STOP THE PRESSES: GTAV has been Announced

[DarkRyter]

I loved the shit out of GTAIV.

I hope they throw in more awesome slow car rides with introspective conversations with characters I love.

There is no sarcasm in this. I swear.

I just really dig the story.

 

[captaincabbage]

OH DEAR GOD.

I am, personally, hoping for either a remake of Vice City, or a completely new city. either would make me shit my pants in anticipation.

As for SR3. Yeah, they do the stupid shit much better than GTA4, but they do it at the expense of a compelling story and most of all, at the expense of likable characters. I've always loved GTA's stories and characters (Lance Vance FTW), but most of all, no other game can both imitate the perfectly arcadey vehicle controls and at the same time give us such a plethora of vehicles to choose from.

Colour me excited.

 

[OceanRunner]

Considering that their servers crashed when the first GTAIV trailer was released, Rockstar had better have strengthened things for this one.
Also I'm hoping to see a return to the less gritty VC and SA style from the PS2-era GTA's.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

All of you shut the fuck up and pass me that sweet GTA. It will be a disappointment, but dammit i want it. Insomniac has finally killed Ratchet and Clank, I need some PS2 classic series or i will wither and die.

PLEASE BE SAN ANDREAS AGAIN! PLEASE GOD! I MISS YOU, GIANT SANDBOX!

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

I liked GTA IV and i´m looking forward for this.

 

[SweetNess_666]

Bring back CJ. San andreas was easily the best gta,

 

[oktalist]

I overlooked this thread first time around because you forgot the space between GTA and V. I was all like "Gundam Totally Awesome Vehicles"? "Greasy Tactical Assault Vampires"? Never heard of them. Not interested.

 

[Semitendon]

I don't care.

GTA4 was awful, and I won't be buying GTA5.

In the meantime, Saints Row has become what GTA used to be. So, I'll defintely be buying SR3, and assuming they don't pull the crap that GTA did, I'll be buying SR4 and SR5 when they inevitably get released.

 

[Mrmac23]

Bring back CJ. San andreas was easily the best gta,

CJ buries a guy alive in a portable toilet because he called his friend/relative i can't remember which, who dresses like a hooker, a hooker. I'd quite like to see him appear, then immediately get shot in the face.

Every media outlet and their mother has all ready beaten the "what a shocking, violent game" horse to death. Everyone knows how bad GTA is, so the stories will basically be "sequel to game we found offensive and violent is also offensive and violent".

Your post implies that they wouldn't be daft enough to do that.

 

[Vausch]

Will it actually play on my PC this time? GTA 4 was awful for that, I have a good graphics card but still couldn't play above medium settings without horrible chugging.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Thats oka, saints row the third already has me sold. Sorry rockstar.

 

[Snotnarok]

After playing Saints Row 1 and 2 I think I'm done with GTA trying to be hyper realistic.

 

[Darks63]

4 was so bad that i cant see myself getting it especially since im fully into the saints row games now, TBH the last gta i found fun was Vice City.

 

[ThreeKneeNick]

Did they really need to put "five" on top of the "V"? ...

Anyway, since each installment brought a bigger city im hoping the new one is huge. Very interested to see what it looks like.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

I think it just got confirmed that it would take place in Los Angeles.

Kind of disappointing, I was hoping they'd set it in my city, New Orleans.

 

[I-Protest-I]

GTA IV was a boring piece of crap. Unless it's like Vice City or San Andreas, no fucking thanks, I'm sticking to Saints Row 3.

I'd give my left bollock for vice city remake with some of the original cast and all the feeling I got from it.

 

[MAUSZX]

I loved San Andreas, but I got bored as hell in GTA IV... so Saints Row FTW

 

[Bento Box]

It's odd how GTA4 has become the plague dog that it is the eyes of this community yet Red Dead Redemption is hailed as a masterpiece, despite suffering even worse from the issues for which GTA4 is loathed.

Anyway, I'm interested in seeing what Rockstar is going to deliver. I just hope they bring back some of that Bully magic.

One word explains all: Yahtzee

OT: Looking forward to this, I liked both SA and IV in their own ways though I liked the story more in the latter so I hope it will be a mixture of what was good in both.

No, sir. The word that best explains it is, "NEXT-GENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN."

It was released not long after console games were finally getting past a resolution of 640X480, and around that time everything was trying to go for the gritty realism. Rockstar tried to balance that with the standard GTA humor, and it just really... didn't awesome much.

Awesome's a verb now. You didn't know that? 'Cause it is. It's a verb. Awesomes.

As for GTA5, well, I'm kind of getting tired of the Americocentrism of all these games; I'd like to step outside New York, Miami, and Los Angeles for once please - that goes for you, too, Volition.

You're free to your own opinion but be warned a lot of the hate on this thread for GTAIV is simply people parroting Yahtzee's opinions, same for the love of SR3. I found parts of GTAIV hilarious, especially my version of Niko who I bought a Russian hat for ASAP. Also Brucie was awesome.

I agree with the location part though, I'd be nice to see it being set either in London again or maybe in a developing nation. Probably won't happen but hey, you never know.

There's already a GTA set in a developing nation, but instead of Nico, you play Rico.


RICO RODRIGUEZ.

And fair enough, a lot of it is parroting, but that doesn't make his opinions any less right. The freedom offered in SR2 is greater than that in GTA4. I don't play games to simulate reality; I play them to do crazy-fun shit like surf in Team Fortress 2, or disintegrate people with lasers in the Fallout series, or spray million-dollar homes with a septic truck and parachute-teabag people in SR2. GTA4 isn't necessarily bad, but I think it did suffer from the same gritty, brown ultra-realism craze that's made damn near every AAA shooter in the last seven years so unplayable and dull.