Could Every Video Game Happen in the Same World? | Semi-Ramblomatic

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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[@crononstan9104]

Hollow Knight is just in some dirt mound somewhere.

[@gutsmasterson2488]

The wiki says that Hallownest is somewhere in a wasteland. So it could be anywhere.

[@SmileytheSmile]

Hollow Knight canonically takes place under my couch.

[@danielchen1047]

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.

[@ogspooky9901]

By this logic we simply haven't FOUND Silksong yet. And thus our search should continue.

[@7OwlsWithALaptop]

Probably somewhere in the Australian Outback.

[@sebastianjezierski8450]

I was a bit offended at Poland being called "depressing", but then I remembered that our anthem starts with "Poland isn't lost yet".

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

Plus three partitions, a bunch of genocides, a bunch of invasions, etc.

[@sebastianjezierski8450]

@@Unknown-jt1jo Turns out "between Russia and Germany" is not a good spawn point.

[@fawkesandhound]

Congratulations Poland is now Redania the home of the Witcher series.

[@derekstein6193]

​@@fawkesandhound At least Poland gets Geralt of Rivia. So, there is that.

[@StealthMarmot_]

It is hilarious how the last word of that implies inevitability.

[@OutlawDin0]

The Vault Hunters think they are on a starship heading to Pandora, but in reality, they are sedated, thrown into the hull of a boat that sails around the Pacific for a few months before getting dunped in Australia.

[@baileysmith2999]

🤣

[@NightmareCo666]

Thus mad max is born

[@michaeldunkerton3805]

Marcus is Saxton Hale confirmed.

[@meapickle]

​@@NightmareCo666 movie series first. So we can't use it here

[@bobafettjr85]

So The Pre Sequel then?

[@bigpharts]

Kerbal Space program takes place in a solar system diorama in a science museum, night at the museum style

[@nunyabusiness6925]

OMG I'm dying! Thanks for the laugh that's awesome!

[@suburban-mech2107]

So the Kraken that tears apart ships and flings them off into parts unknown is just that one kid that reaches past the rope barrier and trashes the models?

[@subtlewhatssubtle]

@@suburban-mech2107 Wandering octopus escapes adjacent aquarium and comes over to idly mess with the 'models' before going back to its tank the next morning.

[@Corbald]

@@subtlewhatssubtle Clearly it's this, as Octodad illustrates.

[@Silverguise]

Ah yes, the lovely Little Kitty Big City x Devil May Cry shared universe

[@zergie4]

You laugh but bandai did do a gundam and hello kitty collaboration.

[@Beutimus]

I would play that game. 😂

[@Electric0eye]

I'm down.

[@Klef_Takis]

Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series!

[@TheShicksinator]

Most secret societies will have to be merged. Snake is canonically part of the assassin's brotherhood

[@derekstein6193]

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.

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

This feels like 'What if Secret World but Secret Vdeogame World'

[@Todesnuss]

I really want to know what the middle east lookls like where the first AC game is set.

[@empath69]

Nah, they do time shares. Q.V.: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5OyoqhqqM17jZY

[@kiptheott5932]

Alternative, much funnier solution: There are just 10 million different secret societies and sinister conspiracies constantly tripping over each other.

[@KingKool2099]

Frey from Forespoken being a GTA NPC that accidentally got sent into a Final Fantasy game or whatever makes SO MUCH SENSE.

[@Sorain1]

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.

[@akl2k7]

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.

[@LanceThumping]

@@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.

[@Anonymaus209]

​@@LanceThumpingLike what, lol?

[@endarkculi]

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.

[@Len923_]

I'd say to flip cause and effect here, since Mario is much more modern

[@JackJack-dg6ql]

Yahtzee just came up with the coolest idea ever: “Mario of Arabia”

[@onfire20006]

hey Super Mario Land looks like an arabian enough game already

[@fictionfan0]

Super Mario X Prince of Persia confirmed.

