What’s a gaming universe you’d hate to live in?

[Frickinfrik]

Here’s my list:

The Last of Us - It’s nothing but a constant fight for survival. Infected everywhere, Literally almost every survivor is trying to kill/enslave you, Prison ca- er I mean Quarantine Zones run by a corrupt government organization, and society has crumbled.


Sonic - Seems like a pretty boring world to live in honestly. Also the fact that the world almost ended several times throughout the series.


Dark Souls - Also a constant fight for survival. Everyone and everything wants you dead.


Animal Crossing - Where’s the fun in a normal mundane life?


Silent Hill - You will never know what you’re seeing is real or not before it’s too late


Killzone - Just constant war and fight for survival.

 

[Tonberry]

GTA would probably be hell on earth to live in.
It's close enough to reality that you'd think you could manage, but everything's turned up to 11 non-stop.

 

[MajesticSiN]

Mad Max

 

[sijaab]

binary domain

clankers are everywere

oh wait... they already are

 

[neromero]

Any horror games, I'm not gonna wake up having a ghost playing tricks on my door just for it to jumpscare me afterwards

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Silent Hill, Reliving my traumas everyday doesn't sound pleasant to say the least.

 

[JoueurCitoyen]

Silent Hill - You will never know what you’re seeing is real or not before it’s too late

Silent Hill has always been a town I've wanted to visit. With friends and an armor of course but it's fascinating in many ways!

 

[mariojacob14]

Warhammer, fantasy or 40k would both be pretty awful

 

[Nickakyoin]

Animal Crossing or FF XIV. That's where you can manage and make the house of your dreams while also do other kind of activities (like fishing and catching bugs to donate to a museum in the first one. And slaying gods and summon entities of ultimate destruction in the second one).

 

[moonbits]

Fallout

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Harvest Moon -- it's either working by doing backbreaking, physical labor from dawn til dusk or dying hungry, scared and alone.

It's a little too real a scenario for me.

 

[sneakyguts]

pokemon id be bbq'd by charizard

 

[qw90700]

Gran Turismo. Imagine you had to get a license to do everything and cars have fuck physics!!!! Shiiiiiiiiiit!!!! lolol

 

[Fateman 2006]

gears of war, the locust will give anyone trauma and depression.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Mad Max - Yes there was a game for people don't know or forgot

It seems like every kind of apocalypse possible happened in that world and all at once. The only human beings left alive are mostly ugly and dirty people. The landscape is mostly a wasteland. And the overall IQ of humanity seems to have fallen significantly. A barren world low on resources and full of ugly and stupid people. Oh, and there's also the fact that everywhere you go you are likely to find people trying to kill you. No thanks.

Evil Dead - Again, there are games so I'm not cheating.

The Deadites are terrifying and the fact that so many people become them implies that the souls of most people in the Evil Dead universe go to hell

Mega Man - Humanity eventually ceases to exist if you follow the whole timeline of the franchise, and that's after having to endure all types of robot AI wars and horrors. Thanks a lot Dr. Light for starting all that. Asshole.

Lightning Returns - It's been a while since I've played that game, but I remember the storyline revolving around everyone essentially waiting for the end. It was an apocalyptic scenario where everyone was miserable and depressed knowing that they all had no future.

Beyond Good and Evil - If you're a conspiracy minded person you might find the elements of the game's story especially disturbing. Media propaganda and military control, all to hide the fact that people are being kidnapped and used by aliens (including children). For all its colorful and cartoon style visuals, BG&E is actually a very disturbing game.

 

[dropsmegamega]

the sims: a mysterious entity would force me to do increasingly unhinged things until it got bored and drowned me in the pool

 

[KirboDeku]

Final Fantasy VI would be awful to live in after Kefka crashes out. Mother 3 after Porky takes over is also just abhorrent. Chrono Trigger and Live A Live are horrible across all of their time periods, especially the future. OFF sounds like it would be absolutely miserable to be a normal person in. In Breath of Fire II, I'd probably fall for the Church of St. Eva and get my soul sucked out. In Breath of Fire III, the Desert of Death spreads across the whole world after Myria's death, and presumably kills thousands as a result.

The absolute worst one that comes to mind though is Fallout, for very obvious reasons. It was designed to be hell to live in.