[GillianSeed79]

It's a less well known game but ever since I played the Warriors I've really wanted to see Rockstar do more game adaptations of old films. Logan's Run as a game would be awesome.

[MrCunningham]

because that would be awesome.

Indeed. I really just want a surfing game with realistic water physics now.

But a grittier Hawaii five-0 inspired setting, would be pretty nice too.

[Night_Trekker]

The American West. on pc lololol

[Host Samurai]

I have 100% faith in Rockstar that they can create a sick anime styled cyberpunk game. It seems like the devs at Rockstar have a love for anime based on ONI and those animes that you. An watch in Gay Tony. They would nail a Japanese setting probably better than most Japanese devs.

[RedSwirl]

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

I definitely think that's a part of it, but I think if they tried they could bring appeal to a space setting.

I don't think it would be a Star Trek kind of thing though. Probably closer to the environment of Star Wars' bounty hunters and smugglers, or Firefly (what I know of it). Basically crime drama, but in space.

[Dresden]

The streets of India.

I think they could really nail a dirty, eastern near-future dystopican scifi setting though. Add in a healthy dose of noir and black humor.

[bomma_man]

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.

Well sure, but I think Rockstar have found a niche that they'll probably try and maintain. There is a lot of competition in the sci-fi space (lol), not so much in the western space. Or high school simulator space. Or 50's detective space. I'd rather see them adapt settings that we rarely see in gaming.

Ignore Max Payne, it ruins my argument

[Grayman]

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.

The name would rock
GTA: GTA

I always thought they should do a theme like detroit and a city across the lakes with snow added to the random weather.

[Arcteryx]

Blade Runner.

This.

Or some kind of Samurai/Pirate game.

[Dragonzord]

I think Dubai would be a cool setting, but they'd have to do so much interior stuff. I honestly see Saint's Row ending up there instead of GTA.

[bengraven]

Industrial age England.

Make it so.

[Freezie KO]

Something delightfully Jewish. A musical, perhaps.

Fiddler on the Roof Theft Auto?

[FunnyBunny]

Revolutionary War.

I came here to post this. It's a criminally underused setting for games and Red Dead Redemption wet my appetite for games set in other time periods.

[bomma_man]

I came here to post this. It's a criminally underused setting for games and Red Dead Redemption wet my appetite for games set in other time periods.

Assassins Creed 3?

Also it was a war of independence, not a revolution :p

[Retro]

The name would rock GTA: GTA I always thought they should do a theme like detroit and a city across the lakes with snow added to the random weather.

I could see them doing a play on Detroit / Chicago. Mostly flat, spread out but not an endless urban sprawl like LA. Where there's not so much a sense of a giant city but a very distinct downtown and then lots of stuff around it.

Detroit is ripe for caricature considering the state of the auto industry, Michigan politics and the economy in that area. You'd have areas like Flint that are just, very run down midwestern areas, and then across the map you have places like Grosse Pointe where the executives live.

Chicago is similar; a nice metropolitan downtown and then just lots and lots of space around it without feeling like a complete blight. Neighborhoods like Oak Park contrast with places like Gary and the infamous Chicago projects like Cabrini Green. Lots of rail transportation in the area and O'Hare.

The Great Lakes setting also gives you an excuse to have lots of boats, bridges, etc. to divide the city up. I could see it as an amalgamation of Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo/Niagara. The whole region hasn't really been done and it's ripe for mockery; kind of the borderlands between the Rust and Bible Belts. Oh, and the climate is different, you could actually set it in winter. Midwest cities in the winter are all over the place between drab and depressing and gorgeous. New York obviously gets snow but somehow it doesn't feel like it has a chance to stay put and turns into a grey plowed mess.

Kinda surprised they haven't done it already.

[UrbanRats]

The streets of India. I think they could really nail a dirty, eastern near-future dystopican scifi setting though. Add in a healthy dose of noir and black humor.

Cyber Punk in India would be cool.

[kittens]

It'd be so awesome.

[PSY・S]

Everyone's said it already. A Blade Runner/GitS styled game would be cool.

