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11/05/09
This city is alive. I've just started playing through Dragon Age- and while that game is brilliant in its own regards, it certainly does not have the glitz and glam of the GTA world. Even when I went off to play games like inFamous, I felt like GTA set the bar for what to expect in terms of visual flair and game setting.
I'm sure I will get flack for comparing the game's environments to others, but is that so wrong? Even walking around in Liberty City feels much more exciting than some other games... #grandtheftautoiv
11/05/09
I really appreciate all the little details that went into it, the city just feels alive. #grandtheftautoiv
11/05/09
I also liked that in one of those shots there was a guy on a bench reading a book for like 12 hours straight. Talk about an iron bladder! #grandtheftautoiv
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Had this been San Andreas, you would have seen the population change day by day as turf wars were fought, you would see the political landscape change as you amassed power.
Even in Vice City you would have seen buildings change ownership, as one person became more and more influential, names on auto dealers, ice cream vendors would change till the name Tommy Vercetti was on every street, hidden in the background yet in everybodies mind.
No one in Liberty City knows the name Nico Bellic, he's a nobody, a nothing, a storm...no, a brief shower, in a teacup. The only mark left to speak of his existence a shabby burnt out Taxi firm that bears his cousin's name. #grandtheftautoiv
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Over-stating it somewhat. Didn't, like, one building change in Vice City? Granted, the turf wars in San An put guys in different coloured clothes around the place and kind of felt like you were impacting upon the city - but it also came with a terrible, irritating gameplay feature. And the political landscape is a metaphor, right? Not having any actual effect on the physical city itself. #grandtheftautoiv
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While I agree with @drag: the changes in Vice City were minor and the ones in San Andreas came at a price at least there were changes.
I guess I just miss the chump to champ story line, I wanted to be the king of liberty city, not just another guy. #grandtheftautoiv
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I'm not saying that Rockstar's execution of Liberty City was poor, in fact in creating a New York clone that doesn't care if you live or die a cynic could say that they produced a near perfect facsimile.
I just think that the design choices made me feel isolated from, rather than an integral part of the game world. The introduction of "friends" could, I suppose, be meant to counter the fact that the city would be even more unaffected by your actions than usual, but in my view it didn't work.
In short, I felt the game didn't care about what I did, so why should I care about the game? #grandtheftautoiv
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In the Ballad of Gay Tony you destroy one of the cranes and it stays that way. #grandtheftautoiv
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i can't wait whatever they choose, loved GTA IV... just hope they make the next one more random fun and less realistic... moar jetpacks! #grandtheftautoiv
11/05/09
Agreed. I don't mind if they add realism but taking away the random fun is taking away one of the things that made GTA so great in the first place.
I haven't played the two expansions yet (thanks to a "friend" "borrowing" my copy of GTAIV and trading it in) but now tha Liberty City Stories is out, I'm going to check those out....I think I may be getting a bit excited by the prospect of that now. #grandtheftautoiv
11/05/09
I have a PS3 so no DLC for me :( hopefully Rockstar will be nice and release it on PS3 early next year #grandtheftautoiv
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Maybe as the game progresses the seasons change, and at the end you get a number on your phone that can change the season. Like the weather cheat, but would probably need a load screen. #grandtheftautoiv
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10/31/09
Just because something is rated AO doesn't mean it should get a release. Thats why the damn rating even exists. #manhunt
10/31/09
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shouldn't* #manhunt
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Youll be seeing torture, peole dying in the most brutal and painful fashion and very gory bloody guts and carnage showing all the veins/bone/organs/eye balls ,ect spalltered everywhere.
jee I'm starting to feel sick lols #manhunt
10/31/09
As for the idea of taking Watchmen's violence and multiplying it, I'm honestly not sure I can handle that. And I usually don't get creeped out by massive amounts of violence.
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11/01/09
I'd always gotten the impression that the game was, in terms of gameplay, about sneaking around and waiting for an opportunity to strike, rather than "running and gunning" blindly. Not to say that most shooters nowadays, even, are about "running and gunning blindly" ...
Really, though, I am a big fan of games like Splinter Cell. (I know, I'm stretching things here.) I love the rewards of patience, I love the almost intimate feeling of atmosphere where it's just your character sneaking along in the silence.
I just don't like the story concepts of the Manhunt games (a battle-royale show and an asylum-based quest for revenge, am I right?), and I think I'd find that much gore to be distracting from what I really wanted in an action game. Thanks for your comments, though! #manhunt
10/31/09
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The uncensored version was just taking an extracted copy of the regular game with the censor-feature removed via some patching. It required a modded PSP with CFW, but it wasn't that hard to do. It never really made the game all that different, just more entertaining since you weren't restricted by dark screens.
If they've added more to it than this, I'd be impressed as well as curious as to how they'd push the bar considering this game had a decent story compared to the all out snuff game that was the original Manhunt. #manhunt
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Um...Excluding the console love, I believe that is what the AO version of Manhunt 2 is going for. Zero censor. #manhunt
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