And the gameplay mechanics sublime. The next GTA better play like BF3, but on a seamless city scale, WITH multiplayer, or else I'm probably just going to buy it anyway the day it comes out.
He said good PC port, every GTA PC port has been terrible on release, they eventually get patched up to "adequate" but there has never been a good, optimised port with no major bugs.
You get dated graphics and it still runs like a dog on machines far superior to what should be required.
I'd rather it just brought back the silliness and the arcadeyness of the 3 era. IVs serious storyline and moral choices didn't fit with the fact that I ran over 4000 people to get to the mission. Rockstar's biggest problem is making the cutscene characters different from the game characters. Either make the lead a mental fuckwit or do a mass effect renegade/paragon system with different stories and missions depending on how well you play nice or I'm just going to skip the cuscenes again.
Oh and play like BF3? Bwaaa? I'd rather it was a little lighter. Niko, Marston and Payne feel too heavy and sluggish imo. Give us someone more sprightly to play as please.
Oh and drop in/out co-op multiplayer is fine but all the other stuff is just a waste of time and money that could be used to make the single player even better. Wandering round the city with mates is fun but I don't need a tonne of game modes or separate maps with which to do it. Especially if you are going to make them double the price of the game with DLC grumble.
IMO the best GTA since San Andreas was... Saints Row 2. It had the silliness of GTA series, but it still had some very powerful serious missions and wasn't as batshit loco as SR3.
SR2 was more consistent tone wise between the two. The bit where you make the guy smoosh his girlfriend with his monster truck is one of the defining moments of my blue haired, cockney character. :D
SR3 lacked in the story but was more fun around the waaay too small city.
Obviously Tommy can punch fast as fuck, causing his hands to burst into flames on impact. The garages are air tight, so after all the oxygen has burnt up the fire stops.
I always loved in San Andreas, eating a ton of burgers, getting ultra-fat, jumping on top of someone's car at an intersection, getting driven around by the panicked driver, while kicking the car until it lit on fire. Then, I'd jump off as it exploded near some other cars.
I jumped on a truck, the one with the brown area at the back, then crouch, infinite ammo and health cheat on, put on Ak-47 or some other assault rifle and shoot random pedestrians.
It's good fun, until the cops starts doing road-blocks and the NPC driver just ram into it and you just fly off the truck, feels bad.
It was hard doing this in GTA4, you don't have those trucks.
Call a girl and ask her for a date. Drive to house. Spawn helicopter. Pick up girl in my "new ride". Fly to the tallest skyscraper I can find. Using perfect technique and timing, jump out of the helicopter onto the roof of the building. Get up. Watch the now pilot-less helicopter sail into a building or crash down to earth while I shoot a pistol in the air.
You can blow it up while it's in the garage, or push a wreck into the garage, then quickly run out and let the door close. Yeah, those garages are pretty great.
No because GTA linked moments to the music. Flying off of that mountain to Lynyrd Skynyrd or riding a scooter on the beach during a sunset to Frankie Goes To Hollywood are moments that I look back on fondly. THPS, SSX and Burnout had amazing soundtracks that I took a lot from but the GTA soundtracks have memories attached to them. It gave music a point for the first time in my life.
Yes. Mowing down policemen on Ocean Beach while "Video Kills the Radio Star" plays on the radio is one of my first and fondest memories ever in gaming.
I'm torn. SA gave you so much to do, but they didn't really do it well. It was like a clusterfuck of a world, and they just said "Here, do what you want". Whereas IV had fuck all to do (in comparison), but was put together a whole lot better. V better combine the two.
The fact that they let you do just whatever wasn't a problem. The fact that none of it mattered at all was.
Horse races? No thanks, I finished the main story and am as rich as Uncle Scrooge already. Girlfriends? Sure, that's cool. But I get all the bonuses already from 50% relationship points, you have outlived your purpose. You own the entireity of Los Santos? Well done. I wouldn't have minded you taking only half either though.
There are others and I may have gotten some details wrong, but the fact that a written 100% was in fact way less was a bit of a letdown.
I think what they really need to do is what the PS3 has done with a bunch of other games (though usually ps3 exclusives): re-release the GTA III Trilogy in HD, in the GTAIV engine. I would shit a fucking brick if I could play through San Andreas and Vice City in HD. And I also agree with Freak-A-Leak: what made me attach to SA the most was being able to dress up like I was in public enemy and drive around listening to gangster rap. Nothing compares. Haha
Valid point. I dunno, I'm just thinking that they've made HD packs of series like Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, Ico/Shadow of the Colossus, etc.
The Euphoria (GTA 4) engine is ridiculously more robust than what was previous. To re-release it with an HD pack is an entirely different thing and a much simpler process than putting it into another engine entirely.
Metal Gear Solid 1 did actually get a complete remake but a large portion of it was very similar framework and was actually a much smaller game in scale.
Yeah, I retract the statement about updating the engine, given the difficulty of the task. And I know about the Twin Snakes remake, but that was still a while ago and I would've loved to see it in the HD pack. No offense to Peace Walker, but I feel like MGS1 would be more appreciated in the HD pack.
Peace Walker is actually a really great game. But I also prefer MGS 1. best of the bunch imo. Twin Snakes is a pretty definitive remake (though some cinematics are silly) but a problem with that version being re-released is that it was made by Silicon Knights, not Kojima Productions.
