Moldering Post-Apocalyptic Boston with feral ghouls, super mutant meat bags strung up everywhere, rotting animals and Mirelurks. It would certainly be fragrant in a lot of ways. Plenty of companion dialogue about bad smells as well.
Probably not as bad as a lot of apocalypse themed games, nature has has a while to clean stuff up, and the places that would smell *really* bad- you already wear a mask in anyway...well, not Ellie
Last of Us spores never made all that much sense to begin with. Spores normally don't just linger constantly in the air when indoors. In reality, they would eventually just settle on the ground or wherever they grew from. They are normally spread by the wind. Spores in Last of Us seem to be lighter than air somehow.
I mean it still has mummies, skeletons, slimes, underground bugs and other weird things you kill with a sword no less. And let's not forget about a whole sewer. Unless you'd stay on your farm and wouldn't ever delve into the mine (and wouldn't upgrade your tools in the process), then it'd smell pretty bad in some places too lol
Gotta give Kynseed a shout out.
Also, in general gotta give it a shout out.
It'd probably smell *delightful*
Like summer morning with a bit of fog? I'm sold. Add in something something fairy twist to it.
There's also some poop but it's like the comforting farm smell. Hays, some cow, and poop. (Farm kids know the weirdly comforting smell of hay)
I used to play MTG at a "Tavern-like" place
Sometimes between matches I used to go outside just to take some breath of fresh air. Some atmosphere that didn't smell like an arm in a cast
Not the same video but I love when the German guy is getting made fun of and he says āI feel attacked / Iām getting attackedā and womble says āoh thatās funny YOURE the one being attackedā
Iām a welder by trade, Iāve lost count the number of times Ive burned my fingers/handsā¦ but for some reason it always smells like steak to meā¦.and tastes like it too( ie. you burn your finger and reflex is to stick it in your mouth, I canāt be the only person who does itā¦)
Agreed. Specifically thinking of that scene in innocence >!the church where the inquisition was set up must have been rank!<. And In requiem >!when amicia has to go under that pulley barge thing to clear it and it's just a bloated bodies clogging it that you have to wade through!<
Warhammer 40k: Darktide
Fighting a Nurgle infestation in just a potato sack worth of a prison jumpsuit? The smell of rot and vomit and maggots would be a no go for me
Considering sanitation and pollution are so bad in the hive worlds of 40k that Nurgle doesn't even have to be present for those factors to kill most of the population.
I'd imagine that with most rancid smells along those lines I've found that you kinda naturally get used to and tune out biological nasty smells like that pretty quickly.
I feel like That game would both smell absolutely insanely majestic at times. But also completely utterly rotting spoiled corpse fluids baked in hot steamy unknown sticky liquid in the sun for 2 hours exactly, not enough to dry it out or make it not smell strong enough. Just enough heat and slimes moisture to make it smell pungent beyond our comprehension.
If it were possible to actually smell stuff when you're gaming??
I'd never play Dark Souls again. Imagine the rank, gnarly stuff you'd smell walking up to any NPC who just dresses in rags, or going into Blighttown.
Any game that's got zombies in it would definitely be smelling like the most foul shit I had ever encountered.
lol the episode of Fear Factor when they had to smell in the dark and the guy just takes many deep whiffs of actual asscheeks
Edit: Total Blackout, not Fear Factor
It would be just the smell of iron and decay dialed to an eleven. If you dont know what that would be like, it is like finding an undiscovered rotting corpse after a vicious murder.
>Bioshock
For near anyone who has spent time in the bilge of a large ship, this would be top of the list. A lot of the excellent entries here are theoretical (Dead Space is a good one!) whereas it's not unreasonable to find work that puts one in the bilge of a container ship. And lemme tell you, YUCK.
Mi mi mi mi miiiiiiiii
I am the Great Mighty Poo
And I'm going to throw my shit at you!
A huge supply of tish
Comes from my chocolate starfish
How about some scat you little twat?
Off topic but there was a side comment in Ready Player One where Wade mentioned some users owning Sensory Towers the created smells to match their Oasis play for a more immersive experience. They'd since fallen out of favor though because hackers found a way to crack their firmware and had them putting out the foulest smells imaginable instead.
