Why exactly don't we have GTA Japan ?

Why exactly don't we have GTA Japan ?

no guns and no niggers

because asia has the lowest gun ownership per capita of all continents on earth?

What would it be about? Even the Yakuza rarely ever killed each other (when they were still relevant.) It’s just not a very violent or chaotic country. What he said, basically.

before anyone says it I'm just going to state yakuza is not gta japan

why do they put all that shit over the screen

News channels over here do the same thing.

There's no GTA any other country.
Unlike America, most countries don't have their citizens to have the ability to walk down to the corner shop, pick up a gun, and then go shoot up pre-schoolers.

no impact when someone dies since they don't have souls

I do question if Sleeping Dogs could be a thing for China, why not Japan? unless Yakuza is anything to go by and their mafia is just not as intense as the Triads. Rarely results in gang wars with guns firing off at any given minute.

parody

I want to bomb an abortion clinic.......on GTA of course, people would never EVER do that in real life. Specially in america land of the mentally stable and sane.

Because GTA is (was) made by Europeans making fun of America.
You open up GTA3 and it instantly throws no punches. Oh yeah, Americans can't pay healthcare. Big "American" city this New York is, Liberty City in all its glory as you go from the Italian mafia to Chinese triads to Japanese Yakuza before they even let you to the next island. Notice how there are no actual Americans.
San Andreas is shitting on American racism. Hence why you get to play a nigga. Who's an actual gangster. Rappers who can't rap for shit, steals the songs from a European guy, is a piece of shit. Sis goes and bangs "Caesar", a bunch of Mexican mutts pretending to be something they aren't and being racist to the blacks despite being brown themselves.
And then it throws you out to the boonies among rednecks, who are stupid, racist as fuck and yet they still have that BDSM girl fuck your black brains out in a trailer.

GTA Japan wouldn't work because making fun of Japan involves inventing ridiculous game shows and WW2 references. And that's just not material for a full GTA game.

*ahem*

doesn't usually work when you go overseas

(see: Watch Dogs Legion)

There's at least two games that did it aside from what you mentioned, one came from Rockstar themselves and the other is a janky mess called The Getaway. What a load of bullshit that it can't work anywhere else. You're just making up some imaginary narrative.

Yeah you're probably right.

Sleeping dogs is the superior GTA, GTA been shit since san andreas

There was a period where the yakuza actually used real hand grenades on the streets to kill each other. There were a handful of "incidents" like that wherein the yakuza had some kind of gang war and crazy shit like that happened which is partly why they're so infamous. The other reason is because yakuza high schoolers did fucked up shit like torture animals or other students, but it doesn't really count because they were obviously just faggot high schoolers who got in way over their heads with power.

There's no GTA any other country.

Not true!

Younger generations see the Yakuza as outdated,

What person would support crime origination that takes Protection money from small bossiness.
You talk about them like they are politicians with terms saying like "Younger generations see the Yakuza as outdated"

Good call, anon, beat me to it.

Countries where GTA would, might work out

Russia

Brazil

Indonesia

Hong Kong

And run the same imagery twice.
My guess is because of their low awareness.

London or Birmingham

most European capital cities

fucking ANY city in Africa

Just because guns aren't "easy" for the layman to get hold of in the UK doesn't mean they're much of a challenge for criminals to get. And obviously they're all over the place in Africa.

if you compare it to the us you might as well say there are none

Them having access to weapons doesn't mean that they're regularly getting in gunfights with them. As far as I'm aware, gangs in Britain prefer to stick to blades because guns are awfully fucking loud and if they try to bring them out, the cops will drop specialist armed response squads on them and fuck their shit up.

Sounds like fun gameplay to me.
It doesn't have to be perfectly realistic anyway. The whole point of GTA is comic exaggeration and parody.

Why is there a sheep on screen?

anonymous newscaster
imagine san andreas in africa
you got the same hood nigga stories and the hood bithces call the handfull of whitepeople rhodeseans

GTA London

combat is focused on knife fights and acid bombs

Kino

GTA is fucking boring trash for normalfag retards.

someone who doesn't trust government to do their jobs. which is how those organisations get started in the first place; local law is utterly useless to stop petty criminals, so local business owners form a coalition to expand their intelligence network to make it easier to track down thieves and other assorted shitheads, and to find work for family friends. Because they're operating outside of the law they have no issue with beating or outright executing ne'er-do-wells for basic theft and vandalism. Eventually they have killed or spooked all the criminals out, but they don't want to give up the lucrative protection income, so they start extorting each other to keep the money flowing in.

uhh knives are banned there so there's no way that would happen

any GTA set in the UK would have to be pre-1968 firearm ban. Before the 70s you could buy and conceal carry a pistol in England, same as in the US. street gangs were running around with WW2-vintage Sten guns and shit.

