Backstory

[iCaramelBird]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

[Lock n' Stock]

Hmm, not a bad idea. As for me, I can't come up with anything because I'm not creative enough.

[Eagle-Eye]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

He was born a hamster raised in Taiwan & sent to military school so he can learn the basics of how to walk his pet hamburger & french fries off the Eiffel Tower.

He is a camera

[Coral_City]

Writers' Discussion is thataway.

[ll rdny ll]

Writers' Discussion is thataway.

There could have been so much win in this response, if Eagle-Eye hadn't quoted the OP

[Mig10]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

Oh well there aren't spanish people in the US nor would Rockstar keep pounding the policeman story and not like that police are not very well seen anywhere especially in LA, but keep it coming.

[iCaramelBird]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

Oh well there aren't spanish people in the US nor would Rockstar keep pounding the policeman story and not like that police are not very well seen anywhere especially in LA, but keep it coming.

This isn't meant to be actually real like by R* standards this is whatever YOU WANT heck it could be Tommys backstory but a different name and location, but what's the fun in that?

[Eagle-Eye]

Writers' Discussion is thataway.

There could have been so much win in this response, if Eagle-Eye hadn't quoted the OP

I love you too

 

[iCaramelBird]

So anyone got any backstories?

[police rights]

I feel like the government and the FIB as well as crooked cops will play a large part in the story

[MikeMyth]

Writers' Discussion is thataway.

There could have been so much win in this response, if Eagle-Eye hadn't quoted the OP

I love you too

Eagle-Eye is just hilarious

[AuSsIeThUnDeR36]

Freddy Manetti, moved from Ohio to Los Santos, after a bad break up with his wife. He was a gambler and lost pretty much everything. After a few petty thefts thanks to open windows on quiet streets, he starts with $1,000 in Los Santos.

He meets Mr Eschubanten who tells Freddy he wants an associate lacky to do his dirty work.

Freddy agrees, when Mr Eschubanten explains the Mile High building is a huge shopping complex and their prices are so cheap that everyone shops there now. All over LS, smaller chains are having to shut down due to the lack of money. The Mile High corp are also secretly killing innocent people by infecting their grocery food with FU migate that the people buy from their shopping complex.

It is Mr Eschubanten's plan to find out where the pest control plant is hidden, blow it up and have the Mile High corp shut down for good, effectively freeing up the economy. It is up to Freddy to decide who lives and who dies.

Edited September 6, 2012 by AuSsIeThUnDeR36

[iCaramelBird]

Freddy Manetti, moved from Ohio to Los Santos, after a bad break up with his wife. He was a gambler and lost pretty much everything. After a few petty thefts thanks to open windows on quiet streets, he starts with $1,000 in Los Santos.

He meets Mr Eschubanten who tells Freddy he wants an associate lacky to do his dirty work.

Freddy agrees, when Mr Eschubanten explains the Mile High building is a huge shopping complex and their prices are so cheap that everyone shops there now. All over LS, smaller chains are having to shut down due to the lack of money. The Mile High corp are also secretly killing innocent people by infecting their grocery food with FU migate that the people buy from their shopping complex.

It is Mr Eschubanten's plan to find out where the pest control plant is hidden, blow it up and have the Mile High corp shut down for good, effectively freeing up the economy. It is up to Freddy to decide who lives and who dies.

I like it

[lll-H-I-M-lll]

harbujahn the great moves to los santos to sell goats on arrival he gets his turban stolen by a mexican drug gang and is forced to work for them little do the mexicans know....harbujahn has a plan

[LewisMiller]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

Your idea sounds like a sh*tty action b-movie.

[pilot2fly]

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

Sounds a bit like Sleeping Dogs, but I like it.

[Prisonermonkeys]

Manuel Garcia "Michael" O'Shea was named by his father after the protagonist of Ernst Hemingway's The Undefeated, though it was quickly apparent that if his father had read The Undefeated, then he never finished it.*

 

If people knew O'Shea's name, then he could reasonably claim to be the most-hated man in America. Born and raised in the American mid-West, he proved to be a gifted student and won a scholarship to a prestigious college where he studied economics and sociology before he started working for a bank. He was, in many ways, the embodiment of the great American success story; a small-time boy who could make it on his own in the big city with nothing more than hard work, determination and more charisma than one man should legally be allowed to carry around.

 

And then the recession hit.

