I think SD is in, here's why.

[Zulu412]

I am not gonna get my hopes up for another city in Gta V. It is possible, R* can pull a big surprise on us and adding a new city. That could be the reason of not showing so much of the map and angling there images north and north/east of the map. We havent seen many south angled images, that could mean they're hiding something. It would be really cool to have another city to tie in with the Mexican Cartels. But like i said, im not gonna get my hopes up, its just a thought.

Nice find by the way

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=560107

 

it's a better thread for multiple city discussion. everything in here I pretty much stated a while back +

some other ideas

 

[Nasir_Jones]

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

That wouldnt be geographically correct, the reason being San Diego is south of L.A but hey, its R* they can do whatever they want xD

[KrushLTx10]

 

That wouldnt be geographically correct, the reason being San Diego is south of L.A but hey, its R* they can do whatever they want xD

It wouldn't, but it already wasn't geographically correct with the Salton Sea being North of Los Angeles in the game.

Edited June 13, 2013 by KrushLTx10

[Cyfa]

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

Ridiculous. Everyone is wasting their time with this.

[Choco Taco]

 

I'm honestly having a tough time trying to match up the area behind the Vinewood sign in this picture with the area in the new plane picture. Are we for sure that is the Alamo Sea in this Vinewood shot? Not sure what else it could be, just having trouble understanding how this fits with the newest plane picture.

It's basically like this -

 

http://i.imgur.com/XSRM3CC.jpg

I don't think that's the Alamo sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mdi5jt.jpg

 

I'm hoping there's something like that in the northwest, but not based on San Diego.

 

[USAPatriot]

I am expecting nothing more then maybe a small logging town the northwest and a state park. I would like to see a good sized town somewhere on the map. One with a downtown core and not just some rinky dink mobile homes.

[Kaster]

I'm honestly having a tough time trying to match up the area behind the Vinewood sign in this picture with the area in the new plane picture. Are we for sure that is the Alamo Sea in this Vinewood shot? Not sure what else it could be, just having trouble understanding how this fits with the newest plane picture.

It's basically like this -

 

http://i.imgur.com/XSRM3CC.jpg

I don't think that's the Alamo sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mdi5jt.jpg

 

I'm hoping there's something like that in the northwest, but not based on San Diego.

Chocotaco I would like to suggest you something. You could calculate the real cardinal points of the game using sunlight and then sun's orbit...

[TrevorSpeed914]

Stop talking about the license plate. The big find is the sign. Having lived in San Diego myself, I'd be absolutely thrilled to see it depicted in GTA. I will agree that the sign bears resemblance, especially notice the lamp posts on the sides? The sign goes around it just like the real sign does.

 

EDIT: On the sign from the screenshot, it looks as though it reads "EL SOL"?

 

Hmm, i didn't notice this.. Still, don't get your hopes up, still seems unlikely too me.

You people are so stupid.

 

Someone shows you actual evidence for something, and you're still in doubt?

[C4RR4NZ4]

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

This would annoy me... It's so geographically incorrect. Not even San Andreas map was this incorrect.

[dooshtoomun]

I'm honestly having a tough time trying to match up the area behind the Vinewood sign in this picture with the area in the new plane picture. Are we for sure that is the Alamo Sea in this Vinewood shot? Not sure what else it could be, just having trouble understanding how this fits with the newest plane picture.

It's basically like this -

 

http://i.imgur.com/XSRM3CC.jpg

I don't think that's the Alamo sea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mdi5jt.jpg

 

I'm hoping there's something like that in the northwest, but not based on San Diego.

I just realised your display pic is not a picture of a brain.

[Ragref]

I'm honestly having a tough time trying to match up the area behind the Vinewood sign in this picture with the area in the new plane picture. Are we for sure that is the Alamo Sea in this Vinewood shot? Not sure what else it could be, just having trouble understanding how this fits with the newest plane picture.

It's basically like this -

 

(picture)

I don't think that's the Alamo sea.

 

 

(picture)

 

 

 

 

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

(picture)

 

I'm hoping there's something like that in the northwest, but not based on San Diego.

