So is there more interactive hidden stuff to do like sniffing the rag? @YorkReacts I just want to confirm so my searches are for nothing. I've been searching for those types of things for a long time.
Yo man, listening to your interview currently and it’s awesome! Just wanted to say, personally I think you have a potentiality here to be like the next Typical Gamer cause he got big covering any gta 5 news, and with your unique perspective you already have a platform, like I’m no RUclipsr but I think now you’re like in your training arc ya know working on like engaging w the audience and refining retention stats etc. then when gta 6 comes out you can do lets plays and again since you’re a former rockstar dev it’ll attract a large audience. Im sure you thought of this but I thought maybe if I said something it’d like, boost your confidence in the idea or something like that. Best of luck to you though man! The work you did in gta 5 helped to make my teenage years a blast. I used to talk with friends about every single detail of gta 5 I could find and went on to put thousands of hours in the game 👍🏽
Would love to see Ned Luke as a guest, would provide some valuable insight in to what it's like being a lead character and he's just a great guy in general. Great episode as always, keep up the good work guys!
Really great to be back with the OG CVG gang like it was back in the day. I was able to chat to Dan and Tim via message a few years ago which was amazing. Awesome to continue the journey with you guys. 🤙
I remember going through GTAV trailers trying to nail down where Michael's house was located based on buildings and cranes in the background lol Love to see this channels back!!
It's good to see y'all back! Knowing that this channel exists for the two recent GTA games, across a decade of time, gives me some stability in this world.
Awesome interview, Mike seems like a mellow guy. I did wonder though, why he no longer works for Rockstar anymore? He said he left the company before the release of RDR2 and it made me wonder what the reasons were for that.
Man, I have more nostalgia for sitting down to watch GTA V o'clock every week than I do for the actual game. And now here you are again popping up in my recommended, 10 years later. What a time to be alive.
Swear to god I was asking about when a new video is coming out. The entitlement I have isn’t helped by you immediately dropping it. It’s so appreciated guys.
I'm so worried that this GTA is going to turn to shit without Dan Houser and the old writing team. Lazlo Jones as well. They both among other old Rockstar employees has joined Dan in his new project called Absurd Ventures.
@@johanjonasson4188 GTA VI started development in 2014. Dan and Lazlo left in 2020, Michael Unsworth a few months ago. So you could expect the majority of the story would've been written before they quit. For RDR2 they had a rough script of the game within 2 years of starting development. Of course writing always continues. Even now they have a job offer open for "Associate Writer: Pedestrian & Ambient Dialogue"
You fellas do a great job with this channel and this show. Keep up the great work! Much appreciated. Side note, I'm a life-long FL resident myself. Not a historian and not great with the topography of the state, but I might be able to get answers to future questions you may have, so fire away!
I think Lucia and Jason's relationship will be a more grounded and less crazier version of Claude and Catalina's, and their ending will either end in death or betrayal.
I think the leak helped because if it had launched worldwide, the internet would have broken. People wouldn't have been able to view it once let alone over and over and over again. The staggered views enabled the internet/RUclips to handle the massive worldwide traffic.
Give over, the trailer launch was big yes but this is RUclips they handle billions of video views, it would have been no problem. Rockstar uploaded it to RUclips in advance so it was encoded and distributed around the world to their CDN, it would have been fine
It’s such a shame Dan Houser is no longer writing the GTA games. He IS Rockstar & GTA. I can’t lie and say I’m not a worried about the game even a little bit because he’s been integral to the identity of GTA. So many times we see companies get a change of hierarchy and they’re never the same and never as good as they once were. I’m hopeful Rockstar won’t change quality wise and the fact Sam is still heading the company gives me hope that he will quality control the game and make sure it is amazing and smart just like all the other GTAs.
It would be great for GTA 6 to go to its roots in the 3D universe and explore trust issues in criminal relationships. This was never explored in GTA 3 with Claude and Catalina. A heartbreaking betrayal hasn’t really been explored in the GTA 3D universe. Male main character working for police/undercover would be nice element.
