Could Every Video Game Happen in the Same World? | Semi-Ramblomatic
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- Now that Yahtzee is done with Starstruck Vagabond, he's found he's got a little bit too much free time to let his mind wander around.
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Hollow Knight is just in some dirt mound somewhere.
The wiki says that Hallownest is somewhere in a wasteland. So it could be anywhere.
Hollow Knight canonically takes place under my couch.
Now I'm going to look at every single ant hill and wonder whether or not there's the void and insect god duking it out beneath the service.
By this logic we simply haven't FOUND Silksong yet. And thus our search should continue.
Probably somewhere in the Australian Outback.
I was a bit offended at Poland being called "depressing", but then I remembered that our anthem starts with "Poland isn't lost yet".
Plus three partitions, a bunch of genocides, a bunch of invasions, etc.
@@Unknown-jt1jo Turns out "between Russia and Germany" is not a good spawn point.
Congratulations Poland is now Redania the home of the Witcher series.
@@fawkesandhound At least Poland gets Geralt of Rivia. So, there is that.
It is hilarious how the last word of that implies inevitability.
Frey from Forespoken being a GTA NPC that accidentally got sent into a Final Fantasy game or whatever makes SO MUCH SENSE.
Oh god, it makes sense of both the idiotic 'gotta get my cat instead of scooping up the money beside me' because that's how NPC's often work, and her being a horrible person absolutely fits in GTA.
This is hilarious. Such a thing would make Forespoken into a satirical comedy, and therefore so much more entertaining than the actual game. Somehow, I get the feeling Rockstar would have made the game world far better than Square Enix did.
@@akl2k7 Makes me wonder if under parody law someone could remake the entirety of Forespoken under that premise but dripping with all the irony and satire that could be made out of that.
@@LanceThumpingLike what, lol?
So, if the Mushroom Kingdom would be relocated to Arabia, I suggest that this means Prince of Persia could become Prince of Mushroom, whose knowledge of parkour originated as the wall kicks and long jumps used by the land's legendary aqueduct engineer.
I'd say to flip cause and effect here, since Mario is much more modern
Ah yes, the lovely Little Kitty Big City x Devil May Cry shared universe
You laugh but bandai did do a gundam and hello kitty collaboration.
I would play that game. 😂
I'm down.
Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series!
Most secret societies will have to be merged. Snake is canonically part of the assassin's brotherhood
Do the same with cults.
Las Plaguas from Resident Evil 4 + cannibal cult from GTA 5 + raincoat cult from Deadrising + Cult of the Lamb
And that would just be one. Shit would be wild.
This feels like 'What if Secret World but Secret Vdeogame World'
I really want to know what the middle east lookls like where the first AC game is set.
Nah, they do time shares. Q.V.: th-cam.com/video/-bOqu4shHW4/w-d-xo.html
Alternative, much funnier solution: There are just 10 million different secret societies and sinister conspiracies constantly tripping over each other.
Sooo...Bowser would basically be the Weird Uncle of all those Chinese Dragons from things like Genshin Impact? Like, he made all those airships because they kept having family get-togethers on monster filled mountains in the hopes Bowser would finally fail to make it, but he always somehow manages, and then spends the whole time talking about how he's finally gonna get married?
Yeah, that tracts.
Isn't Bowser based off of the French dragon: the Tarrasque? I would think he'd be unrelated to to any Chinese style dragons, but could still be neat for them to know of eachother or have met.
Idk, that's just my 2 cents, you're idea is still pretty cool though!
@draconic756 iirc, Bowser was initially designed after the ox king from an old journey to the West cartoon. He was later given a turtle-like design to make him look like his Koopa Troopas.
Neuvillette would along _famously_ with Princess Peach
i mean you joke, i work a 50 hour a week job that mercifully lets me listen to podcasts during my shifts, this is the kinda stuff i think about to siphon my un-acknowledged creative energies. so hearing a pro like yahtzee talk about it is divinely enthralling.
Yahtzee just came up with the coolest idea ever: “Mario of Arabia”
hey Super Mario Land looks like an arabian enough game already
Super Mario X Prince of Persia confirmed.