[@tk5800thesecond]

Lisan Al YAHOOeed

[@jmackmcneill]

his Assassins Creed/Mario crossover was better

[@freelancerthe2561]

Mario Bros 2

[@huzi990]

Hearing Toad screech out a "MASHALLAH" would absolutely send me

[@dustinmillar120]

"Are you having fun? I'm having fun!" Yes Yahtzee, I'm having fun! This is great! Haha

[@axios4702]

Same.

[@nadroj-oz6nk]

Crossovers are fun.

[@thecactusman17]

"3 really similar cities in Louisiana right next to each other" Mr Croshaw, allow me to introduce to you the cities of Baton Rouge and Shreveport.

[@hlynkacg9529]

Was going to suggest that San Denis replace Baton Rouge, and New Marais replace either Mobile or Biloxi, but your version actually maintains the LA requirement.😊

[@Nowolf]

I mean, three hours drive away, but that's a normal commute in america I guess.

[@thecactusman17]

@@Nowolf 3 hours is a day trip to a popular theme park.

[@chrisham3781]

Couldn't rename Shreveport, you'd get stabbed while still hanging up the new sign. 😅

[@wcs792]

Yeah, I laughed at that, you could easily do that with several regions in the Southeast, there's a bunch of culturally and architecturally similar cities around.

[@Advexen]

This feels more like Toon Town from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Disney and WB clearly have their own world's, but they just had a single toon town in that film.

[@sweetjesusitburnsgetitof-ls3uy]

Personally it also reminds me of that Cartoon Network City thing from the 2000's, except there were only cartoons in that city, not a single live action character or real human. (As you might imagine, given the name.)

[@Beakerbite]

There it's obvious what happens. All of the cartoons are films. So every "cartoon world" is just a film set. Back in the real cartoon world, it's just every bit of chaos smashed together but it doesn't cause any thematic conflicts because again, all of the cartoon's you grew up on were just studio sets.

[@bt1234567892010]

@@sweetjesusitburnsgetitof-ls3uy basically FusionFall.

[@Saand1338]

Australia is a magnet for a bunch of anthropomorphic mutants in the post-post-apocalypse. Kao the Kangaroo, Ty the Tazmanian Tiger and Crash Bandicoot all come from there. Given how Crash and Spyro have crossed paths they need to be pretty close, does that make Stone Hill New Zeland?

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

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.

[@draconic756]

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!

[@joshthehollow5254]

@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.

[@scylla1772]

Neuvillette would along _famously_ with Princess Peach

[@sirbobulous]

Once defeated the Monsters were buried under Mt. Ebbott behind a barrier that could only be broken by 7 human souls. And there's no way they could get 7 human souls, so they're trapped there forever.

[@scylla1772]

Only now did I realize the mountain's name backwards is literally just Tobe... which, phonetically, is basically Toby

[@238Hero238]

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...

[@starmaker75]

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.

[@DragonSamurai182]

Bold of you to assume Doom guy is ever going to die.

[@AB-fh9zh]

@@DragonSamurai182 plot twist, V1 finds a sarcophagus containing one seriously pissed off space marine.

[@teamkilled1227]

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

[@sweetjesusitburnsgetitof-ls3uy]

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.)

[@SirPigeonPlays]

The thought of DOOM GUY slaughtering endermen in The Nether brings me so much joy 🤣

[@c4r151]

The Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games is fairly easy as that's just the irl Chernobyl exclusion zone.

[@Vermic12]

Visited by a young Captain Price from COD 4 and his glorious moustache.

[@derekstein6193]

And add some Metro: Dying Light for good measure.

[@Nowolf]

although, of course, the magi-nuclear fallout from the disater lead to a more interesting set of effects.

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

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?

[@thomasprether7991]

The Institute developed synths that would eventually become the androids in Detroit: Become Human

[@sirsnuggles6739]

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

[@teamkilled1227]

which would fit in here as some monsters sneaking off to form a civilization underground instead of going on mars

[@MultiFortunatus]

The people who went and made Rapture could've understandably escaped from SimCity and similar.

[@theinternetshavecome1640]

I love the use of 'understandably'.

[@hardwire666too]

It's all the ones who never made it past the water level in Mario as children. It bridges to eras.

