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Grand Theft Auto V |OT2| <Title available for purchase>
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KIFFLOM is the truth, homie.
search for epsilon in the web browser. Do the personality test. Wait for question mark on your map.
You can race on motorcycles?
Taking the 801RR for a spin around San Andreas.
Yep, there is a bike race down near Vespucci Canals.
Neuromancer
Member
Epsilon missions - anyone else have an issue with the robes not appearing in your closet?
Did you buy some on a previous save? It'lll show you per character what they have on all the different save files together. It's still showing me stock I haven't owned in a while because I have a prior save with it.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Right when I bought them a second time, I got an email saying I received them. I was at Michael's house that time. The email says "wait 24 hours for delivery" but that sounds like BS.
Pestilence11
Member
Driving in this game drunk in real ilfe is awsome.
MrPink93485
Member
My Franklin looks appropriately swagger now.
And yes, I purposedly drove my car into the pool so they could both be in the picture, even tho it kinda ruins both. That's how rich I am!
Oh god you must teach me how to make this R Kelly look.
I suspect certain hairstyles are unlockables. I've beaten the story. Check your local barber.
Krappadizzle
Member
Glitch Flying again on my stream if anyone is interested.
I'm kind of digging the whole stock market thing. I mean if I got enough to purchase everything from just the heists I would've never tried the stock market. But now I'm among the rest who are investing millions and waiting to see if I can turn that into billions. I didn't wait until end game to do the Lester missions and easily earned tens of millions in the stock market in just one day.
I don't think the economy is broken as much as it isn't what many were expecting. I never had to purchase armor, ammo or much in the way of weapons during the game, and the checkpoints keep me from needing to spend 5k on medical bills in mission, so I thought it was the most forgiving of the GTAs in that respect.
valkillmore
Member
Driving at night in a sports car while high in real life is GODLIKE.
It's like flying the Dodo all over again.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Man that scene with Trevor
in that dudes apartment and the guy is going on about how small his dick is and Trevor pulls his pants down. The whole time I am prepping for some sort of crotch shot and it doesn't come and I relax then he bends down to pull his pants up and his fucking balls and dick plop below his ass. Don't think I have ever laughed so hard at a video game
my last 5 minutes of playing:
switched to Michael, he was biking up in the hills somewhere.
another biker came by so I rode by him a bit. tried to take a picture with a him a few times, but he would bike away. ran him over and switched to his bike. then proceeded to bike up and around everywhere using the dynamic cam (or whatever its called). went off the hills and took out a biker (crotch rocket) by getting air and crushing him mid air. landed and then a dude on a 4 wheeler rode up to me....paused for a second then said target in site...then I died.
might be time for bed.
switched to Michael, he was biking up in the hills somewhere.
another biker came by so I rode by him a bit. tried to take a picture with a him a few times, but he would bike away. ran him over and switched to his bike. then proceeded to bike up and around everywhere using the dynamic cam (or whatever its called). went off the hills and took out a biker (crotch rocket) by getting air and crushing him mid air. landed and then a dude on a 4 wheeler rode up to me....paused for a second then said target in site...then I died.
might be time for bed.
antikythera
Banned
I agree the missions are way too easy. You can die quickly if you're not in cover, but there's checkpoints everywhere and there's no tough cop chases or anything. Even the optional races are a joke. I like the game mostly for the atmosphere, the unique locations, the crazy shit that can happen. And I don't know what kind of magic Rockstar used on my Xbox, but it's fantastically beautiful at almost every location at every time of day, which makes it a great world to be in. Hopefully a PC version comes soon.
Finished at 75%. Time to make some real cash with Lester's missions and buy up all the property. Also a fleet of cars/planes/boats... There's still so much to do! Question for those that have completed the Trevor vs Merrywheather cargo plane mission:
Anyone else keep an eye out for locations for the expansions(if they do another Lost and Damned/Gay Tony thing)? A couple of obvious places:
Ron said that the cargo may be salvageable, is there anything on the sea bed?
Anyone else keep an eye out for locations for the expansions(if they do another Lost and Damned/Gay Tony thing)? A couple of obvious places:
There's a casino with a "grand opening soon" sign.
Los Santos' Hoover Damn equivelant wasn't used for anything as far as I could tell.
The prison is, once again, not featured at all.
There's a number of factories that I've been driving by that seem unused.
Los Santos' Hoover Damn equivelant wasn't used for anything as far as I could tell.
The prison is, once again, not featured at all.
There's a number of factories that I've been driving by that seem unused.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
So somebody created a website to track the BAWSAQ in more detail.
also: the invincibility cheat has been found.
also: the invincibility cheat has been found.
No. Best set of story missions in the series for my money. By a long shot.
As far as the difficulty, it's certainly not the hardest game I've ever played, but it feels fine.
Yeeaahh buddy
Yeeeeeees. Time to go on some rampages.
Dick Justice
Banned
Apparently it only lasts 5 minutes?
MrTroubleMaker
Member
nice!
Wow.
