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Rockstar Announce Grand Theft Auto V

By John Walker on October 25th, 2011 at 12:08 pm.

Oh, please don't be money-obsessed nonsense.

So have a look here.

Certainly not a surprise to anyone, and really the only news here is that GTA V exists. Oh, and a trailer in a week. The rest will be speculation. So I shall speculate the desperate hope that they do something radically different this time. Not in a “stuff in anything we can think of” way like San Andreas, but a completely different approach to their epic, extraordinary games. What do you reckon? Where would you like to see V heading? (Apart from to PC, in a working form.)

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  1. 25/10/2011 at 12:10 Dyst says:

    I’d like to see it on PC at release, but how likely is that.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:12 Batolemaeus says:

      Dammit, beaten.

    • 25/10/2011 at 14:02 Dlarit says:

      What does this PC abbreviation mean? I hear it throw around on this site…

    • 25/10/2011 at 14:21 Nameless1 says:

      Mee too, along with:
      - optimised for pc (performance and UI)
      - No GFWL shit

      Let’s see how bad they are.

    • 25/10/2011 at 16:13 JKjoker says:

      you might, development is moving away from consoles, they dont want to give ms and sony their cut anymore, the current gen of consoles is already several years past their expiration date, digital downloads with its attached services and the possibility of keeping the entire payment made the pc market interesting again

    • 25/10/2011 at 16:26 CaffeinePwrdAl says:

      > What does this PC abbreviation mean? I hear it throw around on this site…

      I know, confuses me too, its a common mistake, they keep writing the letters the wrong way around, what they mean to write is ‘CP’ – which stands for ‘Console Port’

    • 25/10/2011 at 16:56 nootron says:

      >> What does this PC abbreviation mean? I hear it throw around on this site…

      PlayCarton. Its a Chinese knockoff of the PlayStation I heard. Has a CD drive and everything.

    • 25/10/2011 at 17:26 Erd says:

      Chances are it’ll be pitched at those nebulous next-generation future consoles, whatever there names will be.

  2. 25/10/2011 at 12:10 Schaulustiger says:

    Where would you like to see V heading?

    To the PC?

  3. 25/10/2011 at 12:11 Danorz says:

    i would like to see it heading away from the terrible auteur stuff of GTAIV and back to the actual openness of GTA:SA, if dan houser wants to make movies then he should fuck off to hollywood and leave games alone

  4. 25/10/2011 at 12:11 WhatKateDoes says:

    To see it on a PC, sans the worst ever installation ever made.. ever, please.

  5. 25/10/2011 at 12:13 Teddy Leach says:

    Let it run on non-monster PC’s at launch, please. And no silly DRM, please. And be set in Vice City, please.

  6. 25/10/2011 at 12:14 the_fanciest_of_pants says:

    Theme wise? Moving overseas somewhere sounds like the best way to freshen it up;

    Mexico city if you want to be topical and allow for all sorts of gruesome stuff

    London if you want geezers and so on, lots of great UK-themed crime tropes out there.

    Hong Kong if you want to go Triad style.

    I’d like to play a different flavored thug this time; maybe even something a bit more shady like a corporate type or something (perhaps a little too similar to DXHR and Syndicate).

    But yeah, simultaneous PC release please.

    In the meantime can we just get Red Dead Redemption?

  7. 25/10/2011 at 12:16 djbriandamage says:

    I totally adored San Andreas and GTA4 and have full confidence in Rockstar’s ability to amaze me with the next sequel.

    DRM and shitware wise, not quite so much confidence.

  8. 25/10/2011 at 12:16 DigitalSignalX says:

    There were a lot of mistakes made with GTAIV, and even more on their port to the PC. Some were corrected in Liberty City Stories, but a GTA5 will either be vindication or the final nail in the coffin as far as I’m concerned when it comes to Rockstar, especially after RDR. They used to be what I’d consider a pre-order or zero day purchase without reservation – that’s no longer true.

  9. 25/10/2011 at 12:16 Stevostin says:

    Just like GTA IV but smooth, with FPS view option (for car and for gunfights). Please KEEP the autheur stuff, I love it. Which doesn’t prevent to bring back the openess either : a “unlimited” game of traffic (buy, sell, avoid cops, fight gangs) and actual thing to do with money (or position in a gang to gain) would be insanely cool (just the simple stuff in Chinatown on DS should be mandatory IMO).

    Also, I want to be able to drink or eat in any restaurant I see, and buy clothes from any shop I see. Oh and why not a TV shop as well ?

    Also TV isn’t enough. I want an XBox in game, with a GTA game in it.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:21 Danorz says:

      the auteur stuff definitely excludes the openness. the canonical GTA4 example being a man escaping in a perfectly ordinary car that has to be perplexingly invincible until it reaches a certain point, otherwise the super cinematic gritty cutscene won’t work. this is an abject and utterly inexcusable failure of game design, and it happens in GTA4 more than once.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:36 Stevostin says:

      Point noted, but to me openess is something at a more fundamental level. Openess means I can choose a gang, create mine, make my friend or foes, bribe cops, plan bank attack, ask for protection money from a restaurant, etc. The point is that I create my own goals. You’re asking for openess on the means to reach those goals. I don’t share your radical views on what compomise shall be made between non scripting and storytelling. I don’t want a GTA V that is based on Mount & Blade lifeless campaign. What I want, and think is possible because well, it already exists in a few other games (Privateer, GTA Chinatown, Morrowind or Daggerfall to a certain extent) is the open goal, unlimited game, and the campaign, story driven layer included on the top of it. The idea is that the combination gives you the best of both ways to do it. If one company as the ressource to do that, it certainly is Rockstar !

