5. Gotham City
It's bad enough the mob has a stranglehold over the city, having most political figures and cops in their pocket, but you've also got a plethora of psychos and sociopaths to deal with. Everybody with the slightest grudge will don a costume and alternate persona to achieve their goals. It's gotten so bad here that a billionaire playboy has been forced to moonlight as a costumed vigilante, doing the work that the cops should have been doing. If that isn't bad enough, I've got two words for you, The Joker. Yeah, the clown prince of crime himself calls this city home. Anywhere he is, it's a good idea to be somewhere else. It's true the city has an asylum to hold these crazies, but it's a cardboard prison. It rarely holds the villains for long and the success rate for treatment is near 0.
4. Angel Grove
For a long time it seemed like the city was getting attacked by some ridiculous monster 5 times a week. It was OK when the monsters were human sized, but inevitably, the monster would grow to the size of a skyscraper and engage in a round of fisticuffs with giant robots that appeared from nowhere. Buildings would get destroyed on a regular basis, crumbling under the weight of one of the two fighters who happened to get thrown into it or getting hit by a stray laser beam. I feel bad for the city officials as it seemed they were fighting a never ending wave of destruction. Whole city blocks would get destroyed faster than they could be reassembled. I wouldn't be surprised if the state tax for those residents was higher than the federal tax rate, not to mention how much it must have cost just to get a pack of cigarettes, yeesh.
3. Derry, Maine
There is a child eating clown lurking in the sewers. It's not just any clown, but an extra-dimensional monster that's been lurking underground since the dawn of time. Acts of bloody violence are par for the course in this place as It's presence permeates throughout the town. His essence is so entwined with the city that when the Loser's club does finally kill it, the city gets rocked by a huge storm.
2. Raccoon City
The city in Resident Evil is ground zero for the outbreak of the infamous T-Virus. The end result is zombies, lots of zombies. I'm not sure if the virus has broken out past the city's barriers. I believe they have, but I'm no expert. Either way, it would suck to live here as the city is one giant zombie apocalypse.
1. Silent Hill
Holy hell! Who would live here!? You've got a crazy cult that's trying to conjure up some ancient god, a permanent fog hovering over the city (actually I don't think the fog is permanent in the games, but it's still there frequently enough to be unnerving) and then the random dips into a hell dimension complete with all sorts of monsters and freaks. If they just cut you up into little pieces, they've gone easy on you. That's how sadistic these things are. You've got Pyramid Head, zombie nurses, those weird headless things with acid for blood. It's a nightmare town in every sense of the word. Some entity, usually the spirit of someone you knew, lures its prey to the town through some elaborate scheme to unleash all manner of psychological and demonic horrors.
If you ever see a sign saying "Welcome to..." with any of these cities on them, just turn around and drive away. You'll be much, much better off.
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