Michael is pretty much the Lead character

[Graven]

It's no sh*t Sir Lock.

Part of the main character feeling comes from the fact that his Family is also very much involved in the story.

[BlackNoise]

Yeah, Michael is definitely the lead, but I think Franklin will have the most missions and Trevor will have the second most.

[MikeyBelic]

i know its the "three main protagonists of GTA 5" but i can't help to think that, Michael is going to be central focus of the 3..

 

what I mean is, the game ultimately will revolve around Michael.. the storyline, the narrative

 

Franklin and Trevor are equally as important, and i do believe Rockstar will try to equal them out, storyline wise, but i believe Michael will be the most important

 

 

i believe its about his relationship with the lead characters

 

Michael and Franklin father-son relationship

 

Michael and Trevor friendship

 

not so Much of Trevor and Franklin, i believe there will be humorous conversations and they will eventually get along, but its not as important as Michael's relationship with the other 2 leads imho

 

Michael is the driver of the narrative, he is the one that unites Trevor and Franklin, and his heists that he plans are really what pushes the story foward

 

this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.... but this is my belief of the game

YOU decide the lead character when you play. R*'s just creating the PRE story. kthnx mate.

 

[rjmthe2nd]

i know its the "three main protagonists of GTA 5" but i can't help to think that, Michael is going to be central focus of the 3..

 

what I mean is, the game ultimately will revolve around Michael.. the storyline, the narrative

 

Franklin and Trevor are equally as important, and i do believe Rockstar will try to equal them out, storyline wise, but i believe Michael will be the most important

 

 

i believe its about his relationship with the lead characters

 

Michael and Franklin father-son relationship

 

Michael and Trevor friendship

 

not so Much of Trevor and Franklin, i believe there will be humorous conversations and they will eventually get along, but its not as important as Michael's relationship with the other 2 leads imho

 

Michael is the driver of the narrative, he is the one that unites Trevor and Franklin, and his heists that he plans are really what pushes the story foward

 

this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.... but this is my belief of the game

you 'just' now found this out....

[greenrock]

i know its the "three main protagonists of GTA 5" but i can't help to think that, Michael is going to be central focus of the 3..

 

what I mean is, the game ultimately will revolve around Michael.. the storyline, the narrative

 

Franklin and Trevor are equally as important, and i do believe Rockstar will try to equal them out, storyline wise, but i believe Michael will be the most important

 

 

i believe its about his relationship with the lead characters

 

Michael and Franklin father-son relationship

 

Michael and Trevor friendship

 

not so Much of Trevor and Franklin, i believe there will be humorous conversations and they will eventually get along, but its not as important as Michael's relationship with the other 2 leads imho

 

Michael is the driver of the narrative, he is the one that unites Trevor and Franklin, and his heists that he plans are really what pushes the story foward

 

this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.... but this is my belief of the game

YOU decide the lead character when you play. R*'s just creating the PRE story. kthnx mate.

 

PRE STory

 

 

what?

[Kill Frenzy!]

I already knew this, anyways R* background is focused on Michael, not Trevor or Franklin.

[greenrock]

however in one of the previews of the demo, it talks about franklin with the words followed after "a lead character"

 

 

so who knows?

[d3ex2]

Well he was the first character we were introduced to in a way. "Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather"

 

Trevor is his friend and Franklin is the son he always wanted. I don't think they will focus on Michael more than Trevor or Franklin. They all seem to be equal.

[Fisciletti]

Of course Michael is the most important character. He's the most intelligent, he's under FIB protection, and he's also rich. And he's the narrator of trailer 1. This automatically means he will be the most important character. If GTA V had only one protagonist, it would be Michael. I don't care about he being old, his sprint. He's just a classy criminal who's back on the game. I'm sure I'll play 90% of the time as him. I do like the other protagonists, but Michael is my favorite. That's the kind of gangster I like. Some hood stuff is cool, hunting animals as Trevor too, but it's not like cruising Downtown Los Santos on Michael's 9F. He's miserable, but he's rich.

