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You have actually stoked up my autism with this so let me have a go at it.
India is India, there is quite literally nothing bad I can say about it that you all don't already know.
The NCR is a thriving (fuck you Todd I will never consider your games or show to be canon) republic and is on paper the most powerful known nation on the planet, and has 100% rebuilt society up to 1950's levels while also restoring a bunch of pre world infastructure/tech, so while it may be full of corruption, crime in the frontier, incompetent leaders, be stuck in a stalemate against the Legion and suffer from serious inflation at the same time it is a nation that is building new railroads, creating new mines, building its own weapons, and supporting a economy large enough that its people can visit Vegas as tourists. Easily the best place in the list, so much so that someone living in a poorer part of real life America might actually luck out and live a better life in the NCR if they somehow got teleported there.
Morrowind is a fantasy setting with monsters and magic. By default you would likely be living as a peasant whose life could be as easily cut short by a angry silt strider as it could be a famine or Red Mountain exploding again. Not good, but least you will probably live long enough to raise kids before dying at age 30.
Dishonored is basically steampunk London but with a low intensity zombie outbreak instead of cholera. Life sucks for the bottom 99% but at least society is still functioning.
Dead Space is a horrific setting where just about everything that could go wrong for humanity was already going wrong before shapeshifting horrors showed up. The one and only positive I can think of is even though the series ended with Earth being massacred humans do still have other colonies so extinction isn't on the table just yet.
Cyberpunk is both great and bad. On one hand many parts of life are far better thanks to technology and while poverty is very high a very sizable portion of the population still have middle class standards of living and are more than enjoying life in their universe, but at the same time America is still divided after a civil war, poverty is back to Great Depression levels, crime is so great that the police have to field special forces for the weekly occurrence of a walking tank snapping in the middle of the street, and corporations have become the de facto law, so if your employer isn't happy with you they can and will have you commit suicide by shooting yourself in the head and throwing your own body into the ocean with cinderblock shoes.
Worst part is however that rogue AIs have become lovecraftian gods due to being locked together and having survival of the fittest take over, and now that they are running out of space they are starting to probe the defences of their quarantine (described by one man who works on it as a plastic bag taped over a broken window) and that when they do break loose they could very well kill 90% of humans within a few seconds in the most agonizing ways possible.
In other words you can still be happy in Cyberpunk as long as you stay out the wrong places or don't piss off the wrong people, and you may just need to go stay organic and move to the middle of nowhere to survive a possible super Skynet scenario.
Then there is Half Life. Humanity was conquered by a multiuniversal civilization so unfathomably large that the task of sending the resources to conquer Earth was probably done by their equivalent of a officerworker, and even then it only took them 7 hours to do so.
In the 2 decades since there have been no births (so good luck repopulating when only the youngest fraction of the surviving population is still fertile), the human population has probably been reduced to the low millions as part of what was almost certainly a deliberate plan to exterminate humanity while also enslaving them enough to make back on the investment it took to subjugate them, enough water has been sucked from the oceans that they have been lowered by a dozen or so meters, the entire Earth's ecology has simply collapsed under the invasion of hostile alien wildlife that forced humanity into hiding in combine controlled cities and worst of all even though the attempt to reinvade failed just as Valve forgot the number 3 the last remnants of fighting humans and the city 17 refugees under their watch are still dealing with a outside force that is so far beyond their own league that the Farsight Enclaves probably stands a better chance at destroying every other 40k faction then they do at merely surviving, which given the state the Earth is in might not even be possible even if the Combine don't come back.
TLDR: Half Life is hands down the biggest shithole. Even the most feces crusted village in Blahblahfourarmedlobstergodwali would be better living in day to day than HL.
India is India, there is quite literally nothing bad I can say about it that you all don't already know.
The NCR is a thriving (fuck you Todd I will never consider your games or show to be canon) republic and is on paper the most powerful known nation on the planet, and has 100% rebuilt society up to 1950's levels while also restoring a bunch of pre world infastructure/tech, so while it may be full of corruption, crime in the frontier, incompetent leaders, be stuck in a stalemate against the Legion and suffer from serious inflation at the same time it is a nation that is building new railroads, creating new mines, building its own weapons, and supporting a economy large enough that its people can visit Vegas as tourists. Easily the best place in the list, so much so that someone living in a poorer part of real life America might actually luck out and live a better life in the NCR if they somehow got teleported there.
Morrowind is a fantasy setting with monsters and magic. By default you would likely be living as a peasant whose life could be as easily cut short by a angry silt strider as it could be a famine or Red Mountain exploding again. Not good, but least you will probably live long enough to raise kids before dying at age 30.
Dishonored is basically steampunk London but with a low intensity zombie outbreak instead of cholera. Life sucks for the bottom 99% but at least society is still functioning.
Dead Space is a horrific setting where just about everything that could go wrong for humanity was already going wrong before shapeshifting horrors showed up. The one and only positive I can think of is even though the series ended with Earth being massacred humans do still have other colonies so extinction isn't on the table just yet.
Cyberpunk is both great and bad. On one hand many parts of life are far better thanks to technology and while poverty is very high a very sizable portion of the population still have middle class standards of living and are more than enjoying life in their universe, but at the same time America is still divided after a civil war, poverty is back to Great Depression levels, crime is so great that the police have to field special forces for the weekly occurrence of a walking tank snapping in the middle of the street, and corporations have become the de facto law, so if your employer isn't happy with you they can and will have you commit suicide by shooting yourself in the head and throwing your own body into the ocean with cinderblock shoes.
Worst part is however that rogue AIs have become lovecraftian gods due to being locked together and having survival of the fittest take over, and now that they are running out of space they are starting to probe the defences of their quarantine (described by one man who works on it as a plastic bag taped over a broken window) and that when they do break loose they could very well kill 90% of humans within a few seconds in the most agonizing ways possible.
In other words you can still be happy in Cyberpunk as long as you stay out the wrong places or don't piss off the wrong people, and you may just need to go stay organic and move to the middle of nowhere to survive a possible super Skynet scenario.
Then there is Half Life. Humanity was conquered by a multiuniversal civilization so unfathomably large that the task of sending the resources to conquer Earth was probably done by their equivalent of a officerworker, and even then it only took them 7 hours to do so.
In the 2 decades since there have been no births (so good luck repopulating when only the youngest fraction of the surviving population is still fertile), the human population has probably been reduced to the low millions as part of what was almost certainly a deliberate plan to exterminate humanity while also enslaving them enough to make back on the investment it took to subjugate them, enough water has been sucked from the oceans that they have been lowered by a dozen or so meters, the entire Earth's ecology has simply collapsed under the invasion of hostile alien wildlife that forced humanity into hiding in combine controlled cities and worst of all even though the attempt to reinvade failed just as Valve forgot the number 3 the last remnants of fighting humans and the city 17 refugees under their watch are still dealing with a outside force that is so far beyond their own league that the Farsight Enclaves probably stands a better chance at destroying every other 40k faction then they do at merely surviving, which given the state the Earth is in might not even be possible even if the Combine don't come back.
TLDR: Half Life is hands down the biggest shithole. Even the most feces crusted village in Blahblahfourarmedlobstergodwali would be better living in day to day than HL.
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