which city for GTA 5?

is this game going to have play dates like the last one

Game Informer article

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDat0iNzF1s

so multi-character rumor was right. wonder just how much it's incorporated and how it will affect feel of the game. looks fantastic predictably, also some diversity in terrain thankfully - san andreas was my fave and that sprawling aspect was a big reason why.

Really hope hackers get around that saving-online thing. That sound horrible.

Oh, that was in GTA4 and was because of Games For Windows Live. Which is now dead, I think. Seriously doubt they'll let the same issue into GTA5.

Yes! Planes are back! Also, yoga! Golf! Jet-skiing! Tennis! Base-jumping! Scuba-diving!

GTA: SA was my favorite, perhaps my favorite game of all time, and the main thing i liked about it was the sheer number of different things you could do. Sounds like they are trying to bring that feeling back, and i can't wait.

rockstar's comments on the size of the game makes me wonder if the commutes will be realistic as well

Kind of a pisser that even with three man characters Rockstar couldn't make even one of them a woman :(

Er, that should read 'main' rather than 'man' obv...

Yeah, i was thinking about that too. Why not?

I'd be interested to hear from Rockstar on it. The argument we've heard a million times before is that female protagonists don't sell but if one of the biggest franchises in gaming can't make one of three player characters a woman then things are even more fucked than they appear.

Mind you, given their track record with female characters in GTA games maybe we're better off without a playable misogynist caricature....

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/arts/video-games/q-and-a-rockstars-dan-houser-on-grand-theft-auto-v.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Q. There are people who still aren’t delighted by the treatment of women in your games.

A. Of course. But is their argument that in a game about gangsters and thugs and street life, there are prostitutes and strippers — that that is inappropriate? I don’t think we revel in the mistreatment of women at all. I just think in the world we’re representing, in Grand Theft Auto, that it’s appropriate.

So Houser's explicitly saying here that, in the world they're presenting, they're willing to make a huge effort to create the unusual and nuanced (for videogames, anyway) lead character of Niko Bellic but utterly unwilling to do anything to present women as anything other than sex objects in supporting roles? What a shithead.

I hope this 'switching' between characters in missions isn't a crucial element to completing a mission, I really don't want to do that. I don't mind switching characters when I'm in free roam however.

Those ATV pics are sweet!

and a full playable golf course !! I was actually pleased to hear them state that it was better hire coders to write mini games that are fun, rather then ones that are 'half assed'. A nice confession there to some of the dreadful waste of time mini games some of their games feature.

is there a golfing minigame in Gay Tony? i am half-remembering one...

yeah, it was terrible

btw our article is actually available for single issue sale on ios, pc and android, so um...thanks for posting the scans

They're pretty good scans

Wait are you me?!?

game informer video podcast was v informative

dis thing

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/11/12/discussing-the-grand-theft-auto-v-demo-video.aspx

thx. no i meant it's kinda shitty for ppl to post scans esp when we tried to get the digital issue ready early so ppl could get it in advance of print.

changed my name to avoid confusion, didn't think abt that sorry

i dont see anything objectionable about that link m@tt

hahahaha lol

a+ mod edit

I also demand m@tt returns to being mh as well for maximum confusion

Totally on board, check my accurate dn change

Sorry mh! I did buy the digital version as well FWIW.

Hmm maybe I should try this digital magazine thing.

also this new trend of messing w/ usernames is hot as hell i read a trend piece

caltrops

IGN GTA pieces are poorly written -- Game Informer FTW

https://twitter.com/EpsilonismToday

Trailer 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzue74y7A84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzue74y7A84

yeah i'm way psyched for this

first appearance of dogs in gta, yes?

http://i.minus.com/iXLhyATHF8PRt.gif

http://i.imgur.com/0Spyil.jpg

http://i.minus.com/iXLhyATHF8PRt.gif

feel I've driven a car out of a cargo plane a few times in videogames recently...

The two dudes in the far right, love this kind of detail in gta games..

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vltuPG17huc/UKQaae87gtI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/ZDqJCvAKKPA/s1600/GTAVsnap1.png

What era is it set in?

NOW, baby. I think.

some new screenshots out. Interesting among them are the underwater and the mini submarine thing. mmm.

link
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/12/24/new-grand-theft-auto-v-screenshots-frickin-sharks?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Grove Street is back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=kfzrQGU6jhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzrQGU6jhM

And Rockstar identifying a key part of its target audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZXw5M6qQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOUlsrmzYM

juggalos!