New Grand Theft Auto: V Screens Really Get Around

[Mrsoupcup]

So pilot-able planes are making a comeback?

They were apparently supposed to be in GTA4 but, well Rockstar wanted to avoid the inevitable 9/11 parodies.

Ahhh, because GTA4 was based off New York?
And now we're in a different city somewhere else. I guess that makes sense.

I still bet the media will find a way to demonize GTA 5.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

So pilot-able planes are making a comeback?

They were apparently supposed to be in GTA4 but, well Rockstar wanted to avoid the inevitable 9/11 parodies.

Also, the map wasn't big enough for planes to be useful. In this one it will be, seeing is this one apparently has THE largest map in a GTA game ever.

Actually I was going to mention that, Liberty City just wasn't well suited for Airplanes. Wasn't all that huge and the Airport would have been the only place large enough for a landing.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

If the game has a better system for aiming while driving, preferably something similar to that of Red Dead, I'll buy it. If not, there are always other games. The alternative to a new aiming system would be for Rockstar to just stop creating missions in which I have to shoot out another car's tires (the hitbox for which is about three-by-nine pixels) while driving at high speed through traffic. It's just one of those things that makes me want to throw rotten fruit at game designers.

Better than the missions where you have to chase a motorbiker and running over him with a 3000 pound sports car doesn't even touch him, but rather causes you to drive OVER him, and get pushed out of his way.

Also, just because a jet fighter and bike was shown, doesn't mean they'll be playable, I think a lot of people are jumping the gun here. Could be scenery pieces.

I doubt that Rockstar would be that tricky. If the jet fighter is pilot-able (and the evidence so far is saying that it will be), then Rockstar, SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

You never know man, you never know.

From the screen, I can see that the pilot seems to be the white protagonist from the trailers; in any case he's in casual wear, which suggests either that jets ARE pilotable, or that Rockstar are going out of their way to deceive us. My money's on the first option.

 

[octafish]

Apart from the improved vehicle handling, yes I said improved, I couldn't see the difference in tone between the earlier GTA games and GTAIV. If you stick to the main story they are all almost identical in tone, certainly they are from Vice City on. Then again I don't faff about in GTA games, just sticking to the main story.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

What is really important here is that FUCKING BICYCLES are back.
I know I can't be the only one who loved to run from the cops on my indestructible mountain bike of doom

 

[In Search of Username]

I hope this game is super serious and realistic and gritty and all that, just to piss off people who genuinely enjoy shit like Saint's Row.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I wonder if C.J is still king of the hill in San Andreas. I hope we get to kill OG Loc, I failed that go kart mission with him in it so many times just so I could blow him up with a rocket launcher.

It'd be nice to see some old faces.

I want a submarine. But somehow I don't think we will. Solvemedia puzzle is "Moon Cheese"

 

[Froggy Slayer]

Apart from the improved vehicle handling, yes I said improved, I couldn't see the difference in tone between the earlier GTA games and GTAIV. If you stick to the main story they are all almost identical in tone, certainly they are from Vice City on. Then again I don't faff about in GTA games, just sticking to the main story.

San Andreas started out normally, went kind of crazy around the halfway mark, and then suddenly went back to being serious at the end.

 

[Rayne870]

Snip Re: Seriousness of GTA

The simple solution is for Rockstar to split the IP into two games, one totally serious (feeling like GTA IV) and the other a little more off the wall (feeling like GTA SA) Reuse all the animations textures maps and all that but just tweak the story for each, or release a crazy story mode as an expansion, but use all of the other material from the serious one.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Snip Re: Seriousness of GTA

The simple solution is for Rockstar to split the IP into two games, one totally serious (feeling like GTA IV) and the other a little more off the wall (feeling like GTA SA) Reuse all the animations textures maps and all that but just tweak the story for each, or release a crazy story mode as an expansion, but use all of the other material from the serious one.

It's not a bad idea (I would like to see what R* does if really focused on absurdity; LA Noir wasn't a particularly bad example of focusing on drama; I mean the acting/face animation not the predictable plot) but I still think the simple solution is to just have that stuff hidden away for people to look for, like they used to do.
I have a friend who played through San Andreas and didn't even realize there were pimp missions or the little 2p rampages.
He just wanted to play through the story but I think one of the things I love about GTA games are exploring the world and finding little rewards for doing so. Forget about Saints Row, Bethesda is the one that seemed to take over the responsibility of making worlds that really beg to be explored. The maps in most other open world games (including Saints Row 3 & GTA 4)are just set pieces stitched together.

