king grimlock
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High charity in halo 2 and 3 if the civil war wasn't bad enough there was also ancient space zombies that eventually turned everything into a massive orgy of organic shit.
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Cities or locations that suffered a horrible fate in games
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JinjoUnchained
Member
Terranigma's factionalized version of Tokyo. You visit it early on as one more vibrant city being resurrected by dormancy. Shockingly, everyone gets wiped out later.
GoodCoffeeJoey
Banned
New York City and fake New York City.
Zombie Outbreak, quarantine - Prototype
Super-smallpox pandemic, quarantine - The Division
Attacked/occupied by Soviets - Freedom Fighters, World in Conflict, Red Alert 2
Occupied by monsters, frozen, huge warship crashes into it - Resistance 3
Attacked/occupied by Nazis - Turning Point
Filled with poison smoke - Spider Man
Super power pandemic, quarantine - Infamous
Attacked by sky city - Bioshock: Infinite
Zombie Outbreak, quarantine - Prototype
Super-smallpox pandemic, quarantine - The Division
Attacked/occupied by Soviets - Freedom Fighters, World in Conflict, Red Alert 2
Occupied by monsters, frozen, huge warship crashes into it - Resistance 3
Attacked/occupied by Nazis - Turning Point
Filled with poison smoke - Spider Man
Super power pandemic, quarantine - Infamous
Attacked by sky city - Bioshock: Infinite
HyperCroutons
Member
Didn't matter still looked completely destroyed after the 350 hours I put into the game! The Empire should have at least put out the fires by then, I guess the tax payers money is better spent paying for that White Gold Tower.
The village, castle, and military base in Resident Evil 4 are all left in ruin once Leon is done with them. I always wonder if the villagers were ever cured from Los Plagues and if so what village they would go back to, it be nothing but dead bodies, burned houses, and a completely bombed out island off the coast.
Poor Goldshire on any RP server in World of Warcraft needs a purging more than Stratholme ever did.
I always found it fucking hilarious how the game ends with Tails saying "all's well that ends well!" with everyone standing in the ruined, flooded carcass of the city.
I always found it fucking hilarious how the game ends with Tails saying "all's well that ends well!" with everyone standing in the ruined, flooded carcass of the city.
The Lone Courier
Member
The worst is in Madden. The Jets play in New York.
Poor NYC, my beloved home. Destroyed by aliens in Crysis 3, a crime zone in Max Payne and The Warriors. Ruined by many a Marvel villain (and DC if you count Gotham and Metropolis as NYC). Hit by a deadly virus in The Division, a state of emergency as Liberty City in GTAs. There are so many more.
RiderKairuu
Member
I love the destruction of Raccoon City in the RE Outbreak endings. The music goes so good with it https://youtu.be/SuQCmX-HN2I
Yahar'gul, the Unseen Village in Bloodborne.
Yahar'gul started in a pretty bad place, being home to the School of Mensis, a cult/think tank who worshipped the Great Ones and kidnapped people for experiments and sacrifices to try and communicate with their gods. But then shit got worse when the scholars found a third of a Great One's umbilical cord and tried to use it to commune with the still-born Great One Mergo.
BAD.
IDEA.
By the end of the game, the entire population is dead or worse. Even the big scary kidnappers are now just corpses. And don't even ask me what the fuck these things are.
Yahar'gul started in a pretty bad place, being home to the School of Mensis, a cult/think tank who worshipped the Great Ones and kidnapped people for experiments and sacrifices to try and communicate with their gods. But then shit got worse when the scholars found a third of a Great One's umbilical cord and tried to use it to commune with the still-born Great One Mergo.
BAD.
IDEA.
By the end of the game, the entire population is dead or worse. Even the big scary kidnappers are now just corpses. And don't even ask me what the fuck these things are.
Dreadnought
Member
Remember Reach
paragonpro
Banned
Kvath in oblivion. Oblivion gate opened right on there front door and wrecked shop
Seven Force
Banned
Came to say this. The place was already in terrible shape by the time Luke and co. get there, but boy does shit get real for that town shortly after.
The Jets play in New Jersey.
sublimit
Banned
Yup this was the first that came to my mind too.
Rapscallion
Member
Most of the world in FF6.
Also Station Square in Sonic Adventure 1.
How anyone is alive to yell "YEAH SONIC!" at the end of the game is beyond me.
Also Station Square in Sonic Adventure 1.
How anyone is alive to yell "YEAH SONIC!" at the end of the game is beyond me.
That's brought about an avalanche of nostalgia.
The Orz
Member
...and just like a made-for-TV movie, I sat the controller down, looked at my hands, and asked myself, "My god, what have I done?"
But let's turn our attention to Star Control 2, a game I'm pretty sure I bring up in every single post I make. The Ur-Quan enslave Earth, "protecting" it's inhabitants. Not before doing a little preventative maintenance, however...
"Then the Ur-Quan broadcast an odd message: All objects of human construction more than 500 years old were 'to be abandoned'. We didn't know what the Ur-Quan meant until they moved their Dreadnoughts to new orbital positions and opened fire on the surface with their fusion weapons.
In seconds, large sections of London, Paris, and other European cities were incinerated. At first we thought they were going to annihilate us after all and we noticed that they were also striking such targets as the Giza Pyramids, the Parthenon in Athens, and Stonehenge. Curiously, The United States was almost untouched.
The flaming rain lasted for 40 hellish hours. It took days after we crawled from our smouldering shelters to realize what the Ur-Quan had done. Our new masters had targeted every building, monument or other man-made construction older than 500 years and destroyed it.
In those two days, we lost most of the history of mankind."
TriggerRedd
Member
Well, if video games are to be believed, the 1755 earthquake that leveled Lisbon, Portugal was all because those wily assassins couldn't leave some ancient artifacts alone. (This is in AC: Rogue, which I just finished)
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
In Halo 4 the entire population of "New Phoenix" is killed instantly. New Phoenix is a massive super city that includes everything from Flagstaff, AZ all the way down to the Phoenix metro area and the surrounding areas. I live in the Phoenix area and went to school in Flagstaff.
-Ravaged by an alien virus and then invaded by aliens (Crysis 2)
-Invaded by Russians (MW3)
poodaddy
Gold Member
I don't know what the city is in Megaman X, but can you imagine how fucking terrifying it must be to live there? Extrapolate that logic towards Neo Arcadia in Mega Man Zero, but specifically towards dissidents and humans, and you have quite possibly one of the most wrecked fucking cities in the history of their universe and perhaps one of the most hopeless places in video game history for a human to live.
Honorable mention for Vizima in the Witcher series, in Witcher 1 it nearly gets burned to the ground due to racial persecution, riots, war, and pogroms only to be easily invaded and conquered by Nilfgard during the rebuilding of the city. I mean what the fuck man?
Honorable mention for Vizima in the Witcher series, in Witcher 1 it nearly gets burned to the ground due to racial persecution, riots, war, and pogroms only to be easily invaded and conquered by Nilfgard during the rebuilding of the city. I mean what the fuck man?
thecosmicfly
Banned
Any city in Cities: Skylines built beneath a dam.
Golden Slumbers
Member
FFX - Zanarkand Ruins
Maaan the music in that place is the best.
Maaan the music in that place is the best.
themagicalkitsune
Member
My animal crossing town(s)