>No good game set in the Midwest
Is it really that hard to portray due to all the subtle differences?
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>No good game set in the Midwest
>No good game set in the Midwest
Is it really that hard to portray due to all the subtle differences?
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Because no one wants to make a burgerpunk game.
>Burgerpunk America
Already done
The Rust Belt is not the midwest
>Midwest
>Not in the middle
>Not in the west
It's the 'midwest' since it's in between the far west of the rocky mountains and Pacific coast and the 'old west/old frontier' in Appalachia, the south and the western regions of Pennsylvania and New York
Midwest is everything past the mississipi but before the Rocky mountains. You know, tornado alley, the great plains, the places all the corn frickers live at.
>everything past the mississipi
Ohio river
Its like how the middle east is called that even though more on the western side of the continent
It should rightly be called the Near East since it the first area beyond Europe, but somehow Middle East stuck.
Everything between the Rockies but (debatedly) doesn't touch the Great Lakes is Midwest.
moron alert
They're mostly German so just dress 'em up as Nazis and mow 'em down in an FPS. It's an easy setting.
Mafia
Manhunt
>Mafia
I'd add Deja Vu too.
Really, any game that involves organized crime in Chicago qualifies here.
Any game involving tacos
Accurate
What we need is the Fallout that focuses on the BoS there and get it fleshed out. Bethesda could commission another studio and have it be a smaller side story.
Wyoming is not the Midwest, is everyone there dumb?
I could see people in Cheyenne, Torrington or Wheatland or anyone else on the southeast side of the state erroneously saying they're in the midwest, but that's it.
Come on, no one in Utah considers themself a midwesterner?
>10% of Pennsylvanians consider themselves midwesterners
lmao
It's probably the few people left in Pittsburgh who don't want to be associated with Philly anymore.
Which is moronic, because if you're not in Eastern PA, you're more than likely in the Northern Appalachians.
Same with Tennessee. You're either in East Tennessee and in Southern Appalachia, Middle Tennessee and on the Cumberland Plateau, or West Tennessee and mostly a resident of Memphica.
None of those are even remotely "Midwestern", so I'm going to just chalk these percentages up to a portion of the population being geographically illiterate.
I mean you gotta remember anon that Pittsburgh is literally right across the Ohio border, so maybe it's those heavily populated border cities that consider themselves Midwestern.
pittsburgh and far western PA are basically indistinguishable from Ohio
people fail to realize that PA is basically
>western PA bordering Ohio
>Eastern PA hugging NY/Jersey/Maryland borders
>empty hickville in between
it's hard to think of as one state tbh and I grew up here,
I don't consider missouri midwestern. it was a slave state, it's more southern
it's both
They wish they were southern. Bunch emo homosexuals. They act exactly like corn chuckers.
ur mum gay
Not as gay as corn, homosexual
I'm more of a green bean, squash, potater and tomater guy
The frick did you say about those emo homosexuals? I'll have you know mid-west was the last bastion of American culture
It's both. North of I-70 is basically Iowa. South of I-70 it gets Arkansas-ish. In the Civil War Missouri tried to stay neutral at first and had many regiments on both sides of the conflict.
Fun fact, if you gave southern Iowa to Missouri you'd instantly raise the average IQ of 2 states
>In the Civil War Missouri tried to stay neutral at first and had many regiments on both sides of the conflict.
kek, no it fricking didn't. Look up bleeding Kansas. The Missouri/Kansas border conflict is one of the main causes of the Civil War.
>kek
No u. Look it up yourself. There were certainly plenty of Missouri settlers in favor of slavery and they participated in that. But Missouri did try to stay neutral at first and contributed 3:1 Union troops to Confederate ones in the War.
This is ignorant revisionism. The entirety of Missouri State Guard joined the CSA. This anon is spot on
I don't blame you for wanting to hate your heritage and replace it with made up revisionism, you were taught your whole life to hate yourself after all.
My ancestor literally fought in a Union Missouri Regiment jackass. I have his letters.
all border states were neutral because they were slave states, lincoln promised border states they could continue practicing slavery. After the invasions by the north the border states decided they wanted to secede but lincoln occupied their respected congresses and weapons depots and told them no. Then put actual criminals in charge of the states
Yeah civil war changed a frick ton. The slaves weren't the only thing that America lost. The states lost their rights
states still have rights if texas is anything to go by
Until the fed goes
>well we paid all Texas' deb when they joined the union so they can't leave until the pay their debt + interest
I was more referring to recent events
Oh and Texas was apart of the CSA, and the federal government didn't seem to care then.
For now. I'm still waiting for the senate to collectively shit on texas in some arbitrary way
I still hold a grudge against the south over this, they decided to pick the worst fricking Hill to sometimes literally doe on and fricked states rights for the last 150+ years,well until
this happened
If Texas can ignore the Supreme Court, states like California, Colorado, and Maine should ignore whatever it says about Trump being on the ballot or regulations on guns. Fair is fair.
Cool, I'm down with the clown, I can probably kill a hundred californian communists before they get me
Man you want to talk about rigging you should see what the Federal Election Commission does. They're sole responsible for gaslighting Americans into thinking what parties can and can't go on the ballet.
homosexual, states ignored the supreme court by making sanctuary cities or by making weed legal in the first place.
Don't act like the right started this, you disingenuous Black person.
>states like California, Colorado, and Maine should ignore whatever it says about Trump being on the ballot or regulations on guns.
Black person they already do, my state of homosexualFornia already has directly chosen to ignore supreme court decisions on gun regulation being unconstitutional cause the SC can't enforce its decisions. This is by design of course so it can't act as a balance to the overreach of power in dc so congress and the president can do whatever the frick they want without any repercussions.
I'm still waiting for a zombie defense game using Trump's failed coup at at the US capitol as the backdrop where you're congressional security who needs to barricade areas, shoot insurrections and protect the electoral ballots from being destroyed.
But you don't see me going schizo like you.
States never have had, and never will have rights. Actually read the 10th Amendment. States only have the *power* to do something that the federal government has yet to do. They don't have the right to anything. They have all powers not granted (or taken) by the federal government.
This is my least favorite political rallying cry. No state is entitled to do anything.
>“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
>Civil war happened because the federation disrespected that
Kindly know your rights
>it was state rights!
oh frick off anon. It was one "state right" in particular. They just wanted to own slaves. It was in the first line of their constitution.
civil war wasn't about the slaves, if it was they wouldn't have gone back to their farms for their tax deductible jobs
Yes. The "powers". Now read the rest of the first 9 Amendments. They all grant rights to individuals, to "the people." States are suspiciously not mentioned until the 10th Amendment, where there's no mention or rights at all. I wonder why?
States never had the "right" to legalize slavery. They had the power to create laws on it because the federal government did not exercise their authority on it. Once the federal government was looking like it was about to exercise its authority to ban slavery, the Confederates seceded because they did not want to lose their power to control slavery. The federal government at that point had already banned international slave trading. I wonder why states didn't go around importing slaves afterwards if they had the right to slaves? It's a mystery to everyone.
Really gonna glass over the fact that federation pushed more shit past the whole slavery bullshit aren't you.
What political statement do you think I'm even making here? I'm literally telling you what the Constitution says. States do not have rights, they have powers that have not been given to, or taken by, the federal government. That is it. They don't have the "right" to do literally anything.
