Novigrad has nothing on Los Santos

Novigrad has nothing on Los Santos
The detail is unmatched

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I wholeheartedly disagree, whether you're meme'ing or not.

someone fucking explain to me why red dead redemption, or even max payne 3 look more aesthetically pleasing than gta v? while gta v looks like a good looking pixar film.

something that can be "fixed" with mods?

i just can't fucking figure out what makes it looks so "off" compared to their other games

GTAs aesthetic has always been cartoony in comparison to Max Payne and RDR.

People forget that GTA is set in what is essentially a cartoon of the modern United States while Max Payne and Red Dead Redemption are much more grounded takes on reality.

Good graphics, plain environment? Max Payne 3 did have modern day environments but set in exotic locations (Brazil) or even its cemetery was kind of artistic.

GTA IV's aesthetic's weren't like this. RDR and MP3 built on the aesthetic's that IV had.

The hoboken parts (cemetery, bar) weren't that exotic.

But what exactly is it? Is it the lighting? The colors? The textures or lack of detail?

Artsyle
Vice City, San Andreas and V look goofy because of the setting

what am I looking at here?

Chromatic aberration.

Normally when a person strongly disagrees with something that person states the reasons about why the disagreement is present.

yeah and GTAIV was shit

I forgot how fucking shit Payday's graphics were, jesus

GTA V is shit to be quite honest famiglia. The art style, the details, nothing comes close to what RDR did years prior. In fact, you can see most of the underlying tech in GTA V was stolen from San Diego's branch of RAGE that they built and used in RDR. The lighting system, the shadows, the cloud and skybox, the water affecting cloth shader. Even the way vegetation geometry bends and flexes around the player is a 1:1 rip from RDR.

Yet the game was made by North, and failed to achieve the level of detail and design that San Diego achieved. It's a shallow, plastic shell of a game. Faker than the supposed Hollywood tits they joke about so much.

>yfw GTAIV looks better than GTAV

fake

rockdrone

Actually modded

It also fucking works, with a good rig you can get GTA IV to look this good at silky smooth 60 fps

>Max Payne ... more grounded takes on reality
I'm not really sure why they decided a "much more grounded take on reality" would be the best way to build a fucking Max Payne game.

I think I got higher fps in V than IV unmodded.

>Yet the game was made by North, and failed to achieve the level of detail and design that San Diego achieved
what are you on about ? gta 5 uses a upgraded version of RAGE, the next RDR will use the same shitty version

>the next RDR
I've got bad news user

>gta 5 uses a upgraded version of RAGE, the next RDR will use the same shitty version
What? No it won't you retard, Rockstar San Diego is home to the RAGE technology group. It will almost certainly take advantage of features GTA V lacks like physically based materials, compute shaders, etc.

Has anyone tried the rdr and mp3 physics mod?

It's a subtle effect, and even with it removed the artstyle/aesthetics that Vanilla V has are still present.

>It will almost certainly take advantage of features GTA V lacks like physically based materials, compute shaders, etc.
Off course they will you fuckwit
GTA is set in a city and RDR not, the next RDR will definitely look better because its not so CPU heavy like GTA 5

why do they always post this same picture and nothing else. post more from the same mod pls

GTA V is still very new to the modding scene on the pc in comparison to GTA IV's lifespan. Give it time and you will see improvements on that screenshot just as you had with GTA IV. I do prefer the feeling of GTA IV's engine overall though.

>stolen
they're the same company within specific divisions of Rockstar

if a want a fucking 21st century fucking city i can just walk outside you piece of shit, fuck you

Here's a video
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GTAV is still getting updates. Mods really started taking off on GTA4 when R* stopped updating it. this allowed them to not have to constantly update their mods to keep up with the game and mods could actually and readily be fixed and maintained for compatibility

>the next RDR will use the same shitty version
>no, it will use a different version
>Off course they will you fuckwit
kys

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Very true.

Yeah and then IV's modding scene fucking bit the dust hard when V came out.

All we got were graphics mods, and a couple fixes (bullet spread and sprint fix) for GTA IV. Some super hero mods but whatever. Nothing you could add to the base game to improve your next playthrough, or to improve freeroam after the story.