I've got a theory that there's a third playable character in the trailer. There's a scene where two dudes, one with dreads and one with a bandana on shake hands. That cutscene feels too close up and significant to be an NPC interaction. Timestamp - 4:56
I remember those transition animations in GTA 5. The first few times you are like wow they are so cool. After 12 times you get bored of them and want it to be over ASAP so you can get on with the game... And when GTA Online kicks you out of lobby to story and those animations play, you feel like you wanna kill the dude who did them. lol
So, random add in. Gameplay where you switch between the protagonists have been done very well just like GTAV. Army of Two comes to mind. That sort of system in GTA would be amazing
Loving the show lads! Interview was great too! Would love to know from Mike York that whilst working on GTAV if he knew the plot/story of the game or due to rockstar being so secretive he would purely get given a brief of what to animate and that was it, how many employees know the story? I look forward to the next episode, hopefully sooner rather than later. @gtavioclock
It is a bit ironic that part of Rockstars secret actual target audience (teenagers-who technically aren’t supposed to be playing the game) is the one that leaked their secret stuff. Don’t worry, the amount of money they’ll make off of said restricted audience is going to more than make up for it 😅
The way RDR2 pushed the PS4/XOne, I have faith the same is true for VI with the PS5/Series, with ofc S being a downgrade. I'm excited to go back to Vice City. As for people who come and go in the game's history, I think things will be fine. Final Fantasy is still going strong even though a lot of its legacy people are long gone.
I think the pro series will put something out that’ll be perfect for this game. I have an Xbox series s just for 2k otherwise I use PC for almost everything else. Hopefully a i5 13600K and 4070 TI handles without any hiccups.
@@Fella_Jake I primarily use my PS5 and Nintendo Switch but when it comes to multiplayer and modding, I tend to gravitate to PC. I'm excited to see how the final game will turn out.
Hey lads! You’ve explained about your Spotify channel but not put this episode or the previous one on there. Any chance please? Keep up the great work.
44:42 thought it was solved by the act 3 doomsday heist in online were you go into the top secret mountain complex kill the people in there and ride off with a jet pack?
Here’s what my only concern is…the trailer to me was a bunch of cutscenes and wasn’t captured from in game footage..reminds me of how you were able to watch some of the videos from your laptop or phone on GTA V. This was the same way I felt with GTA V when that trailer came out and it turned out the only difference was the AI population count wasn’t true to trailer like people on the pier or beach.
if you gys could take out ur breathing in the mic during interviews it would be awesome. Headphones it was like someone breathing in my ear wasn't best experience.
35:55 So York admits what everybody thought - Rockstar has changed after Dan Houser and Leslie Benzies left the company. So when GTA6 comes out, we will how much it changed.
As an actual developer, it irks me when I am being misled by video titles, and animators and designers are being called what they are not. A developer writes code. This guy doesn't write code; he animates. He is an animator. Would you also call the admin and HR people developers because they choose to work in the same industry? Where would you draw the line?
I was thinking the same thing, but I realized it's probably just clickbait to get more views. More people would click on a video that says "Developer" vs "Animator".
Wait so you are saying animators are not game developers? I’m confused… is there lingo that I’m missing that I am not supposed to use in my video titles? I always felt that if you are apart of the development of the game in any way other then HR ect you are a game developer.
The gator walked into a Walmart near Orlando (Sanford I believe). GTA6 will go that far north, just. Because the guy watering his lawn in a thong happened in Marion County. 90 miles north of Orlando. I think they should be able to handle a large map. As you mentioned about SSDs and current hardware, Absorb/MS was able to map Earth to scale in FS2020.
Pls bring over Roger Clark and ask him about his experience with Dan, imran, leslie, laslow and how important those figures were. What he expects going forward
How about the Alligator going into the convenience store that it can be a way to set up a heist in distracting the people in the store (I could be far off but for a humorous thing Rockstar would include)
Rockstar’s gonna be like Omegle if these leakers keep leaking things. They’ll literally just go “I don’t want to do this cause I don’t have to… so I’m just gonna shut it down now.”
I wouldn't put that much weight behind BTS having the top spot for views. Record labels and influencers are notorious for using techniques like streaming farms to artificially inflate views. Music video also get a lot of their numbers from autoplays, so lots of those views didn't come from people specifically looking for the new BTS music video, but I'm pretty sure view for GTA VI trailer 1 was deliberate. Also, if you ad the view Rockstar lost to GameSpot, IGN, and other gaming news outlets, they firmly beat the record by at least 10 million.
