RPG set in the ghetto

[gyroscopeboy]

I know Chris Avellone has stated several times [http://www.avclub.com/articles/avc-at-gdc-10-an-interview-with-alpha-protocol-cre,39091/] that he'd love to do an RPG based on The Wire.

YES! THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!

 

[DudeistBelieve]

...Ugh... I just spent a semester in African American literature and learning about racism characteures.

Honestly, the best answer I can give is if you want a Ghetto RPG, San Andreas is about the best you'll ever get.... and as far as that goes, it's really not a bad game if you were to judge how racist it is, cause while it uses sterotypes it's so over the top in every which way it's a total satire of Black Damage fiction narratives like Menace To Society and Precious.

but basically the problem is... Are they going for the glitz and glam of Black Damage or are they trying to show an accurate representation of that reality? One seems like a lot more fun to play, but it's racist. The other sounds way to depressing to be any fun.

 

[chuckman1]

So being an rpg fan and someone who's lived in the ghetto before (South Phoenix Arizona's hood) I've always wondered why there aren't any rpgs set in the ghetto it seems like a good setting.
You could start out in your mom's house and have to move your way up, different factions are different gangs (including police), you could buy guns, buy cocaine and baking soda and cook it up and sell it, learn to cook meth, all sorts of things in the ghetto you learn a lot of things.
Do you know of any rpgs in the ghetto and would you get one?
Maybe I should make one.

I hate to be that guy, but a poor American neighborhood isn't the Ghetto. You want to see a Ghetto? Go visit certain parts of Eastern Europe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuRU5Qr2vQ][footnote]its from a comedy movie but you get my point[/footnote]. Better yet, take a look right here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVh0qCc_AR0].

As for proposal, look at Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas

American ghettos aren't nearly as bad as ghettos in other countries (brazil, mexico, indonesia, uganda, liberia, iraq, (well you get the point I don't have to list every country with worse living standards than america) but that doesn't mean that american ghettos don't totally suck.
These ghettos just suck way more. Also bullets don't care if your rent is 350 a month or if it's 5 a month, my point being all ghettos face struggles. While the threat of a cross dressing/naked army of cannibals who worship satan, eat babies, and load up on as many drugs as possible before doing so (Butt Naked Army from Liberia) is far more terrifying than being shot by the fools from the other side of the street they both end badly.

Hell maybe I should make a game in Liberia.