      Also GTA IV writing is -IMHO- brilliant. Although I am not a native english I watch my series in english and I honestly thought GTAIV was as good as the best ones regarding writing. I am curious to learn what kind of writing do you enjoy more than GTAIV’s in video games ?

    • 25/10/2011 at 14:38 Stevostin says:

      It is not polite to answer a question with a question (there HAS TO BE a special place in hell for people who does that, actually). Can you say what video game is better written to you than GTA IV ? And what serie ?

      I am watching HBO stuff like everyone. GTA IV isn’t as good as The Wire because it’s not really focused on story and ends up being one scene after the other, but would you say The Soprano enjoys a better writting than GTA IV, for instance ?

    • 25/10/2011 at 16:44 CaffeinePwrdAl says:

      In GTA IV, I was gutted that you werent able to shoot Ricky Gervais.

  10. 25/10/2011 at 12:16 Brumisator says:

    I sure hope to see less “big american titties!” and bowling.
    Or they may as well call the game virtua-facebook.

    The GTA 4 DLCs were much better than the base game, so I’m relatively hopeful on that front.

  11. 25/10/2011 at 12:18 Derppy says:

    Proper PC version would be neat, GTA IV is one of the best games I’ve played, apart from the fact it runs 45 FPS on medium on 2500K / 6950 crossfire and textures pop all over the place even when they are streamed from SSD.

  12. 25/10/2011 at 12:19 porps says:

    If they do something that’s radically different it wont be GTA anymore. “Yeah we figured we would reinvent the series, so gone is the car theft, the crime sprees, the vehicles and the sprawling cities and we’re left with a lovely platform puzzler for all the family”

    Nah they should stick to what has made the games so popular, and er more towards san an than gtaIV. Everyone knows San An was GTAs finest hour, and the reason for that WAS the everything and the kitchen sink mentality.

  13. 25/10/2011 at 12:20 JohnnyMaverik says:

    I want it to be set somewhere that isn’t in the USA… but fat chance on that front.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:35 TillEulenspiegel says:

      I can’t really think of anywhere else in the US that would be interesting. Done NYC twice (not particularly well, but whatever), 1980s Miami, and Southern California.

      Maybe Chicago or Toronto. But London would be much better. Or Napoli if you want to do a Camorra thing.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:39 Stevostin says:

      The “V” is designed like a dollar bill. That will be in the US.

      Car wise, any latin city with narrow streets would be interesting, but US gamers would scream in agony. European ones too, but at least they’re more used to it.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:49 Real Horrorshow says:

      Since the entire point of the GTA series has been to shit on American culture, I don’t see why they’d change the locale.

    • 25/10/2011 at 13:56 Alexmonty says:

      What about GTAV: Pennsylvania “Amish Paradise”?

    • 25/10/2011 at 15:01 Jesse L says:

      Horrorshow: yes! And I think they’ve flogged that horse far beyond death! I wish they would find something else to be bitter about. This theme has been more than adequately covered.

    • 25/10/2011 at 15:41 Christian O. says:

      I’d settle for New Orleans or San Francisco: 1969.

    • 26/10/2011 at 07:23 Bobic says:

      Didn’t they put out a casting call a while ago? I think gta v is going to take place in Cali again.

  14. 25/10/2011 at 12:20 Tams80 says:

    I see V heading downwards.

  15. 25/10/2011 at 12:21 Enzo says:

    I want it to be as mature as RDR, which was probably the most “adult” game I have ever played. The last few hours of that game were brilliant.

  16. 25/10/2011 at 12:23 Fatbubba says:

    I want it to do away with the npc relationship dating/bonding stuff

    EDIT: Or make it mission based, and not silly repetitive mini games-based

  17. 25/10/2011 at 12:24 Binary77 says:

    SET IN ENGLAND

  18. 25/10/2011 at 12:25 Fetthesten says:

    I definitely don’t want yet another repeat of the down-on-his-luck small-time crook making it big, simply because Rockstar have already done that to death and they’re running out of classic action movies to pay homage to. I do want more of the silly gadgets from San Andreas and, to a lesser degree, Gay Tony. How about a female protagonist for once? Never going to happen considering the target audience, of course, but a man can dream. Oh, and a European city would be super nice. Not a specific city, but perhaps a mixture of several. I would like that.

  19. 25/10/2011 at 12:26 Slaktus says:

    I would like to see it set once again in Liberty City, as that’s the most developed locale yet. I don’t see a reason to build a whole new city, just add more granularity to Liberty City, please.

    Then make a sort of gutter-to-the-stars story about some low-life who starts out as a runner for a crime syndicate, but ends up doing dirty work for a cartel of financial institutions as crime and business get ever more entangled and indistinguishable.

    A sort of Scarface-meets-Wall-Street thing, in a hyperreal New York City. It’d be hella topical.

