I am beginning to feel this GTA boasts some deeper level of immersion than previous ones.
Also the pause/map music is incredible.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
I didn't make this crew and I haven't posted here in three years.
Haha! Well, I made the crew and you were first to accept an invitation. Then I realised you could only own one crew but I needed to make another. So I left and rejoined, which I guess transferred ownership to you.
I think the Max Payne stuff is just because they haven't turned GTA online on yet so MP is still the only game that fully supports crews.
― JimD, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
Also the pause/map music is incredible.it's haunting my dreams alright
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
it's a bit like the end of Motherboard, maybe? And Take my Breath Away
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
YES
― cozen, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Stuck on PC. grrrrrr.
I have been wanting to replay Vice City, but I recently bought a 360 controller and on PC half the buttons DO NOT WORK and I went through a lot of keymappers, none of which worked. Finally I found this mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=162687746#114052
Apparently it works with San Andreas as well.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
If you don't use that mod, your right analog stick (camera), the D-Pad, and the trigger buttons all do not work! Also, for some reason it would not work in "Windows 98 compatibility" (don't ask why this was set, I don't remember) I had to turn off compatibility mode.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
I noticed in the opening creds that it's Tangerine Dream, the pause music and mission stuff. Really want to hear it all.
Felt pretty seedy in the strip club, it was a fact finding mission.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
When does the online stuff activate?
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
great news: everyone except for Cozen has been promoted
― antexit, Friday, 20 September 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
Online activates 1 October
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Just found out that since we changed our internet provider I can no longer get on xbox live w/ my ethernet cable, gonna have to invest in a dongle for a shit old 360 Arcade that I won't even want in 3 months, psshaw
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'll join once I hook it up again also.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:07 (ten years ago) link
lol @ the hierarchy now
― goole, Friday, 20 September 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
i'm happy just being muscle in a solid, forward-thinking operation
― goole, Friday, 20 September 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
!!! attn: Z S !!!
dude i think your twitter has been hacked irl
― goole, Friday, 20 September 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
WHOA
sorry!! it looks like someone or something sent out dozens of direct messages to people.
weird. never happened to me before!
― Z S, Friday, 20 September 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
This game feels like it was written by a men's rights guy
― polyphonic, Friday, 20 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
how do you connect your ps3 to teh social club thing
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 20 September 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
also this naggy iphone thing is not good
Maybe it's just that I associate GTA with Vice but I thought about Gavin McInnes a couple times
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 20 September 2013 23:44 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TzNsM2LzUzw/T3tgcex-mtI/AAAAAAAAAIo/hyeySXwW8t0/s1600/oldmangamer.jpeg
^^^ Slocki in this thread
― antexit, Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TzNsM2LzUzw/T3tgcex-mtI/AAAAAAAAAIo/hyeySXwW8t0/s1600/oldmangamer.jpeg"i played for three hours and i feel like all i've done is drive around some strip malls"
― antexit, Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:10 (ten years ago) link
that guy is having more fun than i did
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 21 September 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
Women in this game are either whores or shrews
― polyphonic, Saturday, 21 September 2013 02:11 (ten years ago) link
The Tesla car is rad. I don't think I would have noticed it had I had not been wearing headphones.
― More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Saturday, 21 September 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
lots of nice cars, find myself endlessly speeding around the industrial parts with their long straight roads.
that's in between feeding stray hitchhikers to cannibals.
― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Saturday, 21 September 2013 08:14 (ten years ago) link
Trevor is really something else.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 21 September 2013 08:15 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I was going to ask people about the tone of the game. It's occasionally funny, one of the radio DJs screamed "the Internet is a k-hole!" last night, the shrink parody is good, but it's frequently juvenile, sexist, and kinda racist.
It could probably stand to be cynical in the way that exposes prejudice rather than cementing it, I mean like The Onion or something is incredibly dark but largely a force for good, and you imagine it has women writing for it, seems doubtful for GTA.
I guess all the GTAs have been a bit like this but this one is more claustrophobic and concentrated.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Saturday, 21 September 2013 08:18 (ten years ago) link
It's not even just that it's casually sexist, it's like the writers take every opportunity to be sexist. EG the aunt and the mom exercising. Or the American Apparel spoof ads on the radio, they could attack that from the left but they go the other way entirely.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Saturday, 21 September 2013 08:21 (ten years ago) link
haven't had a chance to sit down with this until tonight - i just looked up and realized it was six in the morning!
totally enthralling so far - i didn't get very far in la noire or red dead redemption, and it's been so long since GTA IV that i forgot just how much more immersive rockstar worlds are than, say, those of the saints row games (which i still love for different reasons). the juvenilia/sexism/racism is obviously really problematic but i guess i've been playing GTA games for so long that i can kinda take it in stride at this point? the taboos were definitely part of the allure when i was playing GTA2 at 17; i cringe at it now at 30, but it's never been the main reason i've played these games. i wouldn't begrudge anybody for feeling uneasy about this stuff, but i'm less turned off by it than i thought i'd be given all the advance reactions.
