Location...Location...Location

[Blkcasanova247]

Heya gang,
       After all these years of playing FF I realized something the other day...I have "absolutely" NO clue what state Patriot City is located. Where do you think it is?

[Cyber Burn]

Considering all the thugs running around, I would have to say California (part of the reason why I want to move away).

[yell0w_lantern]

Pennsylvania, of course!

[ow_tiobe_sb]

Pennsylvania, of course!

Specifically, East Stroudsburg.

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Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

[Blkcasanova247]

I might thought PA too for some reason...but I think it's a coastal city seeing that there was a battleship that was docked in the first game.

[Alaric]

Actually, Patriot City is pretty clearly based on New York City. I remember reading that originally they were going to just use New York as the setting, but they decided to alter it a bit and rename it.

[Blkcasanova247]

Hmmm...I tell ya it may be based on NYC but I still wouldn't say New York State...maybe another on the Eastern Seaboard?

[murs47]

Baltimore!

[Epimethee]

Either the Big Apple (as I also remember PC was supposed t be named first) or someplace in Massachusetts, as IG is in the Boston suburbs.

[cmdrkoenig67]

It has an Empire State Building (from  ), doesn't it?  

Dana

[Blkcasanova247]

Baltimore!

I was thinkin' Maryland as well or Virgina and Massachusetts.

[Alaric]

Naming a city "Patriot City" would certainly make sense for Massachusetts (where there's a state-wide holiday called Patriots Day). Still, it doesn't "feel" quite like Massachusetts (or New York, for that matter, despite the similarity in layout) to me... I'm going to say Connecticut. It's located between New York City and Massachusetts, and the "feel" of the game seems more Connecticut-like to me, somehow... And Connecticut is the only state that's both part of New England, and part of what we call the Tri-State Area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut), which kind of makes sense for Patriot City, too.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

Naming a city "Patriot City" would certainly make sense for Massachusetts (where there's a state-wide holiday called Patriots Day). Still, it doesn't "feel" quite like Massachusetts (or New York, for that matter, despite the similarity in layout) to me... I'm going to say Connecticut. It's located between New York City and Massachusetts, and the "feel" of the game seems more Connecticut-like to me, somehow... And Connecticut is the only state that's both part of New England, and part of what we call the Tri-State Area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut), which kind of makes sense for Patriot City, too.

Of course, Massachusetts has a great many minuteman statues not unlike the famous one that transformed Frank Stiles into Minuteman.  On the other hand, local miscreants like Pinstripe (and their accent) seem to place Patriot City in downtown Brooklyn (though, this is not to say that criminals do not travel)--and Frank Stiles was a scientist involved in the Manhattan Project, which had numerous sites on that well known New York island.  I think it fair to say that IG was attempting to quote all of the trappings and iconographic imagery preserved in the American nostalgic memory of a silver age metropolitan area, somewhere in the great industrial Northeast but not necessarily any one historical locale (but perhaps an amalgamation of several).  In any event, it seems clear that Patriot City is located neither in the Pacific Northwest, nor in the arid Southwestern states, nor in the humid Gulf Coast.

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Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

[yell0w_lantern]

Pennsylvania has a coast. It's just on a lake, that's all.

And wouldn't Patriot City be in the state that was the original site for the Capitol and where both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were signed?

[Blkcasanova247]

It might be "slightly" difficult to get a Aircraft carrier into Lake Erie. And honestly now I'm even more inclined top think it in Massachusetts because of this famous statue and National Park in Lexington....

Minute Man

[ow_tiobe_sb]

Pennsylvania has a coast. It's just on a lake, that's all.

And let's not forget the Delaware Water Gap!  One could dock quite a dinghy in those mighty waters, indeed.

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Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker

[Reepicheep]

Don't you see? Patriot city IS America!

[Blkcasanova247]

Yeah...it's like a nexus of all things USA.

[Tawodi Osdi]

I bet it ain't Kansas.