MarleyManiac
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Looking forward to this - Great OT!!! I just realized the last game I bought was Halo 4 - WOW. This will get me back into gaming again.
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Grand Theft Auto V |OT| It's Time To Go Home
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I was thinking of a response, but anti already beat me to the punch.
Another botched GTA V port would be much worse than pirates doing their own thing. Also the reasoning of "taking a cut" three months later vs/ at launch doesn't make sense. Both scenarios are exactly the same, its people not wanting to buy the game. What would the three month gap actually do?
Wind's Howling
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GAF has pretty much been part of my life since 2 years ago. Not a day goes by without checking it. It is like my daily newspaper that I open up every morning while drinking coffee.
The Albatross
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I live 10 mins from an Amazon distribution center. I get my packages early in the day but I've never gotten a game, with release day shipping, before release day. In 3+ years of Amazon prime release day shipping.
not to burst ya
It does a bit more often now than it has for most of the generation. I'm not 100% sure why but I think it involved blu ray and most ps3 games usually are a lot bigger in disc size since the discs can hold over 50gb. There was probably some really unique protection they put on it too.
Wind's Howling
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Yep.
I probably won't end up getting it in until Tuesday afternoon. Le sigh
You and me both and I have to travel an hour in order to buy it and return home.
TheAbsolution
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I live in Atlanta, distribution centers a couple hours away in TN. I'll probably have it Monday.
I won't have time to come to GAF on Monday anyway. Got work from 9 to 5, then I plan to have a bit of a nap, then walk to town at about 10.45 to pick the game up at midnight!
NullPointer
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I'm going 360 for custom soundtracks and easier/more casual partying up.
Am a big fan of digital downloads though.
KnockOneOff
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I would suggest you to remove that image with those kind of tabs in your browser open before you get banned.
Also Jim posted here like one page back.
I can't imagine, bar one of the protagonists dying, that GTA V will have a 'ruinable' ending.
Any twists probably happen midway through the plot, not at the end. The ending will probably involve characters we haven't had previewed. Consider this: how would you ruin the ending to GTA IV, or Max Payne 3? And this is all assuming that GTA V has one ending.
No, I'm not too worried about spoilers in that sense. Bioshock: Infinite and The Last of Us are in a different tier, due to the importance of the narrative in those experiences.
I feel like, in terms of the things I would be surprised by playing GTA, I've probably had most of that spoiled already (weapons, vehicles, heist scenarios).
Any twists probably happen midway through the plot, not at the end. The ending will probably involve characters we haven't had previewed. Consider this: how would you ruin the ending to GTA IV, or Max Payne 3? And this is all assuming that GTA V has one ending.
No, I'm not too worried about spoilers in that sense. Bioshock: Infinite and The Last of Us are in a different tier, due to the importance of the narrative in those experiences.
I feel like, in terms of the things I would be surprised by playing GTA, I've probably had most of that spoiled already (weapons, vehicles, heist scenarios).
KnockOneOff
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There not my shots just found them!
Was thinking the same lol. Completely proves a point made earlier in this thread regarding PC gamers lol.
But still...
But i've gotten release games early a few times..
From an amazon pre-order?
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Yea same here. I'm about 30 minutes away from the distro never not one time have I gotten a game before release day from amazon. All 5 of the games I've bought day one for ps3 were from amazon and it never happened.
I don't expect or even think it will this time.
Probably because its Walmart. You have to shower after you get home from that place.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Honestly I'll probably end up doing that, then send my Amazon copy back. I want to play it asap.
I don't buy games day 1 very often and I really don't feel like waiting until around 5pm on the 17th for when UPS usually stops by.
WORTH IT.
I'm watching this "History of Grand Theft Auto" documentary on YouTube and it's really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhY9LSGbNk
The first GTA makes me so nostalgic, I played a lot of it on PC when it came out. Not so much GTA 2, only a little bit. As I said before, I still have the disc (that doubles as an OST), but you can download it for free from Rockstar's site for many years now.
It's not really worth playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhY9LSGbNk
The first GTA makes me so nostalgic, I played a lot of it on PC when it came out. Not so much GTA 2, only a little bit. As I said before, I still have the disc (that doubles as an OST), but you can download it for free from Rockstar's site for many years now.
It's not really worth playing.
throwawayname
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what did knockoneoff post?
Don't know if I'm more hype for the game itself or GTA online. Been playing MP3 like crazy getting ready for GTA:O (Because I know I'll actually play with people in the crew now ;P)and reading through this thread between taking care of personal matters. Trying to decide if throwing down money for gta before my interview at gamestop is a good idea or not....
Once or twice, yeah. Tatsunoko vs Capcom came a day before release and Punch-Out did too.
Could of just been a rare instance though.
I was going to make a post like this earlier, but didn't feel like it, so... this.
Amazon doesn't screw around with this.
Spazznid
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I'm watching this "History of Grand Theft Auto" documentary on YouTube and it's really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xhY9LSGbNk
The first GTA makes me so nostalgic, I played a lot of it on PC when it came out. Not so much GTA 2, only a little bit. As I said before, I still have the disc (that doubles as an OST), but you can download it for free from Rockstar's site for many years now.
It's not really worth playing.
That one and the GameTrailers one are both exceptionally well done. That one focuses more on the games, and the GT one focuses a bit more on the effects they had, as well as the response from the public.
KnockOneOff
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Hey if you were in my situation on an iPhone 5 with a smashed screen looking at a desktop which I didn't even notice there, you would see I wasn't intentionally doing it
Just a printscreen from a Google Chrome showin Jim Sterling's Live profile, only there were other tabs open including piracy-related sites.
Wal Mart can be a real pain in the ass when it comes to getting new releases at midnight. At best it goes like how you said, but at worst you'll end up rotating through multiple clueless employees who don't understand that the game is still in the back warehouse because the morning crew haven't put it on the shelves yet, and that they can technically sell it to you because it's the the release date.
Fuck I've had some bad experiences there at midnight lol.
throwawayname
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Wind's Howling
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Same thing happened to me a bunch of times with the Toys R Us employees. They still had a Friday released game in storage and refused to check if they had them. Needless to say I stopped going there after a couple of times.
Shit, I hope that doesn't happen. The guy I talked to the other day seemed pretty knowledgable about preorders and they're doing some kinda midnight release event I think.
Fine Ham Abounds
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For some reason, we've only gotten three Walmarts back to 24 hour operation since Katrina, and I'm lucky enough to live 20+ minutes away from all of them.
Gamestop on the other hand is 2 minutes from my house (at midnight anyway) and you can park right by this Mall service entrance and walk 20 feet into the store.
NullPointer
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It tore my mind clear off its foundations and showed me what a game could be. I've never been so thoroughly lost in a world since.
Yeah from my experience they are tight on that stuff.
Yeah.
And every so often it dawns on me that the people who created Grand Theft Auto made Lemmings before it.
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