Lisan Al YAHOOeed
his Assassins Creed/Mario crossover was better
Mario Bros 2
The thought of DOOM GUY slaughtering endermen in The Nether brings me so much joy 🤣
Centuries after DOOM Guy is dead and gone, and after Steve and Terraria Guy explore a mostly empty underworld, Diablo decides to spruce up the Nether with many layers of cities and the like. After one of several robot apocalypses, V1 heads down there to finish the job...
I would personally call this "putting in the title of archangel Micheal" where there is someone to stop demons and forces of hell taking over the solar system.
Bold of you to assume Doom guy is ever going to die.
@@DragonSamurai182 plot twist, V1 finds a sarcophagus containing one seriously pissed off space marine.
this would imply that there is some short phase in the latter half of the titanfall timeline where blood fueled titans existed and were used, perhaps the frontier war would be a small spark to start the final war, perhaps the electric guns, full automation, and blood fuel of guttermen would be a counter to the limited ammo, limited automation, and electricity requirement of titans
I find it strange that you'd call him Terraria Guy and not just "The Terrarian". Makes one wonder if you've actually played the game or not, considering how blatantly that option was presenting itself, what with it being an iconic weapon in the game AND a real thing you can buy. (If you're into yo-yos, I guess.)
The Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games is fairly easy as that's just the irl Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Visited by a young Captain Price from COD 4 and his glorious moustache.
And add some Metro: Dying Light for good measure.
although, of course, the magi-nuclear fallout from the disater lead to a more interesting set of effects.
Russia, China, and the US only had a very limited nuclear exchange with each other. Resulting in surprisingly limited irradiated hellscapes. These account for the the general exlusion zone for S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro, etc... As well as effecting parts of the Mojave and "Old DC" in the US, where most of Fallout takes place. Everyone else carried on with life and just assumes there's nothing left living in these isolated areas. The characters of these respective games are just mistaken about it being a global apocalypse and the few who've wandered far enough to learn of the true minor nature of these disasters rarely return to inform the continuous residents. I mean... would YOU willingly return to a post-apocalyptic area/life again after successfully escaping from it?
The Institute developed synths that would eventually become the androids in Detroit: Become Human
Undertale actually goes a long way into explaining where the monsters went in modern times seeing as in its backstory it describes a war that forced the monsters underground
which would fit in here as some monsters sneaking off to form a civilization underground instead of going on mars
If you're looking a substance/mineral/herb/something-or-other that can do all the things mentioned (miraculous healing, creating mutants, being extremely volatile, etc) and can basically be described as "it does whatever the writers need it to be able to do for the current plot", I'd suggest Tiberium, from the Command & Conquer mainline series. It's a glowing green crystal of mysterious origin that self-replicates and, again, has the power to do whatever the writer needs it to be able to do for the current plot.
Bonus: the villain of the series is called Kane, he lives in Eastern Europe, and he seems to have mysterious otherworldly powers. Secretly a vampire? Secretly (or maybe not-so-secretly) the same person as Kain? Could be!
Control taking place in Liberty City seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation for Saints Row 3.
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I always liked to think in my head that Dishonoured took place in the same continuity as the Thief games
Yahtzee'z metaverse sounds way more interesting than the one Zuck is currently doing
This is a really convoluted way to get people to read your fanfics
And the whole video game universe is just Alan Wake writing more and more stories into reality
The idea of the edf fighting like a regular army of monsters just seems so funny considering the sheer fucking batshit firepower you wind up with
Honestly that sounds like a fun DLC idea. Slap together a 'fantasy castle seige' map and some classical D&D style monsters to mix things up, then watch the ensuing fun times.
They have magic. We have military technology
Wasn't that also the premise of "Gate" anime.
Starstruck Vagabond is definitely Stardew Valley in the future. 😎
California is replaced entirely with Japanafornia, but the ace attorney series is happening simultaneously in japan and japanafornia. Ace attorney also gives us a bunch of fun fake countries we can sprinkle in there.
