Grand Theft Auto V.

Aw yeah. If Rockstar are as smart as I already believe them to be, they'll have taken the lessons from IV and everything they learned from Red Dead Redemption to make something pretty fucking special I hope.

Awesome.  I know there's been speculation this would be set in a more realistic Los Santos, and the money-ish styling on the five could easily just be for gangs/organized crime/etc.  They do tend to like money, but honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when I look at that logo is Washington D.C.  Can't wait to see more.

Edited by ScottieFerguson - 10/25/11 at 5:21am

Bit surprised they're going for a full-blown 'V' already rather than having a new IV-era game set in a different city. Generally they save the numbered entries for big evolutionary jumps.

So Grand Theft Auto V is set in the Old West, all the "autos" are horses, and it's really a sequel to Red Dead Redemption? I'd rather have that game.

 

I'm curious to see if they can make GTA5 look as good as Red Dead did.  A city is more dense with stuff everywhere though, so I'm not sure that's going to happen on current hardware. However, it's sure to look much better than the blurry, shitty looking GTA4.  Hopefully the new one won't look so brown everywhere.

 

I'll probably enjoy GTA5 well enough, but Rockstar's flagship franchise just doesn't appeal to me as much as their other games have.  Give me Bully 2 or a sequel to Red Dead Redemption. Then I'll get super excited.

I'd bet my house that Rockstar San Diego is hard at work on a Redemption sequel. (Red Dead Retribution? Red Dead Revolution?) But I'm fine with another GTA first. I just hope the gameplay is closer to San Andreas than it is to IV.

I've seen the script for this. It's set in Des Moines. You're an accountant who goes to his 9-5 job. You have a family. You go to work, idle at your desk for 45 minutes optionally browsing digg (soon to be reddit, then soon to be diggit), time is accelerated, and then you have the option to stop off at Chili's with friends before going home and reading bed time stories to your kids. Depending on the day of the week your after work activites could include picking up milk, picking up your boy from soccer practice, or hold on to your butts - taking swimming lessons from an npc voiced by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. You can go to a pet store on weekends and buy a dog or a cat. If you have a cat you unlock optional side missions where you video tape it doing cute things around the house so you can upload it to youtube in real life. After a year you have the option to surf on your tablet pc and order the onlive version of saints row 3, that you can play within the game. Once a night you can visit shambook and like whatever procedurally generated status updates your virtual friends post. This has bearing on what your next days post-work activity is. On Sundays you have two mini-games: stay awake god dammit, where you sit through a real time sermon where you have to do Quick Time Events to keep your character awake and not anger your wife (this also has bearing on the post-death dlc packs); the other Sunday mini-game is sit on your ass watching football while giving the minimal amount of attention to your wife and kids via branching dialogue trees that make use of your Kinect or PS Move accessories. The less you physically move in this segment determines how drunk and numb your character gets before passing out when 60 Minutes comes on tv. This continues for 30 years, one month in real time equals a year, until at the very end, what street you choose to drive down determines the end of the game you receive. You either get car jacked by some methhead that you're too old to fight off or you get sideswiped by a street sweeper. What makes the ending so poignant is that when you drive in this sequence the car view is off center in the undercarriage of the car at an isometric angle. You never see it coming.

The Houser brothers spared no expense making this the most realistic depiction of real life without any of that sims pee gauge nonsense or stress inducing zombie ocd robot mute murder mode in previous iterations.

If you pre-order the game from Gamestop you can play the game as an architect named Ted. You spend 5-6 years searching for your wife before the game actually starts. If you buy the special edition steel book copy there's a 1/803976 chance you receive the Dexter code that let's you hunt other people - you will make a lot of money selling this code on ebay (optionally you can redeem the code even though you sold it). Season Pass buyers will receive a complimentary DJ Roomba that will handle cleaning chores leaving you more time to play Brownshaped Turds.

