Game set in 2008?

[valensim]

It's the 1st trailer, they could change it in the 2nd.

 

 

Grand Theft Auto IV was ment to be released in 2007, does this mean they changed the year(2007 to 2008) because of the delay ???

[SGT. Johnson]

 

It's the 1st trailer, they could change it in the 2nd.

 

 

Grand Theft Auto IV was ment to be released in 2007, does this mean they changed the year(2007 to 2008) because of the delay ???

BING f*cking O!!!

 

We have a winner!!!

 

[sumone]

Then it will be set in the start of the recession sounds like a really good find

[jamieleng]

I think its set 2012 the orange plates might be changed to green and the mile high club might be complete once the final version is done

I don't understand how license plates work in the US, do you need a new one every year? The coloured stickers Orange '08, blue '09, yellow '10 & red '11; do they just indicate in which year the plate was issued?

[Fraizer]

Hi all, new here. Just reading through this post, wanted to make a suggestion. Maybe R* did the license plates on purpose, maybe the game spans over a few years and construction on the "The mile high club" will be completed over time... That would make sense that they made it a point to show a close up of the construction of that building... Time progression could be one of the innovations that R* is using. Just a thought.

[mediocore]

The game was probably in development then so you'd imagine as they did they're google street view-esqe research for the map it would of been around '08, hence why construction points to it.

[mdniterder]

EDIT: On a side note.. the plate on the Blue Car and the Police Car says October.. possible release month perhaps?? 

All cars in California have a Month and a Year on the plate for when you must re-new your tags. Smog your vehicle ever 2 years. Also the month usually coincides with the first digit of your plate.

 

It depicts if your car is an odd or even month.

Ugh, May 24, 2012. Nuff said.

 

Nice observation there mdniterder

That cookie goes very well with my coffee and coconut creme, Taste like a Famous Amos.

 

But yeah I would be fine with May 24 2012 5/24/2012 or ehem 2405

 

I just would love more screens or another trailer.

 

Like a fat kid who wants his cake and cant wait.

[carcols.dat]

 

i have just seen a 2005 car driving round my street, it must be 2005 and there was me thinking it was 2011

Precisely. This is just more speculation.

 

And am I the only one that notices that the orange box is blank? That to me means that R* has no intention of specifying a specific year like 2011 or 2008, instead opting for a generic "late 2000s/early 2010s" route which would fit with their present-day announcement. In GTA IV there weren't any mentions of specific years any either, might be the same here.

LOL. I thought I was one of the only people to realize this.

 

That does make a lot of sense. So, we are basing the year off of a license plate that is in a video game? LMFAO; it's R* and it's a video game. Not EVERYTHING has to be realistic; how do you even know that R* was given permission to use only last year's model of license plate? How do you know it won't change to present day? How do you know R* knows it's a video game and can do whatever they damn well please?

 

Present Day; nuff said.

 

Right on. Not to mention R* isn't exactly known for being accurate with vehicles. They are always inexplicably lazy when it comes to this. From the low-quality police cars and light bars to the strange choice of older anachronistic models, I wouldn't find it odd that they just went with the first plate photo they saw and threw the plate texture together in a few minutes.

[mdniterder]

I think its set 2012 the orange plates might be changed to green and the mile high club might be complete once the final version is done

I don't understand how license plates work in the US, do you need a new one every year? The coloured stickers Orange '08, blue '09, yellow '10 & red '11; do they just indicate in which year the plate was issued?

You get new tags every year when you pay your Registration fees wich are OVER PRICED in California, like 300$ a year and up on some cars.

 

But the colors allow a peace officer a quick glace to know if your DUES have been paid. Its a licensing fee that must be done each year and a smog each biannual year. Each state is different on how they issue tags. California is one of if not thee most strict state on smog laws. Most states follow us.

 

Yes all you other states BLAME US.

