which city for GTA 5?

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/86816/grand-theft-auto-continues-to-treat-female-gamers-like-roadkill-with-latest-installment

other games about organized crime, like Saints Row, have managed to incorporate playable female characters without losing fans or castrating their male audience.

am kind of reluctant to praise Saints Row for its representation of women, tbh

leak for xbox has arrived. some people are going to have very good weekends.

Anyone want an ILG crew for the online stuff? I think crews carry over from Max Payne 3 actually, so maybe there's one already?

Actually - http://rsg.ms/16pCNei

I have now pre-ordered and I blame all of you.

no reviews out there at all yet? so naughty xbox360 owners are gona be the v first to judge this?

i preordered

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sooooooooo want to play this but soooooooo don't want to commit to the necessary time suckage.

I'd preorder her GTA V
http://i.imgur.com/TWH1jLc.jpg

the Latina(?) cop behind her

Is Trevor supposed to be modeled after Waingro?

Unable to decide whether foolish to pre-order. Can get it with Brady Ganes guide on Amazon but not with guarantee of delivery.

Genuinely at a loss about this, haven't bought a new new game in years...

i've never seen the point of those guides myself

Hangover from when I only had a desktop and console downstairs to save running up to check anything when at wits end finding items in GTA:SA.

Desktop was upstairs I mean.

IGN gives it a 10.
http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review

tom chick loves it too: http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review/

Haters-gonna-hate • 15 minutes ago −
I swear they paid this BIIIITCH to give it a 10. There's NO WAY this piece of junk is a 10/10. A whoooore with a stupid name (Keza? really?) doesn't know what a good game is. FUCKKK YOU KEZA YOU MONEY WHOOOORE! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SELL THEIR OWN PATHETIC PUSSIESSSS, YOU FUCKINNNNNG BIIIIITCH. YOU FUCKKKKING WESTERNS HAVE NO SELF RESPECT AND WOULD SELL YOUR OWN DIGNITY FOR MONEY. FUCKKKKK YOU KEZA, YOU'RE A TOTAL BIIIIIIIIITCH! SEE YOU IN A NIGHT CLUB, YOU PATHETIC WHOOOOOORE!!!

a huge gaming site gave it a 10?! it MUST be good!!!

Haters-gonna-hate • 15 minutes ago −
I swear they paid this BIIIITCH to give it a 10. There's NO WAY this piece of junk is a 10/10. A whoooore with a stupid name (Keza? really?) doesn't know what a good game is. FUCKKK YOU KEZA YOU MONEY WHOOOORE! PEOPLE LIKE YOU SELL THEIR OWN PATHETIC PUSSIESSSS, YOU FUCKINNNNNG BIIIIITCH. YOU FUCKKKKING WESTERNS HAVE NO SELF RESPECT AND WOULD SELL YOUR OWN DIGNITY FOR MONEY. FUCKKKKK YOU KEZA, YOU'RE A TOTAL BIIIIIIIIITCH! SEE YOU IN A NIGHT CLUB, YOU PATHETIC WHOOOOOORE!!!

^ phil fish

Yah, universal acclaim so far but as if it was ever gonna be any different. Finally cracked and pre-ordered today, late nights this month

can't wait. i'm buying all hype right now.

early word that RS has really upped the quality of mission design has me thinking wistfully at my mailbox already

watched the torture video on eurogamer earlier, gotta say that kinda grit doesn't get me excited.

yyyyyeah, having watched that video, i'll pass

already composing excuses why i'm ok with this in my head

refusing to watch the vid so I'm talking out my ass a little bit wrt the realism or otherwise of this torture, but I've seen it likened in places to the 'No Russian' mission from whichever COD that was, and I was always kinda ok about just playing through that level and not thinking about it. Not sure if this makes me a moral derelict or just reflects how little basis I feel these games actually have in real life, even now

they make a minigame of h jon benjamin pulling out a bound man's tooth with a pair of pliers and it appears to take quite some time and is followed up with a fratboy "torture doesn't really work" bullshit cop-out so I don't think Rockstar are trying to have you pretend you're not doing what you're doing. based on my understanding of the franchise and of the surrounding material this isn't some specops the line "are you not entertained" ish either. i think it is what it is and what it is is a realistic minigame where you pull out a bound man's tooth with a pair of pliers which leads to another guy making an azerbaijani/azervagina joke so everyone who's buying this should probably know that up front.

the majority of the commenters on that eurogamer article are primarily complaining about spoilers so i can't imagine it'll matter one way or another

Can't believe they added torture to this murder sim

yeah and why should i care about animal welfare if i eat meat
everybody's got their lines

i have done + witnessed some horrific stuff in the video game medium and i'll be damned if that stops now

I'm not sure anything you can do in this or any other GTA game will ever come close to touching the evil that was in my soul the day I plugged Mordin in the back during Mass Effect 3. Now that shit was harrowing

TOMORROw

Today here :)

IN fact my housemate is prob playing it RN

Livestream or it didn't happen?

He just said somethign about a blimp. Already confused.

seems fun as hell so far, few niggly crap bits like the dog-training and the tow-truck missions and the shooting range stuff that get in the way of actual gameplay (& fun). can't imagine the stock market stuff is much better. minor moans though, so far seems a ton more enjoyable than the relentless misery of gta4 (not incl the 2 great dlc games).

I liked the look of the stock market stuff! But then again I play games like SimCity.

For the first time ever I went to get it at midnight, stood in line for 30 minutes, etc.; arrived home to find out that my PS3 controller is fucked.

http://www.twitch.tv/GameSpot

12-hr livestream by a smart-ass Irish Gamespot dude playing it

The phrase "dog training game" just made me decide not to go buy this tomorrow

pls tell me that wasnt meant as in dog=woman

(who am I kidding, it's Rockstar)

Just collected my copy, now gotta trawl through 9 hours of relentless office grind before I can go home and get shootin. Eruugh. All the old office ladies yelling at me atm telling me that I'm part of the problem, civilisation in melting pot etc. gonna be a long day

Installing now...

wow playstation. you really chose a great time to break.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKK!!!

Mine didn't arrive in today's post. Why did I order it online like a mug when I can just go out right now and buy it in a shop?

bring it round ste i have a working ps3 but wasn't allowed to go to tesco at midnight to get it

Managed to get to the first save point without crashing (I have done that intro part about 7 times now).

Had a pretty fun time driving around, swimming in the waves (quite gorgeous actually). Just crashed again. Will have to get the 360 version now.