It's essentially GTA San Andreas 2.0 and brought back whackiness and humor full on after everyone hated the direction they took with GTA 4.

I didn't hate GTA4. In fact, the GTA 4 "minisaga" (4+Episodes of LC) is my favourite moment of the saga. I loved GTA SA and the times I had with it were even better because everything that had to do with massive or open world games was better when the internet and let's plays weren't AS ubiquitous... but the writing and the way it presented the story, etc. even if it fit with the crazyness of it all was not as matured as in GTA4. I'm waiting for GTA5 (and for being able to afford a PC that can run it) as much as the next guy, but some things that I've heard or seen of it are to me a step backwards: in writing with what they did with Johnny Klebitz and Ashley, in gameplay with apparently very low difficulty, the ability to hoard every fucking weapon and tilting cars that have gone upside down... those things really break the element of simulation, and the balance of planning and improvisation that GTA used to be really good at.

I don't hate GTA 4 either. I do hate GTA 3 for being painfully dated especially on the PS2.

I've never agreed with this. A delayed game has only potential to turn good, but delaying game doesn't automatically lead into a good end result.

Any Example thats not Duke Nukem Forever?

Too Human

Daikatana.

lol doesn't really bother me. I'm more surprised about the fact that an old game is sold at €60/60$. Guess I'll have to wait another year for a price drop xD

Upscaling graphics of an old game and selling it at at full price is a malpractice yet publishers get away with it due to fanboyism >:[

Ultima 9 (5 years)
Star Trek Online (around 6 years)

Sure, there's games that ale long in the development and manage to turn out okay, or even great, but long dev cycle isn't an automatic answer to how to turn a troubled game into a a great one. And a lot of those games with long developement times end up being very different from what it was originally visioned as.

But the diffrerence is between those games and GTA 5 PC is that this is a port to PC.

Not a built from scratch game.

You're saying it like GTA series would have been smooth sailing to PC. Though I'd figure delaying the release until they get all the kinks ironed out would do only good for their image, especially if the game runs great right from the bat.

:D
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Then it's even more of a no-contest as Skyrim has over 39k mods and still growing. From the 52 categories available on the Nexus, only 16 don't have a new mod since the beginning of March 2015 - which is just 4 days old.

I'm not trying to down-play the effort modders put into GTA, but really don't see Rockstar among the supporters of modding - they simply tolerate it.
If I would check the 210 Game entries on the Steam workshop and place (any) GTA correctly.... I doubt they make Top100. :D

Wow, graphic engineer! Don't mind for a photo, sir? Skeletonbow on a medium tank, that would be a picture!

Regarding trailer. Funniest part is that I don't study games, or trailers, or movies, or books. Generally, at least. I simply watch, play, or read media, until something, conflicting with my "accumulated knowledge database" occurs, then I memorize it, and continue watching, playing, reading. If there were few those "attention grabbers", I can ignore them, after all, we all making mistakes, but if there are too many of them, it depends. Either we have something mind-blowing as "Usual Suspects", which is rare, sadly, or, more often, it's simply truckload of errors and goofs, like those found on IMDB. Again, to each his own, but for me these errors generally break narrative, and I don't really like them.

Games and trailers wise, I do not study visuals mostly because my monitor is rather small, so I can't meticulously check and compare every pixel on the screen and... *scratches head* how do we measure sound, in decibels? Nuh, sounds stupid. Anyway, I don't research them, it is either something catching my attention, or not. In case of Witcher 3 trailer grass was obvious, shadowing and lighting were not, but something felt wrong. That's all.

Sorry for cropping it this way, but you really think we'll be able to update infrastructure to support 4K to 2020? Seems barely possible, outside of few highly developed hubs.

I concur completely, I wouldn't mind Witcher 3 looking as Witcher 2, even if it does looked like it (a bit less impressive on recent batch of images). After all, despite age Witcher 2 still looks amazing. He-he, even Witcher 1 looks better than some modern games, or games released after it.
I don't want to badmouth CDPR programmers, they constantly improving their work, unlike programmers from other, "industry leading studios", but I'm not sure even upgraded engine will be able to process "open world" on same hardware, with same graphics as Witcher 2. Although it's you who is graphic engineer, not me, and you should know better, I don't think reducing textures' resolution will help greatly. After all, Skyrim's geometry was far from stellar, and Witcher 2 models are far more detailed. And honestly, I like it that way - we had more than enough years of mediocre graphics, thanks to past-gen consoles. Changing LOD system to fit less powerful PC may be a way too time-consuming task for CDPR, as they have only couple of months, as of now.

True, but they release videos to show us what they've done (Linkin park's tune zooms in:)), so we could appraise their work and approximate it to our experience. In this case - I clearly do not like what I see, in terms of combat flow. The rest seems to be close to Witcher 2, which is fine, I guess. Though I still prefer ArmA series precision, in terms of maps and navigation. :D Horse with GPS is fine, but navigating using only starlight and star map is a beauty of it's own.

High five, mate. o/
Seriously, those are my main complains to "cross-platform".
As for "one button" stuff:

Sure, but there is difference between pausing game occasionally in really deserving moments, be that brain-stopping situation, or simply wonderful disposition, worthy of admiration, and between basically forced .gif-show, when you have to pause game frequently, just to be able to issue orders. I don't know how and why, but in ArmA series I can normally play and issue orders to AI subordinates in real time with little problems regarding time and precision, yet in some console ports I have to pause game frequently to command just two team-mates. In real-time it's nearly impossible to give clear order - miss a pixel and team-mate will charge in melee instead of firing or using ability. Come on, in ArmA you can have dozens of people under your command. Famous console gaming experience and usability? Eh, somehow I don't find this attractive.

Couldn't express this better myself: if I'm doing flamingo dance and saved mid-air, I want to be able to load game while mid-air of same flamingo dance, not in safe-house or near radio tower, Ubisoft.
Though I still prefer naming my saved games. Despite many issues, Wasteland 2 did this right - it has auto-saves, it has named saves, and it names them for you, if you're lazy, but allows you customize them if you want.

And if games could keep their saves outside of My Documents folder, that would be great. Because that folder on my gaming OS looks like BF4 patch notes list, seriously. Mostly every damn game creates unique folder there, avoiding My games, Saved Games, or even Savedgames folders. Come on, seriously?