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So apparently we'd never see any characters from the GTA III era but somehow we'd be able to see crossovers of characters from GTA IV in V.....

I respect Rockstar for their games but that sounds simply retarded. They've chose to allow characters like Lazlo to be in all games but somehow they consider the GTA III era to be a totally different "universe". Pretty pathetic. I didn't think we'd see any but I think it's just stupid completely eliminating the possibility for the future. However apparently there is plenty of hope for characters from GTA IV. What you guys think? I know it isn't new neither, but I've never really thought of how dumb that is.

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Let's save everyone a lot of time and annoyance here. Give me a list of characters from the III era you'd like to see in GTA V, and I will tell you why they could not/should not come back. If you can provide a decent suggestion for which I have no argument, I will congratulate you extensively.

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Because CJ's story is over and done. You bring in CJ and now all its going to be is San Andreas II...and Rockstar is better than that

It's clear, though, that he won't be back...for the same reason we never saw any evidence of GTA III's Liberty City in IV, it's not a good fit for the current 'look' of GTA games.

What I'm getting at, really, is that for the most part the stories of the GTA III era are finished and finished well and to try to tack on some new 'stories' about them this many years down the road (after all San Andreas happened 20 years ago, Vice City 26 etc) would only take away from the originals. There's a reason the only III add-on games have been prequels.

And as for Lazlow he IS GTA radio. He writes it, produces it, stars in it. Lazlow isn't a character...hes the soul of the radio stations.

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Also:

Claude would be in his 40s

Vercetti would be 61

CJ would be 44

Middle-aged CJ! Yay!

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Yes, CJ would still be alive, but he would also be over the hill.

I personally don't care what he may or may not have been up to for the past 20 years....but having CJ show up in a Los Santos that's completely different then SA's would really fuck up the tone and setting for me tbh.

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Nice of you all to make my points for me while I was still typing them.

The short version is this: When you consider the state of CJ's life at the end of SA (A stake in a casino, manager to an immensely famous rapper, yet forced back into the hood by his narrow-minded hoodrat brother.), there's a 50/50 shot of 2012 CJ being a more successful version of Playboy X or a sadder version of Dwayne Forge, an uninteresting character either way. CJ wasn't interesting in his own game, he certainly won't be interesting in someone else's story 20 years later.

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I don't get why everyone like's CJ he ran the fuck away from his problems to Liberty City and came back when his mother died. He's a pussy.

get your ass on gta so i can shoot you! xD

i dont think he was that bad

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Yes, CJ would still be alive, but he would also be over the hill.

I personally don't care what he may or may not have been up to for the past 20 years....but having CJ show up in a Los Santos that's completely different then SA's would really fuck up the tone and setting for me tbh.

What would be nice was short cameo, like Stan Lee shows up with words of wisdom in Spiderman.

Maybe the main character is mulling over a choice he has to make at a boardwalk, and CJ walks over and maybe gives him a few words.

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What would be nice was short cameo, like Stan Lee shows up with words of wisdom in Spiderman.

Maybe the main character is mulling over a choice he has to make at a boardwalk, and CJ walks over and maybe gives him a few words.

I actually wouldn't mind that at all, if only because I love the "magical negro" archetype.

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The biggest point here is, the GTA III era had its own world, characters and playable style. The GTA IV era also has its own world, but it is far grittier and realistic in terms of story and visual style. Also the cinematography is in a different league. GTA IV would make a great film.

Why bring back a character from an old hit and have it live on it's old hype and nostalgia, when you can make a new experience which will eventually have its own nostalgic moments. This is why there won't be GTA 3 Era characters in the IV era.

And the only reason why Lazlow made it into IV is because he's a radio voice talent, which doesn't have an actual visual presence (apart from one CD cover art, back in VC.) He's almost non-diegetic, he's like the brand names rather than the character list.

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The only characters that wont fuck up the storyline and not mix that many different GTA ares is BRUCIE and BERNIE they add good humor and make the game a little more real, dont we see alot of party, living on the edge people like brucie. And we see alot of funny, sweet gay people like bernie.

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I found Bernie extremely annoying. Gay Tony, despite being a bit of a drama queen (no pun intended on the 'queen' bit) was a much better gay character, in my opinion.

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