[@rodsk8dude731]

From that insane build on person made of the "best possible city", that was planned for like a decade.. Also, are mayors players? ...No.. we have fictional politicians! Who mostly act like a stereotypical Sim City player (a.k.a. the reason for the many localized apocalypse scenarios). Some of them have connections with forces of the darkness, and can summon natural disasters, after building a prospering city, just to watch it all burn down, just for fun.

[@MrEmerald77]

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.

[@BrunoOliveira-dp3rj]

It's weirdly endearing to see Yahtzee have so much fun with such a silly concept

[@freelancerthe2561]

If you looked at Nintendo's weird attempt to canonize all the Zelda games into a single time line, Breath of the Wild marks the 9th(?) Apocalyptic cycle of Hyrule. The remnants of dead gods and god-like creatures from previous games scattered across the landscapes. The bones of the Wind Fish has such far reaching ramifications, that it puts on the same kind of incomprehensible time scale as the Nier games.

[@1337m4n]

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!

[@SPAMLiberationArmy]

Control taking place in Liberty City seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation for Saints Row 3.

[@FrozenSocks231]

🤯

[@olfactoryninja]

Despite the common joke that Bloodborne is a game about the existential horror of spending a night in England, the visual language plants Yharnam firmly as an equivalent to Prague with its sprawling Gothic spires, prominent bridges, overcrowded cemeteries, and churches decorated with a few too many bones.

[@lucaballarati9694]

Yes, but all the lifts, the surrounding landscapes, and the attitude towards foreigners being it closer to Genoa.

[@aidangordon2713]

Sonic splits his time between San Andreas and the South Pacific. And yes, he has met Trevor Phillips...

[@wwefreak62]

Trevor, on the other hand, doesn't really grasp Sonic because he assumes that the fast running blue hedgehog is just a drug induced hallucination.

[@ProfesorCafe]

Sonic is canonically a recovering crack addict

[@Shogeton]

Both of them do love speed.

[@professordetective807]

No, Sonic actually stays in San Fierro, the San Francisco equivalent.

[@manusgraham1159]

I always liked to think in my head that Dishonoured took place in the same continuity as the Thief games

[@matthewmuir8884]

Another advantage that _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ had was that the Victorian Era novels all took place on Earth, so putting all the characters together only required conflating magic systems and fictional substances rather than conflating worlds. For video games, I think one would have to make it one video game universe with multiple worlds.

[@freelancerthe2561]

"Video Land". If you remember, you remember.

[@professordetective807]

Or they START on Earth and then move to other worlds. Barsoom, Gulliver of Mars, The First Men in the Moon, etc.

[@matthewmuir8884]

@@professordetective807 Yes, I was meaning to also include those as examples of my point. Thanks.

[@masonasaro2118]

⁠@@freelancerthe2561”MEGA HI!” “wake up, kid icarus!” “VELCOME TO CASTLEVANIA!” “MOTHER BRAIN WILL *GET* YOU, LITTLE PRINCESS!” (i never grew up with captain n, but i always thought Kevin keene would have made for a way better final smash ultimate dlc than sora. give him the brawl pit treatment and launch a reboot off of that)

[@redonkulasauruss]

And the whole video game universe is just Alan Wake writing more and more stories into reality

[@Uniscorn123]

Starstruck Vagabond is definitely Stardew Valley in the future. 😎

[@Xaldin007]

This is basically what the Super Robot Wars series does with every game world they come up with to fit in the dozen or so mecha anime titles they cram together. It's honestly one of the most interesting parts about it, seeing how multiple completely unrelated franchises can interact as if they've been present in each other's story since inception.

[@ofAwxen]

Yahtzee'z metaverse sounds way more interesting than the one Zuck is currently doing

[@Poeneutral]

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.

[@calebmarmon1310]

I was not expecting a fanfic call to arms from Yahtzee, but I’m not complaining.

[@mauriciobetimpaesleme8702]

The fact that this video is extremely unreasonable and extremely reasonable is awesome, honestly.