 

Oops, greenrock.

[RichyB]

OP you should work for NASA with a brain as smart as yours.

 

Who'd have thought Michael was the main character?

 

My mind has been blown.

[Braindawg]

I see Michael as the Niko from the IV trio. Dunno if anybody mentioned this before.

[Neo Arcadia]

I put this in the wrong thread earlier but...

 

What seems strange about Michael, is that he's in the witness protection. So doesn't this mean that with all of the noise he's been making as a big time heist mastermind, he'll just be baiting out all of the predators who forced him into the WP to begin with?

 

 

Idk. It just seems like the story will get messy as it plays out. Messy in a good way though. More heads to bust.

As long as Michael keeps his mask on, they'll never suspect it's him let alone find him. There's also the possibility that the people he ratted out are all the way over on the east coast, and have getting pounded harder and harder by the FIB. IIRC the mafia getting weaker was a point brought up on IV.

[Shayna]

 

OP you should work for NASA with a brain as smart as yours.

 

Who'd have thought Michael was the main character?

 

My mind has been blown.

Yeah mos' def.

 

And yes its been made pretty clearly to... me at least that michael seems to be more of the central protagonist than the others

[NewDilemma]

 

i know its the "three main protagonists of GTA 5" but i can't help to think that, Michael is going to be central focus of the 3..

 

what I mean is, the game ultimately will revolve around Michael.. the storyline, the narrative

 

Franklin and Trevor are equally as important, and i do believe Rockstar will try to equal them out, storyline wise, but i believe Michael will be the most important

 

 

i believe its about his relationship with the lead characters

 

Michael and Franklin father-son relationship

 

Michael and Trevor friendship

 

not so Much of Trevor and Franklin, i believe there will be humorous conversations and they will eventually get along, but its not as important as Michael's relationship with the other 2 leads imho

 

Michael is the driver of the narrative, he is the one that unites Trevor and Franklin, and his heists that he plans are really what pushes the story foward

 

this is just my opinion, i could be wrong.... but this is my belief of the game

Franklyn will be the main leader becuase his black obviously

Edited May 22, 2013 by NewDilemma

[GTA_freakydeaky]

Yeah i wouldn't blame you for thinking this now but R* are very unpredictable

[NewDilemma]

 

Yeah i wouldn't blame you for thinking this now but R* are very unpredictable

Yeh but R* knows Micheal fits for a reality TV show because his kids are spoil....while Trevor is ...well Trevor is mentally challenged...but Franklyn is a hard knock like trying to do positive........as even Michael said t "his the sun i never had" an his black obviously

Edited May 22, 2013 by NewDilemma

[brian.]

 

I see Michael as the Niko from the IV trio. Dunno if anybody mentioned this before.

Yea, sort of. Very close, except this time, it is all played out at the same time.

 

Like as if to say that when you first put in GTA IV, you'd start as Johnny, then you'd eventually be able to switch to niko, then be using all three as luis, stopping using johnny (in missions), then stopping using Niko (in missions), then finally finishing the game with just Luis (perhaps still being able to switch between them off-mission)

 

Now, of course, we don't know how long we'll play as perhaps Michael before we play as the others, or if their arcs end at the same time, or how earlier things begin really intertwining here - I am expecting early personally, early, and into the end.

 

My expectation is that you'll actually start as michael, do a couple easy introductory how-to-jump-and-ride-a-taxi stuff, then be able to either progress as him, or progress as the others, but need to progress each far enough to do something together.

 

Like this:

 

Say in GTA SA, you had to do missions X and missions Y before missions Z open up for CJ. I think in V it will be like:

 

Do some michael, run out of some michael until you do some trevor, do some more michael and trevor, can't do those til you do som franklin, and so on.

 

They will likely have their own arcs apart, then meet up, but need to play them alone to "get to know" each of them, before they get together, using progression locks - instead of locking the player from missions, they lock the story arc of different characters until others progress instead.

