Random happenings..

[OGLuke]

Who would like to have random events occur while playing GTANext?

 

Say using ex: Your in New Orleans and driving around in your voodoo, and you see a haitan gang beating the crap outta some poor stranger.

 

You could

A. Help him out, and receive gangheat*

B. Call the cops, starting a firefight or arrest sequence

C. Avoid the conflict

 

And same with RDR, there'd be like 100s of these scattered throughout the city for you to participate in or avoid.

 

such events include:

Car jackings

Gang shootouts

Bank Robberys

People Arrests

Hit and run

Drive-bys

pimp and hoe dispute

wife beater

crazy lunatic weilding chainsaw

graffitti taggers

Vandalism

Arsonist

Litterbug

6starkiller(just like your character a person would go on a 6star rampage attracting attention with the police/fbi/swat/and military forces.

 

 

 

Though here's a unique twist: Say you help out 50 strangers from gangbeating or other visceral attacks, then a cop will approach you and make you a citizen police officer, and bestow upon you a citizenship police badge, a knifestick, pair of handcuffs, and pepperspray.

 

Also with this perk, when cops are in danger or trying to subdue or takedown a suspect or enemy, you can open fire on them and not gain a star.

 

This has the opposite effect if you help out a gang, you can become a member of that gang, and rise through the ranks till you become a shotcaller

 

If youre not familiar with what a shotcaller is, it's someone who can control their very on group of gangsters. With this perk you can order hits on people or get backup from your gang.

 

I don know it was just something i thought would be cool to see in the next GTA game.

Edited February 25, 2010 by mr. libs

[DKTEAM]

Who would like to have random events occur while playing GTANext?

 

Say using ex: Your in New Orleans and driving around in your voodoo, and you see a haitan gang beating the crap outta some poor stranger.

 

You could

A. Help him out, and receive gangheat*

B. Call the cops, starting a firefight or arrest sequence

C. Avoid the conflict

 

And same with RDR, there'd be like 100s of these scattered throughout the city for you to participate in or avoid.

 

such events include:

Car jackings

Gang shootouts

Bank Robberys

People Arrests

Hit and run

Drive-bys

pimp and hoe dispute

wife beater

crazy lunatic weilding chainsaw

graffitti taggers

Vandalism

Arsonist

Litterbug

6starkiller(just like your character a person would go on a 6star rampage attracting attention with the police/fbi/swat/and military forces.

 

 

 

Though here's a unique twist: Say you help out 50 strangers from gangbeating or other visceral attacks, then a cop will approach you and make you a citizen police officer, and bestow upon you a citizenship police badge, a knifestick, pair of handcuffs, and pepperspray.

 

Also with this perk, when cops are in danger or trying to subdue or takedown a suspect or enemy, you can open fire on them and not gain a star.

 

This has the opposite effect if you help out a gang, you can become a member of that gang, and rise through the ranks till you become a shotcaller

 

If youre not familiar with what a shotcaller is, it's someone who can control their very on group of gangsters. With this perk you can order hits on people or get backup from your gang.

 

I don know it was just something i thought would be cool to see in the next GTA game.

Maybe.. Its sounds okay, but i don't know.

[Cheat]

That is indeed a good idea.

And also that you could like chit-chat with the random characters you meet and their missions would be done just slightly differently depending on the conversations.

The protagonist should interact with the world a bit more player-controlledly if you ask me, a bit of RPG effect on GTA's could be nice.

Too bad it would require too much debeloping to be real, though, but maybe..

[Mainland Marauder]

A lot of these elements would help bring the city more alive. Cops chasing after other people or getting in shootouts have been around for awhile but it'd be nice to expand beyond that. IV touched upon that some with the random encounters on the street, like with "comrade guy."

 

More open-endedness where your actions in freeroam can have an effect on the course of the story, e.g. heat with gangs or problems with the cops could work if developed properly. Maybe there would be a way to disable it the way you're able to "pause" the storyline in IV by using the sleep mode on your phone.

 

I was a fan of the RPG elements of San Andreas and the little things like keeping CJ fed, but I realize it got mixed reviews.