After owning all the vehicle businesses I still can't hijack a parked car without busting the window! And I feel Rockstar should have done this business for Franklin as base game or DLC. I like the DLC but I would tweek a few variables. 8/10
I’ve seen a lot of people not understand that gta 5 was maxing PS3, and that there have been 2 massive generational leaps of console. Personally I don’t think current gen will have any issue getting 60fps with GTA6.
Side note: I 100% GTA 5 on Xbox 360. Right now I’m doing it again but on Xbox One. No cheats, no guides, no maps.. 1st time took me like a solid year of unemployed gaming 😂
Could take you years, buuuuuuuuuuttt, I reckon you've nailed the title of your platform. Question is can you keep pumping out content at 6pm every niiiiight?!! Get some BBC news thud thuds on the front end and you'll be mega!
I think you guys could do an episode on the last fish supper and gonnaenodaethat. His video riddles would be right up your alley and hes spoken about all manner of topics that you guys are touching on like following the money trail etc. hes top so he doesnt spoil anything and hes not a leaker hes just a character presenting his visions of events in edinbrugh games. (Hes definitely hinted at benzies content but its central pillar is gta vi).
It's the same content from previous episodes just cut down Into more bite-sized chunks. This will always be the channel to get the info and reactions first.
You can't even imagine what i've seen in gta 5 single player using mods (just moving around map analysing peds and places). Better if i don't even tell you.
Thanks for the interview! It was awesome speaking with you guys and this was a fun video!
Thanks for talking to us! Was great having you on the show.
Just started watching, so excited to hear all your thoughts!
Should come on again, would love some more stories and the chemistry was cool xx
So is there more interactive hidden stuff to do like sniffing the rag? @YorkReacts
I just want to confirm so my searches are for nothing. I've been searching for those types of things for a long time.
Yo man, listening to your interview currently and it’s awesome! Just wanted to say, personally I think you have a potentiality here to be like the next Typical Gamer cause he got big covering any gta 5 news, and with your unique perspective you already have a platform, like I’m no RUclipsr but I think now you’re like in your training arc ya know working on like engaging w the audience and refining retention stats etc. then when gta 6 comes out you can do lets plays and again since you’re a former rockstar dev it’ll attract a large audience. Im sure you thought of this but I thought maybe if I said something it’d like, boost your confidence in the idea or something like that. Best of luck to you though man! The work you did in gta 5 helped to make my teenage years a blast. I used to talk with friends about every single detail of gta 5 I could find and went on to put thousands of hours in the game 👍🏽
4:35
They were almost certainly robbed of biggest premiere in RUclips history by the leak
Would love to see Ned Luke as a guest, would provide some valuable insight in to what it's like being a lead character and he's just a great guy in general. Great episode as always, keep up the good work guys!
Fuck ned luke. Just a guy who used hi popularity of after gta 5 to make money. He doeasnt even enjoy gamjng looks like he pretend to
It happened as you wished :D
Really great to be back with the OG CVG gang like it was back in the day. I was able to chat to Dan and Tim via message a few years ago which was amazing. Awesome to continue the journey with you guys. 🤙
I remember going through GTAV trailers trying to nail down where Michael's house was located based on buildings and cranes in the background lol
Love to see this channels back!!
It's good to see y'all back! Knowing that this channel exists for the two recent GTA games, across a decade of time, gives me some stability in this world.
Really like listening to Mikes perspective on certain things that most people wont know cause of his developer knowledge. Great interview!
Dam I remember following you guys leading up to gta 5. Memories back then. Looking forward to what you guys do for 6 🔥
Rockstar should give you guys a radio talk show on the actual GTA 6 game. you guys are GTA legends
yh cvg days memories man
So good to have you guys back . I was there listening to you guys 10 + years ago on the hype train for GTA V. Hype !!!
Awesome interview, Mike seems like a mellow guy. I did wonder though, why he no longer works for Rockstar anymore? He said he left the company before the release of RDR2 and it made me wonder what the reasons were for that.
He replied to a comment in one of his videos that he loves the creative freedom he has in a smaller studio and team nowadays.
@@Mer0lkThanks! 👍
I've heard it mostly as "lee-o-NI-da". Fun fact, Leon County is where the state capital is located.
Thrilled to have you all back to the GTA discussions!
It’s been years, this podcast was what really hyped me up to V’s release.