[Carbine23]

i don't think it really matters to be honest. 3 year difference? so what. It's not a big deal

[Len Lfc]

What if it is set from 2008 to 2012+ (very near future) Kinda like Assassins Creed?

 

[Slamman]

A game changer being the clock involved years and months, not just days and minutes. It's as much a stretch as any guess, BUT, the thing I think people forget is the changes show in the GTA series Liberty City Stories on PSP and PS2 gaming systems, THAT did in fact have buildings changing structure as the missions unfolded. They're playing with the idea WAY back then!

 

 

I don't understand how license plates work in the US, do you need a new one every year? The coloured stickers Orange '08, blue '09, yellow '10 & red '11; do they just indicate in which year the plate was issued?

 

The stickers only, on occasion the plate is retired however, the tabs are little stickers as shown, in different colors per year, nothing too special about that, I only pay $45 per year for tags when I had my car/s, that is!

Edited December 2, 2011 by Slamman

[ZeeKid2k10]

Grand Theft Auto 4 was set in 2007 but release in April 2008.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is going to set in 2011 but release in 2012.

 

 

[mdniterder]

 

A game changer being the clock involved years and months, not just days and minutes. It's as much a stretch as any guess, BUT, the thing I think people forget is the changes show in the GTA series Liberty City Stories on PSP and PS2 gaming systems, THAT did in fact have buildings changing structure as the missions unfolded. They're playing with the idea WAY back then!

 

 

I don't understand how license plates work in the US, do you need a new one every year? The coloured stickers Orange '08, blue '09, yellow '10 & red '11; do they just indicate in which year the plate was issued?

 

The stickers only, on occasion the plate is retired however, the tabs are little stickers as shown, in different colors per year, nothing too special about that, I only pay $45 per year for tags when I had my car/s, that is!

Ahh and you used to be able to tell the Era of a car by the color of the plate, V

 

History of the California License Plate

Basic information on 1963- present plates:

• 1963 was the last year a complete new plate issuance to all vehicles occured (the plates had a black background and chrome yellow characters).
• 1970 is the year the basic plate was changed to a blue background with yellow characters. It was also the last year any black/yellow plates were issued.
• 1976, year round registration started which requires a month expiration sticker afixed to the upper left hand corner of the plate.
• 1982 is the year when the standard plate was changed to a white background with blue characters with a sun graphic and CALIFORNIA in red block letters. It was also the last year any blue/yellow plates were issued.
• 1987, reflectorized plates with CALIFORNIA in red block letters were issued. The sun graphic was discontinued.
• 1991, only reflectorized basic plates were issued.
• 1993, the word CALIFORNIA was changed to red script.
• 1997, stickers were made with background colors that change every year and characters printed in black.
• Basic plates issued from 1998 through 2000 contain the words SESQUICENTENNIAL - 150 YEARS in red block letters at the bottom of the plates.
• 2001, the basic plate is white with blue characters and CALIFORNIA in red script. There is no writing at the bottom of the plate.

Current License Plate Sizes

 

Automobile, commercial, and trailer license plates are 12" x 6".

Motorcycle license plates issued prior to July 1, 1970, are 8" x 5". Those issued on or after that date are 7" x 4".

Identification plates issued since January 1, 1981, to vehicles not bearing automobile, commercial, trailer, or motorcycle plates are 7" x 4". Those issued prior to that date are 8" x 5".

 

Plate Validity

 

Plates are valid by affixing appropriate stickers or tabs. The license plates remain with the vehicle except for certain plates which may, upon request of the owner and payment of appropriate fees, be reassigned to another vehicle. These license plates are environmental (personalized), special recognition or special interest license plates.

 

On a side note all Public service vehicles do not have a smog tag they will say Exempt

 

http://www.pl8s.com/platestand-california.htm

Edited December 2, 2011 by mdniterder

[nkjellman]

Numberd GTA games have been set in the fall season of the year their released. If you think about it when GTA IV released, it was set in the future, only by like a few months.