>St. Louis
>Southern
St. Louis feels like a city on the great lakes without actually being on the great lakes.
Southern Missourian here, frick you we don't care, St Louis and KC are their own jurisdictions and arent Missouri, thats where we keep all the Black folk so they dont ruin the countryside
Northern states had the only slaves post civil war you dumb tard.
Game devs think only Cali, the PNW, new york, Chicago Florida and Colorado exist
Americans themselves seem to look down on those parts, calling them flyover states, while the rest of the world has no idea what they're even like. Also they're probably too white.
That's why nobody is making games featuring these states.
They're not too white they're too boring. No one made games about them even before the diversity stuff happened either. The people there probably don't even want games made about it.
Always amusing when some American says some shit like "but he's from Oklahoma so..." and my eurobrain has no idea what's so bad about Oklahoma
It's oklahoma
oklahoma is where settlers said "okay that's enough"
Kansas is basically, "okay, I want to be free, but my feet are tired."
Oklahomosexual is where old farts go to die, kinda like a big old retirement house state
The midwest isnt bad its just the countries attic. Theres nothing there, but not many opportunities, nothing much outside farmland.
>inb4 its too white
Midwest on average is 60% white. More white than southern states like texas sure, but its not like the really white states like alaska or maine. The midwest is essentially a place people come from.
>Midwest on average is 60% white
Black person you're moronic
Hispanics arent white.
There's not that fricking many here and they ain't citizens
If congress passes that bill they will be.
Not him, but my home state Indiana is 77% non hispanic white
It's also where the majority of KKK are right now. Really funny
Idfk all I know is that lobbying should not be legal.
In my experience, a majority of the people who sympathize with them are rural, and even then the younger generations aren't as interested
Appalachia is more eastern, Midwest is effectively the northern ohio valley and great plains
You still find them, it's just you need to avoid the israelite infested HOA subdivions that are built and maintained by baby boomers and gen x
Oklahoma is a shithole. I had basic training there.
>morons call everything that’s not nyc, la and texas a flyover state
>they start to believe
>insecure morons start calling themselves midwest
>”lol thats not the midwest”
>texas
But that is a fly over state, have you seen their record for wars they've waged against the United States or how they begged the United States to annex them?
President Burnet and President Mirabeau Lamar’s faults for getting us into debt during the Texas Civil War and Postwar period. Still, it was ultimately necessary for Texas’ development, as we needed Santa Anna off of our back until we finally discovered oil. Plus, without the American railroad, Texas wouldn’t have been properly settled.
>America has to clean up Texas's messes
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Well it all started when Americans started moving to Texas to set up cotton plantations and then aggressively protested Mexico’s opposition to slavery following the Mexican revolution, so in a way Texas is either America’s mess to begin with, or its half-Spanish divorce-child it got custody of, depending on your perspective.
>Texas to set up cotton plantations
I still have a mighty good chuckle over what happened to Texas during the Southerners War to Maintain the Institution of Slavery.
>We're going to secede from the Union and be our own Republican again!
>Wait, we need to join the Confederacy? Oh...
>At least we can sell our cotton to the world while prices are at a all time high, we'll be rich!
>Wait, the Union set up a blockade across our entire coastline and all we have left are land route trades with... Mexico... at below market prices? Oh...
>The war is lost? At least we got the Army of the Trans-Mississippi to help defend our state!
>Wait, there's mass desertions in the army and they're now looting every store and warehouse they come across to the point civilians started their own riots, and the soldiers sent to subdue them joined in the looting? Oh...
Texas should be happy they didn't get Sherman'd, but all their self inflicted wounds aren't much better.
Part of the reason texas left mexico was because they were outlawing slavery in mexico and that cotton doesn't pick itself.
Texas always managed to be on the wrong side of history.
when I was a kid I thought one day they would make a gta based in my flyover state city. I thought eventually they would run out of cities to base the game in and didn't realize they just rotate between nyc la and miami. I hope one day they'll at least do chicago but idk if the city is distinct enought to warrant this..
Most games in chicago usually involve gothem or some shit
Chicago shows up sometimes, good luck ever seeing a game set in Topeka or Des Moines or something
I wanted a GTA Cincinnati as a kid
I want a Dixie game that's what I want.
I live in the midwest, it would make for a really boring game.
Name your favorite agricultural based activity.
drinking
Resident evil 1, 2, 3 and outbreak
You wish, Raccoon city is based on Montreal
https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Raccoon_City
>Raccoon City (ラクーン市シティ) was a small, industrialized city located in Arklay County, an isolated mountain county in the Midwestern United States
Ahh yes the majestic mountain ranges of the great plains
Hey if the black hills can exist then why not?
Are you fricking moronic? There are mountain ranges in the midwest.
Appalachia isn't in the midwest either. That's North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virgina regions.
So Arklay Mountains its the Appalachia? Cool, weird but cool
I went to west virgnia recently and damn i did not expect that level of poverty, like shanty town tier in the mountains.
>federally subsidize settlement in the mountains to mine coal
>okay that's enough of that
>what about the people still living there?
>frick em lol
We call it open air prison. No one coming in, no one going out. Welcome to the jungle boy.
It's bad. Really bad. If depression and suicide was a currency they'd corner the entire market
Appalachia has never been a rich place. But frankly they may be better for it in some regards, better than rootless cosmopolitans for all its problems
Appalachia as a whole is a mixed bag. In some valley's you have some pretty nice townships. Good Amish folk. In other valley's it's worse than skid row. In fact, imagine skid row but instead of homeless bums coming at you randomly on the street you got some SCP mother fricker lurking in the woods beyond your tree line just waiting for a moment of weakness.
>SCP mother fricker lurking in the woods beyond your tree line just waiting for a moment of weakness
he's just playing hide and seek but you're not in on it yet
It's not the game that scares me. It's the prizes that are terrifying.
The brain drain and the dislike of change is what's killing the state. Nobody wants to stay behind in a place with no future
>dislike of change
This is generally a good thing, buy I presume they refuse to change the more self destructive tendencies
>>No good game set in the Midwest
Are you sure about that?
The unreleased E3 build of Watch_Dogs.
Really? Interesting, what city was originally?
Chicago
The final version was Chicago. The final result it was pretty good I think. The mob lore and the fixer system complement each other very well.
If not for The Last of Us, Watch_Dogs would hold the title for the king of bullshot trailers and cut content.
Not only graphically, which is what it's most known for.
But how the game world looks.
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Everything you see with how the NPC's interact and talk was cut in the retail version.
You can't restore Watch_Dogs to how it looked at the 1st E3 presentation via mods. Still shit that Ubisoft purposely gimped it because it would have looked shit on PS4/One and amazing on PC, and we couldn't have that.
Good. Oklahomosexual deserves it.
Post state so I can try and fail to insult it.
Kansas.
>Created Pizza Hut
>Created White Castle
>Created Coleman Outdoor Gear
>Beautiful sunsets
>Every important Wild West story happened here
>We ran the aviation world forever
>Can be pretty flat if you're not in eastern or western Kansas.
Well I have kin in Kansas so I won't shit on it.
Oklahoma is alright, mostly. I've been to Bartlesville a few times; and OKC/Tulsa.
I meant you can, not can't. Most of the settings were just disabled in the ini file.
