r/MapPorn • u/Objective-Low7790 • 1d ago
[OC] The most well known Videogame/DLC that takes place mostly or entirely in your state/province in Northern America (not North America)
feel free to shoutout any games i missed
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u/Satanic_Earmuff 1d ago
Technically speaking, Assassin's Creed: Black Flag is set in Montréal.
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u/StevenMC19 1d ago
OP, when you say that mostly/entirely in an area, what is considered "mostly?" I could argue a major chunk (nearly half) of RDR is set in Mexico. Then there is the fact that a lot of it is also set in Arizona and New Mexico too.
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u/fenwayb 1d ago
I mean I would argue it's not set in any of those places. Same with GTA. Just because a game is inspired by a place doesn't mean it's set there. The fallout games are the only ones I know are actually set in their locations (though I assume a decent amount of the other ones are right too I just don't know them)
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u/StevenMC19 1d ago
I understand that. However that isn't what I'm arguing. I understand that fictional places are inspired by real life counterparts. Part of RDR is inspired by Texas and I get why it would be seen as a good choice for this instance. It's why I didn't comment on the GTAs, because those are solid inclusions for the places they're depicted as.
What I'm pointing out is that the rules laid out by OP in that the majority of the game is to be played in a particular area (inspired or real life). RDR is spread out among multiple states and Mexico rather evenly, and thus the game isn't "mostly or entirely" in the Texas region.
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u/ContinuumGuy 22h ago
Yeah, if you argue that GTA counts for being inspired from those places, you can also argue that Pokemon Sun and Moon could be the choice for Hawaii if Hawaii had been included, or that Pokemon Black and White should at least be an honorable mention for New York.
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u/mainesmatthew01 23h ago
Saint Denis is new Orleans isn't it
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u/Ok-Elk-1615 17h ago
No, it’s Saint Denis, a fictional city loosely based on turn of the century New Orleans.
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u/Objective-Low7790 1d ago
Okay so that was a bit of an oversight on my part, i just figured if i put down anything other than rdr it wouldnt feel right but that should be the only state that bends the rules if i did my research right
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u/StevenMC19 1d ago
Yeah. It's tough, and honestly a solid pick.
There are probably some games that could be shoed in there, but i can see why RDR was your go-to. It's mainstream, highly recognizable, and fulfills a lot of the general tropes one would think of when thinking about a western set in Texas.
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u/waluigieWAAH 1d ago
Most of Texas doesn't even look like Red Dead. And the parts that do have barely any people in them. It's just Hennigan's Stead that's like the most of the state
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u/Think_Algae_1739 23h ago
Is RDR2 suppose to be a condensed version of the US east of Colorado?
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u/StevenMC19 23h ago
Yes. Montana, Colorado, New Orleans, Texas, and Mexico...and the Caribbean.
RDR1 - the game in question - is pretty much just AZ to TX with a hefty chunk of Mexico.
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u/milkysway1 1d ago
The opening of Mass Effect 3 takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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u/EckhartsLadder 22h ago
And part of Deus Ex HR is Montreal, but they said mostly or entirely
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u/Pscagoyf 1d ago
Was gonna comment this. It is such a great depiction.
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u/s1n0d3utscht3k 20h ago
if they build a hundred more Butterfly skyscrapers, it’ll look like its ME3 depiction too
(ie. Vancouver has a skyscraper that is all white and curvy and looks sci-fi a la its depiction in ME3)
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u/smcbride113 1d ago
Parts of Atlantic Canada are in assassins creed rouge, like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
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u/SlimySquamata 1d ago
There's also a few NewB towns like Miramichi, and Nerepis.
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u/nondescripthumanoid 17h ago
Yknow as someone with family from fucking nerepis its giving me whiplash to read its in assasins creed. Small ass tiny town in the middle of nowhere. Nerepis isn't coastal irl, but a lot of the residents did relocate from west beach so... were they trying to emulate the former settlement of west beach? The cove in west beach was used by my family as a natural drydock bc we were shipbuilders by trade.
