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GTA GeoGuesser
- metadat 4y agoWeird game, but I do have fond memories of GTA :). Rusty ones, apparently.
- asadlionpk 4y agoThis is awesome. I am that person ie. I know GTA map more than my real city's map.
- prawn 4y agoI flew my partner across the planet to propose to her in New York City, shortly after GTA IV. There was a bit of a stumble early in the trip when we were walking somewhere in Manhattan and I blurted out that it was all so incredibly familiar. Then excitedly told her that this exact spot was where I'd murdered a helicopter pilot and got into a massive shoot out with police. From that point on, I'd randomly laugh at various other locations we walked through, remembering other crazy GTA capers.
- julianwachholz 4y agoI had the same experience after playing Watch Dogs extensively before a trip to SF. It's a weird mix of familiarity and deja vu.
- usrusr 4y agoTest driven marriage?
- andrewingram 4y agoHad this in Boston after Fallout 4, my ex wasn't amused.
- typon 4y agoSame experience visiting LA for the first time. It's like I knew the city more than the locals
- asadlionpk 4y agoThanks for sharing this haha. I had somewhat similar experience visiting LA (and probably my biggest motivation for visiting lol)
- tjungblut 4y agoyeah I was also surprised about myself, first pin I set on the map was only 20m away from the real location.
- keithnz 4y agoThis is pretty cool! It's been ages since I have played, but actually did pretty well, some of this stuff is just burned into my brain
- Hamuko 4y ago24955 points on my first attempt. I think my worst one was about 60 metres off. Probably couldn't have done as well if you gave me one for my local area within a 5 km range of me.
- pionar 4y agoThis is fun, but I got the same image like 4 times.
- walrus01 4y agoI thought this was greater Toronto area geoguesser
- elchief 4y agoI was hoping it was for Greater Toronto
- yreg 4y agoWhy? Real world GeoGuesser exists…
- zerocrates 4y agoJust because "GTA" is also an abbreviation for Greater Toronto Area.
- oynqr 4y agoI was hoping for games other than V.
- haunter 4y agoHere is one for Fortnite covering every different map from every season https://www.whereinfortnite.com/ https://www.whereinfortnite.com/
- yccs27 4y agoI've never played Fortnite, but I just got a perfect score (without time limit) there. The Fortnite map designers did a really good job at creating varied biomes and recognizable landmarks.
- haunter 4y agoDepends really. Early season maps (Chapter 1 Season 1-4) had barely any changes and they were all the same green forest-y style, so it's much harder to guess just based on the geography and flora.
- prawn 4y agoSomeone should do this but for Halo. And every shot is one of those angular Forerunner structures with Covenant/Flood everywhere. That'd really narrow it down...
- Doxin 4y ago"Ah yes, the sort of hexagon shaped hallway with a turn to the left followed by a turn to the right. Only like seventy places that can be."
- etoxin 4y agoIt would be cool if there were multiple games within a geoguesser game. Doom, Witcher, Battlefield, Red Dead.
- djsavvy 4y agoThis is absolutely amazing. Just donated some too :)
- d12bb 4y ago15k points without movement (not disabled, just not used, don’t know if that matters for points) on first try, best 53m off. I guess I actually know GTA V better than the real world :D
- formerly_proven 4y agoMaximum always seems to be 5k points, played two rounds on Hard and Medium. Hard is a bit goofy because you might just look at a hill roadside and that's pretty generic in GTA. Closest was 2m. Worst 1200m in the hills. I actually think there is no real place that I know as well as Los Santos, and I haven't even played GTAV for years.
- usrusr 4y agoReal places are more difficult because they change over time. And some of them seem just as full of seemingly copy/pasted objects as the games... (or worse? Games have come a long way since the ubiquitous crate, on the level of production standards of GTA they probably go deep on generative variations)
- kaffeeringe 4y agoCool!
- seydor 4y agohow do you make 360 images from GTA?
- bzzzt 4y agoJust like you make 360 images with real photo's? Take screenshots looking in all directions and use a panorama stitching tool.
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- djsavvy 4y agoI initially thought this wouldn't work, since you can't take pictures in all directions simultaneously in GTA V, and moving the camera in different directions might add artifacts from moving objects and/or cause items out of view to despawn entirely. A Google streetview car can take pictures of all directions simultaneously, thus avoiding the "stretched dog" or "double person" panorama problems that can happen from stitching shots together. And things tend not to despawn in real life, though there are plenty of examples of anomalies on Google maps. It turns out you can follow the same car over a long stretch of road in this GTA Geoguessr, leading me to believe your intuition is correct.
- yreg 4y agohttps://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/panoramic-view-screenshot https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/panoramic-view-screenshot
- Hamuko 4y agoIt might be possible to automate taking the screenshots so that a single hit of a key will quickly move the camera while taking overlapping scerenshots, reducing the amount of moving artifacts.
- Ekaros 4y agoI wonder if automating something like Nvidia Ansel is possible. It stops the gameplay and allows to take various screenshots and even 360 views.
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- hacked_news 4y agoLots of GeoGuessr themed games recently, including my https://wheredle.xyz https://wheredle.xyz
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- bobsmooth 4y agoDarkViperAU has a bunch of videos where he does this. Very fun.
