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Grand Theft Auto V |OT| It's Time To Go Home
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Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
thanks for your hard work <3
They do need a way to review, and potentially exclude, outliers that can skew the results. If your score isn't even close to the imaginary median score, over a multitude of games, then your reviews should be given less weight or even ignored, because you don't represent public opinion.
Skewing by publication doesn't make sense when you have individual baiting reviewers. And it is irritating when a standard isn't maintained across all of your scores; TLOU can be a 7, sure, but not when you give a game with far greater flaws and less ambition an 8.
Well, GAF impressions are what I go by now anyway.
2004 will never be beat. 2007 was a good year but it doesn't come close to 2004, not at all.
lem0n
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There are some games that hold up. San Andreas, for example. That was a genuinely epic game.
I believe that V will be held in the same regard.
Buckethead
Banned
Who are y'all most excited about playing as?
At first it was Michael but I'm all in with Franklin.
At first it was Michael but I'm all in with Franklin.
BigWeather
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1994 would like a word with you. Master of Orion and X-COM on the same day even. TIE Fighter, Master of Magic, Warcraft, Jagged Alliance, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, System Shock, etc. Oh, and Playstation.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Michael, for sure. He's got the whole Michael Mann character thing going on.
Pestilence11
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I think once this drops it's going to be hard to resist getting it on current gen. I want a PS4 version damn it.
lem0n
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I'm looking forward to playing as Michael the most. But just barely, they all look pretty intriguing. I think I'll enjoy Franklin's missions the most, since I like driving more than anything else.
I'm honestly in love with all three now. Michael because I wanna see how it feels like to be the rich family man. Franklin because he's young and I can relate to him, plus I like the whole gang war aspect. And Trevor because I wanna just do crazy shit with him.
BTW, great job on the OT, man! I thought I was reading something official lol.
Michael. I just finished the sopranos and need more middle age gangsters on my TV.
I got to go with Franklin. All about that gangsta shit!
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#TeamFranklin united brother!
Trevor.
Raptomex
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Michael. I love his back story. Followed by Trevor.
Lazloisdavrock
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Ill know who my favorite is when i play the game
After all the backlash reviewers got for their IV reviews, I seriously doubt everybody out there will be ready to plop a 100 or 10/10 or whatever a perfect score might be onto this game. There's no way V's getting a higher meta rating than IV because of that, regardless of the game's quality.
I'll guess....95
I'll guess....95
djblackice
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Standard size of a piece of paper. Nice little bonus along with the poster they are giving away too.
Hip Hop
Member
Trevor definitely,
He looks like a piece of shit.
No better character to use when going on a spree.
ChimpanzeeThat
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I was about to complain about the OP being misplaced but i think it's GAF's layout on my browser. Boo.
All 3 seem like they have interesting story and characters to them.
Seems like, if any of the 3 could be "good guys", it'd be Franklin. He understands the idiocy in his surroundings, and seems like he's using his smarts and abilities to better himself. While Michael is a bored, midlife crisis Bank Robber-turned Yuppie, and Trevor is Evil Charlie Kelly from IASIP (WILDCARD BITCHES)
Can't wait to see what kinds of side characters each will have. Not sure I like Franklins "buddy" (is it Lamar?) but I do hope for some similar characteristics to CJ's crew (Big Smoke 2.0 please). Michael's side seems to be his family, which could be interesting, since they seem to have Soprano-type traits. Trevor's friends...geez, they've got to be nuts to be friends of Trevor.
Seems like, if any of the 3 could be "good guys", it'd be Franklin. He understands the idiocy in his surroundings, and seems like he's using his smarts and abilities to better himself. While Michael is a bored, midlife crisis Bank Robber-turned Yuppie, and Trevor is Evil Charlie Kelly from IASIP (WILDCARD BITCHES)
Can't wait to see what kinds of side characters each will have. Not sure I like Franklins "buddy" (is it Lamar?) but I do hope for some similar characteristics to CJ's crew (Big Smoke 2.0 please). Michael's side seems to be his family, which could be interesting, since they seem to have Soprano-type traits. Trevor's friends...geez, they've got to be nuts to be friends of Trevor.
Trevor sees a therapist and turns into a model citizen!
NOOO!
I like him as a pure psychopath- no anti-hero dilemmas.
KILL EVERYONE, EVERYTHING. No retreat, no regrets.
revolverjgw
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The twist is Franklin, Trevor and Michael are the multiple personalities of one schizo
RebornYeti
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I'll put in my score prediction...
98
Yep.
98
Yep.
I don't know. All three have a little something going for them that adds to the GTA flavor. Franklin is just a boss, Trevor is batshit insane and Michael has the vibe of an older, settled down Tommy Vercetti that wants back in the game. We are really getting a little of everything we could want with these characters, plus our own custom character for the online world. It's win-win.
