Myths/Legends

[Kwandilibro]

Now, I'm sure most of us remember the claims of Bigfoot and Leatherface in San Andreas, particularly around Whetstone and Back O Beyond(I was convinced that I saw Bigfoot on Mount Chilliad). And I'm sure at least some of us spent countless hours searching for these mythical creatures, who, in the end, turned out to be nonexistent ( ). But just think of the hours, even days of extra gameplay Something like an extremely rare creature or something could add to the game. Granted that there's a region of countryside or heavily wooded area, I think this would be a great addition to GTA.

 

Now, by "extremely rare", I don't mean nonexistent like SA. I also don't mean common, fairly common, rare, relatively rare, or considerably rare. I mean ridiculously rare, where intentionally encountering this creature would be almost impossible.

 

Plus, there could be some sort of ingame hunt to find the creature within a certain region. And, if photographed(with a camera, provided they return as well), a large amount of money would be awarded. And by large, I mean dogsh*tloads of money.

 

I don't know, maybe I'm just talking sh*t. But does anybody agree with me? Any ideas maybe?

[QwertyAAA]

[WDR]

Your idea seems very similar to RDR's bounty hunting. Except with the rare part and it's creatures rather than humans.

[jnzooger]

Sounds like the legendary animals in RDR. Except rarer.

[jamieleng]

Sounds like the legendary animals in RDR. Except rarer.

The legendary animals in RDR were piss easy to find in single player. I found each one within 5 mins of arriving in their territory.

 

I really hope they carry over all the animals from RDR into the next GTA. I think they just might, as I didn't see any backlash from the media & it was a game that got a lot of attention.

 

With regards to having a really rare animal in the game, sure why not. I don't know how they would make it that rare as I don't understand how computer programming works. For online freeroam the creature could only appear when a R* employee is playing, only you would never know when that would be.

[meson1]

I quite like the idea of putting a mythical something (UFO, creature, etc) somewhere in GTA. But for it to work properly, it does need to be so seriously rare so when it is mentioned, no-one believes it.

 

Now to do this properly I think you need to consider the following: there are millions of people that will be playing GTA for hundreds of hours. Sales of GTA:IV was 17 million copies (if Wikipedia is to be believed). The odds of encountering this thing need to be such that even people going looking for it are unlikely to encounter it. You need to be looking at odds of, say, with 20 million players playing 500 hours apiece, only 100 players will encounter it in that time.

 

And then, when they do encounter it, stop the ingame video from recording it and have it run away if the player tries to use any ingame cameras. It won't stop people from using third party tools, but it will make it extremely difficult to prove. Also make it so that it can't be damaged, so you can't go shooting it, running it over or otherwise immobilising it.

 

Thus it would be a proper myth that would cause countless hours of debate.

Edited August 12, 2010 by meson1

[Jabalous]

I don't believe in the existence of any kind of myth in any Grand Theft Auto installment . The reasons behind my disbelief is that I haven't passed by any kind of the supposed myths in GTA SA , all the pictures that were captured by different players , claiming that they finally got the Bigfoot , are nothing more than modding or Photoshopping . The unfalsifiable evidence against the Bigfoot is that Rockstar denied the existence of it :

 

 

Sasquatch Watch

Some say he roams Mt. Chiliad. Others have heard a beastly roar at the San Fierro airport. Hundreds of players insist that Bigfoot lives in San Andreas, and they're flooding the Net with grainy photos that'd make real-life Sasquatch stalkers proud. "There is no Bigfoot, just like in real life," says Rockstar CEO Terry Donovan--but we desperately want to believe. In fact, we'll give a free game to anyone with real evidence (a screen, polygonal pelt, etc.) that Bigfoot stalks the state. Send it to [email protected] with the subject line "Bigfoot lives!"

 

Source

 

You might have found indications for mythical creatures in Grand Theft Auto , but they don't really exist in the game's world , instead it's just a parody of the popular culture . In one of the newspapers in Red Dead Redemption , you can read an article saying that some people claim that they have seen spirits and ghosts in the haunted town of Tumbleweed , but the reporter on the scene hasn't found any supporting evidence for these claims . This doesn't seem a parody since RDR doesn't serve the same purpose of GTA , and they also have different design directions , but it's just a a re-representation of the people's beliefs in the old west . A lot of players went discovering Tumbleweed in hope of meeting a ghost or a spirit , but they didn't find any ghost , neither any spirit . You can consider this as a clever way from Rockstar to enrich their worlds by mysteries so that the players spend more time roaming these worlds .

Edited August 12, 2010 by FiS!!HeR

[Algonquin Assassin]

Interesting idea. I've always loved the idea of myths/legends, but I agree they should be almost impossible to encounter.

 

Maybe the way R* could do it is add a mythical creature to a ridiculously low number of copies of GTA Next. Lets say 10. Or better yet 2 copies per country GTA sells in.

 

Given that millions of copies get sold with each new GTA the chances of getting a copy with the creature would be stupidly low.

 

Even then if you got a copy it should be almost impossible to find. No set spawn spot, and no set time of showing up. It could literally pop up anywhere in the wilderness at anytime.