 

Almost overnight, the nation found itself mired in the midst of an economic crisis the likes of which the world had never seen before. And there, on the front lines, was Michael O'Shea. Officially, his job title was vague and pleasingly neutral, but the harsh reality was that Michael O'Shea was the man who served foreclosure notices to hard-working families. It was his job to decimate the American Dream, and all in the name of, as his superiors like to say, fiscal responsibility. Some of the people O'Shea met took a swing at him. Others simply cried. But most of them thanked him when it was done. Here he was, clean-cut and with a winning smile, taking away everything families had worked their lives to own, and they thanked him for doing it.

 

In the end, O'Shea simply could not take it. He crashed and burned, suffered a nervous breakdown.

 

It was during this time that O'Shea found a new lease on life in the form of FIB Special Agent Marcus Shapiro. Shapiro was the agent in charge of Task Force "Dionysus", an FIB investigation into high-level white collar crime in the financial sector. He recruited O'Shea as an informant, using him to gather as much evidence as possible. "Dionysus" was on the verge of of bringing corporate criminals to accountability when the case was abruptly dropped. Shapiro had betrayed O'Shea and everyone involved in the case. He had been accepting bribes from the people he was prosecuting; in exchange, he deliberately mis-filed the case so that all the evidence gathered was ruled inadmissible in a court of law, and the people responsible could not be charged with any crime.

 

Faced with this betrayal and feeling guilty in the knowledge that he was a key player in screwing thousands of everyday people out of their livelihoods, O'Shea fell off the radar. He disappeared completely, resurfacing months later in Los Santos, now calling himself Manuel Garcia. Meanwhile, a video is posted on the internet, showing a bloodied and beaten Marcus Shapiro pleading for his life on top of the tallest skyscraper in Liberty City. He begs the cameraman to save him; the cameraman allows him a moment to hope that maybe he will be shown mercy before he answers "no" and kicks Shapiro over the edge. Shapiro falls over a hundred storeys to his death, screaming all the way down before the video cuts out.

 

Upon seeing this video and learning of O'Shea's reappearance, FIB special agent Hannah Dillmann catches the first flight to Los Santos.

 

 

 

 

*In The Undefeated, Manuel Garcia is a legendary bullfighter who falls upon hard times after being injured in a bullfight. He begs for work from a promoter, who agrees to help him come back, but only for a fraction of what younger bullfighters earn. The fight ends badly; Garcia kills the bull, but he is gored in the process and confined to a hospital bed. The story ends with Zurito, his picador - a lancer who aids the bullfighter - cutting off Garcia's coleta, a pigtail worn by bullfighters. Removing it means that Garcia's career is effectively over.

[Mokrie Dela]

Writers' Discussion is thataway.

Nah-uh. This kind of thing will get ignored in the WD. It's best of here, believe me.

[eclaireN7]

Bob the Builder moved from wherever to Los Santos to start life as a plumber. He changed his name to Mario, grew a moustache, and talked with an italian accent. Little did he know his past as a builder would soon catch up with him. To live his dream life, Mario has to jump on Bill Bowser's henchman (which he nicknames Goombas), defeat the Turtles (the biggest gang in LS) and save his girlfriend, Maria Peach.

[Racecarlock]

Nicolai Gouranga had taken over liberty city, but something was missing. Family. Why did he move to los santos? He guesses it was the weather. Or, I don't know, that thing, that magic. You see it in the movies. He wanted to retire. From what he was doing, you know? From that, that line of work. Be a good guy for once. A family man. So, he bought a big house, came to los santos, put his feet up, and thought he'd be a dad like all the other dads. His kids? Would be like the kids on TV. They'd play ball, sit in the sun, but, well, you know how it ends.

 

Now he must use his extensive military training and his criminal knowledge from taking over liberty city to conquer this new place and climb his way back to the lap of luxury.

[corsican_whiskey]

Frank Watts was from the old school of criminality, bank robbery, hijacking, kidnapping and the occasional contract hit, because business is business. But now the world is changing and fast, and so Frank and many of his friends decide to quit while they're ahead. Settling in the Los Santos, which up until now represented the American Dream.

 

But times have changed again as members of his former crew begin being found murdered, loyalties are tested and the law begins to close in. Frank's onetime friend and co-defendant is eliminating his old compatriots, they are all witnesses and his American Dream means climbing the criminal ladder.

 

When corrupt FBI agents seize Frank's "retirement" money and after a failed but ruthless assassination attempt, Frank must put his loved ones into hiding. In Frank Watts America, business is never finished and dead men tell no tales. Welcome to Los Santos, the city that tells a thousand stories, whether Frank wants to hear them or not.

