The Hostage System in GTA

I was just living life a few days ago and out of nowhere I started to think about this cool feature that could be implemented in GTA games.

Imagine your running from the police. You got much heat on you, lets say atleast four stars. Now, in the game, the only way you can survive (WITHOUT using cheats) is to stay in a vehicle, or any other means. However, once you walk on an open road, you know your screwed. However, imagine if you could take a random pedestrian and hold him/her hostage. You can now cautiously walk on to the road, even with a four star rating, and probably get what you want (make you way to an escape vehicle, chopper, etc). It'll be a minigame of some kind. You have to be extra careful to make sure there are no snipers trying to take you out, and you have to always be moving, because officers will take shots at you in order to free the victim. Also, depending on which victim you take, they will react differently. Take a guy/girl bigger than you, then he/she will slow you down as you walk, and even beat you up in order to escape. Take someone smaller, and they will do whatever you want. What do you guys think? A good implentation on next gen games?

sounds pretty awesome.

Realistically its dumb because if you take hostages you are dead. That is when they bring out the snipers. It would be fun and cool to have in GTA though. You could also grab bad guys and use them as human shields against his friends lol. It would also be kool to have to deal with hostage situations. Its a great concept as far as interacting with civilians and could get people to think of even more ways to interact with them. Muggings anyone?? Trying to slap people around for information?? All that stuff was in punisher but could work very well in GTA.

you can't check your back so its impossible to hold a hostage for a long time

You could also grab bad guys and use them as human shields against his friends lol. It would also be kool to have to deal with hostage situations. Its a great concept as far as interacting with civilians and could get people to think of even more ways to interact with them. Muggings anyone?? Trying to slap people around for information?? All that stuff was in punisher but could work very well in GTA.

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but like this, it would be nice.

That's adecent idea, and they could do even more with that.They could turnkidnapping into a money-making minigame, like the Police, Taxi & Ambulance driver missions.

Here's how it could go down: Just like the taxi missions etc... you'd have to enter a certain style of vehicle to start the kidnapping missions. I recommend a "Molester" style conversion van, there could be several throughout the city. When you enter one of these, you can start the kidnapping missions. Then it would play out just like the Taxi missions. You'd have to go pick someone up (except it would be against their will), drag them back to the car, then drive them to a then disclosed location where you'd pick up the ransom.

If they did check out online forums it would be those connected to their company websites. There is no way in hell they would check random forums at random times and catch the one topic out of a bazillion that actually has to do with their game. Sending your idea's in with normal mail is also a nono and would result in it being tossed in the trash because again if they read your idea and use it, they would owe you money. Your slimmest most desperate chance is company forums and becoming a playtester.

Lol cool, I didnt think my idea would be THAT awesome. I appreciate your input/feedback. If you guys are interested, please track me, because I have tons of well thought out ideas for other games, as well as more for GTA

Thanks again

Oh man. Jason your signature gets more and more offensive each time I see it lol. Why should people track you? You dont have a profile or any blogs or even an icon??

Fine, I'll stay on track, I didnt mean to offend anyone if I did. I'm not trying to be popular, I really dont care what you guys think, I'm just saying that if you are interested, I can share more ideas with you.

So I guess let's agree to disagree.