which city for GTA 5?

i got kinda good at the gun range challenges, tho it's an absurd bitch running through them 3x (if you care about the xp)

annoyingly some of them only seem possible to gold if you've modded up the weapon in q

ok fuck a yoga mission you guys

17mil up on HAL now yassss

I thought i'd already bought HAL but seem to have messed up a save. Finally got the mission that introduced Michael earlier this evening. I'm becoming determined that this is the first game I see through to the end. Miles behind everyone else, though.

Neat interview with the three leads: http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/09/the-gqa-grand-theft-auto-v-actors-talk-franklin-michael-and-crazy-trevor.html

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

Haha:

Pitchfork: What was your favorite video game before this one?

FL: Final Fantasy VII, but it's a little dated now....

re: lotus not finding himself in the game: i know several actors who have done voice work in GTA and have never seen themselves in game. It's a big game and rockstar doesn't even send you a copy of the game!

"So what other voice over acting have you done?"

"I shouted 'CHEESY VAGINAS' in grand theft auto four"

do rockstar pay their actors well? can imagine it being like the music rights thing - heard somewhere they get a pittance, real payment is exposure to a global audience.

on another note, what's the difference between 'traditional gta' and 'assisted aiming'?

in traditional gta, gun shoot you!

lol, also it took me what felt like ages to fully get what a small green P? meant, as opposed to a large blue D

kinda embarrassed here but i've still not fully worked it out. i just go off the colours, but yeah what does size and the letter itself relate to?

the stuff about aiming in that article above is bob on. so so frustrating, esp as the shooting range. aiming on a control pad is bleugh as it is but to not even match up to max payne 3, rdr or sc:bl is bad bad bad

thanks a ton to whoever above suggested making the mini-map as minimal and basic as possible - improved it no end. recommend it to anyone who still finds themselves playing through that little bitty corner of the screen

The "blips" mode would be a good middle-ground between the full mini-map and none at all, but for reasons known only to God and Rockstar, they've removed the health/armor/special bars from the bottom along with the map

^ apart from this!

Yeah that's a big drawback but you can always turn it on for the mission

HAL just keeps climbing. still in at 24mil

I expect the first "I SAW BIGFOOT!" rumours to start imminently.

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 11:37 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw Bigfoot, btw.

Trevor's biceps tat is kinda lol/mostly sad

gravel-voiced Canuck with buddies called MICHAEL and FRANKLIN just makes me wonder if they wrote him with Will Arnett in mind

60% complete. there is so much game in this game, what a game, game game game game game

driving trevor's motorcycle over the top of the train is going to be the death of me

do paramedics ever do anything but pronounce people dead at the scene and drive off? cops also just seem to have much dumber AI than in IV, all they ever do is ram people off the road and try to shoot them dead if they get out of the car - this is kind of annoying when someone has just called the cops on you for standing near them

liked how in IV you'd actually see people getting arrested and cuffed etc

I also miss weird satnav woman

just remembered to claim my complimentary pre-order blimp, definitely worth doing as an easy way to explore the leftover bits of the map with non-fiddly controls, gets its own bit of moody atmospheric score as well

(mild spoil) what's the song at the end of yoga mission when you're flying over the city on ketamine? loved that bit even though there was no actual point to it. looked/felt like the awesome far cry blood dragon

found it: The C90s - Shine a Light (Flight Facilities Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsM_uY_fKw (includes game footage)

love flight facilities stuff anyway but thought c90s had given up long ago, nuts to see them given such a high profile spot

still under 10%, so impressed by this game... but as mentioned above, this seems a lot more clumsily sexist and offensive than even previous GTAs. did everyone in the rockstar offices get dumped by their girlfriends or something?

so close the 150 mil for the golf course w/michael after making 100mil on PIS

made 100 mil for franklin betw. PIS & HAL

stockmarket seems glitchy to me, arrows on the spreadsheet show the stock rising but when i look at the graph it's falling. Just don't get it.

Think I invested in PIS yesterday though, hope I did anyway. How much are you putting in?

lol @ the biggest most controversial ultra violent game in history having everyone invest in stocks and play golf and train a fucking dog

fuck training a dog, but the golf and tennis are both pretty good, and there is something to enjoy in the jarring change of pace.

i was thinking, this is when you know they have succeeded with a sandbox, when you feel like you could fuck around forever and never get bored.

i can't wait for the insane deep analysis of how the 'markets' in these games work. if it's something besides being randomized.

i haven't been paying super close attn but have not seen anything like this:

so close the 150 mil for the golf course w/michael after making 100mil on PIS

made 100 mil for franklin betw. PIS & HAL

― cozen, Monday, September 30, 2013 7:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but i'm assuming if these things are driven by gameplay events in some way then the psn and xbox universes are different

rockstar could do the community a solid and release some information on how player activity (buying / selling & in-game actions) affects the market with some information on trading volumes on eg HAL & PIS

Basically you should take something away from the Life Hacker mission and apply it to the other companies that are publically traded.

Also keep a keen ear to the radio and any dialog w/r/t those companies.

me irlGTAV
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/money-pile-breaking-bad.jpg

Yeah I think the radio / internet news place scattered clues at particular moments. Also apparently each stock broadly follows its own pattern of peaks and troughs which you can start to notice if you look at the graphs over time, therefore enabling you to buy in at the right point in the cycle

heads up - if you manage to make over two bil (2,147,483,647 to be exact) your money will roll over into a negative value
http://imageshack.us/a/img407/171/2ljb.jpg

lol serves whoever right

maps are cool
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-30-mapping-los-santos

kinda wish this game was more restrictive on how much hardware you can carry a la max payne 3. if only cos it's annoying flipping through all that stuff

It seems a little silly that you're carrying around all three shotguns all the time, for example.

i know it's not in the spirit of mayhem of the game to be too nitpicky about how many thousand rounds of ammo you're carrying, but, y'know, immersion, man

that said the rampages are all A+

as long as i'm WHINING i always wish each weapon had its own particular traits or strengths, so when newer shit unlocks you still might have good reason to use the old stuff.

also the flashlight is an annoying attachment.

i'm p sure i've complained about the guns in every single game i've posted about here.

kinda wish this game was more restrictive on how much hardware you can carry a la max payne 3. if only cos it's annoying flipping through all that stuff

*casually pulls out rocket launcher from left jeans pocket*

what do you spend the money on in this game? isnt it just like, three stores with a bunch of shirts to buy?

and properties worth tens of millions.

xpost yeah I'm wondering the same thing.

none of the properties seem worth investing in. what does the golf course give you?

I put all my savings in HAL the other day and so far I have made a ton of coin. Thankx ilx