Grand Theft Auto V Announced

[Andrew]

Of course it's all true, but we know how clever they are in marketing their games especially when it comes to GTA. I mean what a surprise that announcement was. They haven't even uttered a word, it's just a logo and a date. I just can't wait to see this trailer.

Indeed, I'd love to sit in on these marketing meetings and find out how the hell they come up with such simple and small ideas that beat the crap out of any announcement at an major gaming event.

 

I really cannot wait for the trailer, unfortunately I'll be either working or on my way home when it comes out.

[Pagelzilla]

So I just remembered reading an old interview with Sam Houser before GTA IV was released. In it he discussed how they were originally planning a HUGE map for their sequel to SA, but they went with something a bit smaller to make the city feel more immersive. You can read the ehole interview here. Here's the quote:

 

 

1UP: GTA4 seems like a bit of a harder sell, because players might look at it after playing San Andreas and say, well, you've pruned features. It doesn't have the suburbs, the planes, the working out to build up your character....

SH: When we first started talking about the game, the first map that we were all looking at here...it was f***ing enormous. It was the logical move on from San Andreas. You had the Catskills, the Adirondacks. I'd only been to the Adirondacks once; it took me six hours to get there! It's f***ing miles away. And the more we looked at it, the more we thought, "How are we gonna achieve the level of fidelity?" How are we going to increase the resolution of the experience -- not just the graphics but the experience, the gravity of everything, the weight of every action, the intensity of everything -- if we just go farther and farther out? The more we chatted about that as a group...the more it started to shrink down. The more it became a traditional, what you think of as a "New York City" kind of environment. It was a very conscious thing.

So we wanted to make sure that every single thing that you do, whether it's walking down the street, getting into a pawn shop, using the guns, driving a car or a bike or a boat or a helicopter or whatever -- just general basic interaction -- felt reengineered and reengaged so it feels new for people. Because for me as a consumer, that's what I demand. If I'm going to buy an expensive machine and this beautiful, immersive piece of entertainment, I want to be engaged on levels that I've not had before. And I feel that by going what we flippantly refer to as "back to basics," we were able to really go into each area of the game, each mechanic of the game, each bit that makes up the overall experience, and just crank the absolute life out of it and take everything to that next level that we wanted....

 

This could mean that they have had a layout for a huge SA like sequel for a long, long time and it's entirely possible that they could have been slowly developing it this whole time.

 

[Andrew]

To all PC gamers and those who support PC gamers

 

Please visit here and support the effort of requesting Rockstar to release GTA V for PC simultaneously with the console versions.

 

All you need to do is post this at the above Newswire post.

 

#PC @[your SC ID]

 

( without the [] )

 

Hurry ! He will send the email in less than 30 minutes from now !

companies like that dont usually listen like that. Dont make them rush it, trust me, or else it will be a fail port.

I am sure they will. According to their latest Asked and Answer, they know that PC gamers want Red Dead Redemption through mouthoff emails and Newswire post.

 

Actually, GTA IV could pretty much be considered a kinda fail port. Plus, Rockstar Leeds is doing very well with their PC versions. And for your information, Rockstar Leeds is currently working on both L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 for PC so I am pretty sure Rockstar would assign GTA V PC for them too.

 

@Andrew - That won't always be the same. As far as I know, Rockstar Games is starting to price their PC games for $60 starting from Max Payne 3. I personally wouldn't mind paying $60 as long as we PC gamers get to play GTA V PC the same time as the consoles.

 

@Columbo - Who knows? There is definitely a better chance if we, PC gamers tell them before they announced the platforms.

$60 for a PC game? They could well release at the same time then. That's getting expensive for a game, hope they don't follow in the path of EA.

[Fuzzknuckles]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

 

I may be wrong, but the only character I can think of that made it from GTAIII to GTAIV, and is likely to make it into GTAV is Lazlow.

 

Characters like Packie, etc, don't carry over into new iterations. They just don't.

[DawidZnawca]

I think it will be sized close to Just Cause 2 and 1 maps... It's gonna be huge:

 

 

And probably will have all types of surfaces, snowy mountains, deserts, natural habitats, forests, big metropolitan areas, villages and more!

No, not that huge. Impossible. It will be just a bit bigger than IV's LC.

[MG3]

FINALLY! f*ck, FINALLY!

