Because, unfortunately, even Bond is not proper Bond anymore - everything has to be so serious, gritty and real these days, instead of silly and over the top fun.

That's a sad truth...at least mostly. Movies like Kingsman make up for it in a way, but still.

Insanely funny and politically incorrect and over the top movies like Naked Gun would never happen today. Too much fear of a backlash...Sad world.

It would be really great if bigwigs finally agreed who owns rights to NLFO - Kate Archer would be perfect for GTA-esque Europe adventure, especially if they kept witty writing and her personality form first 2 games.

Yes, my feeling exactly. I was recently watching Big Trouble in Little China. Because I hadn't seen it before, and I wanted to know if my feeling that the 80s movies were more fun is based in reality or just my imagination through rosy colored retro-goggles. And I found with Big Trouble again this mixture from silly and serious. The feeling the crew had as much fun shooting the movie as I had watching it.

I don't wanna say todays Hollywood-movies are bad. They are indeed mostly good. But not exceptional and not this mixture of goodness. They feel like a ... product. A well thought-through product with no wrinkles, but also with no experimental fun or risks.

By the way, I feel current chinese cinema captures this 80s feel: Monster Hunt, Journey to the West (from Stephen Chow) or Mojin. Especially Mojin gave me some serious Indiana Jones vibes. But it maybe me only.

I was thinking the same thing. GTA stuff just doesn't feel as natural in other countries 

I think either Italy or Russia would suit GTA the most, due to a lot of characters being from those nationalities in many of the games.

But a lot of GTA's character revolves around it being a parody of american culture, I'm not sure what it'd be like elsewhere.

Really? I wouldn't even put it in the top 20. A modern city centre with no personality that clashes with the old surrounding areas. It doesn't even look particularly German with 80% of it rebuilt after the war.

Take a look at places like Bergen- Norway Ptuj -Slovenia, Venice?

Wouldn't work in Europe, forcing GTA type stuff into a European city would just feel silly, because you know there's no way.

Still, I'd get a GTA Netherlands just for the novelty.

He was clearly joking/being sarcastic.

Moscow is the obvious answer, St Petersburg also.

Maybe Krakow or Prague or even montreal.