which city for GTA 5?

i just kept shooting the hell out of the ground near him, but i think in the end you were meant to kill him. it gave some prompt. i passed the mission. i regret nothing.

there is a shit-ton of misinformation out there about this game already! the android ifruit shitshow etc.

found some youtube claiming you have to (or can?) yell into your headset mic for those intinimdations

Yeah, I didn't know what to do on that 'intimidation' bit, so I put my gun away and punched him, but he rolled over backwards and face down in the river. He... didn't get back up.

trevor can get a p.nice tux from ponsonby's

i never even noticed that was an intimidation mission. i just killed him straight away.

apparently the headset thing could be true. machinima mentioned it recently

at 71%

only been busted once (literally)

big change from past GTAs

Same, I'm about 20% in but not even a chase hardly. Fuck cops IMO.

Not been busted but man I've had like thousands of cop chases!

Went to muscle beach, punched a dude pumping iron, ran into the water and stole a jet ski

Yeah N gets chased by the cops all the time! Tho he mostly shakes them off. But he does have a habit of gleefully driving over people every 10 seconds, so.

I just get killed rather than busted.
Is there any weight to keeping the cash vs giving it back for the $50 reward when you catch a thief?

ya was gonna ask about that

I got through the torture bit. why did the game make me do that. all closing my eyes while I hope I'm pulling teeth out effectively. fuckin awful.

i give the shit back every time and entirely unlike real life sometimes it comes back to you in that programmed-to-be-karmic sense

yeah that torture shit was fucking bullshit and the "explaining" "it" """"away"""" part was fucking a joke

The wiki entry suggests the creators at Rockstar put such a vile torture scene in to highlight the fact the US do this very sort of thing on people and look how disgusting it is!

The fact p muc evryone I know has had a visceral reaction of horror/disgust is encouraging, in that you cant rly argue "omg torture porn wont somebody think of the etc!" when everyone's barely even COPING with that scene. I am intrigued by the idea of education thru horrific emotional manipulation.

I considered that for a minute, that maybe they had a goal of some kind that wasn't utterly repulsive, but seriously gimme some kind of opt out here

The water in this game is so amazing, especially at sea, most realistic waves I've seen since Waverace 64. And the Jetskis feel perfect.

this is me btw :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeFOt9F9Hao

A neat touch I've seen with the water is when it's near surface rocks and the water splashes upwards. Doesn't always look perfect but still cool.

Can't say I'm too keen on the radio channels so far, but I think I might have said the same thing about IV but gradually got to like it.

It's also too damn easy, the story missions, this annoys me. Getting gold in all the missions will be tough but reaching the end of the story should have been much more of a challenge imo.

it is really really easy

i love easy games cos i am shit at games, but this is the easiest game i've ever played. i've hardly failed a mission except by misunderstanding what i was meant to do.

i love easy games cos i am shit at games, but this is the easiest game i've ever played. i've hardly failed a mission except by misunderstanding what i was meant to do.

i love easy games too - i'm more into the story than the challenge most of the time. I'm about 7% in though, and have already had to retry sections of the yacht-pursuit mission and several others because I am clumsy and awful.

woof

ending was heavy

when can we discuss spoilers?

switched to trevor as he was arguing w/a tramp about 5$ being good value for a handjob

most disturbing trevor switch for me. waking up in a bed, next to a man dressed in some pink outfit, sobbing.

let's not discuss spoilers!

OK cool no spoilers

When I play games this immersive and long and then find myself talking about it later, I tend to say things like "you have to do this" or "I had to chase down that", substituting personal pronouns for that of the protagonist. It's been weird when talking about this game, though, explaining to bf what's going on. I've noticed that I'm freely able to talk about "I" when describing the needs and actions of Franklin and Michael, but I hiccup and switch to third-person when describing the actions of Trevor. Weird?

Holy crap @ the water above!

wow the third triathlon takes 30 mins. carpal tunnel, thanks

So far the races in this game are way too easy.

yeah i kind of wish it was a little harder across the board.

hoping this'll mean a flood of cheap used copies soon enough

hunting is kind of fun but not exactly worth it, i don't think?

i am impressed by the sense of appropriate differences in scale for what things cost -- seeing the high price tags on those first few available properties seems pretty daunting, but then gives you a sense of what kind of money you could be making

anyone fux w/ the stock exchange yet?

is there an adjustable difficulty or no?

i think this is one of those games (like dark souls) where i'm happy to read this thread and watch the occasional youtube video instead of actually playing it.

^^ this is the way I enjoy all video games these days. This looks awesome though.

feeling that

anyone fux w/ the stock exchange yet?

Yes. There's an achievement for doubling your investment but so far I've only made marginal gains.

Definitely recommend not investing in LifeInvader after the CEO's speech! That shit bottoms out hard.

one annoyance: being risk averse and not greedy, i picked the best hired crew people. after the heist i get told that crew members get better, but their cut doesn't increase. shit.

sorry, that's kind of spoilery. tip, tho

Definitely recommend not investing in LifeInvader after the CEO's speech! That shit bottoms out hard.

totally. the good news is that at the time that i invested in it, i only had about $10K total, and invested half of it in lifeinvader. shortly thereafter if i finished the first heist and had much, much more $. so no big deal.

later on there's a mission that has a very tangible effect on the stock market, and they let you know that before you finish so you can invest.

xp wellll...i would say from experience, also not wanting to be too spoilery, but it doesn't always quite work out the way you are figuring.

well i don't doubt that the cheaper hires perform materially worse but eh, maybe that would have been more fun anyway!

how do i start these maude missions? getting texts from her giving me grief over it but no sign of a marker. am i meant to work out the location from the little crummy picture she shows me?

Yeah, the picture is the clue. I looked up the first one online after puzzling over it for awhile. No idea where the second one is.

sack that, i'm not playing an glacial-speed murder mystery here. rockstar with more of their "lets plonk a really tedious dullhump into the middle of the fun" trickery. do you have a link - or even a decent clue - to where to find em?

people online have billions due to stockmarket o_O

think there's some ppl trying to game the BAWSAQ market too

there's hunting? how do you do that?