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Choco Taco

 

thats complete bullsh*t. ive never heard two different people tell me the same dimensions for a map of a game. nobody f*cking knows. everything is a guess. not to mention the fact that you ignore all evidence that suggests anything other than what you believe. for all means, prove that was a misquote. prove cj and marston run different speeds. the same group of dipsh*ts that tell me the in game measurements across different games in different decades are consistent is telling me the protags run at different speeds now? you guys are ridiculous!lol red dead is bigger than san andreas. sorry about it

https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_...iw=1024&bih=653

 

943 results

 

Your quote has 1 result. If RDR was twice the size as SA, that would have been a huge selling point and Rockstar would have mentioned it to more than 1 source.

 

I don't know anything about running speeds and I don't care. They're irrelevant. The in-game distance stats show that SA is bigger than RDR.

 

I'll say it again - find the numbers that work with the statements about the size of GTA V. They only work if RDR is smaller than SA.

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thats complete bullsh*t. ive never heard two different people tell me the same dimensions for a map of a game. nobody f*cking knows. everything is a guess. not to mention the fact that you ignore all evidence that suggests anything other than what you believe. for all means, prove that was a misquote. prove cj and marston run different speeds. the same group of dipsh*ts that tell me the in game measurements across different games in different decades are consistent is telling me the protags run at different speeds now? you guys are ridiculous!lol red dead is bigger than san andreas. sorry about it

https://www.google.com/webhp?source=search_...iw=1024&bih=653

 

943 results

 

Your quote has 1 result. If RDR was twice the size as SA, that would have been a huge selling point and Rockstar would have mentioned it to more than 1 source.

 

I don't know anything about running speeds and I don't care. They're irrelevant. The in-game distance stats show that SA is bigger than RDR.

 

I'll say it again - find the numbers that work with the statements about the size of GTA V. They only work if RDR is smaller than SA.

ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

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that is f*cking impossible. the quote was "bigger than san andreas, IV, and red dead with room to spare". if you can do the math on that you let me know. just like your goofy map comparison there are way too mnay variables in play that are unaccounted for so STFU already

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

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icandothisallday

 

ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

first of all most of your posts are trolling... second of all youre a complete idiot. if red dead was twice as big as iv and twice as big as san andreas then that would come out perfectly to 5x rdr. third, they have said 3.5x red dead landmass and 5x with underwater area included, and the quote you were getting at was "v is bigger than IV, san andreas, and red dead with room to spare" as always the san andreas fan boys try to skew things that have been said to suit them. you are posting incomplete quotes. look at the entire quote and it becomes quite clear. they used iv, san andreas, and read dead as comparisons because those are the three biggest games they have made. they then used red dead by itself because that is the biggest game they have made before V.

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Choco Taco

that is f*cking impossible. the quote was "bigger than san andreas, IV, and red dead with room to spare". if you can do the math on that you let me know. just like your goofy map comparison there are way too mnay variables in play that are unaccounted for so STFU already

The results should be close.

 

You can't get them close if RDR is twice as big as SA.

 

 

 

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Fatty Roman

ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

first of all most of your posts are trolling... second of all youre a complete idiot. if red dead was twice as big as iv and twice as big as san andreas then that would come out perfectly to 5x rdr. third, they have said 3.5x red dead landmass and 5x with underwater area included, and the quote you were getting at was "v is bigger than IV, san andreas, and red dead with room to spare"

Trolling has nothing to do with this.

 

You have 3 squares in your hand. Lets say your biggest square is 10 square units. Even if the 2 smaller blocks are 9.9 square units the sum of all of them could never equal 5 times the largest one. Nor could it ever equal 3.5 times the size of the largest one. Its impossible.

 

And no im not an idiot. It is basic math sir.

 

 

As far as what quote came from where - i dont give a sh*t. 3.5 or 5 it doesnt matter

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ChatterBoxFM

 

dan houser is quoted in said article as saying red dead is twice as big as san andreas. im sorry if that hurts your feelings but thats just the way it is

The fact that you can't find that quote any other place on the entire internet suggests that it's a misquote. If he actually said that, it would be on multiple sites.