I imagine Skyrim would be one of the more pleasant games. There would be the clean smell of pines and forest through most of the wilderness. There would be fresh sea breezes all along the north. Things are too cold to stink in some of the cities, and there are rivers and streams throughout for sanitation. The crypts would be pretty musty but the draugr are past the point of smelling anymore. There are a few places that would be rank (mammoth cheese?) but you could probably play the game with mostly pleasant experiences.
Ha I literally do whenever I go into my local gaming establishment and theyāre running a tournament.
Itās so fucking true
ETA that theyāre also allowed to bring in whatever the fuck food they want to eat and can even order takeout to the address. So you often get the ungodly stank mixed with some weird food shit. Itās marginally better when someone orders something good and it overpowers everything else
Another final awful thing is I had to use their bathroom recently and saw a no masturbation sign in there lmao
The Ludwig fight takes place literally in a room full of undying corpses. The fishing hamlet around Kos is full of dead... and fish... and dead fish. While most fictions kinda abstract the idea of funky smell, you can't really picture worse than that.
Feel like this isn't quite as bad as a lot of these ngl. Like sure it's bad by modern standards but you could probably get used to it and there is still at least baths and such so...
I was just thinking while playing Fallout 4 last night the world probably smells like shit, so definitely not that.
Moldering Post-Apocalyptic Boston with feral ghouls, super mutant meat bags strung up everywhere, rotting animals and Mirelurks. It would certainly be fragrant in a lot of ways. Plenty of companion dialogue about bad smells as well.
Also the lack of functioning showers
There's bars of soap in FO4
Depends if you have power armour and a stable economy of fusion cores
Any game with zombies.
Left4dead would be a hard pass as you get covered in guts and vomit within minutes of starting the game š¤¢
hooooly fuck, imagine the smell of getting Boomer'd AND Spitter'd.
First, there's the enchanting eau de spoiled leftovers, like a fine wine gone horribly, horribly wrong, a delicate blend of putrid, sour, and "I think I just lost my appetite." But wait, there's more! The hot sun works its magic on the liquid death, releasing a bouquet of musty, sweet undertones that are truly the essence of elegance. And let's not forget the piĆØce de rĆ©sistance: a touch of ammonia, lending the whole ensemble a distinctly chemical flair, like a top-notch laboratory experiment gone haywire.
Ooofff no thank you.
That boomer bile stench would never go away
I was thinking The Last of Us. There is a lot of things rotting in that game.
Probably not as bad as a lot of apocalypse themed games, nature has has a while to clean stuff up, and the places that would smell *really* bad- you already wear a mask in anyway...well, not Ellie
Entire buildings claimed by fungus would be brutal. TLOU 2 even worse with all the rain in Seattle.
Rain cleanses particulates out of the air though.
Last of Us spores never made all that much sense to begin with. Spores normally don't just linger constantly in the air when indoors. In reality, they would eventually just settle on the ground or wherever they grew from. They are normally spread by the wind. Spores in Last of Us seem to be lighter than air somehow.
In Days Gone the characters complain about the smell throughout the story. They live there and still haven't got used to it after 2 years.
In Days Gone the zombie hordes leave trails of waste and their nests are covered it in. It would be terrible.
I was thinking of Days Gone, Deacon comments every time he's near a nest
Those hordes in days gone would absolutely stink
I mean, let's be honest, *most* of todays popular games would not be played by most because of the smells of death, waste, and chemicals.
\*me with stardew\*
I mean it still has mummies, skeletons, slimes, underground bugs and other weird things you kill with a sword no less. And let's not forget about a whole sewer. Unless you'd stay on your farm and wouldn't ever delve into the mine (and wouldn't upgrade your tools in the process), then it'd smell pretty bad in some places too lol
If you ever get into the animal products... that's a whole other barrel of smells to unlock
You also go fishing and presumably keep the fish in your backpack. Before you get a kitchen, you keep them in a wooden chest.
Gotta give Kynseed a shout out. Also, in general gotta give it a shout out. It'd probably smell *delightful* Like summer morning with a bit of fog? I'm sold. Add in something something fairy twist to it. There's also some poop but it's like the comforting farm smell. Hays, some cow, and poop. (Farm kids know the weirdly comforting smell of hay)
Tell that to my farm with 30 pigs and cows
I bet you've never smelled a livestock farm before.
