Keep one protagonist dump 2

[Payne Killer]

Get rid of Michael and Franklin, keep Uncle T.

[Official General]

I'd keep Franklin. His character still needs much more development and depth, and he could most definitely do with a much longer, more interesting and fully fleshed out storyline. There is still so much more that could have been explored in his story, like his relationship with Tanisha and his struggles to win her back, his up-and-down friendship with Lamar, Stretch's betrayal, and more insight into present-day Los Santos gang culture in general. On top of that, Franklin provides much more potential and scope for the more exciting and enjoyable aspects of typical GTA gameplay features in V - drug-dealing, gang wars, gang recruitment, hood-style gambling like dice games, and more. Franklin can still easily get drawn back into the gang life, it's constantly a realistic prospect - he still has strong ties to the hood, strong enough to draw him back there.

 

I like Michael, he was quite an interesting character in terms of his personality, but I feel he does not have much room for further development in his storyline. He was already rich with a mansion from the start of the game, and now he's earned so much more money from his big scores, he would have no real reason to go back to crime. Most likely, all he'd be really concerned about is looking after his family. Besides, that family guy thing was not really that interesting to me, even though I respect Rockstar trying something different. That family stuff, I feel is just not suited to GTA. And then there was the FIB bullsh*t, which I would never wanna go through again. So I'd drop Michael.

 

As for Trevor, like others said before, I say the same - he can go and f*ck himself. In my game, he died, so it would be even more so fitting to drop him without even giving it a moment's thought.

Edited October 12, 2014 by Official General

[Gtav fanboy]

I think Franklin should have got another gf towards the end. It would give him more a reason to pick a or b if they threatened to after her. Also Michal says in fresh meat you will under stand when you got ties of your own.

[VolkXue]

Keep Franklin.. Only so much that i can play a suburban dad whos also a rat, snitch..

[Undyne]

Michael. The story revolves around him anyways.

[bfett21]

Michael. Franklin and Trevor are both great but make better secondary characters. as others have said, the story is about Michael. Rockstar even advertised the game as playing as someone who beat a GTA game.

[Official General]

Michael. Franklin and Trevor are both great but make better secondary characters. as others have said, the story is about Michael. Rockstar even advertised the game as playing as someone who beat a GTA game.

 

I really don't see what Michael has to offer in terms of an interesting or exciting story expansion for a protagonist. He had his mansion from the start, he's even more richer than ever and he now has a stable family to look after. He'd have no real need or desire to rob banks or jewelry stores for money anymore. He had no known ties to organized crime or gangs that could see him get dragged back into dealings or conflict with the criminal underworld.

 

Unless you want more of that family guy/The Sims/retirement simulator stuff and you are a big fan of it, I see no reason to continue playing on as Michael in a story expansion as main character.

[donnits]

I really like the idea of Michael, but they executed him poorly. I never liked the idea of Trevor and Franklin was already explored somewhat with CJ and mostly with Luis.

 

I choose Michael so he can have a fully developed character and dump the other two.

[Shenmue18]

I'd go with Michael. I really would like to see his character get more development time. Franklin was somewhat interesting but a character like Michael hasn't really been explored in a GTA before. I was never big on the idea of Trevor, I expected more than a generic "heartless psycho" character from Rockstar.

[FranklinDeRoosevelt]

I'd keep either Franklin or Michael. I loved Trevor since he was the definition of insanity and was just a wacko in all aspects but his story was a pile of crap really. The best thing about Trevor was when he got rid of Johnny and a few other parts of the story when he was simply out of his mind completely. Other than that, it's like putting a mental patient on drugs with a group of criminals who actually know what they're doing (sh*t comparison -_-) .

Edited October 12, 2014 by FranklinDeRoosevelt

[DeafMetal]

Mike. He's my favorite. Trevor wouldn't work well without the others to offer a counterpoint to him and Franklin is just dull.

