Favorite fictional world. If you could live in a fictional setting, wh

[JohannesGunn]

Why, Firefly, of course... :laugh:

 

Summed up in one sentence, "Shiny, let's be bad guys." :devil:

Edited November 30, 2010 by JohannesGunn

[RobCoPublicReassurance]

The Dune Universe. Simply because it is AWESOME.

[GetOutOfBox]

It depends, if I was allowed to slightly "tweak" the fictional worlds, than there'd be many I'd love to live in. If I had to live in the world exactly as it was described in the book, I'd have to say the world depicted in Brian Jaques "Redwall" series. Yes, its a world with anthropomorphic (human-like, i.e humanoid) animals ranging from rodents to larger mammals, though they're generally implied to be roughly the same size with some variations (i.e most animals are implied to be around an average caucasion height, i.e between 4-6 feet.), but it's portrayed in a mature and non-fetishy kind of way, it doesn't feel like some angsty 16 year old girls fanfic :rolleyes: .

 

I'm not a furry, I don't dream of being an animal (LOL IM A WOLF IN A MANS BODY), its not being one of those animals that interests me, its their lifestyle and late-medieval style world that I find really interesting and exciting.

 

Anyone interested in medieval fantasy should take a look at the "Redwall" series, they're really amazing. The only thing you'll have to keep in mind is that you can read them in two different order-types, you can read them in the order the author recommends, which is not chronological, though the author feels they're best read in that way, or you can read them in chronological order. For sake of making it easier to get into them, I recommend reading them in chronological order, as you may get confused by the standard order where its jumping back and forth through time. If you like re-reading books, read them in the recommended order the second time around.

Edited December 14, 2010 by GetOutOfBox

[Vindekarr]

It's still WarHammer for me.

 

No other fictional universe has so much depth or feeling.

 

It is, admitedly, not a very friendly universe. After 10,000 years of galactic level war and massacre, and with the good guys being about as utopian as Soviet Russia(upon whom, there is a fairly strong argument, they were partialy based)

 

It's basicaly a classic science fiction, but wheras StarWars, Startrek, and even at times the normaly goresome StarGate often go soft and give happy endings, this just doesnt. Brutal, violent, bloody, and realisticaly charged, it makes StarGate, usualy seen as the bloodiest of the big four scifi franchises, seem like junior fiction.

 

The other thing I love about it, even more than the convincingly brutal storylines, is the world itself. It's beautiful macroengineering, with some of the biggest tech in all of scifi. Factories the size of Australia. Vast walking war machines, Titans, who's guns fire projectiles the size of buses. Stellar warships the size of mountain ranges.

 

Finaly, it's got depth. A dramatis personae of WarHammer would be as long as most hardcover novels in it's own right. With thousands of fully fleshed out factions, yet lore that;s as easy to grasp and remember as riding a bike, you really do feel like it's so massive it just could exist.

[HappyHerring]

The Culture. The society is a slacker's paradise. You make your life as meaningful as you wish. If you want to change the galaxy more directly you try to join Contact or for the more aggressively minded Special Circumstances, it's no accident that the events of the novels touch on actual life in the Culture enough to make what those nasty folk in Special Circumstances do seem worthwhile. Tired of the Culture? Split off and form an offshoot branch. Bored of utopia? Whilst predominantly humanoid the accessible galaxies have numerous baroque societies interacted with or hinted at.

[Amayakyrol]

Star Wars would be fun until yet another Jedi becomes power hungry and BBQs half the galaxy for the umpteenth time.

 

I think I'd go with Space: Above and Beyond, Bablyon 5, or Starship Troopers.

 

Fantasy universes need flushing toilets :P.

[DeathWarrior]

I would go with either the Starcraft, Gears of War, Elder Scrolls, or Fallout universes.

 

Starcraft has the same exploration feeling as settlers to America likely had, this goes for both the United Earth Directorate expeditionary force and local Koprulu sector powers: the Confederacy, Moria, Umoja, the Dominion, and the colonies.

 

Gears of War takes place on an Earth-like planet called Sera where before the war with the locust there are several countries organized into two coalitions: the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) and the Union of Independent Republics (UIR) who fought each other in the Pendulum Wars. The COG is a Social-Democratic/Socialist power but otherwise is basically the USA and European Union nations mixed together. The UIR is a more authoritarian dictatorship, with one nation within it being similar to Stalin's Russia.

 

The Elder Scrolls and Fallout universes you should all know. I would be my Nord Oblivion character in the TES universe and live in either Skyrim or Cyrodiil. As my Fallout 3 character I would either choose to travel around the capital wastland or live in the NCR (New California Republic) or Pre-War US.

[RZ1029]

Post-War Middle-Earth. After the War of the Ring, probably among the Elves in Valinor, or in the rebuilt Gondor. Times after major, world-changing wars like Tolkien depicted often unite people, for a time. If I lived among Humans, I would like to live in that time, where there's nothing but hope. Where 'evil' is gone and the biggest worry is whether I go fishing tomorrow or not.

 

If I lived in Valinor, it would be... well... perfect, in a sense.

[DarkZerker]

Mass Effect. You know, without the Reaper threat, Geth threat, and all the other threats that seems to come out of nowhere. Would be cool to go cruising in a starship with Commander Shepard and the crew.

[Keanumoreira]

I would love to live in a world just like the ones in the Elder Scrolls.

 

Being an adventurer, casting magic, weilding weapons of great power. It's like you're your own important person in a world of V.I.P's. Works for me.