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GTA for PS3 - what setting?

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So uh... what setting would you like to see?

Modern has been done in GTA3, 80's in Vice City, 90's in San Andreas. So what's left?

70's?
60's (yuck)?

Some people keep saying "make it modern Japan", err what? I had my Japan fix in GTA3, thank you.

Personally I have no idea what can R* do, I know for sure that I don't want to play remixed GTA3, VC or SA with next-gen graphics.
 
I think they'll make it modern, as for the setting, no idea, I'd hope for a setting that's not in America, maybe Tokyo or HK or Europe.
 
a continent? Pah. The PS3 can render the whole Solar System in REAL TIME!

Make it GTA Milky Way. :O
 
I think it'll be set in "current time" (meaning whenever it is released). It would go with the intervals they have now:

1986 - Vice City
1993 - San Andreas
1998 - Liberty City
2001 - Liberty City
200? - ??????



And then there's the London 1969 add-on... not sure exactly when the first two were supposed to take place.

After they release the first next-gen GTA set in current time, they'll probably do something like the 70's next. Although they already did a pseudo-Vegas, so it probably wouldn't be "GTA Sin City."


It would be really cool if they make it so you could go into the TW@T Cyber Cafes and play emulated versions of the 2D GTA games (like the arcade games in Shenmue).

Lots of possibilities.
 
The future!
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(actual in game graphics!!)
 
Minotauro said:
Why would the 60's suck? It would seem to me that it would be ripe for satire...
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The 60s would be kinda good... I remember Back To The Future. It was a pretty cool setting. Very stylish, if done right!
 
Ruzbeh said:
The 60s would be kinda good... I remember Back To The Future. It was a pretty cool setting. Very stylish, if done right!
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Back to the Future was the FIFTIES ;)

Damn, just saying the title of the movie... now I feel the need to watch it.
 
Actually if GaF made the game. We'd have it set in the future (Blade Runner era), hover cars, women who prostitute themselves for free, virtual bj's, the ability to throw up and piss on people at the press of a button. Also, the ability learn ninja moves and take on the girls of DOA and also have a pet T-Rex via the ability to summon people /and or creatures from popular 90's era movies.

Oh and I think it'd be fun if it was in New York, Paris and or Mexico City.
 
StarscreamLSU said:
GTA: 1885

Set it in the Old West. Train robberies, steal cattle...
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Or, even better, they could set it in kind of a Wild Bunch-like time period. The majority of transportation would come from horses but cars would be present too. So, when you do get a car, it would be a big deal. The variety might suffer however.
 
Mooreberg said:
It would be really cool if they make it so you could go into the TW@T Cyber Cafes and play emulated versions of the 2D GTA games (like the arcade games in Shenmue)..
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All the console GTA games have been 3D. The only 2D ones were the GBC/GBA ones.
 
Nope, it will be set in the hills of Eastern KY. The theme will be moonshining and shooting each other over who their favorite wrestler is. :D
 
HokieJoe said:
Nope, it will be set in the hills of Eastern KY. The theme will be moonshining and shooting each other over who their favorite wrestler is. :D
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Haha, a white trash GTA featuring backyard wrestling, drug deals in the bayous, and becoming a morbidly obese bedridden gangsta would kick ass.
 
What about a game that featured a Fable-like timeline, where you start as a child in a corrupt world, grow into a dangerous gangsta, before clinging to power as your face challenges as an old man. A GTA like this would encapsulate several time periods and offer Rockstar a greater pool of inspiration to pull from.
 
I'd like to see something along the lines of Mafia but in the fifties. Imagine running people over with Sinatra in the background, sweet.
 
Russia could be interesting.

Belfast? ;) Heck, Dublin could be a good choice with the increasing gang activity here :/
 
The initial "hood" setting in GTA:SA was more of an annoyance than anything, IMO. The way Rockstar handled it made it really unappealing, if they went for a more somber or serious tone a la Menace II Society then it would've been a lot more interesting. Instead we've got Carl pretty much going off on "GUYZ WE GOTTA GET DA HOMIES BACK TOGETHA" and then Big Smoke going "GROVE STREET IS WHERE MY HEART IS BABY" yet his house has Ballas walking around in the backyard.

For the next GTA, I wanna see it done with a present day setting that mixes Yakuza, Hood, Triad, Mafia, etc. all in one. Similar to what GTA3 did. Also, I want it to be in ONE large city. I'd much prefer one big detailed megalopis rather than 3 medium sized towns like SA.


Just my two cents.
 
hukasmokincaterpillar said:
GTA: Rhode Island. With the next gen systems they could probably come pretty close to scale. And it dont get more bleak and gritty than Providence, RI motherfucker.
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With special guest star Peter Griffen
 
A game set in the US Northeast - Boston, NYC, Philly, and DC being the 4 cities in the game.
 
Rockstar is going to place it in a timeperiod where there was popular music so they can sell copies based on that fact alone.

Having said that, what I would like to see is gang alignment brought back a la GTA2
 
^^^
F'in right. I've been dying to cruise around Philly and blow my house up ever since THPS2 had Love Park in it.

I say make GTA: World set in 2065 with time-traveling for the decades of 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's plus the Paleologic, Greek, Roman, Medieval and Industrial times. Might need PS4 for this one.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
Top down, 2 dimensional:
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Err, they DID use sprites for objects and such, but the environments were 3D. If you've played them, I can't imagine how you might believe them to be entirely 2D.

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I imagine they would be going with the Asian or Hispanic gangs this time around. It would continue the theme from the other titles with each game concentrating on (except for 2 I think) a specific gang type such as Italian for GTA3 and Vice City.
 
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