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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Orgophlax posted:

But there's nothing to do in the city.

If there's nothing to do in IV's Liberty City, the cities in all the previous games have negative amount of stuff to do.

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Michael Scott
Jan 3, 2010

by zen death robot

Dan Hollis posted:

Hopefully this game has more sex. You can show me murdering a hooker but not banging one? I'm curious, does the Saints Row series take this same puritanical approach to sex?

They can't show explicit stuff while maintaining an M rating, blame the ESRB and seemingly illogical American standards

coldplay chiptunes
Sep 17, 2010

by Lowtax

Dan Hollis posted:

Hopefully this game has more sex. You can show me murdering a hooker but not banging one? I'm curious, does the Saints Row series take this same puritanical approach to sex?
Why is something like this important to you in a video game? Do you not understand why they'd shy away from depicting actual intercourse?

Quicksand_Jesus
Dec 19, 2005

Lasagna Miracle
As long as they DRASTICALLY reduce the number of pre-determined chases, I'll be happy.

Nothing was more annoying than chasing a target and knowing you won't catch him until a triggered event occurred was such poo poo, particularly if you failed it and had to repeat that same sequence again..

ChuckDHead
Dec 18, 2006

coldplay chiptunes posted:

Why is something like this important to you in a video game? Do you not understand why they'd shy away from depicting actual intercourse?

I remember back when San Andreas came out, Official Playstation Magazine had a big feature on what readers thought should be in it. Alongside popular suggestions like "kill pets" and "kill children", I remember it prominently including "more sex", and "porn channels on virtual TV".

Mercifully Rockstar don't listen to 13-year-olds who aren't even old enough to legally buy their games.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

Orgophlax posted:

But there's nothing to do in the city.

Yup, and I'm saying even if there was even less to do I'd still be popping it in every month or so and driving around. Sorry. I agree with everyone saying the big complaint was not enough to do, especially after the missions end in vanilla 4. I'm just saying what's there still blows away just about every other game I own.

Dan Hollis
Jun 16, 2006

Surprise!!!

coldplay chiptunes posted:

Why is something like this important to you in a video game? Do you not understand why they'd shy away from depicting actual intercourse?

Well, obviously for the ratings reason mentioned above. I just don't understand it. I love sex and would get a real kick from watching my guy nail a hooker before driving her off a cliff.

MikeRabsitch
Aug 23, 2004

Show us what you got, what you got

Dan Hollis posted:

Hopefully this game has more sex. You can show me murdering a hooker but not banging one? I'm curious, does the Saints Row series take this same puritanical approach to sex?

Saints Row doesn't show anything either. Which makes me wonder how God of War can show boobs but GTA never has?

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
I cannot wait to run around a Los Angeles facsimile

Shogunner
Apr 29, 2010

Ready to crash and burn.
I never learn.
I'm on the rapetrain.

Dan Hollis posted:

Well, obviously for the ratings reason mentioned above. I just don't understand it. I love sex and would get a real kick from watching my guy nail a hooker before driving her off a cliff.

:stare:

the Bunt
Sep 24, 2007

YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

Install Gentoo posted:

If there's nothing to do in IV's Liberty City, the cities in all the previous games have negative amount of stuff to do.

You can't possibly say this when IV didn't even have planes or bipedal vehicles. And the previous games, well, did.

thefncrow
Mar 14, 2001

SheepNameKiller posted:

Eh, the Gay Tony DLC is about where I think Rockstar should be as far as seriousness is concerned. The missions in that were varied and kind of over the top which made them awesome to play, the characters were likeable and it was still serious enough for you to care about what happened to them.

Actually, I agree that Gay Tony is about the right tone. That game had some awesome action scenes, I just don't think it needs to go too far over the top.

I don't really think there's any problem matching the seriousness of GTAIV with some of the more action-y moments of Gay Tony (like stealing the train car or (last mission spoilers) being escorted down the highway by Yusuf in his attack chopper. I just don't want to see them go back to GTA:SA with some of the James Woods missions and the jetpack and the other more insane parts of that game. Leave that poo poo to Saints Row.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Dan Hollis posted:

Well, obviously for the ratings reason mentioned above. I just don't understand it. I love sex and would get a real kick from watching my guy nail a hooker before driving her off a cliff.
You can have sex with hookers in every GTA game since GTA3...

