What Other Developers Should Learn From GTA

NowGamer: Veteran games developer Howard Scott Warshaw's latest column highlights what other developers could and should learn from Rockstar's seminal sandbox game.

"I'm still bugged when people pick out Grand Theft Auto as an example of what's wrong with video games. Let's discuss how GTA III and Vice City represent what's right about video games. Most game players and all game makers can learn a lot from GTA."

[nickjkl]

strip clubs?

[GWAVE]

No.

Sub-par graphics, average storylines, gratuitous violence, and wonky physics.

And then magically convincing the media that it's a 10/10 game.

THAT is what other devs could learn from GTA.

[writersblock]

GTA 4's graphics were some of the best at the time
GTA 4's storyline was...better. Improved at least.
Fuck yeah, want to kill that hooker with a baseball bat, run her over a few times then take my money back
Cars dont stick to roads

Im tired of all the GTA 4 bashing. Most people are just pissed they didnt get jetpacks and shit to mess around with, but still demand realism

[nickjkl]

gta4 was so awesome if my 360 didnt rrod i would still be playing it

[doshey]

What other developer should learn from GTA is not to take away extras that made GTA so much fun when it was on ps2. WHERE THE F@#K were the planes and jetpacks, i only bought GTA IV cause i thought it would be like SA wwith new story, and all those fun extras from SA

[Feckles]

Hopefully Rockstar will stop trying to make 'art' and be content to make a 'toy box' with GTA V. Plz go back and realise what was so great about the PS2 games. Thx.

[Darkstorn]

Can't they try for both? The biting social commentary on the radio and television in GTA IV was one of the best aspects of the game (for me, at least).

[Alos88]

Rockster do excellent tutorials, often unobtrusive things you find in the first few mission as to being separate hurdles to jump over to get to the real game.

[Thecraft1989]

not take the fun stuff out of your franchise for the sake of bit realism GTA IV with the all stuff off San Andreas would be the best game this generation Instead its biggest let down of this generation.

[Xx Ziyad xX]

coffee sex ?

[N2G]

how to put more effort into making games.

oh & have some sense of humor in the game. lol

[SuperStrokey1123]

That less than stellar games can ride the success of previous gens games that were more impressive as long as they have an incredibly huge marketing budget to go with it?

Is that what we want them to learn?

[Rybakov]

what to avoid from having there game be just as retarted

[Surkov]

embarrassed for you.

[Rybakov]

why cause i like good games? not lets teach children how to beat women take drugs and inhuman

[writersblock]

You take inhuman?
We need to teach our kids how to write :P

But seriously, the violence is what MAKES that game. I didn't buy GTA for a story or graphics. I bought it to blow up cars, go on police chases and mow down civilians. Anybody who bought it saying otherwise is kidding themselves, since the series is named after a crime

[Surkov]

I was actually more embarrassed by the fact you can't even spell "retarded".

[MadMan00]

I say learn from Red Dead Redemption after actually playing it'snot as much as a copy and paste as GTA, it's actually A LOT different.