Next GTA set in the 70's? (spoilers?)

Grand Theft Auto: London wouldn't be good now that I think about it. Wouldn't be able to get anywhere without being knifed by a bunch of kids with white hats and puffy jackets.
 
jimbo118 said:
GTA Tokyo. You know it has to be done.
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Pretty difficult to pull off tbh. I mean your talking about a complete cultural shift + Language + writing. Japans not exactly multi-cultural either, which might not be too much of a problem, but pretty much consigns your game to revolving around Yakuza, gambling, prostitution & drugs. I'd put more faith in a Japanese company to pull that off successfully, than Rockstar themselves. Also aside from lots of advertizing boards & skyscrapers I couldn't name you one landmark building in Tokyo tbh. Nowadays when I think of Tokyo I tend to think of this first and foremost:-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFR3y1u6-M

:rolleyes: :thumbs:

mastag said:
Grand Theft Auto: London wouldn't be good now that I think about it. Wouldn't be able to get anywhere without being knifed by a bunch of kids with white hats and puffy jackets.
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Is right, plus they'd fill the game full of mockney accents...
 
mastag said:
Grand Theft Auto: London wouldn't be good now that I think about it. Wouldn't be able to get anywhere without being knifed by a bunch of kids with white hats and puffy jackets.
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Killing chavs would be of the utmost fun.
 
Druckles said:
Killing chavs would be of the utmost fun.
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But the realization it was all a game would be a real dampener. Plus Rockstar would probably force you to be a Chav, probably in the mode of Brian Harvey (surely the poster child for all chavs...).
 
How about a GTA set in the future? That could be fun and would break the series' trend (much like BF2142 has).
 
ITT Shoes Buttback gets spam infractions.

I'd like to see GTA: Near Future Russia.
Immensely corrupt government. Brutal intelligence agencies using powerful corporations as tools. Rogue journalists. Ex-communists. Apperatchiks. The CIA. Isotopes. Old warheads. Chinese secret service. St Petersburg. Snow. Chechnya.
 
Sulkdodds said:
ITT Shoes Buttback gets spam infractions.

I'd like to see GTA: Near Future Russia.
Immensely corrupt government. Brutal intelligence agencies using powerful corporations as tools. Rogue journalists. Ex-communists. Apperatchiks. The CIA. Isotopes. Old warheads. Chinese secret service. St Petersburg. Snow. Chechnya.
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yeah i like it. You last a day and a half game time if you're not on your feet.


also, i wouldn't like to be in chechnya D:
 
I'd like to see Grand Theft Auto set in Africa, with a poorly voice-acted white protagonist. Instead of pedestrians everyone would just be zombified and chasing after you. You would have limited resources and have to rely on mixing herbs and a horribly convoluted aiming and movement system to accomplish anything. After each press release people would be debating each other across forums and other gaming media outlets about the game promoting racism and xenophobia.

No but seriously, I'd like GTA to go further back in time. I think Rockstar would do great things returning to the Bootlegging, lawless mafioso days. Crime family dramas are somewhat of a cliche in this day and age, but very rarely does somebody approach it with the finesse and comedic capabilities of some of the guys at Rockstar North.

I may be taking this topic out of the frying pan and into the friar in saying this, but I really dislike Niko as a character so far. I'm not finished with the game, but I just don't believe or relate to his character at all. Perhaps it's because the greatest struggle I've encountered in this country is closer to deciding between paper or plastic grocery bags than "Should I kill people in order to eat and secure wealth?". Now that the gameplay of GTA is less of a shock to me I began to rely very heavily on it's narrative which I can't seem to immerse myself in.
 
BHC said:
I'd like to see Grand Theft Auto set in Africa, with a poorly voice-acted white protagonist. Instead of pedestrians everyone would just be zombified and chasing after you. You would have limited resources and have to rely on mixing herbs and a horribly convoluted aiming and movement system to accomplish anything. After each press release people would be debating each other across forums and other gaming media outlets about the game promoting racism and xenophobia.