[Zee]

i have just seen a 2005 car driving round my street, it must be 2005 and there was me thinking it was 2011

Precisely. This is just more speculation.

 

And am I the only one that notices that the orange box is blank? That to me means that R* has no intention of specifying a specific year like 2011 or 2008, instead opting for a generic "late 2000s/early 2010s" route which would fit with their present-day announcement. In GTA IV there weren't any mentions of specific years any either, might be the same here.

LOL. I thought I was one of the only people to realize this.

 

That does make a lot of sense. So, we are basing the year off of a license plate that is in a video game? LMFAO; it's R* and it's a video game. Not EVERYTHING has to be realistic; how do you even know that R* was given permission to use only last year's model of license plate? How do you know it won't change to present day? How do you know R* knows it's a video game and can do whatever they damn well please?

 

Present Day; nuff said.

 

Right on. Not to mention R* isn't exactly known for being accurate with vehicles. They are always inexplicably lazy when it comes to this. From the low-quality police cars and light bars to the strange choice of older anachronistic models, I wouldn't find it odd that they just went with the first plate photo they saw and threw the plate texture together in a few minutes.

Bingo! This is lazy-ass Cockstar were talking about, their goal is to make it into work sober; often times they fail, which is why we dont have things like parachutes in the original GTA4. This error dosnt surprise me at all and dont have it strike you as odd that the game seems from 2008 seeing as its been taking that long to make and will be dated by the time its even out.

[ko3219]

did you forget rockstar makes every gta after another

[spaceeinstein]

 

which is why we dont have things like parachutes in the original GTA4.

Geez, I hope that was sarcasm. How can one be called lazy if one had already produced a product but instead not use it?

 

R* isn't accurate on vehicles because it's not a driving simulation game. The games they made are suppose to produce player immersion, not simulate real life. If there are apparent errors that do not match real life but matches the in-game world, why bother caring about them? It's not just the vehicles - the buildings, weapons, everything else rarely match real-life counterparts 1-to-1,.

Edited December 2, 2011 by spaceeinstein

[Zee]

Sorry youre right. they were Greedy rather than Lazy, knowing full well theyll be selling us parachutes back in DLC.

[spaceeinstein]

If you buy a DLC based on just one feature, your decision making skills must be lacking. No person of reason would buy TBOGT just for the parachutes.

[Zee]

That's not the point. Point is known features have been withheld just to nickel and dime the gamer. Its quite unbecoming.

[Slamman]

A game changer being the clock involved years and months, not just days and minutes. It's as much a stretch as any guess, BUT, the thing I think people forget is the changes show in the GTA series Liberty City Stories on PSP and PS2 gaming systems, THAT did in fact have buildings changing structure as the missions unfolded. They're playing with the idea WAY back then!

 

 

I don't understand how license plates work in the US, do you need a new one every year? The coloured stickers Orange '08, blue '09, yellow '10 & red '11; do they just indicate in which year the plate was issued?

 

The stickers only, on occasion the plate is retired however, the tabs are little stickers as shown, in different colors per year, nothing too special about that, I only pay $45 per year for tags when I had my car/s, that is!

Ahh and you used to be able to tell the Era of a car by the color of the plate, V

 

History of the California License Plate

Basic information on 1963- present plates:

• 1963 was the last year a complete new plate issuance to all vehicles occured (the plates had a black background and chrome yellow characters).
• 1970 is the year the basic plate was changed to a blue background with yellow characters. It was also the last year any black/yellow plates were issued.
• 1976, year round registration started which requires a month expiration sticker afixed to the upper left hand corner of the plate.
• 1982 is the year when the standard plate was changed to a white background with blue characters with a sun graphic and CALIFORNIA in red block letters. It was also the last year any blue/yellow plates were issued.
• 1987, reflectorized plates with CALIFORNIA in red block letters were issued. The sun graphic was discontinued.
• 1991, only reflectorized basic plates were issued.
• 1993, the word CALIFORNIA was changed to red script.
• 1997, stickers were made with background colors that change every year and characters printed in black.
• Basic plates issued from 1998 through 2000 contain the words SESQUICENTENNIAL - 150 YEARS in red block letters at the bottom of the plates.
• 2001, the basic plate is white with blue characters and CALIFORNIA in red script. There is no writing at the bottom of the plate.

