GTA 5: Dan Houser reveals first details

Dan Houser, vice president of Rockstar Games, reveals first details about GTA 5. The script for GTA 5 is set to have more than 1,000 pages. But the city of GTA 5 and the characters were not yet set in stone.

[tillus86]

and the place is... Vice City ^^

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[Isaac]

It will be gimped by DVD9 probably

[nix]

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[devilhunterx]

Agreed. Rest of the game you would have to buy as DLC.

[skeletonss]

Hurt much?

Cause ps3 exclusive games are soo much longer than multiplats.

[Trebius]

Isaac is right...

Another gimped GTA game...

If this one has multiple discs for 360, i'll be much more interested.

But if they manage to squeeze it into a measly 6 gigs...I wont get my hopes up at all.

Pre-emptive Edit: 360 games arent allowed the whole 9gigs to work with on DvD9...a portion of it is reserved for anti-piracy software and other things which leave the developer with less than 7gigs to work with in the end.

[Highlife]

More excited for Agent won't be gimped by DVD9

[ikaris]

Isaac and everyone who followed just owned that Brit.
It is true, dvd9 need to be replaced by another dvd format. I'm surprised mass effect 2 is coming on 1 disc. lol
final fantasy 13 is on 3 for 360. 1 for ps3. yay.

[blogz4fanboyzz]

can you tel me why gta and saints row both stomped all over blu ray exclusive infamous in every way if they were gimped by DVD9???

if they were gimped when they were much bigger, had better graphics, offered REAL sandbox gameplay(not tacked on samey side missions) and were overall better games in every way, then why didn't infamous destroy these games???

[Noctis Aftermath]

@above: please just stfu, infamous isn't like GTA or saints row it is a sandbox adventure game first and foremost, you can't jack cars or any of that Cool GTA sh1t.

And yes unless it comes on 3+ discs for the 360 version the potential for the game will be extremely limited... good job rockstar on making another mediocre POS GTA game if they put it on 1 dvd9.

Just re-master San andreas, it would probably own whatever GTA5 turns out to be anyway.

[Saaking]

If it's PS3 exclusive I'm interested if not it'll be just another overrated pos. I'll have Agent instead

[Jamegohanssj5]

Just say Vice City in the 1980's and I'm all yours.

TGSI

[BWS1982]

asking other gamers to validate his own opinion on why a game he likes is better than one other people like...If you are intent on "proving" an opinion, do it yourself, with futility, nobody is going to go out of their way to explain why YOU liked a game better. Better graphics? What dimension are you from?

[Elaine Benes]

....Average Movie: 2 hours.

2 x 10 = 20.

20 hours?!?!?!?!? Isnt that about how long GTA4 was?

[CaptainKratos]

please!!!! bring back the awesome music!!!!!

[Coffin87]

I would LOVE a return to Vice City, really, believe me, but the force is not strong with this.

"Zwar habe man noch keinen Namen für die Stadt in der GTA 5 spielt" happens to mean "they do NOT YET HAVE A NAME FOR THE TOWN THAT GTA V TAKES PLACE IN"....

no vice city. =(((

[Rocco Siffredi]

I cant wait for the next comment of the tards that DVD0 is outdated and at the end gta5 will look better on 360 compared to PS3, lol!

I mean, they said the same about GTA4 and at the end it ran on the 360 with 30 FPS and 720p compared to PS3s 640p and 25FPS.

[Unicron]

....pre-emptive damage control and spin?

Dude get a life, no one's even said anything.

Nothing like Xbots playing the victim on N4G.

Sad.

[stonecold1]

exclusive they wont bring it to the crapbox with its lastgen dvd8 format gta4 was the last game for the craopbox plus gta5 will take advantage of the blu ray and instead of being held back because of the last gen xbox 360 and dvd8

[The real killer]

You forget somthing, it's made by 3 party developer.
Your SUB-HD box don't even have 1080p support at 60 FPS.

[Isaac]

DVD6.8 will force this game to be downgraded to last-gen standards, just like GTAIV

[DaTruth]

GTA4 had textures??? Where???

[LOLPSN]

I'll get the Superior Version with Exclusive DLC and Superior Online

360 version FTW

enjoy your bad Port Droids

[champ21]

superior verson will runn at 1920*1200(and beyond) max textures @ 60fps.

running at640-720p low res rextures @ 25fps is clearly inferior.

