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>The bleakness of both Half Life 2 Its just Eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s.
by ReptileMan 2y ago
>The bleakness of both Half Life 2
Its just Eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s.
- brap 2y agoNot long ago I had to visit this town in Slovakia, and immediately upon arrival I thought “damn this is City 17”. Fun place though. No striders or anything.
- omnimus 2y agoWhich town?
- watt 2y agoWatch Viktor talk about Austerlitz station he used as inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4
- ashoeafoot 2y agoImagine a hl2 theme park
- wave-function 2y agoOr almost all of the former USSR up to this day, excluding a few cities here and there. The place I'm living in basically hasn't changed in the last 30-40 years.
- mistrial9 2y agomight be preferable to modern Los Angeles ?
- ReptileMan 2y agoDifferent beasts. Eastern Europe was impoverished, the malaise that is hurting the US cities is disorder.
- wkat4242 2y agoA lot of American urban neighbourhoods are quite impoverished too though. Probably more so than eastern Europe was, for the terrible Soviet architecture was functional, cheap and ugly but not necessarily bad. And eastern Europe didn't have the large divide between rich and poor that the US has.
- nickpp 2y agoWe had the divide between the nomenklatura and the rest, instead.
- xvilka 2y agoFor this setting, there is even more depressive game - Belong Nowhere[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4-4nK4RR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4-4nK4RR0
- Philpax 2y agoThe Half-Life Wiki has a list of candidate cities that more or less capture this: https://breezewiki.com/half-life/wiki/City_17#Background_and_origins_of_City_17 https://breezewiki.com/half-life/wiki/City_17#Background_and...
- techwiz137 2y agoAnd in the 2020s too.