Grand Theft Auto 5

[Ami]

GTA V PS4, Xbox One, PC releasing November?

 

[Ami]

GTA V ships more than 34 million copies

 

[Cthulhu]

Do they have valid single-player DLC or free content yet? The game is awesome, don't get me wrong, but the single player kinda falls flat after the playthrough (which feels a bit short in hindsight, but, hindsight) and I wasn't particularly drawn to playing that again.

Online never attracted me either, you're sharing the whole world with a small group of strangers and (at least in my experiences) the events are pretty much dead. But that's probably just me.

What it really needs is a PC release and large-scale online gameplay - chuck dozens of players into a shared game world and such.

Oh, and more single player content, and preferably not silly minigames like jumping out of airplanes.

 

[CK]

theres a rumor there might be a zombie single player dlc like red dead. Not really what I was hoping for. Online can be heaps of fun with friends but boring by yourself

 

[Ami]

Yep, single-player DLC is coming. What is it has yet to be confirmed, although it's pointed towards being Trevor-centric. The online has been pretty fun for me recently, as I'm playing alongside Carlie, Joe and Marcus. When I'm not with them, I tend to make invite only sessions. So I'll be on my own doing the jobs, etc and if anyone comes on, I can just get them in with me. It takes out the immature players, regardless.

 

[CK]

more trevor is always good. I wanted some more franklin story though. Michael tells franklin he might get to put together some of his own jobs early in the game but the only one he got to do was the exotic cars job. I really thought he would step up more than that.

 

[Ami]

 

[Jason Tandro]

Here's a compilation of a bunch of stunts I did. Nothing super impressive, but I found them kind of amusing.

 

[Cthulhu]

I finally just did my first proper heist (prison break) with Ami. I had no idea they were quite this long / well-done, . Worth the wait, I reckon.

What I'm missing in GTA Online though is character personality - they could do with voice acting. Probably too complicated or expensive or something though.

 

[Ami]

We had some epic times.

The people we played with weren't too bad either, considering over 90% of them are royal fucktards. Sniping those two people with our cartoon girl faces was so worth it.

 

[Ami]

I find it amusing how Michael is Pikachu, Wade is Squirtle and Amanda as Charizard.

 

[Ami]

Popping this here.

 

[Ami]

Don't they know the train is just an unstoppable force of unnatural nature?

 

[Joe]

Big ol' update coming to GTAnline in the next few days. Lots of activities and game-modes being added to Free Mode. Looks pretty damn exciting.

 

[Lex]

So this was in with other christmas presents, and it's the first game I decided to play because I've wanted it for some time (but refuse to pay close to full price for pre-owned games, no matter how good they are). Luckily Amazon had a brand new PS4 copy for £20, according to the fam XD

Anyway, I'm having a lot of fun with it. Movement is still awkward IMO, I dislike the characters being super heavy like that and I'm dying for Rockstar to sort it out. Thankfully, the driving is a lot better in this game than it was in IV. Graphically I'm not impressed, but it's nice to look at which is good enough. The best thing about it so far are the characters, which is refreshing for a GTA game. Looking forward to getting stuck in again when I've had some sleep.

 

[Ami]

Can't wait to see what you think of GTA Online.

I streamed a couple of hours last night originally intending to have a snowball fight, but I ended up caught up in heists and other stuff. Snow should still be available until the beginning of January.

 

[Flintlock]

I thought GTAV's graphics were pretty awesome when it came out on the PS3. I'd never seen such draw distance. The character models were the only slightly unimpressive thing. By the way, Lex, the way they move in GTA is pretty standard for Rockstar games - at least, it felt the same for me in LA Noire and Red Dead Redemption - so don't expect that to change, especially not a couple of years after the game's release.

 

[Claymore]

I'm surprised you don't think much of the graphics as it blew me away on the PS4.

Definitely agree about the characters though - their personalities and story scenarios only get better the deeper you enter the game. Without a doubt it was one of my highlights of V, and one aspect I thought they really nailed this time around.

