What game is it and how are you doing?
BONUS QUESTION: He instead offers you $1 billion if you go to the Mortal Kombat universe, join the tournament and survive. He’ll have Raiden train you for a year, then the blood splatters. Do you accept?
BONUS BONUS QUESTION: He offers to send you to a video game world of your choosing, only you can never come back home or contact anyone here ever again, not even with in-universe abilities. Do you accept and, if so, which one?
Animal Crossing here I come.
Same as @HelixDab, System Shock would be bad, but as a regular person living in the world I could make it for $20 million. Citadel Station? Not a chance, not for all the money in the world.
Bonus Question: Fighting in a Mortal Kombat tournament? No. After a year of training I’m still going to die in the first round. No amount of money is enough.
Bonus Bonus Question: This previous questions were easy. This one’s hard. I’m sure I could find a video-game world that would be pleasant to live in, potentially much better than our world, but I’d have to trade all of my family and friends for it. I’d strongly consider it if I found a world where I could be effectively immortal and have a good life as well—making it a very narrow set of options—but ultimately I’m not sure what my answer would be.
Yeah, I think I could survive in Ratchet and Clank.
And while on the subject: Dude, this game is seriously one of the best looking games I have ever played. It’s like playing a legit Disney/Pixar film. I want to live inside it. It would be a dream come true to live inside a really good cartoon. 😄
Cities: Skylines - no problem, it’s a great place to live! … As long as your house is near an evacuation shelter, on account of all the tornados and stuff.
But all the poop water!
Same for me, my city is pretty nice and I don’t have extreme weather enabled so no tornadoes in mine.
Warhammer Total war 2.
I’m not accepting.
Maybe if it was medieval total war I could get hired on as an assistant to someone, but total war has gone much more total war since then.
Mortal Kombat, not unless we allow corner trapping like in the 90s.
Just beat Tears of the Kingdom. Great game. I feel like for a country embroiled in a magical apocalypse most places are super comfy and safe to live in. 20 mil? Easy money.
No, I am not participating in Mortal Kombat.
One way ticket? It’s gotta be Pokemon. It’s the isekai holy grail. Living there would be way better than any of the shitty games, imagine just the travel lifestyle alone. Food and healthcare are free and plentiful. You can make easy luxury money having your favorite critter beat the brakes off of some snot-nosed kid’s rat.
Need more info before I accept or not. Does time IRL freeze? Or do I miss a year of real life time?
If I miss a year then nah because that’s logistical nightmares and a LOT of explaining. Plus all my stuff would probably be lost if I stop paying rent because I’m non existent for a year, including legal documents etc.
If IRL time stops though, yeah I’d take it. Last played Ensemble Stars which is a game about idols. So the world they live in is more or less just normal modern day Earth.
Anyway I need to know the situation with IRL while I’m gone, OP.
I would not take the further deals because I’m disabled for the first one, and because I have people and things I like IRL for the second.
I played Minecraft in peaceful mode, so, yeah, that sounds like a nice year long vacation actually.
Hard pass on the mortal kombat, but I might take the third offer if I could be functionally immortal and the world was expansive enough.
If Chess counts, hell no. I suck at chess and they’re going to make me a pawn.
If its “real games”, then yeah I think I could live in Hateno Village for a year and be alright.
Bondee’s Barnyard?
Bro I don’t actually have to go to the restaraunt
I would fucking love to live in Stardew Valley for a year.
Technically it was Pokemon as my 4 year old is now stuck because the last stage of the new open world game has actual story line to follow and he can’t read. Was able to catch a hundred Pokemon, beat all gyms all by basically button mashing om which attack to do.
So yeah I’ll take $20M as humans dont die in Pokemon.
No to MK. Game is rigged as everyone else has superpowers.
And the bonus bonus is a no go not because of not seeing anyone but because then I’d have money in that game world and that isn’t very useful.
Microsoft Flight Simulator.
I get to fly planes for a year, and then I get enough money to buy my own plane in real life? Yeah, I’m doing fucking AWESOME. Let’s go!
Outer Wilds. Not sure what to make of this, but I guess I would be fine? (I’m not through yet, so please don’t spoil anything in the comments)
The game before that would be Plague Tale: Requiem, and nah, I won’t take my chances with that
Would a year ever really pass in Outer Wilds?
System Shock.
As a regular person in the world? Sure, no problem. It’s not all that different from reality now, only the climate has effectively collapsed (…we’re getting there, give it time), and it’s functionally run by corporations (see previous). If I have to live on the station with SHODAN? Yeah, no, definitely not.
Before that was Skyrim, and I feel like I’d be pretty okay there; most people seem to go about their daily lives without dying horrible deaths. Prior to that, Death Stranding, and, again, most people just live quietly in their little bunkers, fuck around on social media, and complain about deliveries of GruHub and Amazon taking too long.
