which city for GTA 5?

cool how you can sometimes strike up rudimentary two-way conversations with strangers with the d-pad like in San Andreas - accidentally smart mouthed someone into shoooting at me then got ran over at v high speed while running away

DJ Mehdi came on the radio as the sun was setting and I got kinda bummed out about him

Spent $500 getting Franklin's car repaired after it got smashed up during one of the spontaneous event missions, smashed it up again on the way home when another one came up, then got it in the garage and a brand new version of his car had spawned next to it when I woke up - do not repair your car, kids

the AI in this responds forks & will pick a fight with you / call the police / run off screaming

im starting to wonder if i can fully enjoy this game as a non-stoner

Pretty fun if you're drunk too

xp huh. why don't any of the people in that video do that?

I used iFruit to design a bright orange car with a General Lee horn, which is supposed going to be deployed to the garage the next time I play the game.

Holy shit the underwater stuff is nice

Okay guys I'm waiting for it to load.

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

Wow, sounds mad realistic. Must buy

I played for three hours and all I did was browse ilxxx and scratch my butt

what are the controls for one-punch knockouts? Instructions come up so quickly on the screen I'm fumbling for half the buttons I push

first mission thats taken me multiple attemps. hijacking the truck on the freeway. now i know how wile e coyote feels

http://abload.de/img/2013-09-1917_48_33-gtftevo.png

can you really browse the real internet in-game?

The actors:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUYRY1zIQAE4qwM.jpg

i'm glad i got gta 5 so now i can smoke weed while i smoke weed

what's the point of buying or spending money on cars in this game when there are literally thousands of cars driving around at all times and it's really easy to destroy the car you're driving

or have it just disappear...

first impressions:

the tangerine dream music for the missions is amazing.

it all looks incredible. has anyone used the cinematic view much? you couldn't use it on missions or whatever but if you hold it, it gives you these incredible sweeping overhead shots.

ahaha, as Franklin I absent-mindedly stole the first car I saw parked outside of Michael's house after a mission with him, get a call three minutes later saying THAT BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN YOU THAT STOLE MY CAR

a female tourist on top of Chiliad said that her job was getting to her and then stood there for a few seconds and sprinted off the edge of the mountain

I bought a garage on a whim (never really played these enough to get into ~owning~ stuff) and it's pretty useless but I've been improving Franklin's car and it's pretty bad ass. Might start a collection.

Im watching GiantBomb's random playthru of the game. Is it safe to say that Rockstar has finally switched from basing the game on film to tv series instead?

http://teamcoco.com/video/conan-highlight-clueless-gamer-gta5

man losing the cops in this game is a real boring chore

I assume all the out of the way places will factor in to later missions but the giant island/open world thing isn't that interesting if you don't need to be there as it turns out? Drove around, went off-roading, rode the tram, feel like that covered most of the things to do out there.

The cars would just be for fun - get one of the cheap old cars that are around and turn it into a low-rider, etc.

I quite like the hunting game, until I hear the snarl of a damn mountain lion...

Fun things to try out, if you haven't already:
Jump onboard a passing freight train, it will take you on a tour of the island and some of the views in Blaine County are great. If you're bored you can always take pot shots at animals, people, things.
Get a small boat in the Alamo Sea and take it down the white water rapids-y Cassidy Creek.
As Trevor inhale some 'gas', which can be found on his porch. irl lol.

I'm enjoying this a lot more since unlocking Trevor, even though his cut scenes can be pretty horrible to watch. The main problem with IV for me was that Niko was such a reluctant bad guy that I felt guilty making him do crazy stuff around town, and that sapped a lot of the fun out of the game (somehow - I don't understand at all why I cared either way but yeah, couldn't help it). There's still a bit of that with Franklin this time round, less with Michael, but Trevor's ideal. Randomly mowing down a beach full of sunbathers feels completely in character for him.

Got busted by a (female!) cop - they don't take your guns but do take ALL of your ammo :(

bought this last night, finishing the install now!

from the loading screen images, i am pumped to meet the insane clown posse guy

ALERT - Please insert disc 2

fuck!

I think losing the cops is great in this game! It's the first GTA where it actually makes sense-- they're pursuing your car, not "you", so you can play strategically-- anytime you break line of sight the cops are on "patrol" mode and you can change cars or lay low in a house or alley and lose them.

Yeah! It's more evasion than anything else. It has been finicky, being able to lose 3 stars in a minute by ditching a car and cowering behind a bush.

We've been playing a game that we've tastefully titled "Major Lawrence" where you go geisterