GTA V Should Have Taken Place In Las Venturas

[Algonquin Assassin]

 

You hate me? You hate me because i have different opinions from you. Very nice attitude. I feel sorry for the people who actually wrong you in this life if you hate me.

i "kinda" hate you, that's because no one likes a whiner.

You're whining about his whining. Just saying.

 

As for the question Las Venturas was always my favourite city in SA, but I think it would work better in the 1970s during the golden years of mob influence.

[PhillBellic]

 

 

You hate me? You hate me because i have different opinions from you. Very nice attitude. I feel sorry for the people who actually wrong you in this life if you hate me.

i "kinda" hate you, that's because no one likes a whiner.

You're whining about his whining. Just saying.

 

As for the question Las Venturas was always my favourite city in SA, but I think it would work better in the 1970s during the golden years of mob influence.

 

Perhaps linked with 1970's San Fierro?

[penguinhero]

Why don't we take the map from THE CREW

 

And put it into gta

 

That games map is huge and its under 20gigs. We'd have Los Santos San Fierro Las Venturas Liberty city Vice city and a Detroit and Chicago city and a bunch of small ones in between

[t-p-d-a]

GTA V should take place in a new remasterd ultra high definition: LIBERTY CITY!

 

and GTA VI should take place in a new remasterd 4k Super Ultra Definition: LIBERTY CITY!

[oCrapaCreeper]

Why don't we take the map from THE CREW

 

And put it into gta

 

That games map is huge and its under 20gigs. We'd have Los Santos San Fierro Las Venturas Liberty city Vice city and a Detroit and Chicago city and a bunch of small ones in between

The map from a racing game does not even begin to compare to a detailed open world like GTA.

[cp1dell]

the side character where criminally underused. ron would have been one of the most fun characters to do missions for. ron is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who has his own freaking radio show and you mean to tell me he doesnt give out a single mission. wasted potential. he could have sent one of the protags to go look for ghosts or aliens, go explore fort zancudo or the abandoned hotel at sandy shores. he could have given out fun missions but instead, we have to walk around the map looking for spaceship parts for this hippie guy if we wanted get a space ship buggy. really? what is this legend of zelda. why do i have to walk around getting parts. i thought this was grand theft auto, the revolutionary game series..

 

 

My god, all you people want is GTA San Andreas II. You keep wanting the same exact rehashed things. "Why aren't there jetpacks? Why couldn't we do alien missions for Ron, just like The Truth?" It's completely ridiculous.

 

I find it funny that you rag on GTA V for having collectibles, when GTA SA had A LOT more. You guys love to put on your nostalgia goggles when talking about the old games and raggin on V, but refuse to acknowledge anything else.

[zuckmeslow]

 

the side character where criminally underused. ron would have been one of the most fun characters to do missions for. ron is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who has his own freaking radio show and you mean to tell me he doesnt give out a single mission. wasted potential. he could have sent one of the protags to go look for ghosts or aliens, go explore fort zancudo or the abandoned hotel at sandy shores. he could have given out fun missions but instead, we have to walk around the map looking for spaceship parts for this hippie guy if we wanted get a space ship buggy. really? what is this legend of zelda. why do i have to walk around getting parts. i thought this was grand theft auto, the revolutionary game series..

 

My god, all you people want is GTA San Andreas II. You keep wanting the same exact rehashed things. "Why aren't there jetpacks? Why couldn't we do alien missions for Ron, just like The Truth?" It's completely ridiculous.

 

I find it funny that you rag on GTA V for having collectibles, when GTA SA had A LOT more. You guys love to put on your nostalgia goggles when talking about the old games and raggin on V, but refuse to acknowledge anything else.

I dont think you read anything from my original post other than the title.

 

Read it again and stop derailing the thread, good for you that you dont agree with me. I didnt mention i wanted a san andreas 2, I never said i wanted jetpacks. This post is about las venturas and the type of game gta v would have been, not san andreas 2.

[Mr. Tibbs]

Why don't we take the map from THE CREW

 

And put it into gta

 

That games map is huge and its under 20gigs. We'd have Los Santos San Fierro Las Venturas Liberty city Vice city and a Detroit and Chicago city and a bunch of small ones in between

Why? It's literally a few bland cities with a bunch of filler between them.

