SegmentNext - "Over ten years ago, a game came by that shook up the entire entertainment industry. It changed the tunes many game companies were singing."
Grand Theft Auto V was released on PC on the 14th of April 2015. That means the game will be nine years old in four days, and it’s still among the most-played titles on Steam. With a 24-hour peak of 145K players, it’s as popular as Baldur’s Gate 3, Apex: Legends, and Destiny 2.
Former Rockstar Games Technical Director Obbe Vermeij has finally revealed why some planes would randomly crash in GTA: San Andreas.
This fly by feature was on the cutting room floor due to the random plane crashes and it's one of those things I'm so thankful made it into the final version as these random fly by and crashes make the world seem more alive on the extremely limited PS2 hardware you needed everything you could possibly get in a open world to convey that feeling.
And accross hundreds of hours of gameplay I probably died around 3 times as a result of these fly by failures but I loved every time it happened
It made the world feel more human, and honestly kinda insane that even today with all these open world games, almost no one can capture that like R* even when compared to their ps2 games
Lol, I remember those. I vaguely remember dying from one crashing into my car once too.
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Very nice read indeed... agree
Can't wait! I'm curious if Grand Theft Auto 5 will have DLC similar to The Ballad of Gay Tony/The Lost and Damned. I really enjoyed The Ballad of Gay Tony/Lost and Damned, loved the club scene of TBOGT and being part of a gang in Lost and Damned. But since there is 3 characters already maybe adding more characters would be too much? It's Rockstar so who knows what they have planned! Speaking of the 3 characters I need to know more, for example can we play as just one throughout the whole game? Or if we play as one can other people play as the other two online?