[Senex Iunior]

QUOTE (monsterjamp @ Monday, Jul 2 2012, 18:36)

Makes me frown at all the potential that was tossed aside. I really hope most of these come back in GTA V.

...not wasted potential, more like useless features in Liberty City. Of the "features" on that list, the ones that were actually interesting or useful within reason are limited to:

-Bicycles
-Car modification
-Body and clothes customization
-Assets
-Swimming underwater
-Fun cheat codes

Huge map, unique vehicles, and wanted system were all in IV. Planes would be absolutely useless in Liberty City where half the city is composed of skyscrapers and where the city really had no open/"free" space like the desert, jetpacks would be extremely out-of-sync with the IV tone (but would make a good cheat code), the stat element in San Andreas sucked big time, was easily cheated, and was more of an inconvenience, dual wielding is unrealistic, a plane ticket to fly across a city is just about damn dumb, the crane is practically useless...

And so on and so forth. Most of those "features" were really unrealistic, really useless, or really unnecessary in the first place, let alone if they were carried over to IV. Admittedly, I would sell my soul to replace the sh*tty Friends system in IV with the riot codes, but anyone calling the crane a "feature" implies that it was useful in the first place. IV had its flaws, but so did SA. (That over-the-top BS would really, really wear thin on my nerves if Rockstar had done it with another game and begun to mimic its mentally-deficient clone, Saints Row. It was good for one game, and that's it... perhaps the same is also true of IV's hyper-realism. A healthy balance would be nice... insanity within reason. That's what I'm hoping for in V.)

This post has been edited by Senex Iunior on Tuesday, Jul 3 2012, 06:29

[sonnyBlack]

QUOTE (monsterjamp @ Monday, Jul 2 2012, 18:36)

Thx for the big list. I have a question though in IV can't you keep doing Vigilante by pressing "Current Crimes"?

Yes I was wrong. I was thinking of that Most Wanted side mission in IV.

[CJ killed Ryder]

QUOTE (Turbojohn @ Monday, Jul 2 2012, 09:42)

Cars explode when upside down...

That feature was annoying and unrealistic...

It made your car blow up too fast.

[monsterjamp]

Updated list. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a lot of unique vehicles ... I can't really remember all of them.

[ZoomZoom]

IV missed a lot of things that GTA SA had.

A huge map
A restricted area
parachutes
planes
and also CJ is the most customizable player

[Th3MaN1]

(Didn't read the whole topic)
-hiring GSF members
-The Tank+the SWAT tank
-A lot of restricted areas
-The fact that SA had 2 states to explore:San Andreas and Liberty City(I know LC in SA was made for a mission,and that there's no activity in LC at all,but still,you can explore it but only with cheats thou')
-Vehicle driving skill
-Minigun?(Probably not a feature,but still,SA had it)
That's all I could think of(for now)

[Senex Iunior]

QUOTE (ZoomZoom @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 00:33)

IV missed a lot of things that GTA SA had. A huge map A restricted area parachutes planes and also CJ is the most customizable player

IV's Liberty was a huge, living city, unlike the massive dead spaces in SA. LC felt more alive than the whole state of San Andreas...

The airport's runway was restricted, so... wut?

I already addressed why planes would be a colossally bad idea in IV in an above post, aside from a potential 9/11 controversy.

@Th3MaN1: As someone already said, TBOGT addressed a lot of the superfluous "features" that no one cared about when they were in SA. Parachutes, the APV, the M249 (not a Minigun, still THE BEST as far as weapons go though), and gaudiness were all redone. (OMG GOLD GUNZ R TEH SHT LOL) In fact, these "features" in TBOGT were drastically improved over their III era counterparts.

IV had two states, too: Alderney and Liberty... and Alderney could readily be accessed.

The skill system was just a useless, easily cheated waste of time.