I'm talking about the AI and gameplay. That's something you can't fix with a mod.
>You can't restore Watch_Dogs to how it looked at the 1st E3 presentation via mods.
Duh, they'd need to redo everything, and there's zero chance we'll see that.
If Ubisoft had not sold smoke Watch_Dogs would have been better received after launch, not taking into account the huge amount of bugs it presented during its first week that degraded even more the first impressions.
To this day I have fun doing invasions to other players, but a deathmatch is impossible to achieve not even with three players, I just want to unlock the Chicago typewriter with three victories but I have been days without being to secure one match.
Invasions on the other hand are alive and well and at least it's a lot of fun to play cat and mouse in a social urban environment.
>invasions
They were a pain in the ass when you wanted to focus on single player.
But feels good to kill the invader.
>Blume bounty
And this is why the post game is shit when all you can do is put bounties on yourself to force PvP or fight the cops until they kill you.
Agreed.
>If not for The Last of Us
last of us 1 had bullshit trailers?
man appalachia feels so magical from the stories i have heard. need to buy a book with all the horror stories
shit sounds comfy for a video game tho
>shit sounds comfy for a video game tho
just play the first 10 minutes of GTAV, it's not far off.
this game takes place in bumb frick nowhere in america which i assume is the midwest.
isnt los santos based of LA? is LA midwest?
no, but that opening sequence out in the farmland during the escape from the bank robbery is kinda similar.
>last of us 1 had bullshit trailers?
Watch the original E3 'demo' of the last of us and you'll see how much they bullshit everything.
I feel like the Evil Within starts in a Midwest city but then it suddenly turns into Eastern European countryside all the way until you get ot the barn so I don't know if that counts.
Sounds like what a dev from Seattle thinks the middle of the country looks like
Thimbleweed Park is a comfy game
Dead Rising is possibly the only buttfrick Wisconsin based game besides maybe Vigilante8
It's in Colorado thobeit.
oh oops I mandela'd myself
The american midwest sounds like a magical place. No ruins, no standing really old places to be, just the padronized, basic american culture without major regional flavor. It seems like the most plain (in both ways) place to live in the whole world, and there's a certain comfort to the idea.
Just gotta be careful of those american tornadoes
I fear the chad tornado. Whenever I see cloud cover I'm freaking the frick out. I know I shouldn't. But my grug goes into a complete state of paranoia and panic.
This b***h is afraid of the 'Ole spinny winds
Everyone laugh and call him a new yorker
Yes, I'm a pussy. I have no excuse.
I mean yeah they can be pretty scary if you don't know what's gonna happen. But most of us just hear the siren and stand under it to see if it'll actually do anything this time. Then die like a moron cause it happened
Yes and no. You gotta remember cars are being yeeted through your home too
My house has a pretty nice basement. But I get paranoid cause I'm thinking about those stories of people getting buried and trapped.
Buried/trapped is better than being most likely dead. Responds is pretty quick in a community that lives through that shit constantly.
>new yorker
lol, im a new yorker currently at a midwestern uni for a meteorology degree cause i think tornadoes are cool
>im a new yorker
Go back
when i finish studying
frick off we're full
my end goal is a national weather service job, and they shuffle you around the country so maybe or maybe not
hell yeah tornado anon. enjoy the plains! the thunderstorms are spectacular
so ive heard
they're already starting early this season, i had a thunderstorm just a few days ago and we're supposed to be getting one tomorrow with possibly >2in hailstones and a 5% chance for tornadoes
and it's not even march
I believe it. I live in Florida now, but the squalls here are nothing compared to the cells I've seen in Minnesota. We technically get more tornadoes, but never as strong as they get in the interior.
I've heard peak tornado season has shifted from May to March in recent years.
Man watching thunderstorms roll up on you in the plains is an amazing sight, I'm glad i got to experience it on my road trip
I'm a Floridian who has been through many hurricanes but those midwest tornadoes scare the frick out of me.
the secret is they're so localized you can have one go right past your house at night and not know, so it's like Russian roulette
My friend is from Florida and he was telling me you guys have literal hurricane parties. I don't understand how someone could party with all that flooding and shit flying everywhere.
A hurricane is the size of a state and with modern tech is still really unpredictable. There's not much you can do besides have fun with it.
Also, hurricanes only really frick up places by the sea or places hit by the eye. I've been through a whole bunch of hurricanes and it's usually just a really long, windy rainstorm that blows some branches onto the street. Tornadoes I find far scarier.
By the time it hits, you're to drunk to care.
You just do it and hope that your area isn't wrecked. Better to be stuck with people and lots of food also.
>No ruins
It's known as the rust belt because of the run down, defunct industrial work places. Shit's completely deindustrialized, decaying and in economic decline. The whole place is a ruin compared to what it once was 70 years ago.
Still looks better than the average street in Birmingham, England
I meant in the sense of "thousand year old castle" kind of ruin but economic ruin is also kind of endearing
Rust belt is the east of the midwest isnt it? West of midwest is just corn and basedbeans.
It's in the Midwest, too. Detroit is the poster city of the Rust Belt and that's in Michigan.
If the rust belt is midwestern, then that would mean that Pittsburgh is in the midwest.
The rust belt is almost exclusively in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. A majority of the midwest is west of the Mississippi River
You're forgetting Michigan as well.
Depending on who you ask, it extends into New York, Illinois, and Wisconsin
Southern Indiana has an accent more similar to a typical "Southern" accent than those who are closer to the great lakes, and by extension a port city like Chicago would develop something a little different
Sorry, I meant that the belt extends inside the Midwest, not that it's just Midwestern. They're not synonymous. My bad!
>no ruins
That's half of the midwestern cities
For me the midwest seems like a place I want to teleport to if life gets tough but I can't see myself ever wanting to uproot to go there.
I hope you never want to eat fresh seafood ever again (unless it's from a river).
Nta but i can deal with it
t. WA
Trust me, you can't.
I'm from WA and moved to OH, the only good fish here is what I get from a guy who literally has it imported from the coast daily and it costs like 50-70 a lb.
I miss sushi so fricking much.
Should have picked Minnesota or Wisconsin.
You're talking sushi and I'm thinking crabbing and digging my own razor clams, trust me i can deal with fishing from lakes and catching crawdads from the river.
Good thing I don't like seafood.
>tfw my midwestern grandma thinks red lobster is good seafood
I get plenty of fresh fish here in Wisconsin.
I hope you're enjoying all the fish fry's anon
It was honestly surreal as frick going out of state and finding out that almost no restaurant does a friday fish fry except maybe during lent.
I feel like anon's use of river should cover lakes too.
No, dude, there's a reason the suicide rate in the midwest goes up the further away you get from cities. You go on the CDC's website and their suicide map shows there's a giant death funnel radiating away from Chicago. It's like being able to see the Sears tower prevents you from eating your gun.
Don't mistake how nice it looks in photos or movies or whatever vs having to actually live there. It kills me whenever you hear about some congressional study about brain drain, why young adults that graduate from college don't stay in their flyover states and immediately haul ass to the coasts or Chicago or Austin or whatever and nobody ever just settles on the idea that it's not fun to live there.