[@TheRIsForRizzo]

I love the idea of a writer sitting in a cabin in Washington State, just making little minute changes to the larger videogame world

[@giloguy101]

Come to think of it, every video game world being a story alan has written within the Dark Place, which goes onto become its own reality spun of from ours, would make a werid amount of sense

[@empath69]

@@giloguy101 And Alan doesn't have the benefit of an editor or publisher to approve or reject whatever stories he desperately pumps out in his attempts at freedom, so we get utter naff garbage right alongside brilliant and compelling narratives.

[@tach5884]

What's this from?

[@empath69]

@@tach5884 the video game series "Alan Wake".

[@tach5884]

@@empath69 Ah, thanks

[@blackcheckshirt1365]

"New England's gunna get real fucking crowded." Imagining it as a horror version of Toontown from Roger Rabbit.

[@societalmenace7952]

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

[@Sorain1]

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.

[@armorhide406]

They have magic. We have military technology

[@freelancerthe2561]

Wasn't that also the premise of "Gate" anime.

[@matthew1882]

Far Cry 2 takes place in the early 2000s in the Angola-Zaire border region. The region was destabilized after Big Boss triggered a war in 1984.

[@SoldierDelta]

As a personal choice, i'd actually lay down 2077 as "The year that everything got fucked up". Three reasons. One is that several games conveniently align on the date such as Fallout's 2077 nuclear holocaust and Cyberpunk 2077's Night City being among the world's worst places to live, two being that it's far enough in the future that most modern video games can happen so robot technology can become a mainstay like with Hi-Fi Rush, Megaman, Overwatch, Nier Automata etc., but the third main one is that it also aligns with Xenoblade and Xenosaga's sci-fi elements. I won't go into massive spoiler details, but this is roughly when multiversal events go haywire due to an off-shore science facility (being facilities anchored to the earth ala that amusement park in Sonic Colors) accidentally causes a few rifts in space-time and causes everyone to either die, be forced to evacuate or just disappear into other branches of the universe. You could add a lot of fun stuff like with Doom's apocalypse events (Doom 3 takes place in 2145 so potentially shit went down prior to that), people being warped into other planes of existence resulting in a bunch of the Isekai scenarios (also conveniently explained in-universe with Xenoblade), potentially the people that survived on the surface lose a lot of communication technology and become pre-tech again like with Horizon, of course there's the universe exploration that occurred as a result of earth's evacuation such as with Metroid, Callisto Protocol, Borderlands, F-Zero and so on, and it'd conveniently allow for ancient alien artifacts to exist on the earth as a result of the experiments in that facility. It's not a perfect explanation for all titles, but it acts as a nice point in time to show that the entire world is at least partially fucked and forced to either evolve or rebuild or why some places just stopped existing at all.

[@SymbioteMullet]

See now you've got me thinking about Samus Aran and the Vault Hunters teaming up to take on everything in Dead Space...

[@SoldierDelta]

​@@SymbioteMullet Ngl I could buy that. It'd sorta be like the plot of Aliens except they're either mystically or generally better equipped than the soldiers that headed to the LV-426 Colony. I imagine "Space Cop/Bounty Hunter" is essentially a part time job as judged by Borderlands, Metroid, F-Zero, Star Fox and so on. The events of stuff like Callisto Protocol and Dead Space would essentially become a backdrop for a Metroid game, which is very funny to me.

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

The Zero Escape series states that SHTF in 2028, with the release of Radical-6 but the second game (Virtue's Last Reward) takes place in 2078 or something, where the fan is still dispencing fecalmatter.

[@SoldierDelta]

@@pickyphysicsstudent201 That's a pretty good point, but a point to be made is that 2 billion people are still alive after the events of VLR. It's an apocalypse, but it's an apocalypse that's survivable. Furthermore, to avoid going in-depth with spoilers, the canon ending of the series with ZTD results in VLR's timeline being preventable, so the true apocalypse in 2077 can start with Doom, Fallout and Xenoblade. That said, the existence of "ESPers" in Zero Escape does align with a lot of titles and one-off character in specific titles, such as Sephiroth, Pokemon with psychic powers, even people like Jodie Holmes in Beyond Two Souls. Just a subsection of humans with odd powers. What if Mama Murphy from Fallout 4 is a distant descendant of Carlos from Zero Escape? Wouldn't that be mad?

