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Rumor: GTA V set in Hollywood [Update: Rumored Cast Post 330]

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ConradCervantes

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rhfb said:
Still the best GTA in my opinion. Some people didn't like how the game got a little campy at times though :( SCREW YOU! THE JET PACK KICKED ASS!
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Immediately after playing the game, I didn't hold it in the best favor due to some of its camp, jet pack included, but after playing GTA IV I went back and holy hell, what a palate cleanser it was.

Play Max Payne 2 if you want to see true ragdoll physics, Bucket. Euphoria is a totally different beast.
 
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Dr.Palutena

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Imperial Hot said:
I guess it is safe to assume that we will see this in some form at E3 this year?
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well rockstar don't really do e3 from what most people around here say. but i bet we will see some type of reveal at some point this year.
 
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Buckethead

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ConradCervantes said:
Play Max Payne 2 if you want to see true ragdoll physics, Bucket. Euphoria is a totally different beast.
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What do you mean? I played MP2 and I'm not sure what you're getting at.

rhfb said:
Still the best GTA in my opinion. Some people didn't like how the game got a little campy at times though :( SCREW YOU! THE JET PACK KICKED ASS
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San Andreas has a great story because of it's subtext: you start out as a gangbanger, get screwed over, widen your horizons, make some real friends, and at the end of the day realize that what's important is family. Not your turf or hood or money. Simple, yet elegant and they didn't beat you over the head with it.

The jet pack was a lot of fun but I think that and the aliens/area 51 stuff are what got a little silly to me. I can somehow buy skydiving and flying planes, but I had a tough time with rationalizing the jetpack.

The rest was just sandboxy awesomeness.
 
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Fjordson

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Imperial Hot said:
I guess it is safe to assume that we will see this in some form at E3 this year?
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Really hope so. I'm ready for some more open-world goodness from Rockstar after the GTA IV episodes and Red Dead.
 
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Ether_Snake

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I'm guessing the first reveal will be next month.
 
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VindicatorZ

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I think GTA would definately have to be in an English speaking place, if only for the radio. GTA's take on the radio is definitely a parody of American radio. So much of GTA is a parody of American culture. London would definately work though, it'd be like The Getaway, done right. I think GTA in any non-English speaking country, would not be GTA anymore.
 
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Buckethead

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Stuff starts hitting around E3, but Rockstar has never had much of a presence at the show itself.

Specifics:
- GTA: VC hit off with the Kent Paul website in July 2002, followed in August with a Game Informer reveal.
- GTA: SA was first shown in May 2004 prior to E3 with a screenshot, the Game Informer reveal was released in June right during/after E3.
- GTA IV was revealed in a trailer released by Rockstar in March 2007 followed by a Game Informer spread in April 2007.
 
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Dr.Palutena

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Buckethead said:
Stuff starts hitting around E3, but Rockstar has never had much of a presence at the show itself.

Specifics:
- GTA: VC hit off with the Kent Paul website in July 2002, followed in August with a Game Informer reveal.
- GTA: SA was first shown in May 2004 prior to E3 with a screenshot, the Game Informer reveal was released in June right during/after E3.
- GTA IV was revealed in a trailer released by Rockstar in March 2007 followed by a Game Informer spread in April 2007.
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Here's hoping for another Game Informer spread soon then .
 
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Buckethead

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Rockstar will release a trailer so they can control the information/media that gets out. Not leave it up to exclusives and leaks.
They want it to be widespread as possible and on every news outlet, flooding the internet.

If the game is due out 2011 (which I doubt) I'd bet they show something prior to E3.
If the game is due 2012, I'd bet on a post-E3 reveal.

To be honest I don't think they'll show anything until July or August with an calendar March/April 2012 release. Could be wrong.
 
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Fletcher

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I can see them saying something about it around L.A. Noire. Get the Rockstar name out there around the time a new IP comes out by them.
 