The bottom suicide map is from 2015. It only gets worse.
it's objectively a pretty great place to be
>Louisiana always the worst of the worst
I sure love it here...
it helps being one of the capitols of Black persondom and literally being a french pirate cove
I mean a large part of it being a giant sinking swamp doesn't help either. Infrastructure is hard enough to upkeep in that environment as it is, and then they get slammed by hurricanes all the time.
This looks like a poverty or population distribution map. You can't really make a claim that it's the cities preventing suicide when it's just a correlation.
That being said though some of those places out in the country are BORING. Absolutely nothing but bars and Applebee's joints.
The more densely populated an area is, the more social opportunities exist. Those maps reflect that fact.
It gets messier when you consider how data on suicide is collected and the fact they rarely share attempted rates which major cites beat out everywhere else in the country. Hell it's one of the reason male suicidal success is so much higher compared to women even though women attempt it at three times the rate, people respond quicker because the networks are stronger.
Try to have a nice day in NYC? Good chance a lot of people are going to notice you and respond to the situation. Try to have a nice day in nowhere Wyoming? You'll die because people won't know somethings up until they haven't seen you for the monthly gathering going on two week from then.
it's literally just race, white people kill themselves more regardless of where they are and rural areas are the whitest in the country
Only in the US. If you go by globally, Asians and Africans have far higher suicide rates.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country
What's going on over in North Alaska?
Indigenous communities
Shit's fricking brutal
>most plain place to live in the world
That would be the south of England
Where is Silent Hill supposed to be in? I always figured it was some rust belt flyover.
Maine I think
I'm pretty sure it's Pennsylvania and the games were inspired by the coal mining town Centralia, in which the mine actually caught fire and the coal has been burning underground ever since. Now the ground is unstable with sink holes dragging homes underground, foundation and all, and constant belches of skin searing smoke blanketing the town in permanent haze. Real spooky stuff, like the miners dug up hell.
The movie was influenced by Centralia not the games. The lead character artist is pretty vocal about that on Twitter.
Holy frick Pennsylvania, you are moronic.
>No good game set in the Midwest
>Is it really that hard to portray due to all the subtle differences?
I decided years ago that I was boycotting gta 6 unless it took place in Chicago. It would have been so fricking kino, but of course cuckstar is going back to what they know and dumping the series in Miami again. Gotta get those millennials and gen Xers to spread those wallet lips, so just pump it full of vice city nostalgia and it'll sell like hotcakes, am I rite?
Fricking bullshit. Chicago would be a new city (for 3d)with untapped potential for stories. It's one of the rare cities in America that's almost perfectly split into 3 distinct sides geographically and racially. If Rockstar wanted a heckin diverse story (which they're prioritizing nowadays), then have it feature a white guy from the north side, a black guy from the south side, and a Mexican from the west side, who all meet downtown in the loop or something. But of course, doing a new city is heckin hard 🙁 our investor's fee fees might be hurt if sales are low, frick it, put it in Miami again.
Fricking bullshit.
Can you really have "Vice City Nostalgia" if it's going to take place in the current year?
I got your back bro, I'm boycotting them too because I had a high school friend get a job with their San Diego studio after he graduated art school and they were worked like dogs for 18 months and then fired when their midnight club released and 4 dudes died during the development from stress related illnesses and one an hero when his wife left with the kids because he was never home.
there's definitely a division between states east of the mississippi and states west of the mississippi
>Arkansas
>Idaho
>Pennsylvania
>Midwest
NEBRASKABROS WE FRICKING EXIST
WE'RE REAL
Get me a runza. I'm hungry.
>leave Nebraska
>actually stay out this time and not get sucked back in
>this homosexual mentions a fricking Runza
FRICK
I never really liked them that much but god damn were they tasty every now and then.
No that's when tariffs lift and you shift your work industry into a logistical nightmare because chang can do it cheaper without those pesky labor laws.
that's what they get for opposing WW2 and being sympathetic to Germany
kek, the US got roped into both world wars by its own government. They lied both times about keeping us out, if it wasn't for southern righteous bloodlust I don't know where we would be
Doesn't the first Watch Dogs take place in Chicago?
If Running With Scissors didn't go woke, I would have loved to have seen a Postal entry in the midwest.
There's nothing fricking interesting out here. You could make a game about storm chasing and that's about it.
Why do Americans hate brick and mortar houses? Aint those states already in Tornado/Twisters areas? That shit would be better instead of rebuilding your home every 2-3 years
Dude, no. Does nothing. Will tear a building apart like paper and those bricks become bullets.
british culture is northern orientated meaning stone=gets fricking cold in the winter
We don't. My house is literally brick and mortar.
>yuro doesn't understand how powerful twisters are
To be fair I just don't think they understand the magnitude. Europe gets tornadoes, but the difference is that nearly every single one of them are weak as frick, we're talking not even F0. You can literally drive through them and it just seems like a strong wind gust. And the stronger ones they do get are typically F0 or F1.
Just don't live in a trailer. Or Moore Oklahoma. Like seriously. Moore always gets fricked EVERY year. The get fricked...more.
Twisters don't give a frick what your house is made of. If a twister decides it's your turn, there isn't shit you can do about it.
Brick houses ain't gonna do shit for keeping you safe from an american tornado
>Only the brick side of the house remains
I mean anon, that wont help your argument a tiny bit, even the little brick planters remain solid
>see? Only one side of the house is still standing!
Brick siding is great, and there's a lot of love for it. It's just also profoundly more expensive, so most don't go for it. Also, as devastating as tornadoes are, and as relatively common as they are in that area, the area is just fricking huge. I lived in "tornado alley" for most of my life and I've still never seen a tornado IRL.
European houses get fricked by tornados too
Remember yuro houses much like yuros themselves are gay and wimpy, and so are their tornados, they don't understand what an F3 alone can do or when God sends tornado plagues to punish us for talking smart
what if you built your home underground? would that help?
Anon we aren’t supposed to talk about the Molemen
stop naming moron they'll find out
It would but it would be dim and dreary as hell, probably damp and mold prone too. That's why a lot of people build reinforced underground tornado shelters instead.
most of us just go over the tornadoes
"Damn I'm so glad I spent more on those brick walls, they totally held up!"
Way easier than rebuild from scratch, too bad the roofing was all wood, it probably would stood a better chance to remain all solid
It absolutely isn't easier to rebuild from scratch.
>Be Kansas anon.
>Can't think of a single game that has taken place in the state except the opening level of Splinter Cell: Double Agent that took place in Leavenworth Prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_Kansas
No idea which of these games feature something substantial in Kansas or if it's just in passing like you said.
Gun, maybe a bit since wild west setting. I know parts of RDR2/RDR1 are inspired by Kansas. DC games are probably Smallville, KS, which is fictious.
>play game set in "Chicago"
>it has mountains
It has some tiny mounts near their lakes thou
Pitiful mountains. Still climbed them
>lack anything of significant and recognizable
Like gm_flatgrass?
It's hard to have conflict in an area where things are pretty alright. Shithole coastal cities are better settings.
I mean the actual Midwest by the way. Not those pretenders like Missouri and Ohio
If your state supported slavery you cant be midwest.
>game takes place in des moines
It's a midwest game
But is it a good game?
>Montana
>midwestern
It's too mountainous and has too many forests to be midwestern.
Id honestly love to see a game take place in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Midwest is cool, but the Southwest is the best part of America speaking strictly in terms of landscape.
