Net_Wrecker
Member
There's so much good stuff in there. I wish there were more combat missions, and pre-heist set up/casing where some of the tracks were pushed to the front of the sound mix and got to breathe a bit.
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Grand Theft Auto V |OT2| <Title available for purchase>
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There's so much good stuff in there. I wish there were more combat missions, and pre-heist set up/casing where some of the tracks were pushed to the front of the sound mix and got to breathe a bit.
It gets a lot better at 30-35%, but I can't deny I had those same feelings.
I think it is the most beautiful world I've played in, but it has not succeeded in distracting me from the oversights, and questionable decisions, gameplay omissions, and unnecessary vagueness.
Pretty sure though, as always when I think back 4 years from now, I will remember the almost teary eyes every time I just stop in a car with the radio on in cinematic view, and think awesome, awesome game. They tend to make me forget all the bullshit I just went thru.
Oh the TV was amazing. I would fire up the xbox while eating dinner just to catch the shows. I once watched a film on a date (with Jimmy) though. Whoa, that was one really bad flick.
RoninChaos
Member
I can't get the blitz play heist to start. I did all the prep but it won't show up. I've done the life invader mission for Lester and that's it. I'm trying to save those till post game. Do I need to do one to move the game forward?
Lemon Crest
Member
Just got all the letter pieces and did the mission.
Had me laughing me pretty hard.
"Do I look like I'm here to suck you off?"
Had me laughing me pretty hard.
You are my honorary friend for the day.
Speaking of dates, lol, how do you know where to pick them up? I never get any markers on my map and always seems like I ditched them, haha.
You're good with one.
Windom Earle
Member
When I try to buy some of the bigger planes for Trevor, it says there is not enough space in my hangar. Normal?
This means I can't get them with Trevor? It sucks, he's my preferred pilot. Oh well, gonna stick with the LAZER jet for him then. Thing is a beast.
This means I can't get them with Trevor? It sucks, he's my preferred pilot. Oh well, gonna stick with the LAZER jet for him then. Thing is a beast.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Couldn't disagree more, I love me the gun battles. I'm genuinely surprised so many don't get on with it. I love the precision of the weapons and the grungy qualities of the firefights. It is just the right mix of GTA IV and MP3 for me.
I have to admit, the occasional Euphoria (or is it a RAGE) qwerk are still present (and frustrating), but it's not nearly the constant struggle of GTA IV.
That would be nice, since there's no vigilante missions. I haven't followed online since lot Ethernet port on my 360 is blown out. Are vigilante missions available online?
I also love the shooting in this iteration - R* litterally improved everything. Hell, I even like doing the races and that's a crazy statement coming from a GTA vet, lol.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Alright, can someone explain car ownership because clearly I don't get it like I initially thought. I stole a Corquette as Michael and customized it. Stored it in his garage (the car garage, not his house garage) turned off system, turned back on system the next day; retrieved car. Drove to a mission, watched cutscene....car is gone. Not at my garage, not at impound just gone. Wtf? Why even customize cars if they just disappear or can't be retrieved if you wreck them or do a mission? Ugh.p
I thought as soon as you took a car to your garage/customized it you could always get it back/it became your car? Or am I just cursed, because this has also happened to me as Franklin and customizing a sports bike I stole.
I thought as soon as you took a car to your garage/customized it you could always get it back/it became your car? Or am I just cursed, because this has also happened to me as Franklin and customizing a sports bike I stole.
Anyone else hate how they ruined the hand to hand combat?
IV was great once you understood it ( such as when you dodged a punch, you had like 4 or 5 different combos that could happen, unlike V were it's 1)
Felt a little more brutal in IV too ( expect the sucker punch in V, that is awesome)
iv fighting techniques:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12jPZWlAZUg
IV was great once you understood it ( such as when you dodged a punch, you had like 4 or 5 different combos that could happen, unlike V were it's 1)
Felt a little more brutal in IV too ( expect the sucker punch in V, that is awesome)
iv fighting techniques:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12jPZWlAZUg
Dick Justice
Banned
The fluidity of V is waaaay better, but yeah, I was disappointed with how the hit reactions seemed toned down, the lack of awesome counter animations, and how everyone now dies when you beat them down, instead of being injured unless you continued to stomp them.
