If GTA VI is set in the 1980s, which year would you want it to be set in?

[MrBreak16]

I see a lot of people saying GTA VI should take place in the 1980s but no one says which year the game should take place in or start. So which year would you pick and why?

Edited February 24, 2021 by MrBreak16

[RamsaySaint77]

The late 80s are my pick, specifically 1987-1989

[The Tracker]

I'll have to go with 1989, this is a very special take. With this year, Rockstar wouldn't have to worry about what to put or what not for the sake of being accurate with the setting, as they have the whole decade at this point, you have all the 80's energy and culture, but as modern as possible, and allowing room for many important events such as the creation of the world wide web, the end of the cold war, crack becoming the most popular drug over cocaine, and even more.

Edited February 26, 2021 by The Tracker

[RisingStar]

I feel like 1987 would be a good pick since you can cover just about everything in '80s culture there. 1988-1989 I feel like is more culturally tied to the '90s (perhaps accurate to call it a prelude to '90s culture), while 1980-1983 would be too restrictive for what you can portray in that decade since a lot hasn't happened at that point.

Edited February 25, 2021 by RisingStar

[Zello]

1989. Capture the entire era as it's ending.

[rjmthe2nd]

'85, '87 or '89. 

 

The story would probably mirror RDR2 if it's set in ’89; the end of an era type of vibe.

[SeventyRanger42]

I'd prefer it to be set in '88, not the end of the decade but close, a lot of really good songs came out that decade (mainly '84-'88) that would really fit the 80's atmosphere/feel, vehicles and firearms and obviously, a lot of pop culture references from that era. 

[Shyabang Shyabang]

I want to see what it was like to watch the events at the Berlin Wall in 1989:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 27, 2021 by Shyabang Shyabang

[testarossa 86]

I would like to see the story start in one year and finish in another.

and I don't mean 1980s to 2020s.

the beginning of the story could take place in '82/84 then near the end of the story, the year is roughly '88/89

we saw this in RDR2, the game started and ended years apart.

assuming the story is based around a narco theme, a story that progresses through the years, we could see the start and rise of drug cartels and how they became powerful over the years, etc

 

Online could be set in '89.

[Leather Rebel]

Just now, testarossa 86 said:

I would like to see the story start in one year and finish in another.

and I don't mean 1980s to 2020s.

the beginning of the story could take place in '82/84 then near the end of the story, the year is roughly '88/89

we saw this in RDR2, the game started and ended years apart.

assuming the story is based around a narco theme, a story that progresses through the years, we could see the start and rise of drug cartels and how they became powerful over the years, etc

 

Online could be set in '89.

 

As I said before,i'd like game to take place in 78-93,epilogue in Mexico trying to survive,but dying in the end.(inspired by Pablo Escobar)

[testarossa 86]

8 minutes ago, Ryz 92 said:

 

As I said before,i'd like game to take place in 78-93,epilogue in Mexico trying to survive,but dying in the end.(inspired by Pablo Escobar)

yeah exactly, that's what I was hinting at.

obviously Pablo's rise and fall didn't all happen in one year, so if the whole narco theme is true, it would be neat to see something similar where we start in the early 80s (or late 70s) and it ends in the late 80s. (or early 90s)

[Leather Rebel]

2 minutes ago, testarossa 86 said:

yeah exactly, that's what I was hinting at.

obviously Pablo's rise and fall didn't all happen in one year, so if the whole narco theme is true, it would be neat to see something similar where we start in the early 80s (or late 70s) and it ends in the late 80s. (or early 90s)

They even can include El Rubio similar role to Rat Micah.He's literally your right hand but survives only because he's ratting you to government.Maybe that's why Rockstar obliged him as the biggest drug-lord of the World.

[testarossa 86]

2 minutes ago, Ryz 92 said:

They even can include El Rubio similar role to Rat Micah.He's literally your right hand but survives only because he's ratting you to government.Maybe that's why Rockstar obliged him as the biggest drug-lord of the World.

yeah I think El Rubio will be featured in GTA VI, he doesn't have to be a major character, but at least some sort of mention or featured as a minor character.

similar to how El Chapo is featured in Narcos: Mexico, he isn't powerful yet, but eventually we all know he becomes powerful as the years go on.

[eyeballs]

I dont think it should be set in the 1980s because it would be boring

[MrBreak16]

1 hour ago, eyeballs said:

I dont think it should be set in the 1980s because it would be boring

GTA Vice City wasn’t boring, nor was GTA San Andreas

[The Tracker]

2 hours ago, eyeballs said:

I dont think it should be set in the 1980s because it would be boring

Sure, let's not set a game 30 years ago, because it has to do a lot with what makes a good game, right?. Another dude who acts like the 1980's were the stone age or something.

 

By your logic, I can say setting it in modern day would be boring, because it would literally feel like our daily-lives.

[eyeballs]

20 hours ago, MrBreak16 said:

GTA Vice City wasn’t boring, nor was GTA San Andreas

I mean the graphics in those sucked so id ont really care

 

19 hours ago, The Tracker said:

Sure, let's not set a game 30 years ago, because it has to do a lot with what makes a good game, right?. Another dude who acts like the 1980's were the stone age or something.

 

By your logic, I can say setting it in modern day would be boring, because it would literally feel like our daily-lives.

In the 1980s its just vice city all over again. Modern day isnt actually different and can do so much with it like corona parody or something like that or Trump who is a very funny character

[EGA_6]

2 hours ago, eyeballs said:

Modern day isnt actually different and can do so much with it like corona parody or something like that or Trump who is a very funny character

Go watch the news if that's your type of sh*t. 

[Americana]

Rockstar's take on American politics is so lame, I don't want that, especially not now.

 

I would like the game to take place somewhere between 1985 and 1989.