Fucking this. You guys are not thinking in 4D. Why does it needs to be set in modern day? You have entire world and entire XX century to pick from. Set it in Tokyo or London during 60s, or in some Russian city during 90s. British 60s have an additional advantage because it seems to be the only decade in the history when Britain decided to have some fun and bring some color to their drab fucking islands.

it was about three years in the 70s when things ran really hot. Most yakuza violence these days is overseas.
If you want a Japanese-themed GTA, your best bet would be to set it in Hawaii. it has the largest proportion of Japanese people in the US (20~% of the population is if Japanese descent), they historically had a lot of cultural influence, the Yakuza have deep ties there, and you can justify the ready access to guns and violence you'd expect from a GTA game because it's still the US. Make it about some Japanese-American thug living in Honolulu involved in drugs trafficking between the US and Japan.

any GTA set in the UK would have to be pre-1968 firearm ban

and also they'd somehow have to work around the awkward stuff like how stealing cars is illegal, but with a good enough writer they could make it work somehow. not sure how they'd write people having arguments and stuff into the story though, that'd be quite difficult.

i mean it's kind of distasteful, but sadly for a game about criminals there would have to be people doing things that aren't really 'colouring within the lines', law-wise. sad but true, really.

just have modern London filled with psychos running around with AKs robbing banks

fuckwit. that wouldn't be anything like the UK, it would be a satire of America but with a Union Jack slapped over it. thank god you're not making video games.

is this a 'we want GTA games to be realistic' argument or a 'video games should tell a good story' argument

any GTA set in the UK would have to be pre-1968 firearm ban

GTA did it 1969 so it may have been historically inaccurate? this game DID gta London but less primitive. And it's still pretty primitive by today's standards so maybe Watch_Dogs Legion is the proper modern example.

GTA can ve done in Europe without a problem, the only change would be that instead of going to that shop next to a school to buy guns, you buy from a black market guy in an abandoned warehouse.

and to Getaway is hot garbage with very little similarity to GTA outside of "you can steal cars and drive around a city".

It's a "GTA settings should make sense rather than be shallow interchangeable theme parks" argument.

have to work around the awkward stuff like how stealing cars is illegal,

You're saying stealing cars is legal in the US?

no

very little similarity to GTA outside of "you can steal cars and drive around a city".

That's all GTA ever was and don't try to sell it as anything more. God i fucking HATE rockstar fanboys.

GTA settings should make sense rather than be shallow interchangeable theme parks

there are GTA settings that are not shallow interchangeable theme parks?

GTA is a parody?

it's not so much the individual player having guns, it's legions of enemies having them. One or two guys having a black market assault rifle of even explosives doesn't break suspension of disbelief. Reenacting the street shootout from Heat in the middle of Paris does.

the ready availability of guns in GTA isn't just so "players can shoot stuff", it's making a gameplay element out of a satire of the ready availability of firearms in the US. a satire that becomes orphaned outside of America. the entire point of it is Euro writers saying "this is the Second Amendment taken to its logical conclusion; RPG vending machines and privately owned warplanes". European nations don't have an equivalent to the second amendment.

isn't that pretty much what 4 does?

Just like gang-raping?

you have GTA Hong Kong already.

t. never gets past the first island in GTA games because he thinks spawning a Rhino and activating the permanent six star cheat is all there is to do in the games

god I hate fucking HATE people who treat every game like Pac Man

You can have it like in GTA4 where you buy guns from a black market ran by a gang.
Also you say that like certain states like California, New York and such aren't heavily regulated. California especially is pretty much the same as England in terms of gun regulation but GTA5 actively ignores that for the sake of gameplay. It's also why in gta you aren't stopped constantly for traffic violations like in Mafia.

that seems like a strange thing to assume, absent any prompting

The problem is that those times combined with those countries have zero cultural presence in media so normalfags just won't buy, especially not in the US. When people think of the 50s they think of the American 50s, the 60s is the Vietnam war because the US, the 70s is... well I actually have no idea, bad fashion good music? Also informed mostly by the American 70s. 80s, 100% Americana, other countries might as well not have existed if you talk media depictions only.
If a period wasn't interesting in the US but it was interesting elsewhere then the devs won't take a chance.