 

Like I said, find the numbers that work with the statements about the size of GTA V. They only work if RDR is smaller than SA.

thats complete bullsh*t. ive never heard two different people tell me the same dimensions for a map of a game. nobody f*cking knows. everything is a guess. not to mention the fact that you ignore all evidence that suggests anything other than what you believe. for all means, prove that was a misquote. prove cj and marston run different speeds. the same group of dipsh*ts that tell me the in game measurements across different games in different decades are consistent is telling me the protags run at different speeds now? you guys are ridiculous!lol red dead is bigger than san andreas. sorry about it

prove they run the same. they are years apart and from different hardware. the chances are slim to none they run the same

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The City of Los Santos will be 2x the size of Liberty City. Countryside, Smaller cities/Towns Oceans will cover a large area.

 

 

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*R only showed small portion of map and people complainting

 

 

 

BulePrint is only scale to model.

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

first of all most of your posts are trolling... second of all youre a complete idiot. if red dead was twice as big as iv and twice as big as san andreas then that would come out perfectly to 5x rdr. third, they have said 3.5x red dead landmass and 5x with underwater area included, and the quote you were getting at was "v is bigger than IV, san andreas, and red dead with room to spare"

Trolling has nothing to do with this.

 

You have 3 squares in your hand. Lets say your biggest square is 10 square units. Even if the 2 smaller blocks are 9.9 square units the sum of all of them could never equal 5 times the largest one. Nor could it ever equal 3.5 times the size of the largest one. Its impossible.

 

And no im not an idiot. It is basic math sir.

 

 

As far as what quote came from where - i dont give a sh*t. 3.5 or 5 it doesnt matter

youre a f*cking idiot! its the fact that they said with room to spare that makes it impossible to figure out. one of them has to be bigger. which one it is is personal opinion. your 3 squares math problem is the stupidest sh*t ive ever heard of. you neglect the fourth square which is "with room to spare". it is an unsolvable problem. the exact size of all three maps is a guess, and the "with room to spare" addition adds a complete unknown variable. If its simple math then jump on it roman! solve that sh*t

 

@chatter prove the in game measurements are the same... they are years apart and on different hardware sigh.gif

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

first of all most of your posts are trolling... second of all youre a complete idiot. if red dead was twice as big as iv and twice as big as san andreas then that would come out perfectly to 5x rdr. third, they have said 3.5x red dead landmass and 5x with underwater area included, and the quote you were getting at was "v is bigger than IV, san andreas, and red dead with room to spare"

Trolling has nothing to do with this.

 

You have 3 squares in your hand. Lets say your biggest square is 10 square units. Even if the 2 smaller blocks are 9.9 square units the sum of all of them could never equal 5 times the largest one. Nor could it ever equal 3.5 times the size of the largest one. Its impossible.

 

And no im not an idiot. It is basic math sir.

 

 

As far as what quote came from where - i dont give a sh*t. 3.5 or 5 it doesnt matter

youre a f*cking idiot! its the fact that they said with room to spare that makes it impossible to figure out. one of them has to be bigger. which one it is is personal opinion. your 3 squares math problem is the stupidest sh*t ive ever heard of. you neglect the fourth square which is "with room to spare". it is an unsolvable problem. the exact size of all three maps is a guess, and the "with room to spare" addition adds a complete unknown variable. If its simple math then jump on it roman! solve that sh*t

 

@chatter prove the in game measurements are the same... they are years apart and on different hardware sigh.gif

Did they not say it was 3.5 times the size of RDR? All I was proving was that SA couldnt be smaller than RDR based on that statement alone. I wasnt saying anything about the actual size of V or the "room to spare".

 

Again I am not an idiot. If you acually read what I originally posted and used just a teaspoon more brain power you might be able to undertand what I am saying in that tiny little head of yours.

