I’m sure part of it is just all the time I’ve spent in Paragon City of late, but I felt more aware of the cityscape around me as I drove around LA yesterday on the way back home. Outside my office, over the railroad tracks, was another big electrical substation. Beside it, a big corrugated steel warehouse with stairways up the side. Around it, dirt lots. No clockworks, but it sure felt like the southern reaches of the Galaxy City zone.
\nThen, driving down through downtown, along the Harbor Freeway (110), it was time for Skyway City. Freeway interchanges, overpasses, the “Four Level.” Glancing under odd corners of confluence, bits of concrete backwater, expecting to see trolls chatting in the shadows, or Vahzilok shuffling along, staring at the cars. Then down south of the downtown, the big elevated carpool lane area towering over the freeway, and thinking how much faster Velvet Super-Jumped her way through town than I was driving.
\n(And, yes, I know that the acceleration of time in the game means she doesn’t move nearly that fast. Except traffic was really bad, and Velvet could actually run faster than I was driving. Heck, she could run without Sprint on faster than I was driving.)
\nAnd, actually, that’s the difference between Paragon City and LA (aside from the huge bombed-out or collapsed zones — and just wait until the Big One hits for that): LA has cars. Lots of cars. Lots and lots of cars. All of whom were traveling the same time I was. Paragon City, on the other hand, seems to have trains, a busy sidewalk life, and — well, enough cars in populated zones not to seem too utter abandoned, but a hell of a lot fewer than real life. Or at least what passes for it in LA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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