10 Years of GTA V, 10 Development Facts

[@BadgerGoodger]

I still remember picking up my pre-ordered copy from GameStop the day of its release. They had yellow police tape over the door and windows as decoration, but for a second when I was walking up to it I thought something happened and the store was now a crime scene, lol

[@dylanyahir2207]

I love your videos

[@chilbiyito]

Your voice sounds even better speaking spanish

[@Aerotactics]

I was there too! I had just turned 18 and had someone else with me who (luckily) had their ID on them.

[@MRJAYWILSON]

Badger, do you remember on the game informer edition of GTA 5 that was released in 2012, about how they were talking about the graphics and individual blades of grass? It's crazy to think that the PS4 and Xbox one version was maybe originally going to be the 360 and PS3 version, they talked about alot in that magazine, saying that things were changing every second so it's hard to release a GTA game within the times..

[@superrspace]

man i remember doing the same thing. I was in 8th grade and i convinced my parents to let me skip school the next day and to drive me to the midnights release. Good times

[@Gyrbae]

In my GTA Forums days, I remember when Michaels character was called Albert Da Silva (probably just a prototype name). I also remember when the first trailer dropped, everyone was convinced that the guy running from the cops was CJ. And when first pictures of Trevor were shown, people hated him and the forum was full of messages like "I want to be cool, not a hillbilly junkie!" How the times have changed. edit: One more story I have to share from GTA Forums: There was that one video (which I think is still in the game as an in-universe commercial) that R* released on their website where an npc was shown sitting in a wheelchair outside a hospital. This one guy got really excited and started threads going "Wheelchairs in GTAV CONFIRMED!!!!", and seriously expected a realistic recovery period being part of the game. And then when the game released and there were no wheelchairs, the guy got really mad and felt being lied to by R*, and vowed to never buy a R* product ever again. So he basically hyped himself up with nothing but conjecture and speculation that HE came up with, and got angry that it didn't happen. It was so funny to me.

[@ross3695_basedhax]

i thought paleto bay was angel pine

[@Bassist2505]

When first pictures of Trevor were shown people thought that he was portrayed by Jack Nicholson

[@DatamasterCorporation]

I remember there being a lot of speculation on having to break a character out of the prison that is in the game. Due to the presence of it in screen shots before release. There were also so many people that were saying a couple weeks after release that 'GTA IV was so much better'. I honestly think that was mostly nostalgia, and that we will see a similar thing with GTA VI comes out.

[@ross3695_basedhax]

@@DatamasterCorporation EDIT: I misunderstood Datamaster's comment actually. I usually get replies every week calling games 'just nostalgia' and it gets very annoying. This was not one of them, so I apologise I find calling things just 'nostalgia' is kinda insulting. I personally had every reason to be more nostalgic for GTA 5 than 4 but despite really pushing boundaries I still did not find it as good as 4. there is some things it does better than 5 that some people prefer. (eg better map, characters, etc) I didn't even have the thought of GTA 4 is a bit better until years later

[@Thawhid]

As a kid I remember watching the trailer analyses non stop lol

[@knoxiegb1782]

I can understand the cursing limit. Some TV shows try to go the 18+ "mature" route and curse as much as possible, and in the end it just end up feeling like 5th grade recess. I can see said limit as a writing challenge and as a way too keep swearing somewhat impactful throughout the story

[@MrWolfSnack]

Bojack Horseman limits the swearing to one time per season, so when the characters do swear, it shocks you, it's very emotional of an impact.

[@billross9132]

​@@MrWolfSnackother shows I think of is breaking bad, we barely hear the f word and when they say it it hits more

[@the-experiment]

@@billross9132I think of rdr1 because there is like one time john says “fucking” and I was like “wow this is getting serious”

[@BiggestNightmareJim]

I feel they did that with deadwood, it makes it so hard to watch. Waay too much swearing especially for the time period.

[@automation7295]

It's funny how Rockstar limited how much actors can swear, yet newer GTA Online DLC still have characters swearing at lot, escially KDJ saying MF.

[@sodokami6347]

Better gift than Rockstar’s.

[@Steoorer]

Couldn’t agree more

[@fahadalawair6724]

😂👍

[@looneyluna96]

Why do you want a gift, it's GTA V's anniversary.

[@camcosby3480]

@@looneyluna96pretty sure he’s referring to gta online

[@hidden_gamer9100]

Seriously bro 😂

[@itisrm]

This dude spent more effort on a 10 year anniversary than Rockstar did.

[@Prizm17]

Literally 😭😭😭

[@ThirdHandl]

The 10 year anniversary wouldn’t exist without them…

[@tenraqs00]

@@ThirdHandlyeah and they treat it like shit

[@ThirdHandl]

@@tenraqs00 Stop whining and enjoy what they have already given you, more than you deserve.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

​@@ThirdHandlwe got a meat rider here

[@saulbueno5640]

Man I love it when we get to see early builds of games most people never even know about. If I ever had a video game company, I would want to make a documentary from start to finish about the development, and I would even let the public have access to our earliest builds so that they could see what made it in and what had to be cut.