[stonecold1]

gt prolgue and gt5 have true 1080p high def unlike the last gen xbox dvd and not consider a true hifgh def console and dosent have 1080p and dosent have hdmi cords have fun with dvd swapping when finalfantasy 13 comes because it will be sub par high def on crapbox

[t850]

well none of the consoles truely do 1080p.

asides afew exclusives even the ps3 is mostly 720p and below.

milkbox cant even claim a 1080p title, so ps3 is superior in that sense.

though even the ps3 out of 300 titles only about 20 are 1080p.. thats less then 10%.

only gaming machine doing true 1080p is the pc.

[DaTruth]

Sony plans on future 3D support for all titles! That would be impossible at 1080p, so most demanding titles are 720p!

At least Sony has an excuse. Only multiplat games and 360 exclusives run in sub HD! PS3 exclusives run in 720p or higher. Wonder why???

[Close_Second]

...the script is 2000 pages as long as the gameplay is better than GTAIV. A major overhaul to the gfx engine wouldn't go a miss either.

[beavis4play]

if it's as FUN as vice city. plus, the VC radio is the overall best in the series.
GTA 4 was a BIG letdown.

[RussDeBuss]

everything about it was cool.

driving around miami in a ferrari with the roof down, in a pastal suit listening to 80's madona shooting people up, genius, what souls be more fun?

[ThanatosDMC]

Yeah, there were too many Bloom effects on GTA4. I hope they tone it down a notch in GTA5.

[Isaac]

Why does this retard write with caps the first characters of each word? Most of those aren't even names. It seems that the average intelligence of an Xtard is not higher than that of a chimp.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

The script for Heavy Rain actually IS over 2000 pages long...

Just sayin'...

[Jamescagney]

Yes but HR is going to be a dialogue heavy game, I'd prefer GTA not to have too much chit chat. Just enough to give the game a good story, I don't want GTA:The MGS version thanks.

[AliTheBrit19]

LOL That's because Heavy Rain is like one long cutscene, I've played it, meh

Cutscene + Quick time events = Heavy Rain

[kerrak]

Maybe HR won't be a good game.
Maybe HR won't truly achieve to be a step further in gaming.
Maybe HR is not adressed to a young demographic.
But rest assured, it will do much more than cut-scenes and QTEs, and it will prove as a unique experience in gaming to lots of gamers.
Meanwhile, you can try to skip this one and pick up something more suited for other demographics, like EyePet or even better some Natal tech demo (the one in which you must jump and kick balls like a monkey comes to mind). Alternatively, as showed by your comments history and a simple word count, you can continue filling the threads talking more about Sony, PSN and PS3 than Microsoft, XBL and XBOX which is the only system you own.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Heavy Rain is going to be incredible. Don't bet your life on it sucking, man.

Indigo Prophecy is my favorite game to this day.

[THC CELL]

*yawn* i will be enjoying agent
a game Microsoft paid for

Thanks for the 50 million support MS

[dragonelite]

Could have sworn that the 50 mill was a loan to make gt 4.
Rockstar needed to pay the 5 mill back + 2 exclusive dlc that are worth 2 full games of gametime.

[StarCSR]

Good for you! Need a biscuit?

[Major Kanimo]

as long as they fix the driving so it doesnt feel like your driving a cloud il be happy :)

[ThanatosDMC]

The pedals which are controlled via the shoulder buttons are pressure sensitive to match the cars. Dont press down to hard to actually make your car's tires grip the asphalt. Same physics as IRL.

[ThatArtGuy]

go back to the PS2 games after driving in GTA4. Driving is one of the things that GTA4 did right.

[Rocco Siffredi]

@t850

all games (multiplattform) running on the ps3 with 1080p are also running on the 360 with native 1080p.

An example: NBA2k, Virtual tennis 3...

excpet of Wipeout HD and Flowers there are no exclusive games RIGHT NOW for the PS3 running with native 1080p.

[t850]

which further proves my point..

there hardly are any multiplats on the consoles doing 1080p, the ones that do 1080p are few and far in between and i wouldnt call those the kind of games that push hardware to the edge.

If a game like farcry2, gta4 ran on consoles on 1080p then that would be pushing things.

