Trevor, Franklin and Michael

[RellyJeezy 0]

All three of em sound appealing to me in their own way but i think i'm going to be playing as Trevor alot, especially if he's the only one that can pour gas over a car and set it on fire cos that sounds fucking amazing!

[grove_nz 41]

so each character will have his own money? own set of weapons, etc.

That's what I was thinking as well.

Plus maybe own collectibles. Would give us three sets of pigeons or whatever to find.

[ConQueSteD 552]

so each character will have his own money? own set of weapons, etc.

That's what I was thinking as well.

Plus maybe own collectibles. Would give us three sets of pigeons or whatever to find.

If it's like IV that'll be around 600 collectibles.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

[grove_nz 41]

They could lower it down to around 60 per character. Maybe more given the size of the map

[JamieMilne 489]

so each character will have his own money? own set of weapons, etc.

That's what I was thinking as well.

Plus maybe own collectibles. Would give us three sets of pigeons or whatever to find.

If it's like IV that'll be around 600 collectibles.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

people could have 4 or more years to do all that actually, going by the timescale between IV and V. and then onto whatever's next.

[grove_nz 41]

I'm also wondering who we'll start off with after the opening credits.

If we can be any of them from the start the opening could be quite long. They'd have to give at least a basic explanation of why they're all there and where they've come from.

[ConQueSteD 552]

so each character will have his own money? own set of weapons, etc.

That's what I was thinking as well.

Plus maybe own collectibles. Would give us three sets of pigeons or whatever to find.

If it's like IV that'll be around 600 collectibles.

Ain't nobody got time for that.

people could have 4 or more years to do all that actually, going by the timescale between IV and V. and then onto whatever's next.

I didn't literally mean nobody had time for that. We have until we die to collect all of them. What I was implying was with 600 collectibles who's really wanting to find 600 of these fuckers. If it's like GTA IV you had to shoot them and every time you shot one you immediately received a one star wanted level. It became a nuisance with 200 it'd be a pain in the ass with 600.

[Rayge 689]

The hobo that got rich with the diamonds, moved to the hills in Vinewood and now directs porn ...... random guess.

Actually he moved to Vice City to open up a gun store.

I really have no idea who I'll be playing as we know so little about them except their style and their background. I doubt I'll be playing as Michael much, though.

I'll probably ride around the desert on an ATV firing an Uzi at anyone I see if I play as Trevor. Chaos is a huge element that makes GTA fun, which fits Trevor perfectly. Can't wait to FUCK SHIT UP!

[x910 24]

The character's i can see reappearing from IV are:

Packie

Yusuf

Stubbs

And maybe some strangers you met on the street.

1) Packie has highest chances as he was boarding the plane in ending of IV or EFLC.

2) Yusuf Amir can reapper aswell, since he was related to "Property Dealings"

3) Stubbs can be or can't be there.

But it'll be blast to see Packie in Los Santos abusing the traffic jams...LOL

Edited November 9, 2012 by x910

[bliththgoo 2]

personal i like the idea of being franklen and having a rotweiler to git people and bite em, it woud also be fun living in the ghetto causing troble n fighting bangers.

[RawMentality2k 0]

now this may sound dumb but i think ill play thru it as 1 character at a time and then i'll play it as all of them... u know cause i know i'm gonna complete this game atleast 4 times... i was recently playin' gta iv for like the 5th or 6th time...

but if i play thru utilizing all 3 characters off top i'll prob do most of my free roam with franklin...

[Asthenia 138]

i think i'll play as michael or trevor most of the time. but i'll still travel using each character instead of just switching to trevor to get countryside. travelling is part of the fun

I'm also hoping that when I switch they won't always be in "their hood" .. if they're living their own lives I wanna find them doing insane stuff too. And just once, I'd like to catch Trevor, mid air on a quad, flying off Mt. Chiliad.

Trevor is by far the craziest one....but I think I see my self playing the majority as Michael.

Agreed. Michael looks like my favourite initially. Follow by Trevor, then Franklin. I'd like to see Franklin in action because to me he's the archetypal GTA character - which is good, but my focus is more on Michael as he's the character we've never played before in a GTA game. The kids thing was done in RDR, though that was 1911.

People keep saying "old guy" is too old and Trevor is bad ass, but they are BOTH early 40s!

That and Mike is probably more able bodied than Trevor. They mentioned yoga and shit. That's probably Michaels thing.

Trevor abuses drugs and alcohol so I'd think hes the slower character.

