GTA5 pre-announcement talk

[Himu]

GTA5 announcement should be this year. I'm kinda excited. Lost and the Damned was pretty fucking awesome and while not wholly ideal, I felt Gay Tony was another step in the right direction after GTA4.

It has been about four years since GTA4 was first revealed. The trailer came out in March/April 2007 or something. I'm expecting something within the next month or two, but I could be wrong about that. It's just that that's the time schedule Rockstar usually reveals their GTA games.

Here's a list of rumored character descriptions, the game is rumored to take place in LA and looking at the character descriptions, it's back to whacky characters of GTA3 trilogy and Gay Tony. The descriptions also make it look like the game will take place in modern times, so past or future decades.

Here's hoping the game took note of the competition, namely Saints Row.

I personally think that the new GTA needs something fresh. After three games in the same city, in our own time period, mostly with the same tone, a change would be nice. For one thing, looking at the character descriptions - if they're real -- the main characters should be in the FBI. For a GTA that's kinda different because you're always a gangster. That could be a part of the fresh change I'm hoping for.

Earlier today, twitter investigator, @supererogatory posted some info about the new GTA game. While she didn't post the information explicitly, she did point out where you could find the information. For those who aren't interested in digging, this is a possible list of parts that might be in the new GTA game


Mitch Hayes:
38 – Annoying, wise cracking, highly successful FBI agent. In great shape. Does triathlons, drinks low cal beer, but still has a sense of humor.

Miguel Gonzalez:
25 Young Mexican American FBI agent, caught between a few mob bosses. Very clean cut

Clyde:
23 – Moronic, almost inbred and creepy white trash hillbilly. Very naïve but in a creepy ‘it’s only incest sort of way’

Brother Adam:
Welsh monk / cult leader / yoga teacher – 50, very lithe, very into exploring your personal tension through gripping massage. Needs Welsh accent.

Mrs Avery:
Neurotic soccer mom, home maker, 48, anxious and addled on pain killers. Very angry at neighbor MRS Bell.

Mrs Bell:
Swinger, and mellow Californian divorcee. 45. Ugly but comfortable with self.

Eddie:
47 – Weed evangelist, guy who started smoking at 30, and is now a leading proponent of marijuana’s fantastic properties. White, awkward.

Ira Bernstein:
56 – publicist for an actress known as America’s newest sweetheart who just so happens to love animals, orphans, drugs and sex. He’s always trying to hide her latest indiscretion.

Kevin De Silva:
18 – Albert’s fat, FPS playing gamer son. Smokes a lot of weed, has anxiety issues and a card for a bad back, very soft, very opinionated. Into making racist comments while playing online.

Harut Vartanyan:
42-52 years old – Armenian car dealer, moneylender, would be Fagin and would be bully. Heavily connected to the underworld, but irritates people so much no one likes him.

Nervous Jerry:
48 – paranoiac living in the sticks, near Simon, completely paranoid, and terrified of Simon.

Calvin North:
55 – clapped out FBI agent who now mostly works offering advice on TV shows – whose only claim to fame turns out to be entirely false – but a decent guy in other ways. Badly dressed. Divorced. Putting on weight.

Jerry Cole:
53 – disabled IT expert and criminal information vendor.

Rich Roberts:
English hardman actor, 35, who acts tough but who wants to do serious work - the only problem is he can't quite read the words.

Alex:
white 52 yr old loosie goosie hippy rich guy who has lost his money and is getting desperate but trying not to.

Scarlet:
45-52 years old – unshaven female spiritualist and hippy with a love of exploring the wilderness. Very into journeys.

Chad:
29 – pretty boy misogynist Beverly Hills party boy. Made money, but not as cool as he thinks he is.

Tae Wong:
39 – somewhat incompetent Chinese mobster, loves doing ecstasy, going to raves.

Taes Translator:
45 - VERY STRAIGHT LACED Chinese translator, terrified of his boss’s dad. Male, awkward. Needs to speak Chinese.

If rumours are to be believed, the game will be set in LA.

Thoughts?

Excited? Interested? Neutral? Bored with GTA? Don't give a fuck since you have RDR or Saints Row?

[Great Rumbler]

Saints Row 3

[Himu]

i'm going to get saints row 2 tomorrow.

[Great Rumbler]

i'm going to get saints row 2 tomorrow.