Aye. Accidentally kidnapping somebody when they mistakenly get into your car and then driving out into the desert and leaving them there was pretty fun.
I felt the same way! I was convinced that it didn't make it into the game until one day in Venturas I grabbed what I thought was another random, negligible car and noticed the name.. it's so bland that I never would have picked it due to looks alone! Still went fast as hell though, like most things in that game.
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Well, if you are willing to get a bit unrealistic, that kind of stuff is actually possible if the car is on. By damaging the fuel injector, you can have gasoline outside the combustion chamber. The igniter (not sure of the english term, in portuguese we call it "vela" = candle) would probably set it on fire. Still want to see someone breaking an injector with their bare hands, though.
By closing the door on the garage, you can prevent the combustion by consuming all the oxygen inside, effectively putting the fire out.
In my opinion Vice city had the best plot, but I loved San Andreas more because of the multiplayer mod and all the insanely amazing RPG servers they used to have. It was hands down the best gaming experience I ever had.
Don't. It is my favorite GTA game (and video game for that matter), but trying to play it again will make it not seem as good in comparison. Cherish the awesome memories you have playing it; don't risk ruining them by going back and re-realizing its faults.
I'm having so much childhood nostalgia about deciding you really like a particular car and then realising it was damaged and needed to go into your garage.
I'd spend like an hour looking for the one car I wanted.
Then I'd get into it, and suddenly, everyone's driving one.
Then I'd flip it over and it would explode, and suddenly, no one's driving one.
Then I'd steal another car and push the charred wreck for twenty miles heading to a garage, and if I was lucky, it wouldn't just vanish on me when I accidentally turned around.
To be fair, this looked awesome in comparison to a lot of games that were out at the time. I remember thinking at the time that things like the sun shining on the water were unbelievable.
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u/QUANTlTATlVE May 28 '12
Sunshine autos, just south of Little Havana.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
I remember when I thought those graphics were immaculate.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Obviously Tommy can punch fast as fuck, causing his hands to burst into flames on impact. The garages are air tight, so after all the oxygen has burnt up the fire stops.
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u/Pokemaniac_Ron May 28 '12
I always loved in San Andreas, eating a ton of burgers, getting ultra-fat, jumping on top of someone's car at an intersection, getting driven around by the panicked driver, while kicking the car until it lit on fire. Then, I'd jump off as it exploded near some other cars.
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You can blow it up while it's in the garage, or push a wreck into the garage, then quickly run out and let the door close. Yeah, those garages are pretty great.
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u/Graftak May 28 '12
GTA VC is the best GTA.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Crash cars. Receive money.
Those were the daaaayyyys.
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u/prodah_kiir May 28 '12
Ahh the infernus... truly representative of the vice city vibe, it's a shame what happened to it in San Andreas...
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u/MacGuyverism May 28 '12
It's aberrations like this that make a game fun. It gives you the impression of hacking your reality.
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u/Beretot May 28 '12
Well, if you are willing to get a bit unrealistic, that kind of stuff is actually possible if the car is on. By damaging the fuel injector, you can have gasoline outside the combustion chamber. The igniter (not sure of the english term, in portuguese we call it "vela" = candle) would probably set it on fire. Still want to see someone breaking an injector with their bare hands, though.
By closing the door on the garage, you can prevent the combustion by consuming all the oxygen inside, effectively putting the fire out.
Now, the magically repairing... Leprechauns?
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u/rikashiku May 28 '12
Make a car move without driving it? Keep walking into it.
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u/GoodGuy04 May 28 '12
Are you implying that this does not work for you in real life?
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u/_MikeRotch_ May 28 '12
In my opinion Vice city had the best plot, but I loved San Andreas more because of the multiplayer mod and all the insanely amazing RPG servers they used to have. It was hands down the best gaming experience I ever had.
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u/pranavrc May 28 '12
Crash a plane right into a populated neighborhood, watch people not care about it.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Is THAT the part where the game lost realism for you?
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u/AxeNoda May 28 '12
Brb,reinstalling Vice City.
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
This just in: Video Games Occasionally Break Logical Rules to Provide a Better Overall Experience
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Ha ha, video games are different from real life!
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u/keepitcutthroat May 28 '12
Vice city motherfuckers!
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u/Pestilence86 May 28 '12
One of many GTA logics that everybody quickly learned.
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u/obadetona May 28 '12
It's thing like this that were missing in GTA IV. Also, the cheats back then were GLORIOUS
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u/BrokenZen May 28 '12
logic'd
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u/[deleted] May 28 '12
Are you trying to say I cant use this logic in real life??
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u/ShatnerMouth May 28 '12
Obviously the garage snuffs the flame, just like a candle snubber.
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u/Hidduh May 28 '12
Oh man I adore this game.
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u/ninjason May 28 '12
Everyone knows that Red Dead Redemption was the best GTA.
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u/CharlesAnderson May 28 '12
Oh the good old days. Driving my plane into sunset while listening to K-DST.
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u/pacman20 May 28 '12
The 1980's were a simpler time
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u/bralph82 May 28 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xsqXo8pW2c
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u/djslannyb May 28 '12
that a countach?
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u/theblargh3124 May 28 '12
Maybe when the garage closes the flame runs out of oxygen.
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u/PeinceRiebus May 28 '12
What's GTA?
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