  20. 25/10/2011 at 12:26 MrMud says:

    If they are going to make it a game where you are supposed to relate to the main character (like 4) then dont make him act like a psychopathic serial killer.

  21. 25/10/2011 at 12:26 20thCB says:

    As much as I loved GTAIV and RDR, I feel like these and many other open world games were missing a trick by not doing something more like older open world games like Nomad Soul and Shen Mue. I mean, these newer ones are all so ‘directed’, and the open world backdrop means almost nothing as soon as you enter one of the very tightly scripted missions. GTAIV’s Liberty City especially felt more like an extended traffic jam between missions rather than a true open world. Bethesda’s games have kind of picked up that mantle I guess but what I’d really love to see from the new GTA is an open world which is not just one big area full of minigames. Give me an objective or mystery to solve, and let me loose in a city where I have to solve it in my own way…. Or just give me Shen Mue 3 ….

  22. 25/10/2011 at 12:28 royaltyinexile says:

    Since the five is CLEARLY written the same as on the GBP £5 note, it’s CLEARLY a reference to George Stephenson, so CLEARLY, we’ll be nailing ruffians and harlets like its 1829!

    Mmm, steam-punky daydreaming.

  24. 25/10/2011 at 12:28 Shortwave says:

    Last night I oddly said “I wonder when the next GTA will be” probably inspired by their recent steam sale.
    Pretty damn cool, haha. I’ve been working hard and have done some savage upgrades.. It’d be nice if the game will push the boundary a bit as it once did. My computer is begging to fall to it’s knees.

  25. 25/10/2011 at 12:31 Jubaal says:

    Hmmmm does the art style of the “V” & “five” make anyone else think that this may be set in the first half of the 20th Century?

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:39 Kollega says:

      Yes. Exactly. To me, that “V” and “Five” look stylized after a dollar bill.

    • 25/10/2011 at 13:26 OtioseNexus says:

      Actually that same style V appears on both the British and the US 5 currency note. It’ll likely be set in the US because of other design elements of the logo, and the fact that I doubt they’ll set one in London or such because getting a gun here is an awful lot harder then in the US.

    • 25/10/2011 at 13:34 TillEulenspiegel says:

      because getting a gun here is an awful lot harder then in the US.

      Automatic weapons aren’t exactly legal in the US, yet they feature prominently in GTA.

      Oh, and take a look at the scroll thingy with “FIVE” printed on it. I don’t think that features on any modern US$ bills, but it certainly was on the old $20 for example. Maybe a hint at a not-present-day setting? One can only hope.

  26. 25/10/2011 at 12:31 State says:

    I’m hoping they include the fantastic replay editor once again.

  27. 25/10/2011 at 12:33 airtekh says:

    A couple of things for me (aside from the obvious decent PC port).

    Indoor sections. I’d like to be able to go inside almost any building I want in a city in GTA. The cities in GTA are huge, but they feel quite plastic and ‘gamey’ when you see the tide of painted-on doors and windows.

    Larger city. I was a tad disappointed going from San Andreas to GTA 4 when I saw the size of the city. San Andreas is bloody huge, but Liberty City, although pretty, just isn’t large enough for me. This is especially apparent when you get into a helicopter and soar above the city.

    Make their minds up about the style. Up until GTA IV, the series had that ‘wackiness’ that only seems to be found in Saint Row now. GTA 4 retained some of its heritage (the crazy radio stations, some weird characters) but I found it contrasted badly with the deadly serious plot and the theme. For GTA 5 I’d like to see them either return to their roots (and follow what Saints Row 2 did) or go full on serious (my preference) and not have a mixture of the two.

    Of course, some of these rely on current console tech to be able to support it.

  28. 25/10/2011 at 12:33 Khann says:

    I’d like to see more RPG. San Andreas had some elements, but it wasn’t taken very far.

  29. 25/10/2011 at 12:33 RegisteredUser says:

    Make it a dating game involving hot chocolate.

  30. 25/10/2011 at 12:35 UnravThreads says:

    So, we can instantly dismiss it as being anywhere but the US with that logo. It definitely has a US vibe to it.

    New number means new era, which should mean a new engine and a new set of characters. No Niko, no Roman, none of that, although it’s possible they may be referenced in a roundabout way, but certainly no direct references if previous GTA games are anything to go by.

    Liberty City is out as the whole of the IV era was set there (GTA IV, Episodes, Chinatown Wars), and something about that number ‘Five’ is making me think San Andreas for some reason. It was certainly the more popular of the GTA III-era titles, and I believe it was hinted to, along with Vice City, at the end of GTA IV.

    So yeah, I reckon we’re going back to San Andreas, perhaps a decade or so after GTA:SA.

  31. 25/10/2011 at 12:36 harvb says:

    All I want is a working GTA. IV was such a big let down for me, I still haven’t played it.

  32. 25/10/2011 at 12:38 Agricola says:

    The only American city worth setting a GTA game in is one thats a proxy for New York. But I don’t want another game set in Liberty city so for that reason Id like to see it set in London. The Rockstar satire is all about America but they could surely produce a game with similar standards set in the UK.

    We can be almost certain of two things though. Given what we know already about the characters that R* had a casting call for awhile back, its going to be set in LA.

    The other thing is the PC will more than likely get a 6 month or better delay so that they can make as much money as possible out of the consoles. Thats if the PC gets a release at all.

