I think the bold new direction is the business and leisure aspect, like we are shown scenes of the mile high club and how potentially we could own it, so maybe instead of keeping relationships up with friends you keep your businesses strong also with hiring your friends as hired guns to back you up, like call little jacob to help you take back a grow house and like in VC where you had to do their missions to unlock the money and complete the assett. Im also strongly believing that this is Tommy, because the character resembles him first off and theres various hints to VC all throughout Five, from the girl with the love fist shirt, to the business opportunities and also the "warm weather" aspect, maybe Tommy moved to LS because the weather in VC is always muggy, rainy hurricane miami weather sometimea and LS is very dry? Who knows. I also think that gta 5 will bring back alot of old characters. We also see a guy who resembles CJ running through the alley ways, so im thinking alot of people are making cameos and returning. Rockstar stated when they released IV that it had no connection to the other games but maybe GTA5's bold new direction is that it has a nostalgia feeling with old familiar faces. Thats my take on what gta is gonna be like. Imagine if Tommy had nightmares like Max Payne nightmares but about Lance. I just figured they are gonna take the critisism of GTA4, the exploration and livelyhood of RDR and the depth and detail of character developmrent like in LA noire. They almost had it down in GTA4 with the whole antihero thing, where Niko still loses in the end whether its kate or roman. So i think its going to be one of the deep story line with cheats and backstabbers, and alot of different choices and outcomes you can choose.