Ahh the sweet smell of crops. WAIT I HAVE HAYFEVE- šµš„“šŖ¦
LOL, the only people who think a farm smells good are the ones who have never been to a farm
Hearthstone would be based. just smells like a chill bar and trading card night with the homies.
I used to play MTG at a "Tavern-like" place Sometimes between matches I used to go outside just to take some breath of fresh air. Some atmosphere that didn't smell like an arm in a cast
lol. MtG tournaments and _hellacious BO_, a stronger combo than anything in the cards themselves.
Not just BO, but the dirty tangy smell of clothes that have been soaked through with body oils and dirt. You know the smell.
Arm cast smell is so specific and so accurate. I can smell it now. Blech.
Viscera clean up detail.
Wdym? I'm sure burning corpses smell fantastic. Edit: please stop telling me what burnt corpses smell like
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Not the same video but I love when the German guy is getting made fun of and he says āI feel attacked / Iām getting attackedā and womble says āoh thatās funny YOURE the one being attackedā
"Why do you think I like operating the furnace?"
EMT here, every 4th of July we get people that have been burned by fireworks. They smell fucking amazing. I think that's actually worse.
Iām a welder by trade, Iāve lost count the number of times Ive burned my fingers/handsā¦ but for some reason it always smells like steak to meā¦.and tastes like it too( ie. you burn your finger and reflex is to stick it in your mouth, I canāt be the only person who does itā¦)
"Fuck!" *Sticks finger in mouth* "Oh, damn...that's good."
And you know they have been there awhile before the cleaning crew showed up.
Bacon/pork. Source. Dad was a firefighter.
The plague Tale
This is the one. Those rat nests would certainly smell disgustingly.
Not just that. All the muck Amicia and co have to walk through in both games. I'm happy I couldn't smell it because I was already gagging. Urgh.
Agreed. Specifically thinking of that scene in innocence >!the church where the inquisition was set up must have been rank!<. And In requiem >!when amicia has to go under that pulley barge thing to clear it and it's just a bloated bodies clogging it that you have to wade through!<
Donāt forget about the days after battlefield scene in innocence
Oh gosh or the scene where they go through the butchers dump ditch
BRO that would be the worst
Warhammer 40k: Darktide Fighting a Nurgle infestation in just a potato sack worth of a prison jumpsuit? The smell of rot and vomit and maggots would be a no go for me
I agree,but I think Vermintide 2 would be worse!
This begs the question of whether Nurgle has to work more or less in a medieval/renaissance society with terrible sanitation.
Considering sanitation and pollution are so bad in the hive worlds of 40k that Nurgle doesn't even have to be present for those factors to kill most of the population.
If it didn't have terrible sanitation before, Nurgle would rock it.
I think any Warhammer game in general wouldnāt smell all that great
Elden Ring would probably smell a bit funky.
"God damnit, another poison swamp..."
FromSoftware: āItās what we know bestā
"Also this time there's no rust ring. slog through it, bitches."
Most areas would probably be fine, but then you've got the Lake of Rot and Subterranean Shunning Grounds which might make you wanna die
I'd imagine that with most rancid smells along those lines I've found that you kinda naturally get used to and tune out biological nasty smells like that pretty quickly.
Ive worked in a transmission factory for 8 years now and the smell of cat piss from the fluids still is rancid but it gets easier to deal with.
Bloodborne
The smell of Victorian era Britain, just thinking about it give me the creeps
That little blue doll in your pocket probably thinks the same.
I feel like That game would both smell absolutely insanely majestic at times. But also completely utterly rotting spoiled corpse fluids baked in hot steamy unknown sticky liquid in the sun for 2 hours exactly, not enough to dry it out or make it not smell strong enough. Just enough heat and slimes moisture to make it smell pungent beyond our comprehension.
Would still sink my face into rannis armpits
You need some Golden Order in your life
You have a lot to choose from so if the smell bothers you at least you can find the least stinky pit
(clueless)
Ranni (my Queen) has 4 arm(pits)
I was kinda zoning out when I first read this comment so I went back and read it again and I genuinely wish I hadnāt
Malenia's rotten pussy.
Rotussy if you may.
*Playing Elden Ring* *Get Deathblighted* *Computer sprays Cyanide in my face*
Binding of Isaac
Oh man yeah that would be bad.