    • 25/10/2011 at 12:47 TillEulenspiegel says:

      Given what we know already about the characters that R* had a casting call for awhile back, its going to be set in LA.

      Oh. Well. Fair enough. LA would work. Good city to drive around in, at least.

    • 26/10/2011 at 00:48 RegisteredUser says:

      And certainly enough people you’d love to shoot in the face and hookers.

  33. 25/10/2011 at 12:39 Unaco says:

    Well, there’s been, as a protagonist:

    An ’80s Pacino/Scarface Cocaine and Crime Baron Mafioso type,
    A ’90s African American Gangsta’ type,
    A ’00s Serbian War veteran turned immigrant criminal and human trafficker.

    They use the caricatured, demonised bogeyman of the decade. So, I reckon they’ll keep it fresh, moving it forward into the 2010s, and it’s going to be a Muslim extremist.

    Or a Banker.

  34. 25/10/2011 at 12:40 Belua says:

    Just three and a half things and I’m happy:
    -Don’t be so damn serious. Crank it up to eleven like in Vice City or San Andreas, or I’ll stay with Saints Row.
    -Era/Style: Vice City. Need I say more?
    -No goddamn phone calls every five seconds! I don’t wanna go bowling/dining/fucking with anyone just for fear that the game will punish me in one way or another for letting the “relationship” drop. Keep that shit 100% optional.
    -Not a must, but I’d like to see some country in addition to the city, just like in San Andreas.

  35. 25/10/2011 at 12:46 sinister agent says:

    More ways to screw around and make money and so on a la San Andreas, but without the horrid twat main character or tedious ‘gangsta’ crap.

    Actually, having less of a massive disconnect between the game’s story and the game would be nice. “They’ll kill us! Oh no! Oh wait, I shot 347 people this week. Never mind, then.”

    But still. I would like to see them make more of the amazing world they created in GTA 4. Make living and messing about in that world more of a focus (and for god’s sake, don’t block off 2/3 of the game map until we’ve trudged through most of the story), a bit like how Saints Row makes mucking around half the point, only focussing more on the details and living world thing that GTA does better.

    Also more open-ended missions, or even overarching missions so you get a sense of working towards a goal, not just being an idiot mindlessly bumbling from one horrible employer to the next (and of course raising the question of “why not just shoot the guy hassling you like you do everyone else?”). Let’s say you want to take over an area. Well, you could track down gang members and beat the names of lieutenants out of them, then get the lieutenants to get at the bosses. Or you could start wrecking their cars or killing their dealers to weaken their grip. Or amass cash (maybe even legitimately?) and bribe the cops or a rival gang into starting on them. Less of the “Go to x. Stay in car y. Kill z using a but only when b, or you’ll fail and have to start all over again”, and more exploitation of the world, ta.

    Also make it so that there’s actually a reason to let yourself get arrested rather than killed. As it was, there was absolutely no reason to ever give yourself up, because doing so lost you all your weapons, whereas dying didn’t. They should make it the other way round.

    Oh, and don’t make imaginary people call me all the goddamn time to go play darts, and sulk if I refuse because I’m kind of in the middle of a shootout with the cops, yeah? I wouldn’t put up with that crap from my real friends, never mind some digital tosspot I can’t even shoot.

    I also kind of hope they’ll make the main character a woman. It’s GTA – it’ll sell by the bucketload either way, so it’s not like they could claim it’d cost them.

  36. 25/10/2011 at 12:46 GenBanks says:

    Turf wars… Turn the whole city your colour and gives the game a bit of strategy. Was one of the best things about San Andreas imo.

    Obviously the best feature it could have is to come out on PC (perhaps steamworks, with no other drm). Or even better, come out on PC bundled with a PC version of Red Dead Redemption…

  37. 25/10/2011 at 12:47 AbyssUK says:

    Wait I’ve figured it out… it will be set in Hawaii ….

  38. 25/10/2011 at 12:54 frenz0rz says:

    London! Please be London!

    Or rather some overly stereotypical name for a large British town, surrounded by small green belt hamlets and villages named things like ‘Little Crevice’ or ‘Upper Dicking’.

  39. 25/10/2011 at 12:54 Khann says:

    SET IN THE ROUGH STREETS OF WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND.

  40. 25/10/2011 at 12:58 Lowfyr says:

    Aside from having it on PC?

    - GTA version of Tokyo
    - Diving into underground racing
    - No annoying GTA4 ‘buddy’ system
    - Semi-RPG elements like in San Andreas
    - Actual use for the money you gain, after the bank heist mission in GTA4 I found pretty much nothing to spend it on
    - Return of purchasable businesses
    - Option to replay missions

  41. 25/10/2011 at 12:59 sampsonkennedy says:

    id like to see a gta set in austalia

  42. 25/10/2011 at 13:02 dub says:

    Could be set in a fictional Washington D.C? Easy way to work in some terrorism & political shenanigans.

  43. 25/10/2011 at 13:03 Sp4rkR4t says:

    How about cars that are drivable this time and take the game back towards the simple, hilarious and above all FUN missions of GTA 1 & 2

  44. 25/10/2011 at 13:04 Skusey says:

    I’m really looking forward to seeing what they put out, but a week’s worth of tedious speculation is going to kill me.

