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Pandora (Borderlands)
Oh yeah, Pandora looked great at first. A vast, unspoilt wilderness of fresh resources and new potential. Problem was that in their eagerness to settle the place, not one person applied the astrophysical knowledge required to ascertain that Pandoras seasons are seven years long and that once spring kicked in, all manner of burgeoning new horror might spring up. Someone really should have looked into that.
Santa Destroy (No More Heroes)
Santa Destroy isnt so much a town as it is a dumping ground for junk no other town wants to deal with. Judging by the various jobs Travis can complete as side missions, it has a graffiti problem, the gardens are overgrown like an alcoholics stubble, the rubbish collection has stalled (and the refuse piles up so fast that it will literally respawn in front of you), the place is infested with scorpions, and the beach is full of undetonated landmines.
The Red Planet (Unreal Tournament 2004)
First up, a planet without a sun is basically going to be freezing. If it has an indigenous population, said population can only be made out of brass monkeys... who no doubt spend every waking hour desperately searching for a welder. Even worse than a sunless death-planet though? The fact that all natural light on the world is emanated via a borderline unholy atmospheric reaction which bathes it in a deep, blood-red glow. Oh, and that glow has been documented to drive a man insane after 18 hours of exposure.
Tuchanka (Mass Effect)
The Grim Reaper in planetary form. Once a pleasant place, the Krogan homeworld rapidly turned into a blasted, unlivable wasteland, coincidentally around the same time the Krogans discovered nuclear power. Its now an ash-covered, radioactive, alkaline hellhole, upon which nearly every surviving species is predatory. Including the plants.
Balaho (Halo)
The Grunt homeworld is a bizarre place, not least because its so aggressively unpleasant that you really would imagine it to have bred a hardier, more resilient bunch than Halos eminently explodable squeaky-voiced combat-trolls. Its beyond freezing, hitting -33 Celsius during its two annual winters and leaving the safest place to live the tidal flats where the naturally occurring columns of fire happen. Oh, and on top of all that, the place is in the middle of an environmental collapse as a result of over-industrialisation. And disease is rampant. And they still live there. And are still piss-weak.
Sera (Gears of War)
Lets ignore for a second the decades-long war tearing a planet-wide scar across the surface of the world. Lets ignore the fact that the only thing that stopped humanity ripping itself apart was the emergence of a race of subterranean gun-toting Morlocks intent on the rapid, desperately unsubtle deadening of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Forget the fact that barely any human beings are now left due to the COGs tactic of glassing half the planet in order to slightly slow down the Locust.
Metro City - Condemned series
Hey honey, so, Im not entirely sure this is the best place to bring up little Billy and Rosie any more.
Oh, you know, the exponential rise in violence, the explosion of mental illness, the rampant social decay, and the governments complete refusal to even acknowledge the problem, let alone do anything about it. The old neighbourhood just isnt what it used to be. Hey honey, what are you doing with that table lamp? Youre getting that weird look in your eyes too. You know, the one I said looked a bit murdery. Are you okay?
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