[Cheat]

I definetly agree with all you said, MM.

Bringing the city to life, oh yeah baby, that's what it's all about.

IV got pretty close to it with the random ped dialogues and chases and all, but evolving all that into a whole new level would make GTA V something perfect.

[maxopower]

I’m expecting lots of the RDR features to be ported to the next gta. And “random events” is definitely one of those things. It would also help create diversity through out the city. In the poor areas, crime would be everywhere, and in the riche ones, crime would be invisible.

[Lizard_King]

It sounded good until you started going off about being a citizen policeman. But random events make the city feel so much more real. I loved the jazz street musicians and the preachers, the homeless people that would beg you for change, etc. They should add muggers when you cut through certain alleys, where you can either give them money to leave you alone or fight them off. Random mobsters/loan sharks beating on a victim who you can help or watch die. The gangs who are enemies with your current employer should hunt you down. It would've been awesome if Dimitri would rarely send a sniper hitman or car of goons after you. Then you call him when you kill them all and talk sh*t to him.

[vincentmillidge]

the more of these things in gta the better.

 

a Ghost

Gnome (like the argentinian one on youtube)

a ufo

grave robbers

 

urban legends

crocodile in the sewers

if you leave your car when u get back in, occasionally(very rarely) someone will be in the back seat with duct tape stretched out

human organs black market(witness kidnappings, find the back street chop shop)

 

cults, whacked out religious ceremonies in the woods (the manson family style) maybe even being able to join a cult would be cool.

maybe even a family of inbreds deep within the woods

the city should have a couple of active serial killers that you can if your lucky see committing a crime or disposing of body parts (they should be talked about on the radio and by peds)

Human traffikers(if you hijak a van very occasionally there will be some illegal imiigrants in the back)

 

voodoo shaman, wild eyed preachers should rant on the streets .some of the ramblings should be in some way linked/clues to the protagonists story

there should a back street surgen/mad scientist (for health ,with the option of watching the operation) u should also be able to take the bodies of the people youve killed to him for experiments/cash.

a charismatic fagan/joker style leader of the bums and a collective of vagrants, crack heads, meth addict, homeless who scurry around the city always in the shadows whispering of conspiracies working for him

an escaped gimp who you can see running bound in chains out of a sex dungeon and across the street.

witnessing bar room brawls, domestic violence, road rage, muggings

maybe you may be picked up by a deranged cab driver who drives to the industrial area and trys to kill you.

a pick pocketer who bumps into you and steals a small amount of money

undercover cop prostitutes, drug dealers, pimps,

a masked vigilante who occasionally trys to get you

if your healths on red for an abnormally long amount of time occasionally you'll have a near death experience where everything goes warped

there should be masonic/illuminati references hints secret signals ie graffiti , peds comments, on tv , even on statues buildings, even secret gatherings which you can stumble upon etc etc.

There should be a flasher in the park

there should gangs of feral youths in hoods vandalising,robbing,fighting etc etc

burglars

maybe a group of bent cops will black bag you on the street randomly take you to a warehouse a threaten you

finding shallow graves in bush land

suicidal man/woman threatening to jump from a building or bridge occasionally. with cops and the crowds of peds below

random kidnappings ie a van pulls up 2 men jump out put a bag over a womans head and drive off with her as your walking down the street.

there should be a guy equally as dangerous as you and if you hijak him or bump into him in the street he will come after you in a very extreme way(maybe you'll get home and he'll be waiting in your bedroom! or hiding in the back of your car)

seeing a mob of paparazi photographing made up comedy celebrities outside a bar or restaurant

once or twice in the game a family member of one of your victims will hire a private investagater who will follow you about ..etcetc

a random ped who as walking past you mutters 'i'll burn the place down' if you follow him for long enough he will arrive at a factory which he will then proceed to set fire to.

scate boarders, bmx riders etc etc who do stunts/tricks Jackass style maybe one time one of them will dies in a ridiculous way if you dont witness it you hear about it on the radio

a murderous prostitute who entices you down an alley and trys to rob you

a group of mobsters putting a body shaped rug in the back of ther car and driving off.