Pc's (even a 2year old one) the only machine out there that does true HD.

Both the consoles are limited to 720p or below for most games. Making PC the obvious superior version for any multiplatform.

[DaTruth]

You mean FullHD; TrueHD is 1080i!

But no PS3 exclusives are running at sub HD like the junkbox Halo flagship title!

[free3sixty]

True. The HD console which Sony promised was only meant with Blu Ray, lol!

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi]

...it's PS3 ONLY!!! ;) If not it will just be a waste of time(and i LOVE GTA Games)

+ I'm going off 'Rockstar Games' a bit. They seem to be @SS-LICKING M$ to much :-/ If the next GTA get xBox 360 only DLC then i won't buy it. Not that i would buy DLC anymore anyway. DLC is for MUGS!!! ;-D

[Fatal Blow]

I Would really like to see gta5 in japan tokyo and your a yakuza something different o well i can only dream lol

[Young Capwn]

good idea

[PopEmUp]

I thought that dream is already a reality, isn't that Yakuza 3?

[il-mouzer]

gta is a western game keep it to the west there's yakuza for that and it's a very good game.

[sam2236]

I hope to Christ it's a modern Vice City.

[kaveti6616]

But Vice City has been done. If there has to be a remake, I'd rather have GTA London.

Or you know what? Remember in GTA 2, with the top-down view, you could identify the gangs based on what designs they had on their cars?

Like the Smiley gang? Yakuza? All of those? I'd rather have a sillier GTA game than GTAIV. I remember San Andreas had a sense of humor to it, but GTAIV was more realistic. People in SA said silly things more often.

The greatest thing about Vice City were the bikini-clad roller skating girls.

[Snoozer282]

Europe please.

[Aggesan]

Not London though, it's too well known. A GTA in Prague, Berlin or Barcelona would be awesome!

[Pumbli]

Stockholm, Vienna and Moscow ftw! :P

[Rocco Siffredi]

"According to IGN and multiple other websites, GTA4 ran better on PS3, with less texture pop-in (see video comparaison)."

yep, thats why it runs with 640p and 25 FPS

[DaTruth]

And some how manages to look better than the 720p, "where did that building come from" version!

What do David Copperfield and GTA4 360 version have in common?

They can both make the Statue of Liberty appear and disappear!

[C_Dub]

Is still the best GTA game even though SA gave it a great run. Now that it's all but confirmed, I really wish it was PS3 exclusive. I bought the 360 CE of GTA IV and EFLC but imagine how big the next GTA could be if it weren't constricted to a DVD.

[SportsFan]

IS IT ME, OR IS THIS GTA THING "OVERKILL"?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about art and video gaming, but Halo and GTA are not innovating. I understand that Ratchet and Clank get's multiple titles, BUT look at the games. Something new and innovative is happening in every title. GTA has Sex, Violence, Theft, and Language in EVERY game.

The only thing that changes in GTA games are the Charecters. GTA 3, 4, Guy Tony, are the same....just like the Tv show 24, and The Bourne Identity Movies. Again, I respect and support the style and art form of games like GTA and Halo, but I would prefer people to open up to evolution of great game design and story telling. Little Big Planet, Uncharted 1&2, The 1st Halo (Combat Evolved), Resident Evil, Mario Galaxy/Mario 64, and Bioshock, did not get the type of respect they REALLY deserved. (REALLY?? LBP and Fallout 3 loses GOTY to GTA 4?)Rockstar's Midnight Club games were very exciting and delivered great experiences. To bad they gave up and "Crossed Over" to appease American's thirst of senseless violence. (Prob. the same crowd thats mad at MS for banning "pirates & Modders". )

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

GTA IV had a great story though...

Violence aside...it was all about the story. I loved it!

[Noctis Aftermath]

GTA4 was a huge letdown, but in no way does that mean GTA is getting old.

Unless rockstar screw up majorly, GTA will be around for a long time.

[Commander TK]

I heard a lot that Rockstar will get off their lazy asses and make a true next-gen GTA exclusively on the Trey, is that true?

[saint_john_paul_ii]

thats for a game called Agent, exclusively for the PS3 made by R* North, the same guys that make GTA.

as for GTA being exclusively on PS3. thats probably not going to happen sadly. its going to get gimped...