 

They should be treated like true myths/legends. In real life only a handful of people in a lifetime encounter something truly extraordinary. That's the way it should be in GTA aswell.

Edited August 12, 2010 by Miamivicecity

[Nova69_7]

Kwandilibro, I for sure remember the speculation and craziness surrounding 'Bigfoot' and the UFO's in San Andreas lol! People were utterly convinced he was in there somewhere...and I'm sure some people still are. I am almost certain that there will be myths and legends surrounding GTA:NeXt wether RockStar actually put them in there or not.

[Kwandilibro]

Sh*t, I was convinced that Bigfoot was in SA for a while. And then I saw that huge rock with the face of a monster on it. So of course, I went searching and searching. Now I never heard one roar, I never even bothered to look for UFO's, but I did look for Bigfoot for a while.

 

That being said, I was thinking that for very rare mythical creatures to be in the game, they would have to be almost impossible to find intentionally. And because of RAGE's graphics, it would be dark enough for people to have false encounters with "Bigfoot", which may actually be a bear or something. And in a certain area of a heavily wooded place(way more then SA), the creature would randomly spawn in certain places. It would also have to be fast moving, deadly, and a very well camouflaged beast.

 

And of course, the location would have to be some dark, foggy, ghastly place like Back O' Beyond/Whetstone/Shady Creeks. The type of place where the overall environment is so creepy, you might think a rock is a monster. Or perhaps a swamp if the location was VC.

 

I also think, to aid the "hunt", there should be animals, and in the area of the beast, there would be slain deer and other animals lying around.

 

Now, I'm hoping R* wouldn't f*ck up a feature like this. For example, it need not be too easy or common to find. It also shouldn't be so rare people don't believe it. It needs to be rare enough to be extremely hard to find, even harder to kill, and harder than that to photograph. But it needs to be there.

 

And one more important thing, it must not be required for 100% completion.

[Rede]

It can be done. Perhaps a rustling in the trees behind you but nothing there when you turn around. It could be pretty spooky with the surround sound.

[QwertyAAA]

It can be done. Perhaps a rustling in the trees behind you but nothing there when you turn around. It could be pretty spooky with the surround sound.

And then, while you're gunning down mooks in broad daylight, a man with geometry for a head leaps out at you from the window of a hospital nearby and kills the f*ck out of you with an oversized knife.

[Kwandilibro]

It can be done.  Perhaps a rustling in the trees behind you but nothing there when you turn around.  It could be pretty spooky with the surround sound.

And then, while you're gunning down mooks in broad daylight, a man with geometry for a head leaps out at you from the window of a hospital nearby and kills the f*ck out of you with an oversized knife.

Is it possible to have the f*ck killed out of you?

 

Anyways, mythical "people" would be a nice addition too(although I imagine very annoying if you encounter them).

 

I'm thinking a werewolf or some sh*t. A dude jumps out of the woods and tears you to shreds. And it just so happens that he's half man half wolf. He's also invincible, or at least close.

[Typhus]

Great thread!

I think we should at least have another serial killer. Given that Eddie Low was so brilliantly done.

 

And you know what? Bring back Piggsy! Sure, he died in Manhunt, but if this next game is a prequel then he could reappear. Plus, he's a lot scarier than Leatherface. Imagine hearing a pig squealing in the woods at night and then you hear his chainsaw rolling. People would sh*t bricks.

[BrownBear]

I am making a GTA Australia and i plan to add some sort of bunyip like creature myth.

[Nativedeem]

I hope myths like bigfoot and that weird cult epsilon return. it made the game so much more interesting and replayable.

[JTbrokerbridge]

lol i spent ages searching those forests some say it came out by fishers lagoon when its misty others say in back o beyond boy i felt like a tool when some punk from rockstar came out and said "bigfoot doesnt exsist in the game just like in real life" but i would love it if they put something like that in the game did you see how dense they had the forest in rdr perfect for some beasty

[Kwandilibro]

lol i spent ages searching those forests some say it came out by fishers lagoon when its misty others say in back o beyond boy i felt like a tool when some punk from rockstar came out and said "bigfoot doesnt exsist in the game just like in real life" but i would love it if they put something like that in the game did you see how dense they had the forest in rdr perfect for some beasty

I spent so much time looking for that f*cker because my game glitched on Mount Chilliad, and it looked like Bigfoot was standing on a rock beside a few trees. So here I go, spending hours looking for the bastard, and I Google it to see where he is. Turns out he's not real. f*ck.

 

Now I never really bothered with those desert myths, as I found the desert to be boring in SA compared to those back woods. I am hoping that R* will add some very rare beasts, some mythical creatures, or some serial killer out in the woods somewhere for us to search for. I mean, there were animals in RDR(and tons of them). I don't see why there can't be unusually large, unidentifiable animals that are super rare.

 

Of course, there needs to be countryside and large wooded areas.