I cannot stress this enough! Michael is in better shape too! Just because he looks flash, doesn't mean he can't move.

so each character will have his own money? own set of weapons, etc.

I'd presume so. Removing that would be removing a ton of the realism.

[Weazel 0]

One person robs cars

One person flys planes

One person is the stealth/tech expert.

For me, this means more and more focus on realism,where you don't have this one peson who could do everything, which also implies that we might see more realism elsewhere.Personally I have no problem with it as long as they don't overdo it.

[Rayge 689]

Michael is the GTA version of Liam Neeson.

[jkorok 0]

trevor defintly sounds most intersting

[BlackSox9 448]

do you think that we will be able to track down the other characters while free roaming, since they get own with their lifes about the city?

It would be cool if you could not only track them down, but kill them as well ......................................................... this might fuck up the story but, so I don't know

[Rayge 689]

do you think that we will be able to track down the other characters while free roaming, since they get own with their lifes about the city?

It would be cool if you could not only track them down, but kill them as well ......................................................... this might fuck up the story but, so I don't know

It would be cool if you could trip them over and stuff, making them want to fight you then getting them arrested or killed by cops. Would love to do that. Or while being arrested, quickly swapping to another character, seeing the one you were just playing being arrested or shot to death by cops.

But in reality I doubt we'll be able to see our other guys while playing one of them, to avoid complications such as the one you mentioned.

[Jizzy 633]

I'm also wondering who we'll start off with after the opening credits.

If we can be any of them from the start the opening could be quite long. They'd have to give at least a basic explanation of why they're all there and where they've come from.

it said you start off as micheal riding a bike

The character's i can see reappearing from IV are:

Packie

Yusuf

Stubbs

And maybe some strangers you met on the street.

1) Packie has highest chances as he was boarding the plane in ending of IV or EFLC.

2) Yusuf Amir can reapper aswell, since he was related to "Property Dealings"

3) Stubbs can be or can't be there.

But it'll be blast to see Packie in Los Santos abusing the traffic jams...LOL

there are no property, doesnt mean he wont be there though.

[UlanBator 40]

One guy is rich, (on the brink of collapse) Another is mad, and the Third is ambicious. Why we didnt saw the mad guy on first trailer? Mistery or he was just created after 1st trailer?

[Qdeathstar 1763]

It's an interesting prospect. We *should* be able to find them since they have their own lives but obviously if we kill them while roaming around either we'd have to restart or wait a few days before they respawn. Maybe they will prevent us from interacting with the other characters outside of missions.

Probably just go to the hospital, just like the player does...

I'm also wondering who we'll start off with after the opening credits.

If we can be any of them from the start the opening could be quite long. They'd have to give at least a basic explanation of why they're all there and where they've come from.

Pretty sure we start as Michael

[Mercy 30]

Michael

[Rayge 689]

If the '3 protagonists, 3 trailers' hypothesis is correct, I guess the characters will be introduced by the order of the trailers.

[Joe King 62]

do you think that we will be able to track down the other characters while free roaming, since they get own with their lifes about the city?

It would be cool if you could not only track them down, but kill them as well ......................................................... this might fuck up the story but, so I don't know

i would stand outside the hospital and keep murdering another protag over and over for him to spawn in front of me again XD haha

[llliiiiiiiiilllll 46]

One guy is rich, (on the brink of collapse) Another is mad, and the Third is ambicious. Why we didnt saw the mad guy on first trailer? Mistery or he was just created after 1st trailer?

I can only think of two reasons for that. 1. is what you suggested, that he wasn't created yet or was even planned on being added to the game at the time. 2. Is that he lives a completely different life than the other two. The first trailer was set in the city, where michael lives in the uppity rich area and franklin repo's cars (so although the trailer was based on michael, it also showed franklin throughout). It showed very little of the surrounding country side and small towns, which is where trevors trailer is located, so maybe they were waiting for the next trailer to get into that. It also keeps the character a mystery like you said. I'm pretty sure we didn't see him until the batch of screenshots where one shows him aiming an AK at the police helicopter in the dark.

And to the people discussing the "special skills", I don't think it limits things like flying to one protagonist like I've been seeing some people saying. The only reason I say that is because michael can be seen flying a jet in one of the screen shots that were released late this summer. I really don't know how they're going to pull it off though. I would hate if the game hindered/bossted my ability to fly/drive based on the protag i was useing.

[Bronson 702]

I can already see this protagonist thing being a problem..... They are gonna have to make to where you either can't hurt them or they just arn't on the map unless you switch to them....