 

[Lex]

I thought GTAV's graphics were pretty awesome when it came out on the PS3. I'd never seen such draw distance. The character models were the only slightly unimpressive thing. By the way, Lex, the way they move in GTA is pretty standard for Rockstar games - at least, it felt the same for me in LA Noire and Red Dead Redemption - so don't expect that to change, especially not a couple of years after the game's release.

I know the movement thing is a Rockstar games staple, and it's nowhere near as clunky and bad as GTAIV, but it was so bad in GTAIV that I was put off getting even halfway through the game, which is unusual for me (as you know).

I'm surprised you don't think much of the graphics as it blew me away on the PS4.

Definitely agree about the characters though - their personalities and story scenarios only get better the deeper you enter the game. Without a doubt it was one of my highlights of V, and one aspect I thought they really nailed this time around.

It's not that the graphics aren't great, it's just they've been treated like the second coming of Jesus or something and I've been horrendously spoiled by things like Dragon Age: Inquisition which just look ridiculously good in comparison. Don't get me wrong, considering this is essentially a last-gen title I am impressed - roads and buildings in particular look quite good (and this matters because you spend more time looking at them than you do at characters).

But the character movement thing really bothers me. Not just in terms of you controlling them, but I get frustrated looking at their arms because none of the models move properly. Everything is stiff and awkward, and you'd think they'd have sorted this out by now after so many games. I'll say they've improved it a lot though.

It's still great, none of this detracts from the experience really (because I've been playing GTA since I was a young child and I'm used to the shitty movement XD). It's just a personal annoyance.

Part of the thing I really love about it is the atmosphere of this game. It has a similar feel when you're running around doing stuff as Vice City, which was one of my favourites. Except this is much more atmospheric, I like that the characters comment and react to a lot more of what's happening.

Btw is there like a recommended mission order or anything? The ability to switch is making me paranoid that I'm going to miss some missions if I go too far with one character and not the others XD.

Also where are the male hookers rockstar I want to be as horribly seedy as all the men in the world XD

 

[Cthulhu]

I'd really like an in-depth article about GTAV's technology, I bet they invested heavily into that.

Also don't worry about the missions / ordering too much, all missions will remain available and the main storyline can't be missed. There's only really one mission / sidequest string you may want to avoid if you want to get super rich, but that's about it.

(speaking of, afaik that is the only way to get really rich in the singleplayer. Actually, making money isn't that big a thing in the game, given how rewards (esp. for repeated missions) are kinda shit and unevenly distributed)

 

[Lex]

It's the Lester missions and manipulating the stocks isn't it.

I suspected this, but have already done all the Lester missions anyway XD

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Got this for my partner for her birthday yesterday, since the digital version was on sale, and she can play it with her siblings in Sweden, and it'll give her and her sister a little bit more to do this week if the weather is shit and whatnot.

So, it took an hour or so to "download" last night, no big deal.

We started the installation this morning... It restarts if you exit or do literally ANYTHING else on the PS4, so you get stuck watching the boring installation screen, and you can't use the PlayStation for anything else that you normally would, since it's the thing from the main room.

The install started when I left for work -- 8 hours ago -- and it's only at 58%.

it's because what's it's ACTUALLY doing is passively downloading the other 40+ GB of the game in the background.


Great first impression.




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[Ami]

Tis a huge game, what else were you expecting?

 

[X-SOLDIER]

I was expecting the "download" process to actually consist of the complete download, and not just a fractional percentage of the download with the rest of it obscured behind an obscure and difficult-to-see "installation" process.




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[Lex]

The PS4 has a feature that allows you to start playing the game before all of the assets are downloaded - this obviously won't work with a game like GTA V because you can go anywhere in the game from the start, so it could be something to do with that. Into the bargain from what I hear from my Swedish friends, Sweden has pretty crappy internet in general (compared to the UK at least).

Having said that, I had a 10GB patch to download and install when I put the game in, so things like this never impress me XD.