[73duster]

I was just looking over the screenshot with the helicopter over Los Santos, and after spotting the building that is under construction, i thought "I wonder if at some point during the game, the construction will actually be complete?". This would CERTAINLY be considered something ambitious. Perhaps we could see several things within the map that would change over time, at least throughout the single player campaign.
Imagine having a mission or two, where you had some kind of interaction with a place that would later be dompletely different. For example, early in the game, that condominium which is under construction would play a role in some early mission, then later in the game, when construction is complete, you could then purchase an apartment in the top of that condo.
There could be OTHER scenarios where places on the map could change as well.
What do you guys think?

[kesta195]

Yes it's definitely possible, many games have done this, such as SR3.

[Masterfocker]

Only after a mission or cutscene. Not while you're standing there or anything

[huevos_benedicto_180]

Yeah this is something cool that I'd like to see. We have sort of seen something close to it in the Ballad of Gay Tony, where the crane is intact and is then broken after the explosion. I'd love to see that expanded to multiple levels of progress with a complicated building, though.

[Narcis_speed6]

QUOTE (kesta195 @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 19:56)

Yes it's definitely possible, many games have done this, such as SR3.

They did it in both III and LCS.

[ezeekaY]

Yup like the broken bridge.....

[Dragonjack]

I'm not sure about this one though seems possible to. Question is will this affect the Xbox 360s limts?

[Revolution-XW]

This gave me an idea, having few missions to maybe inspire you at the beginning of the game: Having a few missions in some of those buildings who are completed and have a lot of decorations and a lot of people in suits working and a friend brings you there to talk to you about the city and maybe offers you jobs or something like that to INSPIRE you at the start. IMO wouldn't be a bad idea.

[Irviding]

QUOTE (Dragonjack @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 17:24)

I'm not sure about this one though seems possible to. Question is will this affect the Xbox 360s limts?

No because things like this happened in III on the PS2 and regular Xbox... this is not a new gaming concept.

[Sgt. Foley]

QUOTE (73duster @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 19:49)

I was just looking over the screenshot with the helicopter over Los Santos, and after spotting the building that is under construction, i thought "I wonder if at some point during the game, the construction will actually be complete?". This would CERTAINLY be considered something ambitious.

This ^

I remember in GTA IV on the first island there was a little construction site next to a gas station. The gas station and the construction site were near the first Pay N' Spray. That site looked the same every time...

[kid23455]

I'm sure that it'll be there in some way or another, in every GTA certain small things have changed in game world, but big things...I can't really think of anything off the top of my head.

[Johacamigames]

QUOTE (Dragonjack @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 17:24)

I'm not sure about this one though seems possible to. Question is will this affect the Xbox 360s limts?

I doubt it seeing as Liberty City Stories had this and it was on the PSP/PS2

[Starz]

That'd be quite cool. It'd add a lot of realism to the game.

[73duster]

Gee, i guess my memory really sucks, because i can't remember anything that really stood out in the examples mentioned above. In GTAIII, i do remember the bridge in the beginning, but i can't find anything about it where i realized that there was a major change. I guess what i want to see is something with MORE of an impact.

[uprising]

maybe we will be able to restorate/buy buildings like in Assassin's creed brotherhoood

[mvega0422]

Well here's the thing: sure they can do it, it's been done in many many video games, but not in real-time. It's simple to switch a broken bridge into a functional one. What really probably isn't possible right now is for the building to actually be built as you stand there and watch. I'd say there's no way of them doing that, but yeah that mile high club could be finished by the end of the game or after a mission or something.

[73duster]

QUOTE (mvega0422 @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 22:09)

Well here's the thing: sure they can do it, it's been done in many many video games, but not in real-time. It's simple to switch a broken bridge into a functional one. What really probably isn't possible right now is for the building to actually be built as you stand there and watch. I'd say there's no way of them doing that, but yeah that mile high club could be finished by the end of the game or after a mission or something.

I wouldn't expect to stand and watch in "real time", because you can't really see noticeable progress on a construction site in the real world anyway. You could only notice major changes through time lapse photography. It would be cool however, to see some changes as you go through that area at certain points in the game. Perhaps in quarterly increments, like have the building in 4 different stages, from the beginning of the game, until the end.

[Honest Bill]

I can definitely see there being plots of land available which you can buy and develop whatever you like on there.. Like a weed farm or an airstrip or whatever.. Perhaps you can pay construction companies to build things for you, even your own houses or whatever you can think of.

You could add bits to it which would unlock progressively as you did missions related to that business or safehouse.

[theworldfamous]

QUOTE (73duster @ Monday, Aug 6 2012, 19:49)

I was just looking over the screenshot with the helicopter over Los Santos, and after spotting the building that is under construction, i thought "I wonder if at some point during the game, the construction will actually be complete?". This would CERTAINLY be considered something ambitious. Perhaps we could see several things within the map that would change over time, at least throughout the single player campaign.

It's definitely possible. All it means technically is swapping out the models every few missions or so. That's the cheapest way to do it, anyway. Unless you want actual building going on, which would be like a pre-animated cutscene placed in the world. Technically not difficult to do, just a lot of work doing the animations for. At this point it's a little over-ambitious but for next gen it's a logical next step for open world games.

I don't think V is gonna have it also because it doesn't really play into the concept of the game, because not a lot of time passes in a GTA story. The protagonist doesn't get significantly older and the game is all about immediacy. It's much better suited to the story in a game like Mafia that tries to tell a longer history.

[krspkbl]

I hated that about the games. The whole "Sorry, there's a storm/terrorists, can't go there!". I want to be able to explore the entire map straight away.