About Rockstar's decision to release a PS4/Xbone/PC version of GTA V....

It's okay to buy it if you don't have the game yet, as it has increased draw distances, traffic, people, wildlife, and for the fact that the textures, lighting and shadows have improved. I'd say it's an okay improvement compared to last gen's graphics. It may not be noticable at first, but the differences are there if you lopok hard enough. I mean look at that grass!

 

Honestly that really mroe shows how bad GTAV looked on PS3 than how good it looks on PS4

 

Also the game will run at 60fps instead of 15fps

 

Which makes me glad that I haven't bought the game yet.

Now that I like so much. Hopefully the framerate drops will lessen.

 

*on PC

 

Sorry if I'm not excited for Rockstar game on PC. You know, given their history.

 

Uh...the game looks surprisingly good on the PS3, especially with how huge its world is compared to most console games.

 

GTAV gets weird hate for being GTA. I weirdly have an affinity for it, think it looks at least pretty good, and fuck GTAIV[DOUBLEPOST=1402939029][/DOUBLEPOST]

No Sleeping Dogs, but I definitely agree here[DOUBLEPOST=1402939069][/DOUBLEPOST]

One frame less than what Ocarina of Time ran at.

 

I daresay that you can buy it on PS4/Xbone even if you already have it on the PS3/360 (if you have the funds of course)/ It seems like quite an improvement, and GTAV on the previous gen looked great enough tbh.

GTAIV was such a disappointment. I don't know many people who share this opinion :c

 

From what I've seen on the interwebs and my friend groups, it's half and half.

 

GTA IV was amazing. Quintessentially the great American Novel Video Game. And the only way such an America story could be told was by two British brothers. Yep, sounds about right.

GTA V looked amazing for the hardware capability. Loading times were guff but it never loaded after which was pukka.

 

The car interiors look laughably bad on the PS3 version.

 

And probably the Xbox 360 version as well, but I'm not too concerned about how good my custom leather seats are when an entire city looks as good as it does on the PS3 version of GTAV

 

I meant more the dashboard. I've not played a GTA game besides San Andreas nor do I really care to, just commenting on what I'm seeing in the video. They look like something out of the racing games I used to play on the PSX lol

 

wait, you're European?

 

I can understand, given that GTA Iv's PC port has terrible optimization. But I am positive that since Rockstar has done a great job with Max Payne 3's optimization for PC, GTA V for PC will be great. Only problem for me is that it might have similar minimum requirements for Watch Dogs.

 

No? Don't know what you're referring to[DOUBLEPOST=1402960959][/DOUBLEPOST]

Name three characters you worked for in that game besides Roman. Why besides Roman? Because he meme'd- people who didn't play the game know him.

I'm convinced anyone who says it's about the American Dream being unobtainable is digging too deep. It's about a guy with gambling issues dragging every one he knows down with him until his soldier cousin who knows how to get things done shows up, start shaping up their life, and rediscovers his revenge quest. It has nothing to do with the American dream. It would be about the American dream if they tried, but they didn't. That's surface? Yep. Did this game ever dig beyond that? Nuh-uh. Also, its plot could be stellar but almost every mission was identical. I've seen a lot of GTAV so far and it seems they give the missions a lot more versatility than just "follow, shoot people, escape police."

 

It's 16 FPS in Europe, 20 FPS in America

 

Vlad, Liberty Paper guy (who was a CIA agent or whatever the GTA equivalent of them is) and Dimitri. All from my head, honest.

So the failed hope of immigrants living a good life and escaping their past in hope of liberty, the oppressive state that is corrupted to turn against normal citizens, the key plot element that every big shot criminal sort after, the diamonds, which represented the pursuit of fortune in hope of a better life and the eventual ruin the pursuit of money actually brings, none of that is related to the American Dream?

They tried to make the American dream happen, by getting rich. They did that for a time when they moved to Manhattan and opened up a bigger taxi business and Nico got an apartment on one of those posh apartment towers. He and his cousin achieved all of that through sweat and the blood of their enemies. It could almost be a Western set in New York. They did that with Red Dead though.

GTA V's missions were better mainly because you could potentially switch between three characters, allowing you to always have something to do. One character means a more linear element to the game, but a more focused one at least. GTA V felt a bit haywire in terms of plot thanks to the ease of switching between characters.

 

Passed. You can have your opinion.

Oppressive state? you're a gun wielding maniac. By the time you're oppressed you've actually guaranteed prison for life. I feel it was more about temptations of a first world country and fighting the media. The media told Roman that gambling would make him a big shot because that's what big shots do in media. I feel it's more just about greed. The american dream would require effort and it just wasn't there from the characters.

Like I said, this is subjective and about interpretation at this point. You can have your opinion- you actually paid attention and clearly liked the game. I can't take that from you. In the next section I'm not quoting, you defended it well.

I've never been fond of that mechanic, honestly. It does open up tactics and it allows a bit more nonlinear gameplay, but it's not what I'm talking about much at all. However, the ease of it and the destruction it can cause really does add to the ferocity this game has. I just meant there was cool stuff in each mission (or most of them) that made them feel unique like pulling a house off a cliff. In GTAIV, I felt a lot of the missions were drive here, kill people, leave. I don't know, I haven't played GTAV yet and didn't like GTAIV. I didn't like GTAIV's actual game so much (the choices just felt actually pointless what with both characters disappearing after it's over- except for the biker dude) that I thought the sandbox city type of game wasn't for me. It took Sleeping Dogs and Lego City: Undercover for me to realize that me and GTAIV just aren't friends.