On my early 2nd/3rd playthrough of the game I decided to be reckless as Michael and rob a gas station in Los Santos. I go in the store and buy a snack, go back outside to scope the place. I decide to try laying a elaborate trap.
I leave a gasoline trail around the entire perimeter of all the gas tanks, I lead the trail back towards the store itself. I shoot the trail and my mini map lights up with red dots. Gang turf. Bullets are pelting stuff around me. I run back inside the gas station and start the hold up. This time however the clerk responds with a shotgun, I kill him before he gets his shot off.
While I'm emptying out the register the gas tanks/fillers start to explode. I get all the cash in front of the store and notice all the red dots on my minimap are gone. The gang members ran towards the store and got blown up by my haphazard trap.
The police are on time, I get in a SUV next to the store. I'm right in front of them, their vision cones are on me, but they don't spot me or try to stop me. I drive away right in front of the police.
Somehow this terrible and horribly dangerous plan payed off.
On my early 2nd/3rd playthrough of the game I decided to be reckless as Michael and rob a gas station in Los Santos. I go in the store and buy a snack, go back outside to scope the place. I decide to try laying a elaborate trap.
I leave a gasoline trail around the entire perimeter of all the gas tanks, I lead the trail back towards the store itself. I shoot the trail and my mini map lights up with red dots. Gang turf. Bullets are pelting stuff around me. I run back inside the gas station and start the hold up. This time however the clerk responds with a shotgun, I kill him before he gets his shot off.
While I'm emptying out the register the gas tanks/fillers start to explode. I get all the cash in front of the store and notice all the red dots on my minimap are gone. The gang members ran towards the store and got blown up by my haphazard trap.
The police are on time, I get in a SUV next to the store. I'm right in front of them, their vision cones are on me, but they don't spot me or try to stop me. I drive away right in front of the police.
Somehow this terrible and horribly dangerous plan payed off.
funkystudent
Member
So what are the misc missions?
Been playing for what might be 15-20 hours and havent done a single one
Been playing for what might be 15-20 hours and havent done a single one
Grinchy
Banned
I don't get the impression that they were even going for that. If they did that same rags to empire thing every single time, the series would get pretty stale. It would be like Final Fantasy, where you are always starting with a small local story and then end up saving the world by the end.
I like that this game is about psychotic crooks instead.
GillianSeed79
Member
I'm finding it hilarious that certain LA-based podcasters and game journalists are screaming their heads off about "What is this game about?", "What's the point of this?", "Everyone is screaming all the time, I can't relate to this at all", "It's too cynical."
Look I've never been a huge fan of the GTA franchise (I hated GTAIV), but the satire and cynicism is spot on with this one. Some of the shit is about five years too late, i.e. waterboarding and PMC's, but other stuff is spot on, i.e. the financial collapse and the American dream being just that. A dream.
I'm about 45 percent done, but the moment that I realized that, okay, they are trying to say something was when Franklin basically said I've been doing all this shit for you and still haven't gotten paid. Dude does all this hard work with nothing to show for it. It's basically the world of everyone else got theirs 10 years ago and you are stupid if you think they are going to let you in.
Then you have Michael. Great character, but one of these the grass is greener on the other side types of people. He's got everything everyone wants - money, a beautiful wife, a nice house, nice cars, children, but he's still miserable.
Reminds me of my sister. Out of college she was an art teacher making sub-20K/year working at Outback and selling hand-made jewelry to get by. She married an air force pilot and now lives in a McMansion and it's likes she's oblivious now to how privileged she sounds. The entire time we were at the Outer Banks this summer, a beach house a minute from the beach, she was screaming about how it wasn't up to her standards.
Meanwhile, I'm happy just to get away from my ghetto neighborhood for a week.
Then there's Trevor. I don't know what to make of him. On the one hand he's a disgusting psychopath,, but on the other hand he seems like the sanest person in Los Santos. I hated him the first time I met him and thought it was Rockstar just trying to be Rockstar, but he's grown on me. Apart from the classless Rampage missions, he's very much, dare I say, a Shakesperean character.
Look I've never been a huge fan of the GTA franchise (I hated GTAIV), but the satire and cynicism is spot on with this one. Some of the shit is about five years too late, i.e. waterboarding and PMC's, but other stuff is spot on, i.e. the financial collapse and the American dream being just that. A dream.
I'm about 45 percent done, but the moment that I realized that, okay, they are trying to say something was when Franklin basically said I've been doing all this shit for you and still haven't gotten paid. Dude does all this hard work with nothing to show for it. It's basically the world of everyone else got theirs 10 years ago and you are stupid if you think they are going to let you in.
Then you have Michael. Great character, but one of these the grass is greener on the other side types of people. He's got everything everyone wants - money, a beautiful wife, a nice house, nice cars, children, but he's still miserable.
Reminds me of my sister. Out of college she was an art teacher making sub-20K/year working at Outback and selling hand-made jewelry to get by. She married an air force pilot and now lives in a McMansion and it's likes she's oblivious now to how privileged she sounds. The entire time we were at the Outer Banks this summer, a beach house a minute from the beach, she was screaming about how it wasn't up to her standards.
