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

[eatler]

Diamond City. For 157 years, a group of people has been squatting in a baseball stadium with no attempts to expand.

Have you ever seen the concept art for it? in game it looks even less lived in than megaton. it sucks that the old engine could barely run Boston. Also I still prefer Adams old art better it really had a great grimy look.

City 17 from the Half-Life 2 beta, which has a distinct atmosphere from the retail version.

That’s really cool I’ve never seen that.

 

[AbduluCthuluZulu]

Any city in the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe. They've been nuked, burned, shelled, glassed from orbit, and trampled by giant robots for almost a millenia, and will probably continue to do so for another millenia.

 

[TheRetardKing]

Everything in this thread is baby's play compared to the town of Harvest.

Harvest is so fucked up, it makes Paradise from Postal look like Sesame Street.

 

[Smokingpoop]

I always thought the city from the cat game, stray, was pretty interesting and nightmare-ish.

Creepy considering every human in a once thriving city has died and only robots are left

 

[Book Thief]

Harvest is so fucked up, it makes Paradise from Postal look like Sesame Street.

Perhaps, but at the same time, it's all a simulation meant to train people to become serial killers, so Harvest doesn't really exist even within the narrative.

TAX: The average fort in Dwarf Fortress. Common sights may include goblin sieges, dragons that breathe fire four times hotter than the surface of the sun, werebeasts that go berserk every full moon and spread their infections through bite, or being attacked by eldritch abominations from beneath the earth. If you choose to settle in a haunted region, then expect the dead to rise from their graves, a constant rain of disgusting ooze that causes you to burst out into warts, or clouds of fog that can either cause your flesh to melt off and cause you die from blood loss, or turn you into a mindless zombie that desires nothing more than to destroy any living creature you see.

With enough stressful events over a long period of time, you're not even safe from your fellow citizens, as they may lose their mind and start kicking puppies and beating random people to a pulp. This in turn leads to a downward spiral of morale, leading others to either take their own lives or try to take out their friends with them.

Losing is fun.

 

[Coelacanth]

With enough stressful events over a long period of time, you're not even safe from your fellow citizens, as they may lose their mind and start kicking puppies and beating random people to a pulp. This in turn leads to a downward spiral of morale, leading others to either take their own lives or try to take out their friends with them.

And said citizen might beat you to a bloody pulp using the most absurd things like a backpack or a tattered sock! Have fun being mocked in the afterlife for dying in the most ridiculous ways ever!

TAX: This place was built by a literal 10,000+ year old manchild who acts almost exactly like Chris Chan.

 

[Book Thief]

And said citizen might beat you to a bloody pulp using the most absurd things like a backpack or a tattered sock! Have fun being mocked in the afterlife for dying in the most ridiculous ways ever!

Oh yeah, one thing I forgot: even if you're not a part of a dwarven fortress, life in those universes would still suck. Random villages may be raided by invading armies, or be ransacked by dragons, minotaurs, werebeasts, or bronze colossi. But even if you avoid all of that, there's freaking Night Trolls.

Imagine this: you're lying in your bed, minding your own business, when suddenly some vaguely human-like creature that smells like death bursts into your home, kidnaps you, carries you off their cavern, and brainwashes you so that they can use you as a breeding slave. Yeesh.

 

[SalmonForSale2]

Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in a city located in (and inspired by) California. I wouldn't survive a week.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I always thought the city from the cat game, stray, was pretty interesting and nightmare-ish.

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Creepy considering every human in a once thriving city has died and only robots are left

The one on the left looks like it could have come straight from Transistor.

 

[Tablet County]

Neverwinter and the city of Baldur's Gate only seem bad because the games only cover times of crisis. Most of the time the city is safe and stable, with honest guardmen and leadership. Even the Thieves Guild hates violence.

Sigil would suck to live in though. Unless you were like the Lady of Pain's personal fuckboy I can't see Sigil being a fun place to live.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Vice City.

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

Violence District from LSD: Dream Emulator, because... well, it's literally a nightmare.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Port Clovis is like Idiocracy meets Sharknado.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

imagine living in leyawiin with a bunch of liggers

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

Is silent hill big enough to count here?

 

[ShitLurker]

Crossbell from the Trails saga.

But why you ask? It's a modern looking comercial hub!

It's also a zone of perpetual territorial disputes between two military super powers, has bootleg italian AND Chinese mafia and is also the fulcrum of some weird as fuck cult and their weird fucking rituals.

As of the latest game, MAYBE it's finally become a calm place, but I swear it is fucking cursed.

Liberl seems pretty chill on the other hand if one ignores the Aureole incident... and the Eryn village also seems lovely if boring.

Other place that is more obviously wretched is the Remote City near the Plain of Sorrow in Vandal Hearts. You wake up one morning, take a stroll, some freak event opens a rift in time and you are dropped into this hell on earth and even if you manage to reach the only place with a settlement, odds are you will just try to end it all through liver failure.

Last vote goes to the Magic Kingdom in Chrono Trigger. Place has some strong 1984 vibes. As long as you play ball and don't fuck around, seems great (till the collapse), but god forbid you can't follow those rules.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I'm surprised nobody has brought up liberty city this whole time. The place is decrepit, filled with seedy bullshit and criminal gangs and its downright eerie in the 3d games. The whole vibe is grimy and invites the bizarre.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Hyrule. Always in danger because of some magical negro or shit.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Hyrule. Always in danger because of some magical negro or shit.

I was going to say any city that Link is allowed to visit. He'll harass your chickens and burst into your home to smash all your ceramics. No wonder they send him on stupid fetch quests all the time.

 

[Focken Kiwi]

The Suspended City from Turok Evolution. Being a key point of passage to the human capital of Galyanna and across a massive chasm, the Suspended City is a target for invasion by a reptilian race hellbent on killing or enslaving humanity. If the threat of being dominated by lizard men doesn't threaten you, then the inherent risks of the cables suspending an entire civilization failing should. Cool on paper does not mean good in practice.