“If you could live in a game setting, where would it be?”

I’d like to say the Forgotten Realms, but let’s face it it’s basically a fancy Middle Ages setting. No flushing toilets, no running water, diseases, working the land, feudal system. Need I go on to why I wouldn’t want to live there?

Middle Earth?

Ixalan?

No for me it’d have to be one of the cyberpunk dystopian futures such as that depicted in FFGs Android setting.

The moment I first played Android Netrunner I fell in love with the theme.

The runners taking on the mega corporations.

Yes it’s still a world of haves and have nots. A world of corruption, run by mega corporations. Mega corporations that are not openly at war with each other, but fight against each other in the shadows.

To be fair apart from the level of technology, no space travel, or space elevator, are we really that far off what is being depicted in these type of settings?

Mega companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple more or less tell Governments how much tax they will pay. They are almost a law unto themselves. Our politicians no matter their political leaning act in the best interests of the big companies and the rich.

But still in this bladerunneresq future I’d see myself more as one of the runners than say a Street samurai. It’d just love the tech. As I do now, and have done ever since the home computer boom of the 80’s.

Which setting would you choose?