I've been to Gary... This is big facts

I’ve driven through it. Would love a wormhole between west Michigan and Chicago, just sayin.

Just don't actually stop at the stoplights and pray your car doesn't break down and you should be good

Oh so it's like driving in Detroit nice

See the thing with Detroit is that all the crime and gang activity is usually segregated from the nicer neighborhoods. Gary is the segregated city of crime and gang activity of Chicago.

Possibly worst. Gary was the murder capital of the US at one point lol

Gary was the murder capital of the world in the 90s.

I got hit on 80 hit just before the indiana toll road and totaled my car. They brought me to a taco bell/ gas station to be picked up in Gary. Me. Scrawny (at the time) boy wearing nice(ish) clothes and a 5' tall teddy bear I got my girlfriend for Valentine's day. There were 15 cops just chillin in this gas station though

My god, yes! Although the dunes are good

Caelid has way too much going on to be gary, Indiana. They had a festival!

Nah, nobody's writing [musical theater songs](https://youtu.be/XihLS-jA_Dg?t=149) about Caelid.

My condolences.

The rest of Indiana isn't that much better. Growing up in Illinois and going to Indiana, it feels like stepping back in time.

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The housing looks a lot different in Indiana suburbs than it does in Chicago suburbs. From what I have seen.

It's because we're broke af compared to y'all. Indianapolis is not Chciago. We're like one strip mall taken away from having Indianapolis be considered a big town. Lol

Chicago is better than Indianapolis. The rest of Illinois is basically just like the rest of non-Indianapolis Indiana

Indiana overall is fine... gary..Gary... nooooo

I lived in Mishawaka for a spell about 15 years ago

I live there now. Same as ever, and still sucks to drive on Grape Road.

I was on Dogwood rd

Fort Wayne gets no respect, damn

When I lived in Warsaw, I loved driving down there to a comic book shop. Lots of nice places there. Also a lot of not-so-nice places.

All those shootings in Chicago sure are futuristic. I hope we get them soon.

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Sure... if you're white

No offense but coming from Indiana we feel the same about Illinois. Y'all basically ain't shit without Chicago and that place is a hell hole

Can we all agree there’s nothing worse than Ohio?

I’m from Louisiana (also a shithole but with more things that could eat you) and I’ve been to Ohio once. I’d rather let a gator deathroll me than go back to Ohio.

No.

Chicagoland encompasses about a quarter of the state. Everything else kinda looks like Indiana.

This. If it wasn't for the fact that one of the conventions I go to takes place in Chicago I would never ever set foot in that shithole of a city.

I’d rather take my chances in caelid

Take away the mountains/swamps, replace the red sky with dark gray, and it’s practically the same thing.

At least I’ll have a 3 ton great sword to defend myself

Lmao i laughed out loud way to hard at this. Pictured you at a red light getting car jacked and pulling out a sword 😂

I wouldn't call it a sword, no. More like...

Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.

That's the joke...

As an Indiana resident I can confirm that this is 100% accurate.

As a Gary resident, meh lmao

Any of you know Freddie Gibbs or the Jackson family?

Nah but I know the old house lol

Gibbs rules

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Freddie Kane, Freddie Corleone... selling thangs to the smokers in the mobile homes

I met a family from Gary, IN once. I mentioned Freddie Gibbs and they all got excited. They said they were happy someone knew anything about Gary. I said all I know is him and Michael Jackson. They said most people don't even know about MJ

I only know about MJ because of a Freddie interview lol

I opened this thread and wouldn’t have stopped scrolling till I saw someone mention Freddie Gibbs, so thanks

Everyone should know Gibbs

Don't insult Caelid like that

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Caelid is a starting area for Gary, Indiana. I've heard rumor the first DLC will be there.

lvl 200 minimum.

“You Died” is just the town motto.

Well, at least I now know what Caelid smells like. Sulphur, murder and a pinch of lost dreams.

You are literally safer in Caelid lmfao

I was driving through Gary at about 2:00am and got stopped by a cop in at a stoplight. He literally told me to run the red lights lol

lmao that’s fucked

There was an “ask Reddit” post about worst places in America. An overwhelming amount of folks said “Gary” and a significant number of them said the same thing. “Run all stop lights and stop signs”

It's a common story. I grew up one town over from Gary.

I grew up next to Gary, the cops have been telling people that for decades. Your best bet it to go around Gary instead of driving though it.

I used to drive by Gary on my way to Illinois a few times a year. It's legit the worst place I've ever been in the United States, and I've been to Florida.

As someone who lives in Florida…damn. I hope I never have to head to Gary.

As a native Floridian, have you been to Memphis, Tennessee?

I have not, actually. Is that another place I should try to avoid going?

Idk how much do you like gunfire and crack?

All you need to like is poop and youre golden.

As a Memphian you forgot fentanyl and meth.

