Did anyone else recognize the part of Los Santos recycled from Midnight Club LA? The part of town near the pier looks an awful lot like Santa Monica. I"ll have to do a little more exploring when I get back to town.
I forget what site it was on but they took pictures of buildings and areas around L.A. and what have you and compared them to Los Santos. They were as close as could be without them being the real set pieces.
Did anyone else recognize the part of Los Santos recycled from Midnight Club LA? The part of town near the pier looks an awful lot like Santa Monica. I"ll have to do a little more exploring when I get back to town.
That's why I'm a little nonplussed with the soundtrack here. After all, this is the 4th time Rockstar has had a game in LA.
Thanks for that link - very good read. I loved the quote from the dev "I guess I'm mourning the admittance that I'm no longer the target audience of my own work." I'm no dev but I feel that way about alot of games I was once the target. Sports and fighting games, Im looking at you.
Thanks for that link - very good read. I loved the quote from the dev "I guess I'm mourning the admittance that I'm no longer the target audience of my own work." I'm no dev but I feel that way about alot of games I was once the target. Sports and fighting games, Im looking at you.
"GTAis basically the most elaborate asshole simulation system ever devised, a game based on hurting people and doing whatever you like. At the same time, though, I understand the basic sense of fatigue with which people are approaching it. Once upon a time, playing aGTA game was like sitting next to your offensive Republican uncle at Christmas dinner. He was definitely a dick but also smart and interesting, and his heart was fundamentally in the right place. These days Uncle GTA is a billionaire with an unchanged shtick, and he seems a hell of a lot more mean-spirited than before."
This quote stuck in my brain the most. I can remember playing GTA 3 for the first time and how it was one of the first console open world games, I just sat and looked around at how everything was alive around you. I also remember the leather dressed men walking around Liberty City like they had just left a Village People convention telling me "There's a place you can go". You know that with Rockstar every itteration of the game has to be bigger, bolder, smarter and push the very limits. Even if the publicity is bad, it still is going to get it noticed and maybe entice someone to try it if they've never been in the franchise before.
I will say after having it for over a week and finishing the main storyline, I'm done. I'm holding out for online but after that I won't keep it. The wow factor doesn't make up for the fact that I thought the story was okay but not earth shattering because in one way or another I've already done these thing's in past GTA's. It's fun , I enjoyed my time with it, but like all franchises it gets to feel like more of the same. Yes,yes I know that's what people want but being how big this game is and how much it cost to make, where do you go from this point? I think of how amazing RD:R was. The story hands down was better, the protaganist was the same troubled soul with a past battling his moral compass and it impacted me the same way that GTA V did. But in RD:R you were limited to what you could do with NPC's. I guess since my asshole option was limited I tried to be the good guy. Like I said now that the newness has worn off and I've spent sometime with it and done all the taboo things I can in it, I can look back and say "yeah, they could've done without that". It is a great game and R-star again has outdone themselves, I just wonder where and what comes next after this.
I am not sure this is on topic or what anymore in this thread since it changes more than the good night thread!
The mrs and myself have a saying, "Wana fight about it"? It is a catchy way to say, "Would you like to go play Soul Caliber"? A bunch of my friends have now coined it. The other day it was said in front of the neighbors. When we went inside the house to take care of buisness, they thought we were actually going to "take care of buisness".
They were genuinly concerned that we were going to fight it out!
See, nosey people should mind their own buisness. Here is were the morality comes into play. My grandpa survived the boat trip over here in 1899. He survived 2 world wars, a depression, Korea, Vietnam, lead paint, cars without seat belts and smoking cigarettes. He taught me long ago:
Seems to me all the most successful folk in the world did the opposite of what Grandpa said...That of course depends on your measurement of success, and I'm not necessarily using mine.
Seems to me all the most successful folk in the world did the opposite of what Grandpa said...That of course depends on your measurement of success, and I'm not necessarily using mine.
Sure. Fortune favors the bold and all that. Really, it should be filed under another saying that's cliche because its true: different strokes for different folks.
I told my 70 year old Dad about GTV. He said: "That's sick, just sick." He agreed that if you buy a game with such exploitation in it you send a message that you agree.
yeah, even we collectively are changing, cept maybe Parcells.
Saw a movie in Netflix, "Nude Nuns with Big Guns", and for some reason I thought it's be a good idea to watch it, and when I was 20 it mighta been ok, but I turned it off, it was horrible (big surprise...).
You said you played GTA 1-4. So YOU were sending a message that you agreed with the exploitation, right? I mean, it's not like there was any less "exploitaion" in those games.
You said you played GTA 1-4. So YOU were sending a message that you agreed with the exploitation, right? I mean, it's not like there was any less "exploitaion" in those games.
That's why I'm a little nonplussed with the soundtrack here. After all, this is the 4th time Rockstar has had a game in LA.
