This map would have been cool

[NumaYay]

Ignore Liberty City it's just for size comparison. Found this on the internet:

 

Edited April 20, 2015 by NumaYay

[paperbagdude]

Well that is actually a fine map concept.

 

Blaine County seems more isolated also without too much mountain terrain.

[wiizardii]

http://gtaforums.com/topic/736713-gta-v-san-andreas-fan-map/

 

That's all I have to say ladies and gentlemen, that's all I have to say.

[DEERxBanshee]

Long tunnel under Chiliad..interesting. Overall, layout is okay..seen better

[zuckmeslow]

replace tijuana with analheim and id say it would have been the perfect map.

[Otselot]

Indeed, That map would have been better.

[Official General]

That map would have been much better. Los Santos would have felt a lot more like LA, spread out, with more urban sprawl. A second city is the icing on the cake. Less mountainous areas too, that would felt much better.

 

V's map space was really wasted by the excessive presence of mountainous terrain.

Edited April 20, 2015 by Official General

[Legomanarthur]

It would've been interesting indeed.

[AzelfandQuilava]

 

Very gud.

[monkb4skunk]

Oh sweet. You can use that on the next game you make.

edit :removed hostility

Edited April 20, 2015 by monkb4skunk

[Pump Action Pimp]

It's not bad.

[Edward Nashton]

Reminds me of New Austin, I like it.

 

I've been digging around for concept maps as well and I found this:

 

 

 

It's a bit crude but I like the idea.

[burger_mike]

Here's the original post.

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/491242-mapping-los-santos-buildinglandmark-analysis/?p=1062144365

[GamesBoy316]

Too bad the map wasn't large enough with details that you have a chance of actually getting lost.

[Smith John]

Why didn't that cargo ship I saw the other day hold more content than it was designed to carry? C'mon, who cares if it was overloaded and eventually capsized, thus rendering the product onboard useless for the consumer. Nobody would complain about a broken purchase, right? RIGHT?

[The Dedito Gae]

i don't like the shape of the map, if V scrapped mountains and added more desert and forests, it would be much better, i guess i gonna have to wait to gta: Las Venturas to get a massive juicy desert to off-roading.

[lastmanonearth]

I like it except for the fact that the town up north is the furthest thing from any civilization and yet it`s so tiny - there`d be no reason to visit it, like Paleto Bay. There would have to be something f*cking amazingly interesting there for me to want to go there regularly and have a save there. Also I`d like fewer mountainy areas and more of the city, where possible. Perhaps one sprawling forest there as well would be a good place to hunt, be hunted and evade cops. Other than that I love, love LOVE the idea of Tijuana being in a GTA game. Imagine all the drug related minigames to do with crossing the border illegally with drugs and illegal immigrants! Brothels, cockfights, poker, paradise.

[The Green Sabre]

The biggest problem with V's map are all those damn mountains. It feels like R* made all of those mountains to create filler to make the map bigger.

 

Seriously, the map feels like a f*cking crater some times.

[S1N0D3UTSCHT3K]

why is blaine county listed as an area lol

 

blaine county is basically everything that's not LS

[Choco Taco]

 

Seriously, the map feels like a f*cking crater some times.

 

 

It is a crater.

 

 

[PhillBellic]

That map in the OP is more geographically accurate, in my opinion.

[PoliceFarm]

Tops, another thread where you guys can circle jerk over how much you hate GTA V's map despite it being miles ahead of the previous games in the series.

[Karoi]

I still miss Las Venturas, that would have been so awesome in 1080p/4K. Let's hope GTA Vice City 4K is next.

[Fuzzknuckles]

Yeah but we didn't get that map so whatever.

[lastmanonearth]

Tops, another thread where you guys can circle jerk over how much you hate GTA V's map despite it being miles ahead of the previous games in the series.

Nothing to this day has beaten the SA map in terms of fun, and variety and the sense of scale.

[StellarRunner]

I hope next GTA has more than 1 big city.

[Fuzzknuckles]

 

Tops, another thread where you guys can circle jerk over how much you hate GTA V's map despite it being miles ahead of the previous games in the series.

Nothing to this day has beaten the SA map in terms of fun, and variety and the sense of scale.

 

I disagree. V's map did.

[PoliceFarm]

 

Tops, another thread where you guys can circle jerk over how much you hate GTA V's map despite it being miles ahead of the previous games in the series.

Nothing to this day has beaten the SA map in terms of fun, and variety and the sense of scale.

 

 

The variety and sense of scale does come with having the game based on more locations, but the rubbish visibility and off proportions of each area kill that sense a scale a bit, as well as the game world actually being smaller and more artificially constructed. 'Variety' is a bit much considering how many assets are reused over and over again, but there are more towns and cities, so that's where SA really has it's only real grandeur.

 

And I love SA, but there's more fun to be had with the map in V, more spots to base jump from, hilly areas are a lot more drive-able, more to explore in back alleys and industrial areas, a lot more buildings can be climbed, better designed open areas for races and and shootouts, more freedom in how you get from a to b, I just think it's just a perfect example of good design for game play along with keeping true to the locations it's based on.

[Fuzzknuckles]

I still miss Las Venturas, that would have been so awesome in 1080p/4K. Let's hope GTA Vice City 4K is next.

Huh?

 

"I miss the desert, I hope we get a swamp for the next game"

[lastmanonearth]

Alright, it felt to me that it was bigger, better and all that good stuff, but you have to admit that SA had more uses for its map than V. Vast amounts of space aren`t even used in a mission in V so it`s really pointless to go to such places. SA on the other hand had a crazy farm with hillbilly hicks chasing you with harvesters and tractors, you had a weed farm that you torch and inadvertently get high doing it, an army base with a purpose, you had cross-state trucking missions, you had different bosses in each city and V didn`t have bosses giving you missions in Paleto Bay or whatever. In SA you had different girlfriends in different parts of the state, the list goes on. When I say there was more variety, I mean it looked geographically diverse. You had not only a single desert part, but a part of the desert was oil rigs, another was cacti, another was those huge red rocks like in Red Dead... it had variety! And the fact that assets were reused didn`t bother me as it was done cleverly that you don`t even notice it. I still stick with my opinion that SA still holds the prize for the best map of all the GTAs HOWEVER, it could be a sh*t ton better and that`s what I was hoping the V map was going to be. The HD map was a huge, huge letdown as it failed in all the departments I discussed.