silent Hill universe. It's just an interesting place... conspiracies and stuff. I don't really know, it just seems neat.![]()
I'm not sure if you've thought this through. While everyone knows about Pokemon only a relatively few people are trainers. Your typical Pokemon protaganist lucks into getting his first Pokemon and gear, but most people don't have that stuff. Indeed in one of the only Pokemon games I've played (Platinum I believe) your warned by your mother not to go walking around out in the tall grass, doing so at the beginning of the game almost gets you murdered by Pokemon.TIMESWORDSMAN said:I've thought about this question a lot, and I know for a fact that the Pokemon world is the one I'd be the happiest in.
That said, I can see a few drawbacks. Since I live in house with more than ten pets in it in real life, then I know something about the mess that animals can make. My house is not clean, and having a Growlithe leave fiery poops all over the carpet would cause even more problems, much less where I'm gonna keep the Lapras, I can't afford no swimming pool.
Then again, I wouldn't have to worry much about finances, but I doubt those battles are as green as they seem from this side of the screen. But training wouldn't be to hard, seeing as pokemon seem to have much larger brains than the average, well, any animal really.
All these thoughts aside, the world portrayed in the Pokemon games is a paradise, where people are friendly and it's filled with magical creatures to befriend, and as corny as that is, who wouldn't want to live there?
Please, they prefer to be called "green, semi-intelligent hog/fungi/plant-symbionts", except they don't know what symbiont means, anyway, so it's kind of moot.MrPeanut said:by green, semi-intelligent hogs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ork_%28Warhammer_40,000%29Orks are green-skinned, a side effect of their blending on a genetic level with fungi and photosynthetic organisms (essentially being enormously complex lichens).
I feel that your mind is much darker, sadder place than mine.Therumancer said:I'm not sure if you've thought this through. While everyone knows about Pokemon only a relatively few people are trainers. Your typical Pokemon protaganist lucks into getting his first Pokemon and gear, but most people don't have that stuff. Indeed in one of the only Pokemon games I've played (Platinum I believe) your warned by your mother not to go walking around out in the tall grass, doing so at the beginning of the game almost gets you murdered by Pokemon.TIMESWORDSMAN said:*snip*
In short the lifestyle of your typical inhabitant of this universe is to be some borderline peasant who lives in a one or two room shack surrounded by grass, woods, and other things full of hostile creatures with terrifying supernatural powers, ready to rip you to shreds at a moment's notice. The world is run by an elite class of trainers that have the power to control these things, they also control all of the media, books, etc... which are all about how great they and these Pokemon are. For entertainment you get to watch reality TV about... Pokemon.
As I understand the thread that's the trick of it, your talking about living in the world, not being the hero of the game (so to speak). Pokemon being what it is doesn't really go into much detail about it's world since it's focused entirely on the monsters, but if you really think about it with everything pretty much built for, and revolving around trainers, just being one of the random backround schlubs (an average inhabitant) must be a combination of boredom, and absolute terror... and to be fair when Pokemon include things like killer robots with buzz saws for hands, I don't get much of an impression of benevolence, especially given the beginning of that game I mentioned where it was pretty much spelled out that they are dangerous.