[@NightRose7w7]

same here, i like seeing pre-alpha games in development

[@saulbueno5640]

@@NightRose7w7 I don't understand why they keep the earlier builds a big secret, like wouldn't you want everyone to know how different the game was way before it released??

[@kellymountain]

​@@saulbueno5640they just don't care enough to give out early builds especially when they're often lost or require specific connections to an internal server

[@kellymountain]

documentaries cost a lot of time and money and generally aren't worth the expenses in the execs eyes, see previous comment as well for why old builds don't get released as much as id love to have more prototype versions of games like tf2 it sadly just doesn't happen without a leaker which is illegal

[@RND_Gaming]

I love it too, it’s crazy how many people don’t realize how game development works, like when 6 got leaked people were saying it looked identical to 5…like ya and 5 looked identical to 4 early on lmao

[@josephhelgersonjoseph6115]

Fun fact about the cut Heist mission: a remnant of this exists in the dialogue for the mission “Caida Libre” where Trevor suggests scoping out his mansion. Another fun fact: Some of the mission in the Online are actually repurposed versions of scrapped story mode missions. For example: The EMP setup mission for the Humane Labs Raid was originally a story mission given to Michael from Solomon Richards.

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Also the entirety of the Doomsday Heist was supposed to be single player DLC for Trevor, the aforementioned secret agent DLC that is.

[@hardVatsuki]

@@YondoMoloni source: Vadim M

[@HeySlickThatsMe]

Wdym? The EMP setup was never a single player mission

[@HeySlickThatsMe]

@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 That's also kinda untrue, the only thing that doomsday heist shares with SP DLC is three interiors (Submarine and IAA Facility/Server Farm) and some ideas like Cliffford, everything else is new

[@Bestgameplayer10]

@@HeySlickThatsMeIn GTA V’s trailer (I forget which one) there’s a clip of the Hydra shooting a missile at a police helicopter and hitting it, causing it to explode. That’s likely a remnant of said cut mission. In the game files, there’s I think text and/or audio referring to Solomon wanting Michael to steal said Hydra to have it as a prop. The mission was more than likely repurposed (and of course altered to fit the co-op aspect) as one of the setup missions for GTA Online.

[@YGK-]

Franklin at 8:01 saying "My bad Pony" instead of "My bad Homie" is the funniest shit ever 😂 too bad horses were cut from the game, it looked like a fun idea

[@TakeCareOfYourself7]

have a nice life bro

[@ThunderSims]

​@@TakeCareOfYourself7have a nice life bro

[@TakeCareOfYourself7]

@@ThunderSims good

[@SamK4074]

I remember getting GTA V for Christmas of 2013, for the PlayStation 3. It took forever to install, but it was a blast - what an amazing experience. I was 17 back then, 27 now - but I wish I could go back and re-live that first experience playing through it. Oh how time flies...

[@berzerklikeyou4504]

Same, but my experience was a lot different because once I got it at midnight launch and a couple of hours into it I dropped it. The game was a absolute downgrade from the previous GTA games

[@criscrosxxx]

​@@berzerklikeyou4504what

[@vincentvarkor]

I was 15 when i got the game for Christmas

[@ThunderSims]

Same

[@Sticktothemodels]

Bro never experienced the 3 month wait from drop to online drop

[@marcosantoniodasilva4100]

It's so sad that the story mode dlc's were cut. I would love to see a zombie dlc. I watched an interview with Steven Ogg recently and he told that Rockstar was making some extra content for Trevor, but he didn't know what happened. Maybe he was talking about the DLC.

[@InvisibleHotdog]

Trevor was one of the original GTAO heists

[@S1lverArr0w]

It's been speculated that all the Single Player DLC was repurposed into GTA Online; Trevor's segment is believed to be what we know as The Doomsday Heist and I'm willing to bet money that the Los Santos Drug Wars DLC was also meant for Trevor but Ogg recently voiced his disdain with the character and wanted to distance himself from it. Dax acts and talks alot like Trevor. They have similar mannerisms too.

[@SuperGeronimo999]

Me too... but make it online too. Imagine the whole city without electricity, no lights working, everything being dark... you and your online friends having to use flashlights and night vision to reach a safe place. 95% of cars sitting dead roadside, if you find a car, you will to drive through waves of zombies and its with limited speed & fuel. Hardest mission going from the docks in the south to a bunker far in the North, mostly on foot. You could plan your routes through certain streets, going through train tunnels, and so on. My 15yr old self would have loved it.

[@FraserSouris]

Rockstar has talked about how despite GTA4 and RDR1 being massive successives, their respective DLCs undersold signficantly. Like, at most, both Episodes from Liberty City and Undead Nightmare sold 2 million copies each. Rockstar gave 2 main reasons as to why. The first was the fact that these DLCs released almost ane ntire year after their base games. Most of the audience would have played the singleplayer and moved on and weren't interested in the DLC. The second was that most people don't actually finish Rockstar games. GTA4, V, RDR, RDR2 all have between 20-30% completion ratings. People who haven't completed the game won't feel inclinded to spend more on the game. In any case, it is almost certain that elements from GTAV's DLC were reworked into Online.

