which city for GTA 5?

• I like missions too, but only with either a friend, crew member or someone who knows what the hell they're doing. I got lumped into one the other night where you were supposed to go into the grounds of this mansion, kill a guy and then deliver the photo back to Don. (Dom?) The summary itself even said something like "The place will be surrounded, so you may want to come in from above where they won't expect you."

so of course, the three other guys steal a car and try to ram it through the front gate.

• I don't know about alternate cities except to say that it'll be 2020 before we likely see another Rockstar one. How was it in Saints Row, being in Detrago or Chilwaukee or wherever? I like the Japan idea myself.

yeah tokyo would be my dream scenario... or maybe a multi-city map based off europe

that said if it's easier logistically to keep building off LA i would be ok with that

nyc is really boring to me tho

It's not really an exciting place to drive around in, much less crash airplanes into each other.

100%

nice

now get to the top of that mountain!

Still playing, still getting into adventures, nothing worth writing home about. There's this one member of my "crew" who never talks except for the occasional text that says "You lead the way, I'm drunk!" The other night, we drove up to the arts museum and bashed each other for awhile with melee weapons like broken bottles and baseball bats. Probably doesn't merit a four-paragraph description.

Last night, I went back to the virtual apartment and watched the rest of the players on TV, listening to their chatter. On one channel, there's a guy running down the sidewalk with a sniper's rifle. The next channel, there's a guy hiding behind a dumpster, looking out for the guy with the sniper's rifle. Up in the mountains is a player ranked at only No. 5, running through the bushes all by himself. There's a player shopping for clothes at Binco.

On the headset, there were these two Midwesterners, possibly Canadians, arguing with each other. Apparently they were brothers or cousins, trying to have a shoot-out with these other guys, but one of the brothers kept "accidentally" shooting the other. "Stay out of my way then!" "Stay out of your way? Tell me then exactly who you were aiming for up on that roof awhile ago, eh?" One of them ran into his apartment and the other was trying to get buzzed in. "No, man. Not after what you did to my car. Say you're sorry first." I would've chirped up with a "Dave's not here" reference, but that would've "outted" me as someone over 25.

The chatter is horrible. Just like anywhere, the obnoxious assholes are the loudest. There was a laid-back voice with a west coast accent arguing with a nasal-voiced Southerner. One was getting called faggot and the other was getting called nigger, though I don't think either of the two were black or homosexual. As nasty and offensive as the conversation was, it never got heated? Those words are like gunpowder, and yet, you'd think these two different ethnicities were simply telling your mama jokes to each other.

I am simultaneously embarrassed and amazed at the behavior of some of these white kids and the non-white people who interact with them. I heard one Asian-American describe himself as such to a white kid and immediately get bombarded with "Yeah, but wherrrreee arrrre you frrrrommm, then?" questions. The two guys I talked about above went into this weird spiel where the white guy was all "you're right. I would never say things out loud in person. I only do this on Playstation." while the other guy described the difference between being Hispanic and Latino. We all learned something about ourselves.

Well, we all learned something until the the nasal guy went off about the Latino's mother squeezing him out just on the other side of a barbed-wire fence. Then it went right back to where it started and I had to turn it off.

I got the Space Docker. The thing cost 125k to insure, geez.

Also it drives like shit.

Where do you get those? They make funny sounds though and look cool at night.

Someone who has one drives with you into their garage. You get out of the car in the garage and immediately get back in. Then you drive out with your own duplicate car. Then you insure for 125k

Oh one of those ways.

I got a free Vacca by doing the whole buying it online, not immediately replacing the car I wanted replacing, going back to the single player and then hitting ok, ok. Trouble with those is that you have to have the money upfront to pay for a Vacca in the first place.

I was thinking about single-player.

My biggest pet peeve, and GTA4 was especially horrible about this, are the one-on-one, heartfelt character discussions that occur when you're driving from Point A to Point V somewhere. "Man, you were always the cut-up back in the day." "What are you talking about, my heart's always been in this game!" "That's right. It's just that sometimes the game changes on you." "That's right, man. *pause* That's right."