Most city slickers never leave their urban hives
They literally have no concept of what midwestern states look like
There has to be some kind of missing context to this, like there's no way he doesn't know what a farm plot is right? I refuse to believe that, he must be talking about the colors coming through the snow or something, or the river valleys interrupting the squares.
Funny how Midwestern culture is what most people associate American culture with, even thought the whole region is fairly irrelevant and has barely any inhabitants besides those who live near the lakes.
midwestern and southern culture is american culture, the eastern coastal states are owned by their socialist europoor immigrant slaves
the west coast is full of communists and the plains are full of people you don't want to frick with but are generally the nicest people you will ever meet
American culture is whatever american blacks made cool ten years ago.
blacks are so culturally irrelevant we have to pretend like they matter for a whole month
>he said on website where based is the most used adjective
False, the most used adjective here is Black person
>but that's not an adjective
It is on this site
>the most used adjective isnt black adjacent its literally just black people
Not exactly disproving how obsessed americans are with blacks there burgerclap.
Do Black folk even used based anymore? Aren't they on to zippity doo dah for rizzle by now?
>Do Black folk even used based anymore?
Yep
haha racism is funny. black culture first gets mocked then becomes mainstream years later. it's been like that since the civil war, lol
Describe "black culture".
American culture is whatever is currently marketed the most.
>American culture is whatever american blacks made cool ten years ago.
Kek, this. I've been to Toronto and Montreal, there's definitely at least a 5 year delay in memes and pop culture. Maple syrup thots are probably still wearing uggs with their hair in a loose bun and listening to Beyonce, lmao.
Toronto is more American than it is Canadian. They play in the NBA for god's sake.
nobody in the US cares about basketball
a TON of people in the US care about basketball, what are you talking about
We do, but it's weird. I'v met more successful pro extreme sports athletes than football or basketball players. And I travel a shitload. The only times I've actually talked to basketball player was in college. After that the seemingly cease to exist.
They're still behind the times, even if they're not as backwards as Montreal because of the language barrier.
Canadians invented basketball.
And Americans dominate it. Another loss for leafs
Are Appalachian and Southern people culturally the same?
No. Appalachian have more kinship with floridans than the southerns
Some* Floridians.
Florida is basically three blocks of people. North Florida is hillbilly deep south/appalachia kinda folk. South Florida is hispanic with conclaves of geriatric white racists. Central Florida is more diverse and more like the northern US.
Appalachia is distilled "I'm goin' innawoods and not coming back" american autism. Much more anti authority
>Much more anti authority
https://anothercity.org/why-early-appalachian-settlers-originally-celebrated-christmas-in-january/
no
that's why in king of the hill, kahn mocks hank by calling him a 'hillbilly' (appalachian term)
Considering that both are stereotyped as "poor inbred racist whites who speak funny and are full blooded Brittonic with no German ancestry" I would say there must be some similarities.
All American culture is created on the coasts and is blasted all around the world. You flyovers have zero culture and zero impact.
I actually prefer this. I don't want your gayy friends from around the world shitting up the only good parts of america
Apparently I have a midwestern accent but I cannot hear it at all. Its not pronounced like a Wisconsin accent either, yet a friend managed to identify both the state and nearest major city (Chicago) based on the way I say my O's.
How the frick
The same thing happened to me when I moved from Minnesota to Ohio as a kid. I didn't think I had an accent but everyone could pinpoint exactly where I was from. I think it's because you're used to hearing it from friends and family so it seems normal to you.
lol, I got shit for my accent when I moved from Minnesota to Florida. "Say roof!"
Eventually I General American'd it.
I've generalized mine as well for the most part, but there are still certain words that I still pronounce strange, like your example. I still pronounce it ruff kek.
Minnesotans sound like Canadians.
No they don't.
As someone from the great lakes area I can tell the difference between a youper, northern minisconsin, and canadian within a few words.
Chicago has an accent. I can't describe it. Before I learned about it, a friend once told me about how she gets comments on her strong Chicago accent, but I couldn't notice a thing. Then I heard Michelle Obama talk, felt that SOMETHING about her speech was eerily similar to my friend's, and that's how I learned Michelle Obama was from Chicago.
Tornado thread?
I know the guy that filmed this. I was living only a couple of miles away.
>no games set here
>no games made here
>only game studio here is some webcasino shovelware dev working on a walking simulator
why is oklahoma so anti-vidya, bros
>colorado
>wyoming
>montana
>idaho
there are morons in those places. the midwest is:
north dakota
south dakota
nebraska
kansas
minnesota
iowa
missouri
wisonsin
illinois
indiana
michigan
ohio
AND MAYBE
kentucky
west virginia
your mom
if you're being generous
anyway, to answer your question, it's because the midwest is nothing but cornfields and rednecks as far as the eye can see. basically FRICK the midwest and anyone who lives there.
t. new england chad
>live in the north and get hit by a snowstorm
>live in the west and get hit by a forest fire or an earthquake
>live the south and get hit by a flood or a hurricane
>live in the middle and get hit by a tornado or a dust storm
God hates America.
Stand aside. Best Midwestern game coming through.
Why are the interior western states so boring and culturally irrelevant? You would think that mountainous and desert states that were settled by gold diggers and cowboys would have some cool culture to show, but the only thing people know and care about are Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Rocky Mountain ski resorts.
Partly because they were some of the last states to be settled, and precisely because they are mostly desert and mountains. The populations have always been small, only certain areas make good places for large settlements, and the rest is used for farming or raising cattle. You can't do shit in the desert.
You have to convince people to live there
>boring and culturally irrelevant?
All the money was moved overseas. You can think of the Midwest as one giant Detroit.
>mountainous and desert states that were settled by gold diggers and cowboys would have some cool culture to show
You mean like rodeo shows, Old West towns, and actual cowboy culture?
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a good game. It's set in Detroit.
Texas is the greatest country in the entire United States
Nuke California
>Nuke California
Don't. You'll lose all the cowboys.
Agricultural center of America with a few tourist traps sprinkled here and there. Unless you want to live in a densely populated township, you're not missing much.
>Don't. You'll lose all the cowboys.
>Californians
>not whimpering in fear of Guns
you can only pick one
>t. third worldie
>King Ranch
All hat, no cattle.
We’ve got more cowboys in King Ranch than California has in its entire warty ass.
why do people live in a place where tornadoes come and flatten the area on regular schedule?
You can buy a house there
because it (was before we fricked it although it's still quite good) some of the best farmland in the world
Because the wide open plains are a great place for ranching and crop production. That's where the vast majority of our exports come from, so the rest of the world should be thanking us for having to deal with those twirly fricks.
Its good for the crops
At least you don’t live in the small part of Texas that get hurricanes every year and regular tornadoes as well.
Furthermore, at least I don’t live in Galveston. That city exists in spite of whatever archon governs storms and the sea.
Tornadoes don't flatten very much at all. The largest, most devastating tornadoes are 1 mile in diameter or so and travel in lines so they don't hit much. They do less overall damage than hurricanes, but a hurricane usually won't tear your home from its foundation
How do you make a game about corn
New Mexico, Arizona, Western Texas, Southern California and Nevada look like they have some kino landscape.