[@diewott1337]

​@@FraserSouris It's all of question about having a player base that is going to buy DLCs. Rockstar's player base is used to have the full game and that's it and Rockstar themselves never really attempted to change that, because it would take a lot of long-time support for the games, which isn't really their MO. So I guess it makes sense that they only went that route in Online because online players except long-time support otherwise it dies out.

[@Vicky-Hugh-Martini]

Man 10 years. How much things changed for all of us.

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

I was 12 years old. Now I'm nearly 23🤣. Longest wait ever man.

[@MrLachapell]

Nothing for better , I wish I could go back 10 years

[@FlavioxD_]

​@@MrLachapell/2

[@safsnake]

same man@@MrLachapell

[@freethinker3716]

Where did the time go

[@Yesiloveburritos]

Calming voice, calming music, actually good content. Badger is better than rockstar, confirmed.

[@tyrannosaurusflex3698]

What are you talking about 😂 better than Rockstar wtf, Badger makes videos, Rockstar makes the games that the videos are based on

[@joe6839]

@@tyrannosaurusflex3698 Damn bro really? I didint know thanks for pointing it out

[@MattiAntsuK]

Starting to think if this the Badger that used to leak Minecraft related content like 1 month early (he's banned now).

[@Yesiloveburritos]

​@@tyrannosaurusflex3698Nuh uh

[@CoralCopperHead]

Not a high bar, to be sure.

[@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz]

Man, I can only imagine how a horse pursuit would've turned out in the game lol

[@enriquepastor3626]

Long time no see u… guess I’m not watching black panthaa that much anymore lol

[@lakshaykochhar6799]

I'm imagining John Marston with his black war horse trying to avoid Los Santos police's attempts to ram him into paste.

[@nicaalex6062]

That's more like a Trevor thing.since he's doing the most craziest things in the game

[@azzy3364]

9:00 even tho it was muted i still was able to hear what Lamar was saying 🤣

[@journeytree]

went from little kid to nearly done with college as an adult over the span of one GTA game

[@MrWolfSnack]

My dog was born, lived, and died in the span of one game.

[@TuP4pi707]

Went from teen to finishing university and joining the work force in the span of gta 5.

[@-sanju-]

I went from a 12 year old in 5th grade to a jobless 22 year old 🙃

[@Iwonder...0000]

I was 12 when V came out, I'll be 25 when 6 comes out.

[@hollowinside1962]

@@Iwonder...000015 when came out,27 when 6 is coming out

[@joesphstylin6532]

I remember coming home from school and seeing my collector's edition of GTA V sitting on the couch. I opened it up and waited for it to install then played thru prologue and first mission. Then I let my brother play a bit since I had to go to guitar lessons. I thought about GTA V the entire time on the drive over there and at the actual lesson itself. Edit to fix some grammar I messed up.

[@Kxvito]

How pissed was your teacher lol?

[@joesphstylin6532]

@@Kxvito He was actually pretty chill. I told him about the game and he seemed to understand why I was so excited.

[@CanadioIsCool]

Wait, i'm confused. So did your parents buy you the game while you were away, or did you guys buy it together and then you went to school?

[@joesphstylin6532]

@@CanadioIsCool It was delivered by mail.

[@CanadioIsCool]

@@joesphstylin6532 By whom? A friend, parents or did you order it?

[@mrjpuff]

The 2004-2014 era is unforgettable.

[@Vault_69]

This game came out a week before my 13th birthday. I was hyped as hell for it. Wild how much has changed in the past 10 years

[@elmatuko]

When this game came out i was 9, and had just started playing vc, great times. Happy birthday for the next week!

[@Vault_69]

@@elmatuko Thanks man

[@VEE0034]

Happy 23rd birthday!! (Read this in a week)

[@MultiYippee]

A week after my own 13th haha

[@MCoconut97]

It was a week before my 16th too! Crazy how the world has changed since then..

[@MegaDrain]

3:28 These are definitely npcs for gta iv. The npc "boy3s" is used in Kitty0706's video "Introducing Tommy Garcia" as the main character for that video.

[@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz]

"WHO THE HELL IS TOMMY GARCIA?!?!?"

[@MegaDrain]

@@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz *ding* --> THIS GUY

[@john4K47]

I was 15 when GTA 5 released. 25 now. Man I feel old. I still remember how eager I was for school to end that day, had alot of people talking about it. Even ran into one of my teachers at GameStop buying it

[@desuretard8654]

It's weird, I remember more when the first trailer dropped than I do about the release. I even remember a commercial on TV for GTA IV more than the release for V.

[@mike04574]

i was 9 when it came out and my parents didnt let me buy it. Im in my 2nd year of uni now

[@yougotaknife]

Skool sux

[@MrWolfSnack]

I was 21, Now I'm 31.

[@billthareal]

Me and you have the same story especially when school had ended I got mines from Wal-Mart though 😅

[@rollschuh2282]

3:15 looking at the texture names. i believe those were probably very early images they took for the GTAO character creator. on PS3/360 you chose the grandparents of your mom and dad. and then your mom and dad as well iirc. which seems to line up. like the mom and dad ones were for the grandparents at that stage and the boy and girl ones were your parents.

[@MrWolfSnack]

I totally forgot about that holy shit yeah.