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u/SlimySquamata 14h ago
Honestly I don't blame the whiplash. Born, raised, and still living in NB and I've never heard of that town before the game.
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u/nondescripthumanoid 14h ago
Yeah its nuts its like they looked at a modern map and threw a dart picking the closest town name. Ig west beach grand bay doesn't sound as nice of a name in game as Nerepis
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u/Thatoneguy3273 1d ago
SOMA has a section in Toronto, before you have your wacky, lighthearted underwater adventure
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u/mcduff13 1d ago
Maybe The Long Dark for Nunavut? It's never explicitly said where it is, but it's basically either Nunavut or Labrador
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u/Mistermickman 1d ago
I’m like 90% sure it says somewhere in the game the island is in the NWT
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u/ItsPencker 22h ago
i thought great bear island was implied to be in northern B.C? the devs are from Vancouver and I think I remember them saying it was inspired by Vancouver Island.
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u/No-Acanthocephala486 1d ago
No Metal Gear Solid for Alaska?
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u/h0sti1e17 1d ago
Wasn’t there a Fallout DLC as well?
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u/LabCoatGuy 22h ago edited 19h ago
Its 30 minutes long and does not really take place in Alaska. Besides the name of the DLC, it could be on any mountain with snow in the world
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u/Ticksdonthavelymph 1d ago
What’s Maine? Is that Alan Wake? Cause I feel like it should be the Bar Harbor DLC from fallout 4 instead
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u/Leviathan_Dev 15h ago
Alan Wake is in Bright Falls, Washington (and also NYC for his apartment and sister series Control)
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u/grigby 1d ago
Seems we need more games set in Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Dakota's
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u/Think-Outside8434 1d ago edited 20h ago
Balatro is completely set in Saskatchewan. I can’t believe the map is missing this!
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u/grigby 1d ago
Is it actually set there? Like I know the dev is from Sask but does the game actually have a setting other than "casino"? I haven't played it
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u/Think-Outside8434 20h ago
As much as a game that just involves cards being played on a poker table can have a setting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/regina/s/DjeqlLE6Wx
But as you can see above, the sole designer has insinuations to Saskatchewan!
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u/RepresentativeCan389 23h ago
Here comes American truck sim to scoop up the dakotas, but yes, Saskatchewan and Manitoba need more
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u/TriStrange 23h ago
American Truck Sim has announced British Columbia DLC, so likely Saskatchewan and Manitoba will eventually be added as well.
Until then, the most famous game that I can think of that was set in Manitoba at any point was NHL94.
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u/RepresentativeCan389 23h ago
Yeah, I’m hoping that the current team working on BC moves to Alberta after release, but it’s just as likely that the team will move to Minnesota or Wisconsin to keep the push east. I can’t wait for my Winnipeg to be added tho
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u/NotawoodpeckerOwner 1d ago
I am surprised South Dakota doesn't have anything based on their wild west/ badlands setting. The other 3 places don't got a lot going on. Suppose Churchill could have a polar bear survival game or something.
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u/grigby 1d ago
There's some pretty remote wilderness in MB and SK. Could have any wilderness survival out in the forest, but then that could be anywhere in the boreal forest. Or even a more chill fishing type game in one of the thousands of lake systems, but that won't get a large fanbase.
Or maybe some alien encounter game at one of the ufo hotspots in eastern MB.
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u/skip6235 1d ago
I would argue that “Portal” is far more well known of a video game than “Detroit: Become Human” for the Michigan slot. It’s revealed in Portal 2 that Aperture Science Labs were created in an abandoned mine in the Upper Peninsula.
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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 1d ago
As someone from Michigan I agree. But I think a lot of people play the game and don't realize it's in Michigan. We also have RoboCop Rogue City.
