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[Derrick01]

The actual city looks small as fuck. Way smaller than GTAIV's.

Lol at mistake. Is this the actual size of the city or some BS estimation? This is my main concern.

I'm pretty sure even Rockstar said Los Santos itself will be a bit smaller because they're also including the huge countryside (which has its own towns in it) and the full ocean floor with its own structures to explore.

It's a trade off I'm willing to make.

 

[SuperSah]

I'm pretty sure even Rockstar said Los Santos itself will be a bit smaller because they're also including the huge countryside (which has its own towns in it) and the full ocean floor with its own structures to explore.

It's a trade off I'm willing to make.

I like this. Country > endless city.

 

[Hawk SE]

Reviews by wednesday/thursday?

I haven't gotten my review copy yet, but probably going to be Monday or Tuesday for reviews to hit, regardless of whenever the embargo lifts. There just isn't a whole lot of turnaround time for deliveries next week to playing it all and then writing a review.

 

[John1744]

Went and paid off my preorder and the lady at my small city gamestop said she had 800 360 preorders and 500 ps3 orders. Not even sure I'm going to try and go to the midnight release. It's going to be insane.

 

[keltickennedy]

I'm pretty sure even Rockstar said Los Santos itself will be a bit smaller because they're also including the huge countryside (which has its own towns in it) and the full ocean floor with its own structures to explore.

It's a trade off I'm willing to make.

Yeah...I'm not sure what he is talking about. Looks pretty big to me (just the city/urban portion) looks to be like Alghonquin, Dukes, Broker, Bohan and Alderney combined to one big chunk.

 

[DukeBobby]

Here is a link to a 3D version of a fan map:

https://sketchfab.com/show/6aee9e8f9120463ba15e277c369f48e7

I can't wait to hike up those mountains. They look fucking huge.

 

[SuperSah]

Went and paid off my preorder and the lady at my small city gamestop said she had 800 360 preorders and 500 ps3 orders. Not even sure I'm going to try and go to the midnight release. It's going to be insane.

Dayum. Over 3m pre-orders in the UK alome too. Gonna be a big, BIG launch.


EDIT: Just saw the GTAV advert on Channel 4. Looking swell.

 

[.nimrod]

Huh, i didn't know GTA V had a single main city, I kinda expected 3 like in San Andreas. Hype slightly decreased now, but the next ten days will still seem way too long

 

[Buckethead]

We have a high res map outline from the achievement listing....do you want that too?

Sure.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Huh, i didn't know GTA V had a single main city, I kinda expected 3 like in San Andreas. Hype slightly decreased now, but the next ten days will still seem way too long

It's just Los Santos (as far as cities go). But the entire map size is larger than San Andreas, GTA4 and RDR combined.

 

[dreamfall]

I really hope the properties you can buy have unique interiors.

The scale is so mindblowing!

 

[Bedameister]

Anyone knows if this is legit ?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

The actual city looks small as fuck. Way smaller than GTAIV's.

Lol at mistake. Is this the actual size of the city or some BS estimation? This is my main concern.

Everyone that's said this by glancing at the blueprint map fails to realize that the scale of that map vs. the actual scale at ground level in game is going to be completely different. Just take a look at any screenshot from an elevated position with pedestrians on the ground. The map we're seeing isn't 1:1 like the PS2 gen GTA games were.

As a few have noted here, the city itself is as big as Liberty City in IV. With or without the water is still up for debate, but if it's as big as LC WITH water, that would make Los Santos a bigger city, plus the countryside which looks 2-3x as big as the city. It's a large map.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Anyone knows if this is legit ?

Faker than a hookers boobs in the game.

 

[SuperSah]

Anyone knows if this is legit ?

Painkiller confirmed he made it up.

 

[sunnz]

Anyone knows if this is legit ?

Nope, fake.

He made a post on the gta forums saying it was a photoshop, actual pic:

 

[Bedameister]

Ok thanks. But I still guess it won't take long till someone has it and you could read all about it

 

[hlhbk]

I have the preorder of the 360 special edition on Amazon paid off. Really looking forward to the 17th!

 

[Dug]

Sure.

Here is the enlarged achievement icon outline(map outline spoilers):

http://s24.postimg.org/7gby89ffp/map_outline.jpg

 

[hlhbk]

When does the review embargo lift?

 

[weekend_warrior]

You can get a little better idea of the size by watching 2:10-2:30 of this video where it zooms out to do the transition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

When does the review embargo lift?

I don't think anyone knows for sure. Could be wrong though. Wont be surprised if it's 12am on the 16th or 17th

 

[.nimrod]

It's just Los Santos (as far as cities go). But the entire map size is larger than San Andreas, GTA4 and RDR combined.

Yeah, you're right, that still sounds amazing.

I just really liked how you could leave one city in SA, be on the road for a couple of minutes driving through different landscapes and arrive at another city with it's own unique and completely different style.

But we did get BMX and motocross bikes back, so I'll stop complaining

 

[L.O.R.D]

Nope, fake.

He made a post on the gta forums saying it was a photoshop, actual pic:

lol,i know this guy personally
he become famous for doing this
he tactfully apologize for this because he didn't want Rockstar to be angry at him
he didn't even want this to go world wide, he post it on his facebook group as a "joke"

 

[Diprosalic]

stable 30fps and no tearing and i might consider the console version, i can't play anything below those minimal standards anymore.