[SnakeEater101]

 

I don't believe in the existence of any kind of myth in any Grand Theft Auto installment . The reasons behind my disbelief is that I haven't passed by any kind of the supposed myths in GTA SA , all the pictures that were captured by different players , claiming that they finally got the Bigfoot , are nothing more than modding or Photoshopping .  The unfalsifiable evidence against the Bigfoot is that Rockstar denied the existence of it :

 

 

Sasquatch Watch

Some say he roams Mt. Chiliad. Others have heard a beastly roar at the San Fierro airport. Hundreds of players insist that Bigfoot lives in San Andreas, and they're flooding the Net with grainy photos that'd make real-life Sasquatch stalkers proud. "There is no Bigfoot, just like in real life," says Rockstar CEO Terry Donovan--but we desperately want to believe. In fact, we'll give a free game to anyone with real evidence (a screen, polygonal pelt, etc.) that Bigfoot stalks the state. Send it to [email protected] with the subject line "Bigfoot lives!"

 

Source

 

You might have found indications for mythical creatures in Grand Theft Auto , but they don't really exist in the game's world , instead it's just a parody of the popular culture . In one of the newspapers in Red Dead Redemption , you can read an article saying that some people claim that they have seen spirits and ghosts in the haunted town of Tumbleweed , but the reporter on the scene hasn't found any supporting evidence for these claims . This doesn't seem a parody since RDR doesn't serve the same purpose of GTA , and they also have different design directions , but it's just a a re-representation of the people's beliefs in the old west . A lot of players went discovering Tumbleweed in hope of meeting a ghost or a spirit , but they didn't find any ghost , neither any spirit . You can consider this as a clever way from Rockstar to enrich their worlds by mysteries so that the players spend more time roaming these worlds .

That being said R* said there is SOMETHING in the woods but not what. I know i aint got a quote like you and you aint gotta belive me but it is what someone from R* said.

 

Anyway on to what I think. I think that there should and as you said incredably rare I would love a UFO or Alien maby... Ratman? but yeah something and R* shouldn't say anthing but maby in the debut trailer a clue e.g. if there is countryside then the player walking along with a shadowed figure in the back ground maby at night in the city behind cover shooting someone and in the sky an oval shaped light in the sky traverling faster than human aircraft.

Edited August 12, 2010 by SnakeEater101

[Spaghetti Cat]

^^^EDIT: Yeah right

 

You could do it for NPC's as well. I'd like to see an Elvis or Tupac hidden in the game. Or you could go to the theatre and see Michel Jackson in a janitor suit sweeping up. Something like that might be nice.

[Masterdevil90]

all what I can Say That mysterious Creatures Can't Be Really Here but You can See Things That It's Made by them Maybe It's Possible to See them But Everyone Will Get pics of them , that's why they removed it From San Andreas V1 or beta ones

[SnakeEater101]

Ok I dont know if this is true I aint saying it is but I heard that Bigfoot was in the game but in the beta then later removed. I personaly dont care (dont play SA no more dont work )

[Kwandilibro]

This convinced me that there were mythical beats in GTA.

[lukerock24]

great idea maybe we can have a digital camera as an item and if you get a photo of bigfoot you get a trophy

[Typhus]

I think a Werewolf would be cool. Especially if it only appeared during a full moon, a time calculated by the computer's internal clock.

But if you killed the ped who turns into the wolf, that would stop it for good.

[Tyler]

I think a Werewolf would be cool. Especially if it only appeared during a full moon, a time calculated by the computer's internal clock.

But if you killed the ped who turns into the wolf, that would stop it for good.

Well you have to account for the game loading that character at all times in the map, not to mention he might die of clumsy drivers, stopping any chance of the player knowing in the first place.

 

 

One ped that has the story of being a werewolf + One Werewolf model in the game = Win.

 

 

So yeah, I guess I'll add the myths I want:

 

Bigfoot

Lemmings

Hidden Bodies

Jetpack

 

 

Well actually that is all of them.

[patsfan4life]

In youtube there is a video of someone fighting bigfoot. Boy it took a lot of AK rounds to kill bigfoot. But it was only in the mexican gta version, because the game was in spanish.

[QwertyAAA]

In youtube there is a video of someone fighting bigfoot. Boy it took a lot of AK rounds to kill bigfoot. But it was only in the mexican gta version, because the game was in spanish.

GTA SA was released with multi-language functionality, offering text in at least four languages. No further differences exist, and any such videos are created with aid of modifications.

[Kwandilibro]

But then.....

 

Notice the circled areas.

 

Look at those indicators. How the f*ck could you not think there's something out there after seeing that sh*t? That's what R* needs to bring back. Even though Bigfoot wasn't there, there was an ugly motherf*cker on a rock that sure as hell looked like him.

 

@Unoriginal44, Although Bigfoot is best known to be in the American Northwest, thousands of people claim to have seen him all around the country. There's Bigfoot, the Skunk Ape(of the south, primarily in Florida), Louisiana Wookie(in the swamps outside of New Orleans). Plenty of Bigfoot to go around.

[Typhus]

Bigfoot is not really that interesting though, he's just an overgrown ape. Many myths should be in the game, but Bigfoot is not one of them.