MattyJ wrote:

Sounds like some of the work they already did in rdr2!

I really should play that past the first hour

I really need to give RDR2 another chance.
I need to spend enough time with it to map the controls to my brain, or maybe even print a crib sheet.

And then have a bounty put on you.

Nailed it.

g.man wrote:

The controls are simple. Every button you press will cause yer man to punch his horse.

Lol

...and if you want to walk, you have to use a combination of holding down both joysticks to activate your legs, then constantly click both shoulder buttons to make your feet move. This only gets tricky when you want to actually turn your character, because that's on the D-pad.

LivDiv wrote:

equinox_code wrote:

I predict that when traffic lights change to indicate no crossing pedestrians will hasten pace and continue to cross the road so long as they can catch up with other pedestrians who crossed when the lights indicated they should.

Doing the silly half run half walk.
I like it.

They've been developing a revolutionary new physics engine to render it.

Has it really been nearly seven years since 5 came out? Fucking hell.

LivDiv wrote:

Will it run on Series X in the first 2 years though?

That's only for first party games innit?

Chalice!!

I’ve missed you ! Xxx

lol

Hopefully they pay their taxes this time.

Let's hope this has already been written being as Dan Houser has just left R*

hmm, interesting take, agree to differ

My first thought on hearing about Houser was 'does that mean this'll be better written then?'

More than anything they make far too much of the writing, so it gets in the way of actually doing anything interesting in the missions. And it's bad.

It's not the actual missions once you get into them. It's the drive somewhere to start a bit where you then drive somewhere. Then when you've done something there, drive back. You can cut that driving out completely. Just cutscene straight into the good stuff. They could also do more with having the open-world feed into the story. They've had some stuff with gang wars and so on but they just stay contained in the open-world bit. Have the story evolve depending on what you've been doing outside of the missions. I dunno. There isn't some silver bullet, it's partly the genre that they created. And a lot of people know and like how these play and I'd guess don't want it messed around with too much. 

Despite playing every bit of GTA SP content they've put out, I've really struggled to get into them since San Andreas. Too much uninvolving, low-quality story-telling laid over the same old game. The worlds are amazing. But they need to find a way to create your own stories a bit more effectively. More emergent stuff.