Grand Theft Auto 5
 

Probably WAY too early, but what should GTA 5 be like? Should it be in Vice City, San Andreas, or a whole new city?

They should have a Create A Character this time around, or play a chick or something. Something different.

London

Found this:

The latest edition of Gametrailers’ Bonus Round discussed Grand Theft Auto 4, its Xbox 360-exclusive expansions, and Grand Theft Auto 5’s release date. You can watch the episode below.

To quote investment banker Wedbush Morgan Securities’ game industry analysts Michael Pachter: “I actually think they already have a story in mind. GTA5 is already in the planning stage and my guess is you’ll see [the next GTA] in two and a half years. In fall of 2010, there’ll be Grand Theft Auto 5.”

This last Grand Theft Auto Bonus Round episode discusses whether or not the release of GTA4 on April 29th will be the fall of GTA as a series or if Rockstar will reach new heights?

I think the next GTA game should be set in Patriot City, or some clever name for a GTA adaptation of Boston.

It'd be interesting to see them to a Boston setting, and explore the Irish Mob and the IRA and such, and draw inspiration from movies like The Departed, Boondock Saints, Gone Baby Gone and the like.

They've done the NY Italian mob, the Russian mob, a Miami Vice/Scarface type thing, and a Compton gangsta ghetto.
I figure this is the next big thing, and in terms of crime drama movies it seems to be the new trend and a big hit.

I think it'd be great.

GTA 4 was amazing. You are just a bad gamer.

Req is correct

Not enough emo on there for you, Fallen Angel?

I think he was referring to the part where you said the game had no music you liked at all

Play music on some other source while playing GTA.

Oh, I suppose that would be it.

Yeah, and having to pause/mute it everytime there is a cut-scence became a real pain really fast. Broke the flow, gnome sayin'

*insert ironically spastic comment*

Which doesn't actually make the soundtrack any better, it's just a bandaid.

Of course, I think better issues are controls, the bullshit "realism," the muddy graphics (Which are brilliant as long as you keep the brightness set to "she looks good in the dark."), the terrible characters and voice acting. In fact, "muddy" really describes the whole game.

These are better issues, but if you don't like the soundtrack, playing your own music over it is just putting lipstick on a pig. And yes, that's a shot at Sarah Palin.

Dunno game plays nicely just wish they'd take out the need for me to go on dates with random women and go for drinks/a strip show with my friends in it. No interest in going anywhere with any of them so constantly get texts moaning about not talking to them.

Atlanta. That would be mad gangstalicious.

I want to see if they could make something interesting out of GTA: Alaska.

I'd just like to know about the dlc tbh.

Alabama could be one of the country areas like they had in SA if they made GTA:Atlanta.

I feel like GTA: Tokyo would pretty illl

Think how awesome your cell phone would be

Was actually thinking that. Or maybe not even Tokyo, but the Kobe/Osaka area. Largest group of Yakuza, the Yamaguchi-gumi, own that area pretty much and that would make for some pretty awesome stuff.

Thinking more about it, involving the Yakuza would make for some pretty epic things compared to the other games. They are the largest organized crime group in the world, and pretty much shit on anything the Italian mafia, black gangs, or Russian syndicate can do.

Yea Tokyo would be rock solid, Kobe and Osaka could be other areas on the map. I had this idea last night though. GTA never cared about logistics, so why not do a SA style map with Atlanta, London, Moscow, and Tokyo. That would be ridonkulous.

GTA: Punxsutawny

GTA4: Vice City

I'd cream if they did this. They won't cos "it's already been done".

Only hope I can pray for is that they will realise how popular the last was and that they have rebuilt Liberty in this one, so it's only natural?

I second Vice City's return. There's something surreal about playing a game based on where I live. And with multiplayer, I could take you guys on a tour of my hangout spots.

I'd like to see GTA: Tokyo

Nice.

GTA: Gaijin Smash?

Screw it; give us the three cities of San Andreas and Vice City a GTA4 make over and release them all as DLC. Then have us able to use the airports to travel to whichever city we please. While you're at it, complete the outlying areas of Liberty City that they constructed but didn't finish (GTA version of Jersey reportedly) and make that available as well.

With all that playground, I will never anything of Rockstar again. They will have delivered to me the last GTA experience I need. It'll be the closest the series will come to having a continent of playground. For the love of God imagine that.

They could have the game take place in Carcer City. That place has been mentioned in a few GTAs but we've never been there.

