Hello!
Time to share some more Beyond Sunset lore! Do you know that our Sunset City is basically San Francisco?
In 1968, San Francisco has been completely destroyed by a massive earthquake people started calling “The Big One”. But humans adapt fast and on the ruins, a new high-tech city was built. This new highly modern city is Sunset City. Later on, the MetaCorp was founded and the MetaComputer was created… and the rest you will find out for yourselves *wink wink*
In our world, San Francisco lies on an active fault line and the whole area is extremely prone to earthquakes. “The Big One” is a predicted earthquake that geologists expect will happen in the next hundred years. It's not without precedent either, in 1911 San Francisco was devastated by the biggest earthquake in California’s history. Let’s hope it won’t happen too soon.
If you look closely, you can see some similarities between San Francisco and Sunset City. For example, the West Sunset Mall in-game is based on the Ray Bradbury building from Blade Runner (and Ray Bradbury was a great sci-fi writer, btw.).
We’ve also tried to replicate the climate of San Francisco as best as we could in GZDoom. San Francisco’s bay area is well-known for its iconic rolling fog every morning and we captured it here:
What else would you like to know more about?