Jeez, just a week.
I don't have Gold and don't want to sign up for it.
I should be looking for one of those prepaid cards or something.
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Grand Theft Auto V |OT2| <Title available for purchase>
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Jeez, just a week.
I don't have Gold and don't want to sign up for it.
I should be looking for one of those prepaid cards or something.
WhenItsLate
Banned
Finished the game yesterday! Been fairly quiet in this thread but I guess now that it's safe for me to read all the spoiler tagged posts, I'll pop in more frequently.
My very short impressions: Best world of any GTA yet, not sure anymore whether I think it is better than San Andreas in all the other departments though.
Now I will explore a bit more of the world and do some side stuff till Online hits! Can't believe I haven't been diving yet and have only done one of the hunting missions (I really looked forward to that before release, but there's so much stuff in this game that I got distracted
)
My very short impressions: Best world of any GTA yet, not sure anymore whether I think it is better than San Andreas in all the other departments though.
Mainly because of the unused locations and vehicles in the game... I know GTAO will probably make use of all of them, but still... So much potential for story missions involving the prison, more of the rural areas, the fighter jet, the tank, scuba diving.... That and the anti-climatic ending are my only major issues with the game though, so overall I still found the game to be incredibly well done
Now I will explore a bit more of the world and do some side stuff till Online hits! Can't believe I haven't been diving yet and have only done one of the hunting missions (I really looked forward to that before release, but there's so much stuff in this game that I got distracted
)Without Frank the story would really suffer imo and be closer to GTA IV as Mike and Trevor would just constantly scream and curse at eachother. Franklin adds a bit more of a likeable and down-to-earth element and I use him as a my 'main' character most of the time. Imo Mike is the best written of the 3 though, but the impact of his story would have been much greater if his family wasn't a bunch of unlikeable caricatures. Rockstar shouldn't always put the satire ahead of a good story.
weekend_warrior
Banned
Hawk and Little- $3.26.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, YEAH!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, YEAH!
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I am so pissed about this. I had nearly a half a mil in there between all characters but cashed out when it only moved about 10 cents in 4 days.
Im pissed because I couldn't connect my 360 to the internet when everyone else was buying it.
FloatingDivider
Member
Holy shit, GAF delivers on the hawk and little, I invested like 100k a while ago and it's worth 4 times that now
weekend_warrior
Banned
Correction- $3.54
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Back from my ban, not being able to post about GTA is possibly the worst punishment I've ever endured..
So yeah, I thought it was great. Took a week off work to play it, completed the story by the sunday at around 50 hours of play. IMO, it's easily the best GTA and wins my GOTY hands down, I don't even see how another game could win it now, and I loved TLOU. For me, the use of the characters was just perfect - far from the ludonarrative wossname of GTA4, I loved how each character was internally consistent and led me to role-play far more than I ever had. I can count my rampages as michael on one hand. Franklin is my small time gangsta, always knocking over gas stations and tearing away in a souped up Infernus. And Trevor is Trevor.
Loved how they interacted during the story, I felt it was the first GTA with actual drama, the effect of multiple characters with strong motivations coming into conflict. I don't know why, but I always got the warm fuzzies whenever Michael and Franklin would fistbump when they would meet in cutscenes, I thought it was a nice touch.
Trevor though, Trevor was interesting. By the end of the game I was very conflicted about him. His intro is obviously controversial (but I really dig it and the implied 'fuck you' to the GTA4 era) but through the story he's played mainly for laughs, the lovable psycho. But it really changed for me when (~75% story completion)
Still, the game is not without its niggles. The stock market situation at launch was a massive bummer and is giving me the urge to just replay the whole game again (luckily I enjoyed the shit out of it, and this is not a daunting prospect). The police are also much much harder in this game than in 4, I'm finding my rampages cut short before I even get started. IMO, it would be a lot better if the police parked up a little closer when they come in for the attack, and if they maybe did 25% less damage. I like the combat itself, but I feel whenever I get started I get cut down before I can get in the car and start the chase. Also, the game falls into the TPS trap of just ending up with you shooting at lots of tiny, far away people. I don't know if there's any real way to fix that though, it's a result of the massive scale and the FOV I guess.
The biggest disappointment for me is the sub though. Like a lot of folks, I've been intrigued by the Alamo Sea and want to explore it. So I buy a cargobob for $2.2mil (tested it out dropping some cars on people, that is going to be HILARIOUS in multiplayer). I fly it over to the dock with the sub that I bought. Carefully lower the winch. Attach. Get some lift. And then the motherfucking game glitches out and the sub starts trying to flip my heli, and eventually does, the two of them in some physically impossible tug of war, like the cat with the toast stuck to its back. I guess the sub has some kind of physical rule to it that makes sense in water but doesn't work so well in the air. Booo. And it seems that the boats on the Alamo Sea don't equip you with the scuba gear. Hmmm.
Anyway, I'm seeing lots of very dumb questions in this thread. Glad I'm back, I'll try to help.
So yeah, I thought it was great. Took a week off work to play it, completed the story by the sunday at around 50 hours of play. IMO, it's easily the best GTA and wins my GOTY hands down, I don't even see how another game could win it now, and I loved TLOU. For me, the use of the characters was just perfect - far from the ludonarrative wossname of GTA4, I loved how each character was internally consistent and led me to role-play far more than I ever had. I can count my rampages as michael on one hand. Franklin is my small time gangsta, always knocking over gas stations and tearing away in a souped up Infernus. And Trevor is Trevor.
Loved how they interacted during the story, I felt it was the first GTA with actual drama, the effect of multiple characters with strong motivations coming into conflict. I don't know why, but I always got the warm fuzzies whenever Michael and Franklin would fistbump when they would meet in cutscenes, I thought it was a nice touch.
