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I saw a canny observation the other day: The first three full-3D Grand Theft Auto games, III, Vice City, and San Andreas, all shipped on the Playstation 2. Gr
by mortenjorck 2y ago
I saw a canny observation the other day:
The first three full-3D Grand Theft Auto games, III, Vice City, and San Andreas, all shipped on the Playstation 2.
Grand Theft Auto V, by contrast, has been the latest game in the series across three successive console generations.
- bobthepanda 2y agoTo be fair thats an outlier and says more about Rockstar than the state of technology. The only other game I can think of with that kind of cross cutting is Skyrim.
- justsomehnguy 2y agoIt says more about the consumers. You could run Doom in 1997, but there were more more interesting things to play. Latest GTA is still interestong enough to surive the console generations.
- bobthepanda 2y agoTwo games out of the whole market is hardly indicative of a trend.
- Barrin92 2y agoIt's an entirely different game in scope. According to Wikipedia Vice City featured 8000 lines of recorded dialogue, III a quarter of that. GTA V apparently features 160.000 lines of dialogue, Red Dead Redemption 2 apparently half a million(!) with 1200 voice actors. It isn't even comparable. Modern games have thousands of hours of recorded motion capture, people in the hundreds and thousands recording professionally acted and written dialogue and three music albums worth of a soundtrack. No offense to the original Deus Ex and what have you but it had like four people (https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Deus-Ex/ https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Deus-Ex/) reading the entire script and it sounded sometimes like it was recorded in someone's closet.