GTA V - General Thread

[McLaren]

Because as far as we know, there won't be a PC version. That said we'll see what happens after it's out. Usually a few months later is when it's announced. But for now, they lied.

There will be, it just hasn't been announced. The PC market is too huge for Rockstar to not have a version in development.

 

[Slash]

There will be, it just hasn't been announced. The PC market is too huge for Rockstar to not have a version in development.

I know there will be, I'm just saying based on the information out now, according to them, there isn't one.


Your point is one I've been making for months.

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

Must be I didn't noticed. I Googled GTA V today just to see if anything new was up and within a 24 hour period there was quite a few sources with these photos.

I had clicked on one of those side links. So there's no telling..it was the weekend after all.

 

[Slash]

I had clicked on one of those side links. So there's no telling..it was the weekend after all.

Maybe we'll get more tomorrow or next week.

 

[MisterWhiskers]

4 months feels like 4 years!

 

[Slash]

4 months feels like 4 years!

It's only been 2 years since the game was announced ya know. [/sarcasm]

 

[Team THRT Drift]

It's only been 2 years since the game was announced ya know. [/sarcasm]

And it's only been 6 for GT6......

 

[prisonermonkeys]

There needs to be a balance.

Balance is definately important. The problem with Liberty City was that is was almost all city. I get that it was modelled on New York, but it just got monotonous after a while. It was even disoncerting in places, because it was easy to get lost.

San Andreas wasn't perfect, but it got pretty close to. Los Santos and San Fiero were very well-designed, but Las Venturas often seemed like an afterthought. The city seemed built around the story missions that took place, with no real effort put into anything off the story path.

 

[Eks]

Balance is definately important. The problem with Liberty City was that is was almost all city.

Well, it is Liberty City.
I get your point, though. GTA IV actually bored me a little faster (when not doing missions) because it was always "Oh, another building..how new."
At least there will be a lot of countryside/desert in GTA V. I love open road and distant towns much more than crowded buildings.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

You'll know it's working if play the game and there's a conflict between wanting to pull over and check out something you've stumbled on, and wanting to see what's over the next horizon.

 

[E28]

How would that be confirmation? There is a ferris wheel on the first pic, doesn't confirm we can ride it.

It's confirmed you can fly planes anyway, there's a screenshot with Trevor flying a plane, and it's been mentioned a few times by R*.

 

[Dean]

It's confirmed you can fly planes anyway, there's a screenshot with Trevor flying a plane, and it's been mentioned a few times by R*.

Good 👍! I missed that in IV, for some reason.

 

[lintels123]

Balance is definately important. The problem with Liberty City was that is was almost all city.

Thinking back, gta 3 had more blance with the Up-state tunnel systems, observatory, dam and areas around that. I'm a bit dissapointed that they didn't throw any of that into 4 but I'm sure rally racing north of Los Santos through those mountains will be worth the wait.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Balance is one thing, but the map needs variety as well. And space; San Andreas sometimes felt like it had too many ideas crammed into too small a space.

 

[Eks]

I think Just Cause 2 had a good mix of everything. Deserts, jungles, archipelagos, snowy mountains, urban areas, and I think there were swamps. I'm not expecting all that but atleast a forest and snow capped mountains as far as the countryside in GTA V goes.

 

[Dean]

I'll be happy with a SA-like map, though only if it'll be larger.

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

A forest in LA..

Whaaaaaat?!

 

[lintels123]

A forest in LA..

Whaaaaaat?!

Well Angeles National Forest seperates L.A. from the Antelope Valley Dessert in real life which seems what the map in V is based off of... but I'm not counting on anything.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

And Los Santos is simply based on LA. It's not actually intended to be an accurate recreation of LA.

Which is probably a good thing. It's not as bad as some cities, which are very much based on a grid pattern, but it's still very much a planned city. There's no real urban sprawl to it, so you get lots of long, straight roads. Compare that to a city like Sydney, which really just grew as needed, where needed, when needed.

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

Any more GTA stuff for me to look at? Bored over here..