Cyber Punk in India would be cool.

Steampunk would be even cooler.

[OnimaruXLR]

Something with lots of melee combat. Rockstar isn't super great at it in the way that Kamiya or Itagaki are, but Bully and Warriors both worked pretty well as old timey beat-em-ups, and I'm curious as to how such games would work with Euphoria animation.

Ideal options: Turn of the Century China (VS the Boxer Rebellion), Occupied China (VS Japanese military and the axe gang), really-old timey New York (Like the Warriors, except immigrants instead of colorful comic book characters)

Maybe a game based on Lone Wolf and Cub that makes the ruling daimyo guys look like like the same kind of giant toolsheds that anyone with any iota of authority always is in a Rockstar game? Or maybe a game where you're a soldier in the the splintered factions vying for control of the crumbling Roman Empire...

[gabbo]

It'd be so awesome.

If you're going to go Metropolis on them at least use this one:
Myself, I'd prefer a full on swashbuckling pirate adventure or Depression era Chicago.

[Freezie KO]

Ew. Gross. They remade Fritz Lang's masterpiece as an anime?

Oh, sorry. Umm... on topic: Rockstar should make a game in a world where they remake classic films into shitty animes. Or something like that.

[Jarmel]

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.

Exactly, that's why they would make an excellent fantasy or science fiction game. Other than Blade Runner, another franchise that would be a great fit would be Battlestar Galactica.

[bomma_man]

Exactly, that's why they would make an excellent fantasy or science fiction game. Other than Blade Runner, another franchise that would be a great fit would be Battlestar Galactica.

I'm fighting a losing battle here.

I'd like them to make a unique game in a previously unexplored genre, rather than a unique game in a genre that's been done to death. I'm not saying they wouldn't make a cool sci-fi game, they would, just that there are already plenty of other cool sci-fi games out there (Deus Ex etc), but there aren't all that many games in genres that the entire industry (aside from Rocktar) seems to have no interest in. Get me?

edit: and I don't think you really understood what I was saying in the first place. Rockstar games are appealing because they are based in reality. There is no magical fairies, space ships, aliens, elves, trolls. There is nothing supernatural in their games. They may be satirical and over the top and based on film more than real life but there is nothing otherworldly. That's where their appeal comes from.

[Jarmel]

I'm fighting a losing battle here. I'd like them to make a unique game in a previously unexplored genre, rather than a unique game in a genre that's been done to death. I'm not saying they wouldn't make a cool sci-fi game, they would, just that there are already plenty of other cool sci-fi games out there (Deus Ex etc), but there aren't all that many games in genres that the entire industry (aside from Rocktar) seems to have no interest in. Get me? edit: and I don't think you really understood what I was saying in the first place. Rockstar games are appealing because they are based in reality. There is no magical fairies, space ships, aliens, elves, trolls. There is nothing supernatural in their games. They may be satirical and over the top and based on film more than real life but there is nothing otherworldly. That's where their appeal comes from

Quite frankly I doubt they will ever do a scifi game as the company seems as a whole attached to the idea of America and playing against that. Even in MP3, that was a clear thread. Doing a scifi/fantasy game, you would have to detach yourself from that. They might do a cyberpunk game in a futuristic version of America but again I doubt it as it seems they are very comfortable with their niche. I also doubt they will do a game in a different timeplace like say rural Japan in the Meiji era or something like in the French Revolution.

I definitely agree with that. Hell that was a failing in MP3 to an extent but they seem to really stick to it. That's why I would like to see them step out of their comfort zone and see how they would ground something that isn't traditionally grounded.

[bomma_man]

Quite frankly I doubt they will ever do a scifi game as the company seems as a whole attached to the idea of America and playing against that. Even in MP3, that was a clear thread. Doing a scifi/fantasy game, you would have to detach yourself from that. They might do a cyberpunk game in a futuristic version of America but again I doubt it as it seems they are very comfortable with their niche. I also doubt they will do a game in a different timeplace like say rural Japan in the Meiji era or something like in the French Revolution.