Being serious here, GTA5 will really have to do a lot to win me back. I played through GTA4 and started to hate it by the end. Fast-forward to a few months ago and I bought the two expansions. Played a few hours of Lost and the Damned and, aside from a fresh outlook thanks to the change in characters and some other tweaks, I slowly began to realize all over again just why I started to hate GTA4 in the first place. It feels sluggish and empty, every fun moment is stamped down by two or three dull, hollow moments. Maybe Gay Tony went further in fixing those problems, but I'm just too burned out to boot it up.

[Himu]

I'm cautiously optimistic because I want to see all they've learned since GTA4. Personally, while I liked euphoria when it first came out because it was neat, I have actually grown to abhor it because it makes the entire game one slow, tedious process, though it was mostly fine in RDR.

I know what you mean, though. I think GTA4 is too front loaded for its own good. I thoroughly enjoyed, even flat out LOVED the Broker part of GTA4, because it was like opening Christmas presents on Christmas Eve -- hey, a fresh new GTA to play through! But as the game continued on, I started to realize I just wasn't having as much fun as I did in past games and by the end of the game, I completed it just to complete it. I just wanted it to end.

I got GTA4 and the expansions last year for ps3 and I too, was reminded why I'm just not a big fan of gta4. I think TLAD fixed most of the issues though, because of the emphasis on bikes, which don't feel like you're driving a motorboat on greased tires. I couldn't even get past the Broker section and returned both the expansions and gta4 proper after completing both tlad and gay tony. I got burned out just by playing two expansion packs.

That said, I gotta give credit where credit is due. Rockstar North seemed pleasantly surprised by how well RDR turned out and maybe they even have taken notes from games like Saints Row.

[Himu]

Rumbler, if you haven't seen this:

[youtube=560,345]vFCFjLzfXm4[/youtube]

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Saints Row is for plebians with no taste so bring on the new GTA plz.

[choco parfait]

GTA5 announcement should be this year.

Saint's Row 3 has already been announced. Volition: always ahead of the game.

Rockstar has to actually prove that they learned from their mistakes first before I even attempt to listen to their song and rime.

[Himu]

Saints Row is for plebians with no taste so bring on the new GTA plz.

actually saints row is awesome.

it has a big dick asian who kills entire armies of gangsters.

what does gta4 have?

Rockstar has to actually prove that they learned from their mistakes first before I even attempt to listen to their song and rime.

did you play gta: chinatown wars? fantastic game.

[Great Rumbler]

Saints Row is for plebians with no taste so bring on the new GTA plz.

what does gta4 have?

A bald-headed dude who's all emo about killing.

[choco parfait]

did you play gta: chinatown wars? fantastic game.

I don't do toned down handheld experiences. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Been meaning to pick up the PSP version for ages, but never got around to it.

[close]

[Purple Filth]

Saints Row is for plebians with no taste so bring on the new GTA plz.

what does gta4 have?

A bald-headed dude who's all emo about killing.

but still does it anyway.


I wonder if it will be all "serious" like 4 again

[Diunx]

Will they even try to match the quality of san andreas this time? Or just do another boring shitfest that fans drool over? Stay tune!

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Right after the GTA4 launch, I was on GAF complaining (mildly) how Saint's Row still did things better than GTA and that's when my HSMP account over there got permabanned by Evilore.  Wonder what he thinks of GTA4 now.......

[chronovore]

(snip)
Here's a list of rumored character descriptions, the game is rumored to take place in LA and looking at the character descriptions, it's back to whacky characters of GTA3 trilogy and Gay Tony. The descriptions also make it look like the game will take place in modern times, so past or future decades.

Here's hoping the game took note of the competition, namely Saints Row.

I personally think that the new GTA needs something fresh. After three games in the same city, in our own time period, mostly with the same tone, a change would be nice. For one thing, looking at the character descriptions - if they're real -- the main characters should be in the FBI. For a GTA that's kinda different because you're always a gangster. That could be a part of the fresh change I'm hoping for.

Earlier today, twitter investigator, @supererogatory posted some info about the new GTA game. While she didn't post the information explicitly, she did point out where you could find the information. For those who aren't interested in digging, this is a possible list of parts that might be in the new GTA game


Mitch Hayes:
38 – Annoying, wise cracking, highly successful FBI agent. In great shape. Does triathlons, drinks low cal beer, but still has a sense of humor.

Miguel Gonzalez:
25 Young Mexican American FBI agent, caught between a few mob bosses. Very clean cut

Clyde:
23 – Moronic, almost inbred and creepy white trash hillbilly. Very naïve but in a creepy ‘it’s only incest sort of way’

Brother Adam:
Welsh monk / cult leader / yoga teacher – 50, very lithe, very into exploring your personal tension through gripping massage. Needs Welsh accent.