[@danielaponte4054]

One thing that annoys me so much is that in the early builds of V and the firsts trailers the vegetation is MUCH MORE DEEP, but they cut it since it was too much for the PS3/360 to handle, and they didn't add it back in the PS4/ONE/PC release neither in the Expanded and Enhanced

[@TheSultan1470]

It's a gameplay reason

[@RatzCarnatz]

just play rdr2, it's basically Vegetation: the game, lol

[@channe3049]

The entire game was basically built from the old hardware of PS3 and Xbox 360, and the game only received more contents over the years without receiving any gameplay and mechanics improvement/overhaul onto PS4/Xbox One beyond. Basically the current version of GTA 5 that people play is just a port from the original PS3/Xbox 360 game.

[@TheSultan1470]

@@channe3049 Which doesn't contain more vegetation, as it would cause significant gameplay obstruction and visual clutter

[@MrWolfSnack]

Fun fact that most people don't know, and I have evidence of this on my gaming channel - you can actually hide in the bushes from the cops and they can't find you.

[@Kxvito]

I believe the swearing limit was a story/character reasoning behind it. When you see characters in media constantly just swearing it becomes all they’re really known to do which overshadows all the other things about them. Rockstar obviously doesn’t want their characters to just be known as some swearing high score attempts (very thin line I must say). So they just limited it to only 5000 swear words per cutscene.

[@TheSultan1470]

Yeah, that makes sense. The game is quite vulgar with it's language BUT, realistically so.

[@Finiskyy1]

I kind of wish we got something more from Rockstar for GTA V's 10th anniversary, but Badger Goodger is my gift, love your content Badger keep it up

[@frstwhsprs]

"We celebrate a game's 10 year anniversary and all we get is a lousy shirt"

[@NotoriousJohnsonBig]

im gonna miss all those memories and moments i had while playing this game back in 2013.

[@Southernswag8283]

I really hope GTA 6 is big enough to actually have a reason to use planes, private jets and stuff like that. Can you imagine in real life the trip takes 4 hours but in game it takes 4 minutes to travel. I’m just obsessed with commercial flying and really hope they actually create a map large enough to realistically fly across the map.

[@ThunderSims]

Just play flight simulator, silly :p

[@crunkaintdead7702]

That's a good idea until you get a mission where you need to go to the other side of the map

[@vimukthimanodya7954]

It’s around 2 times as the size of gta v’s map.

[@Jiub_SN]

@@crunkaintdead7702they'd probably reimplement trip skipping like in SA if it was big to the point of being unfun which it looks like it'll be

[@bo2fan469]

the crew 2 might be the perfect game for you, its massive, covers most of america, and you can fly planes from one side to the other

[@AlejandroDiaz-ll5eq]

Watching this after the VI trailer only makes me smile. Great vid dude

[@synthnation9857]

you know, it's kinda weird that there isn't any official behind the scenes or making of videos for this game aside from the fact that it's one of the most successful pieces of media in the world. that or we have to look up in various places for little fact, or watching videos dedicated to this topic. although I know they don't really gonna do this(that and the fact that they always being lack in communication with fans in the past), but I hope they will make some behind the scenes or retrospective video, talking about their games, have the developers and the voice actors be in it. you know, like those behind the scenes of a movie.

[@Meriato]

I wished they did that, it's a shame how high is the lack of communication from Rockstar to the community.

[@synthnation9857]

@@Meriato yeah I always feels weird about thier lack of communication. even big studios like EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Nintendo have some communication to the fans.

[@TheSultan1470]

​@@Meriato No, R* are not about that crap. And I like it. Keeps the mystique.

[@emily1]

Not keeping up with fans is ok. I’d rather there was no controversy with take two over mods tho.

[@bitterlemonboy]

I think there's a video with Steven Ogg explaining how they do motion capture.

[@ace.of.skulls]

I was in 3rd grade when this game released now I just graduated high school and gta 5 is still the most recent gta game

[@thefooonthecouch]

Bro fr 😭😭

[@decemberstragicdrive]

lmao yeah i was in 2nd grade and i’m a senior now shits crazy

[@bagelsman160]

I was borned the year when gta 5 came out

[@thefooonthecouch]

@@bagelsman160 oh nah you a fetus my nigga

[@tehogvirgin3664]

@@bagelsman160 BRO

[@Vraptor1]

I wasn’t old enough to remember the Lauch Day of GTA 5 in 2013, but I’ve been old enough to remember it’s third launch in 2022. Here’s to 10 years of an otherwise fantastic game!

[@desuretard8654]

Jesus Christ

[@suwooshi]

what

[@IskenderCaglarM41B441]

I was old enough to remember but I missed

[@Vraptor1]

@@desuretard8654 yeah, 10 years old then, now I’m old enough to drink. pretty crazy

[@berzerklikeyou4504]

​@@Vraptor1you don't remember being 10 years old?

[@Catonator]

The story being rewritten last minute sounds really strange, but also fitting. I wonder if Lamar's cut plot would've been set somewhere around the halfway point of the game, since between the (removed) Sharmoota job and Merryweather heist there's a bizarre chunk of the game where nothing of consequence happens for several hours.

[@TheSultan1470]

I mean, I think the game is great the way it is, but overall it has a feel that something is missing, most likely due to logistical reasons ingolving the actors, as we've seen here and other reasons.

