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Main => World => Topic started by: Connor Mc. on March 26, 2013, 01:40:08 pm

Title: The World?
Post by: Connor Mc. on March 26, 2013, 01:40:08 pm
Where geographically is this world in? Like what used to be America, Europe? I mean the map doesn't look like anywhere I've seen, so I guess the war was so bad it sped up global warming or something like that, or the rutabaga theory.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Keon on March 26, 2013, 04:26:08 pm
It's sort of an alternate universe or something. It would be cool to see the world pre-war.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Shinkurex on March 26, 2013, 04:40:32 pm
GOI is set as if WWI never ended, and brought the whole world into ruin... but I am liking the rutabaga theory more and more now :P
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Connor Mc. on March 26, 2013, 05:14:47 pm
it still doesn't explain how the geography changed. Was there like a super massive arms race that led to the creation of more and more devastating weapons?
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Pickle on March 26, 2013, 05:50:49 pm
An alternate geography is presumably to discourage stereotyping on nationalistic grounds.. that's left for the art department to reintroduce :D
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Connor Mc. on March 26, 2013, 09:06:21 pm
ooo, I hope the whole game world doesn't take place in like, North Dakota haha
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: N-Sunderland on March 26, 2013, 09:24:41 pm
It won't take place in any real-world location. I mean, we have glaciers a few kilometres away from deserts.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Connor Mc. on March 26, 2013, 10:51:54 pm
Suspension of disbelief I guesses
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: HamsterIV on March 27, 2013, 02:52:57 pm
In the old forum some Muse people mentioned global warming taken to the next level. I still prefer an alternate earth either with less gravity or a super dense atmosphere.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Kieran Kindree on April 25, 2014, 03:36:32 pm
It won't take place in any real-world location. I mean, we have glaciers a few kilometres away from deserts.

Hey, I'll have you know that North Dakota is consistently ranked one out of the top two Dakotas.

Title: Re: The World?
Post by: JaegerDelta on April 25, 2014, 06:36:39 pm
In the old forum some Muse people mentioned global warming taken to the next level. I still prefer an alternate earth either with less gravity or a super dense atmosphere.

well if a super war and arms race occurred that would correlate with vastly increased greenhouse gas emissions due to production methods and power sources of the time. and as such an earth atmosphere that has gone through that will be much denser than our atmosphere we know today.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: GeoRmr on April 25, 2014, 06:55:41 pm
ooo, I hope the whole game world doesn't take place in like, North Dakota haha

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Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Tentacle Monster on May 11, 2014, 01:20:15 am
Yeah, I've always wondered this, the layout of the world is pretty much impossible, I kinda wish you could tell what had once been which country.
Title: Re: The World?
Post by: Piemanlives on May 11, 2014, 08:51:29 am
GOI is set as if WWI never ended, and brought the whole world into ruin... but I am liking the rutabaga theory more and more now :P

Minneapolis never stood a chance...