Some GTA IV statistics that blow me away

[Inspired BIke]

3.5 yrs in development (much more with pre-production)

1000+ people working. (from what I know this is a lot more than any other game. mass effect was like 300-400)

110 million dollars spent (30 or so mils more than any other game)


all of the dialogue and cutscenes and just plot (close to 1000 pages), were written by only 2 people, but mostly Dan Houser (while he also wrote all of the shit for the game Bully).

oh and it's sitting at 98% on gamerankings.


Grabbed from several articles I was reading around.

 

[Silas Ibrahimovic]

The sales figures are what blows me away.

 

[r_moreno361]

Good. I hope this makes developers start making massive high budget quality games instead of the crap that has been coming out lately.

 

[fuckawut89]

I agree.

Then again, there needs to be a talented brain behind all of this.

If you read Dan Houser's interviews. He decided to move away from tv shows and movies, and most of the inspiration was taken from books. Which he said helped him form a more complete character. Most of the people will be stamping characters with stereotypes a la Michael Bay.

Niko Bellic is definitely one of my favorite characters ever. If you care for the character you're controlling, that's special.

 

[Morganie]

I'm not surprised

 

[sdfgsdg]

Still after all that i was more impressed with Vice City

 

[stephsteph]

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[tredawg_69_69]

first impresssion wise, yes...hands down

and im not even including all the tech issues

 

[raingump]

I read a while ago that killzone 2 has a similar number of people working on it.

 

[Gracie D.]

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[II Zula II]

I hope developers take away from this that we, the gamers, want to spend $60 bucks on something that lasts more than 6-10 hours not including multi player.

R* gave us a huge single player game and awesome multi player.

 

[depoysterfanx]

vice city was flat as a pancake? the city was smaller then liberty in 3 it just had more beach and water... what does vice have that this doesnt

 

[carlysmith98]

flashy colors.

 

[Egyptian Kid]

A Flock of Seagulls.

 

[ShiMa fan]

time sqaure err the triangle?

 

[ValpoGrad]

custom soundtrack that shit son

 

[FoRgE]

flashy colors throughout the whole game.

 

[Kunmui]

ohOoohhhhh riightt

 

[dodgers]

Maybe they should've spent 3.6 years

 

[asu rocks]

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