Desert enjoyer
>call themselves the midwest
>closer to the east coast than the west coast
May as well call them the mid east.
What the frick even happens in the midwest? Tornadoes? Corn?
t. Caribbean enjoyer
Yes and yes. Cattle as well.
I like cattle tours. They give cheese at the end
we get to watch the US slowly dissolve into a brown streak in the founder's underwear
They don't call them the flyover states for no reason.
Drugs and UFO sightings, with high comorbidity for some reason
Wisconsin here. Dairy of all kinds, ginseng, cranberries, lavender, cherries, fishing, hunting, shitloads of beer, DnD. The dells and door county are also gorgeous even if the towns are tourist traps.
I'd love to climb that big rock and just spend a whole day basking in the sun at the top, but damn that water looks dirty.
I like to skateboard a lot, eat corn, skateboard some more, shoot guns, play video games, work, work more, work even more, work again, continue working, corn.
Farming, old people, obesity, meth
Red Dead Redemption 2 (partially)
And I believe Raccoon City from Resident Evil is based off a generic U.S Midwest city (possibly Kansas City ???).
Nebraska here, go away.
I like my ancient ocean topography with a bit more water carved valleys
good, go away.
What a beautiful car.
a truck technically.
Historical setting but culturally as Midwest as it gets despite the locations changing as they proceed with their journey. Oregon Trail on steroids!
It's good.
NMACodex homosexuals go eat a dick.
GAMES IN NEVADA:
>gambling and human degeneracy
>driving marathon down a single road
well you have new vegas at least, that's a pretty good game. something something patrolling the mojave nuclear winter
>Nevada
>boring ugly shithole desert
>game set in Nevada
>game is walking in a boring ugly shithole desert
Deserts are so kino
>driving marathon down a single road
Unironically fun if the game itself is interesting and not Desert bus.
Driving through the desert map on BeamNG is peak comfy
I wanna see that Stonehenge replica and see if it's any better than ours
Applebee's simulator
Rainbow Six: Vegas.
Gib tomboy pls
Wisconsin chads rise up
I hope your spotted cow is extra cold today friend
Do you have a version of this pic for Minnesota?
I'll take back all the times I made fun of your DUI rates.
Cheers M8
much love cheeseanon. Always loved visiting with family to get Wisconsin christmas trees.
what the big deal about the midwest and why do burgers hate it? i only know this spiderland is from the midwest and i love it
because it isn't a concrete jungle, wide open spaces of either grasslands or farmlands.
>why do burgers hate it?
burgerstan is half a continent. every region hates every other region because it's a million miles away
i assume burgerstan is the west? is the south the most based region because of cowboys or the midwest for all the emo bands?
South and midwest kinda get along, we both like are twinkly emo and country music.
"Burgerstan" is slang for America in general lol
I live in FL and I hate the deep south. It's full of racists and "good ol boys." A bunch of bible-thumping hypocrites somehow still salty they got bodied in a moronic war 160 years ago.
0/10 apply yourself
Sorry you can't own people anymore, Jebediah. Work your own fields you bum.
>people
>property
more like livestock
>A bunch of bible-thumping hypocrites somehow still salty they got bodied in a moronic war 160 years ago.
i still dont know how this was fumbled but i guess their true goal was never the communist scare and just about gaining influence
what a stupid take.
Obviously not everyone is like that. But culturally it's a very insular ingroup/outgroup kind of thing. Not my cup of tea.
Cowboys are western, not southern.
No, we love the midwest. don't believe the lies
We don't hate it, we just consider it to be... quaint, and somewhat out of touch.
>quaint, and somewhat out of touch.
yeah that's the exact view i have as an outsider, is it not comfy to go there from all the busy and concrete shit? or is countryside a different region in USA or such a concept dosent exist?
are there any comfy coming of age films from situated in the midwest or the south?
One of the best movies of all time IMO
>is it not comfy to go there from all the busy and concrete shit? or is countryside a different region in USA or such a concept dosent exist?
The U.S. is weird because really you are never that far away from "the countryside." I've lived in on the east coast, I've lived in the midwest, and I've lived in the southwest, and I've never been more than a half hours drive away from being in "the countryside". You have to understand how fricking big this place is, and how fricking empty the places that aren't the cities or suburbs are.
The thing about the midwest is that it takes that concept up to 11. There are still cities, sure, but the places that are empty are fricking EMPTY. Large swathes of the midwest's population centers literally exist for no other reason than to service truckstops, and that is where a lot of that midwest weirdness comes from. It is liminal in the true meaning of the word. People spend their whole lives in a weird kind of midwest stasis where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.
So it really doesn't have much to offer from a "get away from the city" perspective, because it is actually pretty easy to get away from the city, no matter where you are. It just offers... fricking nothing. If you like nothing, and there are people who do, you will like it, but it is well and truly fricking nothing.
>So it really doesn't have much to offer from a "get away from the city" perspective, because it is actually pretty easy to get away from the city, no matter where you are. It just offers... fricking nothing. If you like nothing, and there are people who do, you will like it, but it is well and truly fricking nothing.
ah i get it now
wait what, isnt texas in the south?
Texas is a big state so it's basically both western and southern, culturally.
makes sense
has there been any cowboy related shit like standoffs or crimes done in recent years? or is it just fashion at this point?
damn its that big, what about cali tho? from movies and shit i remember cali being every american's dream life (retirement plan?) i dont exactly recall but dont think thats the sentiment anymore.
>cowboy related shit like standoffs or crimes
Most of that shit was fiction in the first place to sell tickets to road shows
>Most of that shit was fiction in the first place to sell tickets to road shows
oh 🙁
that sounds nice and i didnt know shrimping was a industry of its own lol
yeah i have heard it about in the news and the fires iirc. wonder why people idolized california as a the ideal dream state to move to a couple years back tho or i am misremembering the state
California WAS the ideal dream state, about 60 years ago.
california has always been a shithole, it was settled by criminals looking for gold for frick's sake
>it was settled by criminals looking for gold for frick's sake
That's all of America though
The entire country was founded by the East India Company for profit, their flags were even on the naval ships during the "revolutionary war"
nah, the colonial authorities signed shit on gold but they never found any, the civil war was largely over the gold found in California
Gold was not the only, or even primary resource they were getting out of America, it was a nice bonus later on.
"Puritans" were never real as an actual group, they were a segment of "Millenarianism" created by Menasseh Ben Israel and Robert Boyle (British Intel, or the precursor to the MI divisions), used as cover for the BEIC's intention to split fully from the DEIC and take the profit of the Americas for themselves. All the "Puritan" families of the colonies were simply employees under draconian company policies to keep them from getting out of line (or more likely, from deserting to live with the natives as was common at the time)
But if you just want to keep believing the Thanksgiving cartoons and witch burning movies instead, go right on ahead
Nah, a whole lot were Puritans fleeing religious persecutions, its why our laws are STILL so damn prude. At least for the Northeast and the original 13. after that who can say.
ah so thats the California dream, which state is the ideal dream state or the last ideal dream state before everything went to shit? New York during the Y2K?
fried jumbo shrimp are on a league on their own after all
texas/oklahoma during the oil boom
California is constantly on fire, either by its own lawmakers, or literally (every year is at least one giant blaze) driving down the road with roaring wildfires right up to the pavement is surreal, the heat is insane, ill never forget it.
