Well, I thought alot of the obvious goes without saying. BUT WITH YOU i think i need to spell this out with a nursery melody.
You said you liked san andreas alot but you didnt like GTA IV. Because better graphics and mechanics dont give the game the play value.
Alright thats fair enough, but I think you should also understand a couple things first.
Rockstar games used the same game engine from GTAIII (yeah that was a long time ago huh?) all the way to GTA San Andreas.
yeah thats 3 GTA games in a row using the same base / foundation / mechanics …whatever dumb people like to call it. Alot of people and geeks made it aware that by the time san andreas came out, the game engine it was built on was VERY outdated and definitely stretched to its max potential. It was just simply OLD shit and the only thing the company could do after GTAIII was add more features each game.
Thats fine, it worked out awesome and they were top sellers everytime. GTAIII lacked alot of shit, but no one noticed because it was such a milestone in gaming among other shit. They took the game and simply put some makeup on it, and added gameplay features etc. Thats all they did… thats why by the time it got to san andreas it was such a great game, full of gameplay features, ironed out game engine, the best graphics it could squeeze out etc.
GTA san andreas was the last GTA game to use the GTA III game engine, (i forgot the engine name, its relevant right now).
I dont know if you’re aware of how long it takes to develop a modern video game of that size, but in their case it took from GTAIII production to the end of san andreas production … thats a hell lot of years ***** !
Developers are only allotted a certain time frame to get shit done. Every day its big money being paid out so every day counts on these things.
I think the new gta engine is called rage or something, they didnt build the engine themselves, from what i’ve heard. However that could be untrue because I know they used it in their xbox 360 tennis game as a test.
Even though the engine was already developed, there is such a massive list and scope of things to do to get everything in place and actually working without bugs and BULLSHIT.
So all im saying is, GTA IV is like GTA III, its the first game of this generation of GTA’s which means that it will be the simplest, most feature lacking version. They will probably be able to run a couple more titles under the engine.
You can bet alot of the old san andreas gameplay features will return into the next gta.
It just takes time, and alot of money and because of deadlines its hard to beat.
These games are like meat laid out on a table on a 90 degree day, u gotta serve the fucking shit quick and if you take to long nobody wants that shittttttt