Up until Grand Theft Auto 4, the GTA series was basically defined by massive sandboxes, crazy missions and so much to do it made your eyes spin. Whether it be stealing a tank while an army captain goes for a drink in Vice City or piloting an actual jetpack straight from under the noses of the military in San Andreas, they were games filled with humour and some of the most memorable missions in gaming history.
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What about killing an innocent bystander in broad daylight without ANY reaction from NPCs?
The realism is what makes GTA's world engrossing and immersive.
Get text messages and calls from your friends and gf.
Go bowling
Go on dinner dates with g@y dudes
Chat online at the internet cafe
watch cable tv in your apartment
spray your car with 4 diffrent colors
Buy used stuff to wear
Ride a Taxi
fight hobos
play darts
Shitty car and player controlling
Can fly planes
Can not explore the map until you progress a mission
Small map
Go play The Sims sounds like it right up your alley.
no offense! If anything the character should look like Ice T.
gta should do fun stuff still though.
GTA has not become too classy. Sequels in the GTA series don't really need to be measured to one another, because there is little to no continuity.
It can still go back and bring back some silly shit from San Andreas. We can still Beat the Cock.
GTA is in a league of itself and the reason why is because it's basically realistic even back along time ago, it was realistic at the time. Not like little details but it was realistic unless you put the cheats on.
I kinda disliked the lack of cheat variety in GTA IV and i hope that they let back a little bit and just be as creative as they use too.
Fair enough if your allowed in GTAV to cycle a BMX or a car off a moutain and still manage to be alive when you hit the bottom but Shark Heads...throwing Kittens, Wacky over the top stuff like whats in SR3....no thanks.
We have Saints Row for that, and they go further with it than I think Rockstar ever would.
I like the feel of IV. I feel it's the direction that the series needed to be taken in.
The Lost and Damned did not need ridiculous humor, it was funny enough in some segments and had a great story to tell (better than most movies).
And while the story was kind of a side-errand for TBOGT the action and humor was there in spades. Rockstar balanced it out well in my opinion and their current direction is the right direction.
Saints Row The Third can only be enjoyed if you turn your brain off. GTA should not head down that road.
Well, I already have Just Cause 2 to satisfy my destruction craving.
If we could get a game with all the detail of Grand Theft Auto, the destruction and gameplay of Just Cause 2, and some of the comedic writing of Saints Row 3, we'd be set!
TBoG added those colors to GTA IV which was great, from the games colors, I see this being a balance of seriousness, yet humorous.
Realistic gameplay with the comedy, distinct characters, and great music similar to the older GTA's would be nice.
GTASA took 5.2gigs on XB and PS2.
GTAIV took 6.8gigs on 360 and clearly had to on PS3 too.
To ask for the same GTA with all the crazy features in HD, in a bigger city, better AI, better physics etc. Was not going to happen. Its not possible based on 360 using the same format as the PS2 did. HDD install would be the only way for such a thing to happen.
One would have to be pretty slow in terms of technology understandings to beleive Rockstar just wanted to make a different GTA. After all these years? I mean really? So GTAV is magically bringing it all back JUST because?
LMFAO! There bringing it back because they clearly made a deal with MS to allow a HDD install for GTAV. So every GTA is wacky, zanny, has a bunch of features.....GTAIV realistic......GTAV back to the old GTA.
As if space wasn't an issue? LMFAO! If theres a HDD install for GTAV thats like 30gigs, theres your reason for why GTAIV was crappy and had less features.