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Dr.Palutena

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Buckethead said:
To be honest I don't think they'll show anything until July or August with an calendar March/April 2012 release. Could be wrong.
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thats probably more likely .
trailer/screenshot/hint in july/august
magazine blow out in august/september
 
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theBishop

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These are those four outlines submitted by Rockstar for GTA5. You needn't bother to read them; I'll tell them to you:

The first one is set at a large Eastern law school, presumably Harvard. The series is irresistibly entitled "The New Lawyers." The running characters are a crusty-but-benign ex-Supreme Court justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba; there's a beautiful girl graduate student; and the local district attorney who is brilliant and sometimes cuts corners.

The second one is called "The Amazon Squad." The running characters include a crusty-but-benign police lieutenant who's always getting heat from the commissioner; a hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective who thinks women belong in the kitchen; and the brilliant and beautiful young girl cop who's fighting the feminist battle on the force.

Up next is another one of those investigative reporter shows. A crusty-but-benign managing editor who's always gett...
 
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Buckethead

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Fletcher said:
I can see them saying something about it around L.A. Noire. Get the Rockstar name out there around the time a new IP comes out by them.
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This is possible but GTA IV timetable from announcement to release was supposed to be 7 months (March to October) but was delayed to April making for an 13 month cycle.
That's a lot of time, which I don't think is ideal from a marketing standpoint.

If they show it around LA Noire release in May, that's still a 10-12 month cycle for logical 2012 release.
However not unheard of as Red Dead was May-to-May after being delayed a month.

Who knows, just looking at past trends and pulling a Pachter.

Still stick to March/April 2012 theory.
 
tekumseh

tekumseh

a mass of phermones, hormones and adrenaline just waiting to explode
I'm gonna wade in here with my few ideas on what would be great settings:

I'd love a 60's era game set in London, like the late 90's add ons. That is a really interesting era, lots of great cars, etc.

I'd also love an early days of Las Vegas game. Also a very cool time window.

Also, I'd have interest in a 70's muscle car era game. Set it in Detroit? Chicago? either would work.

And, finally, I'd most be interested in a prohibition era game, which included New York AND Chicago. I realize this mirrors the first Mafia game, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done differently enough to make it a compelling game to play...
 
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Traumnovelle

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London in the 60's or 70's would be perfect due to a rich background of pop culture.

I'd agree with a 50's or 60's Vegas.

My dream scenario with be post-Katrina New Orleans, with a story and focus on the small scale, which I guess would piss of a lot of GTA fans even more than IV.
 
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Buckethead

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The Southwest would be interesting to me. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico style.
You have the Breaking Bad meth thing and also the drug war in Mexico.

Seems like an ideal locale.

As far as another retro game, yeah it's always easy to look back and pick out culture, music, etc. but you also have to have those era's weapons, technology, etc. You are very limited.
Not to mention the media has had a large role in shaping those stories and they've been told countless times.

As much as I think GTA IV was a misstep, I think moving to modern (much more recent) times was a good decision.
 
Oppo

Oppo

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Traumnovelle said:
London in the 60's or 70's would be perfect due to a rich background of pop culture.

I'd agree with a 50's or 60's Vegas.
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You know the more I think about this, the more i realize that the lack of a Vegas setting in the GTA series is a pretty surprising omission. It's got everything they love.

I'd say maybe more like late 70s (like Casino), just because of LA Noire's time period, but I could really see that. They have a kickass lighting engine for neon, can you imagine the screenshots...

Only downside to Vegas is lack of weather but I think they get duststorms, and you could have one kickass rainstorm somewhere in there.
 
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Marleyman

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One of my top 5 games this gen; I still pop in GTA IV and play MP. Playing GTA race is always a good time and SP story is amazingly well done. Playing as an illegal immigrant and working your way up in NYC was the best GTA story of them all for me.

Yeah, it didn't have the crazy things to do like spraying poop on people, fighting ninjas, having a jetpack or whatever other craziness people want with these titles. For me, GTA IV hit a sweet spot and I hope they stay with that theme for the next one, with some Ballad of Gay Tony mixed in.
 
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fierrotlepou

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Marleyman said:
For me, GTA IV hit a sweet spot and I hope they stay with that theme for the next one, with some Ballad of Gay Tony mixed in.
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No thanks. They had their serious GTA with GTAIV. It's time to go back to the roots.
 
