Comments on: Hints of GTAIV DLC coming to PS3

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:05:56 +0000

The core Rockstar North team is doing Agent. That’s probably the core gameplay programmers and artists. I think that the writers, producers, and senior designers jump around between projects more quickly.

We don’t know much about Agent, except it will probably be amazing.

By: JimmyMagnum

JimmyMagnum — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:31:34 +0000

Don’t forget that the team who worked on GTAIV is now working on Agent, so the next GTA could be a ways off (and that game is exclusive to PS3 for a time). I hope the next GTA really does hit up the 70s, though. That decade just screams GTA IMO.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:40:14 +0000

“Outside of first party [...] No exclusive will last forever.”

If Microsoft made that epic original announcement of GTA4 DLC as a timed exclusive it would have lost all of its impact.

Generally, games “published” by the platform holder (definition of first/second party) are long term exclusive while externally published games (third party) are multiplatform. But that’s not always the case. Look at Mass Effect 2 or Left 4 Dead or Metal Gear Solid 4 for big counter-examples.

GTA is a lot like note-scrolling music games. They both had a time when their audience had never played anything like it, and they were the hottest thing around. Then despite getting technically better in every way, their hit status faded. Their magic and freshness just wore off.

I still think GTA and other games from the same team such as Manhunt and Bully have a distinct style of writing and imagination that hasn’t lost its edge one bit.

By: yodaddy

yodaddy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:45 +0000

I liked san andreas the best…. gta4 was not as fun for me… if they do gta5 I will rent it 1st.

By: SL33PY

SL33PY — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:05:47 +0000

I’m still waiting for it, I just hope it will come before Q4 2010