I really loved that in San Andreas, but I hated it in JC2. Sometimes it felt like you were flying a jet plane for 20 mins just to reach your destination in JC2. The San Andreas map was smaller, but much more detailed than JC2, I actually enjoyed driving the distances in SA and flying the Harrier or jet anywhere would take only 5 mins.

If GTA5 allowed you to hunt animals like in Red Dead Redemption.

San Andreas had some landscapes that were ABSOLUTELY PERFECT for animals!

But then again we might get donkeyladies, cougarmen, and flying people along with it. O_o

if you really think more space doesn't mean a bigger map and more content then you're just dumb. yeah those games might be bigger but with blu ray you can do far more then that. anyone with a brain would rather have a 50gig game over a 9gig game for the same price. plus there is no point in arguing over if dvd is enough anyways rockstar already said M$ has to find a solution for the space issuse if they want gta5 to work.

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@palaeomerus
if you really think more space doesn't mean a bigger map and more content then you're just dumb. yeah those games might be bigger but with blu ray you can do far more then that."

Except NOONE does. Not even in PS3 exclusive games. EVER WONDER WHY?

" anyone with a brain would rather have a 50gig game over a 9gig game for the same price."

Not if it doesn't mean more content. And often it frankly does not. 50 Gigs does not mean 50 gigs of content. Much of that is filler to increase streamability, marginally better sound, voice overs, movies, or other such things. It almost never means bigger textures (since the GPU and RAM can't actually handle that) bigger areas, more geometry(hardware can't handle it well), more stuff(takes too much time to make) or ANY of the other grandiose claims that were made for blu-ray.

About the only time it matters at all is when a game has multiple DVD's vs. one Blu-ray(minor convenience at best) or when someone like Square Enix does a rushed crappy port that looks significantly worse than most games for the 360 and has lots of empty space on the DVD's.

"plus there is no point in arguing over if dvd is enough anyways rockstar already said M$ has to find a solution for the space issuse if they want gta5 to work."

It POTENTIALLY MEANS a bigger map, but as you can see it HAS NOT ACTUALLY meant a bigger map yet.

There is NO CORRELATION between bigger maps and more storage in sandbox games. The phenomena you predicted due to blu-ray has thus far spectacularly failed to occur. Therefore you are probably full of crap or else filled with stupid unrealistic expectations that no game developer has ever yet bothered to address in any way.

No game developer seemingly WANTS to generate 25 or 50 GB worth of unique content, probably because a $60 price tag doesn't come close to JUSTIFYING the expense of time, labor, and money. In short it is pie in the sky nonsense from people who don't know dick about game development who have been fooled by 5+ marketing hype.

Nor does the current state of sandbox game maps show that a DVD9 is too small for upcoming sandbox games.

Anyone with a brain can see that you are completely wrong and if you can't see it too then perhaps it is YOU who are dumb.

Rockstar is currently working on Max Payne 3, Mafia 2, and came out with Red Dead Redemption ALL without any significant storage problems and other devs have already made far bigger maps than Rockstar using DVD9.

Also they haven't really said ANYTHING about GTA V yet or even if the next GTA game WILL BE GTA V instead of GTA-subtitle. All we have heard is that some Rockstar people were recently scouting Hollywood for some reason.

If Rockstar are thick enough to only release it on the PS3 though it will automatically see GREATLY REDUCED sales compared to a multiplatform release because 360 only owners will not be able to purchase it. I doubt Rockstar thinks of that as a good thing. Probably that is also why the once exclusive LA Noir is now going to be a multiplatform release.