 

[SuperSah]

stable 30fps and no tearing and i might consider the console version, i can't play anything below those minimal standards anymore.

If you listened to IGN, it runs perfectly well.

 

[Lazloisdavrock]

Rockstar has perfected RAGE on consoles now, and PC. (MP3) its going to run smooth

 

[Wind's Howling]

The power of GTA games in my opinion is the fact that you get familiair with the world. Each street, corner, building, mountain, roads and lakes oozes out atmosphere and not one thing is the same. This makes everything just like the real world, where you can learn the route by using the world's landmarks. This is something neither of the free roamable games other than the GTA games could accomplish.

 

[Visualante2]

The power of GTA games in my opinion is the fact that you get familiair with the world. Each street, corner, building, mountain, roads and lakes oozes out atmosphere and not one thing is the same. This makes everything just like the real world, where you can learn the route by using the world's landmarks. This is something neither of the free roamable games other than the GTA games could accomplish.

And in GTA IV I didn't because the GPS was always telling me where to go. Turning that shit off this time around.

 

[Hip Hop]

The power of GTA games in my opinion is the fact that you get familiair with the world. Each street, corner, building, mountain, roads and lakes oozes out atmosphere and not one thing is the same. This makes everything just like the real world, where you can learn the route by using the world's landmarks. This is something neither of the free roamable games other than the GTA games could accomplish.

Exactly,

I know every strip club, bar, and whatnot that's around Liberty City in GTA IV, no GPS. Hell, we can go ahead and add in the older GTA games, they all worked very well in this aspect. They are not towns or cities cluttered as randomly as possible as many other open world games do.

 

[Fjordson]

New IGN Q&A was pretty good. I like that the map will basically have a fog of war effect on it. A nice counter to the entire world being open from the get go, think it'll up the sense of discovery.

 

[Lazloisdavrock]

Still very surprised the paper map hasnt leaked

 

[Zornack]

If you listened to IGN, it runs perfectly well.

What were they playing on, PS3 or 360?

 

[weekend_warrior]

I superimposed some stills from the gameplay trailer over the fan made map to attempt at creating an idea of scale.

 

[Hip Hop]

I'm surprised the game has not completely leaked yet.

Hell, the map would be nice.

 

[L.O.R.D]

i don't know if this posted before
but..this is new mission in the game
i'll put it in spoiler

Spoiler

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/9622/hjdj.jpg

???

why the spoiler code not working in image ?

Spoiler

working now ?

 

[Lazloisdavrock]

What were they playing on, PS3 or 360?

360

 

[xxracerxx]

i don't know if this posted before
but..this is new mission in the game
i'll put it in spoiler

Spoiler

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/9622/hjdj.jpg[IMG]
[/SPOILER]

???

why the spoiler code not working in image ?
[SPOILER] working now ? [/SPOILER][/QUOTE]

Spoiler tags don't work on images....and it still would not save the funny.

 

[lefantome]

The city is no smaller than libertymcity, probably a bit Bigger. Don't watch the blue print map, the smaller roads are to present.

I'm worried about the map size instead, it looks ok but it's sad that we have only the city and the salton sea area (lake+desert) surrounded by mountains. It makes everything looks small.

I know that the map i packed with things , but if ipthey were a bit less dense we could have a better feeling of distance without having the problems of the just cause maps.

 

[diggler41]

Jesus the map is so big. I look at the size of the city which is supposed to be comparable in size to GTAIVs and see that you could fit a couple cities if the same size in the landmass. Man that's big. Then you have all the water/underwater stuff. Holy hell.

 

[Fjordson]

I look at the size of the city which is supposed to be comparable in size to GTAIVs and see that you could fit a couple cities if the same size in the landmass. Man that's big.

Yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking. Plenty of space in there.

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

The city is no smaller than libertymcity, probably a bit Bigger. Don't watch the blue print map, the smaller roads are to present.

I'm worried about the map size instead, it looks ok but it's sad that we have only the city and the salton sea area (lake+desert) surrounded by mountains. It makes everything looks small.

I know that the map i packed with things , but if ipthey were a bit less dense we could have a better feeling of distance without having the problems of the just cause maps.

There is no sense of scale when looking at a map. "A city, a lake and a few mountains" doesn't sound big, but the landscape in various trailer shots looks incredibly vast. The mountains aren't just little video gamey mountains, they look genuinely gargantuan. But all you need to hear to know that the map isn't small is to just listen to Rockstar -- "bigger than RDR, San Andreas and IV put together".

 

[NoSkillz187]

What were they playing on, PS3 or 360?

The 360, but the said they also saw the PS3 version a couple of months ago and it ran identical to the 360.

 

[Alienous]

It's this sense of scale I'm excited for:

But in hindsight Los Santos does seem a very comparable scale to Liberty City & Alderney.

 

[Green Yoshi]

-Almost no diffrence between PS3 and Xbox 360 performance

So there is a difference?

 

[SJRB]

So there is a difference?

Astute observation.

 

[Gaz_RB]

So there is a difference?

Negligible!

 

[SuperSah]

So there is a difference?

They said there's virtually no difference.

 

[Mistah]

the difference is that you get the xbox icons when you play the xbox version and the ps icons on the ps3 version

 

[valkillmore]

the difference is that you get the xbox icons when you play the xbox version and the ps icons on the ps3 version

Doesn't matter what the difference is, I'll have it for both PS3 and Xbox 360. 360 for Live, and PS3 just so I can see for myself this game running on that system.