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Grand Theft Auto V |OT| It's Time To Go Home

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Hi all. Really honored to get accepted on gaf. I've been following along in spirit, staying spoiler free and extremely hyped for gta! You all have really been helping calm the tension of this ferocious hype train. Looking forward to kickin it with everyone on gafstreet.

Welcome! Although I can't say that I'm calm :p


I really hope GTA Online is as fleshed out as Rockstar say...
 

Unicorn

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Sethos impressions just sent my anticipation through the roof.

I can't get it though. My grades will fall faster than Trevor base jumping without a parachute.
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Madness

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Again my post said I would love to hear impressions that don't include spoilers. Please read my post. Impressions can be written in ways that don't include spoilers.

But then why not just post it in the spoiler thread? Even the impressions, especially when you know this is a strict no spoiler, links, non official images thread?

Not trying to be a dick at all, but that's why they made the other thread. Even impressions that don't directly reference story is still a spoiler no?
 

Heimbeck

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Well, here's his impressions of the 360 version. Literally no story or gameplay related spoilers at all, just more fuel for the hype-train.

Sethos said this? For real?
I think I know how he got his early copy, he obviously is being paid by R*.
 
But then why not just post it in the spoiler thread? Even the impressions, especially when you know this is a strict no spoiler, links, non official images thread?

Not trying to be a dick at all, but that's why they made the other thread. Even impressions that don't directly reference story is still a spoiler no?


Because the spoiler thread has seemingly descended into full spoiler territory. Vague impressions are not on that level.

I want to hear impressions, I don't want spoilers.
 

Derrick01

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So Sethos liked the new handling eh? Being the biggest diehard of IV's I thought he would hate any change to it.

Cheddahz said:
Is Sethos saying a game is excellent really rare?

Not quite as rare as me but he's no Shinobi either :p
 

Courage

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Yeah this game is definitely my GOTY. It's got that Rockstar touch that TLOU and Infinite can't compete with.

Seriously, huge step up from GTA IV.
 

hwy_61

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But then why not just post it in the spoiler thread? Even the impressions, especially when you know this is a strict no spoiler, links, non official images thread?

Not trying to be a dick at all, but that's why they made the other thread. Even impressions that don't directly reference story is still a spoiler no?

Nah
 

Certinty

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I suspect the handful of us Brits who's Amazon UK copies dispatched on the 14th may be receiving this a day early. Certainly looks that way from my Royal Mail tracking. Already at my local depot.
Lucky! Mine is still at the distribution center and that's only 5 miles away from me. :(

May I ask what time your distribution center received your game yesterday?
 

ieatzombies

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Welcome! Although I can't say that I'm calm :p


I really hope GTA Online is as fleshed out as Rockstar say...

Thanks! I guess the word isn't really calm. More like calm mixed with a hint of crazy. I'm really trying to keep my expectation in check for how robust gta online might be. Don't want to be let down. However, it does look like it could live up to what they say. On a side note, Midnight launch for this guy.
 
I suspect the handful of us Brits who's Amazon UK copies dispatched on the 14th may be receiving this a day early. Certainly looks that way from my Royal Mail tracking. Already at my local depot.

I hope so. My tracking info hasn't updated today; yesterday it was in the south-west, I live in Newcastle so unless it's getting transported tonight I think it'll be Tuesday for me.
 

hlhbk

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He's just usually very critical of games, like Derrick01.



He said it grew on him. He didn't like it at first apparently. I am a huge fan of the handling and physics of IV so I'm hoping I like V's just as much as well.

Derrick is a lot more harsh than Sethos. I still like Derrick though. :)
 
Guys, is this thread going to be a spoiler fest after the 17th or is it gonna stay spoiler free? I'm not receiving the game before the 18th according to Amazon and I would like to avoid heavy spoilers. Or any spoiler since I'm basically in the dark about this game apart from the trailers.
 

E92 M3

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My SE is not "Not Yet Shipped" along with another item for a Tuesday delivery. I won't be worried for now; Amazon hasn't let me down yet and now will be a bad time to start since I am extremely hyped lol.
 

Yerolo

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Wait, Sethos said this?

Holy shit.

He's the magic mike streamer right?

His streams have been an absolute blast as well....easily the best/funniest/batshit insane ones out there. Just from watching him play, you can tell he means every word of this
 

Dug

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Guys, is this thread going to be a spoiler fest after the 17th or is it gonna stay spoiler free? I'm not receiving the game before the 18th according to Amazon and I would like to avoid heavy spoilers. Or any spoiler since I'm basically in the dark about this game apart from the trailers.
I'm assuming that there will be a spoiler thread for this game going up soon. If there is, I would still be careful about browsing this thread.
 