[@abemigos9281]

What cut plot, lmao

[@TheSultan1470]

@@abemigos9281 Well, for starters, the entire Sharmoota Job string as well as F and T supposedly working with Michael on his Solomon Richards missions.

[@FraserSouris]

To be fair, it's rare to actually find a game that wasn't changed signficiantly partway through development. Almost every game changes either due to practicality or due to new information or logictical issues. If anything, this is actually a good thing because it allows development to be flexible and adapt if something isn't working out or is causing issues. A good case study is actually the Deus Ex series. Warren Spectre, director of Deus Ex 1, has talked about how they developed a "game bible" for Deus Ex 1 before development started. But by the end of development, only around half of that bible was used in the final product. The other half was either changed or removed and the game was better for it. He gives the example of the game's opening level. Originally, the game was going to start very slow paced and have the player meet with every NPC in their organization before being sent out on their first mission. in order to properly set up the story, characters and setting. But Spectre noted how this made the experience drag. So he swapped it out with the second level and reworked it so the game started with a sandbox mission on Liberty Island and the whole "meet the squad" part can later and was shorter. The end result was that while the game may stumble to explain its story at first, its gameplay makes a strong first impression and is much more replayable. In contrast, 2011's Deus Ex Human Revolution actually operated the oppoiste way. The game was planned to a tee beforehand and devs followed their "game bible" as closely as possible. But this ended up causing issues in the final version because even if something wasn't working out, it couldn't be changed. Human Revoution starts by causing the same issue that Deus Ex 1 noticed and avoided by starting with a long drawn out unskippable cutscene introducing the story, characters and plot and therefore drags on every repeat playthrough. Also the bosses.

[@TheSultan1470]

@@FraserSouris Yeah, but with R* it's special because they're a very opaque dev team and company. The production of V is very mysterious and I'd love to find out more about the process and it's prototypes.

[@JIREX]

3:14 the early meshes in the back are crazy early from likely late 2009. As the buildings dont even have textures and the palm trees are just polygons. Crazy stuff

[@zonesquestiloveunderworld]

In particular the dark-skinned bald guy appears to be standing _underneath_ the map, or at least inside a building, there's so much "blue hell" visible behind him.

[@StuartLugsden]

Horses also appear in the pisswasser advert and they used RDR1 gameplay.

[@kclowney97]

I don’t know how crazy this will sound but apparently there was a live action ad filmed in Mexico and on a wall there was a five/V banknote logo on a banner. I recently rediscovered it today but I can only find photos of the set, if anyone knows anything that came of it, itd be great find out because it’s technically lost media.

[@seedingsoul]

Very fascinating

[@FUT_23416]

I want to look up the pics on Google what did you search?

[@Silvermon]

Hola soy de México y recuerdo la filtración de la filmación de ese comercial en 2012. El comercial fue hecho en un estacionamiento de un edificio mediano en el centro de la Ciudad de México. En el estacionamiento había un logo como tú dices, un hombre tenía un traje como Michael y la calle de a lado estaba cerrada porque había autos que simulaban un accidente. En los foros se especulaba mucho sobre quién lo hacía o si era un montaje de un fan. Al final de concluyó que era un comercial hecho por Sony ya que en esa época ya habían hecho un comercial live-action de los protagonistas de franquicias de Sony como el crossover de Uncharted / God of War / InFamous. Además desde 2010 Sony quería ganar audiencia en Latinoamérica haciendo comerciales ahí entre ellos un conocido anuncio hecho en México o Argentina donde personas arrojan aparatos en una catapulta para promocionar el Ps3. La razón por la que no se supo más del anuncio no se sabe pero tengo la hipótesis de que Rockstar no iba a permitir una colaboración sin su permiso ya que nunca habían hecho esa clase de comerciales con sus franquicias (el cortometraje de GTA 2 no cuenta). Eso explicaría porque jamas hubo un comunicado oficial sobre la colaboración y porque tampoco continúo la filmación. Curiosamente Rockstar dio permiso a Sony para hacer un paquete exclusivo de GTA V + Ps3 Super Slim en la salida del juego. Espero te haya servido, es lo poco que recuerdo de la época.

[@kclowney97]

@@FUT_23416 I just googled “live action commercial gta v Mexico”

[@kclowney97]

@@Silvermon ¡Muchas gracias por la informacion! Que Rockstar games no permita ninguna promoción cruzada tiene mucho sentido de por qué la noticia del comercial había desaparecido. Utilicé el traductor de Google, así que lamento los errores. English below: Thank you so much for the information! Rockstar games not allowing any cross promotion makes a lot of sense of why the news of the commercial had disappeared. I used google translate, so I’m sorry for any mistakes.

[@worleyzack]

Imagine going into a coma in 2014 and waking up in 2025 and GTA 6 STILL not being out.

[@zekion.]

11:37 I'm glad they limited swearing because as evident in tons of adult shows, swearing too much can often stifle creativity. It's completely understandable and I'm very glad they took this step. Swearing should be used to make a point and not used 24/7 to the point it loses its meaning/power. ifykwim.

