Rockstar came close to making Grand Theft Auto: Tokyo

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seems like it would have been boring

idk shit about tokyo but i dont see them being as diverse as a major american city like LA.....you got the burbs, the hood, the country and the people, clothes, cars, and businesses to match those areas.....everybody has a place

it would be cool to be able to travel to a few different countries via plane on the new GTA tho....main setting still in the US as always but let us fly out to the islands and Tokyo, Paris, Etc.....
 
HafBayked;8871937 said:
seems like it would have been boring

idk shit about tokyo but i dont see them being as diverse as a major american city like LA.....you got the burbs, the hood, the country and the people, clothes, cars, and businesses to match those areas.....everybody has a place

it would be cool to be able to travel to a few different countries via plane on the new GTA tho....main setting still in the US as always but let us fly out to the islands and Tokyo, Paris, Etc.....

Tokyo is quite a diverse city in terms of character. You've got a busy network like Shinjuku, the commercial sector like Shibuya, the ridiculously opulent Ginza, the technology district of Akihabara, the more youthful district of Harajuku, the more peaceful and arty Ueno, the modern Roppongi, the Odaiba waterfront, the more traditional Asakusa, etc. You have to realise how massive the place is and the different districts do have their own characteristics.
 
I swear they need to do New Orleans, before, during & after Katrina. I think ima start a storyline and script for it. See if I can push it. I already got it played out in my head. It'll be based on one character, black guy who never left the projects. Gets caught up with rednecks who dispose bodies to alligators in the swamps. Then he gets caught up with some shady government people and starts doing missions concerning the levies (without actually blowing them up). Katrina hits and he has to survive the flood. After Katrina he begins his rise to power by blackmailing the government based on his people saying they heard a bomb go off.

You got Bourbon St. The swamp/ Bayou. The projects. Shit could be dope.
 
Turfaholic;8872251 said:
I swear they need to do New Orleans, before, during & after Katrina. I think ima start a storyline and script for it. See if I can push it. I already got it played out in my head. It'll be based on one character, black guy who never left the projects. Gets caught up with rednecks who dispose bodies to alligators in the swamps. Then he gets caught up with some shady government people and starts doing missions concerning the levies (without actually blowing them up). Katrina hits and he has to survive the flood. After Katrina he begins his rise to power by blackmailing the government based on his people saying they heard a bomb go off.

You got Bourbon St. The swamp/ Bayou. The projects. Shit could be dope.

Sounds like it could stand on its own...no GTA

You made me think of the movie Waters Rising....if you ain't seen it look it up....a game spin off of that would be dope

Some survival type shit...
 
The Grand Theft Auto series has never left the US—or its fictional account of it, anyway—but apparently it once came close to boarding Air O for a trip to Tokyo. According to our friends at TechRadar, a source close to Rockstar says the developer was "serious" about making a GTA set in Tokyo, but pulled the plug after assessing the difficulty of moving the series outside the US. According to the source, Rockstar even made a trip to Japan to scope out the city.

TechRadar also notes that in 2003, Rockstar applied for trademarks to protect "GTA: Tokyo" and "GTA: Bogota," and though the news was reported at the time, I don't recall it causing much of a stir. I think we all assumed: Sure, GTA can go anywhere, sounds good! But TR's source says that Rockstar decided against changing GTA staples like cars and brands. Speculation on my part factors in how much GTA has embraced itself as satire of American culture since then—to do the same for Japanese culture in GTA's not-exactly-nuanced style would be such a departure that I can't see it ever happening.

But while GTA: Tokyo may never exist, TR's source says that GTA 6 is in development (no big surprise), though a location hasn't been decided. I expect it'll be at least a couple years before we hear anything official on it. The gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was about five years, which would put GTA 6 in 2018 or 2019, if history repeats.

We've reached out to Rockstar for comment, and will update this story if we hear back.

 
1CK1S;544185 said:
The Grand Theft Auto series has never left the US—or its fictional account of it, anyway—but apparently it once came close to boarding Air O for a trip to Tokyo. According to our friends at TechRadar, a source close to Rockstar says the developer was "serious" about making a GTA set in Tokyo, but pulled the plug after assessing the difficulty of moving the series outside the US. According to the source, Rockstar even made a trip to Japan to scope out the city.

TechRadar also notes that in 2003, Rockstar applied for trademarks to protect "GTA: Tokyo" and "GTA: Bogota," and though the news was reported at the time, I don't recall it causing much of a stir. I think we all assumed: Sure, GTA can go anywhere, sounds good! But TR's source says that Rockstar decided against changing GTA staples like cars and brands. Speculation on my part factors in how much GTA has embraced itself as satire of American culture since then—to do the same for Japanese culture in GTA's not-exactly-nuanced style would be such a departure that I can't see it ever happening.

But while GTA: Tokyo may never exist, TR's source says that GTA 6 is in development (no big surprise), though a location hasn't been decided. I expect it'll be at least a couple years before we hear anything official on it. The gap between GTA 4 and GTA 5 was about five years, which would put GTA 6 in 2018 or 2019, if history repeats.

We've reached out to Rockstar for comment, and will update this story if we hear back.

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stopped reading after that....
 
Swiffness!;8882058 said:
bruhhhhhh Turfaholic onto something GTA Katrina would be fuckin crazy lol

Thanks, I low key needed that right now. About to to look for some paper lil turf hasn't wrote on and let my imagination free.
 
Turfaholic;8872251 said:
I swear they need to do New Orleans, before, during & after Katrina. I think ima start a storyline and script for it. See if I can push it. I already got it played out in my head. It'll be based on one character, black guy who never left the projects. Gets caught up with rednecks who dispose bodies to alligators in the swamps. Then he gets caught up with some shady government people and starts doing missions concerning the levies (without actually blowing them up). Katrina hits and he has to survive the flood. After Katrina he begins his rise to power by blackmailing the government based on his people saying they heard a bomb go off.

You got Bourbon St. The swamp/ Bayou. The projects. Shit could be dope.

Mexico, Texas and New Orleans for this story. He starts working with the cartel and El Cheapo to go against the government and realizes they all the same.
 

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