Reality Check - 3 Awesome Science Things I Want in GTA V

This week Cam pitches three awesome science things he thinks Rockstar need to include in GTA V.

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Only that plastic guns are awful. There is a reason why they aren't being used. The media made a great deal out of nothing, and made asses out of themselves again.

The second is a driving plane. No one would mistake that vehicle to a normal car. It must drive horribly. At most it's a convenient way to move planes.

The third is something really cool, but has nothing to do with GTA.


I understand that the show is about showing cool science stuff, but it seems like a big stretch to try to relate them to games.

Finally, I think that GTA is too real for its own good. It takes so much time to move around (the car controls in IV didn't help), and there is nothing very fun to do in the city outside of missions and multiplayer.

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@picho86 The car controls were perfect in IV. At times, it had better car physics and was more fun than actual racing games.

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@PartyGavinParty @picho86 You play shitty racing games then. The car physics in GTA4 where terrible.

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@GLOK1132 @PartyGavinParty @picho86 They were pretty fantastic to me. You're probably one of the people who try and corner and pull the handbrake hoping it will make you do a "1337 drift".

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@PartyGavinParty @picho86 Your'e welcome to keep enjoying GTA IV.

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@picho86 Why does everybody bitch and moan about the car controls in IV? They took some getting used to, sure, but once you had them figured it wasn't any harder than driving in any other game.

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@AnarchyPony @picho86 The controls in SR3 are much better. If everyone "bitches and moans", then maybe there is something to it.

I'm incredibly happy the controls worked for you, but for me they didn't.

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@picho86 Cool story bro, want a cookie?

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@animatrix999 @picho86 Your reply doesn't even make sense.

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Game's finished dude. You're about 6 months late.

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@mattcake As sad as it is, they can always make things like this later and charge it as DLC.

I feel like Rockstar wouldn't do that unless it was included with an expansion though.

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Gamespot is slipping these days, and this guy is not helping.

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I want to twerk in the game....dat shit is scientific

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Lmfao, most of these are not something any developer would think of, and why would they? non of these would benefit the game a great deal.

The burger thing is the only thing that I could see happening, but even that would be a stretch since the gta universe already has a healthy number of resturant chains.

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in the quiet words of the virgin Mary... what utter bullshit

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Those burgers would fit right in...and it would be easy for them to just add some sound bytes for ads for the radio stations talking about "The Stem Burger"


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Good episode! I don't know that I'd want episodes like this to be a particularly regular feature but I certainly wouldn't be against it once every month or two. Lab grown burgers... sounds awful in a way but I can appreciate the fact that people could eat perfectly lean, disease free, harm (to animals) meats. Meats are a large part of the evolution of the human race (the protein from bone marrow has long been suspected of being a large part of our brain development) but I can see the stance of the Vegan/Vegetarian crowd.

Having the best of both sounds like a huge step forward.

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This is one amazing episode, really didn't think I could get any more excited for GTA V either... you bas**rd! =P


Cool ideas and about the stem cells thing, Rockstar will be all over that, there was adverts on the radio about stem cells on GTA IV, I remember it going something like - news reader was interviewing a lady and she said to the camera "you hear me Tyrone? I want my f**kin' stem cells back!" hahaha.


Love the cluckin' bell advert at the end too hahaa.

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This is awesome!

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Didn't watch the video, just came in to say,

1) Thermite
2) Meth lab RVs
3) Ricin

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@MooncalfReviews Say my name.

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@LtJef

... You're Heisenberg.

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3d printing is overhyped. It is still just fucking awful.

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@Raggi_Boy I don't think it's particularly overhyped. It's essentially the first step towards making the replicators of Star Trek. Especially if we're lab growing food now too. But realistically, once it is practical to 3d print other materials such as metals, there will be no telling the things that could be made. It would increase the value of every single person who had one in much the same way that the internet does.

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@Raggi_Boy Someones a little jelly lolololol

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Nothing to do with the game but...
FUCKING SHIT, AS THOUGH IT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH WHEN A MASS MURDERER HAD TO RELY ON HIS MOTHER TO LEAVE A WEAPON IN THE HOUSE IN ORDER FOR HIM TO KILL 26 PEOPLE.

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3d printed guns just aren't durable enough, If they treated it realistically, there's no way you'd be getting 5 stars with one. xD

While I'm at it, bring on a buoyant, flying car! Make it happen Rockstar.

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CAM! YOU AWESOME BRO :D

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All I want is the ability to get obese again.

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I am not sute but I herad that there will be different story endings

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I want to see high powered weapons like 50 cals and explosives, cause gore effects.

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Flying pigs wud be awesome.

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That fluffy chest of yours is so grizzly

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This was cool, keep up the good work.NERD POWER!

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So he's asking to make this game into Saints Row IV? A game that was originally inspired by the GTA series?

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@sleepyj327 Saint Row sucks bro.

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@animatrix999 @sleepyj327 I had more fun in Saints Row 3 then in GTA4

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@vannacut @crazylooser2003 @animatrix999 @sleepyj327 GTA 4 was a huge disappointment. One of the most overrated games of all time

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@vannacut @crazylooser2003 @animatrix999 @sleepyj327 not at all. Saints Row 3 was way more fun than GTAIV

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@crazylooser2003 @animatrix999 GTA1 > Saint row

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@crazylooser2003 @animatrix999 @sleepyj327 i used to think there could be some truth to that, then i played saints row 3 , it cant even touch gta4 , gta4 is way superior in every aspect...

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@animatrix999 Look at the little B*tch that has no respect for other people's opinions...

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@crazylooser2003 @animatrix999 @sleepyj327 Cool story bro, want a cookie?

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Really good, i liked it!

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Nice one cam - keep 'em coming !

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