ieatzombies
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Grand Theft Auto V |OT| It's Time To Go Home
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TriangleOfCorruption
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Decided on a whim (though not mine) to pick it up at midnight, so back home now and installing.
Know nothing outside of the trailers.
I am so ready.
Know nothing outside of the trailers.
I am so ready.
I'd say no. Lots of cutscenes. Not much context but be warned
Buckethead
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VisceralBowl
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9/10- he loves Trevor and his maniacal shenanigans !
zero margin
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sounds about right, there are some details that people may not want to know just yet.
MoGamesXNA
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I agree. It's irritating having journalists force personal political / social agendas into game reviews. I'm finding myself now just performing a CTRL-F for the word 'misogyny' in any review. As soon as it returns a result, I don't bother reading the any further.
zero margin
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always gotta be one in the bunch
ieatzombies
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I knew if anybody was really going to dig trevor it would be Jim! This is gonna be amazing. Tonight tonight!
Tricky I Shadow
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Welp, Im gonna head off and
sleep. TODAY IS THE DAY!
try to
Callibretto
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I've been avoiding GTA5 news since the 2nd trailer, I just want to ask if there are framerate news for PS3 version? better or worse than usual Rockstar games on PS3 like GTA4/RDR/Max Payne3?
No it isn't. It's satire based on OUR society. You can't go "sorry we're not going to include these certain things that might offend people, we'll just leave the violent, swearing, and drugs in while you play as a criminal. You know, the soft stuff. Not like that hard offensive satire!".
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kittens
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Satire is a weak excuse for infusing misogynistic attitudes throughput your entire game (and series), with sprinkling of transphobic, racist, and otherwise fucked up attitudes.
I love GTA, but let's please not defend this stuff.
It's not a big deal. The only people who are going to get their panties in a wad are the people who are going to get their panties in a wad over the game to begin with.
I think it's fitting to do this. I kind of hope my EB does this. I know the EB here is doing a cops/robbers party with battlefield knoxville (battlefield knoxville is like an adult version of laser tag, they use real looking guns). I was hesitant at first about the midnight launch but the more and more i think about it, i think it's going to be fun.
MoGamesXNA
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Much, much better. I've put 14 hours in and I haven't noticed a drop. The frame rate is rock solid. It also looks really great on the PS3. It's a far cry from the vaseline smear and sub 20fps of GTA IV.
GrumpyOutlander
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I thought I would give an obvious warning, but try to refrain from reading comments on reviews. I had Bioshock: Infinite spoiled for because the highest rated comment was the biggest spoiler the day before the game released.
I think I spoke too soon! Had to read others also to understand- more that his character devolves the story into more traditional gangster story telling, and he's unlikable - I kind of love that. Endless bickering between characters, etc. according to Bramwell.
We shall see soon!
Well tell our society to stop it then. The entire GTA series is built off over the top satire. So rather than underhanded misogynistic tones they just go "You can smell like a bitch!". It's not pretending to be anything else. It's joking at our own stupidity. Just like the crazy politicians or the wild guns stores.
Fake cocaine isn't going to add anything to you picking up the game it ridiculous and not clever or funny at all.
brokenbeans
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Anyone had dispatch emails from GAME? Think my mates are getting nervous.
Callibretto
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fuck yes, my local store told me they should have it ready for me tomorrow. can't wait for it.
SomedayTheFire
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But the whole point of GTA is how fucked up and bad people are.
ButchCat
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That's what someone who's not familiar with the GTA series would say.
I'm pretty sick of hearing it about every big game that releases now. It feels like the new review format for games is:
Story
Graphics
Gameplay
Sound/music
Online
How it treats women
It's even worse because it's so easy to call the game makers out from behind their PCs while they turn a blind eye to what happens at their conventions to ACTUAL PEOPLE. Only a really small, select few like RPS try to highlight that stuff. The important stuff.
ieatzombies
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Even better! I love the idea of Trevor giving tht vibe off.
Screaming Meat
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Do you think it's possible to satirise transphobia, racism or sexism?
PhoenixDawn
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I wonder if the issues of installing the full game to HDD also apply to the PSN digital version of the game. I think I've already decided on getting the physical copy just for the map and to have the case, but it'll be interesting to see if the problem is evident on the 100% digital versions as well.
You download it normally via download list and it unlocks tonight, trying to play results in a message basically telling you to wait.
MoGamesXNA
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fuck yes, my local store told me they should have it ready for me tomorrow. can't wait for it.
You're going to be a happy man. Happy GTA V launch day!
Mwuhah. It begins. Is the review thread up? I'm looking forward to trawling through 90 pages of political discussion with a potential sprinkle of actual discussion about GTA V.
HundredEyeMonk
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Howdy fellow Knoxvillian.
Guy LeDouche
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I've avoided basically everything about this game, other than a couple trailers, for spoiler reasons, so my question might have been talked about recently, but I didn't see anything in the OP
I pre-ordered digital copy (im in the US) on PS3 right now and got the theme, but nothing else. There's no pre-load right? It should magically be available to download at midnight? If anybody knows specifics I'd appreciate it.
I don't want to be waiting for it to do something when "oh you should have gone to this other screen and clicked on a thing"
I pre-ordered digital copy (im in the US) on PS3 right now and got the theme, but nothing else. There's no pre-load right? It should magically be available to download at midnight? If anybody knows specifics I'd appreciate it.
I don't want to be waiting for it to do something when "oh you should have gone to this other screen and clicked on a thing"
Yeah.Referring to this?
Kind of bummed I couldn't make a midnight launch now hahaha.
I personally don't have a problem with it and would have loved to have joined in, but I can't help but feel that its going to kick up a stink. Someone will bitch about it and that will be that. God Australia can be so archaic and uptight sometimes...
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kittens
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I've heard this argument thousands of times before, and I'm just not buying it. If you want to make offensive jokes, vulgar jokes, immature jokes, whatever. That's fine. But you can do all those things without also saying oppressive shit. I was watching a stream the other day when one of the many "joke characters" started spouting some transphobic shit. I don't want this shit in my video games. I want to be able to enjoy video games without hearing jokes made at the expense people who face a murder rate several times over the average.
Also, GTA's sexism problem runs much deeper than the tongue-in-cheek humor. It's seen in almost every representation and reference to women. The game makes it very clearly what the role of women in the GTA universe is, and it's not a good one.
Edit : This essay on satire and "punching down" somewhat echoes where I'm coming from.
Messypandas
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Almost followed someone because they had an xbox game in a grainger games bag. Whats in the bag m8. WOTS IN THE BAG.
Why isn't it out already
Why isn't it out already
Only review I read, back to media blackout now. Appreciate how even handed Jeff is with his writing, even if he likes something it never comes off as slobbering. Game sounds great, even if the general GTA tone is a little stagnant at this point.
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