which city for GTA 5?

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)

no skip-to-sandbox code unfortunately.

there is so much dope shit about this game, i wish rockstar would hire a good writer.

There are def some terrible dadjoke things in there. Certain scene with Franklin and a talking dog comes to mind.

this is balanced out somewhat by cruising around on a 4 wheeler jamming windowlicker like what

think shooting rabbits is more my speed than pulling out teeth.

Plenty of animals to kill up north.

no skip-to-sandbox code unfortunately.

In GTA 4 you could play in sandbox mode over xb live, so I'm sure this will be an option eventually.

there is so much dope shit about this game, i wish rockstar would hire a good writer.

cosign with so so many games, esp heavy rain and the appalling uncharteds

bloody flight school. Anyone know the secret to getting gold in the 'land on a bridge' ? I can't see what I'm doing wrong, it keeps giving me silver medal.

love the music scores when doing some of the missions, fits perfectly.

and that trevor ball bag scene, i just happen to be using Trevor with no top on so he was totally naked. not pretty, but fucking hilarious.

want to play this so bad that i think reality is warping around me, on friday i walked into a bar and the music was 1/4 into 'across the tracks' exactly like when you go into woozie's casino in san andreas

worst thing was i didnt even fully apprehend it at first, just that my strolling in felt all too natural

'cross the track' even

is there a way to check what track is playing? or do i just have to cycle through all the radio stations until i get back to the one i'm on?

Hold the radio button and it will track ID

take out your iphone and shazam it

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?

Yeah pretty sure there's a sandbox mode when MP starts up-- but the whole map is unlocked right from the beginning, and you don't have to play that much for all the minigames to get unlocked.

Is this the first GTA in a long time where the minigames seem like they'll be worth playing in their own right? I played 9 holes of golf yesterday--aside from the fact that there's only those 9 holes to play, it's just as deep and satisfying as playing Tiger Woods-- more kinda since you can walk from shot to shot, something I've always wanted to do in a golf game-- and you can beat freak out after you miss a two-foot putt and beat your golf club against a tree or pour gas all over the green and set it on fire, a mechanic conspicuously absent from most golfing video games

is there a way to check what track is playing? or do i just have to cycle through all the radio stations until i get back to the one i'm on?

hold down L on the d-pad and it brings up a radio selection wheel which will show you the current track.

what custom plates did people get?

assman

I went with QUALCOMM for some reason

lol

aside from the fact that there's only those 9 holes to play, it's just as deep and satisfying as playing Tiger Woods

It's pretty fun but I wouldn't go that far!

my ANTEXITSUX plates looking p.good