Summary
Psychonautswas one of the coolest platformers in the early 2000s during the original Xbox era of gaming. It was funny, had a weird art style, and the levels were inventive. It took a long time to get a sequel but it finally happened and opened up the series to new horizons.
While there are certainly scary things aboutPsychonauts’ version of Earth, there’s a lot to love too. Who wouldn’t want to live in a worldwith psychic powers? That’s a good example but the Xbox family of franchises certainly has some truly horrifying worlds in it too. Players should never want to visit these areas.
Battletoads is one of the hardest games of all time on the NES. It takes place on a mysterious planet where the Dark Queen is trying to rule everything with an iron stiletto. Players could fight through endless waves of baddies as anthropomorphic toads in an increasingly difficult level system. One of the most iconic levels puts players on a hoverbike that is brutal and it only gets worse from there.
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The animated pilot, which never turned into a series, presupposes that the titular Battletoads were teens turned into toads on Earth and the Dark Queen invades. The planet is unknown in the game series, but let’s say Earth is the battleground for this list’s scenario. Transported players would have to turn into a toad, which would be terrible. Also, if levels are hard, life has to be even more challenging to live in this world even without villains like the Dark Queen around. This isn’t even taking into consideration the 2020 reboot or any of the other games, but assuredly all Battletoads-based worlds are miserable.
This version of Earth needs no introduction. Media often loves to wonder what life will be like in the future. Will it be filled with tons of colors and cybernetics like inCyberpunk 2077, or will it be a desolate desert-like intheFalloutseries? In any game in the franchises, players have to worry about corrupt humans, mutated animals, flesh-devouring Ghouls, radiation, and the list goes on.
While it is admittedly fun to explore the wastes of the East or West in the games, living in that world would not be as fun. There are animals and vehicles to get around but it seems like the best mode of travel is by foot. That alone sounds like a torturous life even though the exercise would be good.
Sera is the desolate planet of theGears of Warfranchise where humans tried to build colonies. In their effort, they awoke the Locusts, an alien race, and a war broke out. The planet is so bleak one may think it took place in the Fallout version of Earth. Nothing great looked appealing about Sera in any of the games.
Living on a war-torn planet has to be one of the worst lives anyone can lead. Plus it seems like both the men and women of this universe have to be hulking chunks of meat. That’s the design aesthetic of the games but it’s within reason to assume players that get warped onto Sera may start to get jacked involuntarily. The only cool thing about this universe is the guns with chainsaws attached.
The Fall of Reach is one of the most famous stories in theHaloseries which was depicted inHalo: Reach. It was a Spartan research and training planet that was helping out the war effort against the Covenant tremendously. However, Reach eventually would be overtaken by the aliens and it was a big loss to humanity. That’swhy Master Chiefis so important as he is the last true Spartan alive.
Reach has not been revisited in a major capacity in the games, so it’s hard to say what life is like now. However, it’s safe to assume the Covenant did not treat it well. Getting transported to Reach would almost assuredly get players locked in jail or worse, executed.
Minecrafthas beenone of the biggest sensations in gaming in the last decade. It is everywhere from the main game to the spinoffs to the various merchandising deals. It’s a game that can be easily understood in a matter of minutes just like LEGO blocks. As fun as it is to be creative inMinecraft, living there doesn’t seem ideal.
It’s just as easy to build a building as it is to break it. Players that get zapped there would have to worry about monstrous spiders or zombies coming in to destroy their residency at all times. There are ways to negate invasions, but again, it’s probably a world where one can never truly feel safe.
Wolfenstein: The New Orderwas a celebrated reboot for the series that got things back on track. It’s always fun to punch and shoot Nazis in games and this game had plenty of that. The big gimmick that revolved around this reboot was that the Nazis won World War 2 and took over the entire world.
So players, as BJ Blazkowicz, had to stop their evil from spreading further with the help of a growing resistance movement. The game had a cool and unique concept but the world would be hell to live in. Nazis could take someone to prison for breathing wrong. Their authority seemingly knew no bounds in this scary reboot series.