No but seriously, I'd like GTA to go further back in time. I think Rockstar would do great things returning to the Bootlegging, lawless mafioso days. Crime family dramas are somewhat of a cliche in this day and age, but very rarely does somebody approach it with the finesse and comedic capabilities of some of the guys at Rockstar North.
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"Resident Grand Theft Mafia"!?
 
I just thought that a very interesting setting might be Cuba and the tip of Florida during the late 50s and early 60s. It'd be a time when the Batista government, propped up by corrupt corporations, the US government and the mafia, is beginnning to fall to the popularist Castro. One presumes that the player could get involved either with the campaign to overthrow Batista, or with the American efforts to keep Batista in power, and then to overthrow Castro. Fifties hot rods, JFK on TV, missiles, jungle, stretches of sun-bleached road, mafia casinos and hotels, speedboats, drugs trade to the mainland via the CIA, rigging the Florida election so JFK gets votes, the Bay of Pigs...all fictionalised, of course.

Again, like with the proposed 'russia' scenario, what is cool about this is that it strays into pretty explicitly political territory, which is where things get particularly interesting. After all, Rockstar has never been shy about equating government with organised crime rackets.
 
Sulkdodds said:
I just thought that a very interesting setting might be Cuba and the tip of Florida during the late 50s and early 60s. It'd be a time when the Batista government, propped up by corrupt corporations, the US government and the mafia, is beginnning to fall to the popularist Castro. One presumes that the player could get involved either with the campaign to overthrow Batista, or with the American efforts to keep Batista in power, and then to overthrow Castro. Fifties hot rods, JFK on TV, missiles, jungle, stretches of sun-bleached road, mafia casinos and hotels, speedboats, drugs trade to the mainland via the CIA, rigging the Florida election so JFK gets votes, the Bay of Pigs...all fictionalised, of course.

Again, like with the proposed 'russia' scenario, what is cool about this is that it strays into pretty explicitly political territory, which is where things get particularly interesting. After all, Rockstar has never been shy about equating government with organised crime rackets.
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Considering the controversy regarding statements made in Vice City about Haitians this would certainly be an interesting move. It would be unavoidable commenting on the impact Haiti has on Cuba and vice versa. I'd love to see your setting, though. I almost wish Rockstar had done something that risky with GTAIV.
 
I would seriously like to see GTA set in biblical times. You could have all sorts of holy adventures across the world, killing infidels and crucifying non-believers. Either that or a grand theft auto set on another planet made from chedder cheese.
 
GTA: ST. Petersburg could actually be pulled off, with all the criminality mixed with old European architecture and culture. Chicago in the 20s could work too.
 
KineticAesthetic said:
Shh.

Also, it's funny that he thinks Willie is accomodating...

Also, I agree with Sulk.

Partially.

Not having played GTAIV.
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Wille hasn't given crap like you have. Thus he's accomodating to me.

And yeah I get infractions, but not 600 a month. I just got one on this thread....my thread. And just because I post alot doesn't mean I'm a spam hound. Yes, I have posted things "some" would look at as spam, such as an april fools thread which I still don't quite understand why I got an infraction for on a day which may as well be called internet spam day. I guess they had to make an example of someone and I'm the noob.

Like I said I'm not a spamer because I post alot. I'm an active user who sometimes make's an uh oh.
 
You have to help deal cheese on the streets and Gromit will be like, "facepalm", and when you drive really fast Wallace screams, "CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESEEEEEEEEEE!".
 
I'm pretty sure there are more references to Las Venturas than any other GTA-niverse city, but to be honest, that doesn't mean much. I reckon Venturas or London would be the two I would most enjoy a "GTA4-to-New York" style accurate representation of.
 
Shoes_Buttback03 said:
Wille hasn't given crap like you have. Thus he's accomodating to me.

And yeah I get infractions, but not 600 a month. I just got one on this thread....my thread. And just because I post alot doesn't mean I'm a spam hound. Yes, I have posted things "some" would look at as spam, such as an april fools thread which I still don't quite understand why I got an infraction for on a day which may as well be called internet spam day. I guess they had to make an example of someone and I'm the noob.

Like I said I'm not a spamer because I post alot. I'm an active user who sometimes make's an uh oh.
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Shut it.
 
GTA Earth, imagine in years to come a GTA spanned across the entire globe :D
 
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