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CaptainStrong posted...

I hope it's not another modern one. I'd love to see one set in the 60s or 70s

Extremely doubtful, if only because most people tend to prefer modern games. And because it allows them to include more stuff without getting too anachronistic.

Personally, I'd half love to see them go full-on Saints Row and jump to the future and go really sci-fi, but I don't see that happening either.



CaptainStrong posted...

The soundtrack would be way better, though.

Debatable as fuck.

Though it's not as if you can't include 60s and 70s music in the soundtrack for a modern setting game. Just have multiple "oldies" stations catering to specific decades/genres. If anything, a modern setting is better for that because modern settings can have older music, but older settings can't have modern music.

Also, with a modern setting, you can include the even more realistic option of having every car include an MP3 player, so players can pick and choose their own music (similar to how Saints Row had the option for "mix tapes"), so you can listen to whatever you want and not have to change the station to look for something you like if your usual station plays something you don't.

The bigger problem for future GTA games is going to be music licensing rights, though. Now that we live in a world where constant online patches are possible, we're seeing a scenario where song rights expire over time and the developer needs to patch those songs out of the game. So unless every station they include is either entirely public domain or in-house content, some stations may get spottier over time as songs get excised out.
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