Grand Theft Auto V is a 100 Hours Long Open World Experience According to Rockstar's Dan Houser

Grand Theft Auto V definitely looks like it’ll provide players with a lot to do even before they delve into Grand Theft Auto Online, but just how long will the game keep them busy? Very long, if you believe Rockstar Vice President of Creativity Dan Houser.

[ZodTheRipper]

My body is so ready for this ^_^
Hopefully it will be comparable to San Andreas in terms of size, this is my favourite GTA until now.

[TheOneWhoIsTornApart]

I think they said its way bigger than San Andreas.

[ZodTheRipper]

Yes but R* said the main storyline is supposed to be shorter.
GTA4's story already was shorter than GTA:SA, and GTA5 is supposed to be even shorter than that ...but I'm sure side stories and activities are going to compensate that. They know exactly what they're doing so there is no need to worry.

[ZodTheRipper]

"As for the length of the game, Rockstar said that the main story alone lasts about the same as Red Dead Redemption. So about 25-30 hours. But there will be a HUGE amount of secondary things to do."
People here are disagreeing with facts lol

[JKelloggs]

I read that it's the same size as Red Dead, San Andreas, GTA IV combined

[Anthotis]

Morrowind was said to have a 100 hours of gameplay, and i played it for 6 months non stop.

[PRHB HYBRiiD]

100?? pffft i say 500+

[AngryTypingGuy]

100 hours? Wow, that's delving into Elder Scrolls territory.

[-Ghost]

After five years...

http://i.imgur.com/J1PRLDX....

[slapsta72]

the campaign is shorter than gta IV, iirc. rockstar were bummed that so many people didn't complete IV's story.

[Abriael]

There must be a lot of chatting around since the script is 1000 pages.

The problem wasn't the length of the story, but the stupid phone calls from everyone and his mother because they needed counseling.

[ZBlacktt]

It was SO boring and I hated the car movements/functions, lol. Going from epic San Anderas to that was a mind blowing bad.

[JohnS1313]

I agree. I hardly even played GTA IV. I've gone back to it several times to try again but I just can't. It bores me. Hopefully GTA V is a lot more fun. More like GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas.

[T2]

Ya it had some problems but there were some positives ... Taxis were an upgrade on running through the mountains for ten minutes to find a tractor lol ... Altho it was funny

[Scholla]

@slapsta I did! twice!

[TrevorPhillips]

I'm ready!

[orakle44]

get ready trevor because im gonna play the sh*t out of you!

[HammadTheBeast]

For some reason, I don't trust you.

[mafiahajeri]

10 days!!!

[maximus1985]

9 days and whatever hours

[mafiahajeri]

The last couple of days are always the hardest...

[5h4h4b]

Woohoo. Best time to be console gamer.

[Abriael]

I wish it was the best time to be ANY gamer. Rockstar really needs to get its rear in gear with PC releases...

[Shadowsteal]

Maybe you should get a Console. GTA was born on Consoles and you can bet your ass that Consoles will always get the premium treatment. You don't see console gamers begging for Diablo. But unfortunately we got it anyways.

[TwistingWords]

@Shadowsteal,

GTA was born on PC by your logic then since it came out first on PC, also every GTA game on PC has also had premium treatment, in the way of the clip editor in game and mods.

[Abriael]

@Shadowsteal: I have ALL the consoles mate, and both PS3 and Xbox One preordered.

But if you ever saw what mods can do to Grand Theft Auto IV, you'd understand why I want V on a moddable platform.

Modded GTA IV already looks next gen. Modded GTA V would look even better.

[Seafort]

@Shadowsteal: Erm no it wasn't. The first GTA was developed in DOS for the PC in 1995/6 and it was originally called Race'n'Chase until Dan Houser renamed it to Grand Theft Auto.

It was later ported to Microsoft Windows, Playstation and Game boy Colour in 1997.

So please get your facts straight! This is why PC gamers are so pissed off at Rockstar, formally DMA Design, as we were the ones who made them what they are.

I guess you think Call of Duty started on consoles too, right? Wrong, PC exclusive once again.

The consoles are the stealer of games not the PC.

[Pintheshadows]

Sorry Seafort. Whilst you are factually correct it wasn't until the release of GTA3 that DMA, now R* found true success with the franchise and that was due to releasing it on this small thing called PS2. From there with Vice and SA it just exploded. Nothing has to be just console or just PC. Accept that. Your life will be easier. And as for consoles stealing PC games, well that is just stupid. You are acting as if there is nothing else to play on PC.

[die_fiend]

@ Shadowsteal

Lol, what an idiot thinking GTA was born on console. You only needed to count to 1

[steve30x]

@ Shadowsteal : GTA 1 and GTA 2 were PC games first. Get your facts right.

[Shadowsteal]

@Everyone

Alright you got me, I just got schooled.

