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GTA3 never did it for me. It just felt like an engine/sandbox with no drive. It wasnt till vice city and San andreas, that the engine got put to proper use.

Thats IMO anyways :p

As for Saints Row, Too slapstick for me
 
There was no real competition to GTA3 though when it launched and even for a few years after until Vice City.

In my option, there has been no other game since Vice City which has achieved the same genius of in game humour, depth of character and gameplay and just sheer fun-ness of it. Vice City managed to retain all the entertainment of just hooning around and blatting people without consequences or feeling guilty that all the earlier GTA series had, but introduced enough depth to make you want to play through to 100% and keep you going back. Vice City was also the perfect size gaming environment/map.

San Andreas was a good game but started to introduce a few more serious elements which I felt detracted from the game after a while. It lost a bit of the charm that Vice City had, but the sheer size of map and depth gaming environments were amazing, especially for its time. I felt the SA map was almost too big with a lot of it being soulless and just space for the sake of it. Still awesome though.

GTA 4 was a huge let down for me. I felt it had lost the fun factor of the earlier games. A big part of this was perpetuated by the revised physics, improved graphics, added realism and more noticeable consequences which took away the fun of hooning around and blatting people.

The Just Cause games have been the best of the newer generation copies imo. Saints Row is good and SR2 is better than GTA4 for fun-gaming but let down by in-game physics.
 
I do really enjoy the Saint Row series as a "sandbox" in which GTA 3 started off as and felt very similar, the Grand Theft Auto series and Rockstar in general have matured into providing much deeper stories with immature subtle comedy and outlandish characters. For me personally at my age this makes for a far better games as it fits my tastes better giving me the joys of Sandboxing around the world laughing at pedestrians ragdolling over my car, along with the awesome character design and dialogue involved in the story.

GTA IV was missing many aspects of the GTA series that I loved which mainly killed the end game as without having the best attack choppering the back garden (a la vice city) it removed some of the enjoy of sandboxing. I was expecting this tbh with it being their first game on the new engine and already it looks like GTA V is added some of those things again, car customization, jets and even maybe housing?

I also like the look of Saint's Row but for none of the reasons why I am looking forward to GTA V, the latest SR3 trailers look hilarious but in a slapstick way
 
in the trailer it says 2405 @ 0.54 and 0.55 so it could 24th of may 2012

similar to their other games

GTAIV - April 29, 2008
Red dead redemption - May 18, 2010
L.A. Noire - May 17, 2011
 
ThestigGT999 said:
in the trailer it says 2405 @ 0.54 and 0.55 so it could 24th of may 2012

similar to their other games

GTAIV - April 29, 2008
Red dead redemption - May 18, 2010
L.A. Noire - May 17, 2011
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That's what I've been saying.

Rockstar tends to release their games around then and knows they have the market pretty much to themselves at the time, meaning they capitalise on sales.

Sure they could release pre-Xmas, but you've got the next COD game and all the other AAA titles vying for attention.
 
Scrutinize said:
There was no real competition to GTA3 though when it launched and even for a few years after until Vice City.

In my option, there has been no other game since Vice City which has achieved the same genius of in game humour, depth of character and gameplay and just sheer fun-ness of it. Vice City managed to retain all the entertainment of just hooning around and blatting people without consequences or feeling guilty that all the earlier GTA series had, but introduced enough depth to make you want to play through to 100% and keep you going back. Vice City was also the perfect size gaming environment/map.

San Andreas was a good game but started to introduce a few more serious elements which I felt detracted from the game after a while. It lost a bit of the charm that Vice City had, but the sheer size of map and depth gaming environments were amazing, especially for its time. I felt the SA map was almost too big with a lot of it being soulless and just space for the sake of it. Still awesome though.

GTA 4 was a huge let down for me. I felt it had lost the fun factor of the earlier games. A big part of this was perpetuated by the revised physics, improved graphics, added realism and more noticeable consequences which took away the fun of hooning around and blatting people.

The Just Cause games have been the best of the newer generation copies imo. Saints Row is good and SR2 is better than GTA4 for fun-gaming but let down by in-game physics.
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completely agreed word for word. It was the first GTA game I was emotionally involved in with lance turning on you, making me jump with joy when I finally killed him.

the public radio was so damned good, I would park up and listen to that for hours, and you didn't have so much maintainable to do, i.e. Body building or girlfriends or dating cousins
 
I think there is a decent chance GTA5 will be in the mould of Vice City. GTA4 may have been a bit dour but The Balled of Gay Tony and Chinatown Wars (the most recent episodes) were both tonally very similar to Vice City.
 
"There's been some speculation (fueled by the fact that the narrator's voice sounds a bit like actor Ray Liotta) that he's actually an older Tommy Vercetti from Vice City, although that seems pretty unlikely for two reasons. First, a representative for Liotta has gone on record saying that isn't Liotta's voice. Second, Rockstar told us years ago that GTA IV takes place in a separate universe from the PS2-era GTAs, meaning we can assume that the same is true of GTA V and its overhauled version of Los Santos. But again, we can always hold out hope."

taken from here GTAV an intresting read and a lot more than i got from the trailer.

more here GTAV

and here GTAV
 
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No signs of car modifications yet. I am praying there is cause I used to love modifying my cars even if they looked like ridiculous ricers, it was still fun. :)
 
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