I would like a more roleplaying- stylish game. You know, you can talk to certain people, and make contacts.
Later, when you get more influence and respect in the criminal world, you would be able to start your own crime- gang (or join an allready existing one of course)
You can search up those people you made contact with and ask them to join your gang. They join if you have treated them with respect, helped them and so on, if you've been bad against them, they wont join you, then they might even try to kill you.
And if you are uncareful when you kill people, you get wanted by the police. Not like the earlier with stars, but for a longer time. You would have to stay more hidden in the backalleys, maybe change look often, dont draw too much attention to yourself. You know, just keep a low profile. It might take some gamedays untill the cops stop hunting you.
But if they catch you, they arrest you and bring you to jail, and depending on many things, the courtjudges give you different penalties. It might depend on: How powerfull you are in the criminal and the legal world (= how many witnesess who dare show up). If you where cought during a crime. How big wantedlevel you got at the time. how good lawyers you got and more things like that.
If you are just a "street rat" who've killed 20 people and gets cought, you are going to get a very hard penalty. If you are a rich crimeboss with an expensive lawyer, maybe even with legal businesses at the side you get a ligher penalty, maybe just a big fine.
BUT if you are a "nobody" you have to go to prison. And do you time (3-30 gamedays for example)
You can get new contacts there (convicts and guards), do trading with drugs and stuff, and make yoursself a name even in the prisonworld.
And there will be different ways out of the prison. you can of course do your hole time and get out as a free man. But you can also try to escape. There will be different ways of escaping, wich way you choose depends on wich way you find. And you have to plan it well, check the guards patrol routs and that kind of things.
If you escape you will have a hell outside the walls for a couple of days though. But if you stay hidden the cops will cool down eventually.
Wow, that was a long post
but this is some of the things I would like to have in GTA4.
And also many other things. Create your own character, gasstations, bigger map with bigger differenses (Like hot Miami wheater, or even deserts, in the south. And colder, changing climate, with mountains, in the north)
OK, now i wont write anything more or it might take too long to read. But i have A LOT of other ideas. (Maybe I should mail Rockstar about these features, how big is the chances that they think they are good?)
I might be back with more ideas later
And one more thing
when you create you character you can choose wich nationality he will be. Like american, mexican, japanese, chinese, italian/sicilian, russian, and maybe some other nationalities too.
But to get to the real point. Lets say you choose to be a russian man, then you wont have a chance to get into the sicilian maffia for example.
You have to be of sicilian blood to enter Cosa Nostra. And you cant just enter it, You got to have made contacts with a member, maybe helped him, and shown yourself worthy, then you have to go trough the initiation ceremony, and after that you have become a mafioso.
Every gang of course isn't as strict about nationality as the maffia, and some gangs isn't that hard to join. Bigger gangs = harder time getting into it.
With this system the replay value could be far bigger then now I am so smart!!!