But Rockstar <3's Consoles anyways. So enjoy touting being the "Master PC Race" without it.

[RumbleFish]

OMG! The hate for PC gaming is so meh. GTA will be great on all platforms. Some people just have to complain.

[steve30x]

@ Shadowsteal : I wasn't claiming to be the master race PC. You stated something very wrong. I have GTA V preordered on my Xbox 360.

[pandehz]

Watch dogs will own this crap

Same generic bull.

Gangtsahs: Check
Bad mouthed generic bad guys: Check
Open world same-crap-from-San andreas-Check
Nobody gonna finish the story-Check
Somekinda robbery/ies-Check
Once again driving around for minimal reason-Check
Gameplay involving 50% of driving around in a terrible driving simulator:Check
Once again riding on the sucess of San Andreas: MEGA CHECK

LESS INNOVATIVE THAN WATCH DOGS:CHECK DOUBLE CHECK

[GarrusVakarian]

Hilarious. You should try stand up.

[nick309]

http://youtu.be/oAKG-kbKeIo

[Abriael]

Quality-wise? possibly. Sales-wise? No way.

Luckily we don't play sales.

[pandehz]

Quality defo.

Sales yea ofc not. We are talking about sheep here.

[Pintheshadows]

Quality wise, you think a Ubisoft game will beat a R* game. Been enjoying those subliminal messages from the multi cultural Ubisoft offices have we?

[DoctorJones]

So if someone likes GTA they're sheep? What a narrow minded view to have. People have different preferences, you don't like it obviously but that doesn't mean others have to hate it. Your opinion isn't the be all and end all, you're just some random guy on the internet.

You come off as arrogant and high and mighty with comments like that.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Ubisoft over R* in Quality??? LOL...LOL...man that made my day. Also Watchdogs is a New IP Isn't it? GTA is an Established and well respected IP. So GTA Will beat Watchdogs in Sales and Quality.

[jairusmonillas]

Watchdogs looks boring. lol.

[trickman888]

@Pandehz

You have a bad opinion. congrats

[MrReeves]

phahah

Watch dogs will be added to ubisoft's quick buck list along with assassins creed and splinter cell, so we can expect them to rush a watch dogs 2 next year all so they can grab dem $$$

[die_fiend]

You want to be careful of watch dogs. Whilst it looks good, why don't we really know about story? It might end up with ac1. A good tech demo but hollow. If you think GTA is going to be hollow, you trippin'

[Pintheshadows]

Yeah, because Watchdogs is soooooo innovative. Don't kid yourself pandehz. Whilst it looks incredible it is just using elements we've seen in games time and time again. Just with a nice bit of horsepower and technical prowess behind it.

[SpideySpeakz]

To be honest with you, Watchdogs just looks like Far Cry 3 in a modern city. It has the same old "strongholds" you have to liberate to take control of an area. WatchDogs look really repetitive compared to GTA. But i can see you're trolling, so I'll let you continue to hate.

[Boozehound]

So ignorant...

[hobohunterz]

Watch dogs will probably end up being boring and repetitive just like assasins creed

[steve30x]

Just because you dont like GTA and never finished the story doesn't mean everybody is the same> I played GTA IV for weeks until I cleared the story. It took me weeks because I didnt just play the missions. I went around stealing cars and causing trouble too. So saying "Nobody gonna finish the story-Check " is lies and wrong. Oh and because people enjoy a game , then buy the next version of that game doesnt make them sheep. They buy the game because they enjoy the game.

[-Gespenst-]

Just Cause 3 will own all of them.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

GTA Will always own Just Cause, It's proven over and over, No Open world comes close except for the Elder Scrolls series, and maybe Minecraft!!, hadda throw that in LOL.

[Megaton]

They said the exact same thing about IV. 100 hours. I had it 100%'d in under 50.

[nick309]

Based how fast you go, without guides it will take long to 100%

[Megaton]

Without guides it would take thousands of hours because it would be nearly impossible to find all those pigeons on your own. I found 3 during the campaign. 3 out of 200.

[mt]

yes, same thing could be applied on GTAV

[Salooh]

50 hours still a lot though :) . V will also have online with a lot of missions..

[steve30x]

A 50 hour game is a really long game these days. Most games with the past three to four years can be finished in four to eight hours.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

After someone gets 100% in GTA V They'll go hunting or hiking or scooba diving or biking or racing or robbing or Skydiving or Yoga or Tennis or Golf or going online and hanging out in your pad before going on a killing spree. Can't place time and hours on that, 100 hours was Rockstar being modest, they could have said 1000 hours.

[chrissx]

I believe rockstar would wanna sign off this gen with a bang! I have faith this game would be great

[Otoshigamisama]

Time to ignore the real world on release day!! :)

http://i.imgur.com/DwoI8LA....

