GTA IV updates: Massive 24 pages interview with Dan Houser

Yesterday i posted a quick summary but if you want the whole enchilada, this is a GTA fan must read!

No planes!! only helicopters -_-..

http://www.diggingtheweb.com/4280707.html

and "various" online modes, but not a MMORPG, he thinks MMO is stupid 

:|.. what is MMORPG ... MMO mean? :lol:

Multi? media? (no) Online? Role playing game lmao? wat?KraigA

mass multiplayer online role playing game. You never asked this question before? With all that World of Warcraft and all that?

aircraft, yes, planes, no -_-

go inside buildings, yes..go inside every buildings, no -_- 

no planes is reaonable, since it's said this time the game world is small.

 also gta4 is set at NYC no? from what i remember flying planes there isn't such a good idea...

It said that the animation of car jacking would be impressive and massive radio channels, using Blu-ray. Will the xbox version be gimped like an old man's utensil?ForTheNguyen

Too lazy to cut and paste, but OPM wrote something like, "Niko uses his elbow, broke the windows of the driver side, and hopped into the car. Camera angle changed..."

and Dan Houser said, "I'ts a challenge for both versions, pain and pleasure for both." Not having blue ray on 360 is definately holding back some stuff, and they havent found a way to use SixAxis, and not all the kinks have been worked out for both version..

I am not trying to be a fan boy and whatever, bc i own all 3 systems, but u know on paper, the PS3 is more impressive and has bigger drive and all ps3s comes with a HDD, if anything. The PS3 version will be gimped to suit the 360 version..not the other way around.... that is the bad thing about multiplatforming; you work with the lowest denominators of both systems and do not take advantage of anything....but if they decide to spend the time to max out each system, it could be great. who knows 

[QUOTE="ForTheNguyen"]It said that the animation of car jacking would be impressive and massive radio channels, using Blu-ray. Will the xbox version be gimped like an old man's utensil?DoctorWan

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. So if there isn't enough music for your liking in GTA4, hey just create your own sountrack on your HDD. Music won't be a problem.

Too lazy to cut and paste, but OPM wrote something like, "Niko uses his elbow, broke the windows of the driver side, and hopped into the car. Camera angle changed..."

and Dan Houser said, "I'ts a challenge for both versions, pain and pleasure for both." Not having blue ray on 360 is definately holding back some stuff, and they havent found a way to use SixAxis, and not all the kinks have been worked out for both version..

I am not trying to be a fan boy and whatever, bc i own all 3 systems, but u know on paper, the PS3 is more impressive and has bigger drive and all ps3s comes with a HDD, if anything. The PS3 version will be gimped to suit the 360 version..not the other way around.... that is the bad thing about multiplatforming; you work with the lowest denominators of both systems and do not take advantage of anything....but if they decide to spend the time to max out each system, it could be great. who knows 

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. If the music on GTA4 isn't much for your liking, hey just create your own soundtrack to play while roaming around Liberty City. I got a feeling they'll do the same thing as Def Jam: Icon by letting you create a radio station with the soundtracks on the HDD.

[QUOTE="DoctorWan"]

[QUOTE="ForTheNguyen"]It said that the animation of car jacking would be impressive and massive radio channels, using Blu-ray. Will the xbox version be gimped like an old man's utensil?higherARC

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. So if there isn't enough music for your liking in GTA4, hey just create your own sountrack on your HDD. Music won't be a problem.

Too lazy to cut and paste, but OPM wrote something like, "Niko uses his elbow, broke the windows of the driver side, and hopped into the car. Camera angle changed..."

and Dan Houser said, "I'ts a challenge for both versions, pain and pleasure for both." Not having blue ray on 360 is definately holding back some stuff, and they havent found a way to use SixAxis, and not all the kinks have been worked out for both version..

I am not trying to be a fan boy and whatever, bc i own all 3 systems, but u know on paper, the PS3 is more impressive and has bigger drive and all ps3s comes with a HDD, if anything. The PS3 version will be gimped to suit the 360 version..not the other way around.... that is the bad thing about multiplatforming; you work with the lowest denominators of both systems and do not take advantage of anything....but if they decide to spend the time to max out each system, it could be great. who knows

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. If the music on GTA4 isn't much for your liking, hey just create your own soundtrack to play while roaming around Liberty City. I got a feeling they'll do the same thing as Def Jam: Icon by letting you create a radio station with the soundtracks on the HDD.

