New GTA Will be the "Largest and Most Ambitious" Yet

[GiantRaven]

I thought people wanted developers to push forward and try new things, not just rehash the past over and over. For the life of me I don't understand why people want GTA V to be the same as San Andreas. Why not just go play that instead?

 

[ViralBiae]

I wonder if bragging about having such a huge open game world is a good thing. Why not tell us about the stuff that's going to fill the world instead? What will be available for the players to do? What equipment can I get, what activites/minigames are there to play? What side-missions will be available? A massive open world is all well and good, but you've gotta fill it with things for the player to use and mess around with. A sandbox is no good if there's nothing to dig with or if the sand is dirt instead.

 

[draythefingerless]

Oh goodie, so you just took away Las Venturas and San Fierro, and kept the shitty town...seriously, i dont know anyone who would prefer to spend their time in Los Santos once they unlocked the other two towns.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

I have to be honest, and I know i will be shot down for this, but i'm glad that GTA 4 made the switch from batshit crazy to a narrative-driven story. Saints Row can handle that first part. The thing is, for me at least, running over old ladies and beating people to death with a dildo is only fun for about an hour, then I actually want to go back to the story. In addition, Niko, and to an extent Luis and Johnny, were my favorite protagonists in the series because they actually had some depth to them, as well as a character arc (even Yahtzee agrees with this).

So as long as GTA V can maintain the coherent narrative and well thought out characters, then I'll be a happy camper.

 

[antidark777]

People expecting this to be San Andreas are probably going to be a tad disappointed. You want pseudo-serious, character driven crime dramas, you play GTA. You want to fly around on a jetpack flinging shit at people and hitting them with dildos, you play Saints Row.

No reason GTA shouldnt have a balance of both.

And don't get me started on the dating sim, endless calls from "homies" who get mad because you might have just started a mission and can't go bowling with them... "NIKO!!! Lets get drunk cousin!!"

They really messed up there. That only sought to infuriate me. I didnt mind the dating thing so much in San Andreas because you could ignore. GTA IV kept on tea-bagging us with it

 

[42]

How many discs on Xbox360 ? 4 ?

nah it's a disc for every suburb you drive through. heck the whole intro will take at least 2 discs.

 

[Vrach]

Hopefully Rockstar brings back the excellent character customization from San Andreas. There was nothing in that game more eminently satisfying than force feeding CJ until he looked like a small blimp, then having him strafe cars in a jet pack while humming Flight of the Valkyries [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q]. Bring that back, Rockstar, seriously. Oh, and a proper PC port would be nice.

I second all of that, particularly the proper PC port part (timely and well optimized if you'd please Rockstar). One of the things that was sorely missing in GTA IV was the customization - the stores were goddamn awful and I'm not even talking about the absolutely retarded UI they had. There was a really small choice of outfits and even in that choice, most of the stuff looked rather the same.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

I just hope they can overcome the biggest problem I have with all Rockstar games I've played and that's lack of direction. Yahtzee once said that for a sandbox game to work you need a deeply varied world that calls for exploration and/or some kind of clear ultimate goal hovering over head; I say you need both. Okay I'll grant you that the only Rockstar games I've played are GTA III, GTA: Vice City, and Red Dead Redemption, but in all 3 I had the same problem, I didn't know what the fuck I was supposed to be doing. In GTA III I didn't even know who my character was or what the hell he was doing in Liberty City. In Vice City I at least knew who my character was and why he was there, but I still didn't have any real clue as to what I was supposed to be doing. In Red Dead Redemption again at least I know who my character is and why he's there, but there was no way to distinguish the story missions from the side quests so I had no way of knowing how to advance to plot. Since I didn't really feel like doing chores for Bonnie I kinda steered clear of that only to discover once I gave in and did them that that was how I advanced the plot! Oh thanks game, some sort of indication would've been nice.

The other 2 games you haven't played (GTA;SA and GTA4) really cleared up the "why am i here?" debacle. And using the cellphone to guide your next move (without shoving it down your throat) helped progress the story. You should give 'em a try!

Im psyched for GTAV...as long as they bring back car customisation..that was a great game extender!

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

also one thing I want to be included that didnt appear in IV was maybe little throwbacks to previous games, like in IV I really wanted to see the Mafia Don's mansion and how it changed over the years.

The Mafia Don's mansion was in GTA IV, is was derelict and had change a lot over the years: http://gta.wikia.com/Old_Mansion

Huh, i remember that location, but it looks nothing like the mansion from 3 I suppose I should've noticed from its location but i never expected that was the place.

I remembered it's rough location but I couldn't remember what it looked like in GTA III, however I recognised it (or what it represented) immediately when I found it in GTA IV.