 

No more LA. Noires and Paynes!

 

I wish a new story to CJ... that font looks realy Gangsta

[Andrew]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

 

I may be wrong, but the only character I can think of that made it from GTAIII to GTAIV, and is likely to make it into GTAV is Lazlow.

 

Characters like Packie, etc, don't carry over into new iterations. They just don't.

Lazlow seems a staple character in the GTA series, so he'll more than likely make a return.

[GTA 360]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

 

I may be wrong, but the only character I can think of that made it from GTAIII to GTAIV, and is likely to make it into GTAV is Lazlow.

 

Characters like Packie, etc, don't carry over into new iterations. They just don't.

And Lazlow isn't exactly legit, is he. You may be onto something here.

[vertical limit]

I'll be either working or on my way home when it comes out.

Since you have the iPhone 4S, you can watch it on the go, pray for red traffic lights.

 

Work, can you access the site?

[Long_Haired_Boy]

Why cant it be Vice City and Los Santos?

[Banks.]

FINALLY! f*ck, FINALLY!

 

No more LA. Noires and Paynes!

 

I wish a new story to CJ... that font looks realy Gangsta

Rockstar won't go back to the III era.

 

Well who knows it's Rockstar we are talking about

[Akavari]

Packie is a possibility, but the fact that we already know everything about him takes away from the experience. I think they would rather create a new protagonist from the ground up so we're eager to learn about them. Plus, Packie has a lot of loose ends from GTA IV concerning his deceased family, depending on the players choices. Unless they avoided referencing his family at all it would be inconsistent to mention the status of those family members.

[Kirsty]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

Agreed, I don't think we'll see any IV characters in the game, I'd rather a fresh start. If it returns to SA though I think we could see some heavy III era references.

[The Rocker]

Nobody ever said this was the beginning of a new canon, it may just be a new level of immersion, and since they had already done the DLCs, it'd be stupid to call the next installment GTA IV: [iNSERT LOCATION HERE]. I have a feeling the whole era thing only applied to the GTA3 era, which was planned from the very beginning as a trilogy. IV, V, VI, VII and everything else is going to follow on each other. They have an epic universe created, why scrap it? What can be better than IV's universe, except real life itself?

[Kimd41]

I really like how this time, the trailer release time satisfies both Europeans and Americans. IV's first trailer was like 1 AM for europeans + the 1-2 hour delay because of the server failure.

[Banks.]

I'll be sitting on the Rockstar website for hours waiting for the trailer release.

[Diesel311]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

[Andrew]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

Agreed, I don't think we'll see any IV characters in the game, I'd rather a fresh start. If it returns to SA though I think we could see some heavy III era references.

I'd like a fresh start in terms of main characters, but it would be pretty cool if you could see some of the others around as pedestrians or just random appearances throughout the game.

[GTA 360]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

Agreed, I don't think we'll see any IV characters in the game, I'd rather a fresh start. If it returns to SA though I think we could see some heavy III era references.

I'd like a fresh start in terms of main characters, but it would be pretty cool if you could see some of the others around as pedestrians or just random appearances throughout the game.

You mean like the friends in IV?

[Andrew]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

They'll give us the bare minimum needed to get us hungry for more. We'll probably get a location, theme and protagonist and a general plot line. But the rest we'll have to uncover ourselves by re watching the trailer second by second.

[lh1]

To all PC gamers and those who support PC gamers

 

Please visit here and support the effort of requesting Rockstar to release GTA V for PC simultaneously with the console versions.

 

All you need to do is post this at the above Newswire post.

 

#PC @[your SC ID]

 

( without the [] )

 

Hurry ! He will send the email in less than 30 minutes from now !

companies like that dont usually listen like that. Dont make them rush it, trust me, or else it will be a fail port.

I am sure they will. According to their latest Asked and Answer, they know that PC gamers want Red Dead Redemption through mouthoff emails and Newswire post.

 

Actually, GTA IV could pretty much be considered a kinda fail port. Plus, Rockstar Leeds is doing very well with their PC versions. And for your information, Rockstar Leeds is currently working on both L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 for PC so I am pretty sure Rockstar would assign GTA V PC for them too.

 

@Andrew - That won't always be the same. As far as I know, Rockstar Games is starting to price their PC games for $60 starting from Max Payne 3. I personally wouldn't mind paying $60 as long as we PC gamers get to play GTA V PC the same time as the consoles.

