Things I want GTA5 to take from Saints Row 1/2:
- Cruise control
- The garage. You can you save any vehicle in your garage for later use and add to your growing collection. Garages are universal, so no matter what hideout, so long as your car is saved you can use it. If your car is destroyed you can pay a fee to get it back.
- Car surfing.
- Planes, whacky vehicles like mini-bikes.
- Free aim. None of this lock on or hold in the button to shoot garbage.
- Gang stars, rival gangs get stars as well as police. Piss off a gang too much and you'll go on all out gang war mode.
- Hostages. Get in a car with someone in the passenger seat? Take them for hostage and start a side mission! How long can you outrun the police?
- Co-op.
- Cancel mission mid-mission.
- Various activities: mayhem (wreck havok and destroy property for points), gang wars, prostitution, drug wars;etc all with varying difficulties and multiple levels.
- Customization: customize your hideout, your gang, your cars.
- Customize yourself: your personality, your movements, your walk, everything about yourself.
- The ability to buy vehicles.
- Respect meter, can't do certain missions without gaining notoriety first.
- Unlockable abilities: increase sprint, increase healthy, increase defense, increase jump.
- No health kits. Regenerative health, but make sure you could be able to die pretty easily.
- Fail a mission? Display a result screen that shows how much you suck and opt to return to checkpoint, beginning of mission, or cancel the mission. ONLY allow BUSTED and WASTED when not on a mission.
- Cell phone with actual use. Still have the ability to call friends but make it for useful calls only. Like, sending me a ride when I'm in the middle of nowhere.
Thinking about it, it seems I just want Saints Row these days.
Because that is like, literally everything in Saints Row 1/2.
If only we could have a Saints Row with R*'s production values
