In a recent interview with The Times of Lodon Dan Houser, one of the big wigs at Rockstar, has been caught talking about GTA V, which we all knew was coming out, but it's always good to know where they are in development on it. Houser says they're hard at work on Rockstar's upcoming Red Dead Revolver game and are also putting together the pieces for GTA V.
"We'll think of a city first, then the characters,” said Houser. He also explains that the script he will end up co-writing will run to around 1,000 pages, nearly ten times as much as a feature film. Feature films are mentioned because most of the article is actually about the unfair treatment Rockstar and the gaming industry in general gets when it comes to violence in games.
Houser actually has some great quotes and opinions on the subject so I'm hoping that this bit of non-news promoted by Captain Obvious actually prompts you to head over there and check out the entire article or maybe Jim's post on the story already did that.
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11:00 PM on 11.15.2009
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Perhaps London would be cool, too, since Rockstar has a studio there.
If they're able to reinvigorate the GTA series to a faster paced style of gameplay, then I'll be interested in GTA5. GTA4 had a satisfying layer of depth to its story, but it wasn't exactly the best format for an interactive media.
Keep the moral choices (add twice as many), top-notch production values, and humor, but please return to us the easy-to-jump-into, fast-paced world from the GTA3 games, with at least all the side missions from GTA:SA!
I've never really been into them, but the games generate CONTROVERSY which is a rock-hard currency in the gaming community. So they must be good.
I wouldn't put any of them in my top 25 games, but they're fun from time to time. An 8.9 for GTAIV is pretty readsonable, IMO.
You, sir, are a discerning video game player, and I concur with you completely in your belief that Vice City was the best of the series.
Just give me more of the Vice City soundtrack.
Goddamnit I LOVE the VC soundtrack.
Clearly, gamers with the very best taste are posting about this story. I feel like we should all be wearing wearing top hats and sipping champagne.
Anyway, I am jazzed about a GTA5... if it is a new number though, it better be new tech and some impressive new scale. I want it to come to "next-gen" consoles too so that the PC port will be advanced and much improved so it doesn't feel like an expansion pack like soooooo many sequels do now-a-days.
The retro feel is also something I miss. Vice City still stands as my favorite game in the series for the looks alone. I always felt in a Miami Vice episode.
I was with you until I played GTAIV this summer and I was converted.
Every GTA title before it was absolute bullocks however.
Also a 8.9 is nothing to be ashamed of at all so if you find that disappointing...damn. I mean it's not even like GTA titles develop the hype they once did either so I dunno what you're expecting that an 8.9 title is a disappointment.
I loved Vice City... before IV it was my favorite, now I am not sure. I grew up in Florida and still live there too, so it was nice to see all that in a game. Also, as a child of the 80s, of course I loved the 80s vibe.
I still play Vice City at times... with max graphic settings and some forced tweaks and mods it still looks fine and runs amazingly well of course.
Vice City > GTA 4
San Andreas > GTA4
San Andreas (slightly) > Vice City
Take it backwards rockstar, fix the engine, fix the driving, take it somewhere that we WANT to explore and hopefully take it out of the USA.
Driving on the right had side is for faggots. I drove on the left in GTA4, but it sucked how dark it was once your headlights were smashed. Was almost like GTA4 wasn't made for HD TV's. Black is black now you know.
RDR is gonna rock the shit though. Tell you what, fuck GTA off, stick to RDR and Bully. Far better games.
I can't believe so long after the game came out people are still saying "fix the driving." It's called physics, and it is AWESOME. They better not go back to floaty cars, I will be outright digusted.
And scrap most of the character relationship matinence too, that just felt like grinding, theres gotta be a better way of doing it.
Sexchocs - the reason it didn't look good on your HDTV was because you got the PS3 version which was upscaled from 720. But it did have a nice filter on it that made it look better than the 360 versions in some instances.
In the mean time: Red Dead Revolver and BULLY 2!!
but FINISH RDR FIRST!
Actually, just turn the nob a click or two away from "Real" and go back to the "Over the top" the franchise was built on.
Seriously, I didn't even finish GTA4 because it's not nearly as fun as III/Vice City/San Andreas was. And it all stems from trying to be more real and gritty.