PigLick on 26/10/2011 at 00:29
I predict a liberty city size Los Santos, with outlying countryside and wilderness similar to SA, but without the other 2 cities.
Neb on 26/10/2011 at 01:37
If only we knew which films they've been watching recently.
Angel Dust on 26/10/2011 at 02:32
If they are going to keep going in the more serious direction (and I hope they do), what I'd like to see are multiple characters with campaigns about the length of the GTA IV episodes, that all intertwine and tell one big story. I found the level of escalation in the episodes to be much less ridiculous than in the full game and hence the narratives didn't feel as strained.
The Alchemist on 26/10/2011 at 02:43
Quote Posted by Ulukai
For me, Vice City is also yet to be bettered.
Miami. Ridiculous trousers. Yellow Lambo. 99 Red Balloons. Massive amounts of fun.
Done.
Miami is just like that in real life. No seriously.
Anywho, I love the GTA series, but I must say I am way more interested in Saints Row The Third, right now. Just looks like so much goddamn fun.
icemann on 26/10/2011 at 03:39
Quote Posted by henke
For GTA5 I hope they stick to the formulas set by VC&SA. Keep the tech from GTA4 and just add more stuff and make it bigger.
Agreed 100% with this. GTA SA was in my opinion the best in the series, due to the HUGE amount of things you can do, rpg elements, excellent music and variance in the types of missions available. GTA IV incomparison was a MASSIVE let down. Sure the new additions of the television shows and ingame GTA internet + the strip joints were absolutely awesome, but they removed the vast majority of what was good from the games before it.
So bring back the good stuff, get rid of the annoying phone calls, make the game world as large or larger than that of SA and make the series fun to play and replayable again, cause GTA IV was not.
Thirith on 26/10/2011 at 06:59
While I agree that the social stuff wasn't done particularly well in the game - even if you opted out, it got on your nerves - GTA IV is still my second-favourite game in the series. It probably helps that I'm a pacifist pussy and rarely if ever go on a killing spree in these games; the sort of mucking about that I enjoy is mostly vehicular in nature and light on manslaughter. As a result, the storyline works better, as far as I'm concerned. (I'm not saying that those who play as out-and-out psychos are doing it wrong, mind you, and I can see how their playstyle doesn't gel with the story and characterisation.)
I very much don't think they should try to out-Saints Row their competition - Volition is already doing that and doing it well. To my mind Rockstar should concentrate on telling a great story while incorporating more elements from San Andreas; I greatly enjoy Rockstar's storytelling, but they can improve how it ties in with gameplay.
EvaUnit02 on 26/10/2011 at 07:19
Quote Posted by Thirith
I very much don't think they should try to out-
Saints Row their competition - Volition is already doing that and doing it well. To my mind Rockstar should concentrate on telling a great story while incorporating more elements from
San Andreas; I greatly enjoy Rockstar's storytelling, but they can improve how it ties in with gameplay.
Did you play Chinatown Wars? It maintains the balancing act between the two quite well:- OTT fun sandbox gameplay with lots to do (well, within SA/VC confines, not Saints Row 2 levels by any means) and serious storytelling. CW was everything GTA4 should've been. You don't have to one or the other.
What killed murder sprees dead for me in GTA4 that it was very difficult to lose the relentlessness police at higher star ratings. Seriously, fuck the wanted circle to hell.
PigLick on 26/10/2011 at 07:36
Chinatown Wars is excellent, amazing to think they packed that much gameplay into a ds cartridge. Some of the mini games could even be implemented into GTA 5, the hotwiring of the cars, or the whole drug dealing thing would be good.
Thirith on 26/10/2011 at 07:52
I haven't played it myself, as I don't have any of the platforms it's available for, but it's definitely on my list if I ever get an iPhone.
ercles on 26/10/2011 at 09:52
I honestly hope that they take their leads from Red Dead Redemption. That game was far more internally consistent and balanced than any GTA game I have played. I felt like that was the first time they successfully incorporated a narrative with any real substance and thematic depth with an open world. The final chapter of that game exceeded any narrative beats I'd seen from rockstar so far.