TheContact

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Guys, is this thread going to be a spoiler fest after the 17th or is it gonna stay spoiler free? I'm not receiving the game before the 18th according to Amazon and I would like to avoid heavy spoilers. Or any spoiler since I'm basically in the dark about this game apart from the trailers.

Technically the embargo ends the tomorrow at 7am PST, but I don't think spoilers will ever be welcome in this thread, there's the spoiler thread for that, which I'm STILL going to avoid because people already discussing the ending with untagged spoilers...
 

dandoolan

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Lucky! Mine is still at the distribution center and that's only 5 miles away from me. :(

May I ask what time your distribution center received your game yesterday?

Around 3am.

15-SEP-2013 03:49 Outward RDC Volumetric Acceptance National Distribution Centre

They may still transport yours overnight, right? Or is that not something they do?
 

Alienous

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Well, here's his impressions of the 360 version. Literally no story or gameplay related spoilers at all, just more fuel for the hype-train.

Eh. The exclusive club mindset, coupled with the lack of any real commentary on the meat of the game, excluding driving, even outside of spoilers, makes any fawning impression less credible to me.

For instance, a 10/10 TPS? Rockstar managed to fit enough areas designed specifically for combat, to be the best possible example within that genre of games? That isn't even an expectation of GTA V.

I'll wait until the new game smell has worn off to get any truly objective impressions, especially for an open world game. There is such as thing as too good to be true.
 

abundant

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Guys, is this thread going to be a spoiler fest after the 17th or is it gonna stay spoiler free? I'm not receiving the game before the 18th according to Amazon and I would like to avoid heavy spoilers. Or any spoiler since I'm basically in the dark about this game apart from the trailers.
You shouldn't worry about story spoilers, but everything else will probably be fair game.
 

Gaz_RB

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Guys, is this thread going to be a spoiler fest after the 17th or is it gonna stay spoiler free? I'm not receiving the game before the 18th according to Amazon and I would like to avoid heavy spoilers. Or any spoiler since I'm basically in the dark about this game apart from the trailers.

You can assume that we'll be talking about game mechanics and stuff, but story spoilers/secret stuff will hopefully be tagged.

For open talk about spoilers, there will be another thread. But depending on what you define as a spoiler, you might want to bail out the OT on the 17th

His streams have been an absolute blast as well....easily the best/funniest/batshit insane ones out there. Just from watching him play, you can tell he means every word of this

Right?

It makes it even more awesome that he hasn't even gotten into the missions yet!
 
Technically the embargo ends the tomorrow at 7am PST, but I don't think spoilers will ever be welcome in this thread, there's the spoiler thread for that, which I'm STILL going to avoid because people already discussing the ending with untagged spoilers...

Yeah, I managed to get through Last of Us and read through the main OT without anything being ruined, and that was a game that was much more narrative dependent.

I also imagine that mods will be keeping a close eye on things.
 

Certinty

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Around 3am.

15-SEP-2013 03:49 Outward RDC Volumetric Acceptance National Distribution Centre

They may still transport yours overnight, right? Or is that not something they do?
Ah, I think they might do that then as mine was received a few hours before yours yesterday, hopefully they do! Thanks. :)
 

Dysun

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Technically the embargo ends the tomorrow at 7am PST, but I don't think spoilers will ever be welcome in this thread, there's the spoiler thread for that, which I'm STILL going to avoid because people already discussing the ending with untagged spoilers...

Yup cant even go in there to look at .gif's anymore :\
 
Eh. The exclusive club mindset, coupled with the lack of any commentary on the meat of the game, makes any fawning impression less credible.

For instance, a 10/10 TPS? Rockstar managed to fit enough areas designed particularly for combat to be the best possible within that genre of games? That isn't even an expectation of GTA V.

I'll wait until the new game smell has worn off to get any truly objective impressions, especially for an open world game. There is such as thing as too good to be true.

I dunno, I expected them to essentially more or less copy Max Payne 3's shooting over into GTA V. MP3 is the absolute best 3rd Person Shooter I've every played bogged down by unskippable cut-scenes. If they managed to get 2/3 of that into GTA V I could see how someone would be impressed when compared to others in the open-world genre. Just my two cents I guess. Sethos is usually very very critical towards games and is quick to point out flaws, so I think he's probably telling the truth.
 

Vishnu

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Well Im 16 hours into it now. =)
And I did like the bikes and the quads.
Everything he says is the same thing Im feeling.
Amazing what R* did.

Some popin, really small amount.
In the beginning I really noticed it, after like 30 min, not so much.
And I really mean small amounts of popin.

Im afraid to get into spoiler territory now, so Ill quit.
 
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