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Every time I see screenshots of San Andreas I can't believe how badly the graphics aged.
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I play GTA: SA nearly every day, of sorts. I still play San Andreas Multiplayer, and maintain a server on there. At time of typing there are 30K users online, and on weekends it still peaks at over 65KDrury wrote:Every time I see screenshots of San Andreas I can't believe how badly the graphics aged.
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Neither can I. Still, I can't help thinking Vice City has always looked better than San Andreas.Drury wrote:Every time I see screenshots of San Andreas I can't believe how badly the graphics aged.
As for GTA IV, I've just completed The Ballad of Gay Tony (leaving me free to reach GTA V now), although I find both the original and the DLCs ultimately tedious. Every time a cutscene played, I caught myself tapping something on my smartphone to have myself occupied as the action was so dowdy, which in turn had never applied to GTA 3/VC/SA. The actual gameplay proved better, yet I still get an impression I yawned way too many times during the whole playthrough.
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I found the ending to The Lost & Damned to be quite poop, just seemed to end randomly. Much preferred BoGT.
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Personally, I always thought the original Grand Theft Auto was the best game in the franchise. Especially once you could hack it and create your own vehicles. Back in the day there used to be a little website called "San Andreas Garage" where people would share their graphics. I miss that a lot.
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I have to disagree. At the time, the graphcis weren't great. I loved it and I still do. It's the best GTA out there.Drury wrote:Every time I see screenshots of San Andreas I can't believe how badly the graphics aged.
You still host a server? I haven't heard about that in a long while.Redirect Left wrote:I play GTA: SA nearly every day, of sorts. I still play San Andreas Multiplayer, and maintain a server on there. At time of typing there are 30K users online, and on weekends it still peaks at over 65KDrury wrote:Every time I see screenshots of San Andreas I can't believe how badly the graphics aged.
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Yes, but I don't do roleplay anymore. It's a generic demolition derby server i do now.Chrill wrote: You still host a server? I haven't heard about that in a long while.
Current stats (for SA:MP, not my server ol) Players Online: 42233 Servers Online: 4538
Still beating a lot of common even AAA titles that were released at the same time as GTA:SA & SA:MP
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The GTA:SA detailed graphics were pretty poor. Lots of clipping and glitches. The game was also pretty buggy (as were 3 and VC). People's faces looked constantly disfigured!
But that's the price you pay for an awesome open world. San Andreas is genuinely one of the best entertainment sources I've ever used. The level of detail it went into was truly epic. And the landscaping - despite the poor detailing - was gorgeous. The rural part of the map was excellent.
Seriously - I gush about it.
I just hope one day they find a way (although they've said they won't, haven't they?) of doing a GTA on the scale of SA with the graphics of this generation. That would cause me to buy a console.
But that's the price you pay for an awesome open world. San Andreas is genuinely one of the best entertainment sources I've ever used. The level of detail it went into was truly epic. And the landscaping - despite the poor detailing - was gorgeous. The rural part of the map was excellent.
Seriously - I gush about it.
I just hope one day they find a way (although they've said they won't, haven't they?) of doing a GTA on the scale of SA with the graphics of this generation. That would cause me to buy a console.
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There is a rumour (whether gaming legend or facts, I do not know) that most of the R* QA team received their P45s over SAs sometimes blatantly obvious flaws.Dave wrote:The game was also pretty buggy.
I find a lot of the bugs quite amusing, the desert is full of glitches in the mesh, causing minor dips or holes. There is a Pay & Spray in North East Las Venturas, near the pyramid casino where the majority of the floor is non-solid, causing you to fall through it. This was 'fixed' in the PC version. They nulled the code that opened the P&S door, essentially rending it a normal building. The minimap still refers to it as a Pay & Spray, the building also retains its Pay & Spray logoing even though its disabled. The initial bug also still exists, if you walk right up to the door, you can still find yourself falling or almost falling into blue hell. There are also a lot of objects that are placed slightly above ground level, including some telegraph poles and lamposts that are to an almost magic floating degree. Another odd glitch in SA is that some areas (Ganton, Idlewood & Willowfield seem the worst affected) are simply too saturated with objects, causing drastic FPS drops in those areas, even on completely modern hardware. Not sure how that was missed during QA and the objects optimized or thinned out.
But as you said, when you make something so large, the time it'd take to check everything entirely would be stupendously high.
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What about GTA5?
Left GTA5, right GTA SA ...
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Okay, I stand corrected - I thought because they'd returned to a "one city" model that it wouldn't have the detail.