IGN already gave this game a 10 out of 10. Jim Sterling hates it but then acts all noble in a post-review blog post about how brave the Houser Brothers were for not blacklisting him for being a cunty cunt. OXM spoils the ending in the exclusive preview. Gamesutra guy grills the Houser brothers on why the cat is acting so cat like in the game; half the gaming community hates him for being so douchey, but the other half respects him for keeping gamasutra honest. I buy the game, hate the camera angle and wonky animations and bitch about it here on chud.com; and then buy it again when the pc port comes out a year later because I'm also a cunty cunt. All of humanity unites in their adoration of a game that captured the human spirit so eloquently, marvelling at how our essence was crafted and compressed onto a 1.5 GB gamecube disc making this release so cheap to produce and yet so easy to sell to all of mankind. Houser brothers buy all of earth and start a website making real life Saw movies, the last vestiges of humanty is snuffed out on April 29th, 2015. The last person to die is an accountant named Jared Skold. The last thought that ran through his mind was, "that's can't be a nerf baseball bat with glass shards glued to it, can it?"

I cannot wait to play this game. It's going to be so awesome.

Already sounds less boring than Red Dead Redemption.

 

Oh yeah. I went there.

 

I'd love to have a Grand Theft Auto meets Breaking Bad setup.

Imagine the driving mission with a smoking RV with knocked out gang members, or even chemistry mini games.

I know GTAIV has it's issues, but I love me some Nico Bellic. He's my favorite GTA protagonist BY FAR.

1) I'd have preferred a RDR 2 to a GTA V, but with GTA as R*'s bread and butter, this doesn't surprise me

2) I'd been hoping for a European location

3) While the idea of a DC based game (I assume this is the most likely option based on that logo, as another Chewer stated) sounds cool, I'm not really sure I am in the mood for a satirical capitol complete with humorous parody monuments ETC. I'm hoping that like GTA: LONDON 1969, this game will just be set in the real city, and not a kitschy facsimile

Sorry, but Tommy Vercetti > CJ > Niko. It was already settled.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Dammit, and I missed it....no love for Niko? Vice City was so long ago, that i don't remember Tommy well enough (other than the fact that he was REALLY angry). And I never beat San Andreas, so I don't know how CJ's story ended (though San Andreas was my favorite GTA). Niko and Roman sucked me in though.

Yup, and I'd KILL for a Vice City game on IV's engine.

 

That said, I'm pumped. It's been too long since IV.

Eh Tommy's boring as shit. I loves me some Vice City, and I want GTA V to actually have missions that don't seemingly blur together in my mind. But man I'm glad the series has at least attempted to make it's heroes a little more complicated. Saint's Row gladly fills my need for Lex Luthor-levels of supervillainy.

 

Right.

 

Which suggests this might actually be along the lines of an evolutionary step. We might be getting a very different sort of game. IV took the concept established in 3 and polished the visuals. But, as a game, it really wasn't all that different from, say, Vice City.

 

This has always been Rockstar's flagship deal. So I think we can look forward to something very special here.

 

.....

 

On a personal note, I hope they maintain the tradition of richly detailed instruction booklets. I've been hating the flimsy 2-page leaflets included in most PS3 games nowadays.

 

 

The logo looks to originate from an American dollar, but a game set in England would be great, I think. Cockney gangsters, some Geordies who'd need subtitles**, maybe throw in some Scots and Irish, and some interesting radio stations. It would be a completely different animal from what they've done in the past, since the U.K. is so different from the States in terms of architecture, customs, slang, etc.

It's sounding like back to Los Santos again, though.

 

 

 

** Or maybe the other way around; subtitles for the "regular" Brit-characters. I'm only joking. Geordies can't read.

I didn't like CJ's voice acting, but he and Niko were far more interesting characters (to me, anyway) than Tommy. Maybe that owes to me not being a huge Ray Liota fan, who knows

England would be fine, but my heart would beat a little faster if Rockstar used 1970's "Years of Lead" Italy. Which would probably be the baddest thing ever.

 

And I dug CJ, just fine as the lead in San Andreas.