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ok at this point im gonna assume youre a little slow since you keep saying the same sh*t over and over. also, anytime you type in read dead and san andreas in google you get 100 pages of results about how "GTA V is 5x bigger than read dead" on 1000 different websites. when they come out with gta VI you wont be able to find the quote i just listed especially if they use gta v, red dead, and san andreas as comparisons... its common sense. Lastly, you just said you didnt care about jogging speeds and that they had to be different... if the protags jogging speeds are different then whos to say the in game measurements arent different? do you work at rockstar? let me answer that for you... NOOOOOOO you dont! so ill go off of housers word. thanks anyways though. FYI you may want to loosen the strap on your SA FANBOY helmet. i think your mommy tied that sh*t a bit too tight

SA + IV + RDR should be close to 5 x RDR.

 

Show the numbers.

Lol wait a minute.

How could some people say rdr is bigger than sa but then also say the 3 put together is 5 times rdr???

 

You cant add three objects together and have the sum be 5 times bigger than the biggest one. Its impossible. Lol

first of all most of your posts are trolling... second of all youre a complete idiot. if red dead was twice as big as iv and twice as big as san andreas then that would come out perfectly to 5x rdr. third, they have said 3.5x red dead landmass and 5x with underwater area included, and the quote you were getting at was "v is bigger than IV, san andreas, and red dead with room to spare"

Trolling has nothing to do with this.

 

You have 3 squares in your hand. Lets say your biggest square is 10 square units. Even if the 2 smaller blocks are 9.9 square units the sum of all of them could never equal 5 times the largest one. Nor could it ever equal 3.5 times the size of the largest one. Its impossible.

 

And no im not an idiot. It is basic math sir.

 

 

As far as what quote came from where - i dont give a sh*t. 3.5 or 5 it doesnt matter

youre a f*cking idiot! its the fact that they said with room to spare that makes it impossible to figure out. one of them has to be bigger. which one it is is personal opinion. your 3 squares math problem is the stupidest sh*t ive ever heard of. you neglect the fourth square which is "with room to spare". it is an unsolvable problem. the exact size of all three maps is a guess, and the "with room to spare" addition adds a complete unknown variable. If its simple math then jump on it roman! solve that sh*t

 

@chatter prove the in game measurements are the same... they are years apart and on different hardware sigh.gif

Did they not say it was 3.5 times the size of RDR? All I was proving was that SA couldnt be smaller than RDR based on that statement alone. I wasnt saying anything about the actual size of V or the "room to spare".

 

Again I am not an idiot. If you acually read what I originally posted and used just a teaspoon more brain power you might be able to undertand what I am saying in that tiny little head of yours.

let me slow it down for you little guy... the quote you were getting at was "Grand Theft Auto V is bigger than San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Red Dead Redemption combined, with room to spare". No one knows with how much room to spare they meant. That is why it is perfectly plausible that red dead redemption is the biggest of the three maps. If all they said was V is bigger than those three games and 3.5x the size of red dead then you would be correct, but thats not what they said. they added with room to spare. basically you are taking parts of two quotes and mixing them to make it sound like what you wanted. they said "GTA V is 3.5x bigger than RDR, 5x bigger counting the explorable underwater areas" a totally seperate quote was "GTA V is bigger than san andreas, iv, and rdr combined with room to spare". thats why it is completely retarded to say that rdr cant be bigger than san andreas. the with room to spare line throws a complete kink in any bullsh*t math you were about to throw out.

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Choco Taco
No one knows with how much room to spare they meant.

Common sense would tell you it's not a lot. They wouldn't describe a significant piece of land as "room to spare".

 

If it was at least the size of Liberty City, they would have said something like "bigger than SA, RDR, and 2 GTA IV maps combined.

 

 

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No one knows with how much room to spare they meant.

Common sense would tell you it's not a lot. They wouldn't describe a significant piece of land as "room to spare".

 

If it was at least the size of Liberty City, they would have said something like "bigger than SA, RDR, and 2 GTA IV maps combined.

uh they did do that.... that said its landmass is 3.5x rdr... also you have no idea what they would or wouldnt do since you arent the pr man for rockstar. you guys assume an awful lot on this forum.

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@chatter prove the in game measurements are the same... they are years apart and on different hardware sigh.gif

What does it mean to imagine that the in-game measurements are not the "same" from game to game? A mile in one game is somehow a half-mile in another? John Marston is really 12 feet tall and would carry CJ like a baby? It doesn't make sense.

