New Games on the Horizon (the video game thread)

[mooby]

Originally Posted by CrazyCanuck

GTA IV was a lot more polished than San Andreas... and easier. I feel it was built for a broader audience, not maniacs like me (us) who were willing to spend like 10 real hours just to finish the goddamn Chilead Challenge.

But I still love all the side stuff even if some of it can drive you nuts. That's part of the GTA experience, wouldn't be the same if you didn't launch your controller across the room a couple times.

I can't remember any truly painful missions in GTA IV but I can still vividly remember a few from previous games:

Vice City
- Firetruck Level 12

San Andreas
- Chilead Challenge
- Ammunation Challenge
- Vigilante Level 12 - The whole world used the tank for this but not me, I did it on a motorcycle. Hardest thing I ever accomplished in a video game.

Anyways I hope they don't change too much for GTA V, if it ain't broke...

I loved the fact that they had so many different activities to do in San Andreas. I used to drive massive vehicles up to the top of Mount Chiliad and launch them off the ramp at the top, and either bail and use the 'chute or just watch as it tumbled down the side of the mountain. I loved flying planes and parachuting from them too, as well as getting a bunch of stars with the tank or the fighter jet, or crashing the jumbo jet into something fun.

Base jumping was great as well, I loved going gambling in Venturas, and I made an assload of money at the racetracks gambling place in Los Santos. There was absolutely no shortage of fun stuff to do on the San Andreas map, you had so many unlimited choices there. GTA 4 just felt streamlined and more serious. If they do go back to LA for this one, I hope there is a bit of countryside included, to kind of bring that back a little bit. And maybe bring planes back to, although I don't think they'll be doing the multiple cities thing they did with SA.

All in all though in between the news that there will be multiple choices for your character, I'm excited to see where it's headed and what they're going to do to differentiate. And I also enjoyed doing Vigilante, Firetruck, Ambulance, etc. missions too, so if they brought those back I'd be happy.

Hell, if they made one of the playable characters a cop I'd enjoy that too. I just hope there's more things to do with your time than there was in 4, less "your buddy calls and wants a burger and will lose respect for you if you don't stop whatever you're doing to appease him", and more "openness with fun activities to do."