GTA V most expensive game ever
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scatman839
Shenmue has been usurped!
Darren Hodgson
I have the PS3 version pre-ordered but even with the next-gen consoles looming on the horizon it's hard for me not to be excited and hyped up about this amazing sounding game. It looks incredible in the trailers I've seen, granted there's not that many of them, and it certainly promises to be the most indepth open world game yet in terms of things to do. The larger size does worry me a little as I was one of the few people who didn't like San Andreas that much because it felt too big and empty (plus I found the characters and story unlikeable too, which didn't help).
I just hope that I'm not disappointed with the latest game. I don't expect to be, this is Rockstar after all, but all the same I'm feeling a nervous that the game might not live up to expectations. Hyped up games have a tendency to do that, unfortunately. It's hard to believe the game is only a week away now.
scatman839
Part in the problem was that 3 wasn't the end either, the plot was designed to have a hell of a lot of games.
IcE
I think you're a bit late with that statement, Shenmue was usurped a while ago.
Darkest
I'll probably pick it up for the PC when it's on sale, I'm more than happy to wait. I'm of an opinion that the GTA series was surpassed by other open world games a good while ago, and by multiple titles at that. GTA4 annoyed the hell out of me at times, despite my wanting to like it.
scatman839
Not until GTA4 though, held the record for some time.
Veeshush
"The new game revolves around a satirical recreation of southern California. With players able to switch between three protagonists, the 49-square-mile world boasts a welter of activities, such as scuba diving with sharks and hijacking trains."
So basically they've gone further into trying to be more like a movie and the Sims.
I can't really say I'm excited, especially not anywhere near when I first played Vice City or San Andreas.
FULMTL
Sadly I have not played any GTA since San Andreas. Don't mind picking this up though if it doesn't run like crap.
Neo Cyrus
$265M budget? How much you guys wanna bet the majority of that is for marketing and the developers get only a small fraction of that to work with...
Mr.Bigtime
iam not ready for this game. not now ffs 🙁
kanej2007
Poor Biggie. All work no play makes Jack a dull boy. 🙂
No time to play bro? Count me in 🙁
Mr.Bigtime
actually have a little time but my mind is currently focused on business alot. and the divorce.
i want to play this game at max capacity and with my all focus pls.
scatman839
5 year development with that size of staff is going to cost a lot of money.
But yeah, marketing will account for like £30 million of it.
Starting to see some billboards in my town now.
kanej2007
I'm sorry to hear of the news Biggie, hope all your troubles go...
Solfaur
Interesting, I think SWTOR was the previous #1 with a budget of ~200-300$ milion. Hopefully GTAV will not follow the same fate, after the super-hype, but I doubt it. I think this game will deliver, too bad I'll have to wait a long for the PC version.
Darkest
There's estimates by some that SWTOR cost EA around 500 million, although there's no definite proof of that.
http://www.gamesradar.com/analysts-eas-stake-old-republic-probably-approaches-500m/
Solfaur
Yeah I'm sure it was part of their marketing plan, throwing out such numbers but a 150-200$ milion budget is not unbelievable everything considered.
Veeshush
Probably a chunk of it is voice acting big names and music licensing too.
They'll get their return on it though, no doubts about that. Very surprising they didn't go ahead and release this on the next gen consoles, Sony and Microsoft would of made a ****ing killing.
schmidtbag
I too felt SA was a little too empty. There weren't many compelling reasons to stray far from the city areas, and the vast landscapes made it boringly easy to escape from the cops.
I felt GTA 4 was pretty good, my only complaints being it was horribly ported to PC, I beat the game using a handgun 90% of the time (at least while on foot), killing pigeons isn't rewarding enough, and when it comes to deciding to kill a plot character, the rewards are really imbalanced.
zaxevil
more than $200M for developing game it's lots of moneys...so, i guess the expectations is really high... can't wait