 

What I can demonstrate is that, after writing down the in-game distance-travelled stat, I can move the character in a nearly straight line (down a street in Blackwater, for instance), and then stop and write down the in-game distance travelled stat again, which is then a larger number. The difference between the before stat and the after stat is the minimum distance travelled, since any error in maintaining a straight line will increase, not decrease, the distance recorded. If I also recorded my position on the map before and after this movement, I then know the distance between the two points. Using an image of the map, I can convert the number of pixels between my travel positions on the map to units of distance and thus have a scale for measuring the dimensions and area of the entire map.

 

There's no way this method can under-estimate the size of the map. It can certainly over-estimate it, since any error in moving in a straight line will increase a recorded distance. But since you seem convinced I'm grossly under-estimating it, I have no idea how you would deconstruct my method to come up with a theory of how I'd possibly do that. Using the game's own measuring system the area within the boundaries of explorable territories is less than 6 square miles. Everything in the game is scaled according to this system

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uh they did do that.... that said its landmass is 3.5x rdr

Nope. Not the same.

 

Also, if you're going to describe the size of the map as "this many times larger than...", then using the smaller map would make it sound more impressive.

 

For instance, you're claiming RDR is twice the size of SA. Therefore, you must believe RDR is 28 square miles. GTA IV is around 6 square miles. Instead of saying 3.5 times RDR, they could have said it's over 16 times larger than IV.

 

Do you see how using the smaller map sounds more impressive? Rockstar knows that and that's why they chose the smaller map - RDR.

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@chatter prove the in game measurements are the same... they are years apart and on different hardware sigh.gif

What does it mean to imagine that the in-game measurements are not the "same" from game to game? A mile in one game is somehow a half-mile in another? John Marston is really 12 feet tall and would carry CJ like a baby? It doesn't make sense.

 

What I can demonstrate is that, after writing down the in-game distance-travelled stat, I can move the character in a nearly straight line (down a street in Blackwater, for instance), and then stop and write down the in-game distance travelled stat again, which is then a larger number. The difference between the before stat and the after stat is the minimum distance travelled, since any error in maintaining a straight line will increase, not decrease, the distance recorded. If I also recorded my position on the map before and after this movement, I then know the distance between the two points. Using an image of the map, I can convert the number of pixels between my travel positions on the map to units of distance and thus have a scale for measuring the dimensions and area of the entire map.

 

There's no way this method can under-estimate the size of the map. It can certainly over-estimate it, since any error in moving in a straight line will increase a recorded distance. But since you seem convinced I'm grossly under-estimating it, I have no idea how you would deconstruct my method to come up with a theory of how I'd possibly do that. Using the game's own measuring system the area within the boundaries of explorable territories is less than 6 square miles. Everything in the game is scaled according to this system

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Can the red outline be considered as a city part? If so, how does it compare to LC WITH water?

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uh they did do that.... that said its landmass is 3.5x rdr

Nope. Not the same.

 

Also, if you're going to describe the size of the map as "this many times larger than...", then using the smaller map would make it sound more impressive.

 

For instance, you're claiming RDR is twice the size of SA. Therefore, you must believe RDR is 28 square miles. GTA IV is around 6 square miles. Instead of saying 3.5 times RDR, they could have said it's over 16 times larger than IV.

 

Do you see how using the smaller map sounds more impressive? Rockstar knows that and that's why they chose the smaller map - RDR.

there is no way rdr is smaller than iv or san andreas. and no it sound stupid of you say it that way. it makes much more sense to say the game is 3.5x bigger than your previously biggest game. using the smaller map is retarded. "hey gta V is 10093x bigger than gta 3"... who gives a sh*t. in the lead up to red dead i saw rockstar describe the game as their biggest game to date with a playable area twice that of san andreas. i even posted a link a few pages back. if you girls dont like it then too bad. dan houser said so. even though the san andreas fanboys of gtavnet dont agree, im gonna go ahead and go with the guy that made all the games we are arguing about sigh.gif

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uh they did do that.... that said its landmass is 3.5x rdr

Nope. Not the same.

 

Also, if you're going to describe the size of the map as "this many times larger than...", then using the smaller map would make it sound more impressive.