  45. 25/10/2011 at 13:04 Shinryoma says:

    GTA V for Vendetta confirmed! You’ll play as Guy Fawkes in 16th century England-land!

  46. 25/10/2011 at 13:05 Burning Man says:

    With the option for Halo-style car controls. I’ve never been able to play a single one of these ‘open-world genocide simulators’ simply because all of them insisted I drive a fucking car and have terrible controls. Worse still is that I cannot not drive that car and reach the same endpoint and expect the mission to continue. But worst of all was SR3, which threw me in a truck and refused to let me out until I had fulfilled some silly objective. I called it quits there.

  47. 25/10/2011 at 13:06 ChainsawCharlie says:

    V for Vice City

  48. 25/10/2011 at 13:09 taione says:

    GTA: Johannesburg. Set in a lawless and violent culture where it’s normal to hijack cars, drive like a maniac and bribe police… and buying an AK for a few bucks is almost realistic.

  49. 25/10/2011 at 13:23 sonofsanta says:

    For the love of God, make the game more arcadey again (i.e. the driving), and just generally less of a life-simulator. I have a life for that, I don’t need to be keeping friends sweet in my video games as well. AND YES I KNOW I COULD IGNORE IT but then as a video gamer, I am incapable of leaving something undone and incomplete.

    Vice City was the highlight for me, and GTA4 just took itself altogether too seriously for my liking.

  50. 25/10/2011 at 13:29 Jackablade says:

    It’s time for another episode “Jacka fixes your crappy game for you”.

    Ok Rockstar listen up:
    Step 1. Open up the code that controls the vehicle handling in GTA4.
    Step 2. Select all
    Step 3. Delete.
    Step 4. Write new code focusing on making the driving fun instead of a half arsed pretension of realism.
    Step 5. Sign 25% of the royalties from your improved game to me.

    See, that wasn’t so hard.

  51. 25/10/2011 at 13:30 Quine says:

    Well I’m hoping for New Orleans with extra floats.

    Or futuristic with hover cars and fembots.

    Either way it will be a third-person cover-based shooter…

  52. 25/10/2011 at 13:31 Etherealsteel says:

    GTA needs new scenery instead of the usual stuck in a city, roaming around doing stupid quests. I like the suggestions, Europe. that actually sounds like a good location. GTA4 I just wasn’t pleased with it. I gave it a try, bought for $5, but I didn’t like it. I bought it because everyone said it was a good game, well it was just a complete repeat of the previous GTA’s with a new city and characters. You can’t just keep on making the same crap, unless you are continuing a story like Mass Effect or Uncharted, then it’s fine.

  53. 25/10/2011 at 13:39 Khemm says:

    So, will this one come to PC half a year later like previous GTAs or not at all like RDR?

  54. 25/10/2011 at 13:43 Cerebulon says:

    Going by the money themed logo I’m going to guess at it being set in Las Venturas.
    Maybe since they haven’t done it before and recently (respectively) it’ll be set in the 1970s or 60s, which would fit such a setting rather well.

  55. 25/10/2011 at 13:46 Cerebulon says:

    Going by the money themed logo I’m guessing at Las Venturas.
    Maybe set in the 60s or 70s? They haven’t done that in a while or before (respectively). Would fit LV well.

  56. 25/10/2011 at 13:50 LGM says:

    They need to lose all the “friend date” stuff, cut down on the cut-scenes and overall story, and like others have said bring it back to San Andreas style, which felt far more open than 4. I’m playing Lost and the Damned right now on PC actually and although it’s great, it, like 4, just doesn’t have that wide open feel.

    In terms of where the series SHOULD be heading, I think they need to take the San Andreas model and give it some steroids. Instead of three cities and a big open area, how about A WHOLE STATE? Just go massive, honestly the tech is there with PC and I’m sure future consoles (unless this is gonna be on current gen ones? blech) . Who knows what could go down in an area like that.

    As far as story goes, I think it’s time they went with the police side of things, except the cop you play as is like a far more hardcore version of Vic Mackey from The Shield. Good cop gone bad, but gone bad for a good cause (maybe). I mean really, what are they gonna do, go back to playing as a mafia guy? There’s really nowhere left to go with being a criminal in the games. Even as a cop, you could still mow down civilians (remember, it’s always been up to the player how they went about the GTA games).

    But what do I know, I spent a whole afternoon once backflipping a street bike in slow motion off the steps of the courthouse in GTA4 and landing on unsuspecting civilians!

  57. 25/10/2011 at 13:51 Chaz says:

    Well I know what I don’t want to appear in it. No more friends ringing you up every 5 bloody minutes to go for a cup of coffee; how exciting! Most usually when you’re right over the other side of the city in the middle of a car chase too, and then they give you about 45 seconds to reach them and get all pissy when you’re late.

    Just get rid of all those dull side activities. Eating, drinking, going to the internet cafe. Who the hell thought that those would be fun? The last thing I expect or want in a GTA game is Sims style management.

  58. 25/10/2011 at 14:05 Prime says:

    The triumphant return of the Gouranga bonus, please.

  59. 25/10/2011 at 14:05 Avish says:

    Drop the horrible save system (you can only save the game at certain places on the map) and let the players save anywhere on the map.