 

obviously some of these are a bit out there but if rockstar puts these kinds of things in extremely conservativly (very very rarely)so you only very occasionally spotted summat then it would just add to the the atmosphere of the city/game.

Edited February 26, 2010 by vincentmillidge

[CorbzPMP]

I like the OP idea, i have thought about the same thing for a long time and i think it would be good to have in GTA. However not over the top like the guy above me because i feel it just wouldn't be GTA with a croc in the sewers or a UFO flying around.

[Mainland Marauder]

It sounded good until you started going off about being a citizen policeman.

Just stick to the good old fashioned Vigilante side mission, I'd say. Although maybe there could be a corrupt cop on your side giving you people to take out (who could conveniently be rivals of yours or somebody else you're working for).

[Tyler]

Alot of good elements but do not get carried away or GTA will start to become more like Saints Row, we wouldn't want that noe would we?

[Punk-in-Drublic]

I thought IV was sh*t in regards to this, where was the gang disputes? Police vs. criminal action? It was boring, the many times I had attempted to create a scene, it failed. Im always getting people arrested, its just boring, its the exact same sequence of events each time. Cop approaches criminal, asks criminal were he got the stolen credit cards, a police car arrives, criminal gets in, cops drive off. There was never any resisting arrest, no gun fights, I even tried to knock the cops over to help the criminals run away, but nothing would happen.

 

Do you remember in Vice city watching the Hatians vs. Cubans? I used to get a Cuban outfit on and join in, it was great. Even in San Andreas, there was random gang related crime going on.

 

One thing I loved about IV though was the mission Smackdown, when you're about to go into the house filled with criminals, I phones the police and they would come and have a gun fight with the criminals, it was fun to watch before going in and finishing it off yourself.

 

It would be great to have more of the "random characters", but ones that spawn randomly anywhere around the city.

[Mainland Marauder]

I've seen gun fights between cops and regular people in IV, but it seems to happen less often than in SA. I remember seeing one right around the corner from Niko's apartment in Bohan. I don't mind that street gangs were de-emphasized for once, which will make it more fresh if/when they go back that route. It would get boring to play basically the same game every couple years with just a few colors and gang names switched around.

 

All in all I like IV very much. I'm still playing it (granted, I only got my own fairly recently) - I don't think it was "sh*t" at all, just some things that could be improved upon. I look at the game as a starting over of sorts for the series, as III had been from the 2D games.

[Kwandilibro]

Who would like to have random events occur while playing GTANext?

 

Say using ex: Your in New Orleans and driving around in your voodoo, and you see a haitan gang beating the crap outta some poor stranger.

 

You could

A. Help him out, and receive gangheat*

B. Call the cops, starting a firefight or arrest sequence

C. Avoid the conflict

 

And same with RDR, there'd be like 100s of these scattered throughout the city for you to participate in or avoid.

 

such events include:

Car jackings

Gang shootouts

Bank Robberys

People Arrests

Hit and run

Drive-bys

pimp and hoe dispute

wife beater

crazy lunatic weilding chainsaw

graffitti taggers

Vandalism

Arsonist

Litterbug

6starkiller(just like your character a person would go on a 6star rampage attracting attention with the police/fbi/swat/and military forces.

 

 

 

Though here's a unique twist: Say you help out 50 strangers from gangbeating or other visceral attacks, then a cop will approach you and make you a citizen police officer, and bestow upon you a citizenship police badge, a knifestick, pair of handcuffs, and pepperspray.

 

Also with this perk, when cops are in danger or trying to subdue or takedown a suspect or enemy, you can open fire on them and not gain a star.

 

This has the opposite effect if you help out a gang, you can become a member of that gang, and rise through the ranks till you become a shotcaller

 

If youre not familiar with what a shotcaller is, it's someone who can control their very on group of gangsters. With this perk you can order hits on people or get backup from your gang.

 

I don know it was just something i thought would be cool to see in the next GTA game.

minus the cop thing, this is a great idea

[chris]

Thats a good point MM if anything IV is just the concrete of a brand new building, hopefully R* will look upon what went right and wrong in IV and improve it for the next game. I myself wish to see more random events upon the streets of whatever location they pick out for GTA NEXT, i miss the thug looking guys who would try to steal your car at traffic light in GTA III or the random planes you would see nosedive and explode in GTA SA, despite the realism of IV i think it still lacked those alot of those WTF! moments you got from previous titles.

