Rockstar: GTA5's multi-character approach was a 'leap of faith'
Garbut revealed that protagonist-switching mechanics were planned from the beginning of GTA5's development as the team pieced together character dynamics and the game's overall tone. While he feels that the feature worked to the game's benefit in the end, Garbut notes that the team took a big risk in making such a critical change to the core GTA series formula.
"[Having] multiple characters was a leap of faith," Garbut explained. "It was an interesting idea, and it felt like we could do interesting things with it, but it also felt like a change to the core of the game that might backfire. I think it really worked out. It's so hard during development to get perspective -- you get so used to looking for the problems that it becomes almost impossible to step back and see the positives."
Grand Theft Auto 5 featured a story in which protagonists Michael, Franklin, and Trevor take part in key narrative moments both individually and as a group, allowing players to switch between the trio throughout. Previous series entries traditionally featured a single playable protagonist.
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/04/rockstar-gta5s-multi-character-approach-was-a-leap-of-faith/
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SkreamiesPosted:
Defiantly paid off! I wasn't sure about it at first, but have grown to love all the characters (no homo) Trevor is crazy funny, Franklin reminds San Andreas and all the gangs & Micheal is the brains of the group. Everything works together and Rockstar made a great move
HoopPosted:
Good move rock star. The ability to change characters is good, and definatly a good change rather than 1 character at a time.
iriisqxPosted:
The game would be stupid with custom characters. The voices would all be the same, for every character, wich would be dumb.
Third_EyePosted:
Garbut is being so modest. This game is the biggest success in anything of anything that I've ever witnessed. I'm being totally honest. GTA V blew up, and he's just talking about how it was risky and he's glad they made it out...
TekCBPosted:
KatsumiLiaKatsumiTHECARJACKERKatsumiVanoss I'd love to see a GTA game where you create your own character. I've never been a fan of any of Rockstar's main characters, other than John Marston.
You can do that in GTA Online but i would also much like to see a character creation option incorporated in the single player aspect of the game
Yeah I think he was on about a more Saints Row approach
That wouldn't be bad i guess. I am 50/50 for it seeming that i kind of liked the varying personalities of the GTAV protagonists.
I enjoy each of the characters as well, my favourite is Trevor though.
I personally liked franklin the best out of all the characters
If they did a create your character thing, there would be less voice acting, as it would cost too much and take too long to voice a whole story with multiple voices even if they just did one of each white/black/asian voices
StonerzardPosted:
I hated this feature when I first heard about it, I thought GTA V was going to be a flop, but then when I played it, it was amazing! I actually enjoyed having 3 characters to play as, they did well with this, now just a PC, PS4 and Xbox One version and everybody will be happy! I want somebody to make a Breaking Bad mod for GTA V PC!
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