Count me in the group that prefers Tommy.  Heck, I prefer Vice City all around.  I know they'll never do it but I wouldn't mind a return to Vice City.  It would certainly force them to use colors more liberally.

 

There are lessons I want them to learn from RDR, but mostly about keeping things fun.  I'm not worried about my city looking as pretty as the prairie, and while I adore the pacing of RDR I want GTA to feel faster, more frantic.  Interesting that Rockstar is pushing this trailer out right before Saints Row 3 drops.

I really hope they open up the scope like they did with San Andreas. That game still feels like the biggest thing they've ever done (content-wise, if not geographically).

 

Did you ever play The Getaway or sequels? Somewhat flawed gameplay wise, but they were fun and they had a lot of character. I would love to see that kind of thing done with current console technology, but by Rockstar rather than some company trying to rip off Rockstar.

Still waiting on Max Payne 3. And Agent. And Midnight Club 5.

This is gonne be in D.C. And it's gonna be fuckin awesome. (Speaking as a champion of San Andreas here)

I'm thinking shootouts in the Smithsonian, corrupt political manuevering, maybe invest in a sporting franchise. And make the police presence intense and oppressive, so that your crimes have to be thoughtful and exacting.

Of course, that game might be >too< controversial, even for Rockstar. Are they gonna put an invisible wall around the R* White House? Because you can't have your video game protagonist sneak into the joint and shoot it up. Jesus, no. The media will implode.

@Urchine - I did a quick look into it, as a fan of the Midnight Club series, and it seems the series was killed by executed at R* New York. Which sucks. LA wasn't as good as DUB (few things are) but given another shot at the hardware they could have done something nice. Looks like the team has been dismantled though.

Better yet, do multiple cities, San Andreas style.  Start in the Baltimore projects, work your way up in the world like Stringer Bell, and eventually find yourself heading south to DC.

Just adding that The Getaway was made by Team Soho, which transmogrified into Team Bondi of LA Noire fame. The Getaways gameplay fingerprints are all over the non-investigation bits of LA Noire so you should check it out if you're really after a current-gen Getaway

So, we're not all in agreement that GTAIV was the easy highpoint of the series, with a large part of that owed to the character of Niko? I am surprised. I thought that was the consensus? I certainly consider it the best game. Don't get me wrong, I love me some Vice City, but in terms of visuals and gameplay, I find it rather crude. 

Anyone know if Niko is still the protag? I dug the Niko Trilogy rumors that swirled after GTAIV came out.

 

So DC? I think if they DON'T let you go into the White House and shoot it up, then what's the point!?

VC really nailed the absurdity of the whole concept.  Plus the soundtrack was killer, but I'm a sucker for '80s music.

 

Looking forward to seeing what R* has in store for us.  While Red Dead is definitely my favorite of theirs, there is no doubt that their flagship title is a must play.

No. The city in GTA IV certainly was amazing on many levels, and I greatly enjoyed some of the physics R* brought into effect, but the game was no where nearly as fun as SAN ANDREAS. I sunk hundreds of hours into GTA:SA, and while I played IV quite a bit, it lacked that feeling of "go anywhere, do anything" that kept me playing SA for months and months on end

 

I used to organize little non violent SA road trips, plan everything out, stop at rest stops, ETC. Spent weeks just mountain biking, or parachuting, ETC. GTA IV lacked that magic

Size wise, was Red Dead somewhat comparable to San Andreas? I'd imagine the size of the game would barely fit on a PS3 BluRay, and would probably be a two-disc for XBox, but Red Dead was pretty huge.

I won't pinpoint the location I'd love to see as England but more along the lines of somewhere in Europe or even Japan. I'd love to see the different older environments they could incorporate into the game.

The overall expanse of RDR was comparable to San Andreas, yes. But it was basically San Andreas with all towns and no big cities in between the countryside.

my PS3Fat would explode if they made a game with the scope of San Andreas

Of course it was crude, it was a long time ago.  But you know what else it was?  Fun, constantly.  It didn't have the "Oh, I'm getting fat and need to exercise" of San Andreas and it didn't have annoying relationships that you had to constantly take care of from people that you really don't like.  It added in the purchasing of properties (beyond just hideouts) but that was fun too.  It had Ray freaking Liotta, awesome 80's music and a sense of fun that just feels like it's been diminished with every new step in the series.