Dunno.
I thought that since it was Grand Theft AUTO, and I have 1000s of customizable vehicle options, I would be able to pimp a vehicle and like, keep it, and use it in the fucking game.
They went all out, and made upgrades expensive as hell, make sure you'll only use that car once or twice, convince you to buy a garage just to watch the same shit happen.
So I just put the car in a garage and look at how pretty it is, and walk out. Okay, sometimes, I will drive carefully around the block and back it into the garage, for something a little extra.
Good job on the auto thing R*.
Was on a "date" as Mike with Franklin, we took a long speed boat up the west coast, upon entering shore, of course the boat coasts on the sand a bit. We hit a bump. We get out. Franklin punches me, I die.
I just turned the game off after that. How I'm supposed to enjoy that as a gaming experience is beyond me. Fuck your $5000.
guitarhero
Member
I think that's a glitch and they're aware of it:
http://support.rockstargames.com/hc...ring-from-the-gta-v-garage-or-losing-upgrades
tsunami643
Member
My main issue with this is that paramedics are pretty much worthless now. They'll show up after a huge brawl and just shrug and start writing on their notepad instead of reviving people.
NoirVisage
Banned
These commercial airliners are ridiculously delicate. I bumped into some unmovable pile of baggage and the whole airplane exploded, it's wings falling off and everything. Combined with no animation to enter the airplane in the first place, I get the feeling that it was a particularly late addition. It's design just doesn't feel very well thought out.
mr teaspoon
Member
Not really, is that a thing now? I think it's just a riff on an old trope.
I don't think so. I encountered the same situation before, but not while driving a cop car.
lazybones18
Banned
Anyone here buy a tank yet? If so, where did you keep it?
Bought it with Trevor and it was in his hangar. You get a e-mail, where it will appears, iirc.
Unparalleled_Mediocrity
Neo Member
Yeahhh my account finally got activated!
Finished the game a few days ago, really enjoyed it even though the story isn't really going anywhere in the middle (same with most GTA games). I'm now trying to 100% it but I think I've gone soft gaming wise. The stunt jumps are killing me, even when I quick save before every jump. There's soooo many collectibles as well, I don't think I have the stomach for it.
Finished the game a few days ago, really enjoyed it even though the story isn't really going anywhere in the middle (same with most GTA games). I'm now trying to 100% it but I think I've gone soft gaming wise. The stunt jumps are killing me, even when I quick save before every jump. There's soooo many collectibles as well, I don't think I have the stomach for it.
No idea if this is a known issue, or maybe I did something wrong but: every street race is gone from my map! I won the first race (story mission), then didn't bother with them for ages, but now I want to do some, but the icons have vanished from my map. I tried calling the guy that's in charge of them, but it's always busy.
This is just for street races, sea/offroad/triatlon stuff appears just fine.
Any way to fix this? 55/69 story missions done, if that'd matter
This is just for street races, sea/offroad/triatlon stuff appears just fine.
Any way to fix this? 55/69 story missions done, if that'd matter
Unparalleled_Mediocrity
Neo Member
I think street races can only be done at night, from 8.00 onwards
I'm pretty sure I've seen that event when I wasn't in a cop car.
Muffdraul
Member
After racking up a nice collection of random insta-deaths from things like that, seemingly mild fender benders, dogs that I didn't know were inside the vehicle of some random motorist I decided to jack, I got into the habit of abusing quicksave *constantly*. I refuse to lose that $5K.
Nameless
Member
Definitely. The shooting is quite underwhelming on the default settings, but Free Aim + Complex reticle w/some tweaks to the sensitivity without question makes GTAV one of the best 3rd person shooters I've played in quite sometime. Makes me question why it wasn't like that out of the box; it's like a different game combat wise.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
These are the same reasons I quit playing RDR.
They only show up at night, and only as Franklin unlike the other types.
Whenever I switch to Trevor and he starts in Floyd's apartment the door is locked and I can't get out. I'm literally trapped inside and it's impossible to exit. It's not game breaking because I can just switch to another character and switch back to Trevor a little later and hopefully he starts elsewhere.