I mean you can't drive them off a cliff right after though because they get out of the car first.

coldplay chiptunes
Sep 17, 2010

by Lowtax

Knightmare posted:

Saints Row doesn't show anything either. Which makes me wonder how God of War can show boobs but GTA never has?
As mentioned before, GTA has a certain stigma surrounding it which makes media scrutiny exponential. I'm sure it's possible for them to have a certain amount of nudity within the ESRB rating system, but the media attention having ACTUAL DEPICTED SEX WITH HOOKERS in the game might not make it worthwhile.

Spalec
Apr 16, 2010

Knightmare posted:

Saints Row doesn't show anything either. Which makes me wonder how God of War can show boobs but GTA never has?

They can, just probably don't want the fuss associated with it.

Although Red dead redemption had uncensored boobs at least once, as did LA Noire.

And The lost and dammed had fully exposed :dong: in it, so who knows?

Dan Hollis
Jun 16, 2006

Surprise!!!

wa27 posted:

You can have sex with hookers in every GTA game since GTA3...

The bouncing car thing?

maxnmona
Mar 16, 2005

if you start with drums, you have to end with dynamite.
My hope is that this first trailer is highlighting one area of the game, and then we will get further trailers highlighting other areas.

But that's just because I'd basically like this to be an exact copy of San Andreas with new toys and better graphics.

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

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If there is roaming animals I'm sorry I'm an rear end in a top hat whatever I smashing every dog with my grill. Blasting wolves in the face with a modded fireball in Oblivion owned so I'm sure blasting a dog in the face with the grill of my sportscar and having it fly into a fat guys face and knock him down/off a bridge/ mountain will own too.

thebardyspoon
Jun 30, 2005

Spalec posted:

They can, just probably don't want the fuss associated with it.

Although Red dead redemption had uncensored boobs at least once, as did LA Noire.

And The lost and dammed had fully exposed :dong: in it, so who knows?

Pretty sure RDR had a guy loving a girl like right on screen while Marston was getting a mission intro. It didn't really add much but it was there.

coldplay chiptunes
Sep 17, 2010

by Lowtax

Dan Hollis posted:

The bouncing car thing?


lol you're creepy as gently caress but in an endearing sort of way.

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!
Come on, don't kill dogs.
I hope I can have a dog in this game that will jump in the car with me, and he loves going for drives so much that he gets really excited when you go near the car.

Evil Badman
Aug 19, 2006

Skills include:
EIGHT-FOOT VERTICAL LEAP

Tumble posted:

Come on, don't kill dogs.
I hope I can have a dog in this game that will jump in the car with me, and he loves going for drives so much that he gets really excited when you go near the car.

Make the dogs like the horse in RDR. With different breeds and such.

csidle
Jul 31, 2007

Dan Hollis posted:


This is the greatest .gif I have seen this week. What is it from?

Tumble posted:

Come on, don't kill dogs.
I hope I can have a dog in this game that will jump in the car with me, and he loves going for drives so much that he gets really excited when you go near the car.
Hell yeah. He'd stick his head out the window too.

RALF
Mar 15, 2009

Grimey Drawer
I hope the dog can drive so that I can ride shotgun.

Spalec
Apr 16, 2010

Tumble posted:

Come on, don't kill dogs.
I hope I can have a dog in this game that will jump in the car with me, and he loves going for drives so much that he gets really excited when you go near the car.

We need a playing Frisbee minigame.

the Bunt
Sep 24, 2007

YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

csidle posted:

This is the greatest .gif I have seen this week. What is it from?

Hell yeah. He'd stick his head out the window too.

I think it's Half Baked.

And yeah, I totally thought that guy in the wifebeater was CJ at first. Is it really true that Rockstar said they were finished with the GTA3 era world/characters? That's a shame. IV was such a bore.

Tuxedo Jack
Sep 11, 2001

Hey Ma, who's that band I like? Oh yeah, Hall & Oates.

Spalec posted:

We need a playing Frisbee minigame.

Peter Molyneux is kicking himself that he didn't think of this.

Jupiter Jazz
Jan 13, 2007

by sebmojo

Evil Badman posted:

Make the dogs like the horse in RDR. With different breeds and such.

The problem with this is...you can ride a horse. You can't ride a dog unless you're a toddler.

Spalec
Apr 16, 2010

the Bunt posted:

I think it's Half Baked.

And yeah, I totally thought that guy in the wifebeater was CJ at first. Is it really true that Rockstar said they were finished with the GTA3 era world/characters? That's a shame. IV was such a bore.

