Video game cities that seem like a absolute nightmare to live in

[eatler]

I figured as kind of a joke thread, we would go through some of our favorite games that the location seems like an absolute nightmare to live in. Bonus points if they aren’t intentionally like that.

The sonic franchise has really hellish places to live, especially sonic adventure 2. Like cars are getting wrecked by soldiers and animals, roads that lead to nowhere, there are pitfalls to an abyss and egg mans threatening to piss on the moon. I don’t know how the people of the world survive?

 

[007Eleven]

Brazil from Max Payne 3, I'm so glad South America isn't real.

 

[eatler]

Brazil from Max Payne 3, I'm so glad South America isn't real.

It was nice that they let COD borrow the idea for MW2.

 

[biozeminadae1]

That's easy!
San Andreas.



Immediately we can see some gang violence in the first pic and in the second, while not shown, that cul-de-sac is filled with prostitutes who circle the area.

Also, some cop is making it the base of operations for his crack empire.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The city of Glass from Mirror's Edge. It's a dystopian hellhole and the game does an excellent job of making you feel claustrophobic as you traverse the levels between the skyscrapers. Some cities might already be like it in this world...

 

[biozeminadae1]

It was nice that they let COD borrow the idea for MW2.

Actually, I think it was the other way around. I think MW2 came out in 2009 and MP3 was in 2010.

Some cities might already be like it in this world...

What do you mean might? Isn't that every major megalopolis?

 

[Thiletonomics]

Although it was stated in the very poorly thought-of "lore" of the game that the city was abandoned, Hourglass in Battlefield 2042, which depicts a post-cataclysmic Doha, Qatar, full of SANDLOL, would be hell if you were an unlucky one that didn't get out in time:





The big question about this map though, is how in the hell the lights are still on, since Qatar became a failed state after SANDLOL happened, and how have the trees not died out yet.

 

[007Eleven]

The city of Glass from Mirror's Edge. It's a dystopian hellhole and the game does an excellent job of making you feel claustrophobic as you traverse the levels between the skyscrapers. Some cities might already be like it in this world...

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Never could get into that game. Is the plot really fight the government by doing freestyle walking lmao?

 

[Cougar Pump]

I'm struggling to think of any city from a game I would want to live in. Even shit like Stardew is just too uncanny. City 17 from Half Life? Nah. Any of the cities in Deus Ex? (...any of them. How cursed do you want to go? how about a city where if you move 5 meters in any direction you have to pause and load and it takes several minutes? Welcome to Invisible War bitch). Project Zomboid? Even Fortnite's cities reset every 20 minutes and have a bunch of token shaded minorities regularly raid looking for loot.

 

[eatler]

Immediately we can see some gang violence in the first pic and in the second, while not shown, that cul-de-sac is filled with prostitutes who circle the area.

Yeah worse it’s based of California. Eeewww.

The city of Glass from Mirror's Edge. It's a dystopian hellhole and the game does an excellent job of making you feel claustrophobic as you traverse the levels between the skyscrapers. Some cities might already be like it in this world...

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Yeah I’d hate to be the window washer in that world too. Imagine you just get something cleaned and some rando gets their shoe print all over your work.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Never could get into that game. Is the plot really fight the government by doing freestyle walking lmao?

Yeah the setting is basically you live in a tyrannical utopian type place where the govt controls everything down to the flow of information. You and your parkour group are the ones tasked as couriers for sensitive and highly illegal bits of information.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Gotham City.

 

[eatler]

I'm struggling to think of any city from a game I would want to live in.

That would be another fun thread. The only one I could really think of is the final fantasy 7 remake towns and those places suck too. Mabey like mafia 1 remake/mafia but that’s also pretty uncanny.

 

[Book Thief]

Not a city, but Black Mesa seems like it would be a nightmare workplace to be employed at. For how "grounded" that game was at the time, Black Mesa has "OSHA violation" written all over it. Part of the fun of watching "Freeman's Mind" is hearing Ross Scott tear into the nonsensical layout of the facility, such as this contraption below:

Or how about a maintenance ladder in an elevator shaft... at the opposite side of the shaft:

I strongly suspect Black Mesa had a shockingly large fatality rate even before the Resonance Cascade.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Any city in Desu ex

 

[Father Fornicatio]

Well Rapture from Bioshock would be a little hell, if the water pressure dont get you, a loli will stab you in the skull to get a power up.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Any Pokemon city, those critters would cause chaos.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Tokyo in any megami tensei game, it's always filled with demons trying to kill you, sometimes the nukes are about to fall or crazies are about to recreate reality. Theres like 4 different versions of the devil running around fucking shit up and gods a big yellow faced dick. If your lucking steven hawking will give you a computer that controls demons but even with thag the skeleton matador is still going to probably kill you.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Raccoon city, surprised that wasnt the first mentioned

 

[VanyaMotorbike]

Although it was stated in the very poorly thought-of "lore" of the game that the city was abandoned, Hourglass in Battlefield 2042, which depicts a post-cataclysmic Doha, Qatar, full of SANDLOL, would be hell if you were an unlucky one that didn't get out in time:

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The big question about this map though, is how in the hell the lights are still on, since Qatar became a failed state after SANDLOL happened, and how have the trees not died out yet.

There's a game called Spec Ops: The Line where you're fighting through an abandoned Dubai, evacuated because it was being pounded by intense sandstorms. It's a pretty great environment, a big modern city overwhelmed by sand

It's a fun game. A pretty basic shooter, but it has a cool Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now kind of story and is also remembered for an infamous scene involving white phosporous