The GTAV Thread!

Don't think there's a thread for this yet. It seems like a good time with the new images released in the last week or so.

I'm looking forward to this immensely. The shots suggest this game will be this generation's San Andreas, the natural environments look beautiful. They suggest quite an elaborate and expansive blend of that (ala Red Dead Redemption) to feature in the game, which we haven't really seen from GTA in this generation.

Thoughts? Hopes for the game? Speculation on story? A Wii U version? Will try add more to this thread as more stuff comes out.

More Pics:

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Trailer 1:

Yes mate, really looking forward to eventually getting it when it's about half price. Absolutely loved GTA IV, and open world games in general. Just finished Just Cause 2 recently, which is the biggest sandbox game I've ever played, which was simply stunning. If GTA V goes one better than JC2... it'll be bloody good. Can't wait to get in one of those fighter jets!

Sure I heard doubts of GTA coming to Wii U recently, which would be disappointing. For the few that will only have a Wii U, I hope for their sakes it comes out on it. Nintendo need to be making the effort to get these games on its console.

More screens!

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Looking epic.

Also looking impossible to run smoothly on any hardware I have available to me right now x).

Bi-plane shot looks beautiful.

Looks utterly gorgeous. I still haven't played GTAIV yet. So many games left to take care of for this generation.

Faust D. Strooijer said:
Looking epic.

Also looking impossible to run smoothly on any hardware I have available to me right now x).

I hope not, if the console versions looks significantly worse than this, they surely will disappoint the vast majority of their audience. PC release usually comes later right? Still a GTA4 visual-level San Andreas will be enough for me. I heard that that game was actually 640 and then upscaled though, would be a little disappointing if they did that again.

As for all the speculation regarding lead characters, I think the main game will centre on one (maybe CJ?) and then the DLC will follow the other two speculated people. Don't think there'll be a radically new change in that regard (some speculate jumping between three characters in the main game) but I think Rockstar are just being more open about how these people will intertwine in comparison to how GTA4. I don't remember it being very clear that Niko wouldn't be the only character we'd play as come DLC season.

Those screenshots are almost definitely PC by the look of it. You only need to look at the smaller details, the wires on the parachute and lines in distance -- the result of a lot of AA, throw that in with depth of field and view distance. It will look good but not this clean. RDR looked amazing but there wasn't much going on in the levels, Liberty City is living and breathing.

It will look considerably better than IV though, the visuals in that are painful. Low framerate, and everything renders properly about 20 feet in front of you (look at road lines whilst driving). Not to mention the fog hidden draw distance!

In terms of PC release coming later, yes probably, but they put a lot of time into it, Max Payne was amazing and had all the bells and whistles attached.

( Edited 29.08.2012 23:44 by Echoes221 )

Echoes221 said:
Those screenshots are almost definitely PC by the look of it. You only need to look at the smaller details, the wires on the parachute and lines in distance -- the result of a lot of AA, throw that in with depth of field and view distance. It will look good but not this clean.

I would say you're almost certainly right. However, they could have been rendered offline on the console version. I mean, a PSone could produce those screenshots given sufficient time to render the frame!

Echoes221 said:
RDR looked amazing but there wasn't much going on in the levels, Liberty City is living and breathing.

Conversely, a city environment provides ample opportunities for occlusion blocking, whereas long flat terrain does not. That would have been a headache during the development of RDR. In fairness, RDR features large draw distances.

Echoes221 said:
It will look considerably better than IV though, the visuals in that are painful. Low framerate, and everything renders properly about 20 feet in front of you (look at road lines whilst driving). Not to mention the fog hidden draw distance!

Gotta say, I didn't notice any of that stuff. Maybe the lines on the road on PS3?

Also...

( Edited 30.08.2012 13:23 by Martin_ )

Sure you've all seen the shit loads of new screens and info released over the last few weeks, but this trailer is worthy of a bump if ever it needed one!

It looks immense! A world bigger than San Andreas, GTA4 and Red Dead Redemption put together! It's times like this where I wish I could afford to pick games up on release more often. I don't wanna wait till this time next year to play it.