Post: New GTA V Screens Dive Into One of the Series' Weak Points
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08-24-2012, 02:01 AM
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M1CR0
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After things went quiet following the release of new screenshots in July, two new batches of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots have been released this week. The first, released on Monday, showed off three different forms of transportation: a bicycle, Cheetah (the GTA sports car, not the animal), and military jet of some sort. Today we got another three screens, these being much more interesting to me as they show various forms of leisure. Presumably this is some indication of the types of side activities we'll see in the game, an area in which past games haven't exactly excelled.
When Grand Theft Auto III was released, one of the many cool things about it was the ability to partake in side missions. Stealing a taxi, ambulance, fire truck, or police car (or some law enforcement equivalent) presented you with the option of carrying out that vehicle's purpose -- putting out fires, catching criminals, etc. There were also Rampages (where you kill people with a certain type of weapon), cars to be boosted, and RC cars used to race or wreak havoc.
GTA III's many sequels have introduced new side missions as you'd expect, but by and large they have failed to do anything particularly interesting or well. While Saints Row and Just Cause have been busy offering up outrageous thrills, GTA's side missions have been comparatively lame. Delivering pizzas? Serving as a valet at a hotel? Playing poor versions of basketball, pool, darts, and bowling? Yawn. There were exceptions, like the Blood Bowl destruction derby and base jumping, but these were few and far between.
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It is true that you could easily ignore all of this stuff. Unless you're intent on reaching the 100-percent mark or badly need the spare cash, there's no reason you have to bother with any of these missions; GTA games provide plenty of core missions to play, and the sandbox nature of the games means you can make your own fun. It is, however, a missed opportunity to not provide players with more enjoyable side missions.
Saints Row was clearly inspired by Grand Theft Auto, though compared to GTA IV and V it's gone in a much different direction, tone-wise, with its second and third titles. From the start its side missions were much more over-the-top and fun, a reality THQ and Volition were happy to highlight with a trailer for Saints Row 2. Being an advertisement for SR2, it obviously skewed things in its favor, but there was some truth to the point it was trying to make: "Would you rather go bowling or steal a septic truck and spray loads of sewage on pedestrians?"
Saints Row: The Third continued the trend, giving players a wide array of activities and diversions that are actually worth your time. These include Insurance Fraud (throw yourself in front of cars to suffer as much harm is possible, almost like the PSN game Pain without the catapult), Heli Assault (use a helicopter to provide support for one of your gang members driving around on the ground), Guardian Angel (similar to Heli Assault, only the helicopter is on rails and you use a rocket launcher to kill enemies), and, best of all, Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (a game show where you earn money by moving through a trap-laden course, gunning down mascots and shooting targets). Even the racing activity (normally a lowlight in open-world games), Trail Blazing, is very enjoyable in either of its variants (one has you checkpoint racing with an ATV that blows up any vehicle it touches, and the other is a Tron-style race).
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While GTA is the one that sells more and remains the face of the genre, Saints Row has surpassed it in many ways, side missions being the prime example. GTA V is more restricted in terms of what it can do due to Rockstar's desire for it to be more grounded in reality, though that doesn't mean its side missions have to be as dull as they been have in the past.
Unfortunately, today's screenshots don't prove things will be any different. They show what are believed to be three ways of passing the time outside of the core storyline: tennis, parachuting, and dirt bike racing. GTA's track record with sports minigames is not the greatest, but considering Rockstar's Table Tennis is a solid game, I'm hopeful this will buck the trend. Off-road racing, meanwhile, isn't a new concept to GTA, though improved bike handling, if that does prove to be a thing in GTA V, could get me excited about dirt bike racing; for now, I remain hesitant to think this is anything notable. And parachuting could be fun even if it, too, is not an original thing. But will doing so be as useful as in Saints Row: The Third or as entertaining as in Just Cause 2? That remains to be seen.
Unlike with Monday's screenshot release, there was no tease about more coming in the near future, so it may be a while yet before we get a look at what kind of new activities GTA V will bring with it (or anything at all, for that matter). As we face another wait before getting anything else new, I can't help but wonder if the restrictions imposed by the tone of the post-GTA III series games are getting in the way of some of the fun we could be having. If that's the case, would it be so harmful for side missions to abandon the tone of the storyline and go crazy? Are GTA's side missions forever doomed to being less exciting than their Saints Row counterparts that can be as out-there as Volition wants?
I'm curious to hear what you think; share your thoughts on the matter in the comments below and let me know what kind of side missions you'd like to see in GTA V.