Although I found out why the door never opens from inside. I found the door from the outside and it's covered in yellow police tape saying 'crime scene'. Weird.
Although I found out why the door never opens from inside. I found the door from the outside and it's covered in yellow police tape saying 'crime scene'. Weird.
User 73706
Banned
Some of the non-radio tracks are dynamic, which is the problem. For example, Trevor's final rampage mission features some basic drums and distorted bass, but there's also a low wow-guitar riff that plays when you get a kill.
Sometimes if you cruise around beachhouses (near the pier) you'll find guys fresh from a party too drunk to drive - I found them at dawn. I also found a drunk couple really close to Trevor's place looking for a ride every now and then.
Udham
Member
I would check the socialclub website and track Not Found for random events and see if any of them sound like a pickup for a person and have Trevor do it. I thought I was potentially out of similar events but was able to find a few more.
Ditto. I don't know why Free Aim/Complex crosshair wasn't default, or at the very least the option between the two to show up in the first mission. I can't imagine playing through it any other way.
TheContact
Member
Trevor's driving skill just went up when Trevor was flying a chopper. How does that work lol?
RoninChaos
Member
so did my game glitch?
Net_Wrecker
Member
The problem isn't the actual shooting, it's how bad movement during combat still is, not to mention the dynamic crosshair (which should be permanent), and "tap to sprint" which shouldn't be a thing anymore. I never used auto aim, and it's still a clear step down from the best of shooters, of which Rockstar has one of the top contenders in terms of mechanics. Then you layer in the Euphoria weirdness, the laser accurate enemies, the health system that doesn't fit the game; it's just a bunch of things that make combat, at times, disappointing for me, especially missions dealing with tight spaces, or a lot of cover and enemies pouring in from different directions.
It being "just the right mix of GTAIV and MP3" means there's still GTAIV in the DNA, which means there's still "terrible" in the DNA. GTAIV should be gone. All traces of that game, from a mechanic standpoint, should've been nuked from orbit. They already learned how to fix all the issues.
Well these are tracks being recorded directly from the game, so maybe that person just hasn't done it yet.
KEEP HOPE ALIVE
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Yeah that was funny. It was weird too, I was literally talking about the black dahlia killer an hour before and was told the theory about it being performance art. And bam, there it is in the game. That was neat. I also finished up the spaceship parts, that cuts end made me laugh so much. I love the anticlimactic ballkicks this game delivers.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I really didn't mind the combat in the SP game at all, but then I didn't mind it in 4 too much either, and I thought this was much improved on how it used to be. The soft lock is a nice mid ground between the win-button of the normal auto aim, and the free aim which is far too loose without any stickiness. I never really found it giving me any troubles, the game is more about your choices in the combat than your actual mechanical effectiveness for me.
Tbh, it's all to do with the FOV, I'm constantly comparing this in my head to a dedicated TPS like Gears or TLOU and in those games, the FOV is much tighter, making both your player on screen bigger, but also giving you healthily large targets to aim at. It doesn't work in a game with the scope of GTA though, the characters are just so small in the big world that free aim is not really a viable option. I would be interested to play the game somehow with similar FOV or relative sizes to other successful TPS games, I think it would make the combat a lot more satisfying.
I also think that the game should dr the health bar and so for the classic regen health/jam on screen. It works, it's not so frustrating and while unrealistic, it's not more ridiculous than health packs anyway. I think the damage model is far too unforgiving in 5 as well, you die so incredibly easy that it can be disheartening.
So, while not minding the combat so much in SP, I must say that I don't like it at all in multi and I have given up on PvP entirely. Soft lock is great against the ai but is shitty against people. It is not fun to be killed instantly without knowing where it came from. And it's barely any fun to kill people who are so unaware that you're about to wreck their day as well.
BigWeather
Member
Anyone know if the music from the mission
is in the soundtrack at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FCIR4S6/?tag=neogaf0e-20 Doesn't seem like it, but maybe I'm misremembering.
"Lamar Down" (the sawmill one)
Forgot it had to be at night, thanks. Found a new race icon.
78% and I want to get that 100%. All seems pretty fun except for the 2 collectathons. Not looking forward to those. They were lenient on the 100% requirements, except there