But Japan was obliterated in the Guilty Gear series, that could be a explanation for the name and culture shift from California to Japanifornia due to the flood of refugees
japanifornication
@@crysanthiumvega Put that lifesize cushion of Zelda down and go outside, before you go blind!
@@redblue3951 What if the cast of Guilty Gear just ended up ended up warping into the, or at least *a*, apocalyptic Japan from Shin Megami Tensei V. The other explanation is that the plot of Guilty Gear happens around the time that Fallout happens, meaning that their destruction of Japan is basically unnoticed overall among the destruction of the world.
Miles Edgeworth being from Fable land is amusing to imagine
and the Von Karma's residing in essentially Wolfenstein land
Godot literally went to Oblivion and was saved by the Doomslayer
This is the kind of abstract, fantasy-logic, fun. Which, if I engaged my, otherwise nerdy, friend group with it, they'd ask me what the hell I'm on about.
The fact that this video is extremely unreasonable and extremely reasonable is awesome, honestly.
The true Elden Lord is Chicken Little from Chicken Little: The Movie: The Game
Ah, of course. We might have known.
this isn't a fan theory that's just factual lore you don't belong in this comment section
Can confirm, New England is haunted as it gets.
Yeah, to the best of my understanding, that's just how New England actually do. I, personally, have hated the majority of the time I have ever spent in the region, and would happily describe it as cursed. Not New England, but Maryland is also a fucking cursed land.
You can tell Silent Hill is set in Maine because of the level set in the LL Bean Factory Store, where you have to dodge around the undead moose.
And Stephen King makes a cocaine-fueled cameo.
@@Pazuzu4All You jest, but he sort of does. There's a poster on the walls in the first game that's an incredibly low resolution image of one he did for his student magazine at uni.
I can imagine Kirby visiting Stardew Valley for some fresh tomatoes in the CUTEST GAME EVER.
My heart just melted. I want this!
Kirby is the latest point in the timeline, earth having frozen over to become Shiver Star.
At some point Pikmin happens.
No the latest point in the timeline is Outer Wilds. I'm not going to tell you why because spoilers though
@lucaballarati9694 lol
I've been playing it for the first time this past week, fun coincidence.
Worldbuilding is by far some of the most fun you can have when it comes to writing a story
It's only been 36 and the Semi-Ramblomatic channel on the Second Wind Discord is pure chaos.
We've got a fucking timeline now. A very messy timeline, but it's something.
Kaine would totally call his son Alucard just because he thought it sounded cool.
The answer is either no or yes with about seven billion asterisks in the shape of a "NO"
or we switch the question to "how many can we fit into the same continuous timeline"
@@comet-fy6pd Thankfully there's a lot of sci-fi stories that can allow the existence of alternate versions of the same earth with minor or major discrepancies. Zero Escape, Xeno, hell even the Shin Megami Tensei series including Persona 3, 4 and 5 all count as titles that could solve these problems. Zero Escape solves the "multiple realities and psychics" problem with the existence of Espers, Xenosaga and Blade both allow for a whole bunch of shenanigans about worlds and AI creations and SMT just allow for the existence of doomed earths and even Persona 3 hints at the potential of creation alternate worlds or world-shaking aspects.
In theory the answer can be "Yes we can fit all of them" however there will be a lot of contradictions depending on the series or game. Half Life 2 is a pretty notable example of these kinds of problems because the game directly states a population-wiping alien invasion happens in the early 21st century. The only explanation for something like that is that a Zero Escape psychic is able to prevent the HL1 resonance cascade.
If we expand "world" to mean "universe" then we could get more into one by assuming some groups take place on Earth-like planets that had a parallel history ala Star Trek TOS (IIRC).
It'd be similar to parallel universes but with a lower barrier to crossovers.
Living around New Orleans, the 'three very similar cities very close to eachother in Louisiana' is actually a very... accurate description of the Greater New Orleans Area hahaha.... Though it's more like... 10 very similar cities packed very tightly against eachother
It would be a horrific place to live. So many calamaties.
