Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

I never understood why R* never implemented modding tools for their titles.

Hot Coffee and GTA Online.

Hot Coffee is self explanatory and GTA Online mostly is too. Rockstar actually goes out of their way to fuck over modders in GTA 5, there is a script that checks if a DLC vehicle is spawned in GTA 5 and if it is the vehicle is respawned nearly instantly.

 

[Colon capital V]

You will and a year after it's out you'll be making posts about how GTA V/Online actually weren't shit when you think about it.

>Why GTA V isn't as bad as you think
>We were wrong about GTA V
>How I learned to HATE GTA VI
>How I grew to like GTA V again
>Why GTA V is better than VI
>We took GTA V for granted...
>We were too hard on GTA V...
>What GTA V did right that VI got Wrong

Total Video Essayist Death albeit

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

I will not be buying GTA6. The only 3d GTA i bought was GTA4 and it was fucking boring. No, you slav prick, I don't want to go bowling during a ped-genocide.

GTA stopped being fun after it went 3D.

 

[Doctor John B. Zyklon]

I will not be buying GTA6. The only 3d GTA i bought was GTA4 and it was fucking boring. No, you slav prick, I don't want to go bowling during a ped-genocide.

GTA stopped being fun after it went 3D.

SA and Vice City were great.

I might have to replay the 2d GTA tho. I can't believe I was allowed to play that.

 

[The Last Stand]

Tenpenny is so badass, he has his own theme song.

No other character, AFAIK, has their own theme song. Actually, that's a lie. GTA: Chinatown Wars has instrumentals for characters for cutscenes. And GTA Advance with reused music from GTA1 and GTA2.

 

[Would]

I don't know man, even 3D era concept art didn't really do any of those characters any favors.

III's concept art didn't, because III wasn't interested in it. It's art design is clearly based on cheap pulp comics with a gritty style.
VC mostly followed suit, but starting with SA we can definitely see they tried to improve the appeal of their art. VCS almost acts like a bridge between the III/IV era styles with a detailed yet cartoony result.

IMO they should go back to that low-budget pulp. Showed more soul than the HD universe artwork, which while easier to look at feels like it could be for any game about crime.

 

[The Last Stand]

IMO they should go back to that low-budget pulp. Showed more soul than the HD universe artwork, which while easier to look at feels like it could be for any game about crime.

Key word, low budget. I miss games that worked with their limitations to create something memorable. GTA III obviously aged the most, but that was its charm. What if YOU played a part in some criminal underworld, given various tasks and jobs as an underling like some simplistic crime drama? All that low-quality grime in Liberty City was intentional to capture the essence of a prosperous city engulfed in crime and corruption. All the while, your NPCs around you just go about their day as comic relief thanks to their non-sequiter dialogue.

I've never been conflicted about a product in my lifetime. VI will be a cash grab if V/Online is anything to go by. Its "satire" would be a practical imitation of modern reality, while its "fans" will exploit the hype for all it's worth. I feel it's nigh impossible to enjoy GTA VI in a vacuum based on several external factors.

 

[Would]

Key word, low budget.

By choice. They were after the low-budget aesthetic same way some youtube channels love their VHS/80's Lo-Fi shit.

I miss games that worked with their limitations to create something memorable.

Agreed.

 

[The Last Stand]

I've said that GTA IV has great writing for GTA standards. I think LCS deserves that acclaim as well. It's objectively darker than IV, but pulls off dark comedy quite well. Example: that mission with Donald Love where you're instructed to blow up Fort Staunton, play that mission while playing Head Radio or Lips 106. The dark underworld of Liberty City crime and government immediately contradicts/complements Tony's dry remarks, random ped dialogue and non sensical, contemporary radio selections.

Honorable mention goes to GTA: Chinatown Wars for the same reasons.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Speak of Tenpenny, the Los Santos Riot was in its day and probably remains to this day the best spectacle I've ever seen in a game, just in terms of it changing up the world and making things feel like they've taken a huge turn.

 

[Colon capital V]

Average programmer team building.

 

[The Last Stand]

I found an original print copy of GTA IV. No Platinum Hits rebranding. $5. No map however. It happens.

 

[I am Jack's dead arm]

Speak of Tenpenny, the Los Santos Riot was in its day and probably remains to this day the best spectacle I've ever seen in a game, just in terms of it changing up the world and making things feel like they've taken a huge turn.

I keep a save on SA at this point. I usually just play missions or the side stuff, but if I just want to fuck around, that's the best situation to do it in.

 

[The Last Stand]

There's a lot of pixelization with IV thanks to the Series X upscaling. I think the proper term is anti-aliasing. I hope that helicopter bug at the end is fixed. If TBoGT is on sale, I'd like to buy it to 100% it.

 

[The Last Stand]

Shawn Fonteno, aka Franklin from GTA V, now has a YouTube where he streams GTA V.

I get second hand embarrassment watching him try to figure out mission markers.

 

[Sneed (formerly ﷽)]

 

[The Last Stand]

Ned Luke and Shawn Fonteno say that drive by shooting is difficult. Is it? Maybe it's muscle memory for me, but I can manage driving and shooting at once with a 360 camera.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Will GTA6 have a VR mode?

It seems like the next logical step is GTA in PSVR2. If only Sony weren't such useless cucks.

 

[Serbian Peacekeepers]

Will GTA6 have a VR mode?

VR is so performance heavy that I can't see them adding it to 6, it would need a NASA tier computer to run at a passable framerate.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

VR is so performance heavy that I can't see them adding it to 6, it would need a NASA tier computer to run at a passable framerate.

VR isn't about the graphics. There's a zombie shooting game on VR2 called After the Fall. It's basically a rip-off of left for dead but in VR, with graphics that are something similar to a ps3-era remaster. When playing the game, the graphics are never a hinderance, but the gameplay and gunplay is leaps and bounds beyond any top flight AAA graphics-fest available today.

Off topic: VR was the chance for the industry to turn away from graphics as a selling point and return to fun, interesting games. It's a shame the industry is hell-bent on ruining VR at every chance they get.