• cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Not disappointed in the trailer or the game or anything, but I would’ve loved to see a GTA set in a city outside the US. For example in a London-like city or Tokyo or Rome or Paris.

    But yeah this new GTA looks sick. They did a great job in capturing the new fucked up Florida vibe.

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      If Rockstar wanted to bring back London '69 (maybe '89 now?) I wouldn’t be mad at all.

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        I’ve always dreamed about this one, London 69 updated in their recent style. I think they talked about this before and the problem is the cops in London didn’t carry guns then so it made it difficult to be a GTA game in the typical sense.

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      They have police in those city.

      All 2022 Rome had only 16 homicides… And street are too small and traffic is too bad for a grand theft auto… Rome is good for spy stories, thriller or stealth games. GTA wouldn’t really work

      In London not even police has guns… Having someone hanging around with a gun is too unrealistic, more than Harry potter

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      Sleeping Dogs is probably as close as you’ll get. That’s a great game btw.

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      1 year ago

      USA as a very car centric country is definitely best suited for a car centric game like Grand Theft Auto.

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      I always assumed GTA to be a broad parody on modern America. From the beginning it was a new York esque mob-gang warfare, and then moved out to add in more usa adjacent scenery. It’s more about keeping with the theme, let IPs like watchdogs take the initial risks.

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        1 year ago

        Good point. And Florida has become crazy enough that a GTA game set there is almost realistic.

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      I’d like it just set in any new city outside of these 3. It’s always been a rotation of Liberty, Vice and San Andreas, even back to GTA 1 (which was the 3 cities in one)

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      The Florida vibe is definitely oozing from this trailer. I can almost smell it, and quite frankly I’m disgusted. Bravo. I would’ve preferred the next GTA being somewhere else, but maybe this it exactly where it belongs.

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      i dunno if they find enough whacky criminal characters. Seems to be the other countries are still too normal or things are too fucked up for the series to work there.

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      I want them to spin off another top down style gta game, I love the 3d but it would be cool to see them iterate on the OG style.

      GTA 2 was my favorite

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        GTA Chinatown Wars was great when it released for Nintendo DS and the PSP. It was actually a really well done update to the GTA 2 style of gameplay that a lot of people missed because it was a portable game. It was available on iOS and Android, too, but not sure if it’s still there.

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        Idk… If it hasn’t happened with the Switch… Like they did with PSP and DS with GTA china town …