JAY the BIRD
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Hey this is RumblePhish from Reddit [different name on gaf]...
Posted some new GTA V stuff:
Pulp Fiction:
Training Day:
Posted some new GTA V stuff:
Pulp Fiction:
Training Day:
and then the Manhunt 3 logo appears, and the real game starts.
Citizen Mane
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Whoa, those movie posters are awesome. Nice work, man!
CountBlack
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97
I'm feelin 97..
I'm feelin 97..
tuna on toast
Banned
It's disappointing that there weren't any big surprises on the map. The layout was known for months. I wanted at least a decent-sized island.
Net_Wrecker
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Until you zoom out halfway through Manhunt 3, and it was all just a game Jimmy Hopkins was playing in Bully 2.
There is the gnome fortress under the sea, where you fight Omega weapon, but that might be considered a spoiler
i wish
You did these? Really well done!
Dingo Egret
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Kvikmyndahús;81162061 said:
"Collateral" kicks major ass!
As you said - say what you will about Tom Cruise - he may be ambiguous in some ways - but he can fucking act.
[SPOILERS FOR "COLLATERAL" TO FOLLOW]
I love the shootout/fight at Club Fever most of all; but delving deeper into the film, I love how Vincent is adamant that Max buy his mother flowers at the hospital gift shop - so much so, that he buys them himself.
A moment later, Vincent feels proud that Max's mother likes that he's the one that bought her the flowers - almost to assuage a mother/son anguish that he has felt his entire life.
[Michael Mann and Tom Cruise worked out a very elaborate back story regarding Vincent and this was a part of it].
I like how Vincent is a cold, calculating bad-ass; yet, if you pay attention - he has a slight desire to leave his life of work-ups, assassination and wetwork.
I especially like how the wolves/coyotes crossing the streets of Los Angeles have very different meanings for both of the protagonists at that moment in the film and most of all - I love how at the end, Vincent becomes the story he heard about years ago - he becomes the dead man at night on the MTA that nobody notices for hours.....as the train makes it's lonely rounds.
A moment later, Vincent feels proud that Max's mother likes that he's the one that bought her the flowers - almost to assuage a mother/son anguish that he has felt his entire life.
[Michael Mann and Tom Cruise worked out a very elaborate back story regarding Vincent and this was a part of it].
I like how Vincent is a cold, calculating bad-ass; yet, if you pay attention - he has a slight desire to leave his life of work-ups, assassination and wetwork.
I especially like how the wolves/coyotes crossing the streets of Los Angeles have very different meanings for both of the protagonists at that moment in the film and most of all - I love how at the end, Vincent becomes the story he heard about years ago - he becomes the dead man at night on the MTA that nobody notices for hours.....as the train makes it's lonely rounds.
[END SPOILERS FOR "COLLATERAL"]
Only Michael Mann's "Heat" can top "Collateral" - and only "Grand Theft Auto V" can top them both because we as players will get to live through films like these due to the narrative of exceptional games such as GTAV.
I also love that both Neil McCauley [Robert DeNiro in Heat] and Vincent [Tom Cruise in Collateral] in Michael Mann's movies wear the same grey suit with a white Armani shirt - and how Michael in GTAV wears the same outfit. [Pacino's character in "Heat' is named Vincent Hanna, by the way.] All I need on my character-of-choice is some graying hair, or perhaps a DeNiro goatee for certain missions to re-immerse myself in Michael Mann's vision of L.A.
My movies to view before playing GTAV:
Heat
Collateral
Thief
Manhunter
To Live and Die In L.A.
Goodfellas
Casino
The Town
Drive
The Driver
The French Connection
Flawless
Oceans 11
Oceans 13
The Thomas Crown Affair
Now You See Me
The Italian Job
Scarface
Mission Impossible
Entrapment
Romancing The Stone
Sexy Beast
The Salton Sea
Training Day
Trance
Dog Day Afternoon
The Usual Suspects
Reservoir Dogs
Man On A Ledge
The Sting
The Score
Ronin
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Inside Man
Heist
Layer Cake
The Getaway
Payback
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Jackie Brown
The Bank Job
Point Break
2 Days in the Valley
Donnie Brasco
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only
A View To A Kill
Catch Me If You Can [1989]
Catch Me If You Can [2002]
The Godfather: Part II
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
Eastern Promises
A History of Violence
Once Upon a Time in America
Carlito's Way
Léon: The Professional
Menace II Society
We Own the Night
American Me
King of New York
Blow
Suicide Kings
Confidence
The Cooler
Legend
Risky Business
Three O'clock High
[Currently listening to Coldplay's "Atlas" and Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer "Betrayal" [skip to 3:26] as I type this].
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