    Also, inside missions, place more checkpoint. Don’t waste my precious time, by making me go through the same boring driving section a dozen times!

  60. 25/10/2011 at 14:05 Dlarit says:

    They should remove the feature that having sex with prostitutes heals you as I tried it out in real life and it doesn’t…

  61. 25/10/2011 at 14:09 perfectheat says:

    Looking at the V in the logo I’m thinking Vegas, ‘The Sting’, steamliners (Blue Riband), ‘Rat Pack’, paper money, victory.. I don’t think it will be another L.A Noire and they might be hinting at something further back.

    Personally I would love to see something in the direction of Blade Runner (but not actually BR), noire but in the future or a alternative universe. Not a single level city, but also not Dark City. The year is 2263 and it’s the swinging 60s. You get my drift. Not that they’ll do it though. It’s going to be safe.

  62. 25/10/2011 at 14:10 WJonathan says:

    I wish for a return to Vice City, either retro or current. But I’m honestly less excited about this GTA than any previous. My fascination with the series is waning.

  63. 25/10/2011 at 14:10 Sabre_Justice says:

    Is there really anything they can do that we care about and Saint’s Row The Third won’t do better?

  64. 25/10/2011 at 14:11 Aaarrrggghhh says:

    Mh, I would like to see Games for Windows Live again, but only in combination with the Rockstar Social Club! Maybe this time they can also throw in Steam and the Ubi Launcher with always online DRM!
    More is always better!!!!11

    …

    Or simply not screw up the PC version instead. But how likely is that?

  65. 25/10/2011 at 14:18 buzzmong says:

    I’d love a 1920′s/1930′s game considering Mafia II was such a let down (worse story, less interesting city, less options to roam etc… than the first).

    However, I’d also love a future GTA.

    Lasers! Aliens! Plasma Rifles! Jetpacks! Armoured battlesuits! Hovercars! Sly Stallone! Dystopia!

  66. 25/10/2011 at 14:21 Kadayi says:

    I don’t feel they need to radically build much on their RAGE engine technology, as I thought GTA IV looked pretty good, and the Max Payne 3 footage (subject matter aside) seems to be building upon that, however what I would like to see is some consistency of storyline. Nikko’s redemptive dialogue sat at odds with his more questionable actions, and for a large part their was never any really motivation/justification to a lot of what he was doing. The unquestioning allegiance to recently introduced NPC No 4s homicidal demands was risible in San Andreas and doubly so in GTA IV. The other thing I’d also like to see more nuanced parody (if they feel they need to go down that route still, though tbh I thought GTA IV ran the well dry). Talking of nuance, maybe have plot twists that actually surprise you, rather than signpost them from miles away (my girlfriend’s a Fed? no shit Sherlock?).

  67. 25/10/2011 at 14:33 Tuskin38 says:

    I don’t think its going to be any of the previously used cities.

  68. 25/10/2011 at 14:44 TheGameSquid says:

    For one I’d like to see them do a proper story or drop the story altogether. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking when they were doing GTAIV, it was either the worst comedy ever or the least nuanced piece of social commentary/mobster rant ever commited to electronic paper. They should either try harder, but I’d rather have them return to the whackjob style of San Andreas, albeit slightly less crass and immature. Surely it can be made funny without all the penis/tits references?

    Also, I would love the game if they stopped making it so GODDAMN LINEAR. They give you this giant “open” world to drive around in and make (very fun) carcrashes and… MINIGAMES. LOTS AND LOTS OF MINIGAMES. That’s basically the only thing you get to do besides the main missions. And the main missions are deadly linear. If you make one small misstep, miss one single second or do one thing Rockstar didn’t intend they personally send a velociraptor after you. That’s how bad it is. Is it really that necessary to have the game in constant “Waypoint-cutscene-waypoint-cutscene-loading-cutscene-waypoint-cutscene-cutscene-cash-loading” mode?

    So overall: if you’re going to be serious about making the game heavily story based, put some actual effort into, and it needs a MAJOR structural overhaul.

  69. 25/10/2011 at 14:46 Roshin says:

    I’d like to see it…

    - Set in Europe. Paris or London would be nice.
    - No GFWL.
    - Out on the PC.
    - Make an effort with the PC version this time or just don’t fucking bother.
    - Return to the sandbox proper, ie enough with scripted nonsense that forces you to play missions in a certain way. If players are clever and come up with their own solutions, then let them.
    - You’re not Martin Scorcese. Face it and make the game fun again.

    But seriously, why speculate or get your hopes up? It wont be out on the PC anyway and with SR3, who needs it?

    • 25/10/2011 at 15:42 Khemm says:

      I’ll add something to that list:
      - no Steamworks
      LA Noire will apparently ship with just Rockstar Social Club for achievements and community features, which is perfectly fine if true.

    • 27/10/2011 at 03:17 Dances to Podcasts says:

      Un Prophete – Le Game. :)

      Have the prison as your hub and make sure you get back in time!

  70. 25/10/2011 at 15:01 DickSocrates says:

    I’ll be very disappointed if they return to a city they’ve already covered. Even with IV, it felt kind of flat to be New York because of III even though this time around it was a far mroe faithful recreation. But to go back to either VC or SA when they were already copies of their inspiration city would be a total waste. For some reason, I can see Rockstar doing exactly that.