I've met your type before. Make the exact same arguments, and they always boil down to "where is the High Score leaderboard? this is too complicated so it sucks". you know what, sure. it sucks. never buy the games again, never discuss them again, stay the fuck out. get filtered, it ain't for you.

I mean, British 60s have at least some cultural presence in the US.

this
Amerimutts are just massive retards with 0 actual knowledge outside of their own little bubble.

I've met your type before.

i'm not sure how that's my fault

Why was that white car circled?

Sure they're there too, but the japs never relax

The Chinese are primed to take the piss out of Japan in the same way the British shit on Americans. That showa American story game is essentially just china making fun of America and Japan simultaneously and it looks good.

The people saying that GTA couldn't work in Japan have no imagination, there's material for a GTA game in almost every major country on earth, Japan especially.

60s is probably the only time in the postwar era when you can think of a non-american culture before an American one. Swinging 60s London was that big, it had a huge influence on American culture. American hippies were an outgrowth of British beatniks, for example. the Peace symbol (the circle with the upside-down Y thing) originated in the UK. all the most iconic music groups of the era were British, and for the next 15 years every American band openly and explicitly were trying to emulate British ones.

You can have it like in GTA4 where you buy guns from a black market ran by a gang.

Or the Vinnie Jones movie trope, with Billy Irish turning up in a shitty old car with a few shooters in the boot. Or the Peaky Blinders thing, where stealing a chunk of weapons is what causes trouble for your characters in the first place. And so on.

Patrol car

it's because Japan doesn't have a penchant for hyper violence and extreme individualist consumerism that drives the core gameplay of GTA. if you set a GTA in Japan it's either going to feel like America in a Japanese skinsuit, or it's going to be so radically different as to not feel like GTA anymore. What, are you going to steal some kei car at gunpoint and then fuck a soapland girl in Shinjuku before killing her to get your money back? that's such an alien concept in Japan that nobody would be able to take it seriously. That's not Japanese culture, or a satire of it. That's nothing like what Japanese society is like. You know what it'd be like? It'd be like AC Shadows in the modern day.

huh?

That showa American story game

Looks like slop and isn't even in English to boot. I'm not learning your archaic language, chang. If you want gweilo money then start speaking our language.

Japan doesn't have a penchant for hyper violence and extreme individualist consumerism

...

source: anime

everyone in the thread is pretending that GTA realistically abides by actual laws

GTA5 is set in California

lol lmao even

everyone in the thread is pretending that GTA realistically abides by actual laws

no, nobody is doing that.

Honestly a yakuza spinoff that's GTA in Japan (with a lot less guns and more punching) would be fucking awesome

More like people are saying GTA is barely a parody anymore these days and more like a real life representation of 3rd world amerishart life.

tbf: Like a Dragon & Judgment

Are you retarded? Illegal Japanese car culture was so popular they made a sloppa fast and furious movie about it for normies. If you want a retard who breaks the law the make the protag Korean. I don't know why you treat GTA like it's a documentary and not complete fiction while simultaneously assuming nobody breaks the law in Japan. I also don't know why you think GTA has to be set in the modern era.

Sleeping dogs already proved an east asian GTA can and does work, Japan has just as much material to work from as Hong Kong.

its based on california but it isnt california

Thats what sleeping Dogs is, except HK

Public transportation is too good. Why would you need a car?

Wow a smart anon glad you understand that

GTA works better without guns, Kung Fu shit is more fun. They have Koreans.

and illegal street racing was so civil in Japan that the instant someone crashed and got an innocent person killed in the process, the entire scene died overnight because everyone agreed it wasn't worth the risk anymore. You don't know what you're talking about.

Why did the last car POV decided to hit the gas? The blue car wasn't even near it.

everyone agreed it wasn't worth the risk anymore

sources cited: anime

Hong Kong is not Japan. it's not a matter of "Asia doesn't work", it's "Japan doesn't work". don't put words in my mouth. Hong Kong was for decades a hub of smuggling and violent crime, it's what the place is most known for; people getting filthy rich smuggling heroin for the Triads.

probably a decrepit mushbrained nonagenarian barely aware of the world outside

sources cited:

the people involved. the Mid Night Club hasn't existed for 30 years.

i don't believe you. i'm calling you a liar, directly to your face.

You have the mind of a complete NPC, the fact that they were modifying cars, there were gangs of people doing it and they raced so fast and frequently that people died doing it is enough to make compelling fiction. Again, videogames aren't documentaries, the mere existence of illegal subcultures gives you license to create compelling fiction. GTA was originally just based on Hollywood shit the British were watching.