[@Castersvarog]

God the Xenoseries alone would make things so crazy but would help fix a lot of off options that don’t fit nicely.

[@zdanee]

Videogame Japan is just Japan but on a Tuesday.

[@merman1974]

Kratos took an arrow to the knee - Yahtzee's God of War/Skyrim fanfic

[@oa5779]

Considering that's an old euphemism for getting married and settling down, that's 100% accurate for Kratos

[@benjaminlammertz64]

@@oa5779 It isn't an old euphemism for getting married. That was made up by some dude and spread around by others when skyrim came out. There is absolutely no historical evidence for it being a thing.

[@Anton-de5vu]

I’m imagining some future pre-apocalypse city inspired by cyberpunk. (While I know it’s technically a licensed game but cmon damn near nobody knew what the tabletop game was until 2077 came out) Like, all the evil corporations fighting over the world like aperture, umbrella, shinra, the magog cartel, vault-tec ect,

[@GameDevYal]

I love this idea, there's so many games where an evil corporation is part of the plot and in a cyberpunk setting you'll need at least a bunch of them. So why not just have them all show up.

[@SoldierDelta]

@@GameDevYal This is a hilarious idea, but I also like the idea that all of them are an oligopoly of doing the worst things known to man except for Aperture Science where the only proof of their existence is a wikipedia article about Cave Johnson and people trying to investigate them only to turn up with holes in them or disappearing outright.

[@Oscar_Myk]

I just want that game to have no good or bad guys, just the different corps fighting each other - a bit like Syndicate

[@Crocogator]

Kingdom Hearts is just your old disney VHS collection come to life

[@GregTheLion]

just a shelf above the Final Fantasy Physical collection

[@starmaker75]

Kingdom hearts is Disney VHS and DVDs and final fantasy games mixed with some with weird light and darkness magic that was spilled

[@Crocogator]

@@starmaker75 Someone knocked the shelf over containing the collection, slipped, hit their head, and the entire thing is their dying brain made manifest in the real world. That's how Darkside was made, right?

[@Artista_Frustrado]

well, the thing is that KH3 hints that our world is fictional to them... so it actually does track that Disney Films are how we see into their universe

[@stevejakab274]

Well, except for the whole Org 13, who are actually failed clones of Sephiroth.

[@Khopesh86]

I know there are actual video game replacements for Las Vegas such as New Vegas, Las Paradiso from Destroy all Humans, and Fortune City from Dead Rising, but when I think of gambling in the desert I can't help but think of the Gold Saucer. If not a direct replacement the Gold Saucer should at least be a location within video game Las Vegas. Preferably the Manderville Gold Saucer from FF14 if only for the chaos the Manderville family brings.

[@monkeeee]

The true Elden Lord is Chicken Little from Chicken Little: The Movie: The Game

[@RedSpade37]

Ah, of course. We might have known.

[@crittr]

this isn't a fan theory that's just factual lore you don't belong in this comment section

[@_Ve_98]

Blasphemous is just what the average holy week in southern Spain. Resident Evil 4 is simply Leon choosing the worst time of the year to do tourism in Spain.

[@wcs792]

I was gonna say... The whole thing with Blasphemous is it's an only-slightly-hyperbolic depiction of how Spanish Catholics Do. Catholics generally, really, but based specifically on the Spanish traditions the devs grew up around.

[@ThePa1riot]

@@wcs792 Practicing Catholic here and that's one of the reasons I love that game. (Although I'd make the argument that I found the over-the-top depictions more absurd exaggerations than one-to-one truth.)

[@tmage23]

I'm sort of intrigued by the idea of a Dark Souls themed Katamari Damacy.

[@Screwtapello]

What is Katamari Damacy except a tale of apocalypse from the world destroying monster's point of view?

