The fridge in the safehouse tells you everything about what kind of game this is
You can open the fridge. You can change the TV channel. You can smoke. You can shave your own head badly instead of going to a barber. None of that is content....
Locations questions and discussions
Vice City, the keys, and everywhere else worth driving to. Spoilers stay sealed until you ask for them.
The Keys are going to be the most underrated part of this map and I will die on this hill
Everyone is looking at the Vice City skyline. Fine. But the thing that got me was the water between the Keys islands. Rockstar's own writeup calls those waters...
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the colour grading changes by region and I think I can show it
pulled stills from each identifiable area and compared the histograms. the city sections sit warmer with crushed shadows and a lot of magenta in the highlights....
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the wet road reflections are doing something clever and it is not what people think
everyone is saying ray tracing. maybe. but the thing that actually makes it read is that the reflections are broken up correctly. wet asphalt is not a mirror, i...
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the night footage looks like a different game and I mean that as a compliment
daytime is all haze and bleached concrete and that flat florida light. at night the whole palette flips. wet asphalt, sodium streetlights, neon reflecting off e...
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the last thing I noticed and then I am putting it away until launch
the sun is in the wrong place for the time of day in two shots and it is deliberate. the shadows in the ocean beach section are longer than the sky colour sugge...
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Port investigation, week one summary
Findings to date. The terminal building has interior lighting through glass. Confirmed by two people. There are at least two vessels and one is considerably lar...
Was that an actual working zoo
There is a zoo in the activity montage and I have not seen anyone talk about it. A zoo is a strange thing to build. It is a pedestrian area full of animals with...
the club interior is the best looking thing in the whole showing and nobody agrees with me
everyone is posting the beach and the sunset stuff. fine. gorgeous. but the club is doing something much harder low light, coloured light from four directions,...
Has anyone got a cleaner frame of the night street
The wet road section. I have pulled everything I can from the available capture and the reflections break up in a way I want to look at properly and cannot. Spe...
Has anyone gone back and looked properly at the port section
Asking in a professional capacity again. The port appears briefly and there is more in the background of that sequence than in most of the rest of the footage c...
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In defense of the sad parts of the map
Everyone wants to live in Ocean Beach. Nobody wants to admit the best hours you will spend in this game are in a dead strip mall parking lot in Port Gellhorn at...
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Ambrosia is the only region with an actual industry and nobody has said a word about it
Allied Crystal is a sugar refinery. That is a real Florida thing, big agricultural sugar operations inland, and Rockstar put a biker gang next to it. Refinery p...
Is hunting in Mount Kalaga a real system or set dressing
Coming at this from RDR2 rather than GTA. In that game hunting had pelts, quality tiers, a whole crafting chain, and it changed how you moved through the world....