[JetsRLove]

Well I wouldn't want to have Michael considering that all his problems are pretty much all gone and he is rich. Franklin wouldn't really have a story since he is out of "that" life, staying in his house doing nothing. Trevor is the only character that would really be interesting. He has TPI/TPE, Oscar's business, the Lost MC stuff, and he is still a damn criminal and hasn't really moved on to the "riches" part of a GTA story.

[PhoGarrett]

Dump all of them, bring back Niko

[MilezDawg]

TP Interprises all the way.

But I'd be happy with Michael or Franklin too. Hopefully we will see some story DLC centric to F, M, and T. That should please everyone.

Well maybe not the Forum Hipsters that hate GTAV and for some reason worship and praise GTA4 now.

Edited October 13, 2014 by MilezDawg

[Expatriate]

I don't really like what they did to Michael in the story. His story gets on my nerves, cheating wife, kids, shrink, etc. Besides he is pretty much retired.

Trevor is too intense and one dimensional but if there was a drug import game it could be fun.

Franklin could help us find out what happened after SA so he gets my vote for DLC.

 

I think there are many holes in the storyline by the way. They obvously did a heavy editing job with the characters. I'm not really a fan of what they did there. There are many side characters which suddenly are crossed out of the storyline.

[Undyne]

What appeals me about Michael is that he's different. He's got everything, he's rich, has a family, a mansion...he's different from any protagonist we've seen before. I'd love to see more of him. On the other hand, Franklin could be interesting as a single protagonist but personally he doesn't appeal me much and Trevor is too one dimensional as a single protagonist and will get boring as you play with him often, but that's just me.

[B Dawg]

Keep Johnny, dump Franklin and Trevor

[MrVance]

The most interesting DLC would be with Michael remaining the only playable protagonist. It would show few years ahead when he would be again forced to doing heists because of his bankrupt.

Or if the plot would be set before 2003 when he was doing his first scores back in Carcer city.

Anyway just bring back Michael alone. It would be much better as he is the best V protag and you`d get more attached to him.

 

And he is different than any other protag so far, he has no cliche like story, some poor, pittying and heartbreaking background which literally forces the gamers to feel bad for it and symphatize with.

He is diferent, he is rich by default, he has anoying family, he lives in Rockford and he has interesting background.

 

Those are also the reasons why gamers either loved him or hated him.

To me he is the best GTA protag ever, right next to Niko.

[Ambitions]

The main thing i like about video games is the story, and well without at least 2 protagonists, the story would be trash. really.

 

I suppose id pick michael then make the mexican guy a way bigger antagonist

[Zankou]

Franklin. He's dull and uninteresting, but he's got that pixelated six-pack.

[XxX19Dude95XxX]

with the story we have now, i would keep Michael.

[Algonquin Assassin]

Although I like Michael the most I'd actually keep Franklin. It feels like there's so much more to him. Michael's pretty well developed and Trevor's just Trevor.

[S1N0D3UTSCHT3K]

can't imagine why Rockstar would ever separate these three, doesn't make any sense when so much of their characterization and viewer attachment is interdependent

 

either bring back all 3 or pick someone new if you want to go more narrative-ly first-person rather than third-person

[Official General]

can't imagine why Rockstar would ever separate these three, doesn't make any sense when so much of their characterization and viewer attachment is interdependent

 

either bring back all 3 or pick someone new if you want to go more narrative-ly first-person rather than third-person

That's not really the point of the topic is it ? You don't need to imagine what Rockstar would do in that situation, because it's obviously probably not going happen. We know this ready Einstein.

 

The question is hypothetical, if you could drop two of the three pro tags for just one, who would that one be and why ?

Edited October 14, 2014 by Official General

[Fuzzknuckles]

I would go for Franklin over the others, because he's the least of a dick. Trevor is a one-note psychopath bore. He's a trickless pony. The performance from Ogg is great, but the character can eat a f*cking family size bag of dicks.

 

Michael is a tedious, self-obsessed prick, who becomes increasingly obnoxious as the game progresses. So dull. Much not interested.

 

Franklin, for all his flaws, has something that the others don't have - empathy, and he's just more interesting, to me, in terms of what he represents (not the gangsta sh*t, the get-out-of-the-ghetto sh*t) and in terms of his relationships with the other characters. He wants to progress, he wants to learn, he wants to further himself.

