[RedSwirl]

Not necessarily for a GTA game since they seem to have branched out from that.

I'm sure other people have noticed this, but ever since Bully Rockstar has been branching out with games in different settings that follow the same basic format as GTA: sandbox gameplay, various missions spread throughout, big focus on story, well-directed cut scenes. They've just been bringing that format to settings that wouldn't necessarily "fit" with the words "Grand Theft Auto".

It also seems to me like each game they do can be roughly equated to a movie:

GTA3 = Sopranos (I haven't actually played it so go ahead and call me on this one)
Vice City = Scarface & Miami Vice (same)
San Andreas = Boyz n' the Hood
GTAIV = Niko was inspired by that dude from Behind Enemy Lines? (yeah IV is probably the exception)
Bully = Problem Child (or any 80's and 90's American school movie)
Red Dead Redemption = Unforgiven
L.A. Noire = L.A. Confidential
Yakuza = Battles Without Honor and Humanity ;)

What setting would you want to see them tackle with this gameplay format?

Personally I think I'd be interested in seeing some more historical settings explored in sandbox gameplay (yeah yeah Assassin's Creed but whatever). A part of me wants to see Rockstar attempt a Samurai game styled like Yojimbo or the Zatoichi films, with the same basic plot as Red Dead, as sort of a play on the westerns that were based on Kurosawa's films. In my mind, ideally it would be a collaboration between them and a Japanese company like Capcom who would provide the voice actors, art direction, and adapt Red Dead's story.

[speedpop]

A Rockstar samurai epic would be cool, but I feel that they would get it all completely wrong unless someone within the hierarchy lived and breathed those type of movies and history. Then you have the fact that there would be a high chance that it would be done in English making the whole thing seem unnatural.

I mean after all they are one of the best weavers when it comes to stories about redemption and revenges and shit, which is what half of those old flicks were about.

[Para bailar La Bomba]

Yakuza = Battles Without Honor and Humanity ;).

Not sure if serious.

[NeoGohan]

Hyrule

[Gahiggidy]

Hocotate.

[Sliver]

Seoul, South Korea.


That would be the coolest thing ever.

[UrbanRats]

Oni 2.
Open world cyber punk game.
Think Ghost in the Shell, think Akira.
Neo Tokyo - Neo Hong Kong

DO IT R*, DO IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!

(NSFW footage from GitS' film)
http://youtu.be/z2mXrndt1ZI
http://youtu.be/uK8V9jG7Wjg

[speedpop]

Seoul, South Korea. That would be the coolest thing ever.

But make it set in the 1980s.

[randrews]

I'd love Japanese crime game set in the 1960s inspired by the nitkatsu yakuza movies of that era. It'll never happen, but damn would it ever be cool.

Id also like them to take 1980s Hong Kong action cinema and Korean revenge movies.

[AgentChris]

Blade Runner.

[KevinCow]

Steampunk world.

[revolverjgw]

An Italian Giallo in the Argento/Fulci/Bava style. How that would translate to an action game, I don't know. I guess make it something like Heavy Rain. I'd love to hear what they dig up for the soundtrack.

[Style Fox]

How about the future? I'm sure they could think of a lot of awesome stuff.

Blade Runner.

Yeah.

[DrBo42]

Blade Runner.

This. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[Totobeni]

Oni 2. Open world cyber punk game. DO IT R*, DO IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!

This.million times this.

[speedpop]

Going on the samurai tangent, I think they should do a medieval epic since it would be a heck of a lot easier to screw around in that type of setting. Knights, horses, fucking mythical dragon maybe, tonnes of kings and queens and lords and barons and mistresses. It would be like A Song of Ice and Fire except with more crazy hijinks.


But the obvious choice is a pirate or steampunk (as mentioned, Blade Runner style) theme.

[Freezie KO]

The Little Mermaid.

[Izick]

Blade Runner.

Was going to say sci-fi, but this is more specifically what I would want.

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Revolutionary War.

[theBishop]

Fallujah. You play as an Iraqi citizen fighting against the US occupation.

[Gartooth]

Blade Runner.

We have a winner. Can't really explain it, but the setting just feels "right" in association with Rockstar.

[Conciliator]

Poverty and desperation-ridden streets of the great depression would be cool.

Similarly, a 1950s universe that includes both 'typical' views of 50s white middle-class wholesome Suburbia mixed with all the other shit that actually happened in the 1950s

[Angry Fork]

Blade Runner.

.

[Platy]

The Little Mermaid.

DuckBurg.

Half 1950 cartoon gta, half cartoon indiana jones.


Or Roman Empire, full of gladiators and religious subplot

[Evolved1]

I want them to look at Shadowrun on the Genesis, realize it was kind of a precursor to what they'd eventually do with the 3D GTA games, and then bring it full circle: Open world cyber punk reimagining of Shadowrun Genesis w/o actually calling it Shadowrun. Most of the game would be in the vein of Max Payne 3 TPS combat and the hacking would be an elaborate turn-based RPG. The blueprint is already there for a pretty cool game, and has been for decades.

