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I live in ________ so GTAVI should be set in _____.
Seriously I don't see the appeal of Texas personally. I guess it would depend on time period as well, time period is super important I think. That's why Vice City is so great, Miami in the 80s is iconic.
I live in ________ so GTAVI should be set in _____.
Seriously I don't see the appeal of Texas personally. I guess it would depend on time period as well, time period is super important I think. That's why Vice City is so great, Miami in the 80s is iconic.
Y'all realize that GTA outside of America wouldn't even make any sense, right? I mean unless of course it de-emphasized guns and focused on melee combat like Sleeping Dogs. The entire premise of GTA as it stands is pre-eminent on American Gun Culture™ and high crime-rates - Two very specifically American things.
I mean I guess there's plenty of spots in South America that have those traits going for them, but as far as I'm aware it's always seen as problematic to use those particular settings - Even Max Payne 3 got a bit of a bad rap over it.
I mean I guess there's plenty of spots in South America that have those traits going for them, but as far as I'm aware it's always seen as problematic to use those particular settings - Even Max Payne 3 got a bit of a bad rap over it.
You sound like a person with a plan, just not very good ones.
lot of urban portions have a tacky exuberance that'd fit right in with GTA but it'd have to be done just right, like more along GTA4's realistic bent. GTA5's "parody LA" aesthetic definitely wouldn't carry over
"All these goddamned San Andreans moving in, jacking up the housing prices and the cost of living."
Texas would be a great location I think, and would give them a ton of material to riff on:
- The Gulf for some oil tanker hijinks + some environmentalism
- Big blue cities surrounded by deep red rural areas
- The border (and maybe a bit of Mexico?)
- Plenty of guns and cars
- Huge variety of landscapes and environments from the plains of the west to the forests of the east
- Multiple big well known cities with easy to skewer stereotypes
I say do it
- The Gulf for some oil tanker hijinks + some environmentalism
- Big blue cities surrounded by deep red rural areas
- The border (and maybe a bit of Mexico?)
- Plenty of guns and cars
- Huge variety of landscapes and environments from the plains of the west to the forests of the east
- Multiple big well known cities with easy to skewer stereotypes
I say do it
I think the Boston area + Rhode Island + Maine/Vermont/New Hampshire could be fun, but that might be considered too close to New York to bother with. Plus, outside of Boston, there probably would be much that would be recognizable.
Yep, plus Mafia 3 was already set in NOLA. It'd be kind of redundant to have GTA6 go back there.
Yep, plus Mafia 3 was already set in NOLA. It'd be kind of redundant to have GTA6 go back there.
I feel most of the big Texas cities are the exact same way.
San Andreas is basically a combination of Nevada and California. With the fictional Hollywood-esque Vinewood Hills.
I like the idea of a GTA to take place in a fictional Texas, but instead of JUST Texas why not another combined state comprised of a fictionalized Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana.
One of the things GTA typically pushes is a satirical take on American culture and events be it politics or commercial branding. The current climate of these kind of events for this might be a bit too on the nose. I'm sure a Breaking Bad ellusion could be thrown about somewhere in there.
I just really want to go back to Vice City... I especially don't want to go anywhere with any sort of desert or arid climate.
Texas Wouldn't be half bad plus we could see some red dead mechanics come over and add to the madness of Gta (shit like horses and lassos)
A GTA not set In the US would be very odd and probably not work but I'd be interested to at least see what it would look like
A GTA not set In the US would be very odd and probably not work but I'd be interested to at least see what it would look like
There's a decent chance the next GTA could release in 2022, which is the 20th anniversary of Vice City. So it better be Vice City.
ATL suffers the same problem as something like New Orleans: There's literally nothing else outside of it and the city isn't quite big enough. Seriously, there's nothing outside of a few low mountains that would be of any interest and it's too far away from the coast. At least NOLA would have the bayou areas.
For a game as massive as GTA you need a city that's correspondingly massive and that is recognizable to people outside of the region. If we're restricted to the US, Chicago and the Boston area are probably the only two areas big enough for GTA outside of the Big 3 areas done in the other games (NY, LA, Miami).
DC/Baltimore could also be an option I guess.
I don't think they can really do Vice City again. The whole point of that game was the mixture of the setting and the time period and they CAN'T just do "80s Miami" a second time.
New England area might be interesting. Wasn't there in fighting with the Irish Mob and Italian Mob in Boston or something?
New Mexico might be a good idea too just to see what GTA would do with a Breaking Bad esque twist.
Sure they can. A new generation of people to experience it that never played Vice City. Though I think they're going to miss the 80s nostalgia fever that's currently on it's way out.
Yeah. Combine that with the fact that unlike in the era when the original game came out, the current generation of young people who would be buying the game would have no context for the '80s and no understanding of its cultural memes. It would be an incredibly difficult tightrope to walk, and honestly it wouldn't really be worth it vs. actually telling a new story in a new city with new themes.
If they're not going to use Vice City in the era where Miami was actually culturally relevant, they should just pick a city they haven't used before. Miami isn't that visually interesting.
It really probably needs to be Chicago. Phoenix isn't big enough and it would just be surrounded by desert again.
I'm just kidding. Phoenix would be a shit location for GTA.
We just suck, that's why.