The only possible thing north-west of LS is a parody of Bakersfield.

[Death2Drugs]

 

Stop talking about the license plate. The big find is the sign. Having lived in San Diego myself, I'd be absolutely thrilled to see it depicted in GTA. I will agree that the sign bears resemblance, especially notice the lamp posts on the sides? The sign goes around it just like the real sign does.

 

EDIT: On the sign from the screenshot, it looks as though it reads "EL SOL"?

 

SNIP

Hmm, i didn't notice this.. Still, don't get your hopes up, still seems unlikely too me.

You people are so stupid.

 

Someone shows you actual evidence for something, and you're still in doubt?

Hey, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. This also helps support the SD case:

 

*The highway going south in the map:

It's gone past the port, it's absolutely plausible it's going to another city.

 

*The fact that properties and such were originally claimed that they would not return, but they are indeed returning. It's possible that Rockstar made the guys playing the demo in GI to tell there is only LS in order to surprise us, but as I say, take this plausible evidence with a pound of salt. This cannot be stressed enough.

 

If San Diego is in the game, I'm expecting something like Alderney. Downtown, some suburbs, maybe a stadium based on Qualcomm and a few beaches. Tijuana might be a stretch.

[PoliceFarm]

“The bottom line was building one city and doing it properly. To do a proper version of L.A., which area-wise is the largest city in the world, the game has to give you a sense of that sprawl - if not completely replicate it. You have to spend a lot of your city budget time and money making L.A. To split that into two, you would lose what LA. is." Dan Houser in GI

This deserves a lot of recognition. If the city is the same size as LC (as many people have estimates finding that it is in fact the same size/maybe a little smaller) this statement would be hugely incorrect. Completely replicate it? Where's the sprawl he promised? They cut Long Beach and Carson from the South Central Area, cut out mostly all of East LA and if that road only leads to what I've been predicting it to lead to which is the Port of Long Beach the city will not be as big as Dan said it would be.

 

@Lotus That's a great f*cking map. If the map looks anything like that I will be excited for the next 3 months.

Remember he also said "We've toned down it's sprawling nature in Los Santos" so you shouldn't have been expecting 20 blocks of just house after house after house.

[KrushLTx10]

 

“The bottom line was building one city and doing it properly. To do a proper version of L.A., which area-wise is the largest city in the world, the game has to give you a sense of that sprawl - if not completely replicate it. You have to spend a lot of your city budget time and money making L.A. To split that into two, you would lose what LA. is." Dan Houser in GI

This deserves a lot of recognition. If the city is the same size as LC (as many people have estimates finding that it is in fact the same size/maybe a little smaller) this statement would be hugely incorrect. Completely replicate it? Where's the sprawl he promised? They cut Long Beach and Carson from the South Central Area, cut out mostly all of East LA and if that road only leads to what I've been predicting it to lead to which is the Port of Long Beach the city will not be as big as Dan said it would be.

 

@Lotus That's a great f*cking map. If the map looks anything like that I will be excited for the next 3 months.

Remember he also said "We've toned down it's sprawling nature in Los Santos" so you shouldn't have been expecting 20 blocks of just house after house after house.

No way was I expecting 20 blocks of house after house. I was just expecting more areas of real life LA to be represented in Los Santos. They cut out important areas like Carson, Long Beach, many other South Central Hoods, and then Pasadena,West Covina and all of those areas part of East LA. They could have added 2 of these areas and bam the city would look much bigger in the blueprint than it does even if it's just a little part of the map. I'm baffled at how they left out Long Beach and Carson since those are the gateway cities in South Central.

Edited June 13, 2013 by KrushLTx10

[d3ex2]

I doubt the map is just based on Los Angeles. I know Dan Houser said they wanted to properly do LA but they've added Salton Sea which is much closer to San Diego than LA. Also, the game is based on South California.

 

If it's based on SC and has the Salton Sea then they most definitely could have San Diego in there!

 

This is the area I think GTA V will based on:

 

 

 

[MrP4nc4ke]

Nice find OP, no denying that!

