Take a deep breath everyone. Rockstar Games has updated their website with a splash screen showing the logo of a Grand Theft Auto V. No word on release of the actual game, but they did have a street date of November 2nd for the first trailer which is almost as good as having actual news about a game.
Helpful of them to clarify that Roman numeral in the logo. Wouldn't want confusion. Lead them to thinking that since dinosaurs are the new zombies, maybe it's Grand Theft Auto Velociraptor. Or perhaps folks might suspect it's centered around the adventures of a crotchety old police detective in Greenwich village, because I would totally play Grand Theft Auto Vigoda.
Thank God Rockstar is aware of the intellectual capacity of the audience that it sells complex, adult-oriented entertainment to.
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6:45 AM on 10.25.2011 | 
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THIS IS MORE EXCITING THAN A PEANUT BUTTER & CRACK SANDWICH.
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I really would've loved to have explored a foreign city with the game. I know Yakuza has covered the Japanese area quite proficiently, but we've seen nothing of the sort in YEARS about british gangs and mobs, chinese gangs (and the handheld game doesn't count, IMO...).
I suspect this will just be more of the same. :(
But without the "FIVE" the game is obviously about dinosaurs or upholstery or upholstering dinosaurs. Rockstar will lose millions in the secondhand sales!
@Rockfellow: Yes, I get it. Very clever. Almost as clever as I was in ignoring it. This joke is getting very meta.
British gangs aren't that interesting. We just throw tea at each other and have boxing with Marquess of Queensbury rules.
What? I always want to like them but never do...
I've learned to overlook that. The only thing you're allowed to outwardly be excited for without ridicule here are first party Nintendo titles.
No it'll feature Phole Celps as a detective in post WWII L.A., fighting crime and facing the ghosts of his past.
No it'll be the story Himmy Jopkins, a new kid at Wullborth Acadamy, trying to find his place among the many cliques at the school while searching for love however (and with whomever *wink*) he chooses
Sorry, I'll just go back to Xenoblade.
Anyways, location wise. I'm still interested in the whole "Liberty City it's over. Next stop" picture with something that says Seagull underneath it. Hoping for a new location.
But now this is actually posted on Rockstars website I guess the rumour mongering will end and finally some details will finally surface although GTA IV left a bitter taste in my mouth.
GTA need to go back to their goofy roots and build a game on it's humour and then build the city and story around that and not just resort to stupid penis jokes in posters and commercials then suck the fun and soul out of the game in other areas.
Personally I think saints row the third is going to make a lasting impression and with it's 40 weeks of dlc planned Rockstar better plan on making the date at least 2013 or 2014 because I dont see them beating the competition this time.
They should listen to their fans, get their impressions on what worked and what didnt, for one thing they should get rid of all that girlfriend or normal friend randomly calling you up then chastising you for not doing some stupid random activity with them.
Colour me unimpressed with rockstar, paint me a doubter.
now its the 2nd GTA game of this GEN so it will be , like most people want, like vice city. it will have added new vehicles,(remember jet skis from the psp version?) more varied missions, new city, hopefully islands, the city will be brighter and more open most likely while the story being deeper/darker but with that RS humor.
rockstar never lets me down. although gta4 was not the best, it was still an amazing game. now they have RDR under their belts and more experience with their engines. this game will be amazing.
just dont expect saints row goofiness. the games have already chosen their paths. its good to have both.