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  1. OptimumPx
    OK, I'm going to shut this down now. No console fan-boy flame wars. And no starting them on purpose either. BTW, the days of GTA being exclusive to one console or the other are over unless Sony or Microsoft ponies up some serious cash.
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    Nobody will have a real release date until Rockstar themselves announce it. Any so-called dates used by stores are placeholders in their computer systems to allow the sale of pre-orders...nothing more. Locked.
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    Anyone with any sense would have known to take lots of pics of GTA V's next setting. He disappoints me sometimes that lad. We didn't know the new location then, and he was on a guided tour, he didn't get to go all over the city.
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    So San Andreas isn't set in 05, etc... I think officially GTA IV was set in 2007, the year it was meant to come out. Also GTA III was set the year it came out (2001). More or less it seems if it's set in the 'present day' its the year of the release. Vice City and San Andreas were period pieces.
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    I think he's reading a lot into a small graphic. After all, this isn't really California, and those aren't real license plates.
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    You're going to use a fire truck, aren't you?
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    Good idea. Also check out our landmarks page.
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    ......... "Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present day Southern California." -Rockstar Games Why does it show bums or slums? Cause both exist in Los Angeles. If the game focus is on the pursuit of money then OWS can't have a major role in the plot. BTW, all those 'professional trailer analysis' have been a lot of bullshit. Going on about 'Is that Tommy?! OOOOHHHH CJ!!!1!' Ours is much better. Besides, an OWS/financial crisis focus doesn't match up with a GTA game. You'll be involved with crime lords etc., not people squatting in a park protesting.
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    The sight of a forclosure sign or a bum or two does not equal a story focus on the "financial crisis and the growing dichotomy of the rich and the poor". I can see it being referenced or maybe talked about, but not a focus or major plot point. That's just not GTA. -EDIT- In fact Rockstar has already stated the the game "focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar" which is about as opposite OWS as you can get.
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    No.
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    Very much so from the looks of TF's map.
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    That was almost the worst case of cookie-cutter cut and paste I've ever seen. I really liked the houses that were sometimes sunk halfway into the ground, but not as much as the ones floating five feet in the air.
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    IV never game you a reason for it tbh. The bridges were closed, yes. I can see why you would get a wanted level for trying to cross the closed bridge. But when you swam to Algonquin far away from any of the bridges you still got it. Maybe there will be a problem with flooding in the LS river and you can't cross it. Of maybe there's a problem with a freeway overpass and that blocks off the roads going to another section of town. I dunno. GTA IV did give you a reason for why you don't leave Broker at the beginning of the game. "Why don't you show me around the rest of the city?" "Fucking Terrorists!" "What?" "Terrorists! There's been a big scare, and you cannot cross the bridges so good. You on VISA, I'll stay in Broker, FUCK IT I'd stay in Hove Beach." That's why you got massive amount of wanted level when you left Broker (no matter how you left it) Dukes is attached to Broker and can be entered at any time, and you could waltz over the bridges into Bohan from the moment the game starts. It still doesn't add up.
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    It's in the standard IV game. I saw it back when the game first came out and I was exploring the Coney Island areas.
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    The only problem is, to be fair, they did reuse one or two and look to be doing to same this time...but barely. IV: Francis International Airport V: East Los Santos, Vinewood But again keep in mind those are all real places. So what, Mt Diablo isn't a real place? To be honest I'd never heard of Mt. Diablo before today. Going by it's Wiki page you might be right about it being an inspiration for Mt. Chiliad, but Rockstar's never said anything about it one way or the other. However, Mt. Diablo is up in the San Fransisco Bay Area, nowhere near Los Angeles. At this point I'm 90% sure that GTA V won't include San Fierro or Las Venturas so it still seems to me that Mt. Chiliad (in any Mt. Diablo appearance) is out. But they could still reuse the name for one of the new mountains, even if it doesn't look the same.
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    I had forgotten about that background image. I'll give you that it does have the same basic image as the ending of the GTA V trailer, but sadly it can only be a coincidence. While it's true that they started work on GTA V almost as soon as GTA IV was done that doesn't mean that they had either A selected the location yet, or B even thought about the new game's future ad campaign. When most people think of Rockstar starting work on GTA V back in 2008 they seem to be thinking that Rockstar just jumped right in with coding and modeling when in reality they wouldn't be that far along at that stage. Starting work on it would be from square one: Choose a location/time period, basic story outline, who are major characters? etc. What I'm getting at is that at the stage in making GTA IV where they added that picture they probably wouldn't have known where GTA V was going to even take place yet. All it is is a nice easter egg (for those who wanted to explore every nook and cranny) about GTA: San Andreas.
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    Ha. No.
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    I haven't trolled. Dunno why a bit of humour and thought provoking can be interpreted as trolling, plus you never got back to me with proof of where I allegedly earned that warning for spam a few months ago. Back on topic: I'd be quite happy to see little fishies swimming past in a stream - that leads all the way back to a waterfall. Do they have any waterfalls round California? "Yeah I'm hoping for at least some wildlife, flower picking, make daisy chain necklaces etc. Sit there all night waiting for a groundhog to emerge so I can blow it's head off." As a direct response, I'd view that as trolling.
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    I'm thinking there will at least be smaller and/or non-threatening animals (rabbits, foxes, deer etc) running around to make the work look alive. Not so sure about larger threatening animals like wolfs, bears, or mountain lions. Once you get larger and deadlier weapons whats the point? Not even the biggest bear could stand up to a rocket launcher. Also...Marney, don't troll.
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    You have a truck now. You can travel. After all, it's for a good cause.
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    Looks legit.
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    I'd rather they go the Saints Row direction when it comes to your own music. Put in something like an mp3 player for you to use, so you can listen to it while you walk around town as well as in the car. Fuck no, you'd miss half the game like that because you'd be distracted by your choons. All the epic ped quotes you'd miss. When you first play through, yes...yay ped quotes. After the hundredth time hearing that same quote it does get a wee bit old you know.
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    I'd rather they go the Saints Row direction when it comes to your own music. Put in something like an mp3 player for you to use, so you can listen to it while you walk around town as well as in the car.
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    No. Companies that do pre-orders sometimes have to type in some random date in order to ake the sale work in their system. That not offical. Rockstar isn't telling anyone yet. Least of all the almost-dead Blockbuster.