Yappin' About... Grand Theft Auto V

You are? All I heard up until now is that is it not even sure that there will be a PC version at all.

Great, the PC neglect continues. I'm glad Rock* is really reaching for new heights by releasing their marquee title on, totally not dying, 8 year old platforms.

Great video blokes. A highly informative and knowledgable discussion. You've got me excited for its release.

I can't believe they barely said anything about what they saw in the gameplay demo. Hugely disappointing.

red dead proved they can sell millions without a pc release

I couldn't really concentrate on what they were saying too much, for being transfixed on Jeff's jiggling naked legs. Woah, I don't know what I'm feeling right now.

Couldn't agree more with this, I thought it was okay when I first completed GTA IV. When I recently went back to play some of it again, I really didn't enjoy it. The arcadey controls and funny soul had been ripped out in place of some gritty narrative and the gameplay suffered.

Thanks, it does seem kind of weird that Dan Houser would reveal that in an interview. I think it would be interesting if by the end of the game all three characters have turned against each other. I will personally side with Franklin's dog.

I can't be more excited about GTA. Give me a good sandbox and i will play with it 24/7. So much time wasted in SA. I can totally see myself driving an eighteen wheeler listening to some sweet k-dust.

Hitchhikers? There will be some grim news next morning on the local tv.

The "high" version of the video is the "HD" one.

So it's like Lost Vikings.

I'm not convinced by anything I've seen of this. Rockstar's writing is shit...

@peasantabuse: Oh man, now you've got me envisioning the final mission as some mexican stand-off between the three characters where you decide which one wins...

Oooooh excited

Great to hear they demo'd on PS3, shows they're making sure it works! Those screen shots look next gen. to me so could possibly wait?

You should pre-order now!!

I don't think it'll happen as too many PC owners have consoles to play this on as well. It'll probably be six months after once they have complete exhausted sales as they know they can sell it to the same people again with the GOTY editions.

i never look forward to a game as much as a Rockstar game.... every GTA, Red Dead AND LA Noire!! even Max Payne 3 was highly anticipated by me! needless to say! I CAN'T BLOODY WAIT!

Confirmed: you have not played many video games.

The "best games ever made" age well. GTA IV does not fit that description. All GTA IV has going for it is strong characters. In essentially every other aspect of "GTA style" games, they have been outclassed by competitors.

One of the best games of that year? Sure. One of the best games ever made? Laughable.

@ironlink: yea same here. it is really annoying...but regarding gta 5 like others have said, im glad it runs smooth, and would love to see some sort of stat boost from masks. if they do that and make it a better game to play(which sounds like they are) and learn from sleeping dogs' melee system, then I will be playing this prolly through 2013 into 2014.

I haven't been this excited for a game in a while.

Sick. Was wondering when Giant Bomb's V coverage would go up.

Driving physics, music selection, and the sense of a real city are still unsurpassed, from a game in 2008. Rockstar are in a league of their own.

GTA IV isn't even remotely a bad game. People really need to learn that just because you don't like something doesn't make it bad.

Hopefully, it will come out on the PC months after the console release.

@spicyrichter: still im guessing it ´ll be better to have a large tv to play gta v, i totally loved red dead redemption.......i spent several hours just admiring the landscapes. to me that game is a gem.

I had alot of fun with 4, the big ass city and awesome physics engine made some comedy gold.

The reason Niko was doing alot of those missions was to get information of the man who betrayed him and his army.

It wasn't bad, they just removed a whole lot of features from the past games and it had a bunch of filler missions and the reviews that were made for it were ridiculously over-praising the game for like...no reason. It was a well made game and the shooting was better and the story was more well done than before but besides that it wasn't amazing or anything.

Not really, RDR had a much more detailed and well realized world, Sleeping Dogs had fantastic driving (hell I have spent a lot of time in that game JUST driving), though the music on the radio in GTA IV is still pretty much the best in class, from Terry Riley to Uncle Murda...though Sleeping Dogs' classical music station is awesome.

Anyway this game sounds fucking fantastic. Lots of cool, smart ideas. Hopefully the bicycle and the 100 foot bunny hop cheat are in there.

GIMME THIS FUCKIN GAME YO

also, nice death adders shirt

I've heard a few previews from this press event, and every story is the same, it sounds like a very scripted demo.

Whatever, just as long as GTA V runs better than IV on PC, I might consider playing.

You should delete your original post, kind of a dick move spoiling a game that isn't out yet. Now I will just be expecting it and it wont be a surprise. Might want to put a spoiler warning next time.

