Fried Food
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I hope I don't visit GAF even once on launch day
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IGN - World exclusive hands on with GTA V
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Four_Chamber
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Forget next-gen, this will be the most important thing for gaming this year. Hell, my hype for next-gen pales in comparison to my hype for this.
Chalk it up to clean living and vitamin pills.
+Five years, end of a console life cycle, and mastery of the hardware
Raptomex
Member
I won't be visiting GAF for the rest of that week starting on launch day.
dancegrenade
Member
Might take a month break and then come back and see how everyone feels.
Ive read previews and reviews in magazines and noone respected or from a respected magazine would write write like this. Just so uninformative and blindly in wonderment.
Raptomex
Member
Well I have the week off on paid vacation. I should be able to beat the story within that time.
Pinko Marx
Banned
That was a terrible article. It read as a pure advertisement and I learned almost nothing new about the game.
Raptomex
Member
http://www.gtav.net
Listing new information taken from the article. I believe some of it we did know but most of it is new.
TheVampire
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Buckethead
Banned
My god that Vinegood shot is glorious
I don't like how they made most of the focus on a bunch of missions. I'm trying not to spoil myself on those so I mostly avoided the last 3 pages of the article.
I wanted the writer to tell me how the game runs and actually looks (not that hyperbolic BS about the sunset making him orgasm. Draw distance, foliage, texture work...give me something useful). Tell me how all of the mechanics work together.
Meh it's probably better to just wait 2 weeks now.
You have to remember that's exactly why IGN had the liberty of such an article. It is indeed an advertisement. Not a chance in hell they are going to comment on anything like framerate or textures or what have you. Come on meow.
Game "previews" are always puff pieces on sites like this. They never go into detail about any problems they noticed during their playthrough. It's all roses.
The Albatross
Member
I'll be on all day because I'll be at work. It will be a hard day.
Dick Justice
Banned
I'll be too busy playing to see the war brewing on Gaf. Might come and check out the carnage afterwards.
The Albatross
Member
To be fair, some of what is listed on there is taking liberties with the mission descriptions... Like driving the train, you can do in a mission but not confirmed whether you'll be able to do it outside of a mission. This was the case with RDR, where you could steal a train and then had to stop it before getting to a bridge, but you couldn't actually do this outside of a mission.
Also, things like branching paths, not entirely sure if that's going to be a focus of all missions or just a handful -- like in GTAIV previews that mentioned the lawyer mission, which was really the only mission in the game that gave you the option of doing it two ways.
They're supposedly doing more articles the rest of the week, maybe they will be more objective with these articles and give us some more details about the gameplay.
Raptomex
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The Albatross
Member
Agreed w/ Derrick. Actually a lot more interested in tomorrow's GTA Online exclusive preview because it can't just be a mission walk through. We'll actually have to learn more about the mechanics and how things work in the online world. We'll probably learn a lot about SP too with the online, if it discusses mechanics at all.
Even though I WANT to not learn any more about the game, I just can't help it. WHen new threads come up I have to consume this stuff. Although I did skip the mission walk throughs, they don't tell me anything about the game that I really want to hear... If they say "The missions are much more varied in V than in IV.." then that's one thing, but to depict three missions to me doesn't tell me a whole lot. You could depict three missions from IV and come away thinking it was varied and exciting.
Even though I WANT to not learn any more about the game, I just can't help it. WHen new threads come up I have to consume this stuff. Although I did skip the mission walk throughs, they don't tell me anything about the game that I really want to hear... If they say "The missions are much more varied in V than in IV.." then that's one thing, but to depict three missions to me doesn't tell me a whole lot. You could depict three missions from IV and come away thinking it was varied and exciting.
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
My main concern with all the 3-character missions is that they will be super scripted to account for all the different character roles. I guess I'm okay with that as long as more of the early GTA freeform type missions are there too.
The review embargo will probably end at least a couple of days before the game comes out no?
I wouldn't hold my breath there. Like Artex said this is basically a week long advertisement from IGN. They had to agree to something to get exclusive coverage.
OK, so this is pretty much the PR version of ALEC's 'model legislation.'
Rockstar: "Here's a template preview that's been vetted by our PR and legal teams. Please modify your copy to include any relevant personalization details (in the indicated areas only!) and forward your modified copy to our press liaison officer to receive final authorization for release."
Rockstar: "Here's a template preview that's been vetted by our PR and legal teams. Please modify your copy to include any relevant personalization details (in the indicated areas only!) and forward your modified copy to our press liaison officer to receive final authorization for release."
oneils
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Spring-Loaded
Member
Pretty sure you can, I think the achievement list gives it away plus I seem to remember reading it.
I'm just hoping there are missions after the purchase like in Vice City.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
You can, and some previews have hinted at rewards for owning certain businesses.
Awesome. I know there was mention of a particular business but I thought that was the only one.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
5 pages for a preview and most of what I read was "I haven't been this turned on since college"
Raptomex
Member
The taxi company was specifically mentioned.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Fan made trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFKK6YMb_0
Spring-Loaded
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Lazloisdavrock
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Tap to sprint has been in gta forever. I love it
Of course, gamers need exercise every once in a while.
Well, it's better than 1, 2, and London, yeah. So uh... It's in the better half of the series.
and the handheld games...technically I guess.
If we're being serious then I guess 4 isn't a bad game it's just colossally boring with hardly any meaningful content. Actually I guess I am saying it was a bad game.
IGN said:
Would you like to detail some of this "unprecedented variety girth" or whatever the fuck with some depth? already expected the locations, characters, vehicles and missions to be varied, but what about all the other shit? talk more about euphoria and awesome random events, not about the time you ran over a wolf but barely noticed. talk more about the side missions, diversions and other stuff that truly matters. also not one mention of IQ, framerate, pop-in, etc. I get that this is a "world first" hands on but could it be more soft-treading and pandering? "MrLukeReilly", this shit is an embarrassment. especially when you close the article with....
IGN said:
Disgusting. looking foward to reading some actual previews soon though.
edit: oh shit, do I even wanna check out the discussion video on pg.1 of the artcle? how bad are we talking here?
Like you say in every thread ever?
matrix-cat
Member
I dislike tap to sprint, but to me it's not nearly as bad as pushing the analogue stick all the way forward and only getting walking speed. That's what really drives me up the wall in GTA IV. It's an analogue stick, give me analogue movement control! I'll put up with mashing to sprint if I have to, just let me jog with the stick. The current setup means you have to be holding A (or mashing it) basically 100% of the time you spend playing the game. You end up dropping down to a walk every time you want to move the camera around, simply because they laid out the controls badly and 'camera' and 'jog' both use the same thumb.
I'm pretty sure they do this kind of thing to chase after that almighty 'immersion'. They don't want you sprinting around when they're trying to be all serious business with their walk'n'talk storytelling, that kind of thing. But my problem with that is that, if you design that kind of thing well enough, I'll choose to walk of my own accord. Don't force it. And especially don't compromise the controls of every other part of your game while you're at it.
I'm pretty sure they do this kind of thing to chase after that almighty 'immersion'. They don't want you sprinting around when they're trying to be all serious business with their walk'n'talk storytelling, that kind of thing. But my problem with that is that, if you design that kind of thing well enough, I'll choose to walk of my own accord. Don't force it. And especially don't compromise the controls of every other part of your game while you're at it.
TheLegendOfMart
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I was already in the second they said GTA 5, but holy shit I am really excited now I can drive trains.