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Any more GTA stuff for me to look at?

Oh, yes, there's lots. But nobody has posted it because we're all evil and selfish.

 

[Eks]

Not sure if sarcasm or...

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Have you ever heard of Ockham's Razor?

In its simplest form, it's a logical theory which suggests that when you are presented with two or more contradictory explanations, the one that requires less suspension of disbelief is more likely to be true.

So, am I being sarcastic because I think yours was a stupid question since I know that Grand Theft Auto V is a major release and that every single piece of information related to the game has been posted to this thread within moments of it being revealed, and that therefore anything new would have been posted by now?

Or, am I telling the truth because I am part of an evil and selfish conspiracy of two hundred and forty thousand forum members who have sought to keep information about the game from you because it's late on a saturday afternoon and we've all got nothing better to you? And if such a conspiracy exists, why am I telling you about it when the entire point of said conspiracy is to keep things from you in the first place?

 

[Eks]

Well, for the record, I didn't ask the stupid question. Just sayin'.

Also, you never know what people really do when they're not on the internet.

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

Well, I been gone most of the day helping my brother move, so I didn't know. It could have been more theories about what's gonna be in GTA V from some fan site for all I know. So, if the question was stupid, I apologize.

Also, it turned Saturday where I'm at a hour ago.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Rockstar are jumping on the viral marketing bandwagon. Kifflom!

http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/22/new-grand-theft-auto-5-tease-points-to-religious-cult

 

[VYPA-SQUAD_Ace]

Rockstar are jumping on the viral marketing bandwagon. Kifflom!

The comments on that article.. some people take things way too seriously. Blah.

 

[Dean]

I'm not sure if I get it... Is Kifflom going to be the "religion" in V? To me, that makes no sense.

 

[prisonermonkeys]

The comments on that article.. some people take things way too seriously. Blah.

That's the problem with a lot of GTA fansites. I started posting over at GTA Forums when V was first announced, but left after the endless temper tantrums people threw over some of the finer details. As soon as Rockstar announced something, everyone would believe it was total misinformation and that the opposite was true. A few sweary outbursts later, and I was done. So what if you can't play as CJ? GTA V is not a remake of SAN ANDREAS, and nor should it be, but apparently there are some people out there who just want an HD remake of SAN ANDREAS.

Having said that, I hope that at least one of V's player characters will be closer to CJ than to Niko. I never really liked Niko; he was a bad guy who did bad things for good reasons, but he'd done so many bad things that I don't think he could really identify a good reason. CJ, on the other hand, was a good guy who was forced into doing bad things, and he ultimately did them good reasons. It was much easier to empathise with him.

From what we know so far, Michael seems to be a bad guy who is sick of doing good things and so reverts back to a life of crime, but his reasons for doing bad things is not the same as it once was. Trevor appears to be a bad guy who does bad things for whatever reason occurs to him at the time, including good reasons because he has nothing better to do; unlike Niko, he has a sense of humour about him and probably comes with a few redeeming qualities. And Franklin is shaping up to be a good guy who is unaware that he is doing bad things, but is doing them for good reasons. So there's some interesting stuff there, and thankfully, it looks as though Rockstar have abandoned the dark-and-gritty reboot stuff that has plagued Hollywood for years. It was a lot like Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD, which was so obsessed with being edgy that it forgot its source material and made for a thoroughly joyless viewing experience. That's how I saw IV, and hopefully Rockstar have cut it from V.

I'm not sure if I get it... Is Kifflom going to be the "religion" in V? To me, that makes no sense.

I think it's going to be more like "Amen". The Epsilon Program is apparently intended to be a pardoy of Scientology, with its own ridiculous rules and beliefs. Based on the animation in the above link, half of them are funny and half of them are over-written. "Kifflom" sounds like a greeting, or a way of ending a prayer.

 

[Dean]

Now, that makes more sense to me. Or, it could. justbe the fact that I searched in on the GTA Wiki . At first I thought it was going to be the "religion" in V, but now I get that it's something that'll be on those talk-radios...