 

[Squilookle]

With GTA 4's handling, I'm expecting V's city roads to all be made out of ice and the street cleaners spread a super slippery lubricant on them every night.

Sounds about right. Not only that, but now your on-foot turning circle has expanded from coffee table size to the diameter of a Merry-Go-Round.

So pilot-able planes are making a comeback?

They were apparently supposed to be in GTA4 but, well Rockstar wanted to avoid the inevitable 9/11 parodies.

Also, the map wasn't big enough for planes to be useful. In this one it will be, seeing is this one apparently has THE largest map in a GTA game ever.

Actually I was going to mention that, Liberty City just wasn't well suited for Airplanes. Wasn't all that huge and the Airport would have been the only place large enough for a landing.

Didn't stop GTA 3 from including the Dodo. IV couldn't even manage that. Why not?

 

[antipunt]

Looks great, but GTAIV felt dry to me after a few hours, and it became tedious real fast too. I like Sleeping Dogs a lot more so far

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Sigh. Another GTA game, another hour or two of driving around then getting bored and finding another, better game to play. I've never bought a GTA game, I just know this from playing at friends houses.

 

[ViciousTide]

I will not BUY this game. I was so disappointed with GTA4. Fable was much much better, because you could use the Money to make More Money! In Fable the villages themselves would grow based upon the microeconomies controlled by you. It was a hidden Gem.

In GTA4, you could even buy a McMansion, let alone 260 of them like you can in Fable.

I hope for a game that has the $ symbol in it, that you can have FUN with spending/investing the money to make the game experience better.

I mean you own cousin was killed for a quarter of a million, but all you could buy was clothes, guns,SX, and cars? Pssh!

I want to buy a New York Apartment Complex, let alone a Billion Dollar Skyscraper with my Initials on the Top at the Highest Tower, over looking my Arenas and Stadiums, plus my R&D Warehouse that holds Advanced Classified Governmental Products.

 

[duchaked]

alright I'll eventually get around and actually play GTA IV before V comes out lol...

 

[minimacker]

Cheetah. I... I missed you.

You used to be my favourite car around. Top acceleration. *Sniff*

Welcome home, babe.

 

[Sansha]

I doubt this will top San Andreas, which is definitely my favorite of the series, but I'm looking forward to it.

As long as it has a huge map, light-hearted tone, non-realistic driving and shooting (like SA), I'm happy. GTA4 was too gritty and realistic for my taste; Yahtzee explains better than I could.

Goddamn, will they just give us a release date, after 8-9 months on no info, my interest in this game is almost completely dead.

When it's done.

 

[evilneko]

I always love the pre-release speculations.
Whether it's trying to figure out what the butterflies mean in Skyrim, trying to figure out more about the FNV dlc from what copyrights Bethy took out, to just trying to come up with more information from pictures.

I loved the speculation for GTA IV, people didnt even know how the game played since there wasnt any actual gameplay videos before launch, people knew how it was going to look but they didnt knew how it was going to behave.

I'll be looking for people to tell me this was a LOT more fun than 4. This looks very pretty. But I want fun, and am hooked by Saints Row 3 which is just stupid fun, but not nearly as pretty as this. Give me the looks + the fun and we're talking.

Have you heard, do they want 5 to be ultra realistic (call your grocer missions)?

Leapin lizards I agree with Gorfias on something. Saints Row FTW.

If we two can find common ground, why can't our politicians? D:

Maybe we should make them run through a Professor Genki-style gauntlet. XD

 

[gorfias]

If we two can find common ground, why can't our politicians? D:

Maybe we should make them run through a Professor Genki-style gauntlet. XD

Now that I would love to see! Harry Reid running through a gauntlet! Good one!

 

[lucky_sharm]

Goddamn, will they just give us a release date, after 8-9 months on no info, my interest in this game is almost completely dead.

Good grief. The industry would be dead by now if everyone had the same mindset as you.


OT: I don't see why people rave about how bodies fly into space when you hit them in Saints Row 2. Honestly, I found vehicular homicide much more satisfying in GTA 4. When you hit someone in GTA 4, it actually feels like their bones are being shattered from the inside while their squishy meat is being crushed against the front bumper of my car, and those that survive feebly get back on their feet, limping away.

Whereas in Saints Row 2, their bodies just make a weak thump noise and sometimes they just get back up like nothing happened.