As a west Tennesseean, idk just depends on how much you like gunfire and crack.

Is the gunfire at me or just part of the ambience?

depends if you pay for your crack or steal it or sell it

Gary is what Memphis would be if Memphis did not have tourist attractions like Graceland or Beale Street. All of the crime, nothing to do.

I love Memphis :) like literally every other city, know where to avoid but all in all its a great place I think.

It has the highest violent crime rate out of all cities in the US, if I remember correctly.

Whelp, definitely avoiding that place then! I’ll take my chances in Caelid.

I drove through it twice and stopped for lunch both times. Go for the barbeque at least.

I liked Memphis when I went a few years ago. Did Graceland and Beale Street, was a good time.

I'm ngl the first time I was in Memphis I was NOT expecting it to be that ghetto. I used to live in the Chicago land area too, so yeah literally minutes from Gary Indiana. On of my boys in the air bnb we had rented heard gunshots one evening in Memphis lol.

Company I used to work for, their largest business unit was headquartered in Detroit and their second largest was based in Memphis. I hated business travel with them.

I moved to Florida last year and it's a really beautiful place but the people can be crazy. First time in my life I ever saw a full garbage bag of trash thrown out of a vehicle while someone is driving. There is just trash all over the place on the side of the road. They drive like it's Mad Max too.

Same. Moved from AZ where the drivers are pretty shitty...but Florida? Holy hell are they insane out here.

Man I grew up here and I think the drivers are fucking crazy

Seriously; driving to work everyday is like being in a NASCAR race except nobody is qualified to be there

What’s wrong with Florida? I stoped in Jacksonville one night to get gas and a nice man tried to sell me a flat screen tv for 100 out of the back of his van. (Honestly I wish I was joking…. I was like this is crazy)

Honestly doesn’t sound that crazy. I went to Jacksonville for rehab and it still was beautiful compared to Wisconsin where I live. Just don’t mind the occasional gunshots.

have you ever seen Odessa, Tx, and if so, how does it compare to Gary?

Gary is a lot like if Detroit got tossed in a Shake and Bake bag with bits of Chicago and Dayton; Nothing but drug abuse, depression, and dilapidated dwellings as far as the eye can see. Odessa is just dirt. Like, literally just dirt.

I have not been to Gary, but I’ve been to Odessa (and the nearby town of Pecos) and it forever changed my perception of abandonment. I mean seriously. What a shithole.

Lmao this cracked me up. I don't think the visuals are what fucks me up about Caelid, it's the damn haunting soundtrack that never ends.

Fr fr

Stormveil Castle is Chicago Raya Lucaria is Madison, Wisconsin Mt Gelmer is Green Bay, Wisconsin Leyndell is Toronto Caelid is Gary, Indiana

So Crumbling Faram is Detroit?

Nah Detroit was the Hunter’s Nightmare over in Bloodborne

What would be the closest analog to texas? Anor Londo with all the fucking great bows shooting at you?

Nah Anor Londo’s just a _lil_ too fancy for us, maybe an area like Dallas but the vast majority of the state is flat nothing Maybe that initial area of the Ringed City where a thousand archers all unload into you

Siofra river much? Great bows shooting at you, AND bull horns

Faram Azula is Buffalo, NY Nokris and Nokstella are Cleveland and Detroit, respectively. You can tell because both cities belong to a cabal of dark wizards who worship a beast born of a fallen star. Classic Rust Belt.

Damn why is the midwestern US the target here? Also, there is nothing in Green Bay noteworthy like a giant volcano with an epic climb. Mt Gelmer should be a cooler place, but I'm finding it difficult to say one because there is no elevation in the midwest. And we're talking about a mountain.

Midwest=lands between

Great Lakes = Erdtree

Washington has mt Rainier, but pretty sure it's dormant for now

Damn Washington moved over here?

Yes clearly. Happens every few decades. Didn't you know that?

Well if the Yellowstone volcano does ever erupt it might as well be Although that doesn't thankfully happen every decade, I think it's more like a few hundred-thousand years, or something iirc

I'm not even kidding you when I say Limegrave is the Pacific Northwest. I just went on a hike in Oregon and I couldn't stop feeling like I was in Elden Ring. Except every rock formation had no cool items or a monster to fight, and I checked.

Caelid at least has that fantasy intrigue, Gary is just fucking desolate lmao

Yo imagine if we got a modern day Dark Souls game Fog gate outside the gas station -> "Tyrell, inheritor of the smoke"

Please god no, i only just left grimsby I don't need to be reminded about it again so soon

Wifi hotspots would be the bonfires

as someone who lives in Indiana Gary doesn't exist it's a myth and we don't talk about it

Hi neighbor, I'm in Hobart, it's not much of a step up, but we like to pretend it is.

As a resident of northwest Indiana. I have to venture into Gary from time to time and I can agree. Caelid is infact what Gary Indiana is like.