What would you rather have, a good sized map that has a lot of detail and had a lot of effort put into it, or a gigantic span of nothingness that puts quantity over quality?

[UshaB]

YES!!!!! This would have been a million times better than V

 

The whole Solomon Richards movie studio thing could have been replaced with some boxing! Franklin or Michael ends up managing a boxer like Floyd Mayweather and it leads up to a big event.

 

I was gonna like your post due to you mentioning boxing, but then you mentioned Floyd Mayweather. I can't support women beaters, I'm sorry.

[Journey_95]

 

its a mess of childish humor and characters that have no depth.

 

Well that's just not true, doc.

 

But lets talk about the lack of character development.

 

Yeah, Michael, Trevor, and Franklin never evolve much from the people they are in the beginning of the game. I still remember when that gameplay trailer for GTA V came out, the lady narrating it at some point says: "But don't forget, these men are dangerous criminals" or something along those lines, before the video presented something else. I'm not exactly sure, but that line hit me a certain way. It was odd hearing the protagonists described as dangerous crooks, instead of - well, being referred to as the main cast as usual.

 

Michael, Trevor, and Franklin are bad people. They're scum. Some more than others. But they know this, and they know they can't escape the kind of person they are. It's like someone complaining that Dutch in Red Dead Redemption never developed or changed after all those years. That he was still a killer.

 

They know who they are, and they don't bother trying to change that. All they want is money, to engage in chaos for some excitement, or to move up in the criminal-world.

 

The story and characters are still pretty medicore

 

The villians are a joke. Everything is a parody etc.

 

To the OP:

I agree completely. LV would have made more sense.

 

the side character where criminally underused. ron would have been one of the most fun characters to do missions for. ron is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who has his own freaking radio show and you mean to tell me he doesnt give out a single mission. wasted potential. he could have sent one of the protags to go look for ghosts or aliens, go explore fort zancudo or the abandoned hotel at sandy shores. he could have given out fun missions but instead, we have to walk around the map looking for spaceship parts for this hippie guy if we wanted get a space ship buggy. really? what is this legend of zelda. why do i have to walk around getting parts. i thought this was grand theft auto, the revolutionary game series..

 

 

My god, all you people want is GTA San Andreas II. You keep wanting the same exact rehashed things. "Why aren't there jetpacks? Why couldn't we do alien missions for Ron, just like The Truth?" It's completely ridiculous.

 

I find it funny that you rag on GTA V for having collectibles, when GTA SA had A LOT more. You guys love to put on your nostalgia goggles when talking about the old games and raggin on V, but refuse to acknowledge anything else.

 

for f*ck's sake can you even read?

 

No one is asking for San Andreas 2 here.

Edited September 15, 2015 by Journey_95

[Sharp_shooter]

I see GTA: VII (7) being Las Venturas just because I can see it combining the logo with a slot machine - 777

Edited September 15, 2015 by Sharp_shooter

[B Dawg]

As for the question Las Venturas was always my favourite city in SA, but I think it would work better in the 1970s during the golden years of mob influence.

I would really really love a GTA set in the 1970's Las Venturas and surrounding desert, with classic Driver or IV like driving mechanics with some of that nice 70s music, recreating those awesome car chases.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

i remember that fan made gta 5 map with los santos san fierro and las venturas together with a realistic look. if gta 5 had that it would have been amazing.

[Journey_95]

I feel like everyone has more of a problem with GTA V's description, than the actual game itself. Everyone is so hung up on the fact that it was marketed as "The pursuit of the almighty dollar." The back of the case describes it as the the trio teaming up, and committing a series of heists so they can set themselves up for life - but we know that's not what the game is about.

 

It's like if someone told you that you were getting a nice 2015 Dodge Challenger, but instead you got a nice 2015 Dodge Charger. Okay yeah f*ck the person who told you that you were getting something different, but are you going to complain the whole time that you were going to get something else and ignore the fact that what you got was still good?

 

What I'm trying to say is it seems like Rockstar's marketing team is to blame. If the game wasn't advertised the way it was, and actually advertised as what the real story was like, there wouldn't be people complaining as much.

