haha that picture was famous among french fans: some said since the shape of that cut paper looks like a map western france and there's "seagull" written under it, it could happen in western france
but maybe the mountains were a tip for chilliad?
Anyway, for a long time I was thinking it might be a latino character because we've already had lots of ethnicities: white, italian, eastern european, black, asian... But I don't think any GTA had a latino as main character? Now I don't know, with the voice there's not much of an accent so I don't think it'll be a latino (sorry mosca, kb and any other latino
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The weather excuse doesn't make much sense for a VC guy, I agree, there's not much difference between Miami and California...
For a release date, I'd say more like before Christmas 2012, in about 13 months.
Also I said I doubt it'll be whole SA. Well one thing against my opinion I thought about is that there are planes, planes are not very useful with only one airport (LA has only one airport irl?) even if we can have some small runways kinda like the abandonned airport.
It'll just be awesome if we have any other city... but I'm still pessimistic about that.
Anyway, I guess we'll still have to wait a long time to get any information about the pc spec needed? (we don't even know if it'll be on pc) because I've got to buy a graphic card, I might buy an HD5770 these days (my HD3870 got problems), and I hope it'll be enough to handle it.
Oh, also, is chilliad based on any RL mountains? In GTA SA, it was on SF's island, that may be a good thing to think there'll be the other cities for those who are more optimistic than me.