Mrs Avery:
Neurotic soccer mom, home maker, 48, anxious and addled on pain killers. Very angry at neighbor MRS Bell.

Mrs Bell:
Swinger, and mellow Californian divorcee. 45. Ugly but comfortable with self.

Eddie:
47 – Weed evangelist, guy who started smoking at 30, and is now a leading proponent of marijuana’s fantastic properties. White, awkward.

Ira Bernstein:
56 – publicist for an actress known as America’s newest sweetheart who just so happens to love animals, orphans, drugs and sex. He’s always trying to hide her latest indiscretion.

Kevin De Silva:
18 – Albert’s fat, FPS playing gamer son. Smokes a lot of weed, has anxiety issues and a card for a bad back, very soft, very opinionated. Into making racist comments while playing online.

Harut Vartanyan:
42-52 years old – Armenian car dealer, moneylender, would be Fagin and would be bully. Heavily connected to the underworld, but irritates people so much no one likes him.

Nervous Jerry:
48 – paranoiac living in the sticks, near Simon, completely paranoid, and terrified of Simon.

Calvin North:
55 – clapped out FBI agent who now mostly works offering advice on TV shows – whose only claim to fame turns out to be entirely false – but a decent guy in other ways. Badly dressed. Divorced. Putting on weight.

Jerry Cole:
53 – disabled IT expert and criminal information vendor.

Rich Roberts:
English hardman actor, 35, who acts tough but who wants to do serious work - the only problem is he can't quite read the words.

Alex:
white 52 yr old loosie goosie hippy rich guy who has lost his money and is getting desperate but trying not to.

Scarlet:
45-52 years old – unshaven female spiritualist and hippy with a love of exploring the wilderness. Very into journeys.

Chad:
29 – pretty boy misogynist Beverly Hills party boy. Made money, but not as cool as he thinks he is.

Tae Wong:
39 – somewhat incompetent Chinese mobster, loves doing ecstasy, going to raves.

Taes Translator:
45 - VERY STRAIGHT LACED Chinese translator, terrified of his boss’s dad. Male, awkward. Needs to speak Chinese.

If rumours are to be believed, the game will be set in LA.

Thoughts?

Excited? Interested? Neutral? Bored with GTA? Don't give a fuck since you have RDR or Saints Row?

Fake list is fake. Rockstar is generally zipped up tighter than a nun's asshole. With a zipper. Where the hell did you find this list of characters? Link?

[chronovore]

Here is some potentially equally meaningless nonsense:
http://www.gtav.net/

According to reports, Rockstar Games has recently registered new website domains that sound like they could belong to GTA 5's in-game Internet (assuming GTA V has an in-game Internet, as GTA IV did). The domains are: CashForDeadDreams.com, SixFigureTemps.com, StopPayingYourMortgage.net, HammersteinFaust.com, and LifeInvader.com. If they were indeed registered for GTA V's in-game Internet, then it suggests that the game is set in relatively modern times, since the World Wide Web only became popular in the mid-1990s. Some have speculated that CashForDeadDreams could be a parody of Cash4Gold (or Cash For Clunkers?), that HammersteinFaust is a parody of Goldman Sachs, and that LifeInvader is a parody of LifeLock, or even possibly Facebook.

Note that googling these turns up almost nothing from official games sites. It could be proof of its nonsense, OR, OR, OR it could be proof that "games journalism" is a complete joke, because if there was anything actually related to journalistic investigation going on, this would be mentioned SOMEWHERE. Instead, it's likely that no games news site is willing to risk the wrath of Rockstar.

[Raban]

Pretty sure that news story was on Joystiq.

[chronovore]

:eatingcrow

Yeah, actually, you are right. For some reason that was not on the first two pages of google results when I posted.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/27/take-two-registers-grand-theft-auto-esque-domains-gta-v-shows-u/

[naff]

fwiw I'm excited for a new GTA. I'm going to give Saints Row 2 a spin at some point soon on 360.

[Herr Mafflard]

It's hard to get excited when nothing concrete has yet been revealed. Even harder when we have more interesting open-world stuff like LA Noire and SR3 releasing this year. I did enjoy gtaIV quite a lot - I mean you can say what you want about some of its design decisions but it was a great technical showpiece for current hardware, and still is. If they implement some of RDR's features in terms of random stuff to do in the world that would be great.

[The Sceneman]

looks like a useless pile of shitty rumors. I NEVER post shit like this

[maxy]

Fake list is fake. Rockstar is generally zipped up tighter than a nun's asshole. With a zipper. Where the hell did you find this list of characters? Link?