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Saturday, 21 September 2013 10:16 (ten years ago) link
also i got DJQUIK as my vanity license plate, which i'm way too happy about
Do you always get a big thunderstorm at the bit where Trevor first travels into the city? fuckin amazing anyway
the gaming press seems to be united in accepting that the satire in GTA games is amazingly clever and that it SKEWERS America when most of the time it's just this clunky, illusion-shattering shit like the Fox News knockoff literally having "Confirming Your Prejudices" as its amazing satirical genius slogan
I like that the game has an option to sync up with some real-life Facebook functionality, and also that mission where Michael goes to their office and does something that is essentially counter to the spirit of that business relationship
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 September 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
also, really wish I hadn't read the soundtrack spoiler links when they came out cos some of the stuff on there would've had me properly cackling with glee when it first came on
happily hadn't noticed Don Johnson's foghorned-voiced lone solo hit had crept in there though, soundtracked a bagsnatching interlude beautifully
still waiting to hear something in particular that was meant to be on there but hasn't turned up on the radio though, the big one, the elephant in the room if you will
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 September 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
also
cara delevingne hosts the pop station and her dialogue is seriously awful, such a weird choice of dj (she's never done anything like this before has she?). was gona post about it on that crepey ile thread dedicated to posting unflattering photos of her but nah
you ain't kidding buddy, yeesh
almost suspicious about their motives for putting her out there tbh
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 September 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
ha is that cara d, jesus! i dunno tho, she did say the line "the internet is a k-hole" which i enjoyed. the pop station is pretty good, misteeq's "scandalous" had me reaching for the volume button on my remote last night.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Saturday, 21 September 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
to turn it up rather than down
How have you guys played the heists so far? I've just played the first one, invested a fair old whack in my crew so I'm pretty annoyed that they don't tell you until after the mission's started that their stats will improve each time you use them but the % stays the same. Would've used cheap'ns if I'd known.
All the same, it it was fucking thrilling smashing all those jewellery cases and seeing the take go up - 10 seconds and one case left, whaddaya do?! Fun gaming
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Saturday, 21 September 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
I went quiet on the jewels, bombs on the freighter. Note to self: always hire the best possible team
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 21 September 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
didn't really need to see trevor's balls
― cozen, Saturday, 21 September 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
e-balls
about 40% of the way through so far. best GTA imo
Yeah. I haven't loved any GTA since 3 but I love this
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 21 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
This one has changed "game world" to something scalable? telescoping? It feels completely new to me. Parts of the city become microcosmic (Franklin's neighbourhood) while other places around Trevor's house are processed as large, bulky spaces. I think of Skyrim and how after 40 hours or so, most of the gameworld had been visited on foot and dungeons investigated, but you were always looking at the game world from the same distance. GTA 5 has areas that you'll only ever see whizzing by in a drag race or from a plane. Feels very foreground/background in its design. I don't know how else to put it.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 21 September 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
trevor is fucking terrible. was like a brick wall when he was introduced. the crrrrrrrazy guy. so ccccrrrrrrrazy. how long do you have to play as him before you can switch back to a better character?
― adam, Saturday, 21 September 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
not long, just blow through his available missions
so far Trevor seems like they had different people writing his creepy pointless murder bits and his hilarious wacky beating up a hapless developmentally disabled juggalo bits
― random accies memories (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 21 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
so, total GTA amateur here, but i just realized that i accidentally switched the controls to "alternate" at the very beginning of the game, just after the flashback scene that opens the game. as a result, the button that lets you zoom in a bit and aim switched to LB rather than LT. i kept pressing LT to aim, and when it didn't work, i just assumed that at the beginning of the game you have crappy weapons and poor aiming skills so you're not allowed to use the aim button. or something.
finally realized my mistake and gunplay just got a whoooooooooooooole lot easier! i was starting to get really frustrated shooting from the hip all of the time.
― Z S, Saturday, 21 September 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
*minor spoilers if you're not very far in the game*
i'm having a little trouble playing the market. my general strategy is to buy stocks that have taken a recent downturn - buy low, sell high, of course. so when the facebook-esque guy meets his untimely end, i thought that would be a great time to buy their stock since the prices collapse. but it seems like...they just keep collapsing. oops.
― Z S, Saturday, 21 September 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
That happened to me too. Whoops
― polyphonic, Saturday, 21 September 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
The buy low on LifeInvader thing, I mean. Not low enough I guess.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 21 September 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link