This-Gen Grand Theft Auto

[castro]

Honestly, where else can they go after GTAIV on the current gen consoles?

I've been telling my friends for years that they need to make a MMO grand theft auto game. One of these days, I hope Rockstar will wake up and smell the coffee.

It's almost inevitable that online play would be added eventually, I just hope that they do it like other MMOs with thousands of people on a server, that would be so badass.

Just look at a game like FFXI, the one thing that game has to it's credit still is that it's a cross-platform MMO, with people playing on the xbox360, ps2, ps3, and pc all connecting on the same game server. It can be done, it just takes a kick ass networking team like they got at square-enix.

[toefer2]

I agree that GTAIV will kind of be used as the engine to build a few spinoff titles with.

Aside from that, I don't really know how I feel about GTAIV. I don't know if it was the delay that did me in, or if I just feel tired of the concept in general.

I was a young little 13 year old when I randomly saw GTA 1 in a store, and decided to buy it, and I got hooked. The game looked like a piece of crap, but it was fun.

Now 11 years later, it just doesn't seem fun anymore. Playing San Andreas, at times, felt like a chore. I felt like I was only playing it just to try to beat it, not to actually have fun.

And now, I kind of feel like the series is taking itself too seriously, at least compared to its early days. "Let's make the game more real". Let's not. The ridiculous-ness of the early games is what made them fun. At least to me. But I guess its time for something new.

People joke that the Wii is a sort of novelty concept, but I feel like the GTA series is as well. You can only hijack cars and pickup hookers so many times, before it all seems rather old.

[Sadaiyappan]

I want to see a GTA4 engine based game of london in the 60's.. just like the original series was like that they had a london in the 60's game..

[Sadaiyappan]

The basic concept of GTA will never get old for me sort of how I will never get bored of gangster films. There will always be newer gangster films with newer stories but people always come back to watch them. They don't think, "Oh I have seen gangster film already I am bored with the genre." They come back to watch again anyways. I think GTA is like that. James Bond is like that too it has a cult following and there is always a new movie released for the new generation.

[BhindBluEyes430]

At leat Rock star still has their same old sense of humor
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