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?
There's a single boss fight on a highwayMGR is either in the city or in other countries.
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.Lol at all the games taking place on the west coast being named. How are CA/OR/WA middle America?
ATL is nowhere near the Midwest my friendTelltale's Walking Dead games maybe?
In-game? The small town at the top of the map is NorCal and where Trevor lives is meant to be Salton Sea (also California).
Or do you mean North Yankton?
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.
Your post also says it can be a cultural label.
The first one is set in Atlanta; not sure about the other games
Saints Row takes place in the Midwest.
Red Dead is sort of Midwest, too.
It's a problem that not enough games, and maybe not enough media, is about non-urban American. Much of what is set there is written based on a fear of "crazy backwoods people."
The Last of Us takes place in the future and mostly the northeast and the mountain west.Last of us
Re7
Maybe the vigilante series
The Last of Us takes place in the future and mostly the northeast and the mountain west.
Resident Evil 7 takes place in Louisiana.
I think you're mistaken.To be fair, there's a whole section of TLOU in St. Louis, IIRC.
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).I think Earthbound, and Mother 3 take place in similar settings but I'm not too sure.
I think you're mistaken.
MA -> PA -> WY -> CO -> UT
Northern part of GTA V?
Also state of decay seems to be inspried by rural america
Saints Row takes place in the Midwest.