which city for GTA 5?

Franklin's time slowdown ability allowed me to pull off a very fun last minute win in my first race.

Also I completed a round of golf. 11 over par wooooop woooooooooop

I forgot to eat dinner irl yesterday. :[
― polyphonic, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:19 PM

#truegamerconfessions

the golf is actually alright, I thought

Yeah I started to get the hang of it in the last few holes. It's more nuanced than the golf in IV. I *love* that you can either walk to the ball, use the golf cart, or skip ahead. Cool idea.

anyone get carjacked yet? i lol'd.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:00 PM (Yesterday)

YES!!! I was in the process of carjacking someone else when dude comes up and tries to steal the car I got out of. I of course shotgunned him to bits until the car blew up. Hope that will teach him a lesson.

Yeah he won't do that again.

JimD: we both chose the same Rockstar Social Club avatar! Haha.

Don't forget to join the ILX crue, dudez.

what is it? what do i have to do? the word 'social' implies other people are involved. that makes me nervous.

Go here and create a profile, and link it to your console. Then search for ilx in the crews page.

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/

ok

i joined the gang

i'm in

lol max payne 3, forgot about that shit

I joined too.

JOINED

lol it bleeps your posts

there's certainly no bleeping in the game. most profane script for a video game ever?

this game

you can reply to texts?

yeah but i can't figure out if you can switch what you wrote - it asks you to confirm which message you want to send but so far i've only seen one choice

You can't switch it out. It's just like the email in the last game.

Things I've liked on observing this so far:

- go for a swim in your clothes, theyre slick wet and dripping when you get out
- the skytram car thing up in the mountain
- it rains (and that affects your grip on the road driving)
- the plane graveyard out in the desert

That plane graveyard has some insane level of detail going on

re that wet clothes thing, have you noticed if you only go into the water halfway it will actually only wet you halfway

bah cant do the social thing coz my live account dont work no more

Played a lot tonight, can honestly say the driving is heaps better than IV.

Found my first hidden 'package', won't spoil anything for anyone else.

Just lots of fun, even doing the missions now. Lots of random mission (and they're interesting too). It's pretty hectic what with the extra character and people on the map and contacts to ring.

I played tennis, it was okay. It wasn't the travesty side game that a lot of rockstar stuff is. I don't like tennis though. I'll try the golf tomorrow.

Have died lots. You really can't do much illegal stuff without people getting upset.

strippers. nipples.

yeah i saw a rat scuttle across the ground at that graveyard

oh and gun upgrades!

i've played some missions but honestly i feel overwhelmed, what am i supposed to do in this game

ha i feel kinda sickened by the vast sweep of this, played for like 5 hours tonight, i am wasting my non-virtual life &c

i spent 5 hours posting to ilx from inside gta v

i can believe that, sure

what's the gta parody of ilx called

ilxxx

haha

Tried bmxing up the mountain, got almost to the top and bike gave up. Tried walking, and tumbled pathetically almost all the way down to near death.

That's life, innit.

Taken me all of four hours of gameplay to get bogged down in stat-building mini-games, I spent hours last night doing the the shooting range challenges out the back of Ammu-Nation, trying to get good shooting skill and cheap guns. Unapologetic, thoroughly enjoying myself.

I'm also coming round to the idea that the driving in this is better than in IV, have been continually surprised by how controllable the vehicles are when hitting corners at high speeds

driving gets noticeably better when you level up and trick out your car with street/race brakes & turbo

quit my job this morning and thought i'd get gta to distract. then thought shit, i quit my job this morning and just downloaded san andreas cos its £40 cheaper.

the yoga mission

the main thing I dislike so far is that there doesn't seem to be that much reason to explore the world on foot

I frequently see interesting buildings with open doors, ladders up the side etc but whenever I get off to have a look there's nothing there

I know there are 'emergent' non-scripted activities dotted around the world but would have it killed rockstar to make on-foot exploration a bit more interesting?

Have just discovered that if you stop at the traffic lights and rev your engine then occasionally the guy in the lane next to you will try and race you as you pull away. Great feature

Coming down from the tram car summit, there is both a new, gravelled trail cut into the mountainside, and also an "old trail", like, a washed out no-longer-used trail that dovetails in and around the new trail. Has jumps and things. It was such a neat detail I was left gobsmacked. If you haven't ridden the tram up and dirtbiked down I would recommend it.

- ? missions, I took a tow-truck one (boring) and another where Michael smokes weed and then [spoilers] (just across from Simeon's showroom).

- I went "smart" instead of "loud" for the first heist and I'm glad I did, Trevor's missions are giving me enough "loud"

- The plane flies great and this island is beautiful.

i played for three hours and i feel like all i've done is drive around some strip malls

went to the strip club last night

Me too. Buying GTA V tomorrow.

ayo

is it a function of (my) age and attention that makes the gta3 liberty city still feel so real and vibrant (in my memory at least) or is it some sort of uncanny valley thing wrt gta5 los santos feeling a little sterile?

that said, i jumped a fence by the roller coaster and hid behind some machinery as two cops were searching for me, their vision cones sweeping back and forth past my hiding spot, some tense shit until they gave up. pretty fantastic.

I think there's something eerily quiet and still about GTA3 when you go back to it after playing anything from San Andreas onwards.

the aliens & clowns & yoga missions

o_O

strippers. nipples.

― prop forward turned celebrity chef (Ste), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 23:54

polygons. pixels.

I'd peep her pixels