>red dead redemption
>firing a rifle with one hand behind you while moving at 50mph on horseback
>Grounded in Reality

>>firing a rifle with one hand behind you
That doesn't happen

It appears to be a screenshot from the popular open world video game Grand Theft Auto V. Any other questions?

>no city has felt as "alive" as GTA IV Liberty since

I know alive in a buzzword, but IV had nice touches like people being pulled over, gang fights, etc
V doesn't even have cops patrolling

>posts a pic with chromatic aberration

for what reason?

perfect example of someone looking like a fucking retard here.
we're talking about the aesthetics of the game's visuals. nowhere did i talk about the gameplay mechanics being grounded in reality, champ

That's normal, GTA IV isn't even able to utilize neither the gpu nor cpu at 100%

Imagine Vice City (as the whole game in the 80's) running on that

I expect a new GTA to be made for current gen from the ground up and look much better

>posts a pic without anisotropic filtering

for what purpose?

lol yeah :s

I'm totally retarded; I always see people running ENBs of GTA IV at 60 FPS on low shadows with everything running perfect, yet when I play GTA IV on my 770 the framerate is constantly shitting itself? I understand that a 770's not exactly high-end anymore, but the game came out in 2008 for fucks sake. Is this a thing where it runs on AMD cards great and shit on Nvidia?

what are your settings?

I don't remember my exact settings (haven't played it since a few years ago), but it was usually shadows off, around 40 or so on draw distance/vehicle density, all low for everything water related, and medium-high on other things such as AA. Still had major frame drops throughout, never a constant 60.

It was the same way on my previous computer which had a 560 installed.

They tried too hard to make so many diverse areas in the city that every "unique" part of the city is maybe 2-3 blocks big.

Game should've revolved around Franklin and basically been SA2.0.

No, it runs even worse on AMD. It's just a horribly optimized port. But some of today's top hardware can brute force it to run acceptably.

You have to bump your settings up a bit, so that way the game realizes it needs to not fucking put shit on the CPU, and instead utilize the GPU. I have an i5-4690 and used to have a 770. I would max out all the settings IV had but keep the detail distances at 35, and vehicle density at 100. 50-60FPS.

forgot to add, utilize these two launch commands

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict

GTA IV is the most orthodox in the series, I wouldn't really call it a standard GTA game.

>max payne 3 look more aesthetically pleasing than gta v? while gta v looks like a good looking pixar film.
Pixar films are aesthetically pleasing you fucking retard they literally pay people millions to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible meanwhile what the fuck are you doing? Oh yeah, shitposting on Sup Forums as usual. Fucking kys.

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Still, I liked the direction that IV, RDR, and MP3 were going with the RAGE engine's visuals.

Maybe gain some reading comprehension you fucking retard.
>while gta v looks like a good looking pixar film
>a good looking pixar film
>good looking pixar film
>good looking
you catching on now inbred?

in the context of my post i prefer the aesthetics that the other games had, as opposed to the one V went in. nowhere did I say or imply that V was bad looking. stop getting triggered over stupid shit

I'm getting paid a six figure salary to draw fucking FUR on the next big furry cumslut and what the FUCK are you doing? Oh yeah shitposting as usual.

>middle of the day
>near empty streets
>no pedestrians

>those framedrops

wow

All pixar films are inherently good looking you fucking IDIOT. Who the FUCK do you think you are to assume I can't read when it's very clear you have the viewpoint of a fucking frog that's been stepped on. "hur hur brown everywhere with shit screen effects is way better than a pixar film". Just fucking END your miserable life.

Hello my contrarian friend, I too love to browse Reddit™.

It would have helped if we got more than one city like in SA, they could have made stuff more unique and less pointlessly boring and far apart. I would have traded 70% of that wilderness and the small town way up north for a smaller Los Santos and a decent sized San Fierro.

The story is unfocused af though, and Franklin was the most pointless character. It should have been about
A) Mike and Franklin developing a father-son/master-apprentice relationship, keeping Trevor as the main antagonist
B) Mike and Trevor dealing with the past and have mo Franklin at all

simmer down pal. simmer down

>I too love to browse Reddit™
Yeah, we all know, seeing as you sing high praises of a shit game with a black lead.