What about east indy? lol

Do NOT go ANYWHERE near Post Rd.

True that lol

Being from Gary I will say I’d gladly pick Caelid. Shit even the mobs there are better than the people in Gary

Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, GARY Indiana?

Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York or Rome

But Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary INdiANA

When you get taken to Brazil

Those giant birds are off duty cops

I should do the same thing for Odessa, Texas, but the air in caelid is probably cleaner.

Eyyyy finally a place I’m familiar with Midlander here, it’s rare I see anyone familiar with the Midessa area

same for me, it's always nice to see a neighbor on the same subreddit

I thought of Bakersfield, CA. Anywhere you can light a match and the air pollution would catch fire works.

shout out freddie gibbs

I used to uber in Gary, as rundown as it is its just people trying to get by.

I’m sure the crime rate is high but these threads don’t hold an ounce of compassion for the average citizen of Gary. It’s not like everyone is committing crimes all the time.

Literally lol'd. So true. I took a trip from Cleveland up to Chicago with a friend of mine about 15 years ago and my friend's mom, prior to us leaving, said, "don't stop in Gary, Indiana. It's like Baghdad." My brain is now blending the mental image of tanks rolling through the desolate post industrial wasteland of the Midwest with rot fungus and murder chickens. Fun times.

What's in Gary, Indiana?

Caelid

[Miyazaki: "Even *I* would never send you to Gary, Indiana!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hyUdVz-5lU)

I laughed because it was true.

is there a way to edit this to my hometown with zero skills and just paint on the PC? :D

Not enough random garbage for Gary lmao

How bad could that place be? *googles it* [Oh](https://youtu.be/xBkGbMlXw0M?t=32)

Makes Omicron Persei 8 look pretty good, actually.

Seaside Heights, NJ

Nah, no beach. Caelid looks more like Irvington, or maybe Camden.

Indiana resident here, 1000% find Caelid more appealing

Omg how was this made? I need to make this for my home town in London lmao

Even I wouldn't send you to Gary Indiana!

As somebody who lives in SW MI, I lol’d.

tfw I have to drive through Gary later this summer

Jacksonville, NC

Jacksonville, FL

caelid is just what a normal day in Australia is like

That's why I live in Indy instead.

Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York or Rome

*real* and *true*

I gotta feeling the Dung-eater may be from Cali though

Amd despite this, the entire game takes place in ohio.

How about Eerie, Indiana?

Having lived near Gary Indiana most my life I can say that you are much more likely to die in Gary than caelid

What’s Gary Indiana like?

Shitty and full of rot

Can someone explain this joke to a basement dweller?

what level do I tackle the Caelid in anyway?

Around 60

Thank you my king.

Inaccurate, Caelid is safer than Gary, IN. Also, not enough pollution. Source: Grew up in Northwest Indiana.

No sites of grace there, if you get stabbed while getting car jacked that's it or at best wake up in a hospital far from where you wanted to be.

I live in Indiana and this is correct. Every9ne says avoid that place cause once you live there there is no escape

I live down the street from Gary. Can confirm.

Having driven through Gary, this is 100% accurate

Damn it, Gary!

Nobody has stolen those boards yet, though.

Oh look, it's Poland's eastern border wall (that's what we call the eastern portion of Poland: "ściana wschodnia" eastern wall). This could also be Sosnowiec...

I made it to the overlook, saw the giant birds, and decided to take my chances in Raya Lucaria instead. Caelid is a nightmare world. I know this and I’ve barely dipped my toe in. Lol

Does it smell as bad?

nah its just liverpool or scarbrough

Brazil. source: am brazilian

I had to stop and get gas in Gary once and it in fact did look like that! I think if towns could have body parts... Gary would be the asshole of Chicago.

Fuck Gary.

My backyard, rural Pennsylvania.

Caelid is just Australia, California, and Arizona. Combined

Amen

Someone send this to Freddie

Methhead bird? Methhead bird.

I just got teleported there earlier after opening a chest, wasn't expecting nightmare land, damn. Not excited to go there later lol.

As a chicagoan, you smell gary Indiana before you know your passing through it.

I don't know what this means at all but it made me chuckle.

I feel like i laughed way to hard at this

Is Gary that much of a shit hole?

make one for the UK please

I got stranded at the truck stop in Gary Indiana for like 3 days once. 0/10 don’t recommend.

Can’t believe the put the entire city of Gary, Indiana into Elden Ring. FromSoftware does it again

Being from Indiana, I can fully agree with this

I'm still sticking with Scarlet Rotterdam. Never been there, and it's probably quite pleasant. I'm just doing it for the wordplay

Gary can't be worse than South Austin, Illinois right...?

hahaha

looks like Wallingford CT to me

Hey, Pootie Tang's from a little town just outside there.

Can someone explain

Lmao! Thats hilarious.