On a GTA related note, would it ever be possible and profitable to do this idea I had? The idea is this:
Sell the game disc with all the code and stuff that makes everything work on it but each player downloads the city of their choice. Maybe a choice of 3 major cities depending where you live. Choose between New York, Los Angeles or Miami for the US. London, Manchester or Birmingham for England. Edinburgh, Glasgow or Dundee for Scotland and so on with the selection varying from region to region.
This would make the game pretty cool because it would resemble your home city and would have a lot of local humour and references in it.
I'm not saying that's what GTA5 will be, I'm just asking if that would ever be a possible and profitable idea.

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I think the next gen systems (GTA6, maybe 5 or 7 depending on how they label this gen's) will get something like GTA:USA and it'll be an MMO. I think that's the next logical step for the series after this gen. They could have expansions which would open up other countries/continents.

Something like that I think is too big to have at the scale of Liberty City for this gen.

Grand Theft Auto as an MMO would be pretty amazing, I think.

That would be an ambitious DLC plan. I don't think the public will ever be willing to buy 'code' even at a decent price. You need a base city and game on disc. But your idea works in that people could expand their GTA universe as they see fit.

Heh, GTA World.

They did that with SA. Once you left the city eventually the state police would take over.

I heard the next GTA was gonna be in a city called either of the three but in a totally different era and country, like to suggest there is another country with the same city names at another point in history.

I'd like to see them mix it up and give us a Western. I can't think of a game anywhere near the scope of GTA with an old west theme. The only problem with it would be the soundtrack.

Or they could make a branch of the GTA engine and do it as a separate series.

Thing is with the technology, I dunno if a fuckin desert would do its potential justice. I mean I'm thinkin a Western would be flat, few mountains maybe but nothing to actually make it useful as far as gameplay.


What about....and I've always thought this would be the daddy...

A futuristic-but-not-too-futuristic minority report type metropolis. With a story that focused on technology and advanced weapons as not only whats in the gameplay, but also the story.

Yeah, so what? What fucking use is a load of mountains on a GTA game? a few missions and to make the scenery look good. And yeah, its FULL of mountains so again, its not a good thing.

You'll be driving shitty cars, not many of them either in those days so thats like 5 different types, a few fuckin farm vehicles, great.

Whats that riding horses? no thanks.

Its a nice thought but let's let the western idea die gracefully with that piece of shit GUN.

Not really, I made a point in relation to the idea, and then backed it up with something else to support its relevence, yinno how the fact that while you might like a Brokeback Moutain type computer game, there is only so much fun mountains can provide in terms of the landscape in a game.

Plus my minority-report idea pisses all over it.

I refer to the film purely based on its metropolis in the future type look, the scenery. Not the characters, the plot or the fucking pre-cog bullshit. Just the city.

Fuck all that. Let's have GTA Solar System. In this you become an astronaut and you go to the moon collect rock samples and shit. It would be glorious.

I meant an original story of course, was just trying to say how such a future could open up doors for like changing things like the weapons, and how the storyline would pan out. But yeah I didn't really state it well enough.

Was playing GTA4 on my mate's Xbox he has lent me and I can't get used to the driving style. It vexes me.

Hmmmmm, it would be pretty complicated.

I dunno about weapons, I was thinkin of more like futuristic gadjets like hologram decoys, face replicators, stuff like that.

Like the main cities would be like Minority Report, or even 5th Element style. But then the suburbs kinda like a utopia, everywhere is clean cut and I jus got this idea that as opposed to the other games where a lost of the cityscape and suburbs are gang neighbourhood, this could be more orientated around the idea of a clan cut utopia, and the problems lie deeper in the story - terror threats and terrorism, a political element maybe?

I dunno.

And yeah I do drive, pretty much in a countryside, about 10 mins from a town. But yeah I get what you mean.

I dunno.... jus somethin a lil more different I'm thinkin.

How about 1960s London again? lol

On an unlrelated note I am enjoying having an Xbox 360 very much and I completed Call of Duty 4 last night. Go me.

I truly hope this one is far better then GTA4

GTA: Hawaii anyone? I know at first thought it seems lame, but they really could go places with this. I mean they always can have you fly to the main land, or go to Japan. Plus their could be ship levels too.

I figured I'd make a GTA V thread but I see there already is one. Sorry for bumping such an old thread but it's better than a whole seperate thread. Plus I just found these posts here:

Xero got his wish with RDR.

Kano underestimating what R* can do.

Anyway, the reason I'm posting here is because we can't be more than 6 months from an announcement.
R* tend to announce games just as they wrap up developing their current one. With MP3 due out in, I think, March next year, GTA V announcements can't be that far off. So, lets get back to talking about what we'd like to see and/or where we'd like to see it.

If you already posted ideas in 2008, have they changed? Improved?