Another interesting review of the game, delving a little bit into the overall ethos: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9719678/tom-bissell-writes-letter-niko-bellic-grand-theft-auto-v
Good read.
Thanks for that link - very good read. I loved the quote from the dev "I guess I'm mourning the admittance that I'm no longer the target audience of my own work." I'm no dev but I feel that way about alot of games I was once the target. Sports and fighting games, Im looking at you.
Care to go into why you feel like that?
"GTAis basically the most elaborate asshole simulation system ever devised, a game based on hurting people and doing whatever you like. At the same time, though, I understand the basic sense of fatigue with which people are approaching it. Once upon a time, playing aGTA game was like sitting next to your offensive Republican uncle at Christmas dinner. He was definitely a dick but also smart and interesting, and his heart was fundamentally in the right place. These days Uncle GTA is a billionaire with an unchanged shtick, and he seems a hell of a lot more mean-spirited than before."
This quote stuck in my brain the most. I can remember playing GTA 3 for the first time and how it was one of the first console open world games, I just sat and looked around at how everything was alive around you. I also remember the leather dressed men walking around Liberty City like they had just left a Village People convention telling me "There's a place you can go". You know that with Rockstar every itteration of the game has to be bigger, bolder, smarter and push the very limits. Even if the publicity is bad, it still is going to get it noticed and maybe entice someone to try it if they've never been in the franchise before.
I will say after having it for over a week and finishing the main storyline, I'm done. I'm holding out for online but after that I won't keep it. The wow factor doesn't make up for the fact that I thought the story was okay but not earth shattering because in one way or another I've already done these thing's in past GTA's. It's fun , I enjoyed my time with it, but like all franchises it gets to feel like more of the same. Yes,yes I know that's what people want but being how big this game is and how much it cost to make, where do you go from this point? I think of how amazing RD:R was. The story hands down was better, the protaganist was the same troubled soul with a past battling his moral compass and it impacted me the same way that GTA V did. But in RD:R you were limited to what you could do with NPC's. I guess since my asshole option was limited I tried to be the good guy. Like I said now that the newness has worn off and I've spent sometime with it and done all the taboo things I can in it, I can look back and say "yeah, they could've done without that". It is a great game and R-star again has outdone themselves, I just wonder where and what comes next after this.
I am not sure this is on topic or what anymore in this thread since it changes more than the good night thread!
The mrs and myself have a saying, "Wana fight about it"? It is a catchy way to say, "Would you like to go play Soul Caliber"? A bunch of my friends have now coined it. The other day it was said in front of the neighbors. When we went inside the house to take care of buisness, they thought we were actually going to "take care of buisness".
They were genuinly concerned that we were going to fight it out!
See, nosey people should mind their own buisness. Here is were the morality comes into play. My grandpa survived the boat trip over here in 1899. He survived 2 world wars, a depression, Korea, Vietnam, lead paint, cars without seat belts and smoking cigarettes. He taught me long ago:
Mind your own buisness3
Be honest
Keep your mounth shut
Take care of the people that take care of you
Live cheap
Save money
Prepare for the worst
/ruckus over.
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Seems to me all the most successful folk in the world did the opposite of what Grandpa said...That of course depends on your measurement of success, and I'm not necessarily using mine.
Sure. Fortune favors the bold and all that. Really, it should be filed under another saying that's cliche because its true: different strokes for different folks.
Hey! Monkey Man, repost my Voltron dancing clip...and you do it now.
Voltron sux...
and to continue the cliche's, happiness is where you find it...
come to think about most things are where you find them...also, they're the last place you look...
I mean, who the hell would keep looking after they were found?
What's a Voltron?
FIGHT! FIGHT!! FIGHT!
I agree!
I disagree!
I am unsure of my position of agreement, so I will pander to both sides and pretend I'm Switzerland
I will agree to disagree with whatever or whoever I agree...or disagree with.
lol
Isn't a Voltron one of those vibrators with the zapper? YOu know, like Fitzy uses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uS5b8aQ6z8
I told my 70 year old Dad about GTV. He said: "That's sick, just sick." He agreed that if you buy a game with such exploitation in it you send a message that you agree.
My dad said GTA V was okay to play... then he said "Hail Satan." My dad can beat up your dad.
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Free, I'm sure there are lots more like him, even I sometimes think "good lord what the heck?" Time's are definately different.
yeah, even we collectively are changing, cept maybe Parcells.
Saw a movie in Netflix, "Nude Nuns with Big Guns", and for some reason I thought it's be a good idea to watch it, and when I was 20 it mighta been ok, but I turned it off, it was horrible (big surprise...).
You said you played GTA 1-4. So YOU were sending a message that you agreed with the exploitation, right? I mean, it's not like there was any less "exploitaion" in those games.
He had an epiphony.