SHUT UP.

I'm about halfway through the single player. Last night I was leaping over a train in a dirt bike to chase a burning plane and said to my wife "LOOK! IT'S LIKE I'M ACTUALLY IN AN ACTION MOVIE!"

The look she gave me :(

haha oh no

I know that look far too well

90.5% through now. Still searching for those last papers/spaceship items.

Also struggling with the 5th epsilyon tract clue, but don't tell me the answer, seems I reckon I'm looking for a ruined church perhaps. hmm. (I know I don't need them for 100% but gotta do em)

It also says that I'm down on 2 freaks/stranger missions. I'm damned if I know which ones - I've been all over this fricking map!

did you do all of tania's towing missions? that one confused me for awhile. try calling her as franklin if you haven't cleaned that up.

I know that look far too well

― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Wednesday, December 4, 2013 12:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, way to break it to onimo

http://i.imgur.com/cbMbgJw.gif

I was at 90% when I completed the main mission, and I left it at that.

There's a family row raging at the minute as my sister-in-law has bought her 11 year old son this for Christmas.

I've got a bad secret:

The four-year-old plays this.

Now, he's in a game where the weapons are out of ammo, so he can't shoot anything. He mostly steals buses and drives around and climbs ladders. If there's a crane in the distance, he'll spend ten minutes running to it.

he also likes to swim the length of the L.S. River. The other day, he got ate by a shark and both he and his sister were nuts about it for the rest of the day.

I'm not crazy about it, but it is fun to watch him explore. He has punched bystanders, but they came back pretty hard and punched him back. He mostly just runs around. I'll come in after he's done, and there's Michael under a bridge somewhere, standing on a barrel.

I walked in last night, and he's standing in Michael's living room with Franklin standing next to him. "Look!" he says. "It's my friend!"

Please don't call child services. We're monitoring this closely.

l'il plains stories are the next logical step in this thread and i for one am very excited to hear about these pint-sized adventures into mayhem

Snuck into the police station through a glitch and took this photo

http://i.imgur.com/2VDrAdq.jpg

I used to tease Second Lifers. Still do, actually.

Hey, it's a game. It's fun to play. I shouldn't beat myself up for it.

by the way, here's a picture I took right before I beat myself up.

http://i.imgur.com/uM9YZ2c.jpg

The other day I started a new online character. I was doing one of the first missions, and something happened I haven't experienced in a long time ... I ran out of ammo! I only had a basic pistol and a little bit of ammo at that point. I had two guys left to murder so ran in and punched one guy to death, stole his gun, and shot the other guy. It was kind of exhilarating.

there's this one thing that's got me trippin
there's this one thing that's got me trippin

Na na nananana na

someone gave me millions of dollars in a game last night. millions. what do i do? also, lots of guys in the game were indestructible. am i in a lobby for bad sports? I AM NOT A BAD SPORT.

online is wintery weather only today. very impressive though

Someone gave me $180M. I'll tell ya, it's made the game more enjoyable.

The snow is amazing. Felt like Christmas was finally here when I saw it.

yeah when I loaded it up I was treated to snow, Baker Street on the radio, and someone gave me £500 mill and then someone else gave me more. wtf.

yeah i'm up 240M

Seriously, now that I don't have to worry about money -

• I traded in for an apartment in the same building just so I could have a different view.

• Loaded up every car with max armor, turbo, bulletproof tires.

• Didn't think I needed the extra magazine on the MG since I use the Carbine more, but hey, YOLO.

• Speaking of YOLO, I don't worry so much about getting killed. Came down Mt. Chilliad on foot today, dying three or four times in gnarly falls. Ain't no thing anymore.

• Somebody shoot me or blow up my car? Hope you feel better, little man with a gun in his hand. I just respawn and either go after the guy, put a $9K bounty on his head or shrug it off and go home.

The one thing I did with all the money that I thought I'd have fun doing but was actually saddening was grabbing a Simeon car off the map, respraying it and loading it up with explosives, then parking it right back where I found it. When a few minutes later, I saw the little black caption say I killed so-and-so... it was rather anti-climatic and made me feel a little like a dick.