Source: 1up.com
08-24-2012, 04:27 AM
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VerbzGFX
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Originally posted by M1CR0
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After things went quiet following the release of new screenshots in July, two new batches of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots have been released this week. The first, released on Monday, showed off three different forms of transportation: a bicycle, Cheetah (the GTA sports car, not the animal), and military jet of some sort. Today we got another three screens, these being much more interesting to me as they show various forms of leisure. Presumably this is some indication of the types of side activities we'll see in the game, an area in which past games haven't exactly excelled.
When Grand Theft Auto III was released, one of the many cool things about it was the ability to partake in side missions. Stealing a taxi, ambulance, fire truck, or police car (or some law enforcement equivalent) presented you with the option of carrying out that vehicle's purpose -- putting out fires, catching criminals, etc. There were also Rampages (where you kill people with a certain type of weapon), cars to be boosted, and RC cars used to race or wreak havoc.
GTA III's many sequels have introduced new side missions as you'd expect, but by and large they have failed to do anything particularly interesting or well. While Saints Row and Just Cause have been busy offering up outrageous thrills, GTA's side missions have been comparatively lame. Delivering pizzas? Serving as a valet at a hotel? Playing poor versions of basketball, pool, darts, and bowling? Yawn. There were exceptions, like the Blood Bowl destruction derby and base jumping, but these were few and far between.
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It is true that you could easily ignore all of this stuff. Unless you're intent on reaching the 100-percent mark or badly need the spare cash, there's no reason you have to bother with any of these missions; GTA games provide plenty of core missions to play, and the sandbox nature of the games means you can make your own fun. It is, however, a missed opportunity to not provide players with more enjoyable side missions.
Saints Row was clearly inspired by Grand Theft Auto, though compared to GTA IV and V it's gone in a much different direction, tone-wise, with its second and third titles. From the start its side missions were much more over-the-top and fun, a reality THQ and Volition were happy to highlight with a trailer for Saints Row 2. Being an advertisement for SR2, it obviously skewed things in its favor, but there was some truth to the point it was trying to make: "Would you rather go bowling or steal a septic truck and spray loads of sewage on pedestrians?"
Saints Row: The Third continued the trend, giving players a wide array of activities and diversions that are actually worth your time. These include Insurance Fraud (throw yourself in front of cars to suffer as much harm is possible, almost like the PSN game Pain without the catapult), Heli Assault (use a helicopter to provide support for one of your gang members driving around on the ground), Guardian Angel (similar to Heli Assault, only the helicopter is on rails and you use a rocket launcher to kill enemies), and, best of all, Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (a game show where you earn money by moving through a trap-laden course, gunning down mascots and shooting targets). Even the racing activity (normally a lowlight in open-world games), Trail Blazing, is very enjoyable in either of its variants (one has you checkpoint racing with an ATV that blows up any vehicle it touches, and the other is a Tron-style race).
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While GTA is the one that sells more and remains the face of the genre, Saints Row has surpassed it in many ways, side missions being the prime example. GTA V is more restricted in terms of what it can do due to Rockstar's desire for it to be more grounded in reality, though that doesn't mean its side missions have to be as dull as they been have in the past.
Unfortunately, today's screenshots don't prove things will be any different. They show what are believed to be three ways of passing the time outside of the core storyline: tennis, parachuting, and dirt bike racing. GTA's track record with sports minigames is not the greatest, but considering Rockstar's Table Tennis is a solid game, I'm hopeful this will buck the trend. Off-road racing, meanwhile, isn't a new concept to GTA, though improved bike handling, if that does prove to be a thing in GTA V, could get me excited about dirt bike racing; for now, I remain hesitant to think this is anything notable. And parachuting could be fun even if it, too, is not an original thing. But will doing so be as useful as in Saints Row: The Third or as entertaining as in Just Cause 2? That remains to be seen.
Unlike with Monday's screenshot release, there was no tease about more coming in the near future, so it may be a while yet before we get a look at what kind of new activities GTA V will bring with it (or anything at all, for that matter). As we face another wait before getting anything else new, I can't help but wonder if the restrictions imposed by the tone of the post-GTA III series games are getting in the way of some of the fun we could be having. If that's the case, would it be so harmful for side missions to abandon the tone of the storyline and go crazy? Are GTA's side missions forever doomed to being less exciting than their Saints Row counterparts that can be as out-there as Volition wants?
I'm curious to hear what you think; share your thoughts on the matter in the comments below and let me know what kind of side missions you'd like to see in GTA V.
