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Was having this conversation with a mate the other day and thought I'd put it to the Dakka Community.

If you had to choose which Post-Apocalyptic video game universe you could reside in, which would it be and why?

I'd most likely choose the Fallout universe. Love all the early Fallout games due to the rich lore and the latest instalments are amongst my favourite games. I really loved how the more recent games by Bethesda could blend the bleakness of a post-apolalyptic world with enough instances where there was hope and human ingenuity shone through. Whenever I played the games i favoured Small Arms, Repair and Speech skills and a more diplomatic approach to various encounters.

Was thinking about making this a Poll but I figured there would no doubt be numerous environments that I hadn't experienced or forgot about, so throw your end of the world preferences at me!

Rage, or Borderlands.

Probably Rage. I love the Western setting, with all those cheesy characters.

Pokémon.

I'd go Borderlands...

Fallout, with my foresight in the importance of bottle caps to the economy and my stockpile of quilted toilet paper I'd be rich! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICH! Tenpenny tower is mine!

Assuming they survive the indistinct nuclear bombardment to come.

Whilst I like many post apocalyptic video games, none spring to mind that I would actually want to live in.

Maybe... Deus Ex? Can we count that as post apocalyptic?

 purplefood wrote:
I'd go Borderlands...

Those skags, though..

Too many bugs in Fallout, so thus, Rage, because cars and no bugs.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I'd go Borderlands...

Those skags, though..

Too many bugs in Fallout, so thus, Rage, because cars and no bugs.

I can take skags...

I think the Fallout series is the coolest, but there is no post-apocalyptic universe I would genuinely want to live in.

 purplefood wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I'd go Borderlands...

Those skags, though..

Too many bugs in Fallout, so thus, Rage, because cars and no bugs.

I can take skags...

Alpha Skags. Those Spitter Skags. Skags. Skags. Skags. Aaaargh!

Right here. With all of the mass extinction events that occurred on Earth we already live in a post-apoc world.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I'd go Borderlands...

Those skags, though..

Too many bugs in Fallout, so thus, Rage, because cars and no bugs.

I can take skags...

Alpha Skags. Those Spitter Skags. Skags. Skags. Skags. Aaaargh!

Yeah i could take 'em.

does it have to be a video game world? cuz i'd go with mad max.

 purplefood wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
I'd go Borderlands...

Those skags, though..

Too many bugs in Fallout, so thus, Rage, because cars and no bugs.

I can take skags...

Alpha Skags. Those Spitter Skags. Skags. Skags. Skags. Aaaargh!

Yeah i could take 'em.

Still annoying as feth.

Given that I don't like constant danger outside of fiction, if I had to pick one to live in I'd go live in Ooo;



Sure I'd be crappily animated, but at least I'd live

I would totalt go with either the Tiberian Sun universe, or faling that id go with borderlands

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Right here. With all of the mass extinction events that occurred on Earth we already live in a post-apoc world.

Uh no we don't, civilization still exists on modern day Earth.

 LordofHats wrote:
Given that I don't like constant danger outside of fiction, if I had to pick one to live in I'd go live in Ooo;



Sure I'd be crappily animated, but at least I'd live

Hahaha oh wow you win this thread buddy.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Right here. With all of the mass extinction events that occurred on Earth we already live in a post-apoc world.

No, we don't. But I'll give you credit for trying to get philosophical

Call of Ctthulhu Dark corners of the earth.

Oh, happy ending....Oh everyone's either dead or insane.

 Doctadeth wrote:
Call of Ctthulhu Dark corners of the earth.

Oh, happy ending....Oh everyone's either dead or insane.

Or unsane.

 Trondheim wrote:
I would totalt go with either the Tiberian Sun universe, or faling that id go with borderlands

Tiberium Earth by Tiberian sun is a gak hole to the eleventh degree with tiberium mutated monsters running amuck, Ion storms tearing through cities, a grudge match between the last two polities on Earth looming/cyborg armies lead by a rampaging A.I assimilating everyone, an assimilative crystal giving carbon based life on earth a mere year to live unless the tacitus is found and translated, and constant ethnic riots between tiberium mutants and non-mutants.

Either Pokemon or the Land of Ooo. Somewhere were "Post-apoc" is still rather nice to live in

Despite my love for Fallout, I think it'd be very different to actually live in, seeing as in real life I'm not a sharpshooting ninja with the greatest oratory talent since Cicero, and the ability to fix a chainsaw with a baseball bat...

I'd probably just end up being eaten by a deathclaw.

Fallout. Somewhere in the NCR like Shady Sands. I could just be a simple brahmin rancher and avoid all the gak going down in other, less civilized parts of the wasteland.

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
Either Pokemon or the Land of Ooo. Somewhere were "Post-apoc" is still rather nice to live in

I'm going to go for this too.

If not, does the Metro 2033 world count? As much as I'd gak myself fighting horrifying mutants in a radiated wasteland, I could at least whittle the time away by fighting horrifying mutants in a radiated wasteland.

Fallout for sure. It's a very "soft" apocalypse as these things go. Lots of things that make no sense still happen for the sake of gameplay. It's 200 years post bombs, but we're still looting supermarkets for food? And the food is still good? And the shelves are still full?

Sign me up for that "apocalypse".

either fallout, borderlands or the tiberian universe

Mass Effect following a full-fledged paragon perfect Destroy ending.

Maybe Red Faction: Guerilla (but not its sequel, ugh) in a sense as well (it has a similar feel to post-apocalyptic anyway).

Shadowrun counts to some extent I think, though the apocalypse wasn't as harsh as in some cases.

I am probably defining post-apocalyptic differently I guess.

I'm not a huge fan of fallout, never played borderlands, rage annoyed me. World of Goo was neat, as was its fire-based sequel.

That said I'm not foolish enough to want to live in any of them. Maybe Shadowrun if it's a less grimdark interpretation of it... maybe. Probably not even then.

Border lands would probably annoy you too. I also found Rage to be annoying in many ways, and so tried border lands only to think it looks cool but also it's terribly annoying.