List is not fake,the only question is relation to gta 5

Since himuro sucks at finding sources,

this is the link
http://www.theagencyonline.com/news.php?offset=19&castingid=1472

[Third]

Can't wait. GTAIV was the last decent sandbox game. Besides Infamous.

[maxy]

Actors Wanted »Voice Over- New York, United States

Date:
   2011-03-28
Type:
   Actors Wanted
Union:
   Non-Union
   
Production Company:
   TAKE 2
Casting Director:
   Private
Phone Number:
   Not Applicable
Email Address:
   Not Applicable 
Compensation:
   Unpaid
 
This Listing Requires:

    * A Profile Photo

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
PRIVATE
 
CHARACTERS
MATTHEW
   (18-25 Male United States)
A liberal young male who believes in a conspiracy made by republicans to undermine America.
JOSE
   (30-40 Male United States)
A white creepy man who thinks that technology is a poison against the wilderness.
JAMES PEDEASTON..
   (40-45 Male United States)
A man-boy love activist who just got released from an Indonesian prison.
SAMANTHA
   (20-25 Female United States)
A young female obsessed with sex parties, always dreaming of being a Hollywood celebrity.
ANTHONY
   (10-15 Male United States)
A young, fast-talking boy fighting for the right of young boys to drink alcohol and have sex.
        
End Date: 30 Apr 2011

http://www.actorspages.org/notice_details.php?pd_id=9022


hmm...

James Pedeaston was often featured on the radio channel “WCTR” in Grand Theft Auto IV, talking about his desires to make love with young tribal boys. One quote featured on the Call also reassures us that this James is the very same.

    James Pedeaston is a child molester wanted in Malaysia and is being investigated by the FBI. He hosted The Wild Traveler show on WCTR in 1992, although it is apparently syndicated to nine other stations (not heard in-game). He enjoys traveling the world and logging some of his most ‘exotic’ encounters in his travelogue, some of which he accidentally reads on-air to the disgust of the listeners. His favourite memory seems to be a relationship with a boy named Avrindar in Sri Lanka. His show appears to be so reviled by his listeners that at one point, he receives few calls which are not supportive. For example, a caller tells him to stop droning on about other countries and focus on talking about where he lives. At one point he received a phone call from a suicidal man in Verdant Bluffs who wanted to go to hell. Pedeaston replies with “Me too! Buy me a refrigerator magnet when you get there”. In GTA IV, he was arrested by the Indonesian police after being suspected of child molesting in Bali, Indonesia in 2003.

[Himu]

Surely a Grand Theft Auto V announcement is almost upon us.

With a multitude of GTA V styled web domains uncovered last month - and more just last week - and an actor and comedian seemingly outing the title over Twitter, the sense of an impending announcement has been strong for some time.

But a call for actors by Take-Two surely puts the idea that Grand Theft Auto V is now underway beyond doubt, especially since the character descriptions have a distinctively GTA flavour.

Two out of the five characters in Take-Two's casting call are described as "a liberal young male who believes in a conspiracy made by republicans to undermine America" and "a young female obsessed with sex parties, always dreaming of being a Hollywood celebrity."

Also in the line-up is "a white creepy man who thinks that technology is a poison against the wilderness and "a man-boy love activist who just got released from an Indonesian prison."

Finally Take Two is also looking for someone in the 10-15-year-old bracket to play "a young, fast-talking boy fighting for the right of young boys to drink alcohol and have sex."

Sounds like GTA to us. It's also interesting to note that each listing requires a profile photo, suggesting that the actor's appearance will affect their chances despite the likelihood of this being voice over work.

Can we take that to suggest that the next GTA could use L.A Noire's MotionScan tech where the actor's face is reproduced almost perfectly?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/295771/grand-theft-auto-v-casting-call-maximises-hype/

[chronovore]

If they are going with the LA Noire face scanning tech, it means they're walking away from the premise they established in GTA4: "These are truly next generation performances, because we can sample a dozen different actors' performances, and take the best from each."

This largely locks them in to having a single actor for the role, and having them in a complex studio environment to record any corrections or additional scenes. It also increases the media size for any cutscenes.

[Raban]

I really hope GTA doesn't use that technology. At least with LA Noire, Team Bondi has made it pretty clear that the technology is in service to the gameplay and being able to read emotions from a person's face. I don't see where gameplay like that would fit within GTA unless they decided to take it in some wacky new direction.