Same as @HelixDab, System Shock would be bad, but as a regular person living in the world I could make it for $20 million. Citadel Station? Not a chance, not for all the money in the world.

Bonus Question: Fighting in a Mortal Kombat tournament? No. After a year of training I’m still going to die in the first round. No amount of money is enough.

Bonus Bonus Question: This previous questions were easy. This one’s hard. I’m sure I could find a video-game world that would be pleasant to live in, potentially much better than our world, but I’d have to trade all of my family and friends for it. I’d strongly consider it if I found a world where I could be effectively immortal and have a good life as well—making it a very narrow set of options—but ultimately I’m not sure what my answer would be.

Yeah, I think I could survive in Ratchet and Clank.

And while on the subject: Dude, this game is seriously one of the best looking games I have ever played. It’s like playing a legit Disney/Pixar film. I want to live inside it. It would be a dream come true to live inside a really good cartoon. 😄

Animal Crossing here I come.

If Chess counts, hell no. I suck at chess and they’re going to make me a pawn.

If its “real games”, then yeah I think I could live in Hateno Village for a year and be alright.

I’m about to have the best year of my life living in Pelican Town

Need more info before I accept or not. Does time IRL freeze? Or do I miss a year of real life time?

If I miss a year then nah because that's logistical nightmares and a LOT of explaining. Plus all my stuff would probably be lost if I stop paying rent because I'm non existent for a year, including legal documents etc.

If IRL time stops though, yeah I'd take it. Last played Ensemble Stars which is a game about idols. So the world they live in is more or less just normal modern day Earth.

Anyway I need to know the situation with IRL while I'm gone, OP.

I would not take the further deals because I'm disabled for the first one, and because I have people and things I like IRL for the second.

I played Minecraft in peaceful mode, so, yeah, that sounds like a nice year long vacation actually.

Hard pass on the mortal kombat, but I might take the third offer if I could be functionally immortal and the world was expansive enough.

System Shock.

As a regular person in the world? Sure, no problem. It’s not all that different from reality now, only the climate has effectively collapsed (…we’re getting there, give it time), and it’s functionally run by corporations (see previous). If I have to live on the station with SHODAN? Yeah, no, definitely not.

Before that was Skyrim, and I feel like I’d be pretty okay there; most people seem to go about their daily lives without dying horrible deaths. Prior to that, Death Stranding, and, again, most people just live quietly in their little bunkers, fuck around on social media, and complain about deliveries of GruHub and Amazon taking too long.

Bondee’s Barnyard?

Bro I don’t actually have to go to the restaraunt

Eh, I’ll be fine. I’ll kick it in Seyda Neen for a bit and head to Balmora. Probably wouldn’t adventure too hard since I can’t just reload my last save, but may fall in with the Mages because I’d like to learn some Magic while I’m there.

Edit: Oh shit wait! I forgot I dusted off the GBC on Friday! Yeah you bet I’ll take 20mil to throw balls at animals and ride a bike for a year! I’m omw to Pallet Town!

Outer Wilds. Not sure what to make of this, but I guess I would be fine? (I’m not through yet, so please don’t spoil anything in the comments)

The game before that would be Plague Tale: Requiem, and nah, I won’t take my chances with that

Cities: Skylines - no problem, it’s a great place to live! … As long as your house is near an evacuation shelter, on account of all the tornados and stuff.

I probably won’t, the last video game I played was Minecraft, I can’t imagine myself surviving such harsh environment.