Current License Plate Sizes

 

Automobile, commercial, and trailer license plates are 12" x 6".

Motorcycle license plates issued prior to July 1, 1970, are 8" x 5". Those issued on or after that date are 7" x 4".

Identification plates issued since January 1, 1981, to vehicles not bearing automobile, commercial, trailer, or motorcycle plates are 7" x 4". Those issued prior to that date are 8" x 5".

 

Plate Validity

 

Plates are valid by affixing appropriate stickers or tabs. The license plates remain with the vehicle except for certain plates which may, upon request of the owner and payment of appropriate fees, be reassigned to another vehicle. These license plates are environmental (personalized), special recognition or special interest license plates.

 

On a side note all Public service vehicles do not have a smog tag they will say Exempt

 

http://www.pl8s.com/platestand-california.htm

Well, I can't recall specifics, but there could be significance to the color coding, I never thought to look into it! haha

[downthrough]

which is why we dont have things like parachutes in the original GTA4.

Geez, I hope that was sarcasm. How can one be called lazy if one had already produced a product but instead not use it?

 

R* isn't accurate on vehicles because it's not a driving simulation game. The games they made are suppose to produce player immersion, not simulate real life. If there are apparent errors that do not match real life but matches the in-game world, why bother caring about them? It's not just the vehicles - the buildings, weapons, everything else rarely match real-life counterparts 1-to-1,.

I used to think Zee was being serious with all his R* are lazy rants. Now i just realize he is being a troll. That or he is typing his responses from a psychiatric hospital or his kindergarten class, i'm not sure which. No one in their right mind could spout some of the bullsh*t Zee does with a straight face. So Zee take your meds and listen to your doctors or grow up a little and at least reach the age of 7 before posting on the forum next time please!!!

[Zee]

Not trying to troll, just upset with the new directions GTA is taking. Huge fan otherwise

[DXfan01]

which is why we dont have things like parachutes in the original GTA4.

Geez, I hope that was sarcasm. How can one be called lazy if one had already produced a product but instead not use it?

 

R* isn't accurate on vehicles because it's not a driving simulation game. The games they made are suppose to produce player immersion, not simulate real life. If there are apparent errors that do not match real life but matches the in-game world, why bother caring about them? It's not just the vehicles - the buildings, weapons, everything else rarely match real-life counterparts 1-to-1,.

I used to think Zee was being serious with all his R* are lazy rants. Now i just realize he is being a troll. That or he is typing his responses from a psychiatric hospital or his kindergarten class, i'm not sure which. No one in their right mind could spout some of the bullsh*t Zee does with a straight face. So Zee take your meds and listen to your doctors or grow up a little and at least reach the age of 7 before posting on the forum next time please!!!

I highly doubt he's a troll he's been a member since 02

[Death2Drugs]

I REALLY HOPE GTA V does NOT take place in 2008. It would kill it for me with the out-dated culture references. Anyway, there is much more to consider than just the license plates and the buildings.

 

1. The license plates are based on the California State License Plates. Sure, they have an orange sticker, but that's just minor. Also, the plates use a font that is more blocky. In real life, California DID have such a font, but only from 1987-1994. Nowadays, California license plates use a cursive font, not a block font as we saw in the trailer. Does that mean the game will take place in 1987-1994? Obviously not.