- dewey 4y agoFor the people hoping that it would be the Greater Toronto Area. You can just play this map on the original GeoGuesser: https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/601ad726f59c050001a53a2b https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/601ad726f59c050001a53a2b
- paraxisi 4y agoHere's yet another for old school runescape https://www.osrsguessr.com/ https://www.osrsguessr.com/
- iamricks 4y agobest mmo of my time
- antegamisou 4y agoAm I too old if I expected a San Andreas version instead?
- asib 4y agoSan Andreas was released almost 18 years ago - you be the judge.
- bipson 4y agoThe last version I played myself for more than 5 minutes at a time was GTA III Released 2001. Wow.
- davidkunz 4y agoFor me it was Grand Theft Auto, released 1997. Fun times.
- userabchn 4y agoI reinstalled it using Wine last year. It ran well (only the cheat codes didn't work), but it didn't really transport me back to my youth the way I expected it to (I played it a lot at the time, so thought it might the way other games from my childhood, like King's Quest VI, do) and I grew bored of it after a day or two.
- Insanity 4y agoGTA III was the first one I played for more than 5 minutes! The last one being San Andreas.
- pwython 4y agoAnd the latest game this website uses (GTA V) was released nearly a decade ago.
- _fat_santa 4y agoI recently got back into playing GTA V (Well GTA Online really). On the one hand I wish that Rockstar would put out GTA VI and set it somewhere like Vice City again, it's clear that GTA:O is their cash cow and they don't want to give it up and ties into some generally scummy behavior from Rockstar/Take2 Interactive (devs and publishers of GTA). On the other hand though, for a game that is nearly a decade old, it has aged like fine wine. You would think a game that is nearing a decade old would start to decline in popularity but with the constant updates, it almost feels like an RPG or an old school MMO nowdays, and content updates as well as general graphical updates for new generation consoles make this game look like it came out just 2-3 years ago.
- lpcvoid 4y agoIf this where the Morrowind map, I'd be right at home...
- lurker616 4y agoMaking these kinds of apps is the reason 12-year-old me got into programming in the first place. So cool, kudos!
- twayt 4y agoI don't play GTA and I was able to get a decent score by just correlating the visual features with the outline of the map + prior visual references from previous rounds. Someone should create an arbitrary environment generator and render the 3D image + map outline. I could totally see a variant of GeoGuesser for unknown worlds. That would be trippy.
- jerrre 4y agoFor me the same, plus I have visited LA, which also helped. But I like the idea of a procedural generated GeoGuesser. Maybe in Minecraft worlds? Although you do not have roads, which makes it a lot harder
- tempodox 4y agoI'm still pissed that there is no Mac release of GTA V. Enjoying San Andreas on the iPad instead.
- Insanity 4y agoI had no idea this exists.. is it actually good? Considering buying it for the iPad Pro.
- tempodox 4y agoI'd say it's an excellent port. I'm only playing casually using a game controller and was able to complete all missions. My favorite pastime is using the Monster Truck to drive over the edge of a car waiting at some crossing. If you do it the right way, the car will bounce up in the air 10s of meters and catch fire when it comes crashing down. If it lands in a good spot, the final explosion will set surrounding cars on fire creating a chain reaction. Presto, multiple explosions without getting pinched by the police. > I had no idea this exists Yep, discoverability in the AppStore is abysmally bad.
- mhh__ 4y agoOne of the things that keeps me just pottering about inside GTA V is just how good Rockstar's map is. It's a brilliant piece of design and tonally perfect too, whereas I'd say something like Night City is well designed but the wrong kind of cyberpunk.
- dleslie 4y agoThe wrong kind? That's a bold claim. It was developed with the design oversight of Mike Pondsmith; based on lore, maps and art from his original source material.
- pelasaco 4y agojust hijacking this thread to ask a question: We are seeing in Germany an increasing numbers of Vehicle-ramming attacks[1]. Some of them were committed by people that were mental ill, some of them were used to play GTA hours non-stop. The question that a friend raised and I forward to HN: Do you think that GTA can be a bad influence for people which have problems distinguishing virtual from reality? There are any known studies in that direction? References: https://www.thelocal.de/20220608/one-person-dead-and-several-injured-as-car-ploughs-into-crowd-in-berlin/ https://www.thelocal.de/20220608/one-person-dead-and-several... EDIT: To people down-voting me like crazy, I'm not saying that games make normal people violent. Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days. My friend is a professional psychologist working in a psychiatric facility in Germany.
- mkl95 4y ago> Just observing the fact that we always had mental ill people and we always had cars, but none had the idea to drive it in the crowd back in the days Unstable people were driving recklessly and with homicidal intentions decades before the videogame industry existed. Road rage was a thing in the 19th century. > In 1854, a satirical article describing a hell-bent railroad engineer named "Joe Smashup" intentionally ramming other locomotives appeared in U.S. newspapers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_rage#Historical_Antecedents_in_the_U.S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_rage#Historical_Anteceden....
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoThis is hilarious and cool, but bad logic.
- pelasaco 4y agoRoad Rage and Vehicle-ramming are totally unrelated things.
- bfgoodrich 4y ago