Meanwhile, I'm happy just to get away from my ghetto neighborhood for a week.
Then there's Trevor. I don't know what to make of him. On the one hand he's a disgusting psychopath,, but on the other hand he seems like the sanest person in Los Santos. I hated him the first time I met him and thought it was Rockstar just trying to be Rockstar, but he's grown on me. Apart from the classless Rampage missions, he's very much, dare I say, a Shakesperean character.
Neuromancer
Member
Hmm weird. I'll try ordering it again I guess.
Gouda Jouji
Member
Done!
Well not quite, still have the other 25 Stunt Jumps, the
Submarine Parts
Nuclear Waste
Buckethead
Banned
I just did the (75% mission spoilers)
mission with Franklin and it made me realize there's a criminal lack of shooting missions where you get to tee off on baddies. The overzealous wanted system is a real fucking buzzkill.
Fresh Meat
Each character has a haircut and a facial hair option that only become unlocked once you join the Rockstar Social club. You also get a bonus SMG and a bonus car, and access to 4-car garages, and some other stuff.
Basically, they really want you to join the Rockstar Social club.
I haven't been to a barber since beating the game, but I'll check now and see. You do unlock outfits atleast.
You will be happy with some upcoming missions atleast.
Personally I think 5 had a good balance of it after IV felt like nothing but a gauntlet of that stuff.
You will be happy with some upcoming missions atleast.
Personally I think 5 had a good balance of it after IV felt like nothing but a gauntlet of that stuff.
Buckethead
Banned
Good!
And IV I would probably agree but the mechanics were horrendous. This game has better mechanics, so it's like, "hey assholes let me play the game".
georgetheplushie
Member
Thanks for the 801 RR tip.
unknownhero
Member
well, it looks like my stats are glitched. my misc. and the strangers and freaks missions I've done won't add to the 100%. I'm at 80% too 
my misc stopped at 7/16 and the freaks stat stopped at 17/20
my misc stopped at 7/16 and the freaks stat stopped at 17/20
CheezyMac88
Member
Is this submarine suppose to spawn on the street?
Hip Hop
Member
well, it looks like my stats are glitched. my misc. and the strangers and freaks missions I've done won't add to the 100%. I'm at 80% too
my misc stopped at 7/16 and the freaks stat stopped at 17/20
There are different strangers and freaks missions that are required for the percentage to fill up. Some don't count.
Have you done the one where you have to collect 50 spaceship parts? That one is required. I think the one where you have to collect 50 letters is required as well.
I'm currently finishing those up.
EDIT: the ones in bold are required
http://www.ign.com/wikis/gta-5/100_Percent_Completion_Checklist
Don't know if this has been pointed out, but its possible to be in run and gun mode with the reticule on the screen without firing your gun. Lightly holding the right trigger down around halfway will make it so you're moving in run and gun stance, with the reticule on the screen without firing.
The reticule will stay on the screen indefinitely. Did this on the 360 version.
The reticule will stay on the screen indefinitely. Did this on the 360 version.
The Illiterati
Member
I absolutely cannot stand the general negativity and or just apathy towards this game on most podcasts. "yeah it's probably the best game in the series but really, I think I'm past GTA." "GTA V doesn't do anything particularly well" "GTA is hateful towards women." "I think I've grown too old too play GTA."
Meanwhile, the other games these people play are no more intelligent or cultured and they haven't 'outgrown' those. I know I'm being very general here but I just had to vent a little. Tom Chick on the Quarter to Three podcast is about the only person who has fully embraced GTA V and really wholeheartedly loves it. Thank goodness for that.
Meanwhile, the other games these people play are no more intelligent or cultured and they haven't 'outgrown' those. I know I'm being very general here but I just had to vent a little. Tom Chick on the Quarter to Three podcast is about the only person who has fully embraced GTA V and really wholeheartedly loves it. Thank goodness for that.
Net_Wrecker
Member
It renders the properties useless, and the whole thing happens through menus and random chaos. It's unfocused, unclear, and unbalanced. You "easily" made tens of millions in one day. That's the problem. It's breaks the game's economy in a few days, or a few missions depending on how you go about it.
I like the feeling of building my net worth through the game and sitting on a stash at the end with money continuing to flow in knowing "Yeah, I did all that." There's none of that in GTAV.
My point isn't that the narrative has to be literally rags to riches, but the economy has to have that kind of pacing. You should be struggling in the beginning and gradually building your wealth through missions and side business so that by the end you've become a rich bastard through good old fashion illegal hard work. GTAV starts off differently (with Michael at least), but the end goal is the same: MAKE SOME PAPER AND NOT GET KILLED. The problem is the businesses barely get you any paper, the missions sporadically make you paper, the side activities and randoms makes you miniscule amounts of paper, then you just throw the entire thing into some Assassinations missions, or a few stocks on BAWSAQ and BANG you're rich beyond your wildest dreams. It's not satisfying, and it makes money pointless.