[koh]

Okay, so if I want to get this completed before Online shows up I need to average about 7 hours a day? Challenge accepted.

[claud3]

I will get more than 100 hours out of GTAV, like i do with every GTA game and

I just can not wait

[isarai]

I will get FAR more out of the game than that, hell i'm still playing GTA SA!!!

[Mr-SellJack]

that's pretty average but good overall

[Eyeco]

All Hail Rockstar, Hero, God, Saviour of gaming.

[The_Truth_24_7]

And I will play 0 hours of this trash.

[ApolloTheBoss]

That was so obvious. Come on, you can do better than that.

[DigitalRaptor]

Next gen is not ready, but my body is.

Puppeteer - 13th September.
GTA V - 17th September.
Beyond: Two Souls - 11th October.

[PSPMAN07]

Beyond is another 1 of those games I'm anticipating, probably the last PS3 purchase for me

[Cable2kx]

Why the disagrees? Lol what could you possible disagree with?

[awesomeperson]

@Cable

Lots of people don't really like Cage's games.

I for one do, but I can see why they don't appeal to everyone.

[BigKev45]

How many games like GTA nowadays are worth the hard earned $60?
Sept 17th. Taking the day off. Go GTA V!!!

[PSPMAN07]

While I'm anticipating GTA V, I wish they would release a PS4 version (At some point), I mean the console releases in a 2 months time, which for me personally for me puts me in a predicament if I wanna replay GTA later down the road once the PS4 is in my hands. Sorry but I love accessibility, and I would love to see GTA V a little more accessible.

Day 1 buy no doubt tho, definitely will enjoy the first few month indefinitely

[solidboss07]

GTA4 was lacking in ways that I would stuggle to communicate, it just was, non the less I got through the story and side missions. Point being that when Rockstar are off they still manage to deliver. GTA5 seems to be a return to form, I am really looking forwards to gettinh it.
Watchdogs??....Mehh! I remember being excited for a game called Assasins Creed, and look how crap that was. The first hour or so felt like this was going to be a great journey, and then nothing. 80% unfinished game, so disappointing.

[YourGreatUncle]

So anyone gonna try to bribe a Gsmestop/Best Buy/Wal Mart ect employee to give you your pre order early? Sometimes works sometimes not it all depends on the person you're talking to.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

hmmm there's an idea.

[SKULLFACE]

To be perfectly frank , nobody plays rockstars grand theft auto games for the sake of completion , yes in almost every game the story and longevity is praised but that is only an ounce in the gold bar that is GTA. People play r* games to unwind , to escape to fictional reality where the only thing that limits them is getting busted buy cops ,to escape from the normal every day routine and kill a balla(hopefully). So you see it doesn't really matter what the lenth is what really matters is how much you can screw around and kill fictional hookers and play on line in deathmatches.

[silvacrest]

my body is ready, LES GO!

[RandomGamer]

I highly doubt it will be 100 hours long, I figure I will put anywhere between 35-60 hours into it.

[silvacrest]

no disrespect but your basing that on what exactly?

[RandomGamer]

Literally Dozens (probably more) of times over the years Developers say their games are going to be much longer then they will be.

Now I hope it is 100 hours long but I am no going into GTA V believing that only to be let down by it being 50 hours. I choose to do the opposite and assume it will be shorter(of course 50 hours isn't short) so if it ends up being longer I will be all the happier for it.

[Klad]

Check out this new GTA V advert, some guys (fans) from the UK made it, i think its quite entertaining acually!! http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[optimus]

i hope they mean 100 hrs on the story alone and not the other tedious stuff like collecting money bags and pigeons...i only collect those if i stumble on them, i don't like spending time hunting them down...that bores me quick.

[Cable2kx]

Come on GTA 5 I need my fix!!!

http://cable2kx.blogspot.co...

[xBraiNshOcK]

Come this September 17 I am locking the door and only coming out for food and the bathroom.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

why not bring the food and bathroom with you ? ;)

[xBraiNshOcK]

You saying I should stock up my cabinet with food and wear a diaper? I would, but I don't want bugs in my room and I don't want it smelling either. I am gonna be there for quite some time after all.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

You could use your window as a bathroom and help fertilize your yard.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

Have you ever seen the Tv show breaking bad? If so, remember when Walter fed Krazy-8 down below in the basement and threw him a bucket to handle his business? Yes... I am implying that's what you should do. ;)

I kid, I kid lol necessities like food and bathroom breaks are essential in order to successfully enjoy a game like GTA. Do what must be needed and enjoy the game :)

[xBraiNshOcK]

All time favorite show, so yes I remember. You as well, enjoy. Feel free to add me so we can go do some heists together once GTAO is avaible. Same PSN iD as N4G username.

[HarryB]

100 hours of mission game play? Does that include side missions too?