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I'm a big fan of the series, but I decided to sit this one out until a PS4 / GTA V bundle comes out -- The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on P

by plq 13y ago

I'm a big fan of the series, but I decided to sit this one out until a PS4 / GTA V bundle comes out -- The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on PS3 and I don't want to feel like I'm playing yet another GTA IV expansion pack for the coming years. (I just recently finished all three GTA IV story lines. I'm not a huge player anymore) Another thing of note about why GTA IV looks so much better than GTA 3 is that GTAIV uses what's now called Euphoria from Natural Motion: http://www.naturalmotion.com/middleware/euphoria/ http://www.naturalmotion.com/middleware/euphoria/ Its synthesized animation looks way more natural than the stitching together of hand-made animation and I'm actually surprised that it didn't take the character animation world by storm by now.

lotso 13y ago
Has GTA V been announced for PS4/Xbox One?
- freehunter 13y ago
  I remember seeing on reddit yesterday a link with Rockstar saying they were not targeting the next-gen consoles with GTA V, and the speculation around that comment was that the game likely would not be released for those consoles.
  - adventured 13y ago
    They've recently said they are going to release a PS4 version later in 2014. They refused to comment on the XBox One, interestingly.
  - jonlucc 13y ago
    I don't know if I see a reason they should spend the resources to ship it for PS4 and XB1. They've obviously sold a few copies of the game already. I just can't imagine the market of people who want to buy it again or are holding out is big enough to justify the costs. Edit: I'm a dunce. See the comment by adventured.
andyhmltn 13y ago
Out of interest: Have you played it? I thought the same looking at the gameplay videos etc but after actually playing it I can conclude that it's nothing like a GTA IV expansion pack. I played GTA IV for about a week prior to getting this game on the same console/TV. I used to play it on a 12 inch SD screen so I thought it looked great but it's the first time I have played it on a 32" HD display and it looks pretty bad. The depth of field makes blurred regions look like a bad painting. It looks horrible. After playing GTA V for a few hours, the graphics are miles apart even if it's not entirely apparent at first :)
corresation 13y ago
"The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on PS3 and I don't want to feel like I'm playing yet another GTA IV expansion pack for the coming years." Your judgment of the value of a game is purely how it looks? That sounds very destructively reductionist. GTA V shares literally nothing with GTA IV -- different character, location, dynamics, physics, storyline, music, voice actors, etc, but because it's people and cars that makes it an expansion pack?
- plq 13y ago
  > GTA V shares literally nothing with GTA IV So they threw GTA IV out and did everything from scratch? I very much doubt it. That said, we're talking about GTA here, the game that outdid itself with every single iteration. Why should we expect any less this time? I want to see what they'll come up with now that they have the power of PS4 behind them. Rockstar Games is famous for a reason.

by plq 13y ago

lotso 13y ago

Has GTA V been announced for PS4/Xbox One?

freehunter 13y ago
I remember seeing on reddit yesterday a link with Rockstar saying they were not targeting the next-gen consoles with GTA V, and the speculation around that comment was that the game likely would not be released for those consoles.
- adventured 13y ago
  They've recently said they are going to release a PS4 version later in 2014. They refused to comment on the XBox One, interestingly.
- jonlucc 13y ago
  I don't know if I see a reason they should spend the resources to ship it for PS4 and XB1. They've obviously sold a few copies of the game already. I just can't imagine the market of people who want to buy it again or are holding out is big enough to justify the costs. Edit: I'm a dunce. See the comment by adventured.

andyhmltn 13y ago

Out of interest: Have you played it? I thought the same looking at the gameplay videos etc but after actually playing it I can conclude that it's nothing like a GTA IV expansion pack. I played GTA IV for about a week prior to getting this game on the same console/TV. I used to play it on a 12 inch SD screen so I thought it looked great but it's the first time I have played it on a 32" HD display and it looks pretty bad. The depth of field makes blurred regions look like a bad painting. It looks horrible. After playing GTA V for a few hours, the graphics are miles apart even if it's not entirely apparent at first :)

corresation 13y ago

"The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on PS3 and I don't want to feel like I'm playing yet another GTA IV expansion pack for the coming years." Your judgment of the value of a game is purely how it looks? That sounds very destructively reductionist. GTA V shares literally nothing with GTA IV -- different character, location, dynamics, physics, storyline, music, voice actors, etc, but because it's people and cars that makes it an expansion pack?

plq 13y ago
> GTA V shares literally nothing with GTA IV So they threw GTA IV out and did everything from scratch? I very much doubt it. That said, we're talking about GTA here, the game that outdid itself with every single iteration. Why should we expect any less this time? I want to see what they'll come up with now that they have the power of PS4 behind them. Rockstar Games is famous for a reason.