this sounds like a silly question, but, seriously: has anyone made any, like.... violence-free story replacement mods for GTA games.     I don't just mean like "the game's the same but the guns are squirt guns", I mean like, a total replacement for the storyline & quests so that you have something less boring to do in that city

I watched a youtube video the other day of someone's favourite spots on the GTA3 map, and like.     I want to explore that city!!     I want to go poke around and find stuff, and do fetch quests that make me zig zag back and forth and learn the areas.   I just don't want to have to tap spacebar to skip through stories about miserable people wanting to kill each other, and then godmode my way through a bunch of explosions, in order to be given reasons to go anywhere.....

like: it's always bugged me that those great huge cities are wasted on a single game even if you like the game, IMO;  it feels like there must be a scene for "sticking new content on those maps", but in practice you mostly just hear about "now the main character looks like a ninja turtle while he's shooting people".... is there also a deeper mod scene than that, that just doesn't get talked about?

I extremely want to play a visual novel that's set in the map of GTA3 or whatever.... the city's already there, and the character models are already there, so with the right tools it feels like it shouldn't be particularly more work than a ren'py or twine game, but you'd be exploring a huge interesting city to find your way to the next piece of the story! am I weird for wanting this?