Grand Theft Auto

We gotta hold on to what we got
It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
We got each other and that's a lot for love
We'll give it a shot

Whoa! We're halfway there!
Oh, whoa! Living on a prayer!
Take my hand. We'll make it, I swear!
Whoa! Living on a prayer!
-Bon Jovi

So it's no secret that I love tabletop role-playing games. That's sort of the whole point of this blog. But I also am a huge fan of video games and when it comes to video gaming, I am a massive fan of open world sandbox games. Of course, when it comes to open world video games, you can't get much better than the series that codified open world game play in the modern era....

Of course, I am talking about my favorite video game franchise of all time, Rockstar Games' violent and well-written series of gangster video games, the one and only Grand Theft Auto.

GTA has been imitated many times, but never truly surpassed. I love it and I have ever since I first played Grand Theft Auto III on my Playstation 2 back in 2001.

The games are perfection themselves. You play in a modern-day open world environment (although some of the PS2-era games were period pieces explicitly set in the 1980's and 1990's) and you can get involved in street races, pull off drug deals, do hits for the Mob, get in gunfights with street gangs, and even pick up hookers (and by the way, you can get your money back!) and it all takes place in a fake city set to a kickass soundtrack of licensed 80's hits (and other genres of music too!)

I recently signed up for GTA Forums, the largest fully dedicated online forum for Grand Theft Auto fans that I know of, and so far I really like the community there. I even joined their official Discord channel as well, so I might as well give a shout-out to GTA Forums and post a link below in the blog post. You should check it out for yourself if you're a fan of GTA.

GTA Forums

So yeah, I've been thinking of doing some fan works for Grand Theft Auto, I already am working on a fan concept for a hypothetical GTA game over at GTA Forums, which I have titled Grand Theft Auto VI: The Family Secrets and I am also in the process of writing some cool GTA fan fiction and even an online GTA role-playing campaign. Both the fan fiction stuff and the role-plays will be detailed further on this blog, so watch this space!

TL;DR I love Grand Theft Auto and I'm going to be posting a lot of GTA fan works to my blog and elsewhere. Also, check out GTA Forums if you want. It's cool.