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Well, yes. But I find that GTA:SA feels bigger. Driving a "lap" around GTA V does take quite some time, but it doesn't appear to be that much larger.Dave wrote:Okay, I stand corrected - I thought because they'd returned to a "one city" model that it wouldn't have the detail.
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When's the last time you played GTA SA though? I also remembered it as insanely huge, but out of curiosity I fired it up not long before GTA5 and it's definitely nooooowhere near the same amount of map. And GTA5 has much more details.
SA might have a bit more random gameplay things though, not sure. That whole gang war concept and such. On the other hand, GTA5 has that online mode...
SA might have a bit more random gameplay things though, not sure. That whole gang war concept and such. On the other hand, GTA5 has that online mode...
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Last weekPyoro wrote:When's the last time you played GTA SA though?
We've already touched on SA:MP above, Redirect Left spoke of it. SA:MP is much better than GTA Online, which is still very buggy despite being released well over a year ago.Pyoro wrote:SA might have a bit more random gameplay things though, not sure. That whole gang war concept and such. On the other hand, GTA5 has that online mode...
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Yes, but it's a mod. That doesn't make it worse or anything, but it's not something R* had to put money and time into.
dunno how buggy GTA5 is online, I haven't played it yet. Waiting for my new GPU ^^; At least R* still seems to be patching things ...
dunno how buggy GTA5 is online, I haven't played it yet. Waiting for my new GPU ^^; At least R* still seems to be patching things ...
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It's not just the size of the map that matters, but also how it is filled and how you can get around on that map.Chrill wrote:Well, yes. But I find that GTA:SA feels bigger. Driving a "lap" around GTA V does take quite some time, but it doesn't appear to be that much larger.Dave wrote:Okay, I stand corrected - I thought because they'd returned to a "one city" model that it wouldn't have the detail.
Do I have to buy it now?
You can have a huge map, but if it is filled with copies of a bunch of buildings in every town you find, with only a small number of missions to do, it starts feeling kind of empty (Just Cause 2 anyone?). On the other hand, if you have missions that start on one corner of the map and expect you to go to another corner and the next mission is again in that first corner you came from, I want to be able to get there quickly, which is not always possible (GTA SA with its missions involving trains that need you to go from town to town/middle of nowhere).
Also, on the topic of recently played games:
Skyrim, got it in the Steam sale recently, nice to pick up for one or two hours and then go do something else.
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Beware those SA/V map overlays. They give wildly different sizes.
Anyway, Remember that GTA:SA was made in less than two years - and with a smaller budget. GTA:V cost a bomb at $170 million, over five years. I'm surprised that San Andreas was as polished as it was, bugs and all.
I found the original 3D trilogy did suffer from design issues though in the map - large areas of San Fierro and Las Venturas were totally useless and not really used, not even as a through route. Same with Vice City - the eastern side of the east island seemed to mostly be walled off behind impassable buildings and be left alone. I get the impression that time or money was an issue in a lot of the older games - even the low LOD version of the VC map has extra airport bits.
On PC I've played like, two-three hours of online. I haven't ran into any hackers yet, but I've not looked in the past week. Other than that, it's pretty good.
Anyway, Remember that GTA:SA was made in less than two years - and with a smaller budget. GTA:V cost a bomb at $170 million, over five years. I'm surprised that San Andreas was as polished as it was, bugs and all.
I found the original 3D trilogy did suffer from design issues though in the map - large areas of San Fierro and Las Venturas were totally useless and not really used, not even as a through route. Same with Vice City - the eastern side of the east island seemed to mostly be walled off behind impassable buildings and be left alone. I get the impression that time or money was an issue in a lot of the older games - even the low LOD version of the VC map has extra airport bits.
I'm at level 104 I think, transferred over from PS3 where I played with some work guys over the past two years.Pyoro wrote:Yes, but it's a mod. That doesn't make it worse or anything, but it's not something R* had to put money and time into.
dunno how buggy GTA5 is online, I haven't played it yet. Waiting for my new GPU ^^; At least R* still seems to be patching things ...
On PC I've played like, two-three hours of online. I haven't ran into any hackers yet, but I've not looked in the past week. Other than that, it's pretty good.
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Skullgirls was (is?) free, downloaded, bought.
My only complaint is that the game is too hard to be played with one hand. Also I'm not sure if I'll ever feel my thumb again.
My only complaint is that the game is too hard to be played with one hand. Also I'm not sure if I'll ever feel my thumb again.
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