It's like almost everything else in Liberty City, it had been redesigned in GTA IV but it still represented what it was in GTA III.

I suspect the same will be true of San Andres and GTA V, everything from San Andreas will be represented in GTA V, but it might not be in the same location or appear exactly how you remember it.

There better at least be a Grove Street >.>

 

[lovest harding]

Good, because saying "Our game will be just as good if not worse than any previous games" doesn't have the same ring to it.

"This will be our smallest and most poorly made game yet! Yay!"

 

[Squilookle]

You can't have a "biggest and most ambitious game yet" if you make it smaller than a previous game in the same setting

Freaking EXACTLY. Call me old fashioned, but I always thought 'larger' and 'more ambitious' meant 'has everything from before and then some'. No San Fierro or Venturas? Then no, it is not more ambitious. That's a flat out lie. Making one city bigger is not proper expansion. More detail, perhaps, but not good enough. If it doesn't have every vehicle (and I do mean every one) from San Andreas, then no, it is not more ambitious. If it does not have every feature and minigame from San Andreas, then no, it is not more ambitious. If it's going to retain the ultra-boring nature of IV with cars that weigh ten times their actual weight and forget to pack the fun in, then no, it is not more ambitious.

Rockstar, you've called it. Now you have to follow through.

I love it when marketing people say "The new (fill in product name) will be the most ambitious yet!"
No shit. I thought that since the last one was such a success, they would aim to do a shittier job for the next one so that it would be a worse game

Well that's kind of exactly what they did do, with GTA IV...

 

[octafish]

I wonder if there will be a PC port at all, considering Rockstar's other good game, Red Dead Redemption ?
Unless GTA V bombs, theres a high chance it will be a console only affair.
Rockstar havent been too kind to thier PC fanbase since consoles are more market friendly and easier to develop for... last GTA PC port was bad, and the fans crapped all over it.

Yep. No PC port unless it tanks seems to be Rockstar's business model these days. Why hello L.A. Noire, what happened to RDR for PC?

 

[Logic 0]

If it can surpass jetpack-rocket fun time then it would have exceeded all of my expectations.

 

[Metalrocks]

yes, i surely hope the pc port will be much better. the reason why i dint get my self GTA IV. dont want to install tones of patches just because it has probs with ati cards.
well, im still not sure if i should get it. i just wait and see what happens. vice city was still the best GTA in my eyes. great music and colourful. SA was also fun but a bit to gray for my liking.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

So ambitious you'll probably forget to implement splitscreen multiplayer.
Though it does look pretty sweet, I must admit...

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Seattle is two states over from California mate... And I say that as a Canadian.

As an Australian, American geography wasn't taught.

Oregon then. I dunno, what ever is in Oregon. Trees I think.

Hmmm, upon checking a Google map of western America, I see a town in Oregon that is ripe for GTA parody;

Beaverton.

 

[gphjr14]

Hopefully thin one will be fun to play. IV's story was great but it was boring as hell.

Driving onto a cargo plane with a motorcycle, planting explosives and parachuting off is waaaay more fun than doing mostly escort/rescue/assassination missions under the same conditions with little variety. The only really exciting moments were the helicopter chase and the chase on the motor bike.

Also dial bike the "realism" on the cars, like Yahtzee stated the cars drove like they had another car on top of them. That's no bueno.

I'm getting SR3 new, I can't say the same for GTAV

 

[Zulnam]

Mmmm... Yes, yes... But will it be FUN, Rockstar?

 

[samsonguy920]

I was figuring it was just Los Santos and Red County from the trailer. That's still a lot of territory for fun. One thing I hope for is a return of one or two familiar faces. Getting nothing but new faces in IV was a bit of a letdown. Where the hell is 8-Ball?

Oh, and a proper PC port would be nice.

This. This is the number one thing. One thing that pisses me off time and time again is the finger that Rockstar gives to PC's. Though they went one step further and gave PC the shaft by denying a PC port of Red Dead Redemption.

I wouldn't mind a bit of empire building, myself. Taking over gangland was a plus in GTA:SA. It could be done in V as well, only maybe more the end of buying real estate where you also get security guards who can harass passing pedestrians for no better reason than for giggles. As well as dealing with break-ins of your property.

 

[Smooth Operator]

I thought people wanted developers to push forward and try new things, not just rehash the past over and over. For the life of me I don't understand why people want GTA V to be the same as San Andreas. Why not just go play that instead?

We don't want the same game we want the same fun madness GTA was built on, GTA4 however smacks you in the face "Now sit down and do your taxes! And write your mom an email while you're at it!"

If they started the GTA franchise in this depressing tone... well then there would be no GTA franchise.