Quote: "you've made alot of assumptions based on a 30 second trailer."
I think they're perfectly fair assumptions to make. If you were able to get out of Liberty City, I feel as though they would have shown that in this trailer, maybe the character driving along a country road or maybe visiting Niagara Falls, I mean, why wouldn't they? It looks painfully obvious that they made GTA IV look as pretty as pretty can be, but they didn't do anything to match the scale of San Andreas.
That being said, after carefully studying each frame in this trailer yesterday with a friend, we've come to the conclusion that is apparently some sort of "re-envisioning" of Liberty City. Not from the ground up... if you watch carefully, and if you're a hardcore fan of GTA, you'll definitely notice a few of the locations are, for the most part anyway, the same (for instance, near the start of the trailer you'll see the hill that leads up to the Bistro). But New York City is a massive place, and I'm wondering if maybe they've expanded Liberty City to include all of the burroughs and whatnot. I guess we won't know until more trailers and screenshots are released, but if they did that, then I won't have a problem with the game's scale. If they didn't, and this is the same old Liberty City with prettier graphics, then I'm going to be extremely angry about it
.
Quote: "I seriously doubt it is an April Fools Joke. And if it is; it's not really funny, is it?"
Am I the only person who remembers the huge "Sin City" gag? It was blatently obvious to me at the time that it was going to be San Andreas, but tons and tons of people said I was wrong at the time, pointing out articles like
this one on IGN, and
this one on top consoles. I always kept those links, too, waiting for the next GTA to be released, expecting a gag around April Fool's day, waiting for people to get serious about the new release like they did with Sin City so I could be the one to say "don't count your chickens yet." It seemed like a serious release announcement, and everyone was holding their breath in anticipation of the Rockstar/ Frank Miller duet. Then, sure enough, they said it was a hoax. I didn't think that was very funny either, and neither did Amazon, who had already posted
Grand Theft Auto: Sin City as a future product.
However, it looks like my anticipation of an April Fool's joke just blew up in my own face. Everyone who is extremely familiar with the series had strong reason to believe it was taking place in Liberty City, because that's the classic GTA pecking order ever since the first GTA came out. So either (A) this
is the next GTA, because that's what it looks like, or (B) the Houser's know that people are
sure that the next GTA will take place in Liberty City, and they've made this trailer to capitalize on their fans' guesswork, just to make it that much funnier to themselves and to get people riled up for something that isn't coming, only so they can unveil what they consider to be a masterpiece down the road.
In case I lost anyone, I'm trying to say this: While this looks like a legitimate announcement, it might be more of the Housers' trickery. They've done it in the past... the Sin City announcement seemed legitimate, with screenshots and whatnot, and everyone was getting all excited over a game that didn't exist. Meanwhile, the two or three people out there who were onto the gag (like me
) were the ones who were really getting a laugh out of it.
With this trailer, I really don't know what to think. I honestly can't figure out if this is a gag, or if this is serious. Everything is pointing toward it being a gag -- the countdown to the trailer, the announcement looming dangerously close to April Fool's day, the tacky Russian voice acting, the inclusion of so many real-world landmarks... but then the location and the time period point
directly to my primary prediction of taking place in Liberty City and/ or Liberty State in the present. So I really can't tell if this is a joke or not. But in the word's of The Who, "We won't be fooled again." If this
is a gag, I won't be surprised, but if it's serious, I'm going to be extremely curious (and worried) as to where this series is going in the next decade.
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