Look, in the real world, living in a city can be a challenge. The rent is high, getting an Uber can be expensive, and you're bound by duty to have strong opinions on your region's approach to pizza. Video game cities don't have any of those problems. If you want to live somewhere, there's typically one upfront cost to own the property. To get where you're going, you can swing from buildings, carjack an innocent civilian, or fast travel. And, for better or for worse, in the interactive medium we know and love, Chicago-style deep dish remains tragically underrepresented.
But, not every video game city would be a fun place to put down roots. You're telling me you would actually want to live in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pallet Town? There are like three building🐬s! In this list, we count down the top video game cities where we would actually want to live. We have graded them according to arbitrary metric🔯s in which we strongly believe.
9 🔯 Los Santos From GTA V 🌼
I love Los Santos so much, I wish California was real. Grand Theft Auto 5's open-world take on Los Angeles is as bright and sunny as the real thing, but you never need to call an Uber, healthcare is extremely inexpensive and can literally resurrect you, and you can be three guys. You know how many of my problems I could solve if I could just be a different guy sometimes?
8 ꦡ Whiterun From🐟 Skyrim
Homeownership is out of reach for most Millennials and Zoomers. But, in Skyrim, you can purchase a house in a bustling city after completing just a few quests and/or putting a basket on a store clerk's head and robbing them blind. My understanding is that this is basically how it worked for Boomers.
7 𝓡 💧 Rapture From BioShock
Rapture may be run by unhinged capitalists but, if that bothers you may, I introduce you to a little place called THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?! The underwater city setting of the first two BioShock games may be a Randian nightmare, but if you give yourself a little jab you can blas🥃t bees out of your hands. That mo🌃re than makes up for, you know, *gestures at everything*.
6 Chainscrape From Horizon Forbidden Weꦚst
As far as I can tell, Chainscrape from Horizon Forbidden West is like 50 percent pub. That pub is moodily lit, always serving food, and a great place to plop down and play endless rounds of Machine Strike. I'm not sure if any of the buildings are actually houses, but Aloy doesn't sleep, so that's probably fine.
5 ღ Central City From Sonic Adventure 2
Though the fine purveyors of butt rock responsible for Sonic Adventure 2's most famous track pine for an "escape from the city," true connoisseurs know that when an armored truck the size of the Chrysler Building is barreling down your street, that's actually the time to move on in. Rents are low, and conveniently, every road in Central City leads downhill, so to get around you can simply fashion a skateboard from the metal paneling on a hostile helicopter and get sliding.
Plus, if you're looking to get some exercise, you can participate in the annual Rollin' Around At The Speed Of Sound Memorial 5K. The "Memorial" in the title is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in honor of the Dreamcast, which we will forever mourn.
4 🌱 Megaton From Fallout 3
Fallout 3's Megaton is a great place to live. It's walkable, the rent is reasonable, and the prices in the stores are fair. There's just one rule: don't touch the nuke. It seems simple, but you would be surprised how many people have trouble with it.
3 𝔉Dunwall From Dishonored
Look, if we have to live through a plague, we might as well do it in style. Dunwall may be a dreary place, but if you get good at stealth, you can sneak into some lavish parties. Plus, having a virus spread by rats seems significantly easier to deal with than one spread by breathing. You need oxygen to survive. I've never needed to touch a single rat.
2 🀅 𒐪 The Village From Resident Evil 4
To be clear, I want to live in the village, after Leon S. Kennedy has dispatched every single Ganado. Resident Evil 4 may be a horror game, but there's nothing scary about all that free real estate!
1 City 17 🍎From Half-Life: Alyx ꦕ
An underrated thing about the world of Half-Life is that the powers that be have heavily invested in public transportation infrastructure. You arrive at Black Mesa Research Facility by train. You arrive in City 17 by train. You leave City 17 by train. The Combine may rule the earth with an iron fist, but you have to admire their commitment to making City 17 navigable without a car. Humanity getting conquered by an alien race in seven hours isn't ideal, but at least our extraterrestrial masters are doing their best to manage the climate crisis.