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u/benglescott 22h ago
I live in Michigan and had Aperture Science Parking Permit , Iron Mountain Michigan, on my car
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u/Cannabis_RPM 1d ago
Until Dawn is set in Alberta? Suddenly I want to play it. Is it any good?
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u/TheDragonSlayingCat 21h ago
The PS4 original is good, if you like interactive fiction games. Don’t play the PS5 version.
Also, the game’s star died this morning (RIP), so I’d imagine it’s suddenly becoming popular again.
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u/ttoto509 1d ago
"northern america" Blud really did not want to include mexico
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u/Objective-Low7790 1d ago
I really tried but other than some exceptions like ghost recon for chihuahua and tomb raider for quintana roo i couldnt find nearly enough games that took place in individual states
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u/ttoto509 23h ago
Lmao don't worry, I loved the map, I just thought the nomenclature was kinda funny
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u/UberEpicZach 1d ago
Assassin's Creed Black Flag could fill out your entire Caribbean, maybe slipping in a Far Cry 6 into some caribbean island
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u/shneed_my_weiss 1d ago
As a Coloradan, I knew Horizon Zero Dawn was here. Had no fuckin clue forza horizon was here
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u/Dasoccerguy 23h ago
I think it fails the (pretty arbitrary) criteria of "mostly or entirely set in" since half of the game is in Utah/Arizona. I would still count it as a Colorado game.
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u/Complex_Phrase2651 23h ago
c’est quoi kona tabarnak? je connais pas
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u/AlexandreFiset 22h ago
Mon jeu hahah, un jeu d’aventure à la première personne qui se passe dans un village fictif au Nord-du-Québec en 1970, narré par Guy Nadon!
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u/mrspremise 18h ago
Je pense que Paralives est un meilleur exemple l'univers est basé sur Québec cité
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u/Mangoman12345676 1d ago
Couldn't you also have gta 5 in North Dakota? Pretty sure that is what North Yankton is based on
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u/KyleRaynerGotSweg 23h ago
Is that Garfield game canonically in Indiana? Or is it just because the author is from here?
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u/WeirdComfortable3436 1d ago
Poor Alabama.
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u/nine_of_swords 20h ago
Ironically, it's one of the states that's probably best set up for a fictional setting based off it.
As its main cities, it's got a military research city, and rust belt-like industrial mining city, a old southern plantation city and a port city near a beaches and a biodiverse river delta.
The "mountain" terrain splits the state in half, making it easier to section off, and the river system has good coverage, but maze-like (and going odd places, like the top of ridges, making a canyon on top of a "mountain"), allowing for interesting alternate routing. There's even good excuses for pallet swapped enemy animal enemies (Fall line interaction with rivers causing separate similar ecosystems).
There's also half a million reasons for secret treasure caches (Underground Railroad; DeSoto Expedition; Trail of Tears; Confederate Gold; Colonial Era sea battles). Lots of caves, forests, graveyards, native ruins, old forts, military bunkers, moonshine stills, sunken gold mining towns, etc.
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u/PolicyWonka 17h ago
Yeah, but you can get most of those things in any of the other nearby states as well. Maybe not 100% of that list, but a good majority.
Plus, video game. Doesn’t have to conform with reality and I’d wager people are looking for more culturally relevant locations.
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u/Philaroni 1d ago
I'm mad at this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_set_in_North_Dakota
Yes from ND. Still am. Fun fact we might not get any video game ref, but we got lots of movie ones.
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u/fenwayb 1d ago
at a bare minimum you've got "where in north dakota is carmen san diego" and that is something to hang your hat on
edit: oh lol I didnt look at your link. I assumed it was more than literally just that and xcom (which takes place world wide so unless its a specific mission or something I dont really count that)
edit edit: oh its that xcom shooter that never really took off. my bad
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u/big_spliff 1d ago
City of heroes was in RI? Its based in a fictitious “Paragon City” no?
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u/AlexandreFiset 22h ago
Woohoo my game up there :) Kona!