That's not true, the cops patrol around South Central Los Santos especially, and also the area around the impound lot and the Ammu Nation with range. Also, one of the random events is a cop chasing another car, eventually stopping, and engaging the occupants in a shootout. GTA 5 has its flaws but a lack of police is not one of them.

No need to be upset, friendo. Your Reddit™ popularity points have already been transferred to your account.

;)

tbqh you've gotta try a bit harder

The amount of detail is irrelevant compared with shit like quest design and gameplay mechanics which happen to be also complete shit on The Witcher 3.

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something about this is actually migraine triggering

they used to patrol rarely, but it got fucked up in an update IIRC

the chance of them spawning was 1%, which makes sense if you think about it. you don't see cops too often. not like in NYC where they're on every block.

but one update changed it to 0.

>a game about crime
>has a black lead who is a criminal and leads a gang of black people who commit crime like blacks are known to
>this somehow offends racists
I don't understand!

see

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Oh so you're one of those "you are a le cuck because this game has a black guy and you approve it!" kids, I see.
Glad you just showed me you're retarded so I don't have to waste my time.

If the buildings weren't so flat looking it would be perfect

LOOOOL

Which one? I played it on last gen, and the event I described happened pretty much every time I drove around that area. It even happened in areas that weren't close to any sort of police station. Also, my description of the shootout as a "random event" is erroneous because it just happens naturally in the world; there's no blue dot that pops up on your map when it happens. Did they really change it?

>all that detail with nothing to do

Reminds me of L.A. More and Mafia 2.

the random car chases still happen, but their spawn chance in the popcycle.dat was changed. i can't remember which edition of the game it was. there should be a thread on GTAForums about it if i can find it

Reminder that Red Dead Redemption had horrible horse controls and lackluster gunplay while Max Payne was nothing but a boring linear shooter.

Gotta agree. But then again, Sup Forums won't, they liked SA which had the flattest world in any game.

>smug anime girl
Opinion discarded

San Andreas world was flat for the most part but every location was memorable. RDR and GTAV got so large that they started feeling empty and repetitive despite the fact that the level of detail was increased.

But San Andreas is also dated as fuck.

>every location was memorable
i dont think so tbqh, i can barely remember locations but i can still remember plenty of (non major) areas in every gta since 3

>child complaining about anime

>dated as fuck


underage

Novigrad is more reactive to in-game story events, has more memorable landmarks, a more diverse color palette, more enterable buildings, clearer district distinctions, more and more meaningful gang presence, more coherent and engrossing npc interactions, better crowd mechanics, a greater degree of verticality and layering with a fully explorable sewer system, more unique and detailed architecture, less empty useless space, better sound design, and more documented and implicit history.

TL;DR Novigrad is a better realized and more convincing metropolitan facsimile than LS. LS is a sandbox. Novigrad is a character. Beauclair is better than both.

This tbqh whats fun about seeing something on screen that you see everyday anyway.
Witcher 3 had some nice envirobments though espeically the swamps were spooky.

Hi /r/eddit! It's nice to see you still love posting here. Just because people don't suck your dick and praise a shit game, doesn't mean they're underaged! Objectively it's dated and also shit. When's the last time you even played it?

Nostalgia is one helluva drug. That's for sure.

The correct point to make is that the driving and shooting mechanics in San Andreas were already shitty back in 2004. A lot of the quests were notoriously bad too.

And if I wanted to see mutants I would have just visited your house.

Too bad the gameplay in The Witcher 3 is complete shit and I dropped the game before getting to Novigrad.

Novigrad is basically Franklin, forgettable and boring.

San Andreas had four major locations that are very easy to remember. GTAV is very derivative of that map too.

Better than nothing.

Barely

No wonder both SA and V are forgettable.

I played it again around 2 months ago, and while the controls and AI definitely suck, the shootouts themselves are still enjoyable, especially when you can exploit the AI to your advantage. The story, though it's fairly conventional for a hood flick and suffers with pacing issues especially later on, still holds up because of its ensemble of villains, and the meaningful rewards given after the main missions and side activities are motivation enough to keep you playing. Overall, it has definitely aged a bit, but not nearly as much as, say, Vice City, and it's still a great game in my opinion.

You wanted an explanation, you got it. Don't be so salty.