Many thanks to Mike fornjoining in. His insight was very nice but my favourite thing about him was his enthusiasm
Mike seems like such a chill and genuine dude. Those sound effects at 42:45 made me laugh lmao
soooooo glad to be back with you guys and the fans!!!
I used to watch GTA V o’clock back in the day, I’m sooo happy u guys are doing this again!! 🙌
The fact you guys got an ex-Rockstar developer is rather exciting
Man, I have more nostalgia for sitting down to watch GTA V o'clock every week than I do for the actual game. And now here you are again popping up in my recommended, 10 years later. What a time to be alive.
Swear to god I was asking about when a new video is coming out. The entitlement I have isn’t helped by you immediately dropping it.
It’s so appreciated guys.
I'm so worried that this GTA is going to turn to shit without Dan Houser and the old writing team. Lazlo Jones as well. They both among other old Rockstar employees has joined Dan in his new project called Absurd Ventures.
They were still there for the majority of gta 6’s development
@@kingqunt8567 I wonder how much of it was canged after they left?
@@johanjonasson4188 GTA VI started development in 2014. Dan and Lazlo left in 2020, Michael Unsworth a few months ago. So you could expect the majority of the story would've been written before they quit. For RDR2 they had a rough script of the game within 2 years of starting development.
Of course writing always continues. Even now they have a job offer open for "Associate Writer: Pedestrian & Ambient Dialogue"
They still have plenty of old rockstar employees relax
You fellas do a great job with this channel and this show. Keep up the great work! Much appreciated. Side note, I'm a life-long FL resident myself. Not a historian and not great with the topography of the state, but I might be able to get answers to future questions you may have, so fire away!
I think Lucia and Jason's relationship will be a more grounded and less crazier version of Claude and Catalina's, and their ending will either end in death or betrayal.
A. Death (final game over)
B. Betrayal (one character survives, you choose who)
C. Ride off into the sunset together (really hard mission)
Really insightful episode. Glad you guys are back!
Glad you guys are back!
Mike is a great guest! Keep it up, guys!
From GTA 5 O'clock to this now with an actual ex developer!
Great to have you guys back! Loved the GTA V o’clock videos, happy with all the GTA 6 coverage 😊
when i think its only 50ep left from your gta vi o'clock ep and the game will be available
i cant describe my feeling
I think the leak helped because if it had launched worldwide, the internet would have broken. People wouldn't have been able to view it once let alone over and over and over again. The staggered views enabled the internet/RUclips to handle the massive worldwide traffic.
True, word of mouth staggering things a bit was overall probably good 😅
Give over, the trailer launch was big yes but this is RUclips they handle billions of video views, it would have been no problem. Rockstar uploaded it to RUclips in advance so it was encoded and distributed around the world to their CDN, it would have been fine
I've been like a drug addict fiending for the next episode, boys. I've finally got my hit. Excellent video as per🤟🏼
Is it me or is it a trip listening to these guys covering another upcoming gta game?
It's surreal man... building up the same hype from 12 years ago but at an even greater level.
I’m glad to see this channel is back
Love the new the intro !! Great work
Love the wee interviews. This is the highlight of my week 😊
Hi guys! Good to have you back!! Can you invite Sam Houser or Rob Nelson to talk about the game's vision and technology? That would be so cool!!!
Loving intro! Great job guys!!
It’s such a shame Dan Houser is no longer writing the GTA games. He IS Rockstar & GTA.
I can’t lie and say I’m not a worried about the game even a little bit because he’s been integral to the identity of GTA.
So many times we see companies get a change of hierarchy and they’re never the same and never as good as they once were. I’m hopeful Rockstar won’t change quality wise and the fact Sam is still heading the company gives me hope that he will quality control the game and make sure it is amazing and smart just like all the other GTAs.
Its like when a band changes a band member. It wont be the same sadly.
gta6 will suck
@@madhunter6420No it won’t
Another dope episode really good interview with Mike learnt a lot of his experience of working at Rockstar
nice interview guys thank you!
It would be great for GTA 6 to go to its roots in the 3D universe and explore trust issues in criminal relationships. This was never explored in GTA 3 with Claude and Catalina.
A heartbreaking betrayal hasn’t really been explored in the GTA 3D universe.
Male main character working for police/undercover would be nice element.
Great to see you back lads
I've got a theory that there's a third playable character in the trailer. There's a scene where two dudes, one with dreads and one with a bandana on shake hands. That cutscene feels too close up and significant to be an NPC interaction. Timestamp - 4:56
Nah bandana black is just introducing Lucia to dread black.