 

(I have a feeling the story line will have similarities to the one in Heat, enjoy.)

Edited September 18, 2012 by corsican_whiskey

[Greeno]

I got an idea, the guy on the balcony (Supposedly Ned Luke) is the guy talking in the trailer, he talks about having kids and then says "But, well you know how it is" meaning he can't have children, so he adopted one (The guy we see driving the red car) but the child doesn't like his dad because he wants his real parents. you play as the son and he gets involved with alot of gangs.

 

 

not the best idea But well you know how it is.

[Shyabang Shyabang]

 

Just for fun, and waiting for some info how about we write some backstories for the protagonist?

 

Here let me start.

 

Diego Montez is a spanish hothead, who worked in San Fierro as a cop after being framed for working with gangs. He has no choice but to ditch San Fierro and head to Los Santos where he wanted to start a new life. Yet now he has to actually work with gangs, and get revenge on the guy who framed him.

I like how your story is going. I'll add more:

 

Little does he know, the guy who framed him has paid a gang to search for him. Montez is nowhere to be found in San Fierro so his enemy hires more gangs in the other cities of southern California, including Los Santos. While Montez is driving, he gets fired at and chased by a few gangs in another car. He quickly realizes who is behind this. He manages to escape. Shaken by the realization of what his enemy is trying to do to him, he sells his car and moves to a small apartment near Little Seoul. He starts to work as a waiter in a Korean restaurant. Although he isn't a fan of the Korean pop being played constantly in the restaurant, he stays there because it's a good hiding place. His coworker befriends him. Montez tells that he is worried that he could barely afford his apartment and that he might have to move out in a few months. His coworker suggests him to get a roommate. He could place an ad in the restaurant for him. So he got him an exchange student as a roommate. Montez helps his roommate on his English. Despite the fact that the roommate turns on K-pop in their apartment, they still become friends. The roommate introduces him to his university friends. They all go to a Korean night club that night. There Montez meets a Korean student and her Korean-American cousin. The student from Korea turns out to be a K-pop star. Some people at the night club take photos of them with their smart phones. One of the photos end up in a Korean English newspaper. A gang hired by Montez's enemy spots the Korean newspaper in a Korean store...........

Edited September 18, 2012 by Shyabang Shyabang

[B Dawg]

 

Bob the Builder moved from wherever to Los Santos to start life as a plumber. He changed his name to Mario, grew a moustache, and talked with an italian accent. Little did he know his past as a builder would soon catch up with him. To live his dream life, Mario has to jump on Bill Bowser's henchmen (which he nicknames Goombas), defeat the Turtles (the biggest gang in LS) and save his girlfriend, Maria Peach.

Full Of Win

[Greeno]

and save his girlfriend, Maria Peach.

what about Wendy??????

[Lewligan]

Ex stage star Joe Longthorne used to sell second hand cars, proper good 'uns, ya know - your Micra's, Punto's, Corsa's.

This recession malarkey didn't half bite him up the arse. Next thing, bastarding house 'as been re-possessed and he's on a f*ckin' plane to Los Santos searching for th'American dream and all that carry on - mad init?!

I heard he wer' doing mobile disco's and a bitta karaoke here and there - low as the f*ckin' ground apparently, all't depression and that settin' in.

 

Joe's on't bounce back now - he's ditched his mediocre covers of "Wonderwall" for a life o' crime.

Goes round't markets nickin' knock-off gear and flogging it out back of a Tranny van - proper genuine stuff

Fila, Kappa, Gola, Hi-Tec - he's got all top brands, at rock-bottom prices too kids.

 

Apparently, the daft twat wants settle down now with the ol' wife and kids - what a tit!

Nowt but trouble them wenches - different f*ckin' species and all that.

 

Can he go all't way (we're talking HIS OWN stall at th'weekend car boots) and live the life he's been searching for all this effin' time?... f*ck KNOWS.

 

Buy game and find out for ya'self ya scrubbers, why should I have keep nattering on for yer sake?

 

[B Dawg]

Jacob, you've been smoking too much XD

[AtomicPunk]

The Ballad Of Ned Clampett

 

This heres a story 'bout a man named Ned

The economically challenged barely kept his family fed

Then one day he was tryin' to shoot some noob

Instead of grabbin' his gun, he grabbed a bottle of lube

 

Easy glide that is

whoa nelly jelly

 

Well the first thing ya know Ned's wanted and scared

The kin folk said Ned move away from there

They said Los Santos is the place ya orta be

So he loaded up his Rancher

and moved to Vinewood

 

Hills that is

Gang bangin' Drug dealers

Movie stars

 

Well now it's time to say good by to Ned and all his kin.