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off

un33dab@dpu$$y
I want to go back to Vice City and I don't care which decade. I just want something completely different from NY and Miami would be that. In that regard a Vinewood/Los Santos game (as threatened) would not be terrible. And the above mentioned idea of a game going along the SW could also be good, but I doubt they'd do that so soon after RDR.

I don't want most of the other big cities like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, etc. while certainly have their own identities, they're just too reminiscent of what was done in Liberty City. Although a DC game could be alright.

Outside of the US probably won't happen. London being the only real contender I'd imagine but still very unlikely.
 
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Marleyman

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eravulgaris said:
No thanks. They had their serious GTA with GTAIV. It's time to go back to the roots.
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No thanks. Going "back to their roots" is what exactly? They put out a highly rated, highly grossing game and would be silly to not continue to do what made GTAIV so good while adding/streamlining some features/gameplay elements.
 
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StealthGoblin

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Marleyman said:
No thanks. Going "back to their roots" is what exactly? They put out a highly rated, highly grossing game and would be silly to not continue to do what made GTAIV so good while adding/streamlining some features/gameplay elements.
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Thats all very well, but GTA IV was as boring as fuck.
 
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Dennis

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Galvanise_ said:
Thats all very well, but GTA IV was as boring as fuck.
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Only to boring people. I had a blast.

Leave the silliness to the Saints Row franchise and let GTA be more 'mature' and serious in tone.
 
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Ickman3400

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Galvanise_ said:
Thats all very well, but GTA IV was as boring as fuck.
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Yup, the city was completely empty and had nothing to do compared to all the others, even more compared to SA. If this is another SA game, they better return the series to form and make a sequel worthy of the SA name (meaning LOTS of crazy shit to do and crazy missions)

A reveal in late May makes sense, since it'll be a bit after LA Noire and before E3 which as stated Rockstar does not do.
 
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StealthGoblin

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Marleyman said:
What made it boring to you? Did you play the DLC?
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I have played the DLC and it was an improvement. That still doesn't mean that GTA Vanilla lacked a lot of the wackiness that made GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas so fun to play.

One of my big gripes with GTA IV was. . .what is there to do with all this money I am earning? There were no businesses to buy and manage, no territory to keep mine etc.

There was a shortage of cool stuff to do really. No Jetpacks. One of my favourite things to do was fly as quickly as I could over the military base in GTA:SA, parachute out, land it, and see how long I could last. The missions were also less interesting in IV. Tracking helicopters over highways, burning a guys weed plantation down with a flamethrower, getting in a lift with a bike and jumping between buildings, distributing porn flyers from a plane etc were all fun and GTA IV lacked that stuff.

Character customisation was also missing. I enjoyed buying different clothes, getting different hairstyles, tats, going to the gym, getting fat etc.

Then there was my annoying 'friends' that rang me far too often and drove me completely nuts.
 
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off

un33dab@dpu$$y
I just really hope they have decent characters in the GTA. I enjoyed most of the characters in the PS2 era and main characters were all great. The characters in GTA4 did nothing for me. There were too many and some would just appear then give you 2 or 3 missions then get killed, go to jail or vanish completely.

Only Brucie was really a standout, but he annoyed the hell out of me. Didn't care for Roman either. My favorite part of the whole GTA4 "trilogy" was in Lost and Damned where you get to beat the shit (literally) out of him.

Dmitri could have been interesting but he was underutilized.

Galvanise_ said:
Then there was my annoying 'friends' that rang me far too often and drove me completely nuts.
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You didn't enjoy hanging out with Dwayne and talking about prison?
 
iNvid02

iNvid02

Member
^^ yeah the GTA IV characters were good but hardly any were memorable for me, we need more tenpennys, big smokes, cjs and vercettis.
 
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StealthGoblin

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Even the radio was a big let down for me in GTA IV. I didn't like the music as much as previous games and the radio shows were not as funny.

I hope make that much better for GTA V.
 