As long as "calamity" is always said by the Bastion narrator it's not so bad.
I'm sure it's no different then the current world. We only know what we hear about. And yhatzee even pointed out the Noah's ark story and how it was likely a very big flood. Not a cover the earth type of flood
But you'd have so many heroes to protect you!
Although it would make more sense while a population would side with the obvious evil authoritarian and totalitarian regime because they can easily promise a peaceful place from the chaos despite it being a target for some one army hero.
Even worse, so many protagonists.
Helldivers and Deep Rock Galactic are the normal Australian everydays (one on the surface, one underground).
i feel it would make the most sense for Metro and Fallout to be existing at the same time
Hell, toss Shin Megami Tensei in there as well.
That'd be a perfect fit.
With the cat from Stray walking around, knocking things off shelves.
I've always nursed this pet theory that at least three countries have a unique post-apocalypse that could theoretically all be happening in a shared universe. Fallout for the United States, Metro for Russia, and Mad Max for Australia. (Granted that last one is not a video game native so it couldn't be used here.)
though that wouldn't mean much since the earliest REAL Fallout game takes 84 years after the bombs dropped while both mad max and metro accur within immediate living memory so its not like Artyom or Max could fight the Unity or the Enclave without considerably screwing with the timeline
That place in Louisiana is technically three cities, but urban sprawl has made the dividing lines between them very arbitrary.
Oh that's a good one, there's several "greater metro areas" along the American East Coast, that's totally believable.
If we're replacing Dracula, why don't we call him a persona demon. He's more a part of our collective unconscious.
I further suggest a post-post apocalypse map, where we can fit all the worlds (like pokemon), where we have some bizarre futuristic technology, yet people seem to live in quaint little villages surrounded by the now recovered nature. This also makes pokemon themselves make more sense as highly evolved and mutated species.
In a way, I think this would make sense for the everything-crossover, cos some games seemingly take place in the same area(s) so it would only make sense for them to be separated by time.
And for the whole Pokemon thing, it would make sense for it to be post-post apocalyptic, like you said animals and humans seemingly living together in peace and harmony.
To add credibility, wasn't one of the original gum leaders a veteran? The follow up question being... The veteran of what war? (Basically, the post apocalypse survival wars)
@@dorkyface the biggest pokemon mystery solved just like that
@@dorkyface X and Y's super weapon could be rolled into various other game plots, though id argue that pokemon can work in the modern setting. there are still many places that are in balance with nature, tech is modern with some small bits of advanced future tech, and personally i think its really funny to imagine the Liberty City fused with Unova with Grimmers and Pidgeys all around. Notably almost every pokemon region has a local, or semi local pokeball factory, so maybe pokemon training is mostly localized to the few locations that those factories are profitable.
also, technically, normal animals aren't originally videogame characters and thus don't exist... that's to much of a stretch nevermind.
Terra Nil could be how the world is restored from the horribe post-apocalypse to better post-post apocalypse
It would be both pretty easy and pretty rad to work Control and Alan Wake into this. The researchers from the Oldest House investigating various things from other games sounds like a really fun writing prompt on-par with SCP reports.
This was probably the most fully ramblomatic video i have ever seen, and it's a semi ramblomatic one....
Postal is based on a ghost town called Paradise in Arizona, so that adds up. Enough people went postal there that the town just straight up collapsed in on itself.
Where would Arstotzka be? Gives me eastern European vibes, but it also has decently large access to the waters around it. Turkey maybe? Or maybe Bulgaria? Maybe Romania? Ukraine could work too?
And we should definitely have a future time-line as well because New Mombasa from HALO 3 would lose us about half of Africa due to glassing.
