Incline The best setting for GTA would be Mexico

[Jack Of Owls]

If it took place in Brazil your only adversaries would be keystone brazilan cops and severely socially challenged and impoverished teenage hitmen on mopeds and motorbikes with motorcycle helmets and wearing tropical shorts and flip flops. No challenge. Mexico might be cool because of the cartels and they could combine Goat Simulator mechanics with the random unusually aggressive goat on the street attacking you. France or Russia might be a nice change of venue for the series

Yes, and the literal army of mexico is allied with the cartels, so you realistically will get tanks called in on you

Ah, you watched ZeroZeroZero (2020) too, eh? Great great series! :D

 

[the mole]

If it took place in Brazil your only adversaries would be keystone brazilan cops and severely socially challenged and impoverished teenage hitmen on mopeds and motorbikes with motorcycle helmets and wearing tropical shorts and flip flops. No challenge. Mexico might be cool because of the cartels and they could combine Goat Simulator mechanics with the random unusually aggressive goat on the street attacking you. France or Russia might be a nice change of venue for the series

Yes, and the literal army of mexico is allied with the cartels, so you realistically will get tanks called in on you

Ah, you watched ZeroZeroZero (2020) too, eh? Great great series! :D

No I dont watch shows, I post on forums

 

[Jack Of Owls]

If it took place in Brazil your only adversaries would be keystone brazilan cops and severely socially challenged and impoverished teenage hitmen on mopeds and motorbikes with motorcycle helmets and wearing tropical shorts and flip flops. No challenge. Mexico might be cool because of the cartels and they could combine Goat Simulator mechanics with the random unusually aggressive goat on the street attacking you. France or Russia might be a nice change of venue for the series

Yes, and the literal army of mexico is allied with the cartels, so you realistically will get tanks called in on you

Ah, you watched ZeroZeroZero (2020) too, eh? Great great series! :D

No I dont watch shows, I post on forums

Well, you should make an exception in this case because it's almost exactly what you described. EPIC crime drama. My personal guarantee: If you don't like ZeroZeroZero, I will personally refund you the $ 0.15 (USD) of your electric bill it took to torrent it

 

[Baron Dupek]

Any country from old soviet republic after '89, with wild capitalism emerging.

 

[Norfleet]

You can't play GTA Go anymore since Mexico closed the border due to Kung Flu.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

No where else is as corrupt

I remember the late William S. Burroughs telling a story about an american tourist or something in Mexico who once asked for directions from a slightly drunken bar patron. The patron congenially offered to walk the guy to his location. The drunk gets confused half-way there, realizes he doesn't know the way after all, so he pulls his gun out and shoots the guy to death for making him lose face. And that's just the happy regular drunken slobs in the bars, let alone the cops, soldiers and officials who may have had a bad day and act out on your ass because you didn't grease their palms! Mexico: a dangerous place, amigos.

 

[Arbiter]

GTA: Sicario

 

[KVVRR]

Rockstar already visited Brasil with Max Payne 3 and Mexico in Red Dead Redemption, so if they wanted to make something new maybe 90's Colombia would be a good bet. Nothing wrong with retreading old ground in another franchise, though.

Games like Vice City, San Andreas and GTA4 are strong because they explore, lampoon and make playgrounds of places and people that the anglos making them can easily grasp. There is absolutely no way that outsiders that don't even speak the language could understand and do any justice, especially blending humour with violence, to Colombia. I really dread foreigners trying to cash in by making more media set in Colombia. It isn't just a different flavor of rampaging criminal negros or mafia, it's war.

It would make one hell of a game if done right tho