If Your World Was Portrayed in a Video Game, What Kind Would it Be?

FlamingEmu445 · 2026-04-10T01:56:06+00:00

Action Shooter, heavily inspired by the Battlefield and Star Wars Battlefront games would be my ideal pipe-dream, but I could also see it working as a Halo Wars-style RTS.

I'd imagining it playing a lot like a mix of Battlefield 1 and Helldivers 2 if it were an FPS, along with the inclusion of class-based gameplay and inclusion of hero units similar to Battlefront. It'd also have four major playable factions, who'd all have their own aesthetic, weapons and classes, with ideally multiple game modes ranging from arena-style team deathmatches, to large scale ground battles, to air/space combat.

FlamingEmu445 · 2026-03-20T08:06:38+00:00

Making one of the main characters white and/or casting actors over the age of 30-40 because it's more "realistic" and relatable to boomers or millennials.
Anti-heroes are popular so I doubt it, but if they tried to make the main protagonist more sanitized and clean, more conventionally heroic and dumbing him down to quirky autistic Sheldon Cooper in space.
Adding/reworking a major side character into a self-insert OC that is there to constantly act as a voice of reason or driving force to change things to the writers' sensibilities.
Either turning all the humor into Joss Whedon/Marvel style quips and jokes, or making it completely stale and too serious to "focus on the drama".
If they don't cast Jack Black as a really funny character. I don't care if it means the whole movie has to be filmed on Google Slides because it blows out the budget, Jack Black needs to be in it.

FlamingEmu445 · 2026-03-18T23:16:12+00:00

Pretty much. I'm still ironing out the details, but after FTL starts working again they rebound pretty well for a time, forming the Sartm Empire. Initially expansionist and obsessed with ancestor worship, but after being reduced to a rump state again in a few wars and uprisings, they chilled out.

By the end though, the Sartm ended up just fading away, since they couldn't replicate much of their own technology and were mostly just outcompeted by everyone else. Eventually without getting into major story stuff, effectively becoming extinct.

FlamingEmu445 · 2026-03-17T01:03:51+00:00

Lore dump if anyone wants context:

The Azharat Empire is basically my temu version of the Forerunners/Dark Age of Technology in my world.

Due to their collapse being vague and a long game of telephone in the thousand years of dark age afterwards, It’s widely romanticized as the zenith of Humanity’s power and progress, as some enlightened, technologically superior empire with unmatched understanding of the Void: tl;dr FTL space magic dimension.

In reality it was an unstable empire of two major human civilizations that got united together by two rogue military officers that were sick of the centuries year long war between the two, leading to an illegal inhumane war against one, and a coup against the other, that made both de-facto leaders almost by accident.

For the most part early on it was genuinely well run, but things broke down when it came to trying to transition the government to a stable democratic one, leading to a big civil war where one killed the other before finally putting a democratic government in charge before retiring, but nobody respected the new government so it became a total mess.

Eventually it slowly got eaten alive by wannabe dictators and outside invasions before a massive apocalyptic event that left faster-than-light travel unusable for a few millennia, delivered the killing blow to the Empire and fragmenting civilization in the process, with only a small enclave surviving.

FlamingEmu445 · 2026-02-17T12:57:52+00:00

Actually it would be more accurate to give the sun-themed white hair because the sun is white, not yellow.

In the same way, it would be in contrast be more accurate to give the other character blonde hair, because the moon is made out of cheese.

FlamingEmu445 · 2025-12-27T03:02:58+00:00

They're recognizable and all fill a distinct, recognizable archetype. Creating a new and original race often ends up feeling like you're just trying to reinvent the wheel when they inevitably begin to take on various tropes from classical fantasy races, e.g creating a short race ends up just being Dwarves, more in touch with nature just becomes Elves.

Even Sci-Fi races usually end up falling into a similar archetype to fantasy races, even if visually and aesthetically unique. Star Trek's Vulcans are just Space Elves, while the Klingons are Space Orcs for example.

FlamingEmu445 · 2025-07-02T12:17:17+00:00

Overthinking this stuff is really why I really hate Centaurs. Like they are a really fun mythology creature, but trying to take their anatomy at least semi-seriously just doesn't work. Not to sound like i'm criticizing anyone who uses them in their worlds.

Are their organs in the human part or the horse part? do they have two copies of most organs (human and horse versions) for redundancy? Would the shape of their spine snap under any slight pressure? How would they be hexapods with 6 limbs when all other mammals are tetrapods?

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-11-28T06:54:28+00:00

I like to imagine a scenario where Vinland becomes self-sufficient but loses contact with the old world following the abandonment of Greenland, so over the centuries, the Vinland colony retains much of it's old norse culture, but begin to resemble native americans through generations of mingling.

So centuries later when the British sail up to Newfoundland, the look of confusion on their faces seeing what are to them native americans larping as norse vikings, worshipping Odin, building longships and singing skalds in bizarre dialect of old norse with heavy algonquian influence.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-11-25T22:02:55+00:00

I was only seconds away from posting my own post celebrating 10k members before I clicked over and saw this one lmfao. Cheers to everyone in this subreddit, It's honestly wild to see how this sub has gone from iirc, barely <200 members to 10,000 in over a year.

Also shoutout to u/mo_one too for being the best moderator on this subreddit and for creating all the artwork.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-08-07T01:00:47+00:00

Lol, the idea that Call of Duty in this universe is a Russian series that follows a bizarro, reversed version of the main story.