The amount of destruction and chaos from modern games like DMC 5 essentially destroying all of London with the Qliphoth tree and Just Cause leaves a lot of easy space for games like Sim City and House Flipper to come in to fix the chaos. Why is Racoon City still on the map in the middle of, Idunno, let's just say South Dakota after getting fire-bombed because of all that zombie business that broke out for a minute? Because someone with a lot of time and government funding rebuilt it as a city planner. They'd have too, you couldn't let something as historic as the entire city of London just stop existing? There's history there, that's where Lord British's throne still sits to this day! SIM City Construction Co. would be one of the richest companies of all time
So Pokemon actually helps bridge the gap between the fantasy setting and the modern setting quite nicely. For starters, Pokemon hasn't taken place in Japan for a long time (gens 1-4 are Japan, gen 5 is New York, gen 6 is France, gen 7 is Hawaii, gen 8 is Britain, and gen 9 is Spain) so if you implement Pokemon it has to be essentially everywhere. However, having Pokemon everywhere allows us to say that the dragons and magic of the past eventually became the Pokemon of the present in much the same way that the dinosaurs of the past eventually became the birds of the present.
I love the idea of stitching video game worlds together to create one big connected universe. Even if it doesn’t make much sense.
In my headcanon all the Ubisoft games take place in the same timeline. An idea tentatively supported by Far Cry 3 (which has a bonus mission where you explore an Abstergo facility), Far Cry 6 (you can discover some broken Hidden Blades), Watch Dogs (one bonus mission lets you assassinate a character from AC4) and Watch Dogs Legion (DLC let’s you literally recruit an Assassin).
I will admit Far Cry 5 makes connecting things difficult.
I thought about that too.
Let's say they are not in chronological order.
All the Assassin's Creed Animus plot is definitely set in ye olden times, that's easy. We can kinda add there a bit from Far Cry 4 about the mythological tibetan hero, right? That's about the "bleeding effect" and how your ancestors memory may act when you don't have a nifty sci-fi bed and cool helmet.
And Far Cry Primal is definitely prehistoric. No doubt about that.
OK, so in Assassin's Creed Valhalla the plot point is "the end of the world", the phones act up and there is constantly no signal. Like the point in Far Cry 5 about why Hope County could not act against the Seed family! And why would Aiden Pierce, Jordi and all other recurring characters from Watch_Dogs move from US to Britain? Cause there is nuclear apocalypse happening!
That's just something from the top of the head
Like Yahtz said, this is fun!
Ubisoft has already made this into a cartoon. Rayman shlubs around doing coke.
Where in FC3 can you visit Abstergo?
If I recall though, in AC4:Black Flag there are books or video game cases for a couple of the FC games so is that maybe what you are thinking of?
I think they wrote off FC5 as non-canon, at this point.
Far Cry 5 is just how Montana is though. I know these things, I lived there for a long time.
@professordetective807 says it's non-canon, but it's almost non-fiction.
Off the top of my head we could probably replace San Diego with No More Hero's Santa Destroy if there's no other analogue, or otherwise any other town/largeish city in Southern California.
Camp Whispering Rock, and Whispering Rock from Psychonauts could probably map to Montana or Iowa and replace one of the towns in the Beaverhead impact structure, replacing that normal meteor with Psitanium. A splinter of that could have found its way to Washington, and cause all the weirdness around Bright Falls and Watery in Alan Wake 1 & 2.
Pokémon regions are based off real world locations and the first games had a Silph Co scientist namedrop an actual area in Russia. The first four Pokémon gens regions are Japan regions. The Unova region is New York, Kalos is France, Alola is Hawaii, Galar is UK, and Paldea is Spain.
But what about the hellhole that is orre?
Unfortunately there is an interesting snag, the Pokemon world is home to ONLY Pokemon and Humans
So either you ignore that and the planet is full of Pokemon, animals, and other video game creatures, or the Pokemon planet is a parallel dimension that can be accessed from the main world to allow Pokemon to exist in the main planet
Either way Ryme City would be a location on the main world with a law that states that only people and Pokemon are legally allowed within the city
And apparently raichus are really popular in the new china equivalent
what is the name of the Russian area?
@@xelldincht4251 Tiksi
So the idea of Kain taking over Dracula's duties as lord of Castlevania is really cool, if only because I know exactly who would take up Alucard's role.
Raziel. The idea of the entire downfall of Castlevania and Kain's empire being the direct result of Raziel's interference and rebellion is shockingly on point for both series.