It might actually be one real playable character.
What makes you think theyre playable though? You can have main characters that aren’t playable..
I saw those comments from the rockstar devs and I really felt bad for them. These guys had that moment ruined by a leaker.
27:51 I get what he’s saying. But imagine having mom telll you to wait 10 years for that Christmas gift 😕
But this christmas gift is worth the 10 year wait haha. The longer the wait the more amazing the product will be.
I remember those transition animations in GTA 5. The first few times you are like wow they are so cool. After 12 times you get bored of them and want it to be over ASAP so you can get on with the game... And when GTA Online kicks you out of lobby to story and those animations play, you feel like you wanna kill the dude who did them. lol
Facts bro! Lol
I promised myself i wouldnt catch the hype train this time.... buuuut, i kinda bought the tickets. glad you guys are back.
So, random add in. Gameplay where you switch between the protagonists have been done very well just like GTAV. Army of Two comes to mind. That sort of system in GTA would be amazing
Loving the new intro guys!
I'm from Florida, and I pronounce it as Leo-Nye-Duh
Loving the show lads! Interview was great too! Would love to know from Mike York that whilst working on GTAV if he knew the plot/story of the game or due to rockstar being so secretive he would purely get given a brief of what to animate and that was it, how many employees know the story?
I look forward to the next episode, hopefully sooner rather than later.
@gtavioclock
It is a bit ironic that part of Rockstars secret actual target audience (teenagers-who technically aren’t supposed to be playing the game) is the one that leaked their secret stuff. Don’t worry, the amount of money they’ll make off of said restricted audience is going to more than make up for it 😅
The way RDR2 pushed the PS4/XOne, I have faith the same is true for VI with the PS5/Series, with ofc S being a downgrade. I'm excited to go back to Vice City. As for people who come and go in the game's history, I think things will be fine. Final Fantasy is still going strong even though a lot of its legacy people are long gone.
I think the pro series will put something out that’ll be perfect for this game. I have an Xbox series s just for 2k otherwise I use PC for almost everything else. Hopefully a i5 13600K and 4070 TI handles without any hiccups.
@@Fella_Jake I primarily use my PS5 and Nintendo Switch but when it comes to multiplayer and modding, I tend to gravitate to PC. I'm excited to see how the final game will turn out.
Intro and outro are 🔥🔥🔥
Hey lads! You’ve explained about your Spotify channel but not put this episode or the previous one on there. Any chance please? Keep up the great work.
44:42 thought it was solved by the act 3 doomsday heist in online were you go into the top secret mountain complex kill the people in there and ride off with a jet pack?
What I would like to know is how much better do you think GTA 6 will be compared GTA 5???
That club with the DJ is called Space IRL
Thanks Mike .
Here’s what my only concern is…the trailer to me was a bunch of cutscenes and wasn’t captured from in game footage..reminds me of how you were able to watch some of the videos from your laptop or phone on GTA V. This was the same way I felt with GTA V when that trailer came out and it turned out the only difference was the AI population count wasn’t true to trailer like people on the pier or beach.
Damn went through the whole hour. Love the insight from the ex dev. Keep it up!
Dawg the list of projects this dude worked on is so stacked.
Interview Hugo one next please. He’s a GTA San Andreas speed runner with a wealth of knowledge about GTA in general
18:09 never lose a kid in you
Exactly
9:10 alligator in CIRCLE K “gas station”
You guys need to make it your mission to find out what dev put that bloody mural at the top of that mountain!
But the trailer was released on multiple channels like IGN, Gamespot etc. so when you add all of those up it's more than 100m in one day
if you gys could take out ur breathing in the mic during interviews it would be awesome. Headphones it was like someone breathing in my ear wasn't best experience.
On the official website's Japanese language page it writes レオナイダ which reads "leo-nye-duh"
Would be amazing to get Ned Luke on the show!
35:55 So York admits what everybody thought - Rockstar has changed after Dan Houser and Leslie Benzies left the company. So when GTA6 comes out, we will how much it changed.
Leonida is definitely going to be pronounced "Leo-Needa."
Love this channel ❤
As an actual developer, it irks me when I am being misled by video titles, and animators and designers are being called what they are not.
