LizardKing
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Lol at all the games taking place on the west coast being named. How are CA/OR/WA middle America?
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Far Cry 5 got me thinking. What other games are set in modern-day Middle America?
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Off-Kilter
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The Hitman games tend to have levels set in middle America.
There's a single boss fight on a highway
Or Montana at that, since that's still the West. I assume middle America is anything that's not directly on the coast or in the South according to the context of the OP, but what normally comes to mind for me when I think of "Middle America" are the Midwestern states.
I do want more games in this type of setting though. Toss in a few fantasy elements and it cou l d be a really cool game.
Humdinger
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Fwiw:
"Middle America is a colloquial term for the United States heartland, especially the culturally rural and suburban areas of the United States.
"Middle America is generally used as both a geographic and cultural label, suggesting a Central United States small town or suburb where most people are middle class; Evangelical Christian, Mainline Protestant or Catholic; and white."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)
A lot of the examples given in the thread are of places in the pacific northwest (including Far Cry 5) and don't fit the "middle America" label.
"Middle America is a colloquial term for the United States heartland, especially the culturally rural and suburban areas of the United States.
"Middle America is generally used as both a geographic and cultural label, suggesting a Central United States small town or suburb where most people are middle class; Evangelical Christian, Mainline Protestant or Catholic; and white."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_(United_States)
A lot of the examples given in the thread are of places in the pacific northwest (including Far Cry 5) and don't fit the "middle America" label.
potatohead
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Last of us
Re7
Maybe the vigilante series
Re7
Maybe the vigilante series
QuantumZebra
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ATL is nowhere near the Midwest my friend
I'd vote Resident Evil. Raccoon City is supposed to be Indianapolis or something like it.
hodayathink
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I'm pretty sure North Yankton is supposed to be analogous to the NY/NJ area (aka Liberty City in-universe).
On topic, it's kinda sad how many people here don't really understand what/where middle America is. Not everything rural is located in middle America. Pacific Northwest isn't. Anything south of Tenessee and east of Texas isn't (that's the South). Geographically speaking, the boundaries are Ohio to the East, North/South Dakota/Kansas to the West (though I'd hear arguments for going as far as Colorado), the Canadian border to the north, and Oklahoma to the south (though you have to carve out a section in that corner for the South that includes Arkansas and a few other states).
coughlanio
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Your post also says it can be a cultural label.
hodayathink
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The cultural label still says it suggests a central US town, and Washington/Oregon/Montana aren't central US, either.
Laieon
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If I remember correctly, 2 takes place in Ohio. Haven't played 3 yet.
Red Dead is southwest. Supposed to be Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, and Mexico.
hodayathink
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Geographically, you can have a game be urban and set in "middle America" if you're talking about the central US. The third largest city in the country is smack in the middle of the Midwest.
ScaryShark
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The Last of Us takes place in the future and mostly the northeast and the mountain west.
Resident Evil 7 takes place in Louisiana.
hodayathink
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To be fair, there's a whole section of TLOU in St. Louis, IIRC.
ScaryShark
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JB2448
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Funnily enough, though those two have settings inspired by rural America, only EarthBound Beginnings on the Famicom explicitly takes place in rural America (as stated in the intro) The last two games in the trilogy are fantasy settings (Eagleland and Nowhere Islands).
hodayathink
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Without going back, I think I may be remembering
the PA part as STL
Muscle Wizard
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A lot of people don't know just where the Midwest actually is.
The GTA V prologue is probably supposed to be that universe's version of Fargo.
Cuningas de Häme
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Battlefield 3 had a DLC-pack that could suit? At least there was generic US small towns and countryside...
toddhunter
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I think Tyranny is set in Arkansas
Really? I thought those cities were supposed to be coastal ones and not just because the game uses water to limit the play area.
Black Mantis
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State of Decay and its sequel.