Stardew Valley: Washington State, USA.
That explains the expansive forest and small towns near mountains near the sea and a brief bus trip away from the desert.
That puts Elves, Dwarves, and shadow people in the Pacific Northwest, giving us the place where Deep Rock Galactic headquarters is located and helps explain the shadows in Alan Wake. It also explains why there’s Elves in Japan sometimes. Also, Pacific Drive.
Let me think of some:
-City 17 somewhere in Eastern Europe
-The Pokémon Games, with areas like the Eastern Seaboard being the Unova region.
All the while, a bald man with a barcode tattoo stalks his targets in fictional cities
I think Yahtzee would probably like World of Darkness.
It's overall pretty much like this, but even sillier
And much more depressing.
I would have thought Albion would have to be quarantined not so much because of We Happy Few but to prevent the Great Ones from spreading their influence beyond the streets of Yharnam
Post-apocalypse 'shit gets fucky' Japan is clearly Splatoon. Although we'd have to continue to apply the 'Noah's Arc' theory of the apocalypse here, where every cataclysmic event was actually very local. So all the inklings and octolings think that humanity has died out long ago, and that they're the last remains of humanity's desires, but actually the Fallout games are taking place on the other side of the ocean.
You could tie a lot of fictional japan canon together by the existence of Oda Nobunaga and the sheer amount of games he's appeared in, including Pokemon Conquest.
I like how this "semi" ramblomatic is more rambling than anything Yahtzee's ever written.
all I know is, we finally have the universe where DOOM guy and Isabelle could officially meet.
While every video game can't exist in the same world as each other, every video game does have a Cow Level.
It exists and every video game has one, but only to those who truly believe in it.
With the existence of civilization games and city builders there is literally no end to the alt universes one can make
For some reason the farcry games come to mind:
Farcry 2's Leboa-Sako and Bowa-Seko can replace almost any African country known for civil war and anarchy
Farcry 1 is set in Micronesia on an unnamed archipelago
F3 is on the rook islands found somewhere in the pacific
F4 Is in the Himalayas iirc
Then theres the many islands of Monkey Island. Just plop em somewhere in the Caribbean
what about far cry blood dragon ? is it just a post a apocalypse Micronesia?
I never felt more understood in my entire life!
I'm currently comparing notes...
thank you yahtzee !
Yahtzee is creating his own Wold Newton style universe and I am here for it.
Just some ideas:
- Certain humans can undergo a variety of different Pokémon evolutions by giving them special items (somewhat like Eevee). Humans given Rayacite Fragments/Ray Spheres (inFAMOUS) evolve into Conduits of varying type, while humans given Psitanium/Ancient Arrowheads (Psychonauts) evolve into Psychics.
- On the subject of the Psychonauts, Ness from Earthbound would have likely gotten the attention of the Psychonauts after stopping Giygas, which means Raz probably would have gotten the chance to explore Ness' mental world, Magicant.
- Hi-Fi Rush takes place on an island that I'd place somewhere around Seattle (Bainbridge Island, maybe?), since the game is themed around 90s-2000s rock music, and the Seattle sound was a big influence on that era of rock music. Additionally, given their interest in sentient robots and transhumanism, it's possible Vandelay Robotics created the omnics from Overwatch.
- V1 from Ultrakill was one of Doctor Light's robot masters, designed as a demon-culling robot. It's sister robot, V2, was reprogrammed by Dr. Wily, which is why it's so hellbent on killing V1. Additionally, given Doctor Light's expertise at creating robots with realistic human faces, it's possible he also created the Androids from Detroit: Become Human.
- Speaking of, Dr. Wily wasn't the only one plagiarizing Dr. Light's homework-- Dr. Bosconovitch from Tekken and Dr. Henry Emily from Five Nights at Freddy's also took more than a few cues from Dr. Light's machines. (Alternatively, Dr. Bosconovitch from Tekken is Dr. Wily's distant relative-- they do have a close resemblance.)
