Grand Theft Auto V FIVE Thread

[bussinrounds]

Why the fuck do you need big bucks anyway ? Is there actually any shit worth buying ?

 

[Sam Ecorners]

Nice spoilers, bro

 

[DalekFlay]

 

[Volrath]

Why the fuck do you need big bucks anyway ? Is there actually any shit worth buying ?

There's lots of property yeah. Althought it's not as woven into the story as it was in vice city.

 

[bonescraper]

 

[Menckenstein]

Spoiler

 

[Jick Magger]

Don't know why those spoilers happened, my bad.

brb committing sudoku

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I can also somewhat agree with The Escapist's complaints about the main characters being unlikeable, Franklin's a blank slate character at best, Michael's attempts at being a dogged nice guy are kinda muted by the fact that he's a self-centred, lying prick most of the time, and Trevor's pretty much self-explanatory.

They're criminals, obviously they're not role models. But apart from that I found them very likeable, not enough to Emotionally Engage(tm) me but I want to know more about them. Well, Franklin indeed looks like he's "just there", but he's a beginner, which is kind of a blank slate by definition.

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You can see individual wrinkles on the ballsack, but the shirt is a blurry mess. Nice priorities thuuuuuuuur

 

[Trash]

Property is mostly fun because it unlocks more stuff to do with the 'manager' missions. Felt like Vice all over again. Plus I do enjoy holding up gas stations and shops for some reason.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Plus I do enjoy holding up gas stations and shops for some reason.

Reminded me of this.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Realized this was a free Xbox Live gold weekend. Shame I can't take pictures without gold, it's sorta fun. Also looked at GTA Online and wasn't too wild about it, the singleplayer's still where it's at.

 

[Volrath]

I guess you didn't have any earlier saves to load up ? Say you're not sure, how would you know if a previous save was prior to the patch anyways ? Is there a way to check ?

Still waiting to fuck around online till I beat the game. Especially since what I was hearing how it was so unstable so far.

Have you played online at all Volrath ?

Yeah. It's pretty fun when it's working. Just fucking around in free roam, holding up shops, doing races, being a general dick.

 

[Dexter]

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com...ft-auto-breaks-six-sales-world-records-51900/

Guinness World Records can today confirm that the launch of Grand Theft Auto V has broken six new world records including the Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours and the Fastest entertainment property to gross $1 billion.

Released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, the fifteenth title in the Grand Theft Auto series, GTA V, was the first main entry since Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008.

Developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games, the critically acclaimed open world action-adventure video game sold 11.21 million units in its first 24 hours, and generated revenue of $815.7 million (£511.8 million), going on to reach $1 billion (£624.45 million) in sales after just three days on September 20 2013.

The figure smashes records previously held by the Call of Duty videogame series and blockbuster movies including The Avengers and Avatar.

Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief, Craig Glenday, said: "GTA totally deserves to be recognized as an icon of modern British culture, and we're thrilled to be able to feature the game in the record books. Gaming is no longer a niche hobby, as GTA 5 has proved, and how exciting that it's taken on the might of Hollywood and won! I'm also doubly proud as a Dundonian to welcome this home-grown series back into the Guinness World Records book.”

Full list of Grand Theft Auto V record-breaking achievements:

1. Best-selling action-adventure videogame in 24 hours
2. Best-selling videogame in 24 hours
3. Fastest entertainment property to gross $1 billion
4. Fastest videogame to gross $1 billion
5. Highest grossing videogame in 24 hours
6. Highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours
7. Most viewed trailer for an action-adventure videogame

 

[Surf Solar]

The online mode is really fun now that the majority of bugs have been ironed out. Even better when you have a friend to play. We've been having serious fun doing some Bonny&Clyde thing, putting on masks and robbing stores, chasing of the cops after that.

 

[Cyberarmy]

This one is better,

 

[Turisas]

Q1 2014 for the real version:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-10-10-sources-grand-theft-auto-5-out-on-pc-early-2014

 

[DalekFlay]

Good to hear it'll be a reasonable timeframe. I was worried they would do a next-gen version for next Christmas and delay the PC version until then.

Still, I recently had my bluray player stop working (first-gen) so I might go ahead an get a PS3 as a replacement. More for weeaboo RPGs and platformers than this game, but it seems the bundle console is a much better value than a normal PS3 due to HDD size.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Enough time for me to finish episdoes from liberty city and chinatown wars with 100%.

 

[nihil]

Huh, something just occurred to me. I wonder if they intentionally made control over the characters' movement sluggish so that online animations could be smoother and more latency-friendly.

I feel that's the case in most games, but not just for lag due to online play, but also TV input lag. Many new games have so sluggish animation start-ups that you won't notice it, but if you play a snappy fighting game or something on a modern Samsung TV, even with game mode on, it's not a very good experience.

 

[bussinrounds]

Huh, something just occurred to me. I wonder if they intentionally made control over the characters' movement sluggish so that online animations could be smoother and more latency-friendly.

I feel that's the case in most games, but not just for lag due to online play, but also TV input lag. Many new games have so sluggish animation start-ups that you won't notice it, but if you play a snappy fighting game or something on a modern Samsung TV, even with game mode on, it's not a very good experience.

Yea, certain games you really notice it. I tried playing Hot Shots Golf (older style golf game with the 3 click meter style) on several new LCDs (Samsung was one of them) and the input lag was so horrible it made the game virtually unplayable.

It's perfect on my plasma. Glad I did my research before buying a tv.

 

[Behelit]

Q1 2014 for the real version:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-10-10-sources-grand-theft-auto-5-out-on-pc-early-2014

Apparently this Rockstar dev is quite the cock tease.

 

[nihil]

It's perfect on my plasma. It's perfect on my plasma. Glad I did my research before buying a tv.

Me too. Got a Sony LCD that has the lowest input lag on the market.

I don't think it's about plasma/LCD, though. Most likely, processing is the culprit, and most vendors don't bother making a pure pass-through mode. Even game mode sucks on most TVs.

 

[sea]

Yeah, most TVs do tons of image processing that adds display lag. That's why many have "gaming" modes that let you turn some/all of it off.

 

[DalekFlay]

I just got my new blu-ray player PS3 and got this game along with it. Is it me or is the game insanely dark with crushed blacks? Videoes on the internet don't seem as bad. Only thing I saw on the internet was to make sure I had RGB set to limited, which I do. I guess I need to calibrate a specific set of settings for games? Ugh. Also the aliasing is insane.

Game looks pretty decent outside of that, though. And seems fun.

 

[Surf Solar]

For me it was the opposite, I had to tone down the brightness of my TV for the game.