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mr_bigmouth_502
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07 Aug 2015, 5:26 am
I do not play it much these days but i do drive around in Vice City / Los Santos and listen to the radio stations 
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mr_bigmouth_502
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15 Aug 2015, 4:02 am
Misery wrote:
Claradoon wrote:
You're going to laugh but I hope you can help me. I love GTA. But I use it to take scenic drives. I let all the racers go ahead and then tootle along happily. Sometimes I pick up speed but mostly I'm alone (true to life!).
Anyway, I lost my best GTA when my computer died without backup years ago. Then I bought a newer one and it won't let me out of Hawaii because I didn't win. Every location is a level I have to win. Obviously I don't want to play to win. I want to drive slowly in the beautiful scenery.
Does anybody know of a GTA (best scenery) that will let me do things my way?
Anyway, I lost my best GTA when my computer died without backup years ago. Then I bought a newer one and it won't let me out of Hawaii because I didn't win. Every location is a level I have to win. Obviously I don't want to play to win. I want to drive slowly in the beautiful scenery.
Does anybody know of a GTA (best scenery) that will let me do things my way?
There really arent games like that as far as I know. Not among the AAA group, anyway. To most gamers, sandbox games are either A: like GTA, or B: like Minecraft.
For other games... that are JUST about exploring and such... you'd have to go to indie games.
I mean, I can think of other GTA-ish games that do scenery VERY well, most notably Just Cause 2, BUT, you get attacked pretty frequently in that game. There's lots to look at and the game world is HUGE, but while there's lots to explore, the devs stuffed in tons of action, which means frequent enemy attacks. That type of sandbox game is like that. The sandbox-ness is there, but alot of gamers also want STUFF to do, and they want action. So you get tons of missions or tons of enemies or both. It's just how it works. That's what sells.
You'll want to look elsewhere for the sort of experience you want. Alot of games focused mostly on exploring and scenery, though, do not have vehicles (or roads). You'd have to spend some time looking though; unlike AAA games, where the publishers come to you, shrieking and jumping up and down so you cant POSSIBLY not know their games exist, anything else takes some browsing and searching to find.
I'd give suggestions, but a pure scenery/exploration game would bore me too much, so I have none to give. I just know they're out there.
From my experience, it's actually pretty hard to find "action" in the GTA games, unless you actually follow the missions, or deliberately go out and cause trouble. And that's my main problem with the game; you don't really run into enemies until you encounter them in a story mission, or cause enough mayhem to get the cops after you. There's very little risk or danger otherwise, it's just boring as hell, like real life. GTA would be much more fun if all the pedestrians carried weapons and were actively trying to kill you, or if other people driving around were trying to total your car.
f**k it, they should just make a Carmageddon game where you can get out of your car and shoot guns at people. Then, I'll have my dream "GTA" experience.
16 Aug 2015, 12:09 am
16 Aug 2015, 11:49 pm
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
f**k it, they should just make a Carmageddon game where you can get out of your car and shoot guns at people. Then, I'll have my dream "GTA" experience.
You mean like Interstate 82?
17 Aug 2015, 4:42 am
mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
Misery wrote:
Claradoon wrote:
You're going to laugh but I hope you can help me. I love GTA. But I use it to take scenic drives. I let all the racers go ahead and then tootle along happily. Sometimes I pick up speed but mostly I'm alone (true to life!).
Anyway, I lost my best GTA when my computer died without backup years ago. Then I bought a newer one and it won't let me out of Hawaii because I didn't win. Every location is a level I have to win. Obviously I don't want to play to win. I want to drive slowly in the beautiful scenery.
Does anybody know of a GTA (best scenery) that will let me do things my way?
Anyway, I lost my best GTA when my computer died without backup years ago. Then I bought a newer one and it won't let me out of Hawaii because I didn't win. Every location is a level I have to win. Obviously I don't want to play to win. I want to drive slowly in the beautiful scenery.
Does anybody know of a GTA (best scenery) that will let me do things my way?
There really arent games like that as far as I know. Not among the AAA group, anyway. To most gamers, sandbox games are either A: like GTA, or B: like Minecraft.
For other games... that are JUST about exploring and such... you'd have to go to indie games.
I mean, I can think of other GTA-ish games that do scenery VERY well, most notably Just Cause 2, BUT, you get attacked pretty frequently in that game. There's lots to look at and the game world is HUGE, but while there's lots to explore, the devs stuffed in tons of action, which means frequent enemy attacks. That type of sandbox game is like that. The sandbox-ness is there, but alot of gamers also want STUFF to do, and they want action. So you get tons of missions or tons of enemies or both. It's just how it works. That's what sells.
You'll want to look elsewhere for the sort of experience you want. Alot of games focused mostly on exploring and scenery, though, do not have vehicles (or roads). You'd have to spend some time looking though; unlike AAA games, where the publishers come to you, shrieking and jumping up and down so you cant POSSIBLY not know their games exist, anything else takes some browsing and searching to find.
I'd give suggestions, but a pure scenery/exploration game would bore me too much, so I have none to give. I just know they're out there.
From my experience, it's actually pretty hard to find "action" in the GTA games, unless you actually follow the missions, or deliberately go out and cause trouble. And that's my main problem with the game; you don't really run into enemies until you encounter them in a story mission, or cause enough mayhem to get the cops after you. There's very little risk or danger otherwise, it's just boring as hell, like real life. GTA would be much more fun if all the pedestrians carried weapons and were actively trying to kill you, or if other people driving around were trying to total your car.
f**k it, they should just make a Carmageddon game where you can get out of your car and shoot guns at people. Then, I'll have my dream "GTA" experience.
Think GTA V was exactly a counter to this issue.
I agree nothing actually happens unless you follow the missions or cause mayhem yourself.
However I almost always found mindless mayhem to also be very boring and mostly followed the missions on GTA.
Sometimes I'd cause rampages of course and see how long I'd last.
Anyway, GTA V has the random events, a variety of diverse collectibles, and other kinds of side-quests (and also the hobbies, but who actually enjoyed any of that stuff? I only did friend activities in GTA IV unless I had to, browsing in-game internet was pretty fun though).
There's also I've noticed random events in GTA V that are NOT missions.
As in, like, (my step-dad discovered this one) he was out in the wilderness and on top of a mountain was 2 cops, a car and a civilian. Another time, in the same spot, he found a cop burying something with a shovel.
It's these kind of random things popping up in the game that also kept things interesting. Random people in the middle of nowhere and other kinds of stuff.
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