 

For instance, you're claiming RDR is twice the size of SA. Therefore, you must believe RDR is 28 square miles. GTA IV is around 6 square miles. Instead of saying 3.5 times RDR, they could have said it's over 16 times larger than IV.

 

Do you see how using the smaller map sounds more impressive? Rockstar knows that and that's why they chose the smaller map - RDR.

Rockstar had said RDR was twice the size of San Andreas

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uh they did do that.... that said its landmass is 3.5x rdr

Nope. Not the same.

 

Also, if you're going to describe the size of the map as "this many times larger than...", then using the smaller map would make it sound more impressive.

 

For instance, you're claiming RDR is twice the size of SA. Therefore, you must believe RDR is 28 square miles. GTA IV is around 6 square miles. Instead of saying 3.5 times RDR, they could have said it's over 16 times larger than IV.

 

Do you see how using the smaller map sounds more impressive? Rockstar knows that and that's why they chose the smaller map - RDR.

Rockstar had said RDR was twice the size of San Andreas

thank the good lord there is someone else on this thread that can use the internet properly and read icon14.gifcookie.gif

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Rockstar had said RDR was twice the size of San Andreas

There is only 1 source on the entire internet where that quote can be found. You can't find it anywhere else. That makes it highly likely that it is a misquote. Do you think Rockstar Games is only going to tell 1 source that RDR is twice the size of SA?

 

Measure the maps using the in-game stats. Compare images at similar distances.

 

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Rockstar had said RDR was twice the size of San Andreas

There is only 1 source on the entire internet where that quote can be found. You can't find it anywhere else. That makes it highly likely that it is a misquote. Do you think Rockstar Games is only going to tell 1 source that RDR is twice the size of SA?

 

Measure the maps using the in-game stats. Compare images at similar distances.

no they told a lot of people that leading up to the game, you cant find sh*t though because all anyone is talking about is V. do you realize how stupid you sound when you make an assumption everytime you post?

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The only thing that was confirmed was that all the map is bigger than IV, SA, RDR combined with room to spare.

 

It's anyones guess how big it actually is, people assume its the size of those three combined, when in actually fact the statement clearly suggests it's bigger.

it's funny how 90% of people on her keep forgetting this..

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Can the red outline be considered as a city part? If so, how does it compare to LC WITH water?

Your red outline seems a little too generous for the city limits out in the east.

 

I do, however, consider the mountains immediately surrounding the city as part of the city limits. After all, they include the Hollywood Sign, Griffith Observatory, Getty Museum, and the Hollywood Bowl... all major L.A. landmarks. It's not like you hike to the Hollywood Sign irl and think you're out in the country.

 

I bet LS + surrounding mountains is comparable to LC + the east and west rivers, but one of our more sophisticated analysts/mappers would need to confirm this.

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The only thing that was confirmed was that all the map is bigger than IV, SA, RDR combined with room to spare.

 

It's anyones guess how big it actually is, people assume its the size of those three combined, when in actually fact the statement clearly suggests it's bigger.

it's funny how 90% of people on her keep forgetting this..

not this guy. i have been trying to pound this through everyones head for the last few pages. its funny that on any other forum on the internet it is widely accepted that red dead redemption was rockstars biggest map to date... yet on this forum everybody thinks a game that came out nearly a decade ago on the original xbox had a bigger map... soooo f*cking stupid. looking at the past through rose colored fanboy glasses cool.gif

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The only thing that was confirmed was that all the map is bigger than IV, SA, RDR combined with room to spare.

 

It's anyones guess how big it actually is, people assume its the size of those three combined, when in actually fact the statement clearly suggests it's bigger.

it's funny how 90% of people on her keep forgetting this..

not this guy. i have been trying to pound this through everyones head for the last few pages. its funny that on any other forum on the internet it is widely accepted that red dead redemption was rockstars biggest map to date... yet on this forum everybody thinks a game that came out nearly a decade ago on the original xbox had a bigger map... soooo f*cking stupid. looking at the past through rose colored fanboy glasses cool.gif

true crime came out around the same time as SA and it has a bigger map than even gta v most likely

 

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