- The killer from Hatred was a huge fan of Jacket from Hotline Miami.
the war on monsters would also fit perfectly into undertale being exiled to the underground
So with your old map, Castlevania would have been called Oros (Far Cry Primal) in prehistoric times.
The Sonic series has recently established that their anthropomorphic animal population mostly lives on islands, while their human population tends to stick to the continents. So, any games with talking animals can be included with this scheme, under the assumption that they’re just on another of this world’s many islands.
As for Sonic itself, South Island, Angel Island, and the others could probably replace some of the Caribbean Islands. Oh, and Westopolis can be Detroit. It wasn’t the Black Arms invasion that caused all the damage, it was just already like that.
It would be extremely funny if blaze didnt know that some of her people are running a death arena in an abandoned theatre on a desert island that contained a cursed tophat.
This video feels really 2010's
and I just so happened to have been needing a video like that right about now, thanks yahtz
Why 2010s? In that it's not all doom and gloom?
The purge of monsters continues in modern-day Oblivion (now called 'hell'). Doom guy is doing Akatosh's work.
This would make Valkyria Chronicles the factual, historically accurate events of WWII so I'm completely on board with this
5:40 Ah yes, Mushroom Kingdom, just east of Birabuto, Sasaraland, across whatever this world's version of the Red Sea would be called.
Mad max doesn't really need an apocalypse. That's just the suburbs of Brisbane
Where does The Neverhood fit on the map? Oh, it's Australia, obviously.
this is by far one of my favourite yahtzee videos ever
You this huaman-monster conflict reached new highs in the Philippines, where humans locked monster in the underground
A lot of fantasy games have a magical city where the Tolkien-esque elves live, like Silvermoon in WoW. We’re going to need a designated spot to merge all of those.
If we're going off of the Cyrodill is Rome mapping, maybe Teldrassil with Darnassus or whatever at the top is in the Mediterranean Sea.
For the modern map, you could easily slap Stalker onto the real Prypiat exclusion zone.
Crazy Taxi 2 is CONSIDERABLY less crazy now that it is in Liberty City
The monsters in the Japanese countryside of Sekiro/Nioh were eventually hunted until their offspring evolved to the point that were non-threatening enough to humans that they could subjugate and capture them in Pokeballs.
There is a barely known still-indev non-commercial game called The AMC Squad, originally a Duke Nukem 3D mod turned stand alone game, which basically does this with all the retro shooters, but features its own original characters, that play differently; one might play like a modern military shooter, the other plays like Duke Nukem, another is a warlock similar to Hexen and the other is a magical knight who uses the Dark Souls UI.
A video game crossover story already happened and it was the Smashbros Subspace Emissary.
That worked well so do something similar.
And (as much as I love it) there's plenty of room to grow from that considering the lack of both dialogue and recognizable locations from the source material.
That was fun as a story but it's hardly a compelling world.
Considering Shin-Ra is an energy company with a terrifying amount of power, love guns, disregard the environment and are led by a man who loves wearing white suits everywhere, I'm thinking perhaps Austin gets turned into Midgar? (The city, not the realm)
You know normally I would shoot that down basically immediately, but I do remember in the original game there was like a neon sign in the AVALANCHE bar hideout that said "Texas" on it.
Fun fact: Pokemon has been doing this since the beginning.
Gens 1-4 are all located in some regional equivalent of Japan (I think it's Kanto, Kansai, Honshu, and Hokkaido, respectively).
Gen 5 was set in a version of America with a central hub city based on New York.
Gen 6 was set in France, complete with its own Eiffel Tower knockoff.
Gen 7 was so Hawaiian, the name for the region, Alola, was only one letter off from "aloha."
Gen 8's region is basically inverted Great Britain, with its London equivalent towards the northern part of the map.
And the current games take place in what looks like the Iberian Penninsula, where the player character's school looks like Barcelona's famous basilica.
The last minute dig at We Happy Few coming out of nowhere completely shook me, as it reminded me that We Happy Few ever existed
We Happy Few was a great idea that failed in a surprisingly comprehensive way in execution.
I don't know about the locations, but my personal headcanon is that major league baseball in this universe features star players like Bobson Dugnutt and Sleve Mcdichel.
