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That isn't really that far in. General Discussion is a subforum just like suggestions & improvements, directly accessible from the homepage. You can even click straight onto General Off Topic Chat on the homepage underneath General Discussion. The topic is ###### at the top there. Silly

Yea, i agree with you entirely. Better body scupting and animation would really increase the playability and believability of GTA4. Has anyone played SWAT 3 or 4? I have both, and they (especially SWAT 4) have some brilliant weapon/tool usage animations. For example: pulling out the pin from a CS canister and lobbing it gently into the next room; fixing C2 to a door and counting town (3,2,1) on fingers before triggering with remote; and loads like that. If we had anywhere near that quality of player animation in the next GTA, it would be so much more engrossing. This could also benefit the (hoped for) interactive environment, such as most htings being destructable.

Sounds fun, I remember playing Vice City in literally all my free time - looks pretty sad in retrospect.

Hey dudes, is this a flaming match or a GTA PSP wishlist? Tyler, don't answer that. Spaz is pretty much right, as usual. He can have his name how he wants it, you don't have to like it, you just have to use it. If you listened to Rap in 98, then why would you have heard any decent music (everybody apart from your opinion) on the radio then? Online play isn't crap, i really dont see how being able to play against someone can be bad, or how you can hate it. I admit I don't play much online, but if i do its fun - plus you learn from losing. Back on topic now guys please

I dont think he was intentionally mute, I just don't think they got round to voicing him - would have needed to speak in loads of situations, not just cutscenes. Was a bit of a cop-out though, maybe they just though it was supposed to represent us and they shouldnt say what you're supposed to be thinking - but they put a character, situations, story and image. Silly, it was pretty silly, but they got it right in VC. The continuous talking in SA can get annoying though.

But you're thinking of the game engine improvements. If GTAIII was made now, with the same extra stuff that SA had in it, like hoods (but not) and all the stuff, then you may think Claude was better. We're on about the storylines not the games themselves. If San Andreas was made in 2000, and CJ didn't talk, no gang wars happened, just basic missions, no bikes or helis, you would think it was totally crap.

Yea I've validated you now. Just a security feature, as in fact Mgilb registered on the 25th. No, I didn't validate him. Thanks guys

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No it wasn't offending, I deleted it because the last posts in the topic were weeks ago - thats called bumping. Your posts weren't bad, they just weren't useful contributions (this is the suggestions forum) so i just removed the bump.

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Chris, you forgot to close the topic (either that or someone reopened). No need to be so harsh. Not everybody gets a game the day its released in the USA, he doesn't have it yet, and neither does the rest of the world. But Broonie, wrong topic.

I can see how that would be okay, and it may be fun to see how Vice City has changed in 20 years, but if it was a choice between old cities slightly changed and a brand new state or w/e, then i'd go for brand new.

Spaz, i know its none of my business, but i really think you should stop snorting those pixie-sticks. My account has always seemed to work a-ok chris, maybe i'm patient enough to wait for the loading bar, unlike these young broadband whippersnappers.

I totally agree, the fun goes when you've fully explored the old cities, and exhausted their potential (as many people will have done with SA now, not to be played for a while). Playing them again would be tedious. We need a new location, new storyline and everything else new. But then again, that isn't what tyler was suggesting in this topic, his idea isn't a bad one.

I agree a London 1969 game would be fun, but a new game will not be all three of the old games just glued together. GTA4 will be a completely new game, nothing to do with GTAIII/VC/SA. Its a good possibility that London will be featured (there may be more than one location), but a lot of other places (such as Chicago or Japan) have been suggested. Vice City was 80s retro, I don't see why they couldn't go back further, but maybe its time for a more modern GTA.

If you're counting the number of GTA games being released, then yes it was the fourth game (London was only an expansion pack). But GTA4 and San Andreas were all part of the story that came with GTA3. So gta3/vc/sa were the GTAIII Trilogy. The next GTA game (name unknown) will be a completely NEW game, with a new storyline, new characters, new locations, and Rockstar will completley change the way the game works. Vice City and San Andreas both worked on the same code 'engine' as GTAIII, only altered to add the new features and larger sizes, whereas GTA4 will be brand new, and substantially different. To put it differently, its as if VC and SA were just different flavours of the GTA3 drink, but still the same. GTA4 will be a completely different drink altogether, just made by the same company in the same line of drinks. Bad example, but you can see that VC was GTA version 3.1 and SA was 3.2, gta4 will be a new version altogether. ...i'm thirsty now

That would be a logical follow-up from gta3/vc/sa, but the gta3 trilogy has finished - that story is over. GTA4 will be a fresh storyline, but that's not to say we won't see a few reminders of the past. You may see Ken Rosenberg's office, or Kent Paul's studios, or something (dependent on characters still being alive at the time of the game). That's only going to be a little easter egg, not part of the storyline. Your story would have been a nice tie-up for the trilogy, but we've never played as part of any major gang before. GTA4 may well have something to do with the mafia, and that would probably make it connected to the Leone family etc, but then the storyline and characters will be completely new, maybe ready for a new trilogy.

2.0.4 is a lot different to 1.3, but Chris is on about helping with the coding neccessary to make a new system for 2.1, which has another completely different filesystem to 2.0.4

What the hell happened to this idea? You just did it to chase me away

How can you call me an idiot and not mean any offense? Especially since you don't have a point. If you say someone's ideas are gay, are you right? So the ideas are homosexuals? It makes no real sense, its offensive. "I dont like those ideas" is what everybody else is saying, but no it has to be "those ideas are gay".

They wouldn't tell you something like that. Their job is to make the game, and they've done that. If there are any problems with it (eg snow is supposed to happen but doesn't) then they'll fix it and release an update, but thats unlikely. Perhaps the snow comes in a particular mission or something.

I am shocked and appauled by the lack of a blowtorch, that and the ability to pick up and throw any nearby object, like a rock or brick.