[@garrett5268]

Badger, your voice goes so well with these videos

[@Will-nj1ph]

i bet those npc portraits were for potential profiles for lifeinvader

[@LogOfOne]

Fact #3 is pretty interesting. It sounds very much like APB and I wonder if Rockstar backtracked that idea after seeing the reception of that game. For anyone interested, APB was a 100 mil money pit.

[@TheSultan1470]

Hmm...

[@S2nppy]

Its honestly baffling that channels with such just weird topics exist. 99% of people do not care about 10 development facts about gta V but I do! And theres a channel here for people like me who are just super interested in the development and early concepts of games in general. Thank you badger!

[@Churco_]

6:22 Damn your Spanish is really good! 10/10

[@sandrohernandez4401]

That was excellent pronunciation

[@FooodSandwich]

yeah it definitely feels like Blaine County was just meant to be the area around Paleto Bay. The Great Ocean Highway bridge over Raton Canyon has signs that say "Blaine County" implying that's where the county border was supposed to start. But now it is generally agreed upon that Blaine County reaches all the way down to Route 68, where it borders LS County.

[@TheSultan1470]

Hm...

[@mrherobrine_15]

GTA 6 trailer is out

[@xbomber125]

3:18 maybe it's an early version of the GTAO character creator where you choose the parents?

[@HeySlickThatsMe]

There's no evidence that the alien dlc was ever being worked on but it was considered, the Zombie DLC was for all three characters while Agent DLC was exclusive for Trevor based on leftover files

[@Supahdenning]

The quantity of alien content both in the base game and online is strong evidence imo. It's too much to be a one-off joke, they had some kind of lore in mind, and an Alien-centric campaign explains it perfectly.

[@bongtingstill]

i was 13 years old when V came out. It was surreal and 10 years later i’m still hopping into the story mode.

[@MurphDawgProductions]

There are adults with careers who can say “I grew up playing GTA V” and that… hurts.

[@wanyamachannel]

Your Spanish of La Fuente Blanca it's so satisfying

[@GausuwaMika]

your voice is so calming, i could listen all day!

[@keshonhend2047]

The swearing thing makes sense when you think about how none of the sex and violence is real. But the swearing is. You can’t fake swearing like you can fake sex and gore.

[@JhonPittsburg]

I wonder if cutting horses was a technical decision or if they cut them to keep GTA and RDR more distinct.

[@portman8909]

Sure, but watch them add horses to GTA 6 lol

[@MattiAntsuK]

Fact 3. My friend and I used to do a ton of police roleplaying in the xbox 360 days. We were blown away at the fact that there were good guy bad guy type of roles. And that the sessions would be similar to GTA IV.

[@ChairWasTaken]

Your videos are awesome they make my day when you post them. Keep up the amazing work

[@GT2OOO]

Nice cut at 9:20 lmao

[@agustin__]

Fact 10 might be because of the international markets being favored in having little to no swearing in the dialogues. Translations might be tricky, and it can come off as vulgar, having no swear language can also facilitate to keep the focus on the nuances in the story.

[@xBlackPanda]

I still remember that I wanted a Playstation 3 for my birthday with GTA 5 because my birthday was the day after the release. Unfortunately, I was disappointed, but 2 years later I was able to play the PC version, even though my laptop was far too weak at the time. I was at least able to play it a little. How the time flies :D

[@jazz_soroyuza]

In years to come, I would love to see you make a development facts video for GTA VI as well

[@Behdad47]

I first played GTA V on my PS3 on launch day. It took me seven months to finish the campaign while starting out in the Online. I'm so happy for all the memories, laughs, friendships, late-night talks, heists, jobs, races, and fun I had with this game. Rockstar is not the company I once trusted, but it did give me a decade of memories with this game.

[@Falcarious]

I feel like horses had the potential to singlehoofedly change the trajectory GTA Online took

[@Castri999]

Still baffles me that my mom took my 13 y/o ass to the midnight release to pickup my preordered copy. She had no idea what the hype was about, but knew it would make me happy. Many good memories have came from this game alone over the past 10 years.

[@SmackedByJack]

Nice

[@SpongeBobHennessy]

That’s a good mom

[@chumunga648]

I wish they kept the round minimap with the health, armor, and ability bats circling around them. The final UI is such a nightmare to read with the miniscule health and armor bars

[@atd2666]

3:30 - These images were probably placeholders for their system of choosing your team, for the big heists. And probably for other testing puposes where "mugshots" were being used.

[@HeySlickThatsMe]

They're for online character creation, selecting parents

[@winah]

The way you pronounced "La fuente blanca" was just perfect

[@TossenBC]

I find it funny that nobody mentions that the foliage in the game had to be completely redone, back on the ps3/Xbox360 ports. Back then R* struggled to get the game running properly. A leak said it ran at 13 fps. therefore all of the foliage was removed. All the foliage was then placed, but reduced significantly. If you take a look at some of the screenshots from the portfolios, it shows the old much more dense foliage, even the original trailer does it. The end result ended up being more empty spots, dotted all around the map. The saddest part, that build carried over from xbox360/ps3 to the later ps4/xbox one (although i got upgraded significantly), and now series SX and PS5. We never witnessed gta folliage at its glory.