 

As cool as it would be to have a Mexico border -thingy going on in the game, I find it unlikely because:

- Theme in GTA V is heists, not drug wars

- RDR had it quite recently

- Having SD & Mexico in the North would just be too weird (sure LS could be in the North, but that would reverse everything and be stupid)

- Having the map expand further south...I just don't see it. Not with what we have been shown.

- No matter what some of you say, in popular culture San Diego is not THAT different from Los Angeles - variety is what R* hopefully aims for.

 

 

I believe that the real secret lies in the North behind the mountains - and it's not SD. But I have to admit, many things point to San Diego.

 

 

[KrushLTx10]

 

- Theme in GTA V is heists, not drug wars

- Having SD & Mexico in the North would just be too weird (sure LS could be in the North, but that would reverse everything and be stupid)

 

Heists are just a central theme of the game. There could very well be other themes like Drug Wars Trevor and Gang Wars with Franklin. And having San Diego in doesn't really require Mexico to be in, it could just be LS and San Diego with the Salton Sea and countryside.

Edited June 13, 2013 by KrushLTx10

[K20]

Nice find OP, no denying that!

 

As cool as it would be to have a Mexico border -thingy going on in the game, I find it unlikely because:

- Theme in GTA V is heists, not drug wars

- RDR had it quite recently

- Having SD & Mexico in the North would just be too weird (sure LS could be in the North, but that would reverse everything and be stupid)

- Having the map expand further south...I just don't see it. Not with what we have been shown.

- No matter what some of you say, in popular culture San Diego is not THAT different from Los Angeles - variety is what R* hopefully aims for.

 

 

I believe that the real secret lies in the North behind the mountains - and it's not SD. But I have to admit, many things point to San Diego.

does it matter geographically the location of the cities. i mean fair enough its not correct but its a game. real geographic don't apply.

 

OT: SD may or may not be on the map but there is another city either sound or north of the map.

[MrP4nc4ke]

 

does it matter geographically the location of the cities. i mean fair enough its not correct but its a game. real geographic don't apply.

 

OT: SD may or may not be on the map but there is another city either sound or north of the map.

True, in the end geography could be anything R* wants it to be. But I think that, to certain extent, they try to keep the "big picture" resembling reality. Why would they have placed SD in the north? What's the point? After all, Mexico border would be by far the best reason to have SD in the game, and Mexico is that hot cactus filled land of tequila. Placing it in the North would just "feel" wrong to most people.

 

I'm also starting to have higher hopes about another City behind the mountains - no matter what R* has said. It would be so perfect! But I try not to be disappointed even if it won't come true - great game nevertheless.

[Raavi]

 

I'm honestly having a tough time trying to match up the area behind the Vinewood sign in this picture with the area in the new plane picture. Are we for sure that is the Alamo Sea in this Vinewood shot? Not sure what else it could be, just having trouble understanding how this fits with the newest plane picture.

It's basically like this -

 

(picture)

I don't think that's the Alamo sea.

 

 

(picture)

 

 

 

 

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

(picture)

 

I'm hoping there's something like that in the northwest, but not based on San Diego.

The only possible thing north-west of LS is a parody of Bakersfield.

No. They could have put the Great Wall of China there if they wanted. Geographical correctness is their last worry, just look at the placement of the Salton Sea. Not to mention that judging by their earlier maps it wouldn't make sense not to have another metropolitan area north of the salton sea.

Edited June 13, 2013 by Raavi

[kesta195]

 

Stop talking about the license plate. The big find is the sign. Having lived in San Diego myself, I'd be absolutely thrilled to see it depicted in GTA. I will agree that the sign bears resemblance, especially notice the lamp posts on the sides? The sign goes around it just like the real sign does.

 

EDIT: On the sign from the screenshot, it looks as though it reads "EL SOL"?

 

SNIP

Hmm, i didn't notice this.. Still, don't get your hopes up, still seems unlikely too me.

You people are so stupid.

 

Someone shows you actual evidence for something, and you're still in doubt?

Hey, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. This also helps support the SD case:

 

*The highway going south in the map:

 

It's gone past the port, it's absolutely plausible it's going to another city.

