Grand Theft Auto 5 bigger than Red Dead, San Andreas, and GTA4 combined
Rockstar wasn't kidding when it said Grand Theft Auto 5's Los Santos will be the biggest world they've created in a game.
Rockstar wasn't kidding when it said Grand Theft Auto 5's Los Santos will be the biggest world they've created in a game. In fact, according to the just-released Game Informer cover story, the world is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and Grand Theft Auto 4... combined.
There are many reasons why GTAV is so big. Rockstar head Sam Houser said he was interested in doing a proper take on Los Angeles, something the company didn't feel like it achieved with the PS2 San Andreas. And unlike previous GTA games, there's a lot of verticality to explore: whether it's the skies above the city, or the ocean below. Yes, apparently the ocean floor is fully detailed and can be explored.
Rockstar is convincingly making the argument that GTAV is big. Of course, there's that old adage: it's not just about how big it is, but what you do with it as well. For more details, check out Game Informer.
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Rockstar wasn't kidding when it said Grand Theft Auto 5's Los Santos will be the biggest world they've created in a game.-
cool, but if this game doesn't have decent mission checkpoints, it's a not starter. No way am i going to drive a truck all the way across a map bigger than RDR, GTA:SA and GTA4 combined, just to take a shotgun to the face and respawn in the fucking truck at the ass-licking starting point again.
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Aside from that GTA4 had pretty shitty checkpoints though.
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lol, that would be such a long journey from Tommy Vercetti and the no-name dude before him being allergic to water.
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This is what I thought too. The ocean floor? but fucking why? Is it worth the man hours and the divorces?
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Don't forget that several people committed suicide while working at rockstar.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/10/16/gus-van-sant-to-make-film-on-rockstar-games-suicide.aspx
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those two aren't the ones i was thinking about either, there were more, but i can't find the article about it..i think it got to the point where rockstar had a buddhist monk come in and 'cleanse' the building.
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That's cool and all as long as its populated with worthwhile stuff.
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Yeah now your cousin AND your brother call you to go to the bar!
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Daggerfall is larger than all games combined.
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Daggerfall is larger than even Daggerfall.
still one of my favorite games ever
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and by that i mean this:
http://i.imgur.com/Xidla.jpg
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dude, i know. make sure to check out valcan's updates halfway through the thread
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=29175253#item_29175253-
Shacknews GTA5 races will be awesome
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NOTHING beats Ice Cream Truck races. Also this shit better come out on the PC.
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Please tell me they're going to fix vehicle handling. Maybe I'm just bad at video games but the thing that put me off about GTA4 the most was how most vehicles felt like driving a fridge on scooter wheels covered in butter (I need to work on my similes).
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I like those on-rails handling. Sleeping Dogs felt way better than GTA4 in terms of vehicle handling. But then again, I'm just bad at games.
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St last they need to make a better camera for car driving, its ridiculous to use the mouse to keep the camera behind your car
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The mouse was actually better in this respect. To be even remotely decent at driving you had to manually alter the camera with the right analogue stick pretty frequently because the camera didn't do a great job of staying behind the car when you were sliding around corners.
It wasn't too bad once you got used to it, but it could certainly be improved.-
Isn't it pretty standard that chase cams follow your direction of travel rather than the angle of the car, while in-car cams of course follow the latter? Always seemed like a known part of the trade off. In-car (including hood or bumper cam) also helps judge traction and sliding better.
Fuck it's been so long I don't even remember if gta4 let you use any kind of in-car camera.
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High fives for abrasion. I fucking loved the car physics in GTAIV as well, and honestly reading that they changed them from the ground up for V has me a little worried.
To contrast, I couldn't stand the handling in Saints Row and was one of the main reasons the game felt shallow to me.
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You are bad at videogames.
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• Driving has been revamped again
• - "The cars hold to the ground a bit better." - Dan Houser
• - Feels more like a racing game
• - "There are not a lot of high-level racing games out there at the moment, and that itch is going to be scratched by this game in a way maybe it hasn't been in previous GTAs." - Dan Houser
sauce: http://totalgamingnetwork.com/content.php?310-Everything-You-Wanted-to-Know-About-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-is-Here
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I kind of wish this game would be for next gen, cause this gen these games clearly look like washed out muddy shit compared to the PC these days.
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WOOOOO! :D
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I'm still hoping for the multiple cities + wide open spaces of San Andreas.
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That didn't really affect me that much as had already been through the wait for the PC versions.
The episodes bundle has gone for as little as $5 on Steam a bunch of times before, still well worth checking out especially for The Ballad of Gay Tony.
I think the most recent sale ended the other day but you could have picked it up for $5 or the entire GTA collection for $7.50, maybe someone grabbed it for future gifting and could hook you up.-
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I think it works great. You get the better visuals and total choice of control method. Switching from gamepad to mouse is seamless so I'd often use the pad for driving and mouse for shooting. Mouse look for drive bys or targeting wheels to blowout or even drivers of other vehicles to stop them is invaluable. The lock-on targeting stuff in those games is absolutely terrible.
Not that the combat as a whole is that great, but free aim with a mouse and WASD for on foot / strafing is just a lot better for most annoying on-foot missions.
If I'm just screwing around or driving motorcycles it's gamepad 100% of the time.
Choice!
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Does gta4 work for you on windows 8 ? Mine had many problems due to gfwl client but I managed to find a workaround, now it crashes once the game starts-
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Steam version ?
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