 

EDIT: I don't know a whole lot about cars, so it might not be a perfect analogy - so try not to ignore the point I'm trying to make, and pick apart an analogy.

Yeah the game is mostly about being the bitches of the FIB, how is that still good?

 

People wouldn't be thinking about the promised "pursuit of the almighty dollar"- theme if the story in V was at least good but nope, its a mess.

 

Most of the heists are done for the FIB. The heist aren't even the main focus of the game. Its mostly just FIB/IAA/Merryweather bs.

 

 

 

Vegas really isn't all that great of a place for a main city for a game the likes of GTA. Aside from the Strip, there really isn't a lot that stands out. So in-game it would have to be dense and would have to rely VERY heavily on enterable buildings, quite literally would need to make most buildings enterable and multiple-tiered to have that be interesting. Now don't get me wrong, I'd personally love a GTA world that wasn't just mostly comprised of facades, however Vegas being really only the Strip and surroundings that would interesting from a game-world design POV, wouldn't be the place for it.

Then it should have been Los Santos + Las Venturas Edited September 22, 2015 by RedDagger

[Niko Montana]

I agree with this. You can't have a game about heists and the high life without it being set in Las Venturas. It's like cereal without milk. We could have seen some casino heists, and the desert around LV is an unearthed goldmine of opportunity.

 

My only concern with this is that Franklin would not really fit in LV, but then again he could have been replaced with some low ranking mobster and the Mafia families could have played the role that the Ballas and Vagos play in Los Santos.

[Mrdankles]

Would be awesome if they add more to the map like LV. since LG is no longer in the picture, I'm expecting some awesome DLC. I have no issue paying for new maps. Tired of seeing same OL Los santos.

[Arachne]

Why not take place in both?

[Johnny Spaz]

Should've been LS and Venturas with the desert surrounding it and some countryside.

[BlackSnow176]

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't enjoy Las Vegas one bit if they do a game in it. Stories about casinos, gambling, showbusiness, rich people who gamble everything away, people going to Vegas to spend their fortune or do something crazy, and robbing rich old people in casinos really turns me off. If the game is about something similar, it would probably suck

 

Las Venturas in San Andreas was the worst GTA city ever created. It consisted of one huge highway, a huge airport, the strip and the rich (and painfully boring) neighborhoods. It was so one-dimensional. The deserts and small towns were awesome though

 

It did fit in San Andreas' crazy storyline, but a game solely based on casinos and Vegas would be an awful idea, especially set in modern day.

Edited September 24, 2015 by BlackSnow176

[Journey_95]

I agree with this. You can't have a game about heists and the high life without it being set in Las Venturas. It's like cereal without milk. We could have seen some casino heists, and the desert around LV is an unearthed goldmine of opportunity.

 

My only concern with this is that Franklin would not really fit in LV, but then again he could have been replaced with some low ranking mobster and the Mafia families could have played the role that the Ballas and Vagos play in Los Santos.

Las Venturas + desert would have been great, agreed. Franklin already feels shoehorned into the game, I wouldn't mind if the game was just about Michael (who would chill in LV) and Trevor (who would still be living in the desert)

Edited March 12, 2016 by Journey_95

[KingofVenturas]

I Agree, 100 Percent! Here's hoping VI is Las Venturas and San Fierro with the country side in between.

[AnDReJ98]

The main problem is not enough context. Regardless V was set in LS or LV , the 3 character idea didn't go along with the story (especially Franklin, he was out of place) and didn't have enough context for 3 protagonists. The only game that had enough context for 3 protagonists was SA and EFLC (in separated games). I think if the story was re-written just a little (e.x: to cover some plot holes) and set Michael as the only protagonist, it would have been much better. As for LV thing, as SoL said, maybe set in another era, but now, it just seems like there is not much except casinos, strip clubs and such. LS seems like a place with more variety and more/different things to do. Let alone the LS's countryside, which is a lot better than only blank desert (well, i know R* didn't do LS countryside well this time, but generally speaking). Didn't say anything about multiple cities though (e.x: LS & LV), that's another whole story.