Map Size (Spoilers)

SV

Absolutely hilarious people saying it doesn't look big enough.
It has already been confirmed that it is the size of GTA IV, RDR and San Andreas combined and that it will took 1 hour REAL time to get around the coast driving...and people think by looking at a map without any sense of scale that they can say it looks small? Come on now, don't be silly.

joe316

sheehy83 wrote: »

Does John C Reilly's body look really weird in that pic, his upper body looks like its missing about half a foot and his legs look like twigs.

dave1982

I'm looking forward to dressing like Trevor in online and going in the woods waiting for dumbasses to wander into my territory.


I remember when GTA VI online I made friends with this random guy starting driving around the city with him, we came across another guy that wanted to join us.We'd stop pick him up cruise around for a while before executing him, funny thing was he kept coming back over and over lasted about a hour.Never once did he try to kill us


Oh I love online.

The One Who Knocks

Anyone else just dying to race along the coastal road in GTA Online with traffic turned off?

Zero-Cool

Yeah, I think that Coastal Road is gonna be a bit amazing.

SV

dave1982 wrote: »

I'm looking forward to dressing like Trevor in online and going in the woods waiting for dumbasses to wander into my territory.


I remember when GTA VI online I made friends with this random guy starting driving around the city with him, we came across another guy that wanted to join us.We'd stop pick him up cruise around for a while before executing him, funny thing was he kept coming back over and over lasted about a hour.Never once did he try to kill us


Oh I love online.

I think you're about 6 years or so ahead of your time

The One Who Knocks

I hated racing in gta iv, there was a turn every 2 seconds apart from the long stretch down algonquin,...can't wait to put a cheetah in top gear and not brake till the race is over.

krudler

Maps is too small? feck off

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Three-Impressive-GTA-V-Screenshots-Now-Available-2.jpg?1353136206

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-Gets-Many-New-Screenshots-3.jpg?1352462747

Kenno90

Cannot unsee

Zero-Cool

Man thats epic!

Nuri Sahin

Jamez735 wrote: »

I hated racing in gta iv, there was a turn every 2 seconds apart from the long stretch down algonquin,...can't wait to put a cheetah in top gear and not brake till the race is over.

The race at the airport was another one in IV.

I loved racing in IV, probably my favourite thing to do when playing online along with free roam, but as I've stressed before, I just hope the driving mechanics are not so drastically changed from IV to V. Also hope the respawning feature works a bit more quickly as at times in IV you had to hold the respawn button down far longer than other times.

donvito99

There appears to be a large NOOSE site on the eastern side of the map. I wonder what it is, but sounds sweet:cool:

shrewdness

This picture shows some of the aerial views from the trailers set on top of the map, it really puts the size of it into perspective imo, it's fooking massive.

Professional Griefer

Some dude compared V to SA's maps, this can't be right can it?



Link to the thread.

gnfnrhead

Could be. Think SA was only something like 13 miles x 13 miles.

Washington Irving

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Could be. Think SA was only something like 13 miles x 13 miles.

It was, and GTA V is meant to be 50 sq miles. So there's no way that map is to scale as the SA map looks a lot less than a quarter going by the above, even ignoring the surrounding oceans and Alamo Sea.

splashthecash

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Could be. Think SA was only something like 13 miles x 13 miles.

I dont think it is correct...there is big...and then there is too big.

SV

splashthecash wrote: »

I dont think it is correct...there is big...and then there is too big.

Add GTA IV and RDR map in there too and it'd fill it up.
I think that is correct tbh. It's going to be massive.

Kenjataimu

http://i.imgur.com/nnXzPXu.jpg

marcbrophy

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

:eek:

Oh no, I need to go change my underwear :pac:

All things considered, the city (not the map) is rather small. Small in the sense that I reckon they've accidentally managed to reverse people's problem with IV. Instead of having too much city and no forest/desert, they've now got too much forest and no city.

I won't argue the map as a whole is huge, but it's the city where you will spend the vast majority of your time, and I do get the feeling that after only an hour or two of skimming around the city you will know the layout fairly quickly (of course there'll always be the lanes and alleys that you figure out over time, but I'm talking about the actual roadways and such).


Admittedly, instead of using other maps and screenshots to get the scale, I'm just looking at the map and trying to apply a common sense rule of 'how big is a block between each junction' or 'how long would the average stretch of road be between each junction'.


No doubt there's a lot going to be crammed in there, but I do think it's going to be a bit lackluster after a couple of plays. If the maps where the San Andreas is imposed on top of the V map are to be believed to have accurate scale, you'd be driving for ages between each intersection. Whereas, in-game, from the speed we've seen cars travel, I'm sure that won't be the case).

Mr Benevolent

Deleted User wrote: »

All things considered, the city (not the map) is rather small. Small in the sense that I reckon they've accidentally managed to reverse people's problem with IV. Instead of having too much city and no forest/desert, they've now got too much forest and no city.

To be fair, the RDR terrain was mostly open country and that was a huge success.

SV

Looking at the maps of GTA IV and GTA V, assuming the airport in V is either the same size or bigger than IV then the size of the city in 5 is going to be the size of the entire IV map.

This is something I just chopped and changed around there to give an idea of how it may be if that San Andreas comparison is well off.

basically either way the city is going to be more than big enough if ya ask me.

jonnyfingers

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

To be fair, the RDR terrain was mostly open country and that was a huge success.

Exactly. As long as the story uses whatever space is available in the game it will be a success.

Cienciano

Deleted User wrote: »

All things considered, the city (not the map) is rather small. Small in the sense that I reckon they've accidentally managed to reverse people's problem with IV. Instead of having too much city and no forest/desert, they've now got too much forest and no city.

I won't argue the map as a whole is huge, but it's the city where you will spend the vast majority of your time, and I do get the feeling that after only an hour or two of skimming around the city you will know the layout fairly quickly (of course there'll always be the lanes and alleys that you figure out over time, but I'm talking about the actual roadways and such).


Admittedly, instead of using other maps and screenshots to get the scale, I'm just looking at the map and trying to apply a common sense rule of 'how big is a block between each junction' or 'how long would the average stretch of road be between each junction'.


No doubt there's a lot going to be crammed in there, but I do think it's going to be a bit lackluster after a couple of plays. If the maps where the San Andreas is imposed on top of the V map are to be believed to have accurate scale, you'd be driving for ages between each intersection. Whereas, in-game, from the speed we've seen cars travel, I'm sure that won't be the case).

"Small"? No way!


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Simply Red

Cienciano wrote: »

Holy fook :eek:

ronnie3585

Is it as big as Just Cause 2?

Mr Benevolent

I think I'm going to have to avoid the GTA forums/news/hype until I get the game. It's a bit like hyping up the chances of snow in an Irish winter - frustrating until you see it for yourself. Only difference is, GTA V WILL happen.

Until then, I'm out of here.

dave1982

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Post it in the proper Spoilers thread. This is only for discussion on the map size

face1990

Anyone else excited by how many parachute icons are on the map?