Trevor though, Trevor was interesting. By the end of the game I was very conflicted about him. His intro is obviously controversial (but I really dig it and the implied 'fuck you' to the GTA4 era) but through the story he's played mainly for laughs, the lovable psycho. But it really changed for me when (~75% story completion)
he kills Wade and his girlfriend. That scene started off funny and then got darker by degrees. When it cut to him leaving the apartment covered in blood, it actually upset me. Those characters were a couple of the only innocents in the game, it was a brutal reminder that Trevor is not a nice man at all, and added some vital edge to his beef with Michael. And then for me, the next cutscene I watched was the one where he threatens Franklin, it was so cold. But, also some very good storytelling, they recontextualised how I viewed that character, and the story was stronger for it.
Still, the game is not without its niggles. The stock market situation at launch was a massive bummer and is giving me the urge to just replay the whole game again (luckily I enjoyed the shit out of it, and this is not a daunting prospect). The police are also much much harder in this game than in 4, I'm finding my rampages cut short before I even get started. IMO, it would be a lot better if the police parked up a little closer when they come in for the attack, and if they maybe did 25% less damage. I like the combat itself, but I feel whenever I get started I get cut down before I can get in the car and start the chase. Also, the game falls into the TPS trap of just ending up with you shooting at lots of tiny, far away people. I don't know if there's any real way to fix that though, it's a result of the massive scale and the FOV I guess.
The biggest disappointment for me is the sub though. Like a lot of folks, I've been intrigued by the Alamo Sea and want to explore it. So I buy a cargobob for $2.2mil (tested it out dropping some cars on people, that is going to be HILARIOUS in multiplayer). I fly it over to the dock with the sub that I bought. Carefully lower the winch. Attach. Get some lift. And then the motherfucking game glitches out and the sub starts trying to flip my heli, and eventually does, the two of them in some physically impossible tug of war, like the cat with the toast stuck to its back. I guess the sub has some kind of physical rule to it that makes sense in water but doesn't work so well in the air. Booo. And it seems that the boats on the Alamo Sea don't equip you with the scuba gear. Hmmm.
Anyway, I'm seeing lots of very dumb questions in this thread. Glad I'm back, I'll try to help.
I had a pretty cool random moment last. I'm driving through some farmland at night in my souped up charger when I get the screen flash for a random encounter. I pull into a dark farm and all I hear is a car horn blaring. There's a sheriff's cruiser smashed into a tree and the officer is dead on the wheel. This guy pops up and starts screaming for my help. I thought about helping him but the situation was way too sketchy. I headshot him and made my way for the mission. No half measures.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
lmao you paranoid bastid. I picked that guy up, he was funny. He was basically another GTA player.
The Albatross
Member
My HAWK and Little investments are nothing. I put in like $5000 when I started.
Although, to be fair, that's more money than the last 15 minutes I've done
Although, to be fair, that's more money than the last 15 minutes I've done
Muffdraul
Member
Yeah, I got both versions and played through it on 360 first. Then I started the PS3 version, goddamn it feels different on the DS3 analog sticks. I got used to it pretty quick, but it was unusually jarring. I often play cross-platform games on both, but this might be the first time where I did them so close together, back to back.
weekend_warrior
Banned
~ 8- 8.5 GB.
Thanks. I wont be screwing myself by doing this right?
no, its scripted and ties into the rest of the main plot
Neuromancer
Member
It's my biggest irritation with the game. Give me something for my efforts for heaven's sake, if not money than clothes or cars or properties. Before the heist I did last night, I swear it's been a full 4 or 5 nights of me playing this game without getting anything significant.
It's really irritating me how buggy this game seems to be. I can't finish the Epsilon missions because Marie won't email me, I can't do the street races because they don't appear, I can't get all fifty letter scraps.
It's hard to complain because there is still so much content in the game, but it's very frustrating. It's like it's punishing me for wanting to play more of it.
It's hard to complain because there is still so much content in the game, but it's very frustrating. It's like it's punishing me for wanting to play more of it.
brokenbeans
Banned
How is everyone's favourite stock manipulation going?
HAL.
HAL.
Street races are at night only
Indeed they are.
EDIT: To be clear, I mean indeed they're meant to, however, they don't for me, and plenty of other people based on YouTube comments and such. I've waited at the airport all night twice with Franklin waiting for them to appear, but to no avail. Also, there are off-road races which you can only do in the evenings (the quarry one), and it's icon is always on the map, it just tells you to come back later.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Character usage:
Michael 61%
Franklin - 19%.
Trevor - 20%.
Last I checked I was up about 10 mil from a 5 mil investment.
Michael 61%
A lot of that comes from hunting down collectibles while wearing the Epsilon robes. But he's my favorite, so he'd be higher anyway.
Franklin - 19%.
Trevor - 20%.
Last I checked I was up about 10 mil from a 5 mil investment.
brokenbeans
Banned
Very nice, I'll check when I get home.
Currently at $3.73.
I've got a 224k profit going on Michael alone and a few hundred thousand more on the other 2 right now. I keep waiting for it to surge up to $100 a share or something like that.
Could you imagine hitting water from that high and at that speed?
It'd be like landing on solid concrete.
Wind's Howling
Member
I am happy you tried that out in GTA V instead of real life.
brokenbeans
Banned
I'd actually jizz if that happened.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
My friend swam back to shore for like 15 minutes in GTA4 multiplayer when I told him he would die when he jumped out in water.
brokenbeans
Banned
Right now I don't know.
But people are buying shares in HAL and they are slowing going up.
Shit. Well, i skipped it. Time to go to youtube!