Hopeful features in GTA IV

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TheFondler

First time out of the vault
Let's see, I've been thinking about the upcoming game in the GTA series, which has been generating quite the hype, especially since the teaser trailer.

Here are some of my suggestions for the upcoming game (Supposedly coming out this October):

- Homeless people. There’s a surprising lack of homeless people in the game. The real Liberty City neighborhood in Miami is a shantytown not unlike skid row in LA. I want to walk through areas of downtown full of shantytown tents, smashing them and fighting the hordes of homeless people who attack me as a result. I also want to attack hoboes sleeping on benches and kick over their shopping carts full of aluminum cans.

- More interactive buildings. Let the character enter any building in the game, even if it’s just an office, apartment building, or empty warehouse. Maybe hide some weapons, health, or special items there.

-Animals. I want fucking animals in the game. I want idiots walking their dogs. I want to see a deer if I am out in the boonies. I want raccons eating garbage… all so I can shoot them. I hate animals.

- Cops posing as hookers. Killing a hooker cop in a sting operation is more fun than killing a regular hooker!

- More taunting from pedestrians. If you’re in a certain part of town, local teens should occasionally follow you, harass you, and throw things at you.

- Bus riding. The only transportation you can’t ride in the game is the bus. You should be able to get on and beat up the people inside, throwing them out the windows.

- Sharks in the water. I want to punch a shark in the face. Also, I want to shoot a shark, drag it onto shore, and then beat people with it. Why wouldn't you want to beat someone with a shark? I would also like these same options with giant turtles, or perhaps oversized crustaceans.

- Multi-player mode. The current game has a pretty crappy version of this. Let two people play the full game at the same time, with the option of hooking up a second TV so it won’t be split-screen. Let the players compete to see who can finish the game’s missions first, and allow them to kill and steal things from each other along the way.

- Permanent mode. A mode of the game where anything you do is permanent. If you bust up the shantytown and kill all the hoboes there, they won’t reappear later. You could walk around the whole city cleaning up the scum and seeing results.

Oh also… create a character mode.
 
How about fully destructible cars for a change? The now ancient Carmageddon series still has Rockstar beat. It was so awesome in Carma 2 being able to literally wrap your car around a tree or something.

I also want to run over lots of animals again. Cows, dogs, elephants, whatever.
 
Well in GTA-Land Liberty City is New York, not Miami; Vice City is Miami and in Vice City there is Little Haiti which IS a shantytown.
But asside from that I wouldn't mind most of those features. The dragging-a-shark-from-the-water bit is a little over-the-top; too many too bizarre ways to kill people that are there simply for the bizarre element will cheapen the game.

I'd like to see, to a limited extent, some more functional damage to vehicles beyond flat tires. San An gave us functional damage to Aeroplanes, so why not our cars as well? I'm not sure how well this would go down, though, seeing as how much of an "interactive movie" the GTA games are, such heavy-handed realism might change the nature of gameplay unless other aspects change accordingly. In previous installments the police relentlessly try to ram you as hard and as fast as possible, but since cracked axles, broken suspension, and damaged motors don't really enter into the equation, escape is usually possible until the car simply has enough and catches fire.

Not to mention that added complexity can make or brake a game like this; Vice City, with its balance between the simple modes of play of the immortal III, and the complex, busy world of San An, where the player rarely has complete freedom to roam, still keeps bringing me back. I was so annoyed that, even after I beat San Andreas, I essentially had to avoid the starting neighborhood because if I hung around it I ran the risk of a "Our 'Hood is under attack!" message popping up and summoning me from whatever fun I was having at the time. In addition to keeping up with muscle/fat balances, girlfriends and their demands, collecting money from properties across the huge map (don't get me wrong, the map itself is a great boon), etc, etc, etc. Sometimes these messages pop up even when I'm far away from the home neighborhoods, forcing me to scramble for the nearest jet plane!
 
Meh, GTA died with Vice City. The chance of them ever topping that is slim to none. But at least the story seems to be better in GTAIV than in San Andreas.
 
I think a brand new and interesting location for IV would have been the best idea, not that Liberty City was a bad choice, but hey. Oh well at least it looks more "authentic" this time around. Although I liked a rumour going around early this year of the setting possibly being Asia. Personally I wouldn't mind being an anime watching, sake drinking disgruntled middle aged office worker in Japan. that might actually have a kind of sick twist to it which GTA always seem to amplify.

Also, Endorphin/Euphoria would be sweet. Rockstar has already used the technology (supposedly), and this would suit the GTA world REALLY well...
http://www.naturalmotion.com/index.htm
 
Vice City = New York City? If it was I never really got that... but, I never really played the games that much. Saw that the Flat Iron, Statue of liberty, Coney Island and Times Square appears in the trailer though.

Add: and the harbour.. So It looks very NY.Oh. and the MetLife.

Ok, maybe just sometimes.. it's good to watch the whole thing first. It is NY. New vid the 28th of June.

This will surely be a perfect gift "to my brother" and his ecksbaxz
 
Sander said:
No, Vice City = Miami. Liberty City = New York. San Andreas = LA/California.
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Aha. Never noticed it was more than one city in those game (Well I did notice the different names). Well, I'm back on track. Thank you.
 
Fuck GTA 4 and fuck rockstar. What about people who don't own consoles, you assholes? I hope that game will suck hairy, sweaty balls :(

The only feature i want that game to have is David Hasslehoff end-boss who will rape the game's protagonist in the ass.
 
Madbringer said:
Fuck GTA 4 and fuck rockstar. What about people who don't own consoles, you assholes? I hope that game will suck hairy, sweaty balls :(
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Huh? All the GTA games so far have been released for PC after they were released for consoles.
 
Madbringer said:
Are you sure? It isn't even announced on the pc.
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And neither were Vice City or San Andreas when they first came out. Ever since the first installment, though, every game was released on PC. There's no reason to think this one won't be released on PC.
 
Guess i'm getting a little paranoid, then.. partly because of Vice City and Liberty City stories. :?
 
Right, but what Sander said, every GTA game has been released on the PC. It doesn't have to be right away, but trust us, GTA IV will be playable on the PC some time in the future.
 
The GTA series was never a catalyst for PC games taking a dive, in my opinion the XBOX 360 is to blame for that.
 
GTA games are honest to goodness good games. I really enjoy playing them all, even SA which I'm replaying right now.

I just hope it won't take long for GTAIV PC to get released.
 
Agreed DDD. I replay them often too. It's also really fun to really listen in on all the radio news and talk shows in San Andreas. I love how they change as the game moves on. Actually I think the stories and characters on the radio stations are way more developed and entertaining than the actual characters in the game.
 
I want to see Brighton Beach, judging by the Eastern European accent and what could have been the cyclone it is very possible. Go GTA IV


Oh and what is everyone’s beef with SA? Sure on the cool scale Vice City takes the cake in my book. But SA had far better feature and Samuel Jackson. What was it because you had to play as a black guy does any one dare to drop the N-bomb?
 
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