With Mario and Luigi showing up at the All-Stars games.
I feel like there's some fun to be had for how kingdoms rise and fall over time, like how borders moved so much throughout history. I also really like the concept that Kid Icarus was defeated by Kratos before he moved to Skyrim.
Being from Idaho, I still love that our biggest mention in the gaming world is a town getting fucked over in Prototype.
I would have figured that what few fantasy monsters remained would have taken refuge in a massive cave system beneath the Sierra Nevada, with the only entrance/exit being at the top of Mt. Ebbot in California.
I’ve got it! GO ALL IN IN THE LXG THING!
I call it *“The Grand Assembly of the Multinational Elites” or “The G.A.M.E.”*
After the world building, what I would propose is this: 3 books, set in three time periods (past, present, and future), 3 per time period. The first of each tells of the formation or recreation of “The G.A.M.E.” to face a threat, each book having a different foe that would match the time period AND would be a big bad from a particular game.
Like a coalition of Kratos, the Dragonborn, Zelda, and some others for the past, Gordon Freeman, Lara Croft and her rival Nathan, Sonic and some others for the present and Master Cheif, Doomslayer, samus Aran, a vault dweller and some other for the future. Again, just as examples.
There we go! I love that!
This is just the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
That's not a bad thing.
i think my favourite part of this, as an exercise, could be getting to step back at the end and truly appreciate what a weird carnival mirror reflection we’ve made of ourselves through our art. y’know, together as a species.
like, here’s what humanity currently (sorta) looks like on a subconscious level, adrift in the sprawling, technicolour ball-pit of its own demented imagination. equal parts stupid and ingenious, beautiful and awful, starry-eyed and weary.
It is sometimes questioned how fictional civilizations can cope with the constant property destruction going around but I think that makes total sense when you have people from crafting survival games, engineers from Factorio/Satisfacory/Space Engineers or the firm resposible of construction in Sims that can build a three storey house in a minute.
The third post apocolypse map is the most interesting to me. Humanities tensions were rising, nuclear war was on everyones minds, first it was the biological attack that unleashed the zombies and we almost got rid of them but thats when the demons of doom invaded, everyone thought it was an attack from thier enemies and the fallout bombs fell. Many escaped to the vault tech vaults while some survivors stayed on the surface becoming the "remnants in the ashes" , Metro in Russia, and Code Vein in Japan
I feel like this is Yahtzee's creativity post nut clarity/madness from finishing his projects. XD
0:24 I just now realised that if you put the titles Starstruck Vagabond and Will Leave The Galaxy For Good right after one another, you would get a perfectly logical sentence.
Olathe of the LISA series is in Olathe, Kansas, after the local geology ends up becoming much more mountainous and isolated and it suffered a localized disaster erasing all of the women within the region.
Doom taking place in The Nether is perfection, made this entire concept worth it all by itself. Not to mention all the other fun ideas
That was fun lol brought me back to elementary school times when I'd make stuff like this up with my friends all the time! Thank you
As a teenager I had this fanfic where the different "Earths" were just a few solar systems apart, there was one Earth where the T-virus had spread to all the people and was starting to travel to the other Earths, so the champions from those other Earths (Link, Cloud, Zero, X, and others) had to travel to the zombie Earth to rendezvous with Leon S. Kennedy and other survivors to fight all the zombies and other mutants.
Team Fortress is definitely in the immediate post-apocalypse and all the map battles are taking place simultaneously across the american southwest.
tf2 is actually set in the 50’s, with the comics taking place in the 60’s and early 70’s
The Video Game World is all fun and games until Sci-Fi rears its head.
Balan Wonderworld is a magical theatre that came about due to the tragedies of the world like war and famine, so it's been manifested in the Current World thanks to the war against the magical beings and human beings.
No, I'm serious; the book for Balan Wonderworld said it's a theatre that came into existence to help heal the weary hearts of the humans that have suffered.
I wonder if you could tangle that to Kingdom Hearts or Persona in some way, or if it would be too wonky