[TheNatural]

80's action cheese ALA Commando, Seagal, Rambo, or Van Damme movies.

[Guevara]

Hyrule/Tamriel/fantasy setting, etc.

I'd just like to see their take on it.

[Jarmel]

Blade Runner.

This or a space opera akin specifically to Mass Effect 2.

[RedSwirl]

Going on the samurai tangent, I think they should do a medieval epic since it would be a heck of a lot easier to screw around in that type of setting. Knights, horses, fucking mythical dragon maybe, tonnes of kings and queens and lords and barons and mistresses. It would be like A Song of Ice and Fire except with more crazy hijinks.

A specific medieval setting I have in mind would be Britain circa 1013 AD. If you don't know, the British isles were basically being ripped apart by vikings around that time. Potential for a lot of violence and moral ambiguity there.

A Samurai setting of course would only make sense if they got help from a Japanese company that could provide voice actors and the actual storyline.

[Santiako]

Pirates of the Caribbean.

[Platy]

Ok ... maybe the most original take would be OTHER disney propriety instead of Ducktales ...


Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers !

Small city, even smaller Main Character

Set to the old school James Bond feel

[maxxpower]

Heaven.

[Evolved1]

Pirates of the Caribbean.

Only if on next gen hardware. Pirates would be so cool and I imagine they could do some awesome multiplayer...

[Platy]

Heaven.

Rockstar making a Heaven game GTA like ?

I expect nothing less than

[MrCunningham]

Blade Runner.

The closest they ever had to that was Grand Theft Auto 2's weird quasi -futuristic world.... which really wasn't like Blade Runner at all. :P

Rockstar Also had a 70's street gang New York setting with The Warriors (well it was based on a movie), a 60's London setting with GTA London, and a China Town setting (ChinaTown Wars).

.Maybe they could have a 60's era Hawaii five-O setting? Give te main character te ability to surf... why? I don't know.

[Spazznid]

Oni 2. Open world cyber punk game. Think Ghost in the Shell, think Akira. Neo Tokyo - Neo Hong Kong DO IT R*, DO IT BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! (NSFW footage from GitS' film) http://youtu.be/z2mXrndt1ZI http://youtu.be/uK8V9jG7Wjg

I thinks it's high time Oni got a sequel and if it came in the style of GitS I'd Vomit cupcakes and rainbows... that's how amazing it would be. Future/steampunk games are due for a comeback VERY soon and it would be a great thing if Onii® was at the forefront of it all.

[invaderzim69]

London 1888. I would like to catch Jack the Ripper. Solve the case.

[mysticwhip]

Rockstar didn't make L.A Noire

[Dragonzord]

A pirates games or New York in the late 60s/early 70s.

[Mxrz]

As a fan of Rockstar & Movies in general, I dislike those movie comparisons! Vice City works, maybe.

I want to see them in Space. Full blown space pirate-trader-GTA. So good.

[Grayman]

The closest they ever had to that was Grand Theft Auto 2's weird quasi -futuristic world.... which really wasn't like Blade Runner at all. :P Rockstar Also had a 70's street gang New York setting with The Warriors (well it was based on a movie), a 60's London setting with GTA London, and a China Town setting (ChinaTown Wars). .Maybe they could have a 60's era Hawaii five-O setting? Give te main character te ability to surf... why? I don't know.

because that would be awesome.

[Dead]

Space GTA or bust

Where the cars turn into robots

[bomma_man]

I think the strength of R*, and why they have so much mainstream appeal, is that they stay firmly grounded in reality and ignore the tedious sci-fi and fantasy tropes that infect 99% of videogames.

They should do a Shoot the Piano Player/Breathless style 60s France
Takeshi Kitano style meditative yakuza
The Third Man style post war Europe
Colonial era Hong Kong/Shanghai
70's/80's Australian mullet culture
Late 80's early 90's English acid house culture set around The Haçienda

[someguyinahat]

Canada. Anywhere in Canada - let Rockstar Toronto or Vancouver play around a bit. I couldn't care less whether they made a GTA based on Toronto, a Bully-style game in the small-town prairies, or even a game set during the Yukon Gold Rush. I'm sure Americans wouldn't mind playing a game set north of the border.

They'd totally mind. It wouldn't sell 50,000.

[RedSwirl]

A pirates games or New York in the late 60s/early 70s.

1860's New York (or Liberty City) would be an interesting choice.

[PinkCrayon]

They need to go to space. Not a GTA style game though.

[toddhunter]

I think the strength of R*, and why they have so much mainstream appeal, is that they stay firmly grounded in reality and ignore the tedious sci-fi and fantasy tropes that infect 99% of videogames.

Fantasy maybe, but future/sci fi and open world is still something that can be done really well.

Hover cars, mind control, lasers, teleporters.

You know, like syndicate could have been.

[CrazyDude]

Agent is suppose to be the spy game, right? I really want that.

[theBishop]

If Rockstar goes sci-fi, I don't want Space. I want something like The Matrix, or Inception. A world which is a malleable representation of the real world.

[Neiteio]

Something delightfully Jewish. A musical, perhaps.