The Gulf Coast is full of little tasty bastards and the Louisianians gotta have their gumbo
It's important to note that wildfires are native to the climate and some tree species there literally cannot reproduce without periodic fires.
The problem is all the mismanaged power lines and stuff that trigger the tinderbox constantly
>The problem is all the mismanaged power lines and stuff that trigger the tinderbox constantly
where does all the taxmoney go? organized crime?
This is dipping into /misc/ territory.
Take your pick - tax cuts for the rich, pay raises for elected officials, embezzling...
The power lines are managed by a private company PG&E which doesn't do a very good job.
>native to the climate
More than that, chaparrals are DEFINED by being dry scrublands that burn.
But as more people move into those areas it becomes a bigger problem..
Texas’ third largest industry is ranching (its first two being engineering and oil, IIRC and its 4th being shrimping).
Many of the students in my school district participate in cattle shows as part of our agriculture program. In the town i live in there are pastures with cows and horses roaming. Cattle are regularly auctioned at the local auction barn.
>Cali
To those in the East, California is the boogeyman of the West. You should hear the things Fox News conservatives say about California like it's some failing nightmare state or something.
There's a lot going on there though, which is why so many games are set there.
>The population of California in 2023 was 38,965,193, a 0.19% decline from 2022. The population of California in 2022 was 39,040,616, a 0.27% decline from 2021.
People don't want to live there.
Less than half a single percentage point over several years?
Personally though I don't think I'd live there. Cost of living is too high. Going by GDP and influence though Cali is doing just fine, and they provide more to the US as a whole than it gets back in fed support. So doing better than a lot of the Southern states.
people are FLEEING California in recent (the past 4) years in droves. Poverty, inflation, crime and homelessness are out of control. California has a rate of 44 homeless per 10k people... Policy in the state also is driving away anyone who wants to own a business or do anything besides pay for the Welfare State. And GOD FORBID you break the narrative or do anything that goes against the group think.
Part of the issue is california isn't a bad place to be homeless just from the weather alone.
You go places where the winters are harsh and a lot of homeless wont make it through the winter.
>has there been any cowboy related shit like standoffs or crimes done in recent years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
Both lead by this right-wing butthole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammon_Bundy
>more hoaxes by the Bundy family
shocker
Strictly speaking old people flock to texas and florida to retire because there are no state taxes, and the weather is generally nicer than up north.
We also get a ton of migrating elders from the midwest and canada known as "snow birds" they all come down to southern texas for the coldest parts of winter and then mosey back north in the spring.
I have a few elderly neighbors that are snow birds. They own a seasonal business which means they have nothing to do in the winter, so they're always gone the entire winter which I assume means they head South.
My dad is retired but he has a few properties he manages that he rents out to snowbirds every year.
One is a nice little house, the other is just a concrete pad with utilities for RVs. I always like visiting him because I get to go inside some of those super fancy rv's and get salty because they're bigger and nicer than my apartment.
Texas is southern, midwest and southwestern at the same time. Cowboys were in the South, but they were more prominent in the western half of the United States. Hell I think Montana and Idaho alone had more cowboys than all southern states combined without Texas and Oklahoma
Texas is Texas. I am not kidding, it exists as it's own category and Texans prefer it that way.
Not that anon, but Texas is sort of it's own thing. It's kind of it's own country, in the same way Californian is. So what it is located in the South, culturally it's more Western.
>wait what, isnt texas in the south?
Cowboys came up from Mexico into the Southwestern territories.
Too add on to this, I think Europeans in particular have a hard time understanding that the US doesn't really have any mid-size villages. Either a place survives to become a thriving metropolis (shithole), or it dies a painful Ohio death (shithole with no money)
>a painful Ohio death (shithole with no money)
There are those little bits of Ohio all over the US. Rinky dink towns abandoned by industry with the population aging while everyone who can moves out and the ones who can't stick around and develop drug problems and retirees who need to downsize move in. They all have this general malaise about them that just makes you go
>frick, man, is this really it?
The lack of real culture really hits hard when you leave the city's artifically-propped consumerism.
I hate everywhere that isnt New England
I love nature and constantly think of moving from the South up to the midwest. Not enough hills or forest in SC, and NC is turning into NYC 2.0
Resident Evil 1-3.
But RE1-3 were set in a fictional city in the American midwest
There's a bunch of games set in Chicago and a few set in Detroit. Also Far Cry 5 takes place in Montana. And I'm sure there's got to be some games set in Cleveland or other parts of Ohio.
>Cleveland or other parts of Ohio
Why?? Ohio is boring as shit, another state will always be a better pick for a setting.
>every game set in my city is a racing game
Daytona, is that you?
nope
Nobody mentioned Fantasy Midwest yet
>Idaho
They wish they were Midwest, probably so Eastern Oregon would stop pleading with senpai to merge with them.
>Montana
Not Midwest, just Texas North in terms of landmass.
>Wyoming
Not Midwest, just empty like the Dakotas.
>Colorado
Closer to the Southwest, but their weed laws automatically disqualify them from Midwest culture.
>northern state where liberal rich whites of anglo stock live in huge cities at the coast, while the rest of the state just consists of mountains and forests and has mostly shitty foggy/rainy weather
The North West and North East are literally the same place. The only difference is that the North East is rich due to old money and besides whites you encounter the occasional wop, while the North West is rich due to tech businesses and besides whites you encounter a lot of Asians and once in a blue moon a Native American.
>No good game set in the Midwest
*ahem*
How many town are there in America? Do the towns go on forever like in Sim City? Seems comfy 🙂
Lots of towns, more as you get away from the coasts. Suburbia is like the cultural American ideal.
"The Midwest" is far too large and geographically diverse an area for a question like OP's. The plains states are different from the western appalachian states are different from the great lakes states.
Nah I would say that the Appalachian states and the great lake rust belt states are actually very similar with how they both are declining states who were very heavy industry focused while the states of the great plains were farming and livestock focused. Only difference I can see is that that Appalachian states were always kind of poor and tend to be more conservative while the states on the lakes are more liberal and used to be pretty rich back in the day.
You can find similarities between any two areas, but I think on the whole that doesn't make them similar enough to not acknowledge the difference. For example, New York and California are both populated 80% by homosexuals, but you would never confuse them for being the same state.
Similarities in culture wouldn't be that surprising actually, tons of Appalachians immigrated to those cities back when they were big.
>No good game set in the homeland of white people
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1523951113
The entire state of Kentucky, same with North Carolina and Kansas
>Kentucky
>basketball
is that like bigfoot
White hillbillies mainly, but they are nuts about UK basketball (same with Louisville to an extent)
After moving to Wisconsin after growing up elsewhere, I've realized that midwesterners are absolutely desperate to make themselves seem "subtly different" or "unique" because for some reason they're unable to accept that they're the most normal, standard, stereotypical, Water Flavored Desiccated Nutrient Product variety of American that there is. "Ope, unlike the rest of America, we enjoy football and barbecuing and beer" who the frick do you think you're kidding
Wisconsin exists to just have a complex about having their entire state being overshadowed by Chicago.
And the giant fiberglass muskie in Heyward.
I went to school in madison (go badgers!) And wisconsin was known as "chicago's playground" and the proper way to refer to them was FIB's (fricking Illinois bastards).