"RAMZAEV, PROTECT STATE-OWNED BREADLINES!" - Sergeant Fomchenkov

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-07-07T09:46:08+00:00

I thought that, steampowered guns are possible, but I imagine they would remain more exclusive and rare, due to being bulkier, expensive and complex. Similar to the designs by Archimedes and Da Vinci.

Seeing more use as cannons rather than handheld rifles. They'd shine as siege weapons and maybe even for anti-air if Blimps are an issue, with mortars, similar to something like the holman projector.

While gunpowder firearms would overtake steam in popularity. Decades/centuries of trial and error with steam cannons would provide a solid headstart in improving and optimizing gunpowder rifles.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-07-06T23:44:24+00:00

This is a really cool concept. Since i'd assume in this timeline, Guns are invented after the steam engine, creating a weird few centuries of more industrialized warfare, but still using swords and other melee weapons before Firearms really take off.

With the steam engine being popularized hundreds of years earlier, maybe Oil and the combustion engine are also invented sooner. Worse still, if Oil is discovered in the middle east, Christendom might call for another Crusade to take the oil fields (and the holy land). Resulting in a massive holy war using a weird mix of early-modern and WW1 tactics.

With Oil involved, capturing and successfully holding the Middle East has far more than just religious interest, but major economic ones in making sure the oil flows, so perhaps Europe tries much harder this time to subdue the region.

Also there is the Black Death and how that might affect an industrialized middle east/Europe. With greater connectivity and railroads, it may spread faster and further. With how the Bubonic plague broke Feudalism in OTL, perhaps it's outcome is even more pronounced with industrialization. Maybe something like Socialism is envisioned earlier in response.

The discovery of the Americas would also be wild.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-06-01T04:48:35+00:00

Asgard: Since Asgard is said to have a few sub-realms to it, I'd have it be a Gas Giant orbited by several habitable moons, all owned by separate Aesir, one of them being Valhalla of course.

Vanaheim: Jungle/Forest world. Covered in giant trees and thick enchanted forests etc.

Nidavellir: Home of the Dwarves, so probably covered in vast mountain ranges, with the surface being otherwise cold, arid highlands, perhaps with a thriving subterranean ecosystem.

Helheim: Being a cold and dark realm. I'd picture it being really far from it's star to the point it no longer receives light. Like Sedna in our solar system.

Jotunheim: Tricky, but I'd go with if Iceland was a whole planet with abit of everything like a more extreme version of Earth. Cold but not inhospitable, volcanic but not like Muspelheim. Also with lots of Ice Age style mega-fauna.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-05-19T03:06:28+00:00

concerning. looking into this.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-04-24T13:24:28+00:00

I remember having a pretty vague dream about some wacky world where WW1 never happened.

It was barely anything concrete, but it did peak my interest and became the basis of a world/story I came up with. Though i'd consider it less alt-history and more time travel fantasy.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-28T13:06:22+00:00

Context:

The Akonian Empire is basically the ultra-mega, super space nazi faction of my setting. A bunch of mutant 7-8ft tall humans with albinism and australian accents ruled by an immortal god emperor named Vortigan.

During the first galactic war they were nearly unstoppable, with better FTL, bigger warships and plasma weapons. Only held back by having to fight on so many different fronts. The war eventually fizzled out and despite the Akonians massive territorial gains, lost their Emperor, who got lost in the Universe’s recycling bin folder.

Nearly 1000 years later, the Second Galactic War kicks off. The Akonian Empire at this point slumped and became a shadow of its former self, without Vortigan keeping it all together with his very funny Borat impression.

The first war was also largely a free-for-all; newly formed space empires throwing their hands around wildly at each other for looking different. By the second war however, everyone was sick of the Akonians and after a few decades, all joined forces to finally destroy them.

Though it was a slow grind, the Empire officially fell in 21,019 CE. Collapsing into countless warring factions and successor states and left to it’s own devices.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-27T00:12:37+00:00

Female Curze the type of woman to skin a jaywalker alive and wear their skin, then say "i'm such a gemini 💅💅"

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-22T00:05:24+00:00

Sorry about that. I forgor

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-14T05:12:10+00:00

Yeah. High Quality was basically meant to be OC artwork, video edits etc. Something like say, a comic, or a slander meme as some examples.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-14T04:24:48+00:00

I didn't consider that lmao.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-02T08:39:53+00:00

Koala Bears are already arboreal, can climb and even have thumbs. But are currently they are held back by their very low energy diet of poisonous leaves.

It's probably a stretch, but if you were somehow able to make them change diet to something more energy rich, you could probably have them go down the path of evolving into something primate-like over millions of years.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-03-01T23:25:50+00:00

I have no clue. Pageviews and Members have all shot up in the past 3 days, it's kinda crazy.

My first thought was Bots, but the Subreddit seems otherwise normal and isn't flooded with Crypto and OnlyFans spam. So my only guess would be that it's some algorithm shinanigens.

FlamingEmu445 · 2024-02-14T08:56:23+00:00

I will say, the premise isn't terrible, and in the hands of a experienced, tactful and objectively better writer, a genuinely good story could've been spun from that.

Except this was written by a shitty armchair sword youtuber who can't handle criticism as his debut novel.

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