Grand Theft Auto V

the 4x larger than GTA 4 for just the city was quite the giveaway as well.

So far we know

1: It's set in Los Santos

2: It's set in modern times

3: that's all.

we also know that there are dogs, mountains, airplanes, and possibly customizeable guns or variations on guns, given the A Ks with suppressors.

I didn't see the suppressor actually. Custom guns would be awesome.

Plus the protaganist doesn't even sound black.

I didn't know you get a different set of vocal chords depending on race.

It's a subtle thing, but yes, sometimes. Race isn't just color; African foreheads, for instance, often slope more than Caucasian ones.

Besides, this is GTA. Everyone is a stereotype.

Something tells me they released the first trailer a little too early.

edited 13th Feb '12 10:37:34 AM by MalagasyParrot

Am I the only one who saw Carl running about in the trailer?

Wait, never mind. Apparently, so did everyone else in the entire universe.

Also, the AK-47 (and most subsequent carbine models) can't be suppressed, I think. Even so, it makes little to no difference.

edited 13th Feb '12 10:45:07 AM by ThatOneGuyNamedX

If GTA V isn't as balls to the wall brilliant as San Andreas was to me, then fuggedaboutit.

GTA IV made me want to do something, anything to alleviate the sheer frustrating, boring, downbeatedness of it all. So I did. Switch off PS 3, hello Xbox 360 and Skyrim.

I want to be like Carl Johnson again, not some sodding Serbian war criminal. I had precisely zero empathy for Niko Bellic. I couldn't wait to slip off his skin agin.

Disagree, i dont want something like San Andreas again, too upbeating to my tastes

Then we have another disagreement on games. It's all good. If it does turn out all depressing and terrible and as icky as watching East Enders feels like, like the last game did, then I am not touching it with a barge pole.

If it is at least as good as San Andreas was to me, then I will tell Rockstar to just shut up and take my bottlecaps.

I too want it to go back to the style that was San Andreas. Me and my friends all agree it's the best Grand Theft Auto so far. In our opinion of course.

Why not get both, tonally? Something along the lines of Ballad of Gay Tony.

Why don't you go play Saints Row then, which is essentially the old GTA games. Why does GTA have to return to something like that, when another game franchise is perfectly filling that niche?

Why not let those of us that enjoy IV have a more mature, serious and realistic game like what GTA has become and those that like San Andreas can have the Saints Row games which are more juvenile and all around stupid fun*

I did already. I'm just saying what direction the series should go in within the bounds of my opinion. If Rockstar decides to take it down the GTA 4 route, I won't complain.

edited 14th Feb '12 10:44:12 AM by HellmanSabian

I would. I also wouldn't buy the game if you gave me the money. And I have never played any of the Saint's Row games. Given how dire the reviews for the third installment of that particular franchise are, I am not really in a rush to do so either.

And San Andreas had a helluva lot of serious gameplay, a script as good as or better than most Hollywood movies of its era, kick ass voice acting from a cast you couldn't dream of bettering in your wildest imagination and you could fly freaking jetpacks! What's not to love?

edited 14th Feb '12 10:44:32 AM by TamH70

Never mind, not worth the time or energy.

edited 14th Feb '12 11:09:28 AM by NULLcHiLD27

I like both San Andreas and IV. They're reflections of different things. The former, to me, is almost bidding farewell to certain elements while the latter takes brilliant advantage of the new technology to give you a piece of what is honestly a contemporary marvel (the Liberty City rendition was simply amazing, it really got me into it and New York) while also being played as relevant in tone. I personally think IV actually makes a lot more out of post-9/11 USA than a whole bunch of mainstream American films have done over the past decade. All in all, not bad for franchise that at one point had a belch/fart function for its player character.

You know what IV sorely missed from the earlier game though? TWO-PLAYER POOL.

Ah, those days in the L'il Probe Inn, my friend kicking my ass, potting balls all through the sleepover.

Also, I have a feeling Red Dead Redemption-styled random encounters might be pushed a little more in V. Having played games like Redemption and Skyrim more recently, admittedly not as a prolific/hardcore game, there's surely more opportunities for boosting that immersion.

No new info for a few months.

Sigh. Hype buildup followed by hype backlash caused by a trailer that shows no gameplay whatsoever. Sticking to my plan though. If it is like GTA IV, no thanks. Not worth the money. If it is like GTA San Andreas, shut up Rockstar and take my bottlecaps. If it is a combination of both, then I am hanging fire until the game has been out a while, patched up and thoroughly and reliably reviewed.

I am capable of dropping lots of money on a game brand new. I did it for Skyrim.

I'm going to promise myself not to buy this game until after I see not just the initial reviews, but the critical analysis of those reviews. Every time I play a game by Rockstar, I both agree with everything the initial reviewers say about why it's awesome, and agree with everything later commentators say in articles like this. (To a lesser degree, I have the same problem with Bethesda.)

That Article killed what little of fate I had with cracked

^ Why? Did you think he was incorrect about one or more of his points?