A developer writes code. This guy doesn't write code; he animates. He is an animator.
Would you also call the admin and HR people developers because they choose to work in the same industry? Where would you draw the line?
I was thinking the same thing, but I realized it's probably just clickbait to get more views. More people would click on a video that says "Developer" vs "Animator".
Wait so you are saying animators are not game developers? I’m confused… is there lingo that I’m missing that I am not supposed to use in my video titles? I always felt that if you are apart of the development of the game in any way other then HR ect you are a game developer.
Question guys: Can we expect the single player story mode to be completely OFFLINE?
it was crazy seeing an interview where you let the guy talk 😭😭😭
Fucking great to see you back.
The gator walked into a Walmart near Orlando (Sanford I believe). GTA6 will go that far north, just. Because the guy watering his lawn in a thong happened in Marion County. 90 miles north of Orlando. I think they should be able to handle a large map. As you mentioned about SSDs and current hardware, Absorb/MS was able to map Earth to scale in FS2020.
Pls bring over Roger Clark and ask him about his experience with Dan, imran, leslie, laslow and how important those figures were. What he expects going forward
Mike seems like a good guy.
Yes Tampa Bay is a area we need n want!!!
But it's now national news and we need more n more...Please!!!
It's gonna last a little longer guys!! Rockstar needs to Break loose this next year wit videos at least!!!;)
How about the Alligator going into the convenience store that it can be a way to set up a heist in distracting the people in the store (I could be far off but for a humorous thing Rockstar would include)
Rockstar’s gonna be like Omegle if these leakers keep leaking things. They’ll literally just go “I don’t want to do this cause I don’t have to… so I’m just gonna shut it down now.”
Forgot about this channel used to love watching the fact or fiction videos.
I wouldn't put that much weight behind BTS having the top spot for views. Record labels and influencers are notorious for using techniques like streaming farms to artificially inflate views. Music video also get a lot of their numbers from autoplays, so lots of those views didn't come from people specifically looking for the new BTS music video, but I'm pretty sure view for GTA VI trailer 1 was deliberate.
Also, if you ad the view Rockstar lost to GameSpot, IGN, and other gaming news outlets, they firmly beat the record by at least 10 million.
After owning all the vehicle businesses I still can't hijack a parked car without busting the window!
And I feel Rockstar should have done this business for Franklin as base game or DLC.
I like the DLC but I would tweek a few variables.
8/10
I’ve seen a lot of people not understand that gta 5 was maxing PS3, and that there have been 2 massive generational leaps of console.
Personally I don’t think current gen will have any issue getting 60fps with GTA6.
Side note: I 100% GTA 5 on Xbox 360. Right now I’m doing it again but on Xbox One.
No cheats, no guides, no maps.. 1st time took me like a solid year of unemployed gaming 😂
Could take you years, buuuuuuuuuuttt, I reckon you've nailed the title of your platform. Question is can you keep pumping out content at 6pm every niiiiight?!! Get some BBC news thud thuds on the front end and you'll be mega!
Yo yall back yall the same page that did the gtav o'clock right ?
Am keeping my base ps5 , ready 2 play the game already
I think you guys could do an episode on the last fish supper and gonnaenodaethat. His video riddles would be right up your alley and hes spoken about all manner of topics that you guys are touching on like following the money trail etc. hes top so he doesnt spoil anything and hes not a leaker hes just a character presenting his visions of events in edinbrugh games. (Hes definitely hinted at benzies content but its central pillar is gta vi).
Is the FGS content in addition to this channel's epidodes or just parts of the episodes shown here?
It's the same content from previous episodes just cut down Into more bite-sized chunks. This will always be the channel to get the info and reactions first.
@@GTAVI-oclock got it thank you! Love the show.
145 000 000 views in one week guys, simple amazing
Wouldnt be surprised if spotify is part of the game. Imagine that
DAMN! things gone crazy in the last week...😮
i love those switching animations, was very on point, why did you leave Rockstar
Seeing the copycat social media trailer announcements was crazy. Can’t believe so many companies did that lol
You can't even imagine what i've seen in gta 5 single player using mods (just moving around map analysing peds and places). Better if i don't even tell you.
Why is he talking about the original guys being American? They were fucking Scottish! GTA was originally made by DMA Design!
Imagine spending 10 years building a game, only for a some leaker in his parents basement to spoil everything before the launch party...