Key Takeaways
- Video games often include real-life experiences such as working, cleaning, or dealing with a landlord.
- Characters such as Tom Nook, Lord Divish, and Molag Bal represent various landlord archetypes in the game.
- Landlords in games like Allistair Tenpenny, Mayor Onion, and Silent Hill can be downright terrible.
Despite their status as one of the world's best ways to escape, video games are often based on real-life experiences. Sometimes you have to do menial labor to earn in-game currency. Perhaps you will find yourself sitting on a dock and fishing in a simple fantasy world. In any case, there are many instances where reality influences the game.
Scavenging, crafting, hunting, fishing, and working are all very common and incredibly fun ways to add some base experience to the game. Or the developers could irritate the players by adding the landlord everyone fears. These unscrupulous entities often lay the foundation for a game's conflict or progression system, but just like in real life, there are serious consequences if you don't pay for them. However, even the fairest and most vigilant homeowners can have nefarious personality traits.
7 Tom Nook
Arguably, Animal Crossing's Tom Nook is as delightful as a video game owner can get. And he's more of a mortgage broker than a landlord. But he will never seize your house and there is no deadline to pay off your debt. He also actively rewards you for paying off each home loan. Despite this, he always acts as a thorn in the side of all the villagers.
Tom Nook's modern incarnation is somewhat friendlier, while the older version of the raccoon squire is less flattering.
In the original Animal Crossing game, he willingly repainted the roofs of his villagers, much to their antics. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, it's strongly implied that his supposed 'charity' is fake.
As we delve deeper into the story of Animal Crossing, we might find ourselves thinking again about the harmless raccoon dog (or tanuki, according to the original Japanese version). Nook is virtually Economic owner of everything. He runs the town's general store and manages the bank. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, he also runs his own shady 'charity' for a town called Boondox. So even if he isn't a terrible landlord, Mr. There are definitely a few skeletons in Nook's closet.
6 Lord Divisch
Warhorse Studio's immersive historical simulator is the first and last place you'll meet your homeowner. Technically, there are no modern landlords in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Instead, we have historically accurate feudal landowners. But paying off the landlord suits the game's fanatical adherence to realism.
In a way, an innkeeper is a landlord. But the worst landlords in medieval Bohemia can be found in the game's From the Ashes DLC. If you thought paying for your house was bad, try paying Lord Divish for the whole village. You become the bailiff of Pribyslavitz. But land is not free. If Henry fails to make Pribyslavitz profitable, Divish regains the land. And yes, it is. This also means you won't be able to complete the DLC quests.
5 Molag Bal
There are plenty of properties available for purchase in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, but Markarth has one of the worst (or best, depending on who you ask) homes. Technically it has no owner. You can take it for free, so there is no rent. But as Tyrannus said, there is something sinister about this stone house.
In addition to cobwebs and broken furniture, the abandoned house now has a demonic tenant. The Daedric Prince of Damnation is a very active resident, demanding literal blood sacrifices. It's an unpleasant rental fee, but the dragonborn must also consider the prince's first greeting. After all, Molag Bal doesn't take them on a tour of his fancy house. Instead, he forces you to kill Tyranus before trapping you in a cage with spikes.
4 Alistair Tenpenny
Collecting rent during an apocalypse is bad enough, but Fallout 3's Allistair Tenpenny may be one of the most questionable post-apocalyptic landowners. A native of post-war England, Tenpenny made his fortune renovating abandoned high-rise buildings. The selfishly named Tenpenny Tower is the expensive home of the Capital Wasteland elite.
But it's not elitism that tarnishes Tenpenny's name. No, his actions earned him the title ‘Worst Landlord in the Waste Land’. Despite the apartment being clean, Tenpenny refuses to take in even the wealthiest ghouls. Additionally, Tenpenny recommends destroying the entire settlement to improve the view from his penthouse. He shows no concern about the loss of life, and never expresses anything other than joy at the completion of his quest.
3 onion market
For a game about cute vegetables in a nuclear wasteland, Turnip Boy Tax Evasion features a surprisingly realistic villain. Although technically a mayor, the appropriately named Mayor Onion also serves as Turnip Boy's landlord. Now, of course, Turnip Boy have Committed massive tax fraud totaling $140,000. Still, revoking the deed to his greenhouse seems like an extreme measure.
Turnip Boy, of course, is on a mission to collect things so Mayor Onion can get the deed to his house back. During his adventure, he discovers a lot of dirt in a multi-level market. In addition to recklessly chasing citizens away, Mayor Onion has been planning to become the ruler of all vegetables. Paying taxes and renting it to someone is bad enough, but letting it go full cyborg mode and take over the world is a step too far.
2 South Ashfield Heights Apartments Owner
If you move to a place associated with Silent Hill, you can be sure you will have the worst time of your life. You will live in a perpetual fog and find yourself surrounded by eldritch horrors beyond your imagination. Oh, and you too yet Pay rent. All of these problems combine to make the apartment complex owners in Silent Hill: The Room a top contender for the world's worst landlord.
An unsightly hole in a bathroom wall isn't the only problem at a South Ashfield Heights apartment.
Fleshly horrors beyond human understanding lurk everywhere, and many supernatural changes disastrously ignore countless regulations.
A massive spiral staircase is not safe without a sturdy handrail. Likewise, large pools of blood are a verifiable biohazard.
Above all, the building owner somehow fails to recognize that the protagonist has been locked in his room for five days. This doesn't include the many horrors that befall buildings throughout the game. It becomes clear that Henry is not the only tenant suffering. Hellfire, monsters and scary ghosts bother me everyone I live in a South Ashfield Heights apartment, but no one seems to notice. Or maybe the landlord just didn't care to fix the supernatural hole in Henry's bathroom wall.
1 knife
In games where you can be a landlord, there is always a way to become a benevolent landlord. Beholder, a dystopian bureaucratic simulation, denies such privileges. you definitely have The option to be a good landlord and person. A full quest line is also provided to improve your moral standing. However, it is nearly impossible to complete the game without losing it.
After all, you are more than just a homeowner. You are Carl, a tool of the dystopian surveillance state. Receive rewards for spying on guests, reporting their everyday crimes, and stealing a few of their belongings. You will be given a meager wad of cash to support you for these violations. your family. In that sense you of course Terrible landlord – but you're still terrible.