[@MrLeo34]

Elden Ring already has those rolling dung beetle guys

[@King_Rowlet]

Indie devs, take notes

[@ShenDoodles]

Katamari Misery

[@ShenDoodles]

Wait a sec, both are owned by Bandai Namco. This could be real, all we need is a studio that's willing. FromSoft may be serious about their games, but I'm sure they'd be fine with a silly spin-off with a kind of tone that's tongue-in-cheek yet completely straight-laced, like the regular world of Dark Souls but a few wacky characters are around to make things just weird enough. Think the dog ending of Silent Hill 2.

[@bmckelvy5717]

After the First World War, parts of the Kingdom of Castlevania were carved up into Arstotzka, Kolechia and Obristan

[@notfreeman1776]

Brilliant!

[@eaglepursuit]

This is a really convoluted way to get people to read your fanfics

[@piemaster1288]

I actually love this idea. A LOT! You should make a map that you update weekly as people give you their suggestions. Also, never underestimate the power of a truly well written fan fiction to entertain.

[@brysonlambes7175]

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.

[@redblue3951]

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

[@crysanthiumvega]

japanifornication

[@peterclarke7240]

@@crysanthiumvega Put that lifesize cushion of Zelda down and go outside, before you go blind!

[@SoldierDelta]

@@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.

[@Lucifer_Crowe]

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

[@MatthewDuguay1134]

Can confirm, New England is haunted as it gets.

[@wcs792]

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.

[@samdoehart1333]

The various "Hell" analogs from games could map quite nicely to the common idea of various "Rings" or levels of hell.

[@Sorain1]

I've always kind of loved the idea that assorted hells are vying for power and whatever is best reflective of the fears of the people on earth of the times tends to have the edge. All those heroic assaults into hell? Sectioned off portions where the local rulers are told 'solve it yourself or die alone'.

[@TheTdroid]

They could also work great as Realms of Oblivion. The Elder Scrolls version of hell is already divided into numerous major and minor planes, some of which are completely unreachable by mortals. Seeing as Dragon Age got its name from the Dragon Age, which was marked by the sighting of a fully mature dragon, does that mean Skyrim sparked off a lot of the stuff that went down in the Dragon Age games as well?

[@hacim42]

Kirby is the latest point in the timeline, earth having frozen over to become Shiver Star.

[@wcs792]

At some point Pikmin happens.

[@lucaballarati9694]

No the latest point in the timeline is Outer Wilds. I'm not going to tell you why because spoilers though

[@hacim42]

@lucaballarati9694 lol I've been playing it for the first time this past week, fun coincidence.

[@BvzSA]

It would be a horrific place to live. So many calamaties.

[@michaeldunkerton3805]

As long as "calamity" is always said by the Bastion narrator it's not so bad.

[@meapickle]

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

[@bird3713]

But you'd have so many heroes to protect you!

[@starmaker75]

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.

[@SideshowFras]

Even worse, so many protagonists.

[@Tafferling]

"Are you having fun? I'm having fun" got me laughing hard. Thief is my all time best game ever, he managed to tickle my imagination with the deranged crossover possibilities and then the sudden burst of unadulterated childlike glee made my day. Yeah, I'm having fun!

[@FreshTillDeath56]

I can imagine Kirby visiting Stardew Valley for some fresh tomatoes in the CUTEST GAME EVER.

[@jessicazimmer8910]

My heart just melted. I want this!

[@nunyabusiness6925]

This is legitimately the first KZbin video I've ever been excited to read the comments of

[@henryglennon3864]

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.

[@Pazuzu4All]

And Stephen King makes a cocaine-fueled cameo.

[@AshenVictor]

@@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.

[@BobJones007andahalf]

Having watched Yahtzee for about 15+ years now, this feels like the most fun/silly/fanfic-y i can recall him sounding and i love it!

[@EdgelordIsHere]

Worldbuilding is by far some of the most fun you can have when it comes to writing a story

[@dgarvanski]

City 17 is just Sofia, Bulgaria. You can look at comparisons between the Alyx map and the real world and it's basically the same. Not to mention that the signs are mostly in Bulgarian.

[@wcs792]

That's actually neat but it'd be nice if Valve like, acknowledged it.

[@RiverM8rix]

Alternative Title: Yahtzee Rediscovers Fanfiction

[@Chris-ok4zo]

This man is trying to condense a multiverse's worth of games into one world, and I'm all for it.

