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*Slaps hand to forehead* haha......yeah I actually knew that, and considering I have close family friends who are Serbian, kinda makes it worse......ahh well....the general hove beach part of the game was based around Eastern European gangs in one way or another, easy mistake to make Going back to the original topic........does anyone actually think it's plausible? or what would you like to see instead in another LA based GTA city?

I saw there was a topic about protagonists already, but that one was to see if people thought any of the existing protagonists from IV would fit the bill..... First off, this is my first post here for some years (we're probably talkin' pre-San Andreas days here when it was gta-sanadreas.com) because I've recently been looking out for any new updates on what could be coming next. I didn't really do the whole speculation thing with IV, just watched the trailers really.....(especially that first one.....who doesn't remember that night? haha), but this time around, I think I know enough about the last game to not spoil it for myself by learning to much about what we can or should expect in the next installment. It got me thinking, Due to magazine speculation and such putting their money on V being set in LA/Los Santos again, about what sort of take on it they could possibly go with. With IV they did the completely unexpected and went with a Russian protagonist which was an obscure route, and quite an original and interesting perspective for the series itself to take. I think with V, they could do something quite similar. If I was to go with the specualtion so far, I would probably say it's going to be based around Packie Mcreary in some way, with a whole range of different character backgrounds and ethnicities, accumulating to one big plot-line. But if I was to put my money on it, I think they'll play it a bit differently............ With San Andreas they kind of did the expected (atleast of the Los Santos part), with the African American gangs of South Central being the main focal point. Where-as with V my prediction is that they will go from the other side, and it will be about the Hispanic/Latino gangs. This prediction has no basis in any truth put out by Rockstar or any source of speculation, I simply thought about it in factual terms considering present day South Central (again just throwing it out there as a guess as to what time period might be considered) which from what I have seen on certain programs, nowadays tends to be primarily Hispanic and Latino gangs, who tend to be more of a new threat on the streets, with a more un-precendented amount of ruthlessness. Now if I'm not mistaken, I don't think we've had a Hispanic gangster as a main protagonist before, I mean the whole hood thing again could be a bad idea, because looking back to CJ, some of that could be considered quite cheesy now, but if it was to be taken more seriously, like Niko's Russian personality, it could make for a very interesting take on an incredibly versatile series. I don't know about anyone else, but if the hood thing was done properly, with enough seriousness to make it a gripping and ruthless plot-line, they'd definitely put a smile on my face again. What are peoples thoughts? What pro's and con's in a GTA environment do you think a story like this could entail? or if you would prefer a different spin on things, what type of protagonist or story what would that be?