Edited February 28, 2021 by Americana

[kiveress]

Real 1980s in terms of culture started in 1983, 1982 at earliest, so i don't mind to start in 1983, but i also wouldn't mind 1984 or 1985. I don't really want it to go further.  

If some rumors that beginning of the game will takes place in late 1970s are true, i easily can see why we will be jump in 5-7 years later. Because we will skip this years

in jail. Small term for drugs in 1978 would mean freedom in 1983 which seems logical. 

Edited February 28, 2021 by kiveress

[DexMacLeod]

On 2/27/2021 at 11:41 AM, RenegadeAngel said:

I really wouldn't want any Online characters in VI, despite how good they might be, because that would mean that all this nonsense going on in there is actually canon. Leave it to VI's Online mode, but please, no English Daves and El Rubios in the story mode

Meh, I get your point but there's already lots of characters from GTA V's story in Online. I don't think El Rubio, or any other online character, showing up in VI's story mode would make Online canon. 

[GTA-Biker]

1989,that way they can include pretty much any 80s music on the radio,any vehicles and weapons available in the 80s,and reference any 80s movie, TV show or event without looking anachronistic,but it would still have that 80s feel.

[eyeballs]

10 hours ago, EliteGamer_6 said:

Go watch the news if that's your type of sh*t. 

I cant kill people on the news lol.

[Zello]

14 hours ago, eyeballs said:

Trump who is a very funny character

Trump is pretty much old news now though.

 

 

They can actually do a better job of criticizing Trump in the 80s.  It's when he started teasing about running for President, it's when he wrote his book The art of deal, he also bought Mar a Largo in 1985. Everything that Trump is today was formed in the 80s and could be shown in a game set in the past.

Edited March 1, 2021 by Zello

[TF141]

'86 was vice city, so maybe a couple years after that I'd be happy with. 

 

Having some sort of links to the original Vice City would be great

[MrBreak16]

1 hour ago, TF141 said:

'86 was vice city, so maybe a couple years after that I'd be happy with. 

 

Having some sort of links to the original Vice City would be great

I don’t think that GTA VI should be a continuation of GTA Vice City. It should be it’s own thing 

[Pete4000uk]

To be very 80s I think 88 or 89 as the early few years of a decade seem like a hangover from the previous one.

[Len Lfc]

All of it. Maybe like RDR2's chapters, and have the story progress through the decade. Get to have everything from the 80's, then.

[RamsaySaint77]

There's a lot of potential when it comes to satirizing politics and controversies of the 80s, the cold war is still going on but also signs of it coming to an end, Reagan and Bush were in control, the crack epidemic, The Satanic Panic, Aids, Rampant Consumerism, etc. There's also lots of things they can do with the technology of the time, Smartphones don't exist yet and so you'll have to use a more primitive brick phone or a phone based on a Microtac if it's set in 1989 that can only be used to call or dial numbers, there's also fax machines and pay phones of course, In your apartment you can use a computer based on an amiga 500 or play a few games on a console based on the NES and Rockstar could even incorporate VHS, You can play the Exsorbeo, You can visit arcades, and then there's all the tv parodies too that they could do, like a show that's a parody of Knight Rider or Baywatch, a cartoon that parodies He-Man or TMNT, Psas about drugs, A show with women with big hair and wearing leg warmers and brightly colored clothes and guys with mullets and sleeveless shirts performing aerobics. The movie theaters can have various movie parodies, The Redeemer was a movie mentioned in Gta 5 and they could include if it were set in 1989 and there's various movies of the time Rockstar could parody. The amount of the songs Rockstar could use for the ingame radio is massive, New wave, Hip Hop, Glam Metal, Punk, Power Pop, etc, and as for Lazlow I'm not sure what they'll do now that he's left the company but maybe he did material for Gta 6 before leaving. If it were set in 1989 they could make references to the Berlin Wall or the invasion of Panama and George Lawton the father of Joe Lawton who is a parody of HW Bush who had just became president in 1989. So yeah, There's lots of potential for a newer 80s Gta  

Edited March 4, 2021 by RamsaySaint77

[Zello]

17 minutes ago, RamsaySaint77 said:

There's a lot of potential when it comes to satirizing politics and controversies of the 80s, the cold war is still going on but also signs of it coming to an end, Reagan and Bush were in control, the crack epidemic, The Satanic Panic, Aids, Rampant Consumerism, etc. There's also lots of things they can do with the technology of the time, Smartphones don't exist yet and so you'll have to use a more primitive brick phone or a phone based on a Microtac if it's set in 1989 that can only be used to call or dial numbers, there's also fax machines and pay phones of course, In your apartment you can use a computer based on an amiga 500 or play a few games on a console based on the NES and Rockstar could even incorporate VHS, You can play the Exsorbeo, You can visit arcades, and then there's all the tv parodies too that they could do, like a show that's a parody of Knight Rider or Baywatch, a cartoon that parodies He-Man or TMNT, Psas about drugs, A show with women with big hair and wearing leg warmers and brightly colored clothes and guys with mullets and sleeveless shirts performing aerobics. The movie theaters can have various movie parodies, The Redeemer was a movie mentioned in Gta 5 and they could include if it were set in 1989 and there's various movies of the time Rockstar could parody. The amount of the songs Rockstar could use for the ingame radio is massive, New wave, Hip Hop, Glam Metal, Punk, Power Pop, etc, and as for Lazlow I'm not sure what they'll do now that he's left the company but maybe he did material for Gta 6 before leaving. If it were set in 1989 they could make references to the Berlin Wall or the invasion of Panama and George Lawton the father of Joe Lawton who is a parody of HW Bush who had just became president in 1989. So yeah, There's lots of potential for a newer 80s Gta  

 

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