Now - loading up the Bigfoot 4x4 truck with an explosive, parking it in the LCS lot (not in front of the door or anything) and watching a guy get mad because it was locked (oops, forgot to change that in the menu), spray it with bullets, then try to get in it again just to have it explode -- that was high comedy.

(oi poly thx for invite, but sometimes this game and my internet don't get along; accepting borked my router...)

usually my invites are just me clicking Auto Invite and Play in the lobby so no worries.

Last night I used the Race Creator Beta to make my own race. Very fun.

Loading the Simeon car with a bomb is a great idea!

haha yeah it is

There's a family row raging at the minute as my sister-in-law has bought her 11 year old son this for Christmas.

― DavidM, Monday, December 9, 2013 3:25 PM (2 weeks ago)

She exchanged it for Black Flag, in the end. Which is a lot more fun, imo.

i think i figured out my router problem

the rally-style races are so frustrating and ultimately depressing but i think i love them? i think i like yelling at people. esp if they aren't on mic.

oh and somebody put some absurdly, glitchy-high bounty on me (like a long string of digits), and somebody else promptly killed me. i found that guy, and killed him. a minute later he gifted me a billion dollars. one billion.

oh great, i read now that dumping huge money on ppl is some kind of griefing technique, getting more and more people caught up in cheater lobbies or outright banned, or something? but presumably whenever R* does some kind of 'financial correction' to fix all the rampant money glitching (which i've heard is coming), people on the receiving end of some fucko's charity won't suffer any consequences.

but it's not like i haven't bought a sweet pad and ten tricked out cars, more than the $500k bonus for being around during that first fucked up week, i think...

anyway, i made a sweet off-road track around fort zancudo, is anybody interested? i can figure out how to publicize it if so.

i can't fully trick my rides because i haven't leveled enough :[

Here's one of mine. Don't try it on motorcycles until they work out that whole "dying on impact" glitch with the ramps.

(Find yours by going to http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/games/gtav/jobs/my-missions)

currently in a race lobby with a dude who's level 949

Haven't gone back online since getting stuck in a game where several dudes were indestructible and just wandering around the world killing other players. It kind of sucks when that happens.

I just start a new race or find a new session.

I noticed in the Ammunation store that I could change the color of the Carbine if I killed a certain number of other players. Seems like I've already killed 100, but hey, now I've got a new goal to ~*shoot*~ for. I usually don't go around with guns blazing, but hey, maybe if there's already a firefight happening, I can pull the trigger a few times and work my way up to the Army tint.

So I come back to the lobby after a race and see a cluster of dots around the midtown LCS. Yeah, you don't say. I start driving over there, and I can hear the sirens from more than a block away. I get out just as a police car rams into my car, making me feel like Bugs Bunny exiting the elevator a split second before it crashes. Turns out it's another player in the cop car, so rat-a-tat-tat.

I run toward the plaza where the other dots are and that's when I see like six tanks rolling around, swinging their cannons. Blam, I go up in the air. Respawn and blam, across the pavement. Respawn, and I'm around the corner. What's that one dot doing that's not moving around? Blam, I'll never know.

So I exit the session and land in another one. Just me and this other guy. I help him out in a gangfight and he gives me a ride to Simeon's where I somehow get money for the car I was a passenger in. I give the money back to the player and he in turn gives me the entire total because hey – we're all billionaires in this game now, who needs $4700?

To be honest, getting into a losing firefight with six tanks was more fun.

but hey, i really don't talk like that.

I give the money back to the player

lol i couldn't figure out how to do this. i was in a session that dwindled down to just me an another dude at like level 4. we did this one mission over a couple times (he died a bit) and when it was done he texted me 'thx 4 the help'. i wanted to give him, like, a hundred million dollars or something. but i couldn't figure it out.

like, i just figured out there's a quick menu if you hold down select

It used to work all the time, but since the hacking, much of it has been disabled. I was surprised to see it functioning after that "mission".