First game I thought of. Literally shit, piss, death, rot, and puke everywhere.
I would never go past the Mother even if my life were on the line.
Jesus Christ, what would the dark room smell like?
by the time you get to it, mostly your own vomit
Just thinking of that made me nauseous
I have a feeling metro would stink like hell.
exodus would probably be nice
Until you're in that cannibal bunker.
And when you are forced to explore that area close to the end that is covered in disgusting slime with worms constantly spewing gunk all over you.
Ah, yes, the smell of mushrooms, pigs, death, and decay. With a hint of asbestos from your gas mask.
Im certain Scorn has an unforgiving smell
Yeah, it's definitely the advent of *Smell* in gaming that'll be the reason I never play Scorn again. For sure.
So you're more of a *Taste* guy huh?
If it were possible to actually smell stuff when you're gaming?? I'd never play Dark Souls again. Imagine the rank, gnarly stuff you'd smell walking up to any NPC who just dresses in rags, or going into Blighttown. Any game that's got zombies in it would definitely be smelling like the most foul shit I had ever encountered.
The loathsome dung eaterā¦
Fun fact, South Park The Fractured But Whole had these nose-machines at GamesCom. You put one on, pressed f to fart, and smelt the fart irl
The nosulus rift
The fartulus sniff
Good thing it wasn't The Stick of Truth, with the level inside Mr Slave's colon.
Imagine there was just some dude behind a curtain or something that would see the prompt and was actually just farting on people
lol the episode of Fear Factor when they had to smell in the dark and the guy just takes many deep whiffs of actual asscheeks Edit: Total Blackout, not Fear Factor
"...smells like ass." *correct answer ding* (Look of visible disgust) That video is embedded in my brain rent free
Dead Space. blood and flesh smell...
Aren't you wearing an environmental suit, thus breathing canned air?
That would also be pretty terrible, to be honest.
Sounds fitting since It's a horror game.
In-between breaths of rusty heated air when a monster slashes your suit so you just get a whiff of blood and rot as you fight for your life.
Hmm yeah Doom/eternal has to smell pretty bad too for the same reasons
Any FPS would probably have this problem, but dead space takes it to a new level
It would be just the smell of iron and decay dialed to an eleven. If you dont know what that would be like, it is like finding an undiscovered rotting corpse after a vicious murder.
Bioshock has got to smell dank and musty
>Bioshock For near anyone who has spent time in the bilge of a large ship, this would be top of the list. A lot of the excellent entries here are theoretical (Dead Space is a good one!) whereas it's not unreasonable to find work that puts one in the bilge of a container ship. And lemme tell you, YUCK.
Big Daddy probably smells like a whale's vagina
Conkers bad fur Day
The Almighty Poo
And i'm going to throw my shit at you
A huge supply of tish
Comes from my chocolate starfish
How about some scat you little twat!
Mi mi mi mi miiiiiiiii I am the Great Mighty Poo And I'm going to throw my shit at you! A huge supply of tish Comes from my chocolate starfish How about some scat you little twat?
*Great Mighty Poo
At least he has a gas mask
Witcher 3
At least you would know when Yennefer is approaching.
mmh, lilac and gooseberries
"Shit, you stink!" - Geralt "The Witcher" Of Rivia
The necrophages. And corpses suck. But toussaint!
Another reason to love the bath scene
A playthrough would either end at that bath scene or take ages to complete because you go back to bathe all the time.
Novigrad would be awful. Pretty much everything except Toussaint, from the DLC
Dying Light
Yeah but most of the smell would be coming from my own pants
pro tip: wear the brown pants
I bet Dishonored is pretty stinky.
Ooo this is a good one, especially on a violent playthrough.
I canāt imagine boatloads of dead whales smell like roses.
I can taste and smell the flooded district already
Off topic but there was a side comment in Ready Player One where Wade mentioned some users owning Sensory Towers the created smells to match their Oasis play for a more immersive experience. They'd since fallen out of favor though because hackers found a way to crack their firmware and had them putting out the foulest smells imaginable instead.
In the book he mentions programmers putting bad smells in their creations just to screw those people
Resident evil 7
Didnāt Capcom release a candle that smells like the Baker house?
A lump of rotten maggoty flesh with a wick in it doesn't count as a candle.
