Do you want something brand new (London) or take the current game and refine it to an insane level detail by giving each building a life of its own? I ask because GTA 5 will probably still be very very active over the next 24 months.
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NEXT GEN Question: Would you rather have GTA 6 or GTA 5: Redux where you can enter in to every building?
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I've spent a lot of time over the last 6 years in GTA V's iteration of Los Santos. Going into every building would be cool, but I think it'd be more of a novelty, one-time kind of thing as you're outside most of the time, so give me a new GTA over an expanded V.
Nah, 5 again - even with detailed interiors - sounds totally unappealing.
But more than anything, I want them to revamp their control scheme and mission structure (more player agency, not do-as-we-say-insta fail mission design). Otherwise I'm not sure I'll touch 6.
But more than anything, I want them to revamp their control scheme and mission structure (more player agency, not do-as-we-say-insta fail mission design). Otherwise I'm not sure I'll touch 6.
GTA VI, in a fully-realized Carcer City. A city in the Rockstar family and if I'm not mistaken, close to or adjacent to Liberty City. Fuck going back to Liberty City AGAIN. I get it, you want the grime & urban city life in contrast to the sun and landscapes of San Andreas, and that's fine, let's do that. But not in LIberty City.
Let's go to Carcer City.
Let's go to Carcer City.
The dream is GTA 6 having a lot of explorable buildings. I love GTA 5 to death but still, I'm anxiously awaiting GTA 6. I would love for Rockstar to start toning down their map sizes so they are more meaningful but after Red Dead 2 having Red Dead Redemptions full map for kinda no reason (at least I didn't feel a reason to explore it deeply at all) it's unlikely.
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I have no idea what people want in gaming but it appears that GTA goes for a level of immersion and an increased discovery ability on a game that is not going anywhere anytime soon seems understandable.
A lot of games let you do that. WRPGs like Skyrim, Fallout and detective games, the game is an enjoyable mixed bag but Niaowu in Shenmue 3 is really nice for this.
Okay, I know the idea of fully explorable interiors sounds like a fun, immersive idea at first. Because you're thinking houses. You're thinking stores. Sure. I get it. But, just for a moment, take a mental journey with me. Take a journey to the design meeting for GTA V Redux with interiors.
Today's meeting is about a 50 storey office building in downtown Los Santos. You're in charge.
"Alright," you proclaim. "First floor is reception. Easy." The designers around the table nod in agreement. "Second floor? Well, there's definitely a security office. In fact, second floor is all security." Again, nods around the table.
Then you get to the third floor, and you sort of plan out an office. Fourth floor, same thing. Maybe a different style of office. An open-concept office.You continue rising floor after floor. Maybe you get a few more standard office floors. You could have a joke floor where maybe the toilet is overflowing! Everyone around the table laughs at this, as it is pretty standard Rockstar humour.
You realize that you're on floor 26. You're out of ideas. The game is just GTA V again, the story doesn't require any of this. No one is going to voluntarily visit floor 26 of this building because they don't need to and there's nothing special there. You can't put something special on every floor and this floor did not warrant anything special. So it's another office floor. You have 24 more floors to fill.
This was one building.
Today's meeting is about a 50 storey office building in downtown Los Santos. You're in charge.
"Alright," you proclaim. "First floor is reception. Easy." The designers around the table nod in agreement. "Second floor? Well, there's definitely a security office. In fact, second floor is all security." Again, nods around the table.
Then you get to the third floor, and you sort of plan out an office. Fourth floor, same thing. Maybe a different style of office. An open-concept office.You continue rising floor after floor. Maybe you get a few more standard office floors. You could have a joke floor where maybe the toilet is overflowing! Everyone around the table laughs at this, as it is pretty standard Rockstar humour.
You realize that you're on floor 26. You're out of ideas. The game is just GTA V again, the story doesn't require any of this. No one is going to voluntarily visit floor 26 of this building because they don't need to and there's nothing special there. You can't put something special on every floor and this floor did not warrant anything special. So it's another office floor. You have 24 more floors to fill.
This was one building.
those aren't quite on the same scale as a city, with hundreds of buildings and skyscrapers with hundreds of floors
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how to make your player bored real fuckin quick
Every building having some sort of interior would be cool. Could just be a lobby with elevators.
Exactly. You either get a handful of copy/pasted layouts repeating for seemingly eternity, or you get handcrafted interiors that very quickly becomes ludicrously expensive and are still basically the same thing over and over. There's no point.
That kind of granularity to an overworld the scope of GTA would only interest me if it involved destructibility. If every building could be entered, there'd need to be whole grocery stores, malls, etc. and even if it's all modeled, it could still feel empty if there's no way to buy stuff or interact with everything.
It'd probably be more feasible (but still ridiculous) to just make everything destructible if they're bothering with interiors—if you can blow everything up, samey/non-interactive interiors won't be an issue.
Seems like it'd be a waste outside of citywide mayhem-focused modes though.
It'd probably be more feasible (but still ridiculous) to just make everything destructible if they're bothering with interiors—if you can blow everything up, samey/non-interactive interiors won't be an issue.
Seems like it'd be a waste outside of citywide mayhem-focused modes though.
Fallout games are rather big, but of course a lot of is abandoned but I do think it could be a good thing and fun to look for details. You would probably need scaled down cities though.
Still sounds great to me. Imagine the police chases if you can duck into any building around you and set up ambushes or throw a bunch of office chairs and crap behind you to slow them down. Or do other cool shit like sniping other players in GTA Online from the 26th floor window of an office building.
this, so much. the same as with "completely destructible environments", it's a cool feat but good luck creating an entertaining game that way.
Why are y'all so obsessed with entering every room in GTA? There wouldn't be anything but the same garbage items in most of them. Or just nothing.
Who wants GTA5 sticking around for another gen? I'm surprised Rockstar milked that cow from the end of PS3/360 until now.
Either a fully realized Vice City or outside of the US entirely. US is a bit boring, I mean, is there any satire they can do that would trump current US events without falling into cartoonish Saints Row circumstances?
Either a fully realized Vice City or outside of the US entirely. US is a bit boring, I mean, is there any satire they can do that would trump current US events without falling into cartoonish Saints Row circumstances?
GTA VI without a doubt.
I'm sure full interiors may add something to GTA Online but as someone more interested in Rockstar's single-player work and who thought GTA V was terrible story-wise, give me something new and use what they learned writing RDR2.
I'm sure full interiors may add something to GTA Online but as someone more interested in Rockstar's single-player work and who thought GTA V was terrible story-wise, give me something new and use what they learned writing RDR2.
