Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

Sweet, this way I'll be able to finish Vice City AND Star Wars: KOTOR before this comes out.

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P.S. GTA roxs!!!!!!!!!!!

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/611/611957/imgs_1.html

HOW FUCKING AWESOME DOES THAT SHIT LOOK? That one with the guy with the Chevy and the UZI in front of the Watts Spires actually made me giggle with joy.

But it does look good I just hope that R* don't change the excellent formula that the past games have used.

So it's not Tommy anymore, some dude called 'Carl'. I like the sound of owning your own Casino.

This game sounds extremely realistic.

[addressed to San Andreas, not ILx0rz]

That's a Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater theme too! And ohohohoh I saw brief clips of the new MGS on some telly PS2 advert!

But more to the fat: I'm totally growing large to dispense chubby justice! Plus, fat track suits = hilarity

Oh. WOW.

http://www.marveldirectory.com/pics/picsk/kingpin.gif

http://www.televisione.it/fnts/televisione/immagini/278x182/gandolfini04.jpg

Seven months in the US, according to IGN.

(shit, I've never been so excited about a video game, I'm gangsta trippin)

In LasVvegas you do missions for "The Boss", Mr. Tommy Vercetti. Maybe you have a conflict with him. I want them to make this shit so interesting and tense and funny, ohmygodohmygod. I just don't want to see Tommy dead, anything else is fine.

Your comfortable chairs already point at your TV? Also it'll be out first on the PS2. Also the analog controller is better for some of the fiddly stuff.

The PS3 will be out sometime next year or the year after, but there's a decent chance that it'll be backwards compatible. Also it's not like they'll stop making PS2 games: they still make Playstation games.

Your concern for an imaginary murderer is touching :)

GTAV is taking place in Los Santos here's hoping it feels as big as the one in San Andreas.

man so i'm back trying to get 100% and doing (the absolute cunt of a mission that is) quarry mission #7... got a good time going thinking ok finally this is it, just in the winch putting the body in the dumper when suddenly the screen's shaking and i hear boom boom boom explosions MISSION FAILED DOZER DESTROYED huh wtf?? i look back across...

http://i.imgur.com/p3lOz.png

motherfucking random plane crashed into my shit offscreen? ffs!!

looool

that mish took me several goes, usually involving watching my dumper truck trundle backwards into the river

yeah i've cracked it now, main problem was avoiding the stuff agonizingly falling out the back on the way

i love how i'd never gotten round to doing those missions before in the assumption it'd be tedious bob the builder busywork and then it's all "now burn the bodies!"

I'm halfway through my second playthrough of Skyrim and really considering dropping it and going back and replaying San Andreas. Can anyone suggest a good graphics mod? I got the ENB but it just makes everything hazy, fuzzy, and too bloomy. Maybe the somewhat cartoony graphics are just fitting to the overall play. I guess the main thing I'd like is better lighting, HD textures, etc. Any recommendations?

dunno I don't like my pc version, I only ever play the MTA version and that mods itself automatically.

This vid on youtube includes some links that might be worth checking out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXFbJijqytI&feature=related

dumb question i could probably google but i doubt i'd understand the answer, but have people somehow been able to mod their xbox360 gta4 games? last time i went online to play it, dudes were fragging me in all kindsa ways that shouldn't have been possible, and the airport was awash with ramps and jumpable obstacles.

yeah its possible

http://kotaku.com/5963131/one-of-the-best-parts-of-grand-theft-auto-is-now-in-app-form

I've been running it with ENB and while the reflections on the cars look AMAZING, it unfortunately puts the reflective properties on assets that don't really need it. The wood in buildings is all shiny like it was petrified. While roads do look cool with some reflective light, it ends up spilling over onto the sidewalks and even part of the grass, so it all looks kinda gross, like the world is made of out greasy plastic. The cars DO look amazing but that's about it, and it seems like there really isn't much of a way to just specify reflection on those.

The lighting too. The first time i was driving, it was really pretty cool to have the headlights of the car behind me light up my car. But to be honest I prefer the original lighting scheme. It's so dreamy and has a nice yellow Californian glow to it that kind of gets lost with the ENB. Everything is alot darker, and it kind of makes things look even more fake than they already are.

Replaying this i realized half of the fun is just the crazy AI that underlines the world. NPCs are always off doing something or other, cops will get into a crazy chase that is completely unrelated to what you are doing, etc. I feel like most Open World games fail to really amp up the non-player action taking place.

It's like the AI is primed for storytelling. Just randomly doing cab missions I brought a woman from the beach to a mansion and then brought someone from the mansion to a hospital before bringing a few more people there. Is the AI having a a house party at that mansion? Did somebody overdose on something at this party? The world is built of so many pop culture archetypes that things just sort of randomly interlock into these suggested cliche pop art narratives.

Show but don't tell is a great game-making rule. Rather than me talking to an NPC and them spelling it out through boring dialog boxes you create the kind of environments with dynamic AI conducive to interactive storytelling between player and game.

posted in the ILG thread:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-30-who-spilled-hot-coffee

"Why would a 17-year-old be allowed to run around the city bearing weapons, a game in which you're free to shoot cops and beat up women but in which you're not allowed to make love to his girlfriend after dating her for a while?" - Patrick Wildenborg

Show bt don't tell is a great game making rulr

So otm

Argh bloody crap smartphone not letting me c&p