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Rockstar, GTA V Better Not Include…

…Mobile Phones! With the first trailer for GTA V being released tomorrow, PSLS takes a look at some of the annoying features of Grand Theft Auto IV that held back the entire experience. - PSLS

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Sev5309d ago

Oh man, I hated the cell phone. Drove me nuts. That's the main reason I didn't like GTAIV.

doctorstrange5309d ago

Such an unnecessary and annoying addition to the franchise. I don't understand why they implemented it.

Perjoss5309d ago

Could be cool if they allowed you to turn it off or to silent, and then when you feel like hanging around with 'friends' you can turn it back on.

ReservoirDog3165309d ago

@ above

They do. Turn the phone to silent. Done.

doctorstrange5309d ago

You still get a visual cue when the phone rings. You're still being called.

NEW-AGE5309d ago

It was weird just when you had 2 stars a cop would spawn out of nowhere and blast you to death with a shotgun, then when you put up yur telephone to put in the life cheat you'd get grazed by a cops hand gun and then have to bring the phone back up, I HATED it

nveenio5308d ago

I think getting rid of relationships is a good idea, too. It's not enough that I risked my life saving that Jamaican, but now I have to play pool with him while in the middle of a mission, too? Don't these people realize that I'm busy? Totally stupid.

raWfodog5308d ago

The cellphone itself can stay, actually make it a smartphone. Just stop with the 'hangout' calls and the penalties for refusing. That's all.

QuodEratDemonstrandm5308d ago

Perjoss, ReservoirDog, and DrStrange.
The phone has a sleep mode that would stop all incoming calls. It would also stop the story from progressing. You wouldn't be able to get the call from Roman's girlfriend that he'd been kidnapped, for example. But once the story was done, you don't need the phone anymore. Hit the sleep mode. No more calls from Brucie or Roman or Packie or Little Jacob. Problem solved, now go get those assassinations done.

QuodEratDemonstrandm5308d ago (Edited 5308d ago )

Fark! Double post!

RedDevils5308d ago (Edited 5308d ago )

I missed those buttons cheat, I hate that I have to go to the stupid phone to do a life heath/armor cheat by the time I reach to that I already got Kill by those cop lol

Dee_915308d ago

wasnt cell phones in Vice city and san andreas ?
i like cell phones because you can enter saved cheats on the go

Anon19745308d ago (Edited 5308d ago )

I agree. I really didn't start enjoying the game until I turned the phone off and started ignoring all the irritating "We never hang out," calls. Once I just focused on the main plot I really found I enjoyed the last game.

Still, and I know I'm in the minority here, huge improvement over GTA: San Andreas. First GTA game since 3 I couldn't be bothered to finish. I found nothing involving about the characters or plot in SA, and the gang turf wars were just as annoying as the constant cell phone rings. Oh no, territory under attack. Drop what you're doing! Mindless story, if you ask me. Pales in comparison to what they did with GTA 4.

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waltyftm5309d ago

And see some titties !!!

Convas5309d ago

HEY COUSIN, HOW ABOUT SOME TITTIES

Roman, NO! I'm 18 minutes into a 6 star tiff against the LCPD!

T3mpr1x5309d ago

Using it to enter cheats was the worst!

QuodEratDemonstrandm5308d ago

Yeah. But you only had to enter it once. After that it was stored in a menu near the bottom.

ReservoirDog3165309d ago

Don't get why people where so against them to begin with. I always loved getting calls from my friends and even then I rarely got calls since I called everybody so much.

I ate with Roman everyday because the dialogue between them was so unbelievably well written. So I basically called them before they called me. And after just about every mission you can call Roman and they'll discuss the stuff he just did. Like after the kidnapping mission and the bank one and everything. Te phone added another dimension to the game.

But I actually enjoyed the characters and the writing.

stormeagle65309d ago

Yeah I never had a real problem with them either.

MRMagoo1235309d ago

sounds like to me you guys maybe dont have any RL friends and needed the ones in the game.

ReservoirDog3165309d ago

@ above

Haha, or I enjoy good writing because I'm a writer.

Either works 8]

lMHl5309d ago

You need to be able to pimp out your ride

Cenobia5308d ago

And instead of billiards and darts, they should let you rob banks and stuff like that.

I hated that the best mission in the game was a bank robbery that happens only once. I wanted to be able to do stuff like that all the time. It'd be awesome if they had seamless co-op for planning a robbery and pulling it off.

