GTA V

[Strolls]

Same here man. IV was boring, dull, crappy movement, rubbish story & not fun. V looks more exciting all round

I was fairly unimpressed with GTA IV too (although I don't know why you say the movement was crappy) but I've recently started playing Episodes from Liberty City and feel they're really a lot better.

IMO the length of them suit the plot and pacing better, there's some funny characters and situations and generally they're "tighter" somehow (not to mention chaotic and fun).

With the benefit of revisiting, after a long break, I feel like this generation's Liberty City is quite full and detailed - in a way that I'm not sure I appreciated when I played the main GTA IV storyline. It doesn't feel as vast as (for example) the continent of Just Cause 2, but what there is is better filled out - I keep finding these courtyards and service entrances and shortcuts, and it gives the impression you could spend hundreds of hours exploring Liberty City and still keep making new discoveries.

[Guts]

Totally agree that Episodes are a lot better than vanilla IV.

Liberty City is still the best designed, most life-like open-world there is in my opinion, but hopefully Los Santos will take the crown in a few days.

[112]

All this talk and banter is really getting me excited... I would take a day off work but don't know if my order with the hut will be delivered on day 1 :/

I want that feeling again of being lost in a make believe world... A feeling I've not had since vice city tbh... But I have a good feeling about this one

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[booth83]

I wish I could take the day off to play it, but will be serving the hordes of people buying it, midnight opening, early opening on the day, probably only one day off that week that'll be spent catching up on sleep. Yet i still can not wait!

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-10-grand-theft-auto-5s-world-map-leaks-online

The games world map has leaked its its pleasingly memory teasingly like San Andreas's in terms of terrain types.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

I was fairly unimpressed with GTA IV too (although I don't know why you say the movement was crappy) .

Character movement was too real i.e. your character took forever to turn when on foot & he actually banked into his turns which looked dumb, plus when you jumped there was a hell of a delay so you had to jump earlier. The controls in previous GTAs were much more responsive.

Also the cars steered really badly, plus you had to keep flicking the right analog when taking corners as the camera took forever to straighten up.


I recently dusted off my GTA IV after the 1st 2 wks of having it back when it came out. I had no desire to finish it back then as it was dull & boring, but thought I better give it a 2nd whirl before i get rid of it for good.
2nd time round was as bad as the 1st. Dull characters, dull dark city, samey missions, no fun, not really exciting, frustrating, story jumping around too much (Niko is a taxi driver/drug dealer 1 minute, then all of a sudden he's a hired murderer).
I breathed a sigh of relief after completing it as it was finally over

[yesteryeargames]

Will the game Dlc be available in the future ? I don't want to spend ?60 but would like the extra content

[yesteryeargames]

Any news if cops and crooks will return online ?

[gambit6613]

My debit card has just been charged by Shopto, I know it's highly unlikely but I'm so hoping I get it on Saturday can't believe we're are mere days away from playing this.

[englishbob]

My debit card has just been charged by Shopto, I know it's highly unlikely but I'm so hoping I get it on Saturday can't believe we're are mere days away from playing this.

Not a chance. Shopto are big players now, they will ship the day before release date. You may get to play it the day after if Royal Mail don't go into meltdown.

[MrKirov]

I dunno, I had Kingdom Hearts HD from them yesterday - 2 days early

[englishbob]

Don't think Kingdom Hearts HD has a retailer embargo on it though like this one does!

http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/playstation3/14903/game-sends-royal-mail-warning-gta-v-pre-order-folk

[Family Fry]

GTA has had retail embargo on it since San Andreas on ps2. Remember a few places getting fined for selling the game early and blacklisted by supplier.

[gambit6613]

I would be very surprised if Shopto broke any kind of embargo. If I manage to get it on Monday I would be very happy. I have Kingdom Hearts 1.5 to keep me going over the weekend.

[wakka]

Does anyone know when shops will be taking delivery of the game? I'm thinking of trolling my local indies to see if anyone will flog me an early copy.