My bad, I should have read the thread.
@MirkoS77 said:
@hxce
1. This is no excuse for it not to improve. This is the fifth game, it's past time for a serious evolution.
2. Yes, guns are much more a hindrance in helping to get away from them than they are a benefit. They provide barely any positives if used skillfully, in fact the game punishes the player for it. All using them accomplishes is flooding the streets with more cops. I've written a long post about this to R*, I'll elaborate and repost it here if you'd like, but it is a bit long.
3. Yes. At higher levels they are able to consistently ram you, no matter what hi-end car/bike you have. Impossible to outrun, the only way to lose them at 4-5 stars is to maneuver between traffic and hope they get into a crash.
4. Please don't patronize. If you'd like to provide a counter argument as to why not, then do so.
5. Agreed. GTA could do without half-75% of its character roster. I don't know who the majority of people on my contacts list are (or really could be bothered to care). Actually, I don't have trouble with ancillary characters, but they have to be well written. The reason they are forgettable is the writing is forgettable.
6. I'm fairly certain this well be optional in the PC version.
7. Could you please tell me how? I know you're right because I recall doing it in the original but I've tried everything and can't find a way (I'm on PS4, btw).
8. Cars are not saved in garages if used for anything more than joyriding them. You have to return the car intact to your safehouse....you can't take them out on missions and abandon/destroy them and then have them back in the garage when you return home. In the older games it didn't matter what you did, they'd always be there on return. This makes the customization shops useless. The only cars that are saved no matter what you do with them are the "default" cars, of which I've found no way to switch.
-1; First of all, this isn't a simulator. For sure there is always room for improvement, but I don't see nothing wrong.
- 2; If you have a good arsenal, you can kill all the cops, and then try to run. I've done it many times (I like using the submarine) . Of course, they are always gonna keep sending more and more cops after you.
-3 ;At 5 stars the only problem I always have is the helicopter and road blocks. Cops are indeed more aggressive and faster, but I can outrun them...
- 4 and 5; I see your point, and although I don't think characters and writing are that awful, I do think they could improve a lot.
- 6; On the ps4, with the ps4 music feature, I have been listening to all my music library in game.
- 7 ;Go to the message or text and press square.
- 8; actually, you are right. Now if you want a car to always be saved you need to buy it...
@MirkoS77 said:
- institute fines for the lower wanted levels (1-3), varying in severity respective to the degree of the offense. I'm tired of having to hoof it simply for punching someone (or looking at someone too long). Lethal force should never be used against me unless I direct it first against cops or won't stop killing innocents. Always give the player the option to surrender and penalize them monetarily or with weapon confiscations.
- ease off the spawning of cops during firefights, give their cars a set performance level, and have them try to stop you through tactics, not cheap artificial rubber banding that renders your own car's performance moot.
This is a bit OT, but this extends to making the police (and fighting them) more fun: Frankly, I think the entire gun modelling of the franchise needs to go back to the drawing board. I think many would disagree, but it'd be a much more tense and fun experience if I wasn't able to carry the entire U.S. Army's arsenal in my back pocket at all times. Have a gun room at the safe house. Allow a pistol, few grenades, an assault rifle to be carried. Drastically reduce the amount of ammo carried (but allow vests or coats to be bought that would extend this) but in turn heavily intensify the guns' power.
I could go on, but I don't want this to turn into an essay. Despite how insanely impressive I find GTA to be on a technical level, many elements of its gameplay have not at all evolved much since the original GTA III, or hell, even the first game, and it's heavily dragging the experience down. I hope R* understands this and is planning to address its many faults for VI.
I like the two point you made. That could actually improve the gameplay, I just never really thought about it.
What I like about GTA is the fact that is not too realistic though. I want it to be arcadish. All the cops in your ass shooting at you like you are the devil, to me, is only a challenge. I don't look at it as being far or not.
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