And R* would like to thank you folks fer kindly playin' GTA again.

You're all invited back again when V hits the streets

To have a heapin' helpin' of their gangster mentality

 

Criminals that is. Set a spell, Take your shoes off

 

Y'all come back now, y'hear?

 

[Prisonermonkeys]

Manuel Garcia "Michael" O'Shea was named by his father after the protagonist of Ernst Hemingway's The Undefeated, though it was quickly apparent that if his father had read The Undefeated, then he never finished it.*

 

If people knew O'Shea's name, then he could reasonably claim to be the most-hated man in America. Born and raised in the American mid-West, he proved to be a gifted student and won a scholarship to a prestigious college where he studied economics and sociology before he started working for a bank. He was, in many ways, the embodiment of the great American success story; a small-time boy who could make it on his own in the big city with nothing more than hard work, determination and more charisma than one man should legally be allowed to carry around.

 

And then the recession hit.

 

Almost overnight, the nation found itself mired in the midst of an economic crisis the likes of which the world had never seen before. And there, on the front lines, was Michael O'Shea. Officially, his job title was vague and pleasingly neutral, but the harsh reality was that Michael O'Shea was the man who served foreclosure notices to hard-working families. It was his job to decimate the American Dream, and all in the name of, as his superiors like to say, fiscal responsibility. Some of the people O'Shea met took a swing at him. Others simply cried. But most of them thanked him when it was done. Here he was, clean-cut and with a winning smile, taking away everything families had worked their lives to own, and they thanked him for doing it.

 

In the end, O'Shea simply could not take it. He crashed and burned, suffered a nervous breakdown.

 

It was during this time that O'Shea found a new lease on life in the form of FIB Special Agent Marcus Shapiro. Shapiro was the agent in charge of Task Force "Dionysus", an FIB investigation into high-level white collar crime in the financial sector. He recruited O'Shea as an informant, using him to gather as much evidence as possible. "Dionysus" was on the verge of of bringing corporate criminals to accountability when the case was abruptly dropped. Shapiro had betrayed O'Shea and everyone involved in the case. He had been accepting bribes from the people he was prosecuting; in exchange, he deliberately mis-filed the case so that all the evidence gathered was ruled inadmissible in a court of law, and the people responsible could not be charged with any crime.

 

Faced with this betrayal and feeling guilty in the knowledge that he was a key player in screwing thousands of everyday people out of their livelihoods, O'Shea fell off the radar. He disappeared completely, resurfacing months later in Los Santos, now calling himself Manuel Garcia. Meanwhile, a video is posted on the internet, showing a bloodied and beaten Marcus Shapiro pleading for his life on top of the tallest skyscraper in Liberty City. He begs the cameraman to save him; the cameraman allows him a moment to hope that maybe he will be shown mercy before he answers "no" and kicks Shapiro over the edge. Shapiro falls over a hundred storeys to his death, screaming all the way down before the video cuts out.

 

Upon seeing this video and learning of O'Shea's reappearance, FIB special agent Hannah Dillmann catches the first flight to Los Santos.

 

 

 

 

*In The Undefeated, Manuel Garcia is a legendary bullfighter who falls upon hard times after being injured in a bullfight. He begs for work from a promoter, who agrees to help him come back, but only for a fraction of what younger bullfighters earn. The fight ends badly; Garcia kills the bull, but he is gored in the process and confined to a hospital bed. The story ends with Zurito, his picador - a lancer who aids the bullfighter - cutting off Garcia's coleta, a pigtail worn by bullfighters. Removing it means that Garcia's career is effectively over.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated. I tried to go for something more than "gangbanger trying to escape The Life", whilst still staying true to Rockstar's recurring theme of people trying to start over and also trying to work the ideas from the debut trailer and real-life events into it. I think I did okay, but my main concern is that a lot of it hinges on details that might go over msot peopels' heads.

[Lewligan]

Any feedback on this would be appreciated. I tried to go for something more than "gangbanger trying to escape The Life", whilst still staying true to Rockstar's recurring theme of people trying to start over and also trying to work the ideas from the debut trailer and real-life events into it. I think I did okay, but my main concern is that a lot of it hinges on details that might go over msot peopels' heads.

I prefer mine