I just remember the Chicago baseball team fans flooding Milwaukee's stadium for their games to the point the Milwaukee baseball team banned out of state ticket sales to try and stop it.
So what makes the other parts of America "not normal" then? Dancing to hip hop?
Weird unique food like yellow barbecue or whatever Cajuns eat, actually unique dialects like Mississippi, Appalachia, or Jersey, cultural differences in terms of things like sports or comedy, and yes "dancing to hip hop" among the huge disparity in musical taste across the regions. Things that are found exclusively in the midwest are rare, and the ones that exist are only very marginally different. Wisconsin is the blank created character in the fighting game of America, no special moves and standard normals.
is this what happens to your mind when you stop going outside?
Why would anyone settle in Eastern America?
>Humid as frick at summer
>Tornadoes
>Hurricanes
>Gets nuked by Canadian winters
>Uninteresting nature
West sounds so much more attractive.
Idiots want to live in the big city so they can get stuck in traffic jams and pay most of their salary to rent an apartment
The west has forest fires, heat waves, droughts, earthquakes and dust storms instead and can also suffer from snow storms just like the east. But yeah nature and landscape wise it blows the bland east out of the water.
Hot accents.
Eastern US has hot accents? Which ones?
Around me all I hear is General American with some y'alls thrown in
Boston has a unique accent (I wouldn't call it hot though)
Creole is one-like bastard/unintelligible french
Bayou folk have their own
the South has a pretty distinct one.
Oh, I don't think of Bayou, Creole, or the Deep South accent as Eastern at all lol. I'm not a big fan of the accents myself though
Oh I read that totally wrong! no eastern is probably just NY, Boston and parts of rural Maine (they sounds kinda Canadian)
rogue is suppose to be Mississippi but she sounds more like a Creole (not as much as Remy though)
godtier setting for horror
I heard that Baltimore used to be a nice city like New York, Boston and Philadelphia but now it's a complete shithole. Does it qualify as rust belt city for being a former great city that suffered great decline?
r8 the megaregions
The western interior is criminally underrated, i love exploring out there
I feel like Coastal-Deep South is pretty different from the interior Deep South, at least what I have noticed personally.
"Up North" and "Old Industry" I have never heard anyone use ever.
Northeast and East Coast are the same.
Great Plains is generally included in Midwest.
Rest is fine, but I'm sure some Texans will hate that the state isn't all "Texas"
>Northeast and East Coast are the same
Northeast is full of rich people, has less migrants and is not quite as urbanized as the East Coast
shhh don't tell them
>I'm sure some Texans will hate that the state isn't all "Texas"
Should be all of texas, our hat Oklahoma, and Texarkana.
Might as well include the shitty parts of mexico, too. I mean, we’re already hanging on to their population.
>shitty parts of mexico, too
The border towns used to be a blast to hang out in before the cartels moved in.
>didnt know shrimping was a industry of its own lol
Hell yeah it is. My dad lives on the coast and during the season him and his buddy go out on their boat and barter a few cases of beer for a trash bag full of fresh caught shrimp when they're coming in.
Eat as much shrimp as you can, then freeze the rest for bait.
Oh, and "Gulf Coast" is also something I've never heard before as an actual cultural region. It's Deep South and then just Florida which has its own minor divisions
I've heard "up north" refered to as the North Woods. A chunk of that area, particularly the UP is mostly dense woods
In Minnesota "Up North" is a fairly common term. Almost nobody lives up there and it's heavily forested, so usually when you go "Up North" that means you're going hunting, fishing, or staying in a cabin.
Oh, the term "up north" is definitely a thing to people who live there. We'd say that when my cousin went to Duluth for school.
"Up North" as a discrete region consisting of the northern halves of MN, WI, and MI? Not really.
Southwest > Great Plains > Out West > Texas > Midwest > East Coast > Florida > SoCal > Northeast > Old Industry > Up North >>>>>>>>>>>> literal shit >>>>>>>>>> Down South > Gulf Coast >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> West Coast
why put socal so high above west coast?
Because I rate it mostly by landscape and the west coast is nothing but rain forests, a few mountains and rocky cliffs.
oh, i see, i thought it was a cultural ranking
i really wanna hike the entire PCT someday, but everything past the sierras seems daunting
The Southwest is so fricking kino and yet no one lives there outside of Phoenix.
What the FRICK happened to this winter?
all those industrial fans the government keeps putting up blew the winter away to fulfil the prophecy of global warming
Two things: this is an el niño year and we don't have as much aerosols in the atmosphere now
el nino
Yeah this winter barely existed for almost all of the continental US, and even some temperature records were beat. Where I am in the North we had 1 decent snowstorm which melted about a week later, and the 3 or 4 other times it snowed we only got an inch or less.
I don't count it as Midwest, but I live in souch-central PA, and most of the time, there's frickall to do if you live in a rural area.
Would Alaska and Hawaii side with the confederates or union, and answer honestly
Both with the Union, but both are too miniscule in population and too important to the US Military to ever be allowed to secede in the modern day. Neither state has the economic incentive for slavery that the Deep South had back in the mid-19th century.
What region of America has a big difference between seasons, but a small difference day by day?
Probably somewhere in the center but not too far north or south, but not in the Tornado Alley
Nah frick you op, I want a game in north carolina, walking through some of the nig nog/trailer trash cities feels like being in fallout. Especially henderson and warrenton
>anon that trucks all over the east coast
As a Minnesotan all I have to say is this:
North/South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin can all suck my scandinavian dick
That is all.
>he thinks his 10% swedish meatball face is scandi
Hey man, not Iowa. They're just simple farmers.
According to Wikipedia the X-Com fps is set in my home of North Dakota.
that one xfiles game perhaps?
I heard the Western half of the USA has much better weather than the East and you often have a cloudless sky, is that true?
No
I know only about the Southern parts of both coasts i.e. Cali and Florida and in that case it's true. California has a nice climate, it doesn't rain that often, it doesn't get too cloudy too often though you get some occasional fog and the summers are warm without being humid, while the winters aren't really cold but it does get chillier, meanwhile Florida's temperature basically stays the same all year around so you don't really get a winter, the high humidity fricking sucks and it rains often.
the midwest is just endless fields of corn and beans theres not much to make a game about besides farming
>no mention of Puzzle Agent
I live in Indiana and there’s not a single interesting thing about this state aside from maybe Kurt Vonnegut. The only good thing we’ve ever produced
Michael Jackson?
Gary might as well be Chicago’s gutters
>I live in Indiana and there’s not a single interesting thing about this state a
How do you live in that state and not continuously want to have a nice day?
T.Illinois anon
I want to die every day but Illinois is no better. I lived in Carmi for about a year and I’d never been more depressed
>but Illinois is no bette
Indiana looks like a literal African country compared to Illinois
You’re not lying there
For me it's Flint, Michigan.
Frick Coasties
I need a game where I can order a Italian beef to my local bar as I get severely intoxicated and then you get to eat it after 8 old styles. We can call it "Chicago simulator"
As a Washingtonian, Idaho is PNW, Big Sky Montana is the Rockies, Big Open Montana and east is Midwest.
A zombie apocalypse set in a small town in rural Kansas would be fricken awesome.
Farm houses are creepy as frick at night.
Hoovie needs to voice one of the characters