I was thinking about which fictional world would be the absolute worst place to live in as a civilian.
Azeroth is a prime candidate. It seems like everyday you would run the risk of being infected by some plague; or having a demon invasion on top of your farm. There's always some evil shit going on.
The Road
Invader Zim's version of Earth.
GTA
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
Fallout
not only you live in a wasteland you have a man telling you about settlements 24/7
Warhammer 40k. Isn't the life expectancy for an Imperial Guardsman 17 hours?
[QUOTE=mralexs;50875942]Warhammer 40k. Isn't the life expectancy for an Imperial Guardsman 17 hours?[/QUOTE]
they die or they die trying
but yeah i feel like warhammer's universe would just be perpetual shit for any civilian
living in fear of the next tyranid swarm would be pretty awful
Fallout.
How the fuck can humanity supposedly survive a nuclear apocalypse and yet hundreds of years later you might have a house or an office but you've never bothered to clean out the rubble strewn about or fucking attempted to rebuild civilization?
Like sure, there's still rebelling factions but is it that fucking hard to grab a broom and dustpan??
Half Life. Your planet's enviroment is fucked, food is shit, headcrabs everywhere and invader police beats you up all the time
The DC cinematic universe
Everything is constantly getting absolutely obliterated by both the villains and the heroes that are supposed to be saving the day
The Witcher
Mortal Kombat's version of Earth.
the real one
Post-Eclipse Berserk is not a great place to live in unless you're lucky enough to live in Falconia.
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;50875824]Warhammer[/QUOTE]
Ehh warhammer aint that bad. There are entire planets that would have a quality of life significantly higher then we have today. The Imperium is fucking massive.
The universe from I have no mouth and I must scream would be pretty fucking aweful though since if you aren't dead you're being tortured forever by a psychotic computer.
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The universe from I have no mouth and I must scream would be pretty fucking aweful though since if you aren't dead you're being tortured forever by a psychotic computer.[/QUOTE]
I'm not quite sure it's fair to pick universes that are basically dying or in that case are dead beyond a very small handful of people. You can't really live in those.
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I mean, I could say a universe like Casshern Sins's one where every living being including robots has super-cancer so literally everybody is dying, and I feel like that's kind of cheating.
I'm having a tough time deciding between Warhammer (40k and Fantasy) and maybe Fallout.
[QUOTE=pentium;50876046]Fallout.
How the fuck can humanity supposedly survive a nuclear apocalypse and yet hundreds of years later you might have a house or an office but you've never bothered to clean out the rubble strewn about or fucking attempted to rebuild civilization?
Like sure, there's still rebelling factions but is it that fucking hard to grab a broom and dustpan??[/QUOTE]
You're thinking of the east coast (Bethesda). On the west coast (Obsidian), whole nations have been founded and built on the rubble of the old world. The quality of life can vary greatly depending on the environment you're in, and everything's a gray area. For example, if you're in Legion territory (figuring you're a healthy, adult male), you could live a fairly safe and decent life. Although that comes with the con of being bred for war from a young age, and possibly dying in combat later on. There's also the watchful eye of the vulpes inculta around every corner, so who knows if you'll be accused of doing something that goes against the Legion.
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[QUOTE=Sammichman40;50876028]they die or they die trying
but yeah i feel like warhammer's universe would just be perpetual shit for any civilian
living in fear of the next tyranid swarm would be pretty awful[/QUOTE]
Either you get killed by xenos, or, you're born in a hive city (think of a massive city confined to a massive mile-high building) at the very bottom of it, and you die because you decided to step outside for once in your short, miserable life, and a passing rape gang chopped you up and skull fucked you to death. Almost literally anything could happen if you lived in the Warhammer universe. Tyranid swarms, massive planet-wide rebellion, someone decided to mess with the warp which invited Chaos to your world, which then subsequently sanctioned an exterminatus on your planet. You could be one of millions or even billions killed an instant over absolutely anything.
Postal
[QUOTE=TAU!;50876327]You're thinking of the east coast (Bethesda). On the west coast (Obsidian), whole nations have been founded and built on the rubble of the old world.
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Either you get killed by xenos, or, you're born in a hive city (think of a massive city confined to a massive mile-high building) at the very bottom of it, and you die because you decided to step outside for once in your short, miserable life, and a passing rape gang chopped you up and skull fucked you to death.[/QUOTE]
Worse still getting captured by dark eldar.
Berserk doesnt seem fun.
That or Dark souls but it's essentially the same place so.
Depending on where you live the 40k universe isn't all bad. You could live a decent-good life in some of the hive cities/worlds.
1984
gmod
Halo is a pretty fucking terrible universe for nearly every sentient being possible. The Forerunners and Precursors are nearly or entirely extinct. The various Covenant species are either cannon fodder, corrupt, or fixated on honor to the point of suicide. The UNSC is sitting on the very edge of the moral event horizon with a large swath of humanity brutally murdered over twenty-seven years.
It's a shit state of affairs regardless of what species you are.
Second Life
to contribute to the warhammer 40k discussion:
[IMG]http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/9/95/Terra_And_Luna.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130409090405[/IMG]
reminder that this is how earth looks like
Metro universe
Most of the world is a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life, and virtually everyone who's survived is forced to live underground and compete with mutated animals and each other for survival
