TLAD: How Will It Effect GTA NeXt?

[Omnia sunt Communia]

Gameplayer has released their first hands-on preview for The Lost And Damned. Included in their preview was a list of notes and new features. How do you think these new features will affect GTA NeXt? Can you see them being employed in future titles?

• There are new vehicles, new mini-games, new internet sites and new television shoes
• There are now checkpoints mid-mission. So if you die and then do the quick restart from your phone at the hospital exit, you will not start back at the mission trigger. You’ll start at the point you drove to from that trigger.
• The members of your gang not only have stats that increase each time they fight (assuming they survive) but also have their own strengths and weaknesses. Their character uniqueness.
• Johnny can be moved about in his seat while riding his bike, with Euphoria providing some pretty cool animations reminiscent of Arnie in Terminator 2.
• Most members in The Lost have their own unique bikes that cannot be found elsewhere in the city.
• Each member of the gang’s stats are referred to as their “battle hardened” status.
• The bike physics have been fine-tuned beyond what was seen in GTA IV and handle a lot more responsively.
• Blind-firing the grenade launcher is more satisfying than an ice-cold beer on a f*ckin’ hot day. The SFX is wicked too - “thump!”
• The bike gangs in The Lost and Damned turn up as groups you can deal drugs with in the (brilliant) DS game, GTA: Chinatown Wars.

I have removed bullet points that were specific to TLAD, for obvious reasons, but what do you make of what's been left behind? How will these new features affect new games? Can you see them being implemented any time soon?

[QwertyAAA]

BS, the checkpoints were there since SA.

Television shoes? WTF?

 

 

I expect that the gang things will be peculiar to TLAD, and the rest will be implemented in NeXt.

[Omnia sunt Communia]

I'd enjoy it if the "gang stats" are included in GTA NeXt. Say if you belong to a certain gang, members will follow you around the map, but there's only a limited number of them and you can train them up and stuff. That would be good!

[Mainland Marauder]

I'm thinking it will be seen what the reaction to the new features from TLAD are, and we'll see them kept/refined or possibly dropped if it gets bad reviews.

 

It all sounds very cool to me. Makes me really wish I had IV.

 

I think "Television shows" was what Jacky intended there, Qwerty.

[Ultraussie]

They will make the next game better, not worse.

And I like the sound of Television Shoes.

[Omnia sunt Communia]

They will make the next game better, not worse.

Tell that to the San Andreas fanboys.

 

Seriously though, I merely posted this in order to see what features people would like carried on over from TLAD to GTA NeXt.

[Bla_Bla_Bla]

 

new television shoes

 

 

i lolled hard