grand theft auto: ...

seeing as red dead redemption is essentially just GTA: wild west, what other areas, aesthetics, moments in history, or whatever would you like to see them tackle

GTA: steampunk anyone?

star wars?

superhero noir

the crusades

my office

on a submarine

how would that work?

haha it wouldn't - I was thinking of GTA games that would end in less than 5 minutes

middle-earth

"oh shit you killed the captain - oh shit you need to pilot the submarine to avoid the coral reef - oh shit you rammed into the reef & flooded the submarine & you died, game over thank you for your $70"

LOST

hyrule

GTA: juillard w/integrated guitar hero engine

sci-fi but in a clapped-out 70s mode, logan's run, the old battlestar galactica etc

The Crusades would be amazing, imagine Red Dead-style attention to detail applied to Assassin's Creed I's gameworld.

I'm not an Xtian but the Life of Jesus would be ace. Drive-by blessings, cops replaced by persecution squads, arcade missions to turn all the tables over in 2 minutes, epic 40-day boss fight with Satan in the wilderness, hot coffee with Mary M etc etc.

tron
zombie world
romans
vikings
flintstones

a great one would be some kind of caribbean pirate island hopping ship based gta

could do an urban vampire thing. it'd be a hit.

Samurai. or Mahabharata.

le samourai

i think the fun thing about GTAs is that they dont do fantasy settings like "steampunk" or "urban vampire."

also who needs more games like that

yeah I'd be down for more historical games mostly.

let me air out my daydream of a 20s chicago gta again

late 60s east berlin

gangs of new york

"I never knew the old Vienna before the war with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm. Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the black market. We'd run anything if people wanted it enough and had the money to pay. Of course a situation like that does tempt amateurs..."

gravity's rainbow

- 50s/60s London
- US civil war or war of independence eras
- general North American colonial era stuff (ie east coast settlement rather than wild west)

to get a little war nerdy, i don't think i'd want to play anything in the colonial era. who wants to spend 60 seconds reloading after every shot?

sci-fi but in a clapped-out 70s mode, logan's run, the old battlestar galactica etc

would love this. and why i loved Damocles on the amiga so much, with it's flat bright polygon models felt much like this

good point about the reloading, didn't consider that. can you tell I don't play shooty games very often?

well if it was more about scarlet pimpernel fencing type ish, and the occasional gunshot i'd be ok with it (but we have the assassins' creed games already, which i've never played)

soviet moscow

feudal japan is a good idea
conquistador
ancient greece
han china
asterix
19th century transylvania
blade runner

akira

discworld

ha xp was going to say blade runner too

john woo hong kong movie

asia-pacific island despotism

space shuttle discover

Feliniaville: Catbeast's favorite vacation destination

felliniville?

there was an expansion disc for the og gta that was set in late 60s london. may've been pal only?

yeah gta: akira would be sick. i always thought midgar in ffvii was loosely based on neo tokyo

kinda bummed out that The Saboteur is supposed to suck as I would love a sandbox game set in contemporary Paris or France; or do it like San Andreas and have it be Paris, something on the Mediterranean like Cannes or Nice, and maybe something in the Alps (even Zurich or Geneva would work, they're French enough).

actually I would totally rock a GTA set in Mexico also, like the border but also Mexico City and say Acapulco or Cancun.

GTA: Jacques Mesrine

grease wd be good
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/grease-game-detailed-dated

70s blaxploitation

twin peaks

70s blaxploitation

― afrika spambotaa and the hulu nation (m bison), Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

video games are so quasi-racist already i shudder to fuckin think

a 60's era hells angels deal might be kinda awesome

l8 90s westchester, ny

i would also be down with a modern day crooked cop protagonist option

also bootlegger sim - but that might be what goole is going for in 20's chicago i suppose

70s blaxploitation
― afrika spambotaa and the hulu nation (m bison), Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

video games are so quasi-racist already i shudder to fuckin think
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:35 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

done by the team behind resident evil 5

I always find myself wanting to be the cops in GTA games, so... a reimagining of Police Quest 1, with all the accurateish procedural stuff around filing reports and following correct protocols and shit. Start as lonely traffic cop, eat donuts, work your way up, make "moral" decisions about corruption etc.

gta: blue shift, I like it!

to get a little war nerdy, i don't think i'd want to play anything in the colonial era. who wants to spend 60 seconds reloading after every shot?

― goole, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 2:16 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

They'd never go for it, but I wouldn't mind playing one of these without any guns. I'd like the multiplayer to just be dudes having dashing swordfights up and down castle stairs, swinging on chandeliers and climbing down tapestries.

okay, ancient egypt. please!

I always find myself wanting to be the cops in GTA games, so... a reimagining of Police Quest 1, with all the accurateish procedural stuff around filing reports and following correct protocols and shit. Start as lonely traffic cop, eat donuts, work your way up, make "moral" decisions about corruption etc.

― tomofthenest, Friday, May 28, 2010 9:54 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

gta: blue shift, I like it!

― cozen, Friday, May 28, 2010 9:56 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

they could do a third extra for GTAIV as a cop and i'd play the hell out of that

erm guys, APB?

(i haven't actually played it, but isn't that a gta:cops theme?)

i don't know what that is!

it's an old, dead amiga/atari ST/PC franchise

p.god but proto-GTA at best

p.good, even

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/21/bbc-grand-theft-auto-take-two-suit/

thirty years war

https://i.imgur.com/lykrAc1.png

Huh

how in the Mfing F did I never pick up on that

GTA but it’s only cheap ass red $7k Pontiac sedans like they gave away on TPIR

Apparently trailer for GTA VI arrives in December. I've never played any of these games, but I own GTA V, and will get around to it eventually.

The game itself is fun to play but the fifth one is where the stryline and dialogue's meat-headed """satire""" congealed into noxious misogyny. Unless VI comes out for the Switch (LOL) there's likely no chance I'll get to play it (I think I'm playing No Man's Sky for the rest of my days anyway).

Series peaked with Gay Tony for me, or maybe that time I murdered someone to the tune of John Waite's Missing You in Vice City.

It’s a running joke innit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8d5jvjarA

I thought that was really well done. Though I guess in this case Rockstar explicitly confirmed it.

We are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto. We look forward to many more years of sharing these experiences with all of you.

Thank you,
Sam Houser

— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) November 8, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0

Surprise drop??

Anyway, I haven't played a R* game since GTA4, I'm not sure this is going to change that streak tbh.

You haven't played Red Dead 2?

No interest in the Wild West (I didn't play RDR1 either). Plus their games don't feel good to play.