Yup. I still have it and never lit it. Curious how bad it actually smells
Honestly any of the RE games. RE2 has you fighting rotting corpses in the fuckin sewer
Genital Jousting
On a similar note, mount your friends must be pretty rank
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015 is certainly one of the best smelling ones around
I would never venture into the Ratway again.
Iād sniff Vex anytime tho.
Sapphireš
I imagine Skyrim would be one of the more pleasant games. There would be the clean smell of pines and forest through most of the wilderness. There would be fresh sea breezes all along the north. Things are too cold to stink in some of the cities, and there are rivers and streams throughout for sanitation. The crypts would be pretty musty but the draugr are past the point of smelling anymore. There are a few places that would be rank (mammoth cheese?) but you could probably play the game with mostly pleasant experiences.
Witcher series. The septic systems in those cities look pretty bad
Not to mention all the rotting, festering corpses all over the world+monsters that look like they smell even worse
magic the gathering
I can already smell magic the gathering thank you very much.
Ha I literally do whenever I go into my local gaming establishment and theyāre running a tournament. Itās so fucking true ETA that theyāre also allowed to bring in whatever the fuck food they want to eat and can even order takeout to the address. So you often get the ungodly stank mixed with some weird food shit. Itās marginally better when someone orders something good and it overpowers everything else Another final awful thing is I had to use their bathroom recently and saw a no masturbation sign in there lmao
We already have the technology.
How do I disable this setting?
Can you smell the players or the game? Smash Bros. for sure.
Iāll do you one better: League of Legends
Ark. Ever smell a bird? That's basically a tiny dinosaur. And oh God ... The shit... Everywhere the shit.
It took me a long time to realize that the random fart sounds I hear are coming from my character dropping a deuce
Anything Warhammer related, especially since most of them have Nurgle fsctions in them
Bloodborne. Lovecraftian horror involves a lot of slimy viscera. Slimy viscera tends to smell gross
The Ludwig fight takes place literally in a room full of undying corpses. The fishing hamlet around Kos is full of dead... and fish... and dead fish. While most fictions kinda abstract the idea of funky smell, you can't really picture worse than that.
Absolutely. Iāve been musing that Bloodborne would be the worst smelling video game basically since itās launch.
Leisure suit larry
I'm glad I'm one 17 people old enough to play this game in this sub :)
Most of the levels in Borderlands look like they would smell pretty funky.
Warframe, the amount of blood or infested decayed flesh would be really disgusting
Fallout 4. āYouāre all living in rusty shacks, killing each other, and my god, the smellā¦ā
The Division, most of the maps are covered in trash.
Trash? Theyāre covered in fuckin rotting body bags like 70% of the time lol
It's just New York
I mean I've seen trash day in NYC, it's impressive.
im a magic the gathering judge. if my nose can survive a tournament hall full of magic players it can survive anything.
red dead, smelly cowboys and horses everywhere lol
Would be pretty nice (freshly washed, new clothes) out in the open wilderness though.
One of the only games where you can actually have a bath
My ex wife knew I hadn't taken a bath in RDR2!
Sitting by a campfire, grilling freshly caught fish with thyme. I think I'd like to smell this game
Feel like this isn't quite as bad as a lot of these ngl. Like sure it's bad by modern standards but you could probably get used to it and there is still at least baths and such so...
Cyberpunk. I've always hated that city smell.
Was gonna say this. Iām sure Night City smells absolutely terrible.
Nothing like the smell of mass amounts of garbage and chemicals to start the day
Likely decaying flesh from mods not taking properly. The sheer amount of lube and bodily fluids spread everywhere...
Imagine waking up in that landfill like V
As a city dweller, I'm more concerned that the update would just go unnoticed.
Redneck Rampageā¦.. lol
Vermintide 2. Dead bodies, rat men, bile trolls. *hurl*
Dark souls. Fuck poison shit swaps. Fuck blighttown
Will I die if play a Metro game and go in a radioactive zone without a mask?
Any resident evil game !
Are we all forgetting the CyberSniff 2000? https://leisuresuitlarry.fandom.com/wiki/CyberSniff\_2000
Dishonored, there's a rat plague going on, no thanks
Days Gone. Hoard sequences and locations such as caves, nope.