[@whothoughthandleswereagoodidea]

The answer is either no or yes with about seven billion asterisks in the shape of a "NO"

[@comet-fy6pd]

or we switch the question to "how many can we fit into the same continuous timeline"

[@SoldierDelta]

@@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.

[@LanceThumping]

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.

[@HawkshadowNLauralite]

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

[@KBraid]

i feel it would make the most sense for Metro and Fallout to be existing at the same time

[@elinfini]

Hell, toss Shin Megami Tensei in there as well. That'd be a perfect fit.

[@Vermic12]

With the cat from Stray walking around, knocking things off shelves.

[@ThePa1riot]

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.)

[@notfreeman1776]

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

[@zicyzacbonanza]

Kaine would totally call his son Alucard just because he thought it sounded cool.

[@ZumikoRavenlocke]

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.

[@julianemery718]

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.

[@dorkyface]

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)

[@Sarah12471]

​@@dorkyface the biggest pokemon mystery solved just like that

[@redblue3951]

@@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.

[@knightofcandles]

Terra Nil could be how the world is restored from the horribe post-apocalypse to better post-post apocalypse

[@Gboy86ify]

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.

[@Tyler-gg6xt]

If we're replacing Dracula, why don't we call him a persona demon. He's more a part of our collective unconscious.

[@duartegomes3074]

Helldivers and Deep Rock Galactic are the normal Australian everydays (one on the surface, one underground).

[@Neonsilver13]

I think replacing Alucard with Raziel in symphony of the night would be a valid substitution. Speaking of Legacy of Kain, those games would have to spread out around the ancient, somewhat current time and the postapocalyptic future, since there is so much time travel going on there. This happening in the castlevania area probably already fits. Would Shadow of the Colossus fit into Mongolia?

[@GriffinPilgrim]

I'd say put Shadow of the Colossus in Africa. It basically works and otherwise everywhere outside Egypt is gonna be really empty.

[@carthienesdevilsadvocatenr2806]

The Isla Varitas from the Impossible Creatures games is explicitly a long chain of fictional islands in the mid Pacific, stretching from north to south, where no such islands exist to replace. Though I suppose there might be an island or two we could include?

[@icarue993]

With Matpat gone, I feel Yahtzee is trying to make his own theories.

[@DangerB0ne]

Fun fact: Black Mesa is the name of several real mountains in northern New Mexico. The various tribes had names in separate languages for several places that all translate to "black mesa" and the nuance was lost when the Spanish came in and renamed everything in Spanish. This only got worse when English was brought in after the Mexican-American War. Today the tribes are reverting some names back to Keres, Tiwa, Tewa, or other local languages, though Federal maps will still use the old Spanish or modern English names unless recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (fucked up history, I know, but welcome to America). An example is the town of Pojoaque (Spanish) becoming P'osuwaegeh (Tewa) to the local Pueblo but the road signage still reads as the Spanish name. Another is the San Juan Pueblo reverting to their old name of Ohkay Owingeh and have been recognized by BIA, so their land reads Ohkay Owingeh instead of San Juan.

[@CaptainZlex]

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.

[@LurkinHandworker]

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!

[@captainsecretwizard]

Ubisoft has already made this into a cartoon. Rayman shlubs around doing coke.

[@DragonSamurai182]

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?

[@professordetective807]

I think they wrote off FC5 as non-canon, at this point.

[@chaoslord8918]

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.

[@gellax111]

Regarding the part about magic disappearing, you could draw inspiration from how the Fate series handles it: basically, magic needs mystery in order to exist, and as the world grew more and more analytical and science-minded, mystery slowly disappeared, and magic alongside with it, hence why in modern days, magic is relagated to the realm of fiction and its existence kept secret, so that the mystery surrounding it keeps subsisting.

[@Tyrany42]

You’re right, this is fun to think about! It’s a hell of a lot more fun than the corporate IP crossovers we’re currently drowning in.

[@davidmelon9409]

The Past vs Present world thing is doubly funny when you take into account the Drakengard vs Nier timeline shennanigans. Oh, and the Shantae games would take place someplace around the Indian Ocean.

