I just hope they make the game fun this time instead of depressing.
I just hope they make the game fun this time instead of depressing.
I would expect pretty big leaps in animations since RDR showed Euphoria in better light, plus R* North hired animator from canceled title "Eight Days" who's works seems pretty damn impressive. I expect better shooting, actually, much better shooting and of course graphics.GTA 4 is over 3 years old now. I played it not long ago, and visually it is still in many ways fantastic. Control is laggy at times, but Red Dead Redemption didn't suffer from the same problem. I'm expecting very big things from this one. There is no reason for me to believe that they won't have made massive improvements from GTA4 over the course of the last three years. Maybe we'll get a taste of the kind of responsive shooting controls they can have when we see Max Payne 3. RDR was a big improvement in that regard already. This GTA 5 will be running on a Rage engine 2 generations (RDR, Max Payne 3) removed from GTA 4. I'm guessing it won't be released until late 2012 (christmas), at the earliest. Max Payne 3 is their game for spring 2012.
In Crackdown (the original), you could beat the game by just wandering in to the boss lairs and going on a rampage. If you do that in GTA you'll just get immediately murdered by the cops. You're punished for wanting to have a bit of funs with the tools they give you. I never really got it.
LA Noire face anim, am I right?
Starting wars with the police is one of the best things about GTA! I would hate if they took that aspect of the game away.
I can't really blame a person for wanting this game so much... But I've never played a GTA game -I watched a RL friend of mine playing the original on the PlayStation- and I am not hyped at all. I think I will have to try this game some day though.
My favorite game franchise is getting a new sequel (tears of joy)
I bought GTA IV for my PS3 and just didn't enjoy it at all. In fact it is one of the very few games I have traded or given away. And I now have a very large collection of PS3 games!!
What Rockstar needs to learn is how to design a game with an interesting middle-act. RDR was better than GTA4 story-wise, but they both had a strong start, a good (at least passable) ending, and boring letdowns in the middle. Rockstar's version of a story is having a ton of pointless meandering filler with little or no relation to the actual story line. In both GTA4 and RDR, the protagonists do all kinds of jobs for people that make little to no sense and contribute nothing to the story or the development of the character. I'd like a series of stories that at least relate and connect to one another. LA Noire was pretty good at that. There was an overall story arch that everything fit into by the end. Each "desk" was a different story line that contributed to the whole. It never felt like you were doing things just to have more game.
I'm just the messenger here, but news on the grapevine is the setting is actually Margate in England.
So here's what we know for sure so far:
1) It is a timed WiiU exclusive
2) The setting is Margate, England.
Well, I have a real inside scoop on the main character!
3) The game follows the story of Kevin Butler.