[Th3MaN1]

QUOTE (Senex Iunior @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 11:25)

QUOTE (ZoomZoom @ Friday, Jul 6 2012, 00:33) IV missed a lot of things that GTA SA had. A huge map A restricted area parachutes planes and also CJ is the most customizable player  IV's Liberty was a huge, living city, unlike the massive dead spaces in SA. LC felt more alive than the whole state of San Andreas... The airport's runway was restricted, so... wut? I already addressed why planes would be a colossally bad idea in IV in an above post, aside from a potential 9/11 controversy. @Th3MaN1: As someone already said, TBOGT addressed a lot of the superfluous "features" that no one cared about when they were in SA. Parachutes, the APV, the M249 (not a Minigun, still THE BEST as far as weapons go though), and gaudiness were all redone. (OMG GOLD GUNZ R TEH SHT LOL) In fact, these "features" in TBOGT were drastically improved over their III era counterparts. IV had two states, too: Alderney and Liberty... and Alderney could readily be accessed. The skill system was just a useless, easily cheated waste of time.

Yeah but I took some time to scroll trough the entire topic,and this is about the original IV,not it's DLC's.But you're right,TBOGT had most of those.But i'm still missing the Hydra.

[zeezoo999]

QUOTE (Miamivicecity @ Sunday, Jul 1 2012, 15:09)

QUOTE (monsterjamp @ Sunday, Jul 1 2012, 07:39) Anyone know any features that I missed? A crappy, uniteresting story. That's certainly something from SA not present in GTA IV.

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[Turbojohn]

QUOTE (Miamivicecity @ Monday, Jul 2 2012, 23:42)

QUOTE (Turbojohn @ Monday, Jul 2 2012, 20:42) Says a guy with a GTA IV era pic as his profile pic... So what's your point? Even though I don't really like the story in SA that post was just a lighthearted dig. Opinions are a powerful thing . Anyway yeah in GTA IV you can keep doing Vigilante missions by pressing "current crimes".

LOL, ignore my coment, I misunderstood what you said. I thought you were saying that GTA IV had a crappy story.

[teroristVSgangster]

QUOTE (monsterjamp @ Saturday, Jun 30 2012, 15:47)

I never really had the time to play GTA SA much. When I did play it was at my friends house after IV was released. And it looked like IV lost a lot of features from SA. It would be cool if someone could list all the features SA had that IV didn't. I tried googling this but no one said the whole list I tried to search for a topic like this but couldn't find any. I am still finding about more and more features that SA has. List them all please I don't care if they are pointless or not. Edit: I'll Start Vehicles -Planes - -Hydra: Launch Missiles, Hover, Really Fast - -Most other planes: Good for stunts and cruising -Bicycles -Car Modifications - -Nitrous - -Cool Designs on Cars - -Variety of Rims -Drive Trains -Jetpacks -Functioning Airports - -Buy Plane Tickets - -Enter Without Cops on Your Back -Schools (The Fun Kind) - -Driving - -Flying - -Boating - -Motorcycle School -Unique Veichles - -Low Riders - -Tow Trucks - -Monster Trucks - -Trailers - -Go Kart - -Vortex - -Street Cleaners Things to spend your Money on/Ways to get money -Gambling - -Negative Money (Resulting in Loan Sharks Hunting you down) -Buying Property -Burglary Missions -Tattoos -Haircut -Side Missions - -Paramedic - -Firefighter - -Freight - -Trucking - -Pimping - -Quarry - -Courier - -Taxi Still Organizing -Stats - -Dual Wield Guns - -Get better accuracy - -Exercising - -Be fat - -Be muscular -Huge Map -Swim Underwater -Classic 3 Era Things - -Wanted System - -Cars auto explode when upside down. -Parachutes -A good variety of clothing -Fun Cheats - -Super Punches - -Riot Mode - -Jetpack -Stadium Events -Interactions - -Operate Cranes - -Talk to Peds

hooker get in to the car and do their "activity".....LoL