They could easily give the main character motivation for stealing by starting a tutorial level with him as a little kid stealing food to survive. Then even when he's a gangster earning millions at the end of the game he could still be psychologically motivated to steal because he's afraid of ever starving again. That way the player is still sympathetic for him when we're robbing and killing people.

I really hated the end of the last game because they make you make a choice based on money or revenge. I chose revenge because I had like a million dollars with nothing to spend it on, and I got the worst ending ever. Not to mention the speed boat part was glitched because I had to do it 50 times before it actually worked. Talk about killing momentum.

Kahvipannu5308d ago

"Nico, wanna go bowling?"
"Not right now, I have way better things to do"
"Well **** you, your not my friend anymore"
...
-_-

They really dropped the ball with that one.

Tommykrem5308d ago (Edited 5308d ago )

I thought the addition of cell phones was very clever, and was very well implemented in the game. But I agree that "Hey Niko, wanna go bowling?" got really tiring.

No Roman. No I do not.

EDIT:
@Kahvipannu
Yeah, exactly

Yodagamer5308d ago

hopefully if they do something like that, i hope they do a pda, like in chinatown wars, where you could use it whenever you wanted, but it wasn't really that annoying when you didn't use it

FACTUAL evidence5308d ago

Man they better give the next guy a blu-tooth headset...

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Liquid_Ocelot5309d ago (Edited 5309d ago )

Eww

[Edit]
Android for me, please:)

koh5309d ago

You know how I know you watch a lot of porn? haha
kidding, kind've

ftwrthtx5309d ago

Couldn't stand the cell phones either

thereapersson5309d ago

I hope that they implement driving physics that are actually fun to play with. Maybe they can take a cue from Driver: San Francisco?

vortis5309d ago

How about a cue from Forza or Gran Turismo?

I would love having some weight to the vehicles for once. You hit a curb in GTA IV and your car would flip like faster than a movie star being photographed by the paparazzi while getting an enema on the Santa Monica pier.

SnakeCQC5309d ago

hope they take a cue from need for speed hot pursuit along with the customisation of san andreas but expanded

Cenobia5308d ago

I actually liked the driving. It took some time to master but I thought it felt pretty real. I loved drifting around corners and every car felt different (some of them felt extremely heavy).

I guess they got floaty in the air, but that didn't bother me too much since it could lead to some crazy results.

KILLERAPP5309d ago

I guest I was the minority and actually like GTA 4 and the cell phone and text's...

BlmThug5309d ago

The thing that annoyed me was cheats. I i got shot the phone closes automatically

HappyGaming5308d ago

Run to a car drive fast then enter cheat!! Or run for cover!!! If anything it kept the game a bit more exiting instead of just entering health cheats continuesly as you walk past 4 police officers with shotguns :/

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Take-Two Interactive revealed it is pausing development on its Nintendo Switch 2 edition of "Borderlands 4" in its latest quarterly earnings.

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PlayStation Store’s top downloads of 2025

O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.

Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."

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maximusprime_120d ago

FH5 4th in Europe compared to North America 14th. Not surprising.

LucasRuinedChildhood120d ago

I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.

bionicstar120d ago (Edited 120d ago )

its a hard bet to make. hindsight is always 20/20.

Christopher120d ago

After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.

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1Victor120d ago

It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU

gold_drake120d ago

yeh, football is really popular here in europe ha

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DivineHand125120d ago

I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.

To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.

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PlayStation and Xbox's most-played games of 2025 were the same as 2024's in the US, data suggests

Another night of Fortnite with the boys then?

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jznrpg128d ago

I’ve never played Fortnite GTAV or CoD BO7 but I do own GTAV for PS4/5 because I got them cheap.

gold_drake128d ago

i think we should either take those games out, or make a singleplayer list too ha

badboyz09128d ago

I still play gta V alot. The others nah.

Popsicle128d ago

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Tacoboto128d ago

What exactly are we not getting?

Did we not just have a 2025 filled with nice games like...

Silksong, Doom TDA, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Yotei, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Hades 2, DK Bananza, and so many more?

Popsicle128d ago

Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.

My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.

To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.

cloganart128d ago

Such a pessimistic view. This year gave so many good games.

Christopher128d ago

Popsicle, I actually think we're getting more great games because of the slop. Developers are seeing that people aren't happy and taking advantage of big AAA studios not delivering for people.

Popsicle128d ago (Edited 128d ago )

Perhaps, and I hope you’re right. A shift is needed IMO