 

Alot of the suggestions in this topic are pretty good and i hope that R* implement similar ideas in the next game, we can only wish as of now

[Cheat]

a Ghost

Gnome (like the argentinian one on youtube)

a ufo

grave robbers

Okay, now you're being weird.

We don't want to make it The Sims 4.

[mrpain]

Yes OP this is a good idea.

 

I remember a moment in TLaD where some of the Lost bikers were have a shoot out with some cops. I decided to help them and it was plenty of fun.

 

And in Vanilla IV, I punch one of the Spanish Lords and quickly ran away to a cop. The spanish dude punch me and the cop decided to arrest him. At first the spanish guy just stood there but a few seconds later, he takes out a pistol and quickly 'Double Tap' the cop. Epic stuff

[OGLuke]

Yes OP this is a good idea.

 

I remember a moment in TLaD where some of the Lost bikers were have a shoot out with some cops. I decided to help them and it was plenty of fun.

 

And in Vanilla IV, I punch one of the Spanish Lords and quickly ran away to a cop. The spanish dude punch me and the cop decided to arrest him. At first the spanish guy just stood there but a few seconds later, he takes out a pistol and quickly 'Double Tap' the cop. Epic stuff

thanks man and everyone else preciate it

 

and yeah while not exactly very random, i love the small gangbrawls you can get going with the gangs.

 

Now as for massive gangbrawls i know it can be done, cause in L@D i've had many moments where there will be like 30 gangsters vs 50 something cops onscreen all at once! Total Effn' massacre!

 

Oh and while im thinking about it, how about some random encounters relating to LA Noire?

 

You know you find a car full of chopped up bodyparts, and encounters like these would only be found in badhoods(like one poster mentioned and this is a good idea aswell)

 

In badhoods: You have what i call (Bad) encounters

 

In goodhoods: You have well (Good) encounters

 

so it would all vary in which hood your in and how your relationship is with the rest of the city.

 

Heres another one say for ex: You bully around the pedestrians, well the next time you try that one of the civilians may be an undercover cop and then you got a fight on your hands.

 

Or if you go around killing lots of gangsters, you may see a retaliation by either a driveby or a very angry hitsquad.

 

I mean it's alot to take in but i know it would be possible to have lots of random encounters in GTANext, and would put to rest the GTA wannabe clones.

[Hitman7G4ce]

Who would like to have random events occur while playing GTANext?

 

Say using ex: Your in New Orleans and driving around in your voodoo, and you see a haitan gang beating the crap outta some poor stranger.

 

You could

A. Help him out, and receive gangheat*

B. Call the cops, starting a firefight or arrest sequence

C. Avoid the conflict

 

And same with RDR, there'd be like 100s of these scattered throughout the city for you to participate in or avoid.

 

such events include:

Car jackings

Gang shootouts

Bank Robberys

People Arrests

Hit and run

Drive-bys

pimp and hoe dispute

wife beater

crazy lunatic weilding chainsaw

graffitti taggers

Vandalism

Arsonist

Litterbug

6starkiller(just like your character a person would go on a 6star rampage attracting attention with the police/fbi/swat/and military forces.

 

 

 

Though here's a unique twist: Say you help out 50 strangers from gangbeating or other visceral attacks, then a cop will approach you and make you a citizen police officer, and bestow upon you a citizenship police badge, a knifestick, pair of handcuffs, and pepperspray.

 

Also with this perk, when cops are in danger or trying to subdue or takedown a suspect or enemy, you can open fire on them and not gain a star.

 

This has the opposite effect if you help out a gang, you can become a member of that gang, and rise through the ranks till you become a shotcaller

 

If youre not familiar with what a shotcaller is, it's someone who can control their very on group of gangsters. With this perk you can order hits on people or get backup from your gang.

 

I don know it was just something i thought would be cool to see in the next GTA game.

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