And although I'd like them to branch out to other countries (there is Bully remember?) I'm glad they do that because no one else does. It really annoyed me when the sci-fi twist of Assassins Creed was revealed, and the supernatural bits in Uncharted. It's like developers feel like they have to add something unreal just because they can.

[RedSwirl]

Ew. Gross. They remade Fritz Lang's masterpiece as an anime?

Sort of. It's actually based on an old manga by Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy). Tezuka was inspired by a poster of Lang's movie but probably never saw it himself.

[Acrylic7]

The land of Ooo
or Blade Runner
... Logan's Run

[Lulubop]

Midgar.

[joe2187]

Ew. Gross. They remade Fritz Lang's masterpiece as an anime?

As a fan of the original, The anime is actually pretty good, really great looking animation.

I would love to see them do a Metropolis game, Imagine how epic it would be.

[Freezie KO]

I would love to see them do a Metropolis game, Imagine how epic it would be.

Great universe, but... just let it be.

[bomma_man]

Great universe, but... just let it be.

Someone should make an expressionist game though.

[Beautifully Shaped Monsters]

I think they should just redo GTA: London

London 1969 is an awesome setting, and the soundtrack would be epic beyond belief.

Failing that, the western setting worked really well, but maybe let them go back further, i.e California/Yukon goldrush or the civil war, the 1860s is a really interesting time period in American history.

[Freezie KO]

Someone should make an expressionist game though.

Without taking on the name of the film (in case the game sucks), I would love to see a game with art direction like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I think some Psychonauts level had this.

[bomma_man]

Without taking on the name of the film (in case the game sucks), I would love to see a game with art direction like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I think some Psychonauts level had this.

That's exactly what I was thinking of. Yeah Psychonauts is probably the closest thing there is, completely suits the premise of the game too. I hope that new Pixar movie is a straight up clone.

[les papillons sexuels]

Reykjavík

[Phoenician_Viking]

Open world fantasy game would be amazing.

[bomma_man]

Open world fantasy game would be amazing.

Never seen Skyrim hey?

[overburning]

Blade Runner.

This so much.

[Acrylic7]

Samurai Jack

[mikeysteena]

1970's Glasgow

Switchblade gangs and the Ice Cream Wars

[Net_Wrecker]

Blade Runner is my #1 answer. Sci-fi but still really moody and atmospheric with a world that's perfect for what Rockstar does best: Action/crime. I really don't want Rockstar touching high fantasy settings as part of their appeal is the gritty, grounded crime stories they tell.

[Garcia el Gringo]

My dream is for Rockstar to straight up take on the Mass Effect universe, GTA IV style.

Well, at least a space opera.

[StarEye]

Blade Runner would indeed be interesting, but so would a pirate game.

I'm also probably one of the few who would love to see an open world action/rpg Monkey Island spin-off. A game that perhaps takes place between MI2 and 3, or even before LeChuck becomes undead or something like that. And no, I don't want to control Guybrush, since he is all about puzzle-solving and not so much about fighting. Some people would say that the world isn't really unique and is more about the three main characters, but I agree and disagree at the same time. A point'n'click Monkey Island wouldn't be the same without Guybrush, LeChuck and the voodoo lady. But an action/rpg would be different.

However, I'm not sure I would like to see Rockstar making that game, since they're more about sarcasm and satire than traditional humour. So either Blade Runner, or an original Pirate game.

[IamMikeside]

GTA: 5th Element would be amazesauce

[Jtwo]

Uhhhhhm.. CARMAGGEDON.



Duh.

[Albino_Samurai]

Neo Tokyo

[Whoompthereitis]

70s blaxploitation would be pretty cool.

[bomma_man]

1970's Glasgow Switchblade gangs and the Ice Cream Wars

70s blaxploitation would be pretty cool.

Two excellent choices.

[overburning]

My dream is for Rockstar to straight up take on the Mass Effect universe, GTA IV style. Well, at least a space opera.

This too, GTA on the Citadel.

[Zekra Dezivad]

Everything, but just give it a break with Liberty City.