I'm excited about Grand Theft Auto V. You're probably excited about Grand Theft Auto V. And with so many people excited about Grand Theft Auto V, pretty much everyone out there with a keyboard an functioning brain has taken to the internet to voice their opinion about the impressive second trailer that Rockstar released yesterday.

Some folks expressed their excitement on various message boards, and some of those comments are very funny. In fact, some brilliant soul started GTAVTrailerComments.tumblr.com, a tumblr devoted entirely to setting the best YouTube comments against peaceful, stock-photo backgrounds.

Some highlights are below, though you can read plenty more at the site. (Salty language follows):

And my personal favorite:

GTA V Trailer Comments [Tumblr via David Rayfield]

Rockstar sure knows how to make a good clip—loads of gameplay footage sure helps—but for those after something a little more stylish, check out Russian artist Ilya V. Boykov's custom trailer for Grand Theft Auto V.

Slicing together and animating GTAV's official artwork, it doesn't do the greatest job of selling the actual game, but it sure does look pretty.

So... just like a proper trailer, then.

Grand Theft Auto V - ART IN MOTION [YouTube, thanks
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Who would go through such a painstaking process to recreate the poses and action of some of Grand Theft Auto V's screenshots, courtesy of Game Informer? RomanBOY123 would, apparently.

He put GTA IV on max settings on his PC (1920x1080 resolution, with HD tree mods) and came up with some amazingly accurate screenshots to match those of GTA V's. Check out one of them above by using the slider the reveal more of each. GTA IV is on the left, while GTA V is on the right.

Be sure to hit the GTA forums to see the rest of them, because they're truly well done.

GTA IV vs GTA V graphics comparision [GTA Forums via Reddit]

The new Grand Theft Auto V trailer seems to have gone over pretty well. Fans are happy. Very happy. They're reciting a favorite line from it on Twitter. They're commenting with great passion on the YouTube page for the Stevie Wonder song that was used in the trailer ("GTA V BROUGHT ME HERE SO SUCK MY BALLZ I DON'T CARE").

The trailer has attracted about 1500 comments on Rockstar's own site. The people commenting there are pumped. Take "VProcurado", who writes: "THAT WAS AWESOME! WHERE CAN I PRE-ORDER THE NEXT TRAILER???" ("inFamous_DJT" sets V straight: "You can't pre-order a trailer").

As coarse as some of the f-yeah fist-pumping for the new trailer might be, there's something endearing about seeing people so excited about something that they can barely type a coherent thought. Minds are exploding. Fingers can't type fast enough.

This brings us to a Rockstar fan who goes by the name "Shanko Shizz" and praises this trailer in some extraordinary ways. You want to see some enthusiasm? Here it is in all-caps...

...and in rhyme...

...and once with the equivalent of a vigorous head nod..

I think Shanko Shizz is ready for GTA V.

The tune you hear in the newest teaser for Grand Theft Auto Vis not one of those Stevie Wonder songs that everyone knows like "My Cherie Amour." It's not a song-of-its-moment like "Jungle Fever" either. But "Skeletons" is an ideal match for the newest glimpse of Rockstar's next big game. Just glance at the lyrics:

Skeletons in your closet
Itchin' to come outside
Messin' with your conscience
In a way your face can't hide

So, it's gettin' ready to blow
It's gettin' ready to show
Somebody shot off at the mouth and
We're gettin' ready to know

Crevices in your pantry
Now what do we have in here
Havin' a daytime nightmare
Has always been your biggest fear

From what we can see in the trailer, the game's characters all have a public face they want people to take as their true nature. But the arguments, drama and violence in other parts of the clip show another side of their lives. This jibes thematically with the first GTA V trailer where Michael talks about leaving his past life but still feeling the pull of what he's left behind.

I love Stevie Wonder—to almost a religious degree, people—so it's great to have his music get some exposure like this. Stevie's music has always had a canny insight into human nature, along with sharp musicianship and insanely catchy rhythms. But, more than that, it's another example of Rockstar pairing music to the themes and worldbuilding in their games. Now, please do something with MF Doom, okay?

Fans everywhere have absorbed all the tidbits about Grand Theft Auto V 's multiple protagonists, its size and cultural aspirations. But none of that is a substitute for seeing the game in action so here's the latest teaser for Grand Theft Auto V.

What are you seeing in this trailer? Share the things that make you excited or worried in the comments below.

Rockstar's next game looks to be its biggest ever. In fact, it's supposed to outstrip the combined size of the three of the publisher's most massive releases. Some folks worried when they heard about GTA V's size. Would the quality suffer? Would there be enough to do? Sure, there will, says one of Rockstar's co-founders in a new interview. There will be flying. And apparently, lots of it.

Talking to The Guardian, Dan Houser addresses those worries and explains why GTA V is going to be so darn vast:

And space is important, space is a big issue. Some have already questioned why GTA V needs to be so huge. But Houser bats the concerns right back. "We wanted to make a big place, as much as anything, to allow you to fly," he laughs. "A lot of the decisions, we're talking about them here on a philosophical level, but they're also practical decisions, too: we're making a game. You have to understand the medium. On an obvious level we wanted somewhere big so you can fly properly – we have a lot of missions that involve flying, in helicopters or whatever, it was logical. Also, Jet skis work better around LA than they would in New York.

Remember that multiple types of aircraft—a crop duster, fighter jet, private plane and a helicopter or two—have been shown in the GTA V screens and trailer we've seen so far. So, when taken in with Houser's comments, those clues seem to indicate that players will be taking the game's three protagonists up into the air a lot.

Grand Theft Auto V won't feature one protagonist, but rather, it will feature three. Here is a look at them, courtesy of Gamer.nl and GTAV.net, as well as a round up of recent details about the game.

Preview [Gamer.nl]
New Screenshots [GTAV.net]

This is like some kind of stunt porn from The Fast and the Furious, but it's still impressive to watch a guy get past a cop car and a SWAT roadblock, on a bridge entrance, without a scratch.

I might get the alignment checked after a drive like this, but damn. Fine work. Somewhere an action-movie screenwriter is writing a note to himself.

YouTube video uploaded by ddnewman

The Smoothest Police Evasion in GTA History [Dorkly]

Dan Houser, the 39-year-old chief writer of Rockstar Games and a co-founder of the studio that's delivered the Grand Theft Auto series, admitted to some screen-looking in an interview this weekend with The New York Times: "Anyone who makes 3D games who says they've not borrowed something from Mario or Zelda is lying," he said.

But, Houser added, "in that regard we've certainly been more sinned against than sinning," probably referencing the slew of open-world crime-spree imitators Grand Theft Auto has spawned or at least inspired over the past decade, from Driver 3 to Saint's Row or True Crime.

"I suppose what we've borrowed from cinema is cinematography," Houser told the Times' Chris Suellentrop. "We haven't borrowed a lot structurally. We've borrowed from TV structurally, we've borrowed from long-form novels structurally. Even a short game like Max Payne is 10, 12 hours long. It's several action movies back to back, in terms of how the story works."

Houser and Rockstar are approaching the release of Grand Theft Auto V sometime in the next six months, and just announced that release last week, which maybe explains their willingness to do a Q&A with the Times right now. The old mainstream media controversies, particularly "Hot Coffee" and the series' treatment of women (specifically GTA's notorious prostitute NPCs) are revisited. But Houser is also asked how his British perspective informs the writing of a game that walks the line of celebrating and satirizing American excesses.

"Is it fair to say that your games are satires of American culture?" asks Suellentrop.

"I think it's fair to say that they are set in a world that is a satire of American media culture," replies Houser.

America at Its Most Felonious [The New York Times]