which city for GTA 5?

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

I went quiet on the jewels, bombs on the freighter. Note to self: always hire the best possible team

didn't really need to see trevor's balls

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

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.

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?

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

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.

*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.

That happened to me too. Whoops

The buy low on LifeInvader thing, I mean. Not low enough I guess.

whoa, i decided to take a quick joyride across the golf course to celebrate my 5 under (in 9 holes) performance, and...it quickly escalated into a giant battle with the united states of america

Ha I did exactly that too.

best gta. love this game already.

anyone got a gf yet. franklin <3 infernus the stripper.

the default controls are still a bit confusing cos there are so many functions to juggle, not sure about using right d-pad for so much stuff

have had various incidents where I inadvertently killed hobos with one punch while experimenting to see if the cinematic camera worked on foot, unwillingly jacked buses I was trying to ride like a good citizen etc

also can't throw people's litter at their heads any more I think?

Jeff Gerstmann mentioned his disappointment at the satire of the game, that it hadn't really developed or advanced at all since the GTA3 era, only with more topical references cut & pasted in.

I played 4 later than everyone else did after Saints Row 3 and at that point, all the jokes were really lazy entry level dick jokes and knob gags. I mean, it hadn't even hit the level of sophomoric yet.

anyone got a gf yet. franklin <3 infernus the stripper.

i tried to make franklin <3 nikki, but nikki went to the doctor and "can't have any dick" now

the aiming function is really bugging me. much more difficult when trying to shoot from vehicles, gta4 was bad for this but this is daft. whole system seems crappy, the shooting range missions aren't enjoyable in any way because using this tiny pad to aim a tiny crosshair means it veers all over the place. doesn't seem to even be a zoom function where you can see the target and crosshair better - i've been playing sc:blacklist a ton lately and the shooting/aiming system in that is perfect so this is kinda frustrating.

localgarda otm re all the sexism stuff. don't think i've encountered any female character yet who isn't obsessed with sex/money/crack. makes the whole thing unpleasant, esp as it didn't have to be like this - this could have been the game where they turned it all around but instead they kept on aiming it at the late-teen male. v grim.

finally got to trevor and agree he's so much more fun to play than the other whiney two characters - esp driving over vast desert landscape, these parts remind me a bit of red dead redemption. but yeah not so much looking forward to going back to playing as 2d 'moral core of the game' franklin and frustrated dad 101 michael.

god damn I want to play this game but I'm too damn broke to buy an Xbox.

ya the much-vaunted satire in this game is pretty lame... fox news? more like WEASEL news! amazing.

whoa, i decided to take a quick joyride across the golf course to celebrate my 5 under (in 9 holes) performance, and...it quickly escalated into a giant battle with the united states of america

― Z S, Saturday, 21 September 2013 16:20

ok now i wanna play this

ZS - there's a ~development~ later in the game that makes it a wee bit easier to play the stockmarket

As far as aiming is concerned, I definitely recommend changing your reticle in the menus so it's more visible. It defaulted as a single white pixel and it was constantly getting lost in the background.

Also recommend turning radar off and only using blips. I spend a lot less time looking at the HUD now, but still have enough information to go by.

one thing about this game is that i spend like 90% of the time driving looking at the tiny mini-map and missing the gorgeous scenery and shit

though i took a nice selfie on top of hte mountain

does anyone else find the icons in the help messages are ridiculously small? not sure if it's the res of my tv but it's like "press *invisible dot* plus *invisible dot* to activate franklin's special ability. my eyesight isn't the best but they're actually miniscule.

Apparently they've sold over 13m copies of this already. The fact they're still struggling to even keep the social club site up with that many users makes me think they're unlikely to actually hit the October 1st launch of the online game (or at least if they do launch it, it'll be broke for weeks).

thanks polyphonic, gonna do both those. good point in an article above: All of that endless vista, and you with your eyes too-often glued to the mini-map.

most non-game-world things on screen are too small. i play on a bigscreen tv sat across the room and i'm constantly having to get up to read those tiny text messages and instructions before they disappear. never had this problem with any other game, like they've squeezed all the extra bits on there as small as possible

before launch they were saying how they expected to sell to half of all ps3 and xbox owners on the first day or something wild. did this happen?

The heist music is amazing, the way it builds.

Not yet. There are about 13m ps3/360 consoles in just the the uk at the moment, and their 13m sales are worldwide. But I think they were projecting total lifetime sales and this is just 3 days in, so who knows.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/366364/Screenshots/ah64.png

:/

before launch they were saying how they expected to sell to half of all ps3 and xbox owners on the first day or something wild. did this happen?

― NI, Saturday, September 21, 2013 10:22 AM (13 minutes ago)

I read the game cost $265M to produce ($137M dev + $128M mktg) and sales on Day One were claimed at $800M.

$800M/$60 = 13.3M units

According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles

PS3 = 80.4M units sold
Xbox360 = 78.2M units sold

13.3M / (80.4M +78.2M) = 8.4% penetration in 24 hours (day one).

1st week sales are unavailable yet but 3 day estimates are well over $1B. Will need to top close to $5B to approach 50% penetration on existing console estimates.

v interesting that, thanks. esp with the massive profit made on day1 alone

best dusk in a videogame since ocarina imo

~lamar~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTHklXyutC8

no local storage for photos is dumm

also must be the first gta to not spawn 100 of the same car around you whenever you manage to steal an amazing ride

Anyone done that rampage mission with Trevor? Amazing.

yeah the rampages are really well done

just found out you can buy some pretty nice cars (and tanks) ($3mil) by mailorder

The only other one I've done is where Michael smokes the joint and sees aliens everywhere, feel like the joy and surprise elements have been missing from rampages since maybe the very first GTA, but it's taken this one to make me realise that.

After playing a bit more, I think Trevor is less Waingro and more Frank Booth as a methhead.

was p surprised the michael rampage didn't end with him waking up to a four star wanted rating with 30 hapless dead civilians around him

find myself doing a lot of simulated mid-life crisis shit with Michael, solemnly wading waste-deep into rural water bodies at 4am a la Reggie Perrin, engaging in pointless shouting matches with happy young couples downtown, etc

thanking this thread for getting me to finally play RDR, think shooting rabbits is more my speed than pulling out teeth. if it were GTA then Marsden woulda banged Bonnie already

phew. about 25% through.

one of my favorite coincidental music moments so far was when i stole a van as part of a mission, a bunch of police were alerted, i changed the radio station and the song just happened to be a few seconds before the incredible drop in afx's 'windowlicker'

i agree that playing as trevor tends to provoke much more irrational violent behavior when playing than the michael or franklin. i found myself veering out of the way to obliterate people on their atvs or golf carts, whereas with the other two i tend to just try to get to wherever i'm going as quickly as possible while avoiding things like that.

but i like playing as the other two! great balance between the three characters so far.

is there a cheat code to skip all the story bullshit and have everything unlocked so i can do the fun part of the game?

Trevor is terrible, but his terribleness becomes quite comic as things progress. Theres a scene with him and Michael driving somewhere where Michael goes on a rant about T's appearance and proclivities that.. well, I dont want to spoil the punchline, but I actually laughed out loud.

Also holy shit, the massive battle at the bank. Shiiiiit.

{I'm watching someone else play, and I think I'm thankful I missed the torture scene)