They said the 3 continuity was done. There's no word yet on if this new game is going to be in the same universe as 4 yet.

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

onlymarfans.com

LOSS posted:

I hope the dog can drive so that I can ride shotgun.

I hope anyone else can drive in this. I loved calling the Wheelwoman in Saint's Row to drive me around while I hanged out the car with hundreds of guns and my http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ljtZJ9g5zo&list=FLAnDWwWK3ZvxS4vrFJ8j36A&index=76&feature=plpp_video

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

the Bunt posted:

You can't possibly say this when IV didn't even have planes or bipedal vehicles. And the previous games, well, did.

There were no vehicles with legs in GTA games, let alone vehicles with two legs. Oh no, no planes that are annoying to control that would only be able to be flown for 5 minutes before you left the map? You still have helicopters. Remember, Liberty City is a city not a San Andreas-type "state". You didn't have anything but the Dodo in III and the Dodo with pontoons in VC as far as planes go. Helicopters are way better for the scale.

Not to mention that buildings in IV are actually solid at the top and you can actually do things on them instead of glance up at them. Not to mention that you can actually go inside way more places in IV and you don't need to wait for loading times. And all those places to take dates and friends are actual things to do that are way more interesting than CJ's virtual gym minigames.

I do not miss cities of bland textured blocks that most of the time don't exist to do anything other than block land travel in a certain direction. I don't know why you people think those cities were better rather than one where things actually happen.

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

Dan Hollis posted:

Well, obviously for the ratings reason mentioned above. I just don't understand it. I love sex and would get a real kick from watching my guy nail a hooker before driving her off a cliff.

Watching awkward hooker sex is precisely the last thing I want to do when playing GTA.

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.
The graphics, good god the graphics. So drat bright and pretty.

Valfar
Nov 12, 2004

Born to lose, live to win.

Himuro posted:

The problem with this is...you can ride a horse. You can't ride a dog unless you're a toddler.
I hope they made the main character a toddler so you can ride dogs.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

Himuro posted:

The problem with this is...you can ride a horse. You can't ride a dog unless you're a toddler.

And they are complete and total assholes when you're not on them.

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost

Install Gentoo posted:

I do not miss cities of bland textured blocks that most of the time don't exist to do anything other than block land travel in a certain direction. I don't know why you people think those cities were better rather than one where things actually happen.

Yeah, people who think GTAIV has nothing to do in the city should try LA Noire.

the Bunt
Sep 24, 2007

YOUR GOLDEN MAGNETIC LIGHT

Install Gentoo posted:

There were no vehicles with legs in GTA games, let alone vehicles with two legs. Oh no, no planes that are annoying to control that would only be able to be flown for 5 minutes before you left the map? You still have helicopters. Remember, Liberty City is a city not a San Andreas-type "state". You didn't have anything but the Dodo in III and the Dodo with pontoons in VC as far as planes go. Helicopters are way better for the scale.

Not to mention that buildings in IV are actually solid at the top and you can actually do things on them instead of glance up at them. Not to mention that you can actually go inside way more places in IV and you don't need to wait for loading times. And all those places to take dates and friends are actual things to do that are way more interesting than CJ's virtual gym minigames.

I do not miss cities of bland textured blocks that most of the time don't exist to do anything other than block land travel in a certain direction. I don't know why you people think those cities were better rather than one where things actually happen.

Date minigames were in San Andreas. They didn't make them any more fun in IV, and there are less of them there to boot.

I'm not sure what you are talking about with "at least buildings in IV are solid at the top", because they all are in the older games. I might be wrong about 3, actually, but in VC and San Andreas I never came across a building I couldn't stand on top of.

ChuckDHead
Dec 18, 2006

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

Watching awkward hooker sex is precisely the last thing I want to do when playing GTA.

I think we've actually found the only person who enjoyed the awful lapdance scene that you had to suffer through five minutes of to buy the strip club in Vice City.

Intel&Sebastian
Oct 20, 2002

colonel...
i'm trying to sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my ass cheeks
keeps alerting the guards!

the Bunt posted:

Date minigames were in San Andreas. They didn't make them any more fun in IV, and there are less of them there to boot.


I don't recall any girlfriends in GTA4 who got off on drive-by shootings. :colbert:

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Stare-Out
Mar 11, 2010

Considering how entertaining it was to push people down stairs in GTAIV, I just realized that it might very well be possible to push people down a mountain and watch the Euphoria glory unfold in GTAV. :allears:

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