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11-02-2011, 10:11 PM
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It's San Andreas revisited, just like GTA4 was Liberty City revisited. Really kinda disappointed in that. How about a completely different setting we've never seen before? Why the hell not?
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11-02-2011, 10:50 PM
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Devourer of Worlds
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What about GTA Toronto? You get 5 alarms for littering.
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11-02-2011, 11:11 PM
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It looks like the main character in the trailer is Tommy Vercetti, the protagonist from Vice City.
I've never really gotten into the GTA games, but I think the makes the trailer pretty awesome.
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11-03-2011, 09:34 AM
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Re: GTA V
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It's San Andreas revisited, just like GTA4 was Liberty City revisited. Really kinda disappointed in that. How about a completely different setting we've never seen before? Why the hell not?
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I agree. GTA Moscow or GTA Hong Kong woulda been cool. With all the stuff going on recently, GTA Mexico woulda made sense.
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11-03-2011, 09:46 AM
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I agree. GTA Moscow or GTA Hong Kong woulda been cool. With all the stuff going on recently, GTA Mexico woulda made sense.
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I think GTA is always going to be a fictional city.
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11-03-2011, 03:22 PM
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John Lennon in '67
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I think GTA is always going to be a fictional city.
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Well its pretty obvious what cities they are supposed to be.
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11-03-2011, 05:04 PM
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The reason I think they're sticking with what they know is this, It's going to be long-winded. a long post by me? No way.
Anyhow, after Miami (Vice City), Los angeles (San Andreas) and new York (Liberty City), what other major visibly unique-looking cities are there in the US to model on? With those 3 cities you've got the northeast, southeast, and west coast pretty well represented. Chicago isn't a visibly-unique city. A non-American won't look at Chicago and say "yep, that's Chicago alright", but when they look at a picture of Miami, New York or LA, they typically know exactly what city it is.
A reason I believe they'll rarely do a GTA game set in another country is because other countries have different laws, different road rules, plus there's a disconnect between American player and foreign character. Your average American teenager living in...Akron, Ohio might not appreciate driving through bleak Russian wilderness, or Perth, Australia. However that American consumer can much easier connect with the game set in a fictional version of his own country (or even his own city). Granted that may be a stretch.
Plus, in all honesty, I think a GTA game in any city other than those 3 would probably vastly suck donkey taint. Those are 3 very large, visually diverse cities. You can't make an appealing game set in middle America when the game is supposed to be based on stunning visuals and a thriving city, and the setting is a place that doesn't show that off.
However, I do think it'd be a cool idea to be able to fly to different cities. Like you can just hop in a Taxi in GTA IV, just hop in a jet, and suddenly you've flown from Liberty City to San Andreas. Or maybe have side missions in other countries/smaller cities. That would be cool to me. But a Grand Theft Auto game sort of has to be set in a fictional version of a city with a lot of crime. Or at least a city with a lot of Grand Theft Auto.
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11-03-2011, 06:13 PM
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Chicago isn't a visibly-unique city. A non-American won't look at Chicago and say "yep, that's Chicago alright", but when they look at a picture of Miami, New York or LA, they typically know exactly what city it is
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I disagree with this. I think anyone with half a brain would recognize things like the Sears Tower, the Elevated Trains (EL), Navy Pier, Wrigley Field, Lake Shore drive, the Chicago river with the bridges in downtown, among others, and be able to recognize and know it is Chicago.
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11-03-2011, 06:40 PM
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I disagree with this. I think anyone with half a brain would recognize things like the Sears Tower, the Elevated Trains (EL), Navy Pier, Wrigley Field, Lake Shore drive, the Chicago river with the bridges in downtown, among others, and be able to recognize and know it is Chicago.
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The only monument that rings a bell from all of those is the Sears Tower, and I had no clue it was in Chicago. 
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11-03-2011, 07:30 PM
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Re: GTA V
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I disagree with this. I think anyone with half a brain would recognize things like the Sears Tower, the Elevated Trains (EL), Navy Pier, Wrigley Field, Lake Shore drive, the Chicago river with the bridges in downtown, among others, and be able to recognize and know it is Chicago.
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I think you're highly overestimating how much the rest of the world knows about what American city looks like what. And you have to remember, that since they can't re-create the city exactly, they need to focus on things that make the city different than other cities. Since GTA: Windy City wouldn't have anything overly unique that any other midwest city settled around the same time wouldn't really have.
Let's play a fun game.
It's called "Let's look at how much Chicago looks like Detroit to the untrained eye."
Now for part 2 of my fun game "Let's look at how unique New York, Miami and LA look."
Edit: This post is in jest, good sir. I should probably make that clear before I look like a total dick.
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11-03-2011, 10:36 PM
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Re: GTA V
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I disagree with this. I think anyone with half a brain would recognize things like the Sears Tower, the Elevated Trains (EL), Navy Pier, Wrigley Field, Lake Shore drive, the Chicago river with the bridges in downtown, among others, and be able to recognize and know it is Chicago.
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I can tell you with certainty that I would not be able to recognize any of those things except for the Sears/Willis Tower. I can also tell you with certainty that I have not just half a brain, but two halves of a brain.
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11-04-2011, 04:23 AM
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A reason I believe they'll rarely do a GTA game set in another country is because other countries have different laws, different road rules
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This is really interesting, I never would have thought of this. There's so much culture and jokes imbedded within the GTA games, I wonder if it is too hard to do in another country.
I wonder if Gekko has any insight on designing a massive engine like the one GTA needs. Maybe they could hire foreign programmers?
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11-04-2011, 04:39 AM
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