Current Events > Grand Theft Auto San Andreas's map feels bigger than V's to me.

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Having three cities makes it feel like the bigger, more varied map too me. >_>
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Isn't it legit bigger
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Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

It's legit far tinier than V's.
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Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

Yes
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you can circle the whole map in like, what, 10 minutes?
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hockeybub89 posted...

Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

It's legit far tinier than V's.

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I find Saints Row II and Watch_Dorks to be more fun than GTAV (only gta I've played). I like GTA V when it's raining in the night in-game and I just drive around, that's super soothing, but besides that I don't get a lot out of it.
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San Andreas is still the best. Loved that game.
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Because they spent a ton of effort into differentiating the areas through both major and minor details rather than just having the majority of the map be an empty desert
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I thought someone did a comparison and V's is indeed the larger map.

I'm just saying SA's layout and variety makes it feel bigger.
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chill02 posted...

you can circle the whole map in like, what, 10 minutes?

14 or so because the game rendering rate starts to whack out when you are at full speed and get from the country to a big city, and the desert in general has so many empty patches that for whatever reason cause the game to slow. :/ Might be better in the PC version
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Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

The whole map of SA doesn't even fill Los Santos in V.
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CarlGrimes posted...

Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

The whole map of SA doesn't even fill Los Santos in V.

Really? That feels so wrong, but it's probably right. >_>
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LanHikari10 posted...

CarlGrimes posted...

Tropicalwood posted...

Isn't it legit bigger

The whole map of SA doesn't even fill Los Santos in V.

Really? That feels so wrong, but it's probably right. >_>

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--n11XJ6MA--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xml8cvaabd5dorg0umd4.jpg
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Too bad the fun factor wasn't as big in V as it was in SA.
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It's probably presentation and perspective. A lot of GTA V is more or less meaningless. Back when open world maps were smaller they had more attention to making it interesting so that you're engaged. SR2 districts is a good example of that. There's also likely that draw distance is lower in San Andreas. Those two effects is why a tiny game like Morrowind feels as big as Skyrim.
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Doe posted...

It's probably presentation and perspective. A lot of GTA V is more or less meaningless. Back when open world maps were smaller they had more attention to making it interesting so that you're engaged. SR2 districts is a good example of that. There's also likely that draw distance is lower in San Andreas. Those two effects is why a tiny game like Morrowind feels as big as Skyrim.

Yeah and that's what I kinda mean with how the variety and whatnot of SA makes it feel bigger compared to V.
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When I first played 5 I thought San andreas had a bigger map, but after playing thru 5 several times and then going back to San Andreas it's obvious the cities are much smaller and the map overall isn't that big. Hell, just fly around the map in SA. it doesn't take long to go from airport to airport.
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It's not. I just replayed San Andreas so I can say this with certainty.

I wouldn't say that San Andreas is *much* smaller, but it is. The thing is though, San Andreas gets a lot more use out of the map than GTA V does. San Andreas packs a lost more into a tiny space, where as GTA V is filled with huge open spaces that have almost no use.

Also, another problem is that GTA V's recent vehicle (flying rocket motorcycle and flying deluxo) editions have made travel across the wide open spaces super easy and faster which makes the GTA V map feel smaller now.
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