 

The other two just want to go bang bangs and whoooooshcars and they just bore the sh*t out of me. I've been reconsidering getting the remastered V simply because I don't know if I can be bothered to play as Michael or Trevor ever again.

[SKOGS-SKUMMISEN]

I yust wanto gangbang laik san andreas batt wit franklin

[thatstupidbug]

69 FULL missions with michael only, and just trevor (or franklin) in a lance vance role, a co-protagonist with conflict...that would have been perfect.

 

69 missions are a lot...but watching closely, michale has just 38-40 mission (even fewer, because on that number the loud/subtle approach for heists and the relative preparation missions are counted twice)... I mean, roughly 35 to 40 mission for one character is on par with the DLCs, not enough for a full fleshed character to shine... F and T have even less uniques missions, so I think on a storyline POV it was a failure... and it was partially a failure even in-game, because the characters keep changing places and clothes when they want, thus eliminating the work I put on them to give them a unique characterization or feeling (my trevor went to the city and become a well dressed tycoon... but no, he keep waking up drunk in lousyy jeans and dirty t-shirt)

[GTA Master 007]

Imagine gta v with 1 main protagonist:

 

-Trevor

 

His story will be as follows:

 

psychopath outlaw talking down the government or anybody else who comes in the way of tp industries. His drug addiction and unhealthy lifestyle leads to him being captured by the fib and made a test subject for a project and his mind becomes programmed as a killing machine for the military. Soon we find out his mind is based off niko from gta iv, "who is known to have disappeared" now new character "trevko" thinks he "SEES" everything more "CLEARLY" and understand his purpose so the game switches to First Person mode and forces us to play in this mode. Then a pop up appears asking for $60 to continue with the story. The perfect ending or is it... The ending? Buy dlc or find out.

[MrVance]

A little offtopic but i was thinkink today while i did all 3 possible endings on V again just too see what kind of phone calls you get after and how people react.

When i killed Michael (i deleted that progress later) and Franklin called Trevor before this in the hopes he will be happy to killing Michael and even help him, Trevor sounded pissed of; "i`m surrounded by f*cking judas in my life". He wasn`t happy about killing M even if they hated eachother. If there would be someone who would kill Michael it would be Trevor himself, alone and nobody else.

But when you choose an option to kill Trevor Michael is kind of happy and he helps Franklin.

 

What does that tell us? No matter what kind of maniac, cannibal, psychopat etc etc Trevor is he still has his good sides. He is the least prone to backstabing and betraying among all 3 of them. Sure he is a maniac who kills for fun but he would never betrayed someone close to him. This may sounds dumb but i think Trevor is actually the only one who knows the true meaning of real friendship.

If we put aside that most of his friends are also his slaves of course.

 

But still, he isn`t a complete monster with absolutely no human characteristics like some people think.

 

I still prefer Michael of course. I think Michael and Trevor are interesting protags while Franklin is just some generic copy of CJ. A better copy of CJ but still just a copy- uninteresting as a character and so is his gangbanging OGF background which we had enough in SA already without they bring it to us again. R* should make a DLC where you could choose one of these 3 you want to continoue a story- some sort of sequel. And that way every fan would be satisfied. But that probably wont`t happen.

[Spaghetti Cat]

 

Michael. Franklin and Trevor are both great but make better secondary characters. as others have said, the story is about Michael. Rockstar even advertised the game as playing as someone who beat a GTA game.

 

I really don't see what Michael has to offer in terms of an interesting or exciting story expansion for a protagonist. He had his mansion from the start, he's even more richer than ever and he now has a stable family to look after. He'd have no real need or desire to rob banks or jewelry stores for money anymore. He had no known ties to organized crime or gangs that could see him get dragged back into dealings or conflict with the criminal underworld.

 

Unless you want more of that family guy/The Sims/retirement simulator stuff and you are a big fan of it, I see no reason to continue playing on as Michael in a story expansion as main character.

 

 

but...but...tennis and yoga...