 

Don't get me wrong, each game has it's wonderful pieces.  Taken as a whole, though, I'll take Vice City.

For me, this is an extremely exciting announcement. My relationship with the franchise has been on and off, but I loved the flawed masterpiece that is GTA IV and was rabid for more. Quite literally, I had to put Patches down for it. I think that for the next Grand Theft to tackle a combination of Wall Street/Aforementioned Politics would be a phenomenal leap. The last game was full of (at the time) relevant political satire, and has been for years. It seems like a natural (and extremely interesting) maturation.

 

AS A SIDE NOTE: After deep contemplation, Red Dead Redemption is easy the jewel of my Playstation 3 collection and quite possibly the best title of the generation. I can't be truly disappointed with the lack of mention of a sequel, at least not yet. This franchise has many paths laid before it, so I want there to be a similar length of time given to development. I'm thinking that it could have lead into similar territory that L.A. NOIRE tread into...

 

AS ANOTHER SIDE NOTE: I've just been demoted to the Arson Desk in L.A. Noire and I am still not certain what my thoughts are on this title. I'm sure this conversation is dead on the VG boards, but what was the overriding feeling on that game?

I'm imagining an Independence Day mod for GTAV complete with an alien ship blowing up the White House.  Hell, I'm imagining that you control the spaceship and can level the entire city.  I'd happily play that game over and over and over.

some sites are saying that it's based in real world LA, and that the bank note stylized "V" refers to a theme of recession that might be present in the main plot of the game.

 

 

but the sites where this info is at i wouldnt hold as totally credible, but i still dont think theyd base it in DC

That was the point when the creators of the game showed me they don't understand writing for drama at all, betrayed the character that they'd tried to force you to relate with and lost me completely.  I think I did the first Arson case before I put the controller down and never picked it up again, and never regretted it.

 

RDR deserves the love it gets.  I never did the Zombie expansion because the main game was my favorite gaming experience ever.

 

If the game is set in LA, my interest will drop off the charts. There is hardly a more over used setting in video games and film than modern day LA

Hahaha. That's exactly where I quit LA Noire. I haven't been bored enough to pick it up again, and I don't think I ever will be.

 

L.A. Noire is a bunch of mediocre ideas in one really sexy-looking box. I really hope they don't take the relative success of that game as a cue to make more of them like it.

What do you think this is, Saint's Row: The Third?  GTA is the real life.  It's not just fantasy.

My dream GTA locations

 

Russia (Niko goes home!)

Spain

New Orleans

Boston

The City (Transmetropolitian!)

Tijauna/San Diego  (Power of the Dog!)

 

I thought Niko was from Serbia or somewhere in the Balkans, not Russia.

 

 

Yup. San Andreas ain't perfect, but once I realized my time in Los Santos was just the tip of the ice-berk, I was so completely on board. That game just has a way of still sucking me in every single time I play it.

 

 

 

 

I kind of hold out hope that the Los Santos rumors actually turn out to mean this game is some full on Southern California epic, and ends right at the border. With the Cartels naturally serving as the antagonists.

 

Agreed. VC has probably the least interesting city and is less sophisticated than what came after, but for my money that was the one where everything gels together the best. Gameplay wise it's much more varied than GTA3, but still hasn't gotten bogged down in excess and RPG aspects like its sequels. Everything else is just brilliant - iconic soundtrack, easily the funniest in the series, and it nails the whole era parody aspect perfectly.

 

Also it's all broad and cartoonish enough that the sillier aspects of the story don't matter a bit. I always found the attempts to go for gritty realism with more nuanced, relatable characters were undercut somewhat by the fact they're constantly killing complete innocents and going on mass murder sprees. In Vice City they embrace that the main character has to be a full blown sociopath and just run with it.

*cough*

 

New York.

 

*cough*