When you're writing fiction the Yakuza and triads are completely interchangable. I'm pretty sure Chinese gangs and probably even the triads have a presence in Japan alongside Korean gangs.

live sheep reaction

What GTA 4 style story of immigrant trying to make it in Japan

There is no actual evidence of this incident. It's a story that was regurgitated for decades and is now being parroted here. The reality is that between the increased exposure the club were getting, and the law stepping up to tackle street racing, the members simply stepped back and reoriented. Some went off to do circuit racing, others went to touge, and some stopped altogether as they had jobs and families to care about.

Low Crime
Low Gun Proliferation
Fairly homogeneous population
Mostly Walkable cities with solid Public Transit / lower number of Personally owned vehicles
Only 2 real big "well known" cities are Tokyo and partially Kyoto, which is constantly getting confused with Tokyo.
No real high profile modern non white collar/scammer crimes based missions and such off of. Too much upper tier corruption and not enough petty / street stuff.

Why is a high real life crime rate necessary for a GTA setting? 99% of a GTA game is the player committing crimes in areas you wouldn't usually see it and watching the game react to it. People don't actually run around the streets of new york blowing up hundreds of cars with rocket launchers.

People don't actually run around the streets of new york blowing up hundreds of cars with rocket launchers.

t. flyover retard

Variety is more important than the crime rate honestly. GTA is known for it's wide range of (criminal) activities to do, which scale in scope and difficultly the longer you play. America is one of the few places where the variety of crime covers the entire spectrum, which scales nicely from a gameplay perspective from lower end (mugging, assault, battery) to higher end (bank heist, Casino/Shady Buisness ownership, Scams).
Yes, you COULD do a 'GTA' in South Sudan, but the majority of their crime is violent so most of the player's gameplay experience would be fighting machete wielding maniacs or warlords.
Yes, you COULD do a 'GTA' in Japan, but again the player's gameplay experience would reduced to just scamming the aging population out of their money or running a pachinko parlor under Yakuza remnants.
It's difficult to find a location that serves the variety of crime that happens on the planet at the scale that America has.

GTA: New Delhi

90s Russia is the perfect setting for a GTA game outside the US and Hong Kong; a decade of utter chaos and violence with neverending corruption
IV already laid the groundwork with Niko & Co. and the heavy presence of the Russian mafia

what parts of yakuza do you think fit the grand-theft auto crime, anon? punching gangsters in the street and doing wacky sidequests?

40iq mongoloid

The only thing you listed that would feel out of place in Japan is a bank heist. A GTA set in Japan would have to be in the past when the Yakuza were more than a bunch of demented boomers. I don't think Japan is the best location on earth for a GTA game but it's a pretty good one, the fact that it's different from America is a good thing not a bad one.

brownie thinks the auto in grand theft auto means automobile

no guns and no niggers

It's not the 80's anymore; modern japan is extremely Diverse™ now.

real answer is rockstar are western and with the detailed world and social parody they do theyre best staying with what they know and understand. if they tried the gta treatment of completely foreign culture they dont even speak the language of it wouldnt click the same way unless the devs themselves were from japan or at least asia. its like why ricky gervaise can write a good comedy based in an office in slough and but if he tried the same thing with a korean officr parody it just wouldnt work or hit the same. still im surprised no japanese devs have tried a gta equivalent

The biggest diversity group in Japan is chinks who although are disgusting people aren't as bad as jeets or niggers

aren't as bad as jeets or niggers

now THAT is cope

Too homogeneous. Part of the fun of GTA is meeting all of those cultural stereotypes along the way.

stop watching old anime. today's japan smells of diversity now

yeah if you're an ignorant retard. it's like saying Mexican gangs in LA are interchangeable with Columbian gangs in Miami.

chinks are men pretending to be animals
jeets and joggers are animals

open Anon Babble

le epic mid night club bushido story still persists

Let me pasta an old Anon Babble post

A lot of what's been written about MNC is straight-up falsehood. There was a good series of posts either here or on some automotive forum clearing up a lot of unsourced rumours, but I'll go ahead and recall those to the best of my ability.

>dooooood MNC was so secret no-one was ever found out as a member!

