Did anyone catch what was playing inside the shop
There is a store interior and there is music in it, quieter and more compressed than the car radio, the way music sounds in an actual shop. I cannot place the t...
Locations questions and discussions
Vice City, the keys, and everywhere else worth driving to. Spoilers stay sealed until you ask for them.
Ocean Beach in daylight is not what I expected and I mean that as a compliment
I had built up a picture over three years of what a modern Ocean Beach would look like and I had it wrong. I was expecting the 2002 palette with better lighting...
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In defence of driving for eleven minutes and doing nothing
The complaint about big maps is always that there is nothing to do out there. I want to argue that nothing to do out there is the feature. The reason Blaine Cou...
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Every Rockstar map has one region that becomes everyone's favourite by accident
Nobody planned for Blaine County to be the part of GTA V people remember. The marketing was all skyline. What people actually did was drive out past the wind fa...
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Nobody has asked the obvious question about the Keys
An island chain in real life is connected by bridges. Long ones, over open water, with nothing on either side. Every discussion of the Keys here has been about...
are airboats and fanboats two different things or the same thing twice
both words have turned up in coverage and i genuinely cannot tell if thats two vehicle types or two names for the same one. as someone who has been on both i ha...
has anyone worked out which causeway that is
there is a big bridge in two separate aerial shots and people keep saying its the same one. i am not convinced. the pylon spacing looks different and one of the...
What the 2002 Vice City got right that nothing since has matched
Not nostalgia for its own sake. Trying to name the actual thing. It was small. You could hold the whole map in your head after a week, and that meant every loca...
Where did the idea that the Keys are a small side area come from
It is repeated constantly and I cannot find the origin of it. The Keys are listed as one of six named regions, on equal footing with the city and the national p...
If you could only visit one region on the first day, which
For the newcomers group, framed as a game rather than as advice. You get day one. You can go to exactly one region and you have to stay there. Which do you pick...
has anyone actually asked whether there are hurricanes
someone raised weather months ago and it got a shrug. i want to ask the specific version. you cannot set a game in this state and not have the thing that define...
Little Cuba is going to be the best built district in the game
Rockstar's own description of it goes to bakeries. Not clubs, not crime, bakeries. They named a specific kind of shop in a two line region description. That tel...
little cuba, the bakeries, and why i will not shut up about it
somebody asked me why i keep bringing this up so here it is properly. when a game studio writes a neighbourhood description they usually reach for the thing tha...
A newcomer's guide to which region to actually be excited about
Written for the people who have joined recently and are getting six region names thrown at them with no context. Vice City is the city. It is what the game is c...
Is there sleeping or any kind of time skip
RDR2 let you sleep at camp and skip hours. V had a bed that saved and advanced time. With safehouses described as more involved this time, and a day cycle lengt...
Is wildlife region locked or is it everywhere
Alligators are in the wetlands and hunting is in the park. Both of those are stated. What I want to know is whether there are animals in the ordinary parts of t...
the mall, the film studio, and the other places i could walk to blindfolded
north point mall. the film studio. the airport. the mansion on the island. the club. i have not played that game in over a decade and i could draw you the route...
Is the national park where they would hide it
Following on from the mystery thread. If you were designing this map, where would you put the thing nobody solves for six years? My instinct says the park, beca...
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The county names are doing more work than the region names
Vice-Dale County and Kelly County are the two that have appeared on signage. Region names are chosen to sound evocative in marketing. County names are chosen to...
Is fishing a system or a minigame
Fishing is named as an activity in the park material. That is all we have. The distinction I care about is whether there are species, locations, conditions, and...