Multiple screenshots, trailer stills and previews pretty much confirm that LS is on the southern-most point of the map, and there is nothing but ocean south of the city. Someone found that same highway IRL that goes under the GD Bridge and, just like here, it doesn't lead anywhere of significance, it just ends in the port.

 

EDIT: Plus the blueprint map clearly shows that there is ocean just to the east of the city, so LS is on a peninsula; there is nothing but ocean west, south and east of it.

[visionist]

A San Diego based location could be NW of the map... maybe?

 

Gorgeous Map! I risk grave disappointment looking at these.

 

Reason SD would be north of LS is so Mexico needn't be included. Although I want Mexico too. Greed is good.

[DrDucky]

I really hope SD is in...

Lol thats what i was thinking at 1st, i was hyped up until i found it was about San Diego. Hopefully SD get on the soundtrack, hes hard af.

 

OT i think San Diego's gonna be included but only part of it, kinda like how Alderney was in GTA IV.

[Darrel]

They are hiding something. No doubt.

 

I cant be anything south because of the observatory shot, and the fact the previews said they could see los santos in the distance from zancudo. It must be up north west. Why would they so carefully only show 180 degrees and stop.

 

 

Something is there. What's behind those hikers in trailer 1? Not saying San diego, but at least we know there is something.

[Il_Tifossi]

Besides the interesting detail about the sign, the police cars don't have the "LSPD" painting...

[CSM. HB J-DOGG]

Stop talking about the license plate. The big find is the sign. Having lived in San Diego myself, I'd be absolutely thrilled to see it depicted in GTA. I will agree that the sign bears resemblance, especially notice the lamp posts on the sides? The sign goes around it just like the real sign does.

 

EDIT: On the sign from the screenshot, it looks as though it reads "EL SOL"?

 

SNIP

Hmm, i didn't notice this.. Still, don't get your hopes up, still seems unlikely too me.

You people are so stupid.

 

Someone shows you actual evidence for something, and you're still in doubt?

Hey, you have to take everything with a grain of salt. This also helps support the SD case:

 

*The highway going south in the map:

 

It's gone past the port, it's absolutely plausible it's going to another city.

Multiple screenshots, trailer stills and previews pretty much confirm that LS is on the southern-most point of the map, and there is nothing but ocean south of the city. Someone found that same highway IRL that goes under the GD Bridge and, just like here, it doesn't lead anywhere of significance, it just ends in the port.

 

EDIT: Plus the blueprint map clearly shows that there is ocean just to the east of the city, so LS is on a peninsula; there is nothing but ocean west, south and east of it.

Flip the map around. it is upside down lol

[d3ex2]

San Diego, if it is in the game, doesn't need to be South/East of Los Santos. This isn't real life. This is Rockstars take on the area. Just look at the Salton Sea area, that is closer to San Diego than LA yet in game it is North of Los Santos. In game San Diego could be further up North.

[Wheatley]

Could this possibly make up for the "small" appearance of Los Santos as some are saying? If I remember correctly, around GTA IV's promotion they didn't promote Alderney that much if not all apart from dropping the name in interviews/previews etc. When I first played the game I was surprised Alderney even existed because of Rockstar's heavy promotion of Algonquin and Broker in previews.

 

So going by this then that means they either mixed San Diego in with Los Santos or have it further north near Sandy Shores somewhere beyond the mountain range.

 

Although, with this in mind we have to take all this information with a pound of salt.

 

-Wheatley

[saintsrow]

Besides the interesting detail about the sign, the police cars don't have the "LSPD" painting...

Yeah, I noticed that, and I expected that by now, some police car experts here on the forum would have already come in on this thread and told us exactly what they think about the picture, based on the police cars in the scene. It seems like a real clue that the picture is -not- Los Santos.

[Choco Taco]

Besides the interesting detail about the sign, the police cars don't have the "LSPD" painting...

Yeah, I noticed that, and I expected that by now, some police car experts here on the forum would have already come in on this thread and told us exactly what they think about the picture, based on the police cars in the scene. It seems like a real clue that the picture is -not- Los Santos.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtop...entry1062634227