Source: 1up.com
After things went quiet following the release of new screenshots in July, two new batches of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots have been released this week. The first, released on Monday, showed off three different forms of transportation: a bicycle, Cheetah (the GTA sports car, not the animal), and military jet of some sort. Today we got another three screens, these being much more interesting to me as they show various forms of leisure. Presumably this is some indication of the types of side activities we'll see in the game, an area in which past games haven't exactly excelled.
When Grand Theft Auto III was released, one of the many cool things about it was the ability to partake in side missions. Stealing a taxi, ambulance, fire truck, or police car (or some law enforcement equivalent) presented you with the option of carrying out that vehicle's purpose -- putting out fires, catching criminals, etc. There were also Rampages (where you kill people with a certain type of weapon), cars to be boosted, and RC cars used to race or wreak havoc.
GTA III's many sequels have introduced new side missions as you'd expect, but by and large they have failed to do anything particularly interesting or well. While Saints Row and Just Cause have been busy offering up outrageous thrills, GTA's side missions have been comparatively lame. Delivering pizzas? Serving as a valet at a hotel? Playing poor versions of basketball, pool, darts, and bowling? Yawn. There were exceptions, like the Blood Bowl destruction derby and base jumping, but these were few and far between.
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It is true that you could easily ignore all of this stuff. Unless you're intent on reaching the 100-percent mark or badly need the spare cash, there's no reason you have to bother with any of these missions; GTA games provide plenty of core missions to play, and the sandbox nature of the games means you can make your own fun. It is, however, a missed opportunity to not provide players with more enjoyable side missions.
Saints Row was clearly inspired by Grand Theft Auto, though compared to GTA IV and V it's gone in a much different direction, tone-wise, with its second and third titles. From the start its side missions were much more over-the-top and fun, a reality THQ and Volition were happy to highlight with a trailer for Saints Row 2. Being an advertisement for SR2, it obviously skewed things in its favor, but there was some truth to the point it was trying to make: "Would you rather go bowling or steal a septic truck and spray loads of sewage on pedestrians?"
Saints Row: The Third continued the trend, giving players a wide array of activities and diversions that are actually worth your time. These include Insurance Fraud (throw yourself in front of cars to suffer as much harm is possible, almost like the PSN game Pain without the catapult), Heli Assault (use a helicopter to provide support for one of your gang members driving around on the ground), Guardian Angel (similar to Heli Assault, only the helicopter is on rails and you use a rocket launcher to kill enemies), and, best of all, Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (a game show where you earn money by moving through a trap-laden course, gunning down mascots and shooting targets). Even the racing activity (normally a lowlight in open-world games), Trail Blazing, is very enjoyable in either of its variants (one has you checkpoint racing with an ATV that blows up any vehicle it touches, and the other is a Tron-style race).
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While GTA is the one that sells more and remains the face of the genre, Saints Row has surpassed it in many ways, side missions being the prime example. GTA V is more restricted in terms of what it can do due to Rockstar's desire for it to be more grounded in reality, though that doesn't mean its side missions have to be as dull as they been have in the past.
Unfortunately, today's screenshots don't prove things will be any different. They show what are believed to be three ways of passing the time outside of the core storyline: tennis, parachuting, and dirt bike racing. GTA's track record with sports minigames is not the greatest, but considering Rockstar's Table Tennis is a solid game, I'm hopeful this will buck the trend. Off-road racing, meanwhile, isn't a new concept to GTA, though improved bike handling, if that does prove to be a thing in GTA V, could get me excited about dirt bike racing; for now, I remain hesitant to think this is anything notable. And parachuting could be fun even if it, too, is not an original thing. But will doing so be as useful as in Saints Row: The Third or as entertaining as in Just Cause 2? That remains to be seen.
Unlike with Monday's screenshot release, there was no tease about more coming in the near future, so it may be a while yet before we get a look at what kind of new activities GTA V will bring with it (or anything at all, for that matter). As we face another wait before getting anything else new, I can't help but wonder if the restrictions imposed by the tone of the post-GTA III series games are getting in the way of some of the fun we could be having. If that's the case, would it be so harmful for side missions to abandon the tone of the storyline and go crazy? Are GTA's side missions forever doomed to being less exciting than their Saints Row counterparts that can be as out-there as Volition wants?
I'm curious to hear what you think; share your thoughts on the matter in the comments below and let me know what kind of side missions you'd like to see in GTA V.
Source: 1up.com
OMG !! I just really want to play the game now i think we have been waiting long enough.
---------- Post added at 11:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 PM ----------
OMG !! I just really want to play the game now i think we have been waiting long enough.
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