Anybody 'member GTA Forums autistic concept threads?

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There is this utterly bizarre subculture - of a forum - I remember from when I was a kid. Have never heard a soul mention it.

On GTA Forums, they had this tradition where people didn't just make suggestions, but would make entire design documents for hypothetical GTA games. Like, imagine some motherfucker sitting over their computer making a mockup of a map (seriously thought out), lists of guns, lists of radio stations with song lists, elaborate lore for gangs, TV show synopses for the in-game TV, minigames, vehicles, this and that and the other, going over 10,000 words and pages of detail.


It was basically the same kind of obsessive productive energy you see in people like Star Wars fans and Lord of the Rings fans. A filk machine.

I have never seen a game franchise, outside of modding (which has a tangible product at the end of it), with such a fanatical fanbase, and it has passed completely unremembered. The whole thing seems surreal looking back on it.

Anyways, if I seem completely autistic over in the What games do you wish exist? thread, this rotted my brain when I was too young to be on GTAForums.
 
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There's little to no GTA porn despite it being one of the most popular games of all time. So in other words the fanbase is extremely normal.
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It's also an extremely male series. If they're still doing a female playable character (I haven't paid attention to news on that in forever) for GTAVI, I anticipate a sudden massive influx of GTA porn.
 
No, but I do remember when they got autistic about the admins posting some images of like 5 Guys restaurant before GTA V came out thinking it was some kind of sign from Rockstar themselves. (which in retrospect really explains the autistic following the Mt Chilliad mystery has)

Also they all got tricked by some guy into believing GTA V was going to have some North Yankton DLC starring Niko and Michaels kid because he posted some nonsensical programming that was clearly bullshit but nobody had enough sense to realize.

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I anticipate a sudden massive influx of GTA porn.
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It's already started, unfortunately.
 
Yes I do remember exactly what you were talking about OP, I used to have an account when I was younger too. This just unlocked a whole load of memories lol.
GTA 4 was still popular and interest/hype in 5 was just starting to get rolling, culminating in the first trailer where the forum exploded. I remember there was a lot of fanfiction, people designing their own maps in MSPaint, gun list, dream cars, dream features etc. I think it was because GTA 4 was seen as smaller than SA because it was only one city, less guns etc. so people were craving tons of features and just letting their imaginations run wild.

Its like people wanted their own dream GTA 4 DLC based around their favorite gang and made an entire writeup about it:

Map making thread (219 pages):

This guy drew his own map on paper, scanned it, then added filters to how it would appear in game:
1. GTA Mapmaking - GTA VI - GTAForums.webp
 
I was guilty of getting really into hypothetical/custom music playlists, especially for Vice City and San Andreas. Since I was already into 80s/90s music, trying to make the perfect 80s playlist while playing a sandbox fantasy version of 80s Miami or 90s Cali was fun to do since it added to the experience of the game instead of relying on the developers' tastes or copyright restrictions. A GTA maker mostly based on the ps2 games sort of like RPG Maker would be ideal. It would be easier to pump out full blown games instead of constant failed mod projects.
 
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