Philthy

Philthy

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Count of Monte Sawed-Off said:
Vice City would be better.
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This was still the best GTA ever by a wide margin. It was basically Scarface: The Game. I loved the whole 80s drug cartel thing going on. Absolutely perfect for a GTA game. All the other GTA games feel out of place for both the period and the actual towns. They don't feel "real". Vice City had it all in spades.
 
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kvn

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Galvanise_ said:
I have played the DLC and it was an improvement. That still doesn't mean that GTA Vanilla lacked a lot of the wackiness that made GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas so fun to play.

One of my big gripes with GTA IV was. . .what is there to do with all this money I am earning? There were no businesses to buy and manage, no territory to keep mine etc.

There was a shortage of cool stuff to do really. No Jetpacks. One of my favourite things to do was fly as quickly as I could over the military base in GTA:SA, parachute out, land it, and see how long I could last. The missions were also less interesting in IV. Tracking helicopters over highways, burning a guys weed plantation down with a flamethrower, getting in a lift with a bike and jumping between buildings, distributing porn flyers from a plane etc were all fun and GTA IV lacked that stuff.

Character customisation was also missing. I enjoyed buying different clothes, getting different hairstyles, tats, going to the gym, getting fat etc.

Then there was my annoying 'friends' that rang me far too often and drove me completely nuts.
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Completely agree with you here.

The DLCs were a big improvement of vanilla. The first time I started IV, it felt like it was seriously missing something. I could tell that from the very beginning, I didn't get vibe I got from the first time I started VC. That is my personal experience though..

The very least they have to do is to create more side-stuff. Add a few RPG-elements from SA (I loved them) and stuff you can buy with your money. Make money more valuable and reduce the freaking phone calls even more while you are at it.
 
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Marleyman

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Galvanise_ said:
One of my big gripes with GTA IV was. . .what is there to do with all this money I am earning? There were no businesses to buy and manage, no territory to keep mine etc.
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I hear you there. I hope they address this in the next one.

Gavlanise_ said:
There was a shortage of cool stuff to do really. No Jetpacks. One of my favourite things to do was fly as quickly as I could over the military base in GTA:SA, parachute out, land it, and see how long I could last. The missions were also less interesting in IV. Tracking helicopters over highways, burning a guys weed plantation down with a flamethrower, getting in a lift with a bike and jumping between buildings, distributing porn flyers from a plane etc were all fun and GTA IV lacked that stuff.
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I really enjoyed the missions in GTA IV and the DLC. I loved "Three Leaf Clover", or the mission where you set up a date with that Rivas guy
just to kill him.
"Action/Reaction" from TLAD was awesome as was rolling into a prison to kill
Bill.
I also dug the "Truck Hustler" mission. There are more but those are the ones that immediatey come to mind as memorable to me.

Gavlanise_ said:
Character customisation was also missing. I enjoyed buying different clothes, getting different hairstyles, tats, going to the gym, getting fat etc.
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You could buy different clothes. I didn't really miss eating food just to eat food or working out just to work out; it was filler and wouldn't have fit in with the style of story they wanted to tell.

Gavlanise_ said:
Then there was my annoying 'friends' that rang me far too often and drove me completely nuts.
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I think they will definitely tone that down in the next one; it definitely got annoying.
 
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Marleyman

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Galvanise_ said:
Even the radio was a big let down for me in GTA IV. I didn't like the music as much as previous games and the radio shows were not as funny.

I hope make that much better for GTA V.
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The music grew on me as it didn't have as many familiar hits. After awhile, I started enjoying them and appreciating it. Vladivostok was one station I always avoided, but it ended up having some cool songs.
 
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Marleyman

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Philthy said:
This was still the best GTA ever by a wide margin. It was basically Scarface: The Game. I loved the whole 80s drug cartel thing going on. Absolutely perfect for a GTA game. All the other GTA games feel out of place for both the period and the actual towns. They don't feel "real". Vice City had it all in spades.
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Vice City was basically ripped off from, you said it, Scarface with some Miami Vice sprinkled in. It wasn't that original at all. I think they took a big risk with GTA IV and the characters as it clearly didn't work for some people - I just wasn't one of those people as I thought it told the best story of any of the previous GTA releases.
 
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