I came across this GTA IV fan made video and thought it would be a cool feature to have in GTA V online:

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It would be cool to check out who was doing what. Maybe have the news chopper follow whoever has the highest wanted level, complete with updates on location and gamertag. Maybe even actions like "Suspect opens fire in mall. 12 officers down. Explosions."

There was a time I spawned as I joined a Free Roam game in GTA IV and the first thing I saw was a dangerously low helicopter chasing a guy in a cop car chasing a guy on a dirt bike, all very close to each other. I would really have liked to have seen what was going on there and how it ended.
If GTA V builds on how interactive RDR was, I'm sure watching other players could get some interesting results.
Especially if there are gangs like in RDR. The news chopper would automatically be there with updates and footage on a gang war between player gangs (if we could make them) and AI gangs in "hideouts".

Another thing that would be cool, especially in MP, would be a cherry picker.
One of these (ignore that this one is LEGO) :
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One player drives, the other player stands on the back, the 3rd player can control it. Raising, lowering and moving the crane while the 2nd player opens fire would be great for causing mayhem.

If GTA V was solely an improvement on GTA IV

- More save points, perhaps you can rent apartments or townhouses or something. Might add a new dynamic to the game.

- Either less motorcycle chases or more control.

- More aircraft, miss SA due to that.

- A parachute, please.

- An MP3 player option, to play songs stored o your system through the game.

- Option to restart mission from where it starts gamewise not cut scene (eliminate driving tacross city many times)

Parachutes are in TBoGT and there was a lot of people wanting them back before that so I'd assume they'll make sure they are in GTA V.

Didn't the XB versions of Vice City and San Andreas have a radio station that played your own music? That wasn't in GTA4?

Only San Andreas on XBox had that. GTA 4 on PC does though.

GTA4 doesn't on console. I don't think they could do it properly on 360 anymore, that's why Smackdown had that hack job of user playlists.

Sony only supported the functionality after GTA4 was released, hence Burnout Paradise's patch.

5 is already coming out? Wow, I played 4 for a few hours at friends house back in 2008 and haven't got around to buying it.

I was wondering why that feature went scarce. I loved it. The all-encompassing soundtrack thing is cool too but when the game uses it itself that was extra cool. I remember THUG had Tony Hawk say general things about your next track in a mock radio station before the song played. It did a lot for me.

There's been a grand total of 0 announcements. Probably waiting on next gen consoles I reckon.

Xbox's playlist system is perfect for this. It's just shit for things like "entrance themes."

It still may not have been worth it to throw in, when the PS3 wouldn't yet support them anyway.

Does that mean we're going back to the "Of course the engine sucks, it's the first version on a new console" apologetics?

Who cares, Saints Row 3 is almost here.

And it will rule.

Dude. They have been working on GTA 5 since GTA 4 was released.

Thats how it works.

grand theft auto apologists

Yes, it's hilarious that they exist.

That's what I'm thinking. That and MGS Rising will be launch titles for at least one of the consoles.

I beat GTA IV every year during my Christmas break..... this year will be no different..... GTA London or GTA Tokyo makes the most sense to me for new locations, but I'd love a return to Vice City.....

Grand Theft Auto: Paradise City.

Well, I mean, at least there's a lot of cars there.

What I meant is starting a mission in Hove Beach, which then required you to drive to Alderney to continue it. Then if you die, you have to drive all the fucking way back and lack of aircraft plus it being a 5 min drive got annoying quick especially for difficult missions.

Did you ever think of taking a taxi?

I’d love to see some mission where you have to escape out of prison. Liberty City, San Andreas, and Vice City on one map would be epic, but it can’t be done because Microsoft’s 360 wouldn’t be able to handle a game of that magnitude. Maybe they could cut parts of San Andreas. I imagine the game would be pretty big if they did that with GTA 4 graphics, but I’m sure it could be done.

Of course I fucking didnt! :(

I have a 360 remote. I just put some songs on a flash drive and play them and push pause on the remote when cutscenes happen.

I gotta say, the GTA4 soundtrack was just awful.

Why not have 2 fucking cities you can be in? Like San Andreas and some other one and you can either take a commercial flight between them or fly there yourself.

I think two cities you can fly to would be better then one massive one.

So you're the one.

I'd also be a fan of a two parter...... starting in Vice City in the 80's as a young punk kid that eventually gets busted halfway through the game, before getting out of Vice City Jail 25 years later, killing off the "minor" guys that fucked you over in Vice City, before heading off to Liberty to find the "main" guy that caused your demise, but having to take on missions in order to gain information about his whereabouts/new identity/etc.....It would be like 2 games in one.....

I think you just described Saints Row 2 and 3.

Unless Volition dropped the escape of the last guy who screwed you over in SR1.