Of course i am aware of this function, which i do not use at all. I believe that the music is an integral part of the game the director intended it to be. If you have played the previous GTA before you will know what i mean, the satire they put in those radio station is part of the experience, blocking it out with your own sound track which you probably listen to on ur ipod 24/7 anyways, what is the point of producers putting out grandiose musical scores anymore?

People stress so much on useless features IMO, games has their musics, such as classical FF musics, MGS musics (very nice), and Lair (have u heard it? very very nice ethnic presentation). Putting ur own soundtrack in game is not all that great.  

[QUOTE="higherARC"][QUOTE="DoctorWan"]

[QUOTE="ForTheNguyen"]It said that the animation of car jacking would be impressive and massive radio channels, using Blu-ray. Will the xbox version be gimped like an old man's utensil?DoctorWan

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. So if there isn't enough music for your liking in GTA4, hey just create your own sountrack on your HDD. Music won't be a problem.

Too lazy to cut and paste, but OPM wrote something like, "Niko uses his elbow, broke the windows of the driver side, and hopped into the car. Camera angle changed..."

and Dan Houser said, "I'ts a challenge for both versions, pain and pleasure for both." Not having blue ray on 360 is definately holding back some stuff, and they havent found a way to use SixAxis, and not all the kinks have been worked out for both version..

I am not trying to be a fan boy and whatever, bc i own all 3 systems, but u know on paper, the PS3 is more impressive and has bigger drive and all ps3s comes with a HDD, if anything. The PS3 version will be gimped to suit the 360 version..not the other way around.... that is the bad thing about multiplatforming; you work with the lowest denominators of both systems and do not take advantage of anything....but if they decide to spend the time to max out each system, it could be great. who knows

If you had a 360 you would know that you can use your HDD for custom soundtracks on any game. If the music on GTA4 isn't much for your liking, hey just create your own soundtrack to play while roaming around Liberty City. I got a feeling they'll do the same thing as Def Jam: Icon by letting you create a radio station with the soundtracks on the HDD.

Of course i am aware of this function, which i do not use at all. I believe that the music is an integral part of the game the director intended it to be. If you have played the previous GTA before you will know what i mean, the satire they put in those radio station is part of the experience, blocking it out with your own sound track which you probably listen to on ur ipod 24/7 anyways, what is the point of producers putting out grandiose musical scores anymore?

People stress so much on useless features IMO, games has their musics, such as classical FF musics, MGS musics (very nice), and Lair (have u heard it? very very nice ethnic presentation). Putting ur own soundtrack in game is not all that great.  

GTA 4 is set in modern times. The music I listen to is modern. So why wouldn't it be an integral part of the game. It'll make the experience more realistic since it'll be like real life where there's no 30 sum songs but unlimited of music songs to listen to in the car. And having custom sound tracks is very important to me because if you play a game like virtual fighter you'll don't want to listen to the same music over and over and over again especially with friends over I use the custom soundtracks while playing DOA 4. I wish I could use custom soundtracks for Motorstorm because the music sucks and I have to listen to that crap over and over again. This is why custom soundtracks is a plus.

mark(so I can read later).queenster08

What he said, no time at the moment but will read later tonight. 

response to Higherarc on the 30 or so songs in the game .... my man, since you wanna take it modern, have you listened to the radio lately?...you'll get 15 songs playing looped through out the entire day...at tha you'll get 2 stations playing the same exact song...so letting gta have it's custom soundtrack isn't so bad because realistically "real radio" limits it's listeners to 15 or so songs ...unless you have satilite radio...then we talkin bigger news...lolHoVDaHuSTLa1

Again maybe if you listen to 2 radio stations even then there ARE more than 30 songs played on it if you listen to it more than 10 mins. I don't know what radio stations over by where you live are playing, sounds like only 15 songs they have lol, but over here in NY just in one radio station there are OVER 30 songs played in just one show. Plus you got the other 20 or more stations. Don't forget that in real life people have CD's and MP3's so again the song count goes to how many songs you have.