Pilotmonkey Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 In IV i never felt like i was in New York, and trust me i was in new york before... The only thing that did the the Algonquin bridge. R* said it will have a SoCal feel. I've never been there but i know enough about it.Hopefully they actually get it right. Lock this if you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durden Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I don't know America very well, so I just take R*'s "word" for it and assume the city is somewhat similar to the game. I've never been to New York, but I extrapolated from IV that its a very busy concrete jungle with angry people and lots of taxis So for the people that play he game and compare the real city, I'll do pretty much the opposite assuming I visit these places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I thought IV had NYC perfectly fine, and I live there. Though on my PS3 it didn't feel like it, PC was a whole different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotmonkey Posted August 12, 2012 Author Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Malo94 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small of course it is. Did you think they would scale it to the actual size of NYC? They would have needed to make the map as big as Just cause 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kifflom112 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small Liberty City's map was fine. GTA always made small repetitive cities, and then here comes Liberty City, which is huge compared to other GTA cities and actually has a lot of detail and diversity, and it felt living a breathing. OT: I think(if car and ped spawning is fixed, which they need to be seriously redone) then I think V will feel like SoCal. I hope the cars are actually like the ones you'd see in LA, at times. Classics, luxury cars, some exotics on Rodeo Drive, instead of econoboxs all of the time. I'm not really worrying about the feel of LS. After what R* did with MCLA(the atmosphere was amazing) I have no big worries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Nixon Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small of course it is. Did you think they would scale it to the actual size of NYC? They would have needed to make the map as big as Just cause 2. Bigger. Way, way bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Malo94 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small of course it is. Did you think they would scale it to the actual size of NYC? They would have needed to make the map as big as Just cause 2. Bigger. Way, way bigger. Maybe. But a LC as big as JC2 would have been pretty dam impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrrhic Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Vice City fitted Miami perfectly. Los Santos fitted Los Angeles perfectly. San Fierro fitted San Francisco perfectly. Las Venturas fitted Las Vegas perfectly. Liberty City fitted New York perfectly. Alderney fitted New Jersey perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombLee Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 really? I visited New York (Manhattan) a week or two ago and it felt just like it, just a little emptier of course. I was standing near Pier 17 and it was amazing how close the geography of the area was to the game. The Pier building with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background and even a similarly-shaped helicopter pad on my other side! anyway the feel was very close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 The first time I played IV, I was amazed. I think it is the only game that I have ever played that has actually felt like a living, breathing city. If they could do it with New York City, then I'm sure they could do it with Los Angeles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriaan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 The first time I was in NYC was AFTER I had played GTAIV... and I tell you... those first few days is really weird when you walk past things that remind you of the game. Like when I approached the museum, I had this weird memory of the armor pack that's at the back . One of the things that they also captured pretty well was all the little sounds. I imagine if you lived in NYC prior to playing the game things would be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algonquin Assassin Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 It needs to feel soft, warm, have a nice smell........................ *puts down latest edition of Playboy*. Oh that "feel". Anyway I've never been to NYC, but cosmetically atleast it was spot on. I watch CSI NY and everytime I watch it I get flashbacks of GTA IV. As for it being small well has any video game ever depicted NYC in its entirety? Off the top of my head GTA IV is the only game to actually utilize the main NYC boroughs in one game. Games like Prototype 1/2, TC: NYC, The Godfather 1/2 etc typically only use Manhattan or other small parts. Considering LC is only fictional based on NYC it's quite an impressive feat. I see no reason why LS can't do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrrhic Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Oh that "feel". That thing... That magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriaan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I watch CSI NY and everytime I watch it I get flashbacks of GTA IV. Hah kudos to them then in that the majority of that show is filmed in California (even the outdoor ones). You definitely get a different feel when you watch Blue Bloods, which is actually filmed on location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTASeriesFan Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I agree about the GTA IV feeling. In San Andreas I did feel the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas feeling. And I really really wanna feel that in Grand Theft Auto 5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoise Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small You talk about "the feel", but are you just trying to say you want a bigger city? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrrhic Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 (edited) i though it was kinda small A map does not need to be big to be detailed and for it to resemble a real-life city. Edited August 12, 2012 by lzw3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock n' Stock Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Huh...I've been to New York City before and I can say that Liberty City gave me the NYC feel, even though it was smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreciousWall Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 uhh LC has NYC Feeling, alderney doesnt feel like New jersey for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theworldfamous Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 for me GTA has always nailed 'the feel'..nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipGore Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 The density of peds in GTA IV didnt't quite cut it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydraulicWaRiOr Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Do you feel it? That feel. A kind of feely feel. The feely feel that feels...feely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RipGore Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 i though it was kinda small that what she said haaaaaaaaaa ha he hu ha he hu huhuuu...hu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huevos_benedicto_180 Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 I've been to New York before and IV felt almost perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73duster Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 I live in New York City. They did an excellent job with Manhattan, and as for the pedestrians, there is just NO way that they could have had enough pedestrians without completely crashing the game. I can understand the technological limitations of the number of AI that can work within a game of this scope. As for the OTHER boroughs, they are not really like The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island or New Jersey, but the feel was adequate enough. I don't think they were doing an exact replica of NYC, but did a great job in capturing the "feel". Manhattan though, recieved a very close interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JStarr31 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Vice City fitted Miami perfectly.Los Santos fitted Los Angeles perfectly. San Fierro fitted San Francisco perfectly. Las Venturas fitted Las Vegas perfectly. Liberty City fitted New York perfectly. Alderney fitted New Jersey perfectly. WRONG!!! Vice City did not do Miami justice AT ALL!!!! They only had the feel of the 80's down to a science, not the city of Vice/Miami. Washington Beach? Maybe, but the strip only. Downtown? definitely laughable. Little Hiati? Maybe the house MODELS were correct, but the whole layout was god awful and (really) not even a good attempt IMHO. this is coming from a Miami resident. Me, I lived 5-7 mins away from Little Haiti in North Miami on 135th and 6th Ave, LH begins on 125th and 6th Ave. So trust me, they could've done better. Havana looked more like Surfside than real-life Little Havana. The airport was in the wrong place, not to mention so was the stadium, the golf course, the Port of Miami/Vice Port, the fact that there is NO military base at all IRL, they left out our metrorail system (elevated subway) and top it all off with not adding all the ACTUAL iconic areas of Miami like Brickell-North Miami-Hialeah-Carol City-The Roads-Brownsville-Flagler-Coconut Grove-Kendall..... The only things they got right was the LOOK of the Washington Beach/Ocean Drive strip and the Vice Point area, which (right off the bat) resembles North Miami Beach/Aventura nicely along with mall mall which was a mix of the Bal Harbor Mall and Aventura Mall. Other than that VC screams for another rendition. III-era VC resembles Miami as much as III-era LC resembled New York. And thats not much at all . OT: As a frequent to New York, i'd say they got the feel perfectly, as will V (judging from the screenshots). Im assuming you've only been there once, huh OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellic 4 life Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Que a rant from Zee on how "Cockstar" didn't make a living, breathing city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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