[@casualcraftman1599]

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.

[@masonasaro2118]

But what about the hellhole that is orre?

[@typemasters2871]

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

[@jmurray1110]

And apparently raichus are really popular in the new china equivalent

[@xelldincht4251]

what is the name of the Russian area?

[@casualcraftman1599]

@@xelldincht4251 Tiksi

[@GraveReaperCushions]

Don't worry about Niak, Yahtz; Kain already has Raziel as his Alucard, to whom he's kind of, sort of, arguably father-esque. Ish.

[@wcs792]

@@ElvenRaptor I mean, not in the Netflix adaptation. He seemed like he was halfway decent until, you know, The Incident.

[@FlippySuper]

“League or Extraordinary Gentleman” with videogames seems like an idea worth exploring. In terms of map, things get complicated when you add Pokemon since that franchise already has a map and locations that represent real world cities (London, New York, etc.) so you’d have to take into consideration pokemons roaming around every country in the world

[@austinhoward9052]

Going off the GTA synchronization, does that mean Castelia City and its neighbors are now Liberty City? That would've made Black and White something real strange lol

[@matthewmuir8884]

I think the best method would probably be to make it a universe with multiple inhabited worlds, especially when considering game series that have multiple worlds in them.

[@ThePa1riot]

That doesn't seem like it would be that much of an obstacle. Everything's already in a blender as it is, so Liberty City just happens to have some Braviary flying around it.

[@UrpleSquirrel]

That place in Louisiana is technically three cities, but urban sprawl has made the dividing lines between them very arbitrary.

[@wcs792]

Oh that's a good one, there's several "greater metro areas" along the American East Coast, that's totally believable.

[@davidcook793]

Chuck Sea of Thieves into the Bermuda Triangle and it'll fit nicely I reckon

[@sayakai7561]

I think the Humanity-Monster conflict can replace WW1, it hardly appears in video games anyways. But what do we do with Schizotech like Final Fantasy, where there's both spaceships and people fighting with swords?

[@Rubymagicalgirl88]

Oh man this sounds like a hoot. I mean Devil May Cry could take place in Liberty City for the most part except for that Island in the third game which feels like it could be an island off the coast of Italy.

[@ThePa1riot]

The question of where in the world those games take place in has always bothered me.

[@Naryoril]

This was probably the most fully ramblomatic video i have ever seen, and it's a semi ramblomatic one....

[@lokiswager]

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.

[@potroastmutt7915]

I think we're gonna need a future map Yahtz, thay way we can accomodate all the world-changing tech that get introduced in sci-fi settings like Warframe which colonized the entire solar system and the entire earth has been abandoned and reforested. It might take me a while but I think I can draw a meaningful line between the Sheikah and Zonai, the Precursors from Jak and Daxter, the Agency from Crackdown, and the Orokin

[@MarushiaDark316]

Arguably, this already exists with "Wreck It Ralph," including actual licensed characters like Sonic and Zangief.

[@GuyYouMetOnline]

They don't really inhabit the same world, though. Each game is its own world; the characters can just leave and go visit other worlds.

[@smartperson1]

Fantasy past, current-style present, and return of magic and monsters in the future aligns nicely with Shadowrun, too.

[@elspark101]

City of Heroes' Paragon City is based on Providence, RI. Some of the streets are almost identical because the developers lived around there at the time.

[@ThePa1riot]

Paragon's also like three times bigger than actual New York City. I'm pretty sure it would take up most of the island's space IRL.

[@lordbarristertimsh8050]

Yahtzee mentioned Dishonored! My day is made! Also I guess we could say Karnaca from Dishonored 2 could replace either Spain or Cuba.

[@shaunroberts2037]

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

[@Snowmaninadesert]

what about far cry blood dragon ? is it just a post a apocalypse Micronesia?

[@ScarfKat]

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.

[@Ceece20]

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.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

Sonic's world is basically Polynesia in the Classic series & the Californa's outskirts in the Adventure Era, & Sonic unleashed adds New York/Liberty City, & a bunch of places in Eurasia