Never felt it, never will. Davis, CA wouldn't be a good place to set a game. Neither would OKC, where I grew up. Even Sacramento, where I was born, wouldn't be great.
Palm Bay, Florida probably won't be showing up in any games soon, unless it's a high school football game. Fun fact about Palm Bay High, it's actually located in Melbourne!
I wa hyped as hell for Fallout: New Vegas because (you guessed it) I grew up there. Just seeing what Fallout 3 did with the DC surrounding (visitng familiar locations) was one of my favorite parts of that game so I could not wait to do that to my stomping grounds.
F:NV is pretty real to life in other ways; most specifically all of the surrounding towns and stuff (primm, nipton, searchlight)
and north vegas is a shithole also so correct in that respect as well
Well no, neither Uppsala nor Stockholm are very common game locations. I do remember there being a Stockholm race track in PGR3, and I would say that was fairly accurate except for the fact that there isn't any real race track there as far as I know.
small town Massachusetts? nah, i dont think any games will be set here. maybe boston, but not in my crappy town. its not even spooky for a horror game, its not "homey" for the whole russia invades the US thing, doesnt have good roads for racing. it just sucks.
New York duders speak up on this one, your hometown is destroyed every tuesday in games
New York City isn't my home town but I'm pretty close. I can't say it's ever felt strange and the city so ingrained in pop culture that it's not something you really even think about.
@Socialone: The Biodome is fun to check out once, just to see all the animals and whatnot, but the botanical gardens right next to it are a must see. It's such a beautiful place, with miles of flora from across the world in one location (I'm a biology major, which is kinda why I enjoy it so much).
@MostlyBearded: No no, I meant the top of the tower itself, not the whole area. The installations are great, I went there countless times in my youth, but the top of the tower with the huge elevator thing, this isn't worth it for locals.
@themangalist: They never seem to get the accents right. I live in São Paulo, and the characters in Max Payne 3 spoke in a pretty weird way. The cursing was the only thing i felt that was spot on... There were some nods to brazilian culture, but the whole thing never felt like São Paulo. I still enjoyed the game, so i hope you enjoy Sleeping Dogs too! Also, be prepared to be annoyed by two-language conversations.
The town I was born in was Lewisville, TX, which is right outside of Dallas. Have there been any games set in Dallas? I don't know. I live in Colorado Springs, CO right now, and I doubt there's ever going to be any games set here.
The closest to a game set in my hometown was the Knoxville Cough in Homefront, and that's... not even close, to be honest. Like... 2 hours away from my hometown.
I guess my hometown would have a somewhat better chance than others, since it's next to the formerly longest steel arch bridge in the world, but those chances are still very slim.
That would be one hell of a game. Skydiving off the CN tower into the Skydome? Doing a drive-by on those Bay street stock-trader cats? Blowing up Honest Ed's? Yes please.
All Toronto's got is that Scott Pilgrim beat-'em-up. Which had a couple funny references to the city, but not much. Mainly I loved how the coins you picked up were loonies, toonies and quarters.
I was going to say, "I don't know...", but now I realze that Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is attached to play the first mate on the whaling ship the Essex in the harrowing real-life naval thriller movie In the Heart of the Sea. The story chronicles the grim fate of the Essex’s crew from Nantucket (where I live) after the ship was attacked and capsized by a sperm whale, inspiring Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
Depending on how this movie is marketed there could be a video game....I rather doubt it...but you never know these days. If they do make a game...expect some cannibalism. But like I said it would be a huge stretch to expect a game form this project unless they decide to make it a summer blockbuster because of the success of Hemsworth's other movies.
I don't actually live in Montreal, only an hour or so from it, but I loved playing that part in Deus Ex HR. I can't seem to remember any other game taking place there though.
Well I live in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. Which is close enough. So far it has been featured in Fallout 3: The Pitt and is where that Last of Us demo takes place. Both are fairly accurate on how shitty the place is. Also any football, baseball, or hockey game usually features our stadiums. We are also the birth place of zombies with Romero's of the Living Dead series all take place around here. Also a lot of post-apocalyptic movies from like the past 5 years were film around here.
Well, none of them have ever accurately depicted Lunarian culture in any way whatsoever. It's either the blank surface of the Lunar Shield, or some made-up sci-fi/fantasy whatevers.
I live in olney md, a small town, and we where in Fallout 3. So there are still chances that you will atleast be in a game. By the way, olney dosent have a single tall building.
You figure if you live in Hong Kong, NY, LA or SPAAAAACE you have had a bunch of games in your town.
That said kind of pumped about AC4 bing in and around/Boston (Olde Tyme Boston) kind of I am sure there will be buildings and towers that are their for the game purposes).
I have not seen any of the Desomnd stuff and would "never stop playing" if the new secret hide-out was inside the Dunkin Donuts by North Station.
The first Left 4 Dead is as close to having a game in my home town as I've ever gotten. It was a bit surreal seeing the Allegheny National Forest sign at the beginning of Blood Harvest.
In video games set in the U.S. cities like New York, LA, and San Francisco hog most of the spotlight. While my hometown isn't tiny (Portland) the likelihood of it being the main setting of a video game is slim. I think the only way it's ever really been featured in a game is the Burnside skatepark in a few skateboarding games.
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