 

2. The building doesn't really matter. GTA doesn't have to follow construction history completely. For example, in GTA: San Andreas, we saw a lot of casinos in LV that didn't exist in 1992, as they were actually under construction in real life time. Therefore, the construction of that building could have been delayed in the GTA Universe. GTA doesn't completely have to follow real life history. The TV could've been invented in the Middle Ages, the South could have won the Civil War, Korea could be one nation under Seoul.

 

Just my opinion... not to mention a lot of cars from the post-2008 period appear in the trailer.

[downthrough]

 

Not trying to troll, just upset with the new directions GTA is taking. Huge fan otherwise

Ok that's fine and understandable. i just wish even a couple of your posts were about something positive. i guess if i read one of your posts and you said "i dont like the direction R* is going, heres things i think they could do better." instead of just saying R* is lazy, their drunk, they don't work hard etc. i would give you more credit. the negativity just gets old thats all. tell us what you think they are doing wrong make suggestions, constructive criticism you know and not all negative comments. i respect your opinion. i just don't know what it is besides the fact that you think R* is lazy.

 

Edit: ok i read some of your posts and i do agree with some of the things you are saying. i was extremely disappointed by IV. it was a good game don't get me wrong but definitely not the best in the series. i also agree that it is possible R* left some of the features out of IV (planes etc.) so they could put them into V and people would be excited like OMG we can fly planes in this one lol. and that way V would seem like more of an advancement in the series even if half the new features were just a re hash from San Andreas because they were emitted from the only other GTA this gen. there are probably a lot of younger kids who have never played san andreas and will be like wow you can workout or wow you can do this if those features do indeed appear in V.

Edited December 3, 2011 by downthrough

[The Notorious MOB]

I REALLY HOPE GTA V does NOT take place in 2008. It would kill it for me with the out-dated culture references. Anyway, there is much more to consider than just the license plates and the buildings.

 

1. The license plates are based on the California State License Plates. Sure, they have an orange sticker, but that's just minor. Also, the plates use a font that is more blocky. In real life, California DID have such a font, but only from 1987-1994. Nowadays, California license plates use a cursive font, not a block font as we saw in the trailer. Does that mean the game will take place in 1987-1994? Obviously not.

 

2. The building doesn't really matter. GTA doesn't have to follow construction history completely. For example, in GTA: San Andreas, we saw a lot of casinos in LV that didn't exist in 1992, as they were actually under construction in real life time. Therefore, the construction of that building could have been delayed in the GTA Universe. GTA doesn't completely have to follow real life history. The TV could've been invented in the Middle Ages, the South could have won the Civil War, Korea could be one nation under Seoul.

 

Just my opinion... not to mention a lot of cars from the post-2008 period appear in the trailer.

Are you going to post that in every single topic??

[Death2Drugs]

I REALLY HOPE GTA V does NOT take place in 2008. It would kill it for me with the out-dated culture references. Anyway, there is much more to consider than just the license plates and the buildings.

 

1. The license plates are based on the California State License Plates. Sure, they have an orange sticker, but that's just minor. Also, the plates use a font that is more blocky. In real life, California DID have such a font, but only from 1987-1994. Nowadays, California license plates use a cursive font, not a block font as we saw in the trailer. Does that mean the game will take place in 1987-1994? Obviously not.

 

2. The building doesn't really matter. GTA doesn't have to follow construction history completely. For example, in GTA: San Andreas, we saw a lot of casinos in LV that didn't exist in 1992, as they were actually under construction in real life time. Therefore, the construction of that building could have been delayed in the GTA Universe. GTA doesn't completely have to follow real life history. The TV could've been invented in the Middle Ages, the South could have won the Civil War, Korea could be one nation under Seoul.

 

Just my opinion... not to mention a lot of cars from the post-2008 period appear in the trailer.

Are you going to post that in every single topic??

No, I was only proving a point...

[kb8618]

Why would R* put OCT in one of the stickers but nothing in the Orange one, either its just a sticker to make it more realistic or R* just put in a blank one for the trailer