CAR JACK STREETS 2 - Official Development Thread - [by TAGPLAY, Scotland]

[SimonTag]

Originally Posted by able_to_think

I'd like to see an in game buddies kind of thing like in GTA IV where you can call up your friends and go drinking or date your girlfriends. Also put cheat codes in because I love messing with the world.

I liked the GTA cheat codes for messing around in my spare time, however I am not so sure we will be able to have the same kind of cheats in CJS2 because cheating in your game will affect other peoples games and will give you an unfair advantage. How about secrets? Or secret areas a la Final Fantasy? Good social ideas by the way!

Originally Posted by bluewomble88

That is one of the many reasons GTA IV was so boring and forgettable in my opinion.

Originally Posted by arta

Agreed, I don't want to spend 1/2 hour pampering a virtual character. Character interaction is one thing but that was ridiculous.

Do you guys feel that that making money/increasing gang rep by doing that kind of stuff with your friends, i.e. not with an NPC, would make such social elements more appealing?

Originally Posted by fastbridge

Remember this was one of the first iOS releases. Were going back to the terminator days when drvs were still experimenting with hardware. I guarantee u tag got all the kinks worked out

Indeed, the original CJS came out in 2008 on J2ME and the first iPhone. That was pretty much the stone ages of mobile gaming. Look at how far things have come though in only 3 years! It's crazy to think where we'll be in another 3 years!

[SimonTag]

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[Nicoipad]

I would love to finally find big foot in the woods.

[ADR GANG]

Originally Posted by Nicoipad

I would love to finally find big foot in the woods.

Amen to that.

[HorzeyTAG]

Originally Posted by Nicoipad

I would love to finally find big foot in the woods.

Indeed, BIGFOOT ROCKS!

[bluewomble88]

Originally Posted by SimonTag

I liked the GTA cheat codes for messing around in my spare time, however I am not so sure we will be able to have the same kind of cheats in CJS2 because cheating in your game will affect other peoples games and will give you an unfair advantage. How about secrets? Or secret areas a la Final Fantasy? Good social ideas by the way!







Do you guys feel that that making money/increasing gang rep by doing that kind of stuff with your friends, i.e. not with an NPC, would make such social elements more appealing?





Indeed, the original CJS came out in 2008 on J2ME and the first iPhone. That was pretty much the stone ages of mobile gaming. Look at how far things have come though in only 3 years! It's crazy to think where we'll be in another 3 years!

Just my thoughts but I wouldn't want to see that. I actually stay away from social elements in a game, I have always preferred to "go it alone" Rambo stylee! I don't have any particular ideas but I'd like to see grinding, level ups etc handled in the background and just concentrate on the game world and having fun with it. That was one of the things I loved about Crackdown on the Xbox 360.


Will this game be universal?

[dexx0008]

Originally Posted by bluewomble88

Just my thoughts but I wouldn't want to see that. I actually stay away from social elements in a game, I have always preferred to "go it alone" Rambo stylee! I don't have any particular ideas but I'd like to see grinding, level ups etc handled in the background and just concentrate on the game world and having fun with it. That was one of the things I loved about Crackdown on the Xbox 360.


Will this game be universal?

+1, I woudn't want the social aspect to be required, sometimes i just want to pick up and play for a few minutes. if it were harder to go alone, thats fine.

[spy]

I like what I see on the first pages and this game is very promising.

You are asking for ideas. I have not that many but I would like to say what I think is done wrong in the GTA games, as they are the role model for games like this.

I don't like to drive unnecessary around, just for the sake of doing something. It's plain boring. Shortcut mechanics without penalties should be required (no Taxi, more like screen black and you are at the new area). Such things are distracting from the core element of every game: fun. And it's no fun to drive around.

More so when you are in a mission, where you certainly gonna die because game devs think trial and error is fun. So you drive the whole way again.

And I don't like the penalties GTA does when dying. It's no fun to loose all weapons when going crazy. That's the best part of those games, going crazy. GTA IV tried to replace that with realism and atmosphere, but their mission design was awful. The only GTA game I didn't play through to the end.

GTA I, GTA II and GTA III where better in that respect. In GTA I you could go crazy, should the cops with all you got and start at the next hospital again. Ok, you lost your weapons there too, but the cheats made it satisfying.

When talking of multiplayer, are players collaborating or competing? Is it possible to drive together in one car?

How strong is the police? Because it's more fun, when you have the upper hand.

Problem why GTA III and above became unfair were the police helicopters. They shot you wherever you tried to hide.

I remember the good times I had in GTA I on PS, it was buginfested, but it made so much fun to destroy as many upcoming police cars as the PS could handle. No helicopters to stop you from above. Same with GTA II.

And as the others state above, it's no fun with in-game social elements. I want to destroy, shoot stuff. Real life is busy enough, so why replicate that in a game? When being 16 and having all the time in the world, maybe then, yes. But I'm almost 30 and have two kids. Not that much time for gaming is left

[squarezero]

Originally Posted by spy

I like what I see on the first pages and this game is very promising.

You are asking for ideas. I have not that many but I would like to say what I think is done wrong in the GTA games, as they are the role model for games like this.

I don't like to drive unnecessary around, just for the sake of doing something. It's plain boring. Shortcut mechanics without penalties should be required (no Taxi, more like screen black and you are at the new area). Such things are distracting from the core element of every game: fun. And it's no fun to drive around.

More so when you are in a mission, where you certainly gonna die because game devs think trial and error is fun. So you drive the whole way again.

And I don't like the penalties GTA does when dying. It's no fun to loose all weapons when going crazy. That's the best part of those games, going crazy. GTA IV tried to replace that with realism and atmosphere, but their mission design was awful. The only GTA game I didn't play through to the end.

GTA I, GTA II and GTA III where better in that respect. In GTA I you could go crazy, should the cops with all you got and start at the next hospital again. Ok, you lost your weapons there too, but the cheats made it satisfying.

When talking of multiplayer, are players collaborating or competing? Is it possible to drive together in one car?

How strong is the police? Because it's more fun, when you have the upper hand.

Problem why GTA III and above became unfair were the police helicopters. They shot you wherever you tried to hide.

I remember the good times I had in GTA I on PS, it was buginfested, but it made so much fun to destroy as many upcoming police cars as the PS could handle. No helicopters to stop you from above. Same with GTA II.

And as the others state above, it's no fun with in-game social elements. I want to destroy, shoot stuff. Real life is busy enough, so why replicate that in a game? When being 16 and having all the time in the world, maybe then, yes. But I'm almost 30 and have two kids. Not that much time for gaming is left

To summarize: please remove all challenge from the game and let me treat the city like a playground. Sounds like you're asking for a special sandbox mode, because what you are describing isn't really a game -- it's a virtual punching bag .

[Eraser74]

Originally Posted by bluewomble88

That is one of the many reasons GTA IV was so boring and forgettable in my opinion.

Yeah right. GTA IV was boring.

You got to be kidding.