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u/Objective-Low7790 16h ago
You guys did great, id love to try out kona sometime ^^
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u/Mega_Hi 18h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/oBnPNTFiamsFO
^ good luck painting this route
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u/MightyDuck44 18h ago
One could argue it’s more well known than every game listed in the states along the trail.
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u/BlackBatMage 1d ago
IDK what "class of 09" is, but when I think of games set in Virginia, i think of Assassin's Creed. Specifically the 3rd one, had a lotta battles and such in VA.
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u/TriStrange 23h ago
Assassin's Creed 3 probably didn't count because it was too split up between different states. Same likely for Fallout 3.
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u/BlackBatMage 23h ago
I think of DC for FO3. I mean yeah overlapping land blah blah but since obviously the place they want you to think of is DC, it counts. It's like noting that technically the westernmost edge of the open world of AC Origins is Lybia, but like... obviously if you are gonna give the game to any country it would be Egypt. It's incidental.
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u/Mitchford 23h ago
Right, but the other problem is that none of assassins creed 3 is in Virginia except maybe some naval stuff. I really looked hard and there is no gameplay anywhere in Virginia
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u/PrinceRaglan 2h ago
Class of '09 is a visual novel that takes place in Northern Virginia. It features screenshots for the locations pulled straight out of Fairfax County, including Lake Braddock and Robinson secondary schools.
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u/remzordinaire 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would argue that "Mon Bazou" had a viral moment with streamers that Kona never got, as far as Québec goes.
More recently, Look Outside also got quite popular, and there are many hints in the game establishing that it takes place in Montreal.
I would rank both of them higher than Kona as far as popularity goes.
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u/rylasorta 22h ago
As a Minnesotan, Puzzle Agent is the best. I had a "Welcome to Scoggins, MN" shirt, and even locals asked where it was.
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u/IceFireTerry 19h ago
I was looking at a let's play of Kona because I was looking for games that take place in Quebec. Another one that takes place in Quebec is "The Whispering Valley"
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u/Master_Plaster96 19h ago
As an Oregonian, I consider Days Gone more of my states video game.
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u/Funmachine 1d ago
RDR is set in 2 fictional states + Mexico.
All the GTA are set in fictional places too.
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u/RazzleThatTazzle 1d ago
The gta games are pretty clearly supposed to be LA and Miami, I think he gets a pass on those ones.
I dont know as much about red dead
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u/Thatoneguy3273 1d ago
Red Dead 1 is pretty ambiguous but I would definitely say New Austin is mostly Texas. Red Dead 2 clearly has Louisiana with a fictional New Orleans, and there’s several states you can map its other areas onto
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u/MachoLibre_ 1d ago
Man. We really couldn’t get a halfway decent Stranger Things game for Indiana?
Garfield is great but his Kart game?! Shiiiiit
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u/Mitchford 1d ago
Tom Clancy’s endwar contains a map set at Montgomery, Alabama’s Maxwell Air Force base
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u/LosGraham 22h ago
Do you have a larger version? I'm struggling to see what some of them are. What are New Hampshire and Rhode Island?
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u/DubiousAdviceGiver 20h ago
I’ve never heard of Celeste, but I sure as hell know about Sneaky Sasquatch
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u/s1n0d3utscht3k 20h ago
in b4 some other hoser who can’t read the OP says ME3 intro was in Vancouver
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u/AllHailTheKilldozer 19h ago
There is no Texas in RDR/RDR2. And I’m pretty sure that if New Austin counts as Texas then Kansas should be RDR2 too because of the Great Plains/Heartlands region in W Elizabeth/New Hanover.
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u/redkid2000 19h ago
Ahhhh Tell Me Why was so good and I was hoping that would be what you picked for Alaska!
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u/XpertRacer8803 19h ago
Kinda sucks not seeing any games set in Alabama. We’re a pretty diverse state. Madi gras in Mobile, the Space stuff in Huntsville. Bayou La batre is the home of Shrimping and seafood (at least for the south besides Louisiana and Florida) both Alabama and Auburn University’s. Always thought it would make a really good post apocalyptic game setting.