 

@Columbo - Who knows? There is definitely a better chance if we, PC gamers tell them before they announced the platforms.

$60 for a PC game? They could well release at the same time then. That's getting expensive for a game, hope they don't follow in the path of EA.

Yes at least according to this

 

They confirmed that's the real price but they seem to be hiding something as when I asked why they increased the price of Max Payne 3 PC, they just gave this " Sorry, no other info to report other than that that's what the price is "

[Fuzzknuckles]

I think we can safely assume it won't be Packie as the main character, or in the game at all.

Agreed, I don't think we'll see any IV characters in the game, I'd rather a fresh start. If it returns to SA though I think we could see some heavy III era references.

It will be a fresh start. There's no precedent for any character moving from one 'numbered' version to another, it's not something R* do.

 

It will be a new character, and I'm still certain it will be L.A. inspired - it will not bear any resemblance to Los Santos or any of the other SA areas, but it will more than likely be that setting.

 

I can't think of a single character that I would want to see carry over, apart from Little Jacob - but I don't want that. I don't want to see anything I've seen before. I want a new game, which is what we'll get.

 

 

[Miro]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

I think just the information that they gave us already is amazing. Imagine us some weeks ago when we were hungry for Rockstar just to said the word "GTA" and now we've already got both the confirmation of GTA V + the logo and the first trailer. Most probably they'll just show some stunts and at the end show the release date.

 

...which would be fantastic.

[Diesel311]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

They'll give us the bare minimum needed to get us hungry for more. We'll probably get a location, theme and protagonist and a general plot line. But the rest we'll have to uncover ourselves by re watching the trailer second by second.

+1. That's the thing I love about the users here. Breaking down every split second of the trailer to expose juicy morsels of information.

[Banks.]

Yeah a fresh start is what I would like too but an appreance from Packie wouldn't be that bad. I just don't see how Packie will be in V

[Andrew]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

They'll give us the bare minimum needed to get us hungry for more. We'll probably get a location, theme and protagonist and a general plot line. But the rest we'll have to uncover ourselves by re watching the trailer second by second.

+1. That's the thing I love about the users here. Breaking down every split second of the trailer to expose juicy morsels of information.

That's exactly what happened with IV, I'm pretty sure I watched the trailer about 100 times trying to find something different everytime.

[ccrogers15]

Yeah a fresh start is what I would like too but an appreance from Packie wouldn't be that bad. I just don't see how Packie will be in V

because theres lots of hints pointing him to it.

 

The ticket.

The ending of TBOGT

the logo is green like the color irish men like or whatever.

 

lots more.

[Banks.]

Yeah a fresh start is what I would like too but an appreance from Packie wouldn't be that bad. I just don't see how Packie will be in V

because theres lots of hints pointing him to it.

 

The ticket.

The ending of TBOGT

the logo is green like the color irish men like or whatever.

 

lots more.

Yeah but surely it's a new era, no? Just like the IV and III era. I know there are lots of hints but I just don't see how it works.

[Fuzzknuckles]

Yeah a fresh start is what I would like too but an appreance from Packie wouldn't be that bad. I just don't see how Packie will be in V

because theres lots of hints pointing him to it.

 

The ticket.

The ending of TBOGT

the logo is green like the color irish men like or whatever.

 

lots more.

Ok, here's a theory that works on the same level of reasoning as you're employing here:

 

The V is green. Trees and grass are green, therefore the game will be set in a forest.

 

I'd be gutted if Packie makes a reappearance, I thought he was an awful character and a terrible voice actor behind him

 

[Diesel311]

I wonder how much information they are going to give us in this first trailer? I realize it will probably be short. I simply can't wait.

They'll give us the bare minimum needed to get us hungry for more. We'll probably get a location, theme and protagonist and a general plot line. But the rest we'll have to uncover ourselves by re watching the trailer second by second.

+1. That's the thing I love about the users here. Breaking down every split second of the trailer to expose juicy morsels of information.

That's exactly what happened with IV, I'm pretty sure I watched the trailer about 100 times trying to find something different everytime.

I realize this won't be the case with the teaser trailer, but I enjoy when people start putting the mini-maps together from different parts of the video in an attempt to get an idea of the map.