I love this round table format for discussing news. Keep it up!

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Name a game that came out this generation that isnt overrated? Portal 2, Arkham City & Uncharted 2 are some of the highest rated games that have come out in the last 5 years but none of them were very innovative.

Personally I was more impressed by GTA4 than any of the other sandbox games that came out this generation, there were better ones, sure but none of them wowed me the same way GTA did. (except all of Bethesda's games, but i'm an Elder Scrolls fanboy so it isnt hard)

Anyway. It's weird that they brought stats back but it makes sense when they're trying to make each of the protagonists feel different. And the seemless switching between characters sounds great. I was worried it'd be like Yakuza 4 where who you played was dictated by how far you were in the overall story.

EDIT: Thought i'd clarify 'name a game that came out this generation that scored high and isnt overrated'. There are plenty of great games that didnt get the praise they deserve. (obviously subjective, but what isnt. I'm just curious what people think)

Sounds ambitious and potentially interesting. I like the approach of using three protagonists a lot. I only really love GTA 1 but certainly had decent fun with San Andreas as well. I'd sure like to get an open world crime game that is either plain old fun (GTA V probably isn't going to be that) or otherwise one that finally nails the execution of a more "realistic", serious tone. Good PC port is mandatory for me of course but I'll keep an eye on this one.

Good format for the sort-of-preview by the way. Well done!

Sleeping Dogs kills GTA4 in literally every single category. Better driving, better shooting, genuinely interesting hand-to-hand combat, and better storytelling.

I'm personally not too interested in this game. I have a pretty spotty track record with Rockstar, but GTA especially. I played 2, 3, Vice City, and 4 and finished none of them because I grew disinterested. Vice City i might have finished but i hit a game-breaking bug on PC. I really liked Bully, i liked Red Dead overall but was tired of it by the time it finished, and I really liked LA Noire (though i hated the out-of-nowhere writing at the end of the game).

I was trying to make myself excited by checking this video out, but what i'm hearing doesn't sound like what I want. Maybe gameplay footage will change my mind later though.

And I don't think someone needs to be trolling to call GTA 4 a bad game. Jeff thinks Red Dead is a bad game. GTA4 annoyed me to the point that I stopped playing it. I thought the writing was terrible, and the gunplay atrocious. After a few 10 minute shooting missions were failed with no checkpoints like 12 hours in i just decided "you know what? i'm not even enjoying this game. I'm going to stop playing it."

All of this sounds awesome. All of it. :D

10 minutes into video and hype is at maximum. I am now on media blackout for this game.

The categories you bring up are all rather subjective. I love Sleeping Dogs, but the shooting is terrible, the driving is worse, and the storytelling isn't even close to being on the level of GTA.(Opinion)

He's right about the driving physics, music selection, and the well-established cities. Nobody has done all of those things in one game as well as Rockstar. You may not like the driving--which is fine-- but the physics are undeniably fantastic.

I prefer cars to actually feel like cars, not like they're made of paper.

Sleeping Dogs does have Ninja Tune as a radio station, so props for that.

I want to be excited about this game but I just can't.

btw. GTA IV was not a bad game but I did not enjoy it at all. Played probably 5-6 hours and said "NO-PE".

Saying that Sleeping Dogs had better driving physics than GTA IV is an absolute joke. GTA IV has a car enthusiast community on the PC that has made tons of modded cars and handling scripts. No other game (much less open world) has attracted that kind of audience.

GTA IV's driving mechanics haven't come close to being matched by an open world game, period.

They are not 'fantastic'. As someone who drives around in a very large city, I can tell you that the streets are not made of ice. They are pretty good and it requires you to be a lot more careful than other more arcadey systems, but the physics are still pretty goofy. They are exaggerated in a different direction. It was cool that stuff like smashing in your body to the point that it was grabbing the wheel was actually a thing, but that's about the only part of that that really impressed me that much. It was cool that it had so much "physics" involved, but it wasn't ever accurate. Hopefully we will see a tighter, but still just as interesting version of the GTA IV driving model.

Yeah, to the idiot that didn't spoiler tag that before I read it, man that's a dumb thing to post outside of spoilers. Come on man. I saw that just scanning around.

I'm warming up to this game, this talk helped.

I can't believe people enjoyed the driving in GTA IV. The cars felt like driving boats. It was awful.

Actually am really exicted for this, no other GTA game has really drawn me in, but I like the vibe I'm getting from this one more already. The heist stuff in particular sounds fascinating.

Can't wait.

Yes let's go compare mods, to release code that's how we do it right? Right?