[sivaG]

Yes. Michael is the brains! He will be the important character in my opinion too.

[greenrock]

Yes. Michael is the brains! He will be the important character in my opinion too.

all 3 of them are important, but i think ultimately the story does revolve around Michael

[CRRPGMykael]

Rockstar said Michael was the first one they made, before they were like "let's make three". I guess that's why he's the most interesting character in the series TO DATE, let alone in V. Yeah you can say Trevor is super cool all you want, kiddies, but so far the only depth I've seen is in Michael. Franklin is CJ and Luis Lopez combined, Trevor is just a nut, reflecting what 12 year olds love the game (and the character) for, but Michael is different.

Claude was a blank mute.

Tommy Vercetti was Tony Montana from Scarface and Henry Hill from Goodfellas (also voiced by the same person. Subtle, I know) combined.

CJ was a generic gangbanger that got caught up in the epicly huge adventure that was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Toni Cipriani was a generic italian mafioso.

Niko was a character that they actually tried to give emotion and make a proper human f*cking being out, but of course the player (YOU) had to go and f*ck it all up, in a brilliant display of ludonarrative dissonance.

 

Michael has real-life problems. He is in a dysfunctional family, and despite settling down and being rich, he needs that thrill of the action again (as his money is running out too). Not to mention, his interaction with Franklin (a young up and comer who Michael might see himself in) and Trevor (and old friend that is diametrically opposed to Michael, poor and crazy) is crucial. I'm personally interested to see what they make of the Michael-Trevor backstory. The way I see it, Michael sold Trevor out when he went into the witness protection program, and Trevor finds out about this later in the game, thus (like Rockstar has mentioned) becoming an antagonist of sorts.

Edited May 24, 2013 by CRRPGMykael

[greenrock]

so would you guys agree that Michael is the lead character of the 3

[MyDog]

It's like Friends, where all six of the main cast were equally important and given screen time, but you know that the de facto main character is Ross. This time it's Michael.

[Niick99]

so would you guys agree that Michael is the lead character of the 3

Dude they made 3 characters for a reason sk none of them are the main character. Get it together

[Degrees]

 

Rockstar said Michael was the first one they made, before they were like "let's make three". I guess that's why he's the most interesting character in the series TO DATE, let alone in V. Yeah you can say Trevor is super cool all you want, kiddies, but so far the only depth I've seen is in Michael. Franklin is CJ and Luis Lopez combined, Trevor is just a nut, reflecting what 12 year olds love the game (and the character) for, but Michael is different.

Claude was a blank mute.

Tommy Vercetti was Tony Montana from Scarface and Henry Hill from Goodfellas (also voiced by the same person. Subtle, I know) combined.

CJ was a generic gangbanger that got caught up in the epicly huge adventure that was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Toni Cipriani was a generic italian mafioso.

Niko was a character that they actually tried to give emotion and make a proper human f*cking being out, but of course the player (YOU) had to go and f*ck it all up, in a brilliant display of ludonarrative dissonance.

 

Michael has real-life problems. He is in a dysfunctional family, and despite settling down and being rich, he needs that thrill of the action again (as his money is running out too). Not to mention, his interaction with Franklin (a young up and comer who Michael might see himself in) and Trevor (and old friend that is diametrically opposed to Michael, poor and crazy) is crucial. I'm personally interested to see what they make of the Michael-Trevor backstory. The way I see it, Michael sold Trevor out when he went into the witness protection program, and Trevor finds out about this later in the game, thus (like Rockstar has mentioned) becoming an antagonist of sorts.

Nothing negative to say about Vic Vance he was my favourite too.

 

IMO I don't see Michael as unique first thing I thought of when I heard is story Goodfellas like that true story had a part 2. Not a bad thing he just reminds me of the lead.

Oh and I agree Michael is the lead plus he is my favourite.