Many members are either known or can be guessed with a good degree of certainty - Isami Amemiya, the founder of RE-Amemiya for one. It's the most open secret in the Japanese tuning industry. Then there's Uwabo-san of ABFlug, he was a member, and of course, Yoshida-san, the real-life Tatsuya Shima, who drove a burgundy Porsche 930 which looked black at night, hence the Blackbird. Michiharu Kusunoki, the author of Wangan Midnight, was either also a member, or knew someone who was. And who can forget Smokey Nagata, perhaps the most famous member of them all?

>dooooood if someone put MNC stickers on their car and wasn't MNC they would smash it up

There are precisely zero documented examples of this occurring, and sounds extremely uncharacteristic of their core values. It's like if a redneck slapped a #3 on their black Chevy back in the day and came home to see Richard Childress and Mr. Intimidator himself smashing it to bits. Just didn't happen.

>dooooood MNC ended after a fatal accident

That is a bold-faced lie. IIRC, someone identified a real accident between Bosozoku factions but crucially had NOTHING to do with MNC. MNC did dissipate and lost a lot of its popularity, but it persisted. Pic related is from a meeting which took place last fucking year[sic, 2019] ffs.

anon those machines were destroyed by American tourists who just planned on staying for a week or so at most. Unlike people who live in Japan, the "people" who live in America wreck their own country beyond belief. If there are niggers in Japan they don't stay there or spread.

ubisoft just made it but they are not making back the production costs

The rumor is Rockstar planned on doing this for GTA 6 before GTA Online blew up but they abandoned the idea because Japan has strong IP copyright laws on their buildings whereas the US is more loose. The real reason could be the Yakuza threatened someone but this is what IGN reported

Because the roads and geography would make it a nightmare. I think someone at Rockstar even admitted as such when they looked at some road maps of Japan.

source?

i was there a month ago and no it doesn't, stop listening to the voices in your head and take your meds

I want more Way of the Samurai instead, with big budget.

yakuza but with street racing

sounds alright. but GTA really relies on third person shooting

The real reason could be the Yakuza threatened someone

so why don't they have a problem with all of the other 'yakuza' themed games? or even movies?
do the yakuza still threaten people, i thought they all went legit or own sketchy bars that scam tourists

yakuza but with street racing

Isn't that just Yakuza 5?

the yakuza got fucked by the lehman shock and anti violence group laws
now its all hangre doing most of the crime

Here’s one
gtaboom.com/Further_proof_emerges_that_Rockstar_Games_was_working_on_GTA_Tokyo

This news seems to be from 2022 and 2023 but the article and video I’m thinking of is from IGN and was posted around 2016

I dunno anon it’s speculation but could be they don’t like Americans or maybe because Yakuza is a goofball franchise that’s since been rebranded as Like A Dragon as it’s popularity has grown.

like a dragon has always been the name of the series in japan

If it's talking about shit that old the discussions around GTA Tokyo could have been related to Chinatown wars. They should have set GTA 6 in another location, I'm bored to tears of satirical America.

this man has never had a pork bun

The two aren’t mutually exclusive, ie they wanted to do GTA Tokyo on PS2 and then thought about doing it again for GTA 6 for PS4 before it became Project Americas and then Vice City 2.0 that it apparently is today. The IGN rumor was about next gen, not some old rumor from the past. And it’s possible that someone fed IGN some bad news. The earliest we heard about GTA 6 being Vice City was 2018.

Liked combat so much i barely used guns in the game.

gta is specifically parody of america
i assume yakuza is parody of japan with all its zany nonsense
the real question is which country is overdue a series parodying its entire culture?
surely not germany maybe brazil?

gta but set in 1920s england, basically peaky blinders the videogame with gypsy gangs and irish terrorists and shit
would sell like hot cakes

would sell like

[BANNED IN UK & IRELAND] + all new criminal penalties for anyone caught in possession of the game

India or London

Nah. After they fill the game with browns and claim that England always had a significant population of non-whites, the government will accept it.

chinks are bugs pretending to be coordinated bugs

GTA is set in a world where America is an archipelago

with the exceptions of gta1,2,london and i forget the other one maybe chinatown wars?

Now that modern 21st century Japan is starting to embrace diversity and from other countries (African and arab) There is going to be more incidents and violence. You're going to get more Japanese in the near and upcoming future looking like Naomi Osaka and more of pic related.

Literally Japan. Yakuza isn't a parody it's just wacky characters in a cartoon version of Japan. I think an actual satire of Japan would be confusing, borderline offensive to weebs who idolise that place. Korea is also in dire need of someone taking the piss out of it, what it actually is vs what Koreaboos think it is couldn't be more disconnected.

Beyond that, India, south africa and Israel are funny places full of crazy people