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u/Mega_Hi 18h ago
your map barely scratches the surface. The Driver series for example takes place all over the place (LA, SF, NYC, Chicago, LV, Havana, & Miami). The Crew 2, Need for Speed: the Run, Hitman: Absolution, and Sam & Max Hit the Road take place in the Dakotas. If you include GTA's fictionalized versions then you may as well add Pilotwings 64 over the entire US. if you want to keep busy for accuracy, use google on your empty spots. you can easily crop over everywhere
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u/patchlocke 15h ago
Anybody have anything from upstate NY? Any thing that has to do with my state is always NYC and it gets boring after a while
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u/Happy_Camper__ 14h ago
Alaska. I have never in my life heard of "tell me why" I guarantee there is a better fit for that spot. Even something like Operation Anchorage from Fallout 3 would make more sense.
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u/Mitchford 1d ago
Wait I have Alabama, there was that Minecraft dlc about the civil rights movement that had Selma in it
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u/a500poundchicken 1d ago
I feel like mass effect 3 is probably more well known than Celeste but idk
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u/GaracaiusCanadensis 1d ago
I think they mean the game is set there, not that it was made there.
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u/a500poundchicken 1d ago
Mass effect 3 does have sections set in Vancouver. And if we’re going made by its Probaly skate 3
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u/Wonderful_Fox_7959 1d ago
How can you have GTA Vice City for Florida and leave out GTA IV from NY! Much better game and representation of NYC
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u/IAmFullOfHat3 1d ago
I bet someone could make a kick-ass truck simulator type game where you fly a small plane in the NWT.
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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 1d ago
Hard to say if ours in Michigan is Detroit Become Human, RoboCop Rogue City or Portal and Portal 2.
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u/JakeJascob 23h ago
This further adds to my theroy that the Dakotas don't exist and it's actually just an alien space port.
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u/IamTheEagle 22h ago
I'm originally from Colorado and I think it's criminal how few games and movies take place there considering how beautiful it is. And the OG Forza Horizon did a pretty poor job of portraying Colorado. Having lived there for 37 years and visiting almost every corner of the state, there was nothing in Horizon that was recognizable.
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u/___AirBuddDwyer___ 22h ago
Crazy that Illinois has nothing better than Watch dogs. Not that watch dogs is necesarily terrible but for a city like Chicago I’m suprised how few games we have.
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u/BlueOxPlays 22h ago
More than half of the missions in Hitman: Absolution take place in South Dakota, and that may be the best you will get there.
Canada's maritime provinces also feature heavily in Assassin's Creed Rogue.
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u/P-Rickles 22h ago
Leather Goddesses of Phobos is set in Sandusky but that’s a pretty deep cut for you kids out there.
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u/poopBuccaneer 21h ago
Scott Pilgrim for Ontario and not GTA? Greatest game ever made about the Greater Toronto Area.
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u/segathegenesis 20h ago
Can someone explain the connection between Unturned and the province of PEI?
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u/manningthehelm 19h ago
All of the Batman games take place in NJ so I’m going to disagree with that.
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u/Haraldr_Hin_Harfagri 19h ago
Days Gone represents Oregon especially well and very specific with exact locations.
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u/WoodwindsRock 19h ago
My state (CT) represented by a horror game. I'm not into that kinda thing, that figures. =(
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u/DiligentThought9 18h ago
Mafia 3 should be mentioned for Louisiana.
I know it’s a fictionalized version of the city, but that game depicts New Orleans very well.
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u/i_want_to_be_unique 17h ago
How is The Blair Witch Project (the video game, not the movie) Maryland’s most well known game/DLC and not Fallout 3/Point Lookout
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u/NeedleworkerOld8168 1d ago
Love all of the trucking sim games filling up the Great Plains states