    Was really hoping for London, would make the most sense, but the V confirms it’s America again. Would be nice if they managed to take it out of the slums and petty crooks and came up with a more original story. But I think the Housers have a bit of a scumbag with an inexplicable heart of gold fetish. your character is never racist, never sexist, basically an all round super lovely guy… who happens to kill people all the time yet wrestles with his conscience about it, before doing it again two minutes later.

  71. 25/10/2011 at 15:14 MichaelPalin says:

    I want it to be targeted at the next console generation. I’m assuming that will only be a good thing from a technical point of view for the PC. Although my intuition tells me that’s a wish I will regret wishing.

  72. 25/10/2011 at 15:25 radio_matthew says:

    Great news about GTA V! Very much looking forward to it.

    Typical my luck though. Spend ages putting together a GTA3 10th anniversary mixtape…

    http://www.mixcloud.com/matthew-layton/matthew-layton-grand-theft-auto-3-10th-anniversary-mixtape/

    …pick a quiet day to release it, and BOOM! – first official word on GTA V.

    It is good though. Have a listen.

    –

    @radio_matthew on twitter
    http://www.facebook.com/matthewontheradio on facebook (if you can give me a big blue thumbs-up ‘likey’ it really helps!)
    http://www.mixcloud.com/matthew-layton/ on mixcloud

  73. 25/10/2011 at 15:42 sunspots. says:

    I wouldn’t be surprised, honestly, if there was a GTA set in London. Technically, it’s been done already, with expansions to the original GTA game. So to those saying they’d never do it… well, they already did!

  74. 25/10/2011 at 15:55 ShadyGuy says:

    Eversince Vice City I’ve longed for a GTA game set in the seventies based on movies like Goodfellas, Mean Streets and maybe some assorted blaxploitation films. I know it probably won’t be, though.

  75. 25/10/2011 at 16:11 alundra says:

    As long as they release a proper PC version, I don’t care if it’s set in Iwo Jima

  76. 25/10/2011 at 16:15 RaNd0mGuY101 says:

    I would like to see It either somewhere in the U.K. or in San Andreas. GTA: SA was brilliant and one of the only things missing (for me) were the graphics and physics. So GTA IV Graphics and physics + San Andreas freedom and map = besr game EVAR!

  77. 25/10/2011 at 16:16 kyrieee says:

    Don’t make the game design so fucking ancient. I don’t want to drive to a particular location to save, for example. I don’t want to have to find a fast food place just to get health back and if I have to I don’t need the girl serving me talking about handjobs, which seems to be rockstar’s idea of satire.

  78. 25/10/2011 at 16:18 protorp says:

    Isometric turn-based tactics, of course. Pretty please?

  79. 25/10/2011 at 17:07 AMonkey says:

    I’d like Rockstar to balance fun and seriousness which was skewed way too much towards the latter in GTAIV. It wasn’t even done that well either.

  80. 25/10/2011 at 17:51 WhataShame says:

    Well, cool, I guess. Strange announce date, what with Saints Row 3 weeks away.

    And that five logo is on the silver certificate from 1899. – http://s017.radikal.ru/i416/1110/7d/ebccee775a84.jpg

    What might that hint at?

  81. 25/10/2011 at 18:24 AlKaPwn says:

    I can’t believe how wrong everyone here is. Obviously this new game will take place in rural Arizona and you will be a middle aged balding chemistry teacher at a rat trap high school who discovers that he has cancer. After finding this out you then use your chemistry skills to start making drugs so that when you kick the bucket your family which consists of your wife and your handicapped son will having something to live on.

    BUT THE KICKER IS a third of the way into the game a rival chemist accidentally unleashes an experimental cold war soviet virus that causes the dead TO REANIMATE. At which point you’ll join up with a sheriff who has just awoken from a coma to gallivant around Las Vegas and fight gangs take turf, unite gangs and drive the zombies back in the most dynamic and engaging story of the year.

  82. 25/10/2011 at 18:31 tgoat says:

    I want Grand Theft America! I want hundreds of cities, towns, villages! Millions of characters and missions! I want ride Canadian jet skis on the reflecting pool, and demolish the Washington monument in the ensuring crash! I want to parasail down the Grand Canyon! And burn down the world’s biggest ball of twine! I want fast cars, slow women, and lots of money! Bank heists, corner store robberies, stock market acquisitions! I want planes, trains, automobiles, and any other modes of transportation, yeah even segways! I want portal guns, and gravity guns, sledgehammers, and bubble guns! I don’t want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to smell dark matter! And above all else, I want more life, futher!

  83. 25/10/2011 at 19:05 YourMessageHere says:

    On top of PC-centric design from the start (yeah right) I’d like to see:

    - a non-US location. This to me is the single most important thing. US cities, if GTA is to be believed, are unbelievably boring to drive around in – flat right angled grids, woo. An open world is only interesting as long as your world is worth exploring. What the fascination people have with New York is I can’t understand at all. I was so into the idea of GTA IV until it was revealed that it was Liberty City again – then it instantly went into the ‘buy it in a sale, maybe’ pile. I’d enjoy Hong Kong/Kowloon/Guangzhou, that could be great but largely lacks satire targets; something like they did with the three cities in San Andreas but with versions of Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, would probably be my favourite. I could live with something about the modern US/Mexican border.

