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Should GTA VI be set in Texas?

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nikos

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Definitely not. We have Red Dead for that, which is how we "city slickers" (as Texans would probably call us) visualize Texas.

Since GTA generally focuses on sensationalizing American stereotypes, it needs to be set in the US and the only interesting areas are NYC, LA and Miami. Next one should be back in Vice City.
 
Quample

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Oahu/Honolulu is my vote. You could surf/wind surf, scuba dive, submarine, sail, all that. It's got a great balance of varied beautiful nature and city.
 

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I'd like Vegas, with perhaps a smaller landmass than GTAV but the ability to go in any building and any door. By extension the huge casinos become part of the open world.

Nobody has really done Las Vegas in an open world yet, atleast not that I know of.

The most important thing Rockstar does in GTA is to fix the goddamn controls. I don't care where it takes place of the aiming still feels like a PS2 game.
 

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Washington DC with it adding Baltimore and the Appalachians into it as well. Maybe go as far north as Pittsburgh.
 
ThatCrazyGuy

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I've thought about this. I think Texas could be good. Compress all the distinct areas together. Houston is very multicultural. Oil shenanigans. Gulf area. Do some crazy dumb nasa shit. Blue cities vs rural red. Weed missions to Colorado. Mexico border stuff with cartels. Desert out west, do some no country for old men stuff. East Texas is very different. Have Oklahoma Indian casinos. There are guns everywhere. Do a militia storyline or ice/border patrol satire.

If you compressed Sa, Houston, Austin, Dallas, El Paso.
 
SeriousGoku

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Please no. God.

if it HAS to be the US again, then it should be Vice City, as well as the tropical islands that lie between Miami and South America. As well as some of South America itself (Colombia, etc)

Set it in the 80s

Let me buy an island.

Thats the current rumour anyhow, and it sounds awesome.
 
MetalGearZed

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I think the main that I want is for it to not be present day. Give me 80s, 70s, or even 60s. I also really hope we get writing/story of the quality of RDR1&2 this time around.
A mafia/crime family game that feels like Goodfellas or The Sopranos set in Liberty City would be my dream.

If not, I'd gladly take another Vice City.
 
ElMexiMerican

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I've said this before, but I really really really want a R* game set in the Midwest. It's a region of the US that isn't typically represented in a big budgeted game, but with how R* tells its stories it'd be a perfect opportunity to lampoon on it.
 
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nikos said:
Definitely not. We have Red Dead for that, which is how we "city slickers" (as Texans would probably call us) visualize Texas.

Since GTA generally focuses on sensationalizing American stereotypes, it needs to be set in the US and the only interesting areas are NYC, LA and Miami. Next one should be back in Vice City.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Texas is full of city slickers...
 
Governergrimm

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I mean we have sprawl, deserts, forests, ugly beaches, drug cartels, hipsters, professional sports, F1, and a bunch of other stuff. The problem is the state is soooo big. We have all that but it's so spread out. It would be ok but I can just imagine the chracature they would make us out to be.
 
Yourfawthaaa

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Nah. go overseas to somwhere we havent been yet.

japan
India
Australia
somewhere in Africa
Canada
MEXICO <<< I've always wanted a GTA set there.
 
Sargerus

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I kinda want a Rural GTA. The rural counties in San Andreas were my favorite locations in the game.
 
nded

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Not enough crime movies set in modern-day Texas for the Housers to crib from. Vice City seems a likely setting for the next game, followed by something based on Chicago, Detroit or Boston. D.C. would be a fun one.
 
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Alastor3

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Make it Florida and it would be like real life
 

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I'm on the Vice City train too, it'd essentially complete the trifecta of cities from the GTA3-Vice City-San Andreas trilogy with IV-V-VI
 
Hydrus

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I want a different country. Also fuck no to New York again. Liberty city is BY FAR the most boring setting in the GTA series.
 
Nimurai

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If it returned to vice city it would have to be 80s again, which they won't do. Fuck modern day Miami. Boring as shit.
 
grand

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Considering most of Texas's culture is fake (aka Cowboys) or generic (aka Midwest Big City), I doubt there's much that would benefit a GTA game. It's the same reason why Chicago doesn't get a GTA game
 

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I want a brand-new location. Outside of the US preferably, but I'd take a new region like Florida or something.
 
The Unsent

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Los Venturas + Bone County (Online DLC inspired by Mad Max)

I know it's obvious but I believe it's the best contrast to Los Santos. Washington DC would probably be better for satire and story but this combo is probably better for the gameplay and replayability and online.

On the other hand I think more snowy setting and blizzards could get slow and old for gameplay but yeah that's obvious.

If Rockstar don't mind going out of their comfort zone a bit, the old rumour of Vice City and a part of the northern carribean makes sense and is a logical expansion with the scope. (A Cuban island was also in RDR 2) I think that would replace GTA V's lastability.
 
The Unsent

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I think we'll cringe at San Andreas being announced again with Las Venturas and Bone County, then end up loving it.
 
Stiler

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What about one that isn't set in a huge city but instead tackles a more rural style of area and map, with less focus on a huge number of tall buidings (that you can never enter) and instead more on houses/shops and other things scattered around that you can actually go into a lot of and interact more with tihe npc's and things.

Think of something like say, Justified style.

Less of a "big backdrop" and more focus on small detailed interactions with things, revamped combat, npc dialogue/choices, and a more open style mission design, that would be far more interesting to me then "Look at yet another huge city that looks cool but offers no real big gameplay lchanges."
 
Rental

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DC-Baltimore-Philly combo could work. GTA 95 Corridor. Cities have varying personality between them and all easily connected where it could be a broad storyline with different arches.
 
aerie

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I think somewhere in Texas or specifically Atlanta would make for a great setting. I'd be down for either of those approaches.
 
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