The Katana and Flamethrower

[Milford809]

Where the hell are the Katana and the Flamethrower? I'm comparing V's weapons to San Andreas and no Flamethrower and no Katana? What the hell R*. Add them in online or something. Those were 2 of the funnest weapons to use on crowds of people.

[Milford809]

and no Chainsaw either. why did they take those out?

[Yoona]

Nobody knows, GTA V misses so many things from previous GTA games. Many of them were added to GTA Online only years later, but not Katana, Flamethrower and Chainsaw.

[Guest]

Because GTA IV took a more grounded approach towards the series, and therefore OTT weapons like the katana and flamethrower were omitted.

Then GTA V came and it has a bit of an identity crisis in that it doesn't really fully commit to the ways of either the 3D era or IV. Thus we got the minigun back but not the flamethrower.

Edited February 21 by ejoty

[Lemoyne outlaw]

i know there is a flamethrower on some of the arena wars cars. but not an actual portable one for when your on foot. if you ever wanted to kill someone with fire just use the molotovs. as for the katana its meh for me. we already have a bunch melee weapons in the game. so a katana would not really matter for me. red dead redemption 2 has a pirate sword. so you could use that for the same katana feel if you have that game. i think gta 5 had some fun unique weapons. the real problem with them is their weak pathetic gun sounds.

[potramen]

flamethrower and chainsaw need to return 

[KingAJ032304]

11 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

i know there is a flamethrower on some of the arena wars cars. but not an actual portable one for when your on foot. if you ever wanted to kill someone with fire just use the molotovs. as for the katana its meh for me. we already have a bunch melee weapons in the game. so a katana would not really matter for me. red dead redemption 2 has a pirate sword. so you could use that for the same katana feel if you have that game. i think gta 5 had some fun unique weapons. the real problem with them is their weak pathetic gun sounds.

What is with people in GTAForums minimalizing other people desires and liken experiences with saying they don't care for it so it's not nessicary yet come up with something they want and try to make that sound broad and universal?

[Lemoyne outlaw]

3 hours ago, KingAJ032304 said:

What is with people in GTAForums minimalizing other people desires and liken experiences with saying they don't care for it so it's not nessicary yet come up with something they want and try to make that sound broad and universal?

what are you talking about? i gave the op plenty of things they could use in lieu of the things they wanted. then i gave my opinions on the weapons. i don't know if you realize this. but this website we are on is a forum. where people share their thoughts and opinions. i can understand that the op wanted these weapons. but you have to realize that there isn't going to be an unlimited amount of weapons in the game. so i was trying to help them use weapons that have a similar effect. i don't know why your getting so defensive even though this had nothing to do with you. maybe you should go outside and take a walk.

[billiejoearmstrong8]

I think it's because of how much more realistic the graphics are in HD era GTA. In 3D era when you were flamethrowing/chainsawing/slicing heads off NPCs it felt cartoonish. But with much more realistic and "human" feeling NPCs it would be more disturbing. It's the same reason they removed dismemberment. They're going for a certain vibe with the games and it's not an extreme gore/horror vibe it's a more lighthearted one, so they adjusted the level of violence accordingly as the games became more realistic and less cartoonish.

Edited February 24 by billiejoearmstrong8

[Lemoyne outlaw]

11 minutes ago, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

I think it's because of how much more realistic the graphics are in HD era GTA. In 3D era when you were flamethrowing/chainsawing/slicing heads off NPCs it felt cartoonish. But with much more realistic and "human" feeling NPCs it would be more disturbing. It's the same reason they removed dismemberment. They're going for a certain vibe with the games and it's not an extreme gore/horror vibe it's a more lighthearted one, so they adjusted the level of violence accordingly as the games became more realistic and less cartoonish.

thats a good point. red dead redemption 2 is a lot more gory and you can even shoot peoples heads and limbs off. so they might bring that back with gta 6.

[KingAJ032304]

3 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

what are you talking about? i gave the op plenty of things they could use in lieu of the things they wanted. then i gave my opinions on the weapons. i don't know if you realize this. but this website we are on is a forum. where people share their thoughts and opinions. i can understand that the op wanted these weapons. but you have to realize that there isn't going to be an unlimited amount of weapons in the game. so i was trying to help them use weapons that have a similar effect. i don't know why your getting so defensive even though this had nothing to do with you. maybe you should go outside and take a walk.

My fault I confused you with some other people who very much so that, my bad bro

[Paper Mario]

42 minutes ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

thats a good point. red dead redemption 2 is a lot more gory and you can even shoot peoples heads and limbs off. so they might bring that back with gta 6.

i sincerely hope so, because it is just plain ridiculous how bodies in gta 5 just stay in one piece... rdr 2 has now shown it is possible, so make it happen for gta 6 too. it doesn't need to be over the top, but at least add some. the level of rdr 2 would honestly suffice.

[billiejoearmstrong8]

16 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

thats a good point. red dead redemption 2 is a lot more gory and you can even shoot peoples heads and limbs off. so they might bring that back with gta 6.

 

That's true, although I think in RDR2 it's kind of different because the game has a more serious atmosphere and there's heavier consequences for killing people, so that kind of balances out the violence, and the gore just seems like part of the realism (same as skinning animals etc). In GTA killing people is done more lightly and more quickly with modern weapons, so the same level of gore as RDR2 could come off as more over the top and gratuitous. I hope they'll increase the detail but I could see them holding off from full on dismemberment just to keep that (relatively) more lighthearted GTA vibe.

Edited February 25 by billiejoearmstrong8

[potramen]

10 hours ago, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

 

That's true, although I think in RDR2 it's kind of different because the game has a more serious atmosphere and there's heavier consequences for killing people, so that kind of balances out the violence, and the gore just seems like part of the realism (same as skinning animals etc). In GTA killing people is done more lightly and more quickly with modern weapons, so the same level of gore as RDR2 could come off as more over the top and gratuitous. I hope they'll increase the detail but I could see them holding off from full on dismemberment just to keep that (relatively) more lighthearted GTA vibe.

 

nah dawg I wanna chop off somebody leg and watch them crawl away until they bleed out 

[billiejoearmstrong8]

12 hours ago, potramen said:

 

nah dawg I wanna chop off somebody leg and watch them crawl away until they bleed out 

 

I'm not arguing against that, I'm just saying that horror kind of vibe might not be what they want for GTA. Considering even RDR1 has much more detailed and graphic injuries and executions etc than GTA V (which came out 3 years later) it does seem that way.