    - since I’m sick of playing criminals and with unoriginal riffs on gangster films, a female cop/vigilante protagonist, preferably with a character generator. This works in tandem with…

    - choices and consequences. I’d like to play a cop and have to decide to stay straight and arrest someone I care about, or go bad and stick with them, and have that decision matter all the way down the line. I’d like there to be a limited number of any given gang, so that if e.g. some Spanish guys hate me and are trying to kill me, I can fight and kill them and then that’s that; there aren’t always more of them every time I go down that street.

    - the countryside. The best part of SA was the countryside; GTA’s cities are much less fun. Desert, forests, mountains, lakes, glaciers, praries, badlands, it’s all good.

    - everywhere unlocked from the start. Most of the fun is in exploring games like this; I’ll give the story a shot, but don’t expect me to feel I have to finish it if I’d rather just see what’s over the horizon. Stop making me play crappy missions just for the chance to explore. I simply can’t force myself to play GTA IV missions any more, and my recent revisit to GTA SA fell by the wayside when I realised my saves were gone.

    - a first-person mode. Nothing flash; a button that moves the camera to the bridge of the protagonist’s nose, that’s all I want. Third person isn’t and never has been a favourite of mine.

    - a setting in the past: late 70s, for preference. Allows for a combination of 60s and 70s car design, riffs on 70s films, and plenty of kitsch for the lulz.

    SO: A game set in late 70s Europe, about a female law enforcer, with several cities and plenty of countryside in between, choices and consequences, total freedom to roam from the outset and a first-person toggle. That’s where I want V heading.

    • 26/10/2011 at 00:12 Arglebargle says:

      I think the Mexican/American border is most likely for a new setting. A Laredo – El Paso – Tijuana amalgam. Lots of despicables to shoot, border crossing fun, crimes galore, etc.

      Oh, and a game that ‘s playable would help. Interface issues bumped GTIV off my computer pretty quick, not sure if I even got out of the tutorial levels.

  84. 25/10/2011 at 19:13 yourgrandma says:

    It’s too early for another gta on consoles imo. I can see this game running very sub HD as they try to adding more advanced graphics gizmos. Im hoping this time they will release the pc version along side the consoles… but yea that’s totally not going to happen.

  85. 25/10/2011 at 19:51 drivebyhobo says:

    I just want some DX11/10 only for the PC so we can have real AA and not half assed faux AA or having to rely on the work around community AAs.

  86. 25/10/2011 at 20:38 Jabberslops says:

    I want GTA V to revisit San Andreas, but not just that, I also want Vice City and Liberty City all in the same game with the ability to fly or take a boat to each City/State. Also have the Orb thing from Fable 3 where you can see other people and request to join their game for Coop. Maybe put in MMO elements for multiplayer so people actually play it online… Seems like a waste to completely abandon Liberty City with all the time and effort put into crafting it.

    Remember GTA1 had Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas (as a City though, not as State like in GTA SA).

  87. 25/10/2011 at 21:01 Moonracer says:

    the lack of fun cheat codes killed GTA IV for me. I got burned out on seriousness with the last game.

    I NEED a pedestrian riot code for it to feel like GTA. That and taxi missions, combined :D

  88. 25/10/2011 at 22:13 DickSocrates says:

    Kotaku reckons it will be LA/Los Santos again.

    What possible reason could there be to make that game? Christ, SA was practically a perfect recreation of it (as good as you can get without literally mapping all 49 billion square miles of it) and that was only 5 years ago! What’s the point?!

    I’m thinking they can’t do GTA London on current hardware because the map would be too complicated as London isn’t built on a grid.

    I’m sure V will be good and I’m sure I’ll get it, like I’ve gotten every other GTA, but if LA is true, very disappointed. Much like I was when IV was revealed to be yet another virtual New York. Yes it was more detailed than anyone had ever done before, but it’s still a let down. I wonder if VI will be New York again?

  89. 26/10/2011 at 02:11 Shooop says:

    Options to do the quests how you’d like to do them a la Deus Ex.

    GTA and other sandbox games let you go anywhere, but lock you into a routine once you decide to advance the story. Deus Ex on the other hand doesn’t let you go many places, but once you start doing something it tells you to do it however you want. Combine the two and we’d have a video game mecca.

  90. 26/10/2011 at 02:35 BAshment says:

    GTA mmo.

  91. 26/10/2011 at 04:12 DOLBYdigital says:

    Still haven’t really played IV due to all kinds of issues I had so I guess I would like V to um… actually work and not use GFWL please!

    Also with the new consoles being announced in late 2012/early 2013, I think its safe to say it will probably be a launch day title or close to it for the PS4/xbox

  92. 26/10/2011 at 06:59 Oreo says:

    It’s D.C. D.C. is the hip new place to live, the “V” is a reference to the American dollar, and to the Capitol, it’s a previously unrepresented city with distinctive architecture, could also fold in Baltimore for a whole “urban grit” The Wire feel, and could tell a story about the current political corruption/banking crisis in the seat of U.S. power.

    Personally, I’d like a Philadelphia, but too many people ignorantly consider it to be NYC Jr. It’s a pretty gritty, shitty, run down town though which could work well with the GTA feel though.

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