[@MrWolfSnack]

I remember when I was modding San Andreas PC I added more trees and shrubs to the abandoned airport to make it seem more abandoned and it looked so nice.

[@SuperGeronimo999]

I remember how PS3 version had like 6 character slots with all of them except two being locked away... now if im not mistaken, with RDR2 we only have one character. Makes me wonder about GTA VI.

[@TossenBC]

@@SuperGeronimo999 Lamar was one of the cut characters that we could play. But it got scraped due to him getting in some legal trouble.

[@Supahdenning]

It would still run at 13fps today. Ultra Grass quality on PC is an insane performance hit as is, something about how they fundamentally render it is fucked.

[@FrankDeCiccoTheSavior]

Hell yes, I was hoping you'd post!

[@iAmTaki]

I love this game so much... I could hear development facts for hours and hours.

[@berzerklikeyou4504]

Don't see what you can "Love" about this game besides feeling nostalgic towards it.

[@iAmTaki]

@@berzerklikeyou4504 don't see why a normal person would go around in KZbin comments trying to invalidate other people's feelings.

[@berzerklikeyou4504]

@@iAmTaki it's because there's nothing to love about this cash grab of a game. GTA v is a downgrade from IV and people like you overrate the shit out of it with out even having the slightest knowledge of what makes a game good. So please forgive me for invalidating your little feelings.

[@iAmTaki]

@@berzerklikeyou4504 damn... I'm so sorry for you. I wish you all the best, I hope you find the happiness and meaning you need in your life. After you sort that out, you may understand that people like different things than you and you don't need to disrespect them because of it.

[@berzerklikeyou4504]

@@iAmTaki First of all stop acting like a victim. Secondly I don't have a problem with your personal preferences towards a game, but when you act the fool and become defensive over a disagreement instead of arguing or clarifying your opinion on the matter at hand you instead shift the problem elsewhere. I was hoping you might get into the reasons why you love this game so much and why you would watch hours of useless information about this game unconditionally. I just wanted to find out why people like you regardless of sex or age, that when a game that has tarnished a legacy before it, can make you lost in emotion and nostalgia with out even asking yourself what made you "love" this game? I will give you an example, I LOVE Halo 2. Halo 2 is a masterpiece because the devs put their heart and soul into the game and even though it had lots of missing content the game still to this day holds up because unlike GTA v or any other modern game it was meant to entertain and give meaning to the game and gamers so when looked back at it it was not just nostalgia, but actual fond memories.

[@Travis31427]

Watching this after year 11. Still dope

[@alexwasherefirst]

I just realized at 2:19 if you look at the map, this is probably the closest we’ll ever be to that cut 3rd culdesac. It’s a shame that we can’t see it though, I wanna know what it looked like SO BAD.

[@Boogieboogersboo]

For some reason los santos sky scrapers look like they put on face cream

[@Hellodude-el1sp]

​@@Boogieboogersboo probably because the early models were taken from san Andrea's and using 4's lighting

[@Boogieboogersboo]

@@Hellodude-el1sp 4s lightning = vaseline jelly

[@AussiePrick]

the pictures at 3:20 kinda look like they may have been lifeinvader placeholders for testing the ingame web browser?

[@Itz-Bob-69]

Whelp. The first trailer for 6 was dropped…we still have 2 years for that story DLC @rockstar games

[@MrWolfSnack]

The swearing limit is due to the fact that in other countries a certain amount of swearing gets the game an AO rating - which is a death sentence for videogames. No retailer will stock it.

[@TordaiJenoArthurJenci]

the cut horses from rdr 1 were later reused in rdr2

[@parker73724]

I really wish we could go back to a time before Rockstar realized how crazy financially successful GTA online could be. I feel like Rockstar only wants to make single player experiences to get you to buy the game in the first place and eventually try GTA online at this point.

[@YOMARTINPRODUCTIONS]

Big props for pronouncing "La Fuente Blanca" the right way

[@rd101]

4:33 This whole concept is actually really cool! I wish they kept it in GTA Online.

[@joman66]

I think GTA V still has beta assets in the game, with regards to the textures. When you're looking at different things in-game, and change the LOD (level of detail) of things like signs, the textures become blurrier, but the texture itself changes. Some change very little, while others change a lot. It's like they rendered the LOD of all the textures in the game at different times, instead of at the end with the final textures. This is something I'd seen years ago and I have never seen anybody mention online since. In honestly, I don't know if it's a known thing or not.

[@TheSultan1470]

It is a thing in every GTA game

[@MrWolfSnack]

Every videogame has this, it's how texture mapping works. Nothing to remark about.

[@JALC-x]

"man, sorry horse"

[@wasifali112]

I hope rockstar considers having you on for an in universe podcast.

[@karan_for_you]

For real, that podcast must include, The Professional, Vadim and Dark Space.

[@djkaos.mp3]

Awesome video my man! I really enjoyed it! ❤

[@andersonferreira669]

I remember the announcement for the first trailer in 2011, I was amazed when I see it. Now ten years have been passed since launch day, and no GTA VI. We know that the next game is in production, let's wait for the next announcement, I hope that it don't take soo long from now. Excellent video! Best Regards, from Brazil.

[@SuperGeronimo999]

I have accepted the fact that GTA VI will be my last GTA... unless they change something, it will be like 1-2 decades until GTA VII.