[pr0digyZA]

The only people I've seen complain about GTA IV are the people on this site.If you don't like it don't play it, go back to Vice City or San Andreas.I personally think alot of effort was put into GTA 4 and the dlc it's one of the most detailed cities I've seen, I am sure I will love anything else Rockstar throws at me.Bring on the next Red Dead.

[Noctis Aftermath]

I think it was a letdown, and i have chosen not to play it, but that doesn't mean i won't express my dislike of the game and how much of a overhyped and underwhelming game it was/is, and yes i blame the xbox and it's obsolete hardware.

[UnblessedSoul]

GTA with infamous graphics please, but we know that won't happen it will just be a crappy downport of the PC version

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Less hookers...more storyline, please?

GTA IV's story was a lot better than the other games' stories.

[I-SEE-YOU]

Do not want this game to be on the Xbox 360 also. Please for the love of all that is holy, do not let this happen.

I aint no fricking fanboy or anything, it's for the simple principle that this game will be ruined from lack of space on the DVD9 disks.

Lack of space = Lack of creativity for Rockstar.

I do not want another GT4 rebirth because they had to make them both the same on both 360 and PS3.

I just hope Sony strikes a deal of some kind.

GREAT NEWS THOUGH!

--Even though I knew it had to happen sooner or later--

[JD_Shadow]

Why do I have a feeling this one's going to be PS3 exclusive, too?

[Fatal Blow]

Yakuza 3 is nothing like gta more like shenmue

and @ darkpower its a ps3 exclusive

hope fully we will get yakuza 3 for eu/us end of this year or later

[saint_john_paul_ii]

and it will be gimped, just like GTAIV because of the use of DVD9.oh no wait, DVD7 actually since Microsoft uses a stupid 2gb security Code that gets cracked all the time...

[diego750]

I hope this comes out on early 2011 or before 2012

[tee_bag242]

I hope cars randomly have manual and automatic transmission. I wouldn't mind a perked up HD San Andrea's in the mean time either.

Hopefully capacity issues arn't going to gimp it like gta4 either. Single player lacked variety unlike the others and got too repetitive. But i surely whored the team deathmatch multiplayer on the 360.

[HappyTrigger]

I hope this is a PS3 exclusive... The 360 is a very weak and gimped console. Thanks to DVD9.... I wish the 360 was never created. Its just a very bad console limiting lots of games from becoming something truly special.

[JJFNIGHTS80]

I just crap in my pants GTA Number V. YES!!

[Timactionfigures]

I would LOVE to see a PS3 exclusive GTA. Liberty City was tremendously held back both by DVD9 and inferior hardware. Xbox360 is the reason Liberty City was so lacking in the "fun" department. Beautifully rendered, but nothing to do!

On another note...Red Faction: Guerrilla is like GTA on Mars. All around it is the most fun "GTA" I've played this gen. Lets see an actual GTA with Geo-mod technology!

[Official General]

* Base the game on a modern-day version of Vice City & Florida state.

* Create the main character as some kind of immigrant Hispanic petty criminal that arrives in the city on a banana boat with aims of becoming a rich and powerful drug lord eg. Scarface.

* Allow access to ALL public buildings. You should be able to enter ALL the shops, stores, banks, hotels, hospitals, police stations, fire stations etc.

* Wider variety of missions and side activities, not just simply going around from A to B hunting targets down and killing them like in GTA 4. Include replayable activities like drug-trafficking, drug dealing, robbing stores, banks and buildings, gang recruitment, drug and turf wars, smuggling, corruption, labor racketeering etc.

* Allow the main character to actually spend money properly - on property, cars, clothes ALL with full customisation options. Also include money being able to be spent on buying your own businesses too.

* More random acts and crimes committed by other pedestrians, such as more fights, shootings and gang wars breaking out randomly.

* More music and variety on the radio stations.

* Include parachutes and planes this time.

* Allow more use of public transport like buses. Make the train lines longer too with more stations.

* Maybe some wild animals in the wilderness areas would be a great idea! Not like San Andreas where you have beautiful wilderness parts with no sign of animal life!

* Make it a PS3 exclusive and create the full game, no stupid DLC!

[alexdulcianu]

Just don't sell your game piece by piece Rockstar, make a goddamn full game.