[@rangerv1]

On the way to Paleto bay you can see a sign that says that Blaine county is forward despite the sign already being in Blaine County and I feel like a location based on Palm Springs was cut

[@hermos3602]

I was 17 years old when GTA 5 came out. Those ten years felt like a lifetime ago.

[@AccelSternritter]

Now let's wait another 10 years for GTA 6

[@uzijn]

I was there at the midnight release. The whole shopping centre was closed, dark and empty except for one shop which was allowed to stay open to sell the game. I still have my pre-order poster!

[@dannyarchives]

5:11 also a road that connects alamo sea/grapeseed with paleto through chilliad, not sure how he didnt mention that

[@blakegriplingph]

What about the barely-discussed speculation on where R* got the idea for Molly Schultz's appearance and character? A friend of mine pointed out how she appears to be an allusion to the American Girl character Molly McIntire, down to the brunette hair, glasses and the mention of Weston and Schultz in both the AG books and GTA V. It may seem bizarre and doubtful but it's still worth looking into.

[@TheSultan1470]

Very cool!

[@TheSultan1470]

R* does refrence literature occasionally, the character Arnaud from TBoGT is also a book character.

[@blakegriplingph]

@@TheSultan1470 From what book are you referring to? That's interesting nonetheless!

[@TheSultan1470]

@@blakegriplingph I forget, check Arnaud's GTA wiki page

[@MrWolfSnack]

Don't forget the mission where you save Antonia Bonitto. The real life mafia member her character was based on actually sued rockstar for inappropriately using her details in the game.

[@МаксимФедотов-н6я]

Woooow. So many details I didn’t know before, thank you!

[@vale_33]

And 1 hour ago, rockstar announced the GTA 6 trailer to be out this December, holy shit.

[@dankbison]

u should try a pop filter and eq for the voice man, that might make things sound a lot less punchy and sharp on consonants and S's. just a thought

[@mkdfan]

😭 That story dlc sounded like it would have been fun! Screw you GTA Online!

[@zizogamers]

10 facts, 10 years of gta 5, 10 years of disappoinment

[@Blonder_Studio]

bro im a gamedev and hearing about development cycles of other games and seeing how games progressed over their development cycle is always interesting, this video is awesome its nice seeing how the map looked like with the GTA 4 graphics

[@TreSwayy]

I like these types of vids, shows you how much effort is spent developing these giant games. I imagine it’s hell lol

[@kisumiri]

Can't wait for 10 more GTA V dev facts

[@OroVR]

i wish we could see what the characters and map looked like in that first 2009 build

[@HEKVT]

I remember going over to a friends house a week or so after launch and playing it on his 360. I was blown away, it was awesome.

[@monochrome2134]

i actually thought at fact 10 that you were going to mention the altered dialogue between michael and trevor in the beginning of mission “by the book”. for those who don’t know, it was recently discovered that originally trevor casually called michael “my n***a” during their sarcastic dialogue, but in the final version he calls him “sugartits”. i can totally see why they changed that though, since it just sounds weird and off-putting, but maybe the initial idea was that trevor thought he kinda gained an n-word pass after spending some time with franklin, but that just my silly speculation

[@MrWolfSnack]

Trevor is definitely the type of person to sarcastically use "my nigga" in a mocking way to people

[@monochrome2134]

@@MrWolfSnack i have to add that after listening to the actual thing, trevor didn’t even say it like that (toned down). he full on used hard R. that’s actually pretty weird if you ask me and idk what rockstar were cooking

[@Supahdenning]

This gets weirder when you consider that Slink(Lamar) said there were no N-words in the script he was given and he made them all up. So as far as we know, that was the only instance of it that Rockstar intended

[@KiLlACaMrOn94]

I’m so glad they scrapped the idea of the CnC multiplayer for the Online we got. There’s no way this game survives as long as it has with that style of multiplayer. I enjoyed it in the smaller GTA IV, but I do not think it would fit in GTA V the way it was in IV and it seems as though that’s what they were going for at first. Whether you like or dislike the Online mode, it has allowed such an awesome game to thrive for a decade.

[@_Devil]

These 10 years have seemed like 100 years purely because Rockstar has *never* fully communicated anything with us. They've dropped indecipherable cryptic messages in the form of Newswire posts but other than that, they've kept their trap shut on everything they're doing on the inside. Which I suppose a Shareholder can make the argument of "blah blah blah it's their company blah blah blah" or whatever but this is beyond asinine. We've given our heart and soul to this company for 20+ years now and we've gotten very little in return for the past 10. It's absurd how shut and closed they are about even the smallest things, such as why exactly they removed 200 cars from the in-game stores.

[@revolucion5398]

that isnt cryptic. its a move to make you pay more money. extended monetization for their 10 year old game.

[@MrAjking808]

Little in return lol , stop being entitled

[@JackycakesV2]

It’s called building hype. And people do the advertising for them. Have you ever seen a Tesla or Lamborghini ad? Exactly

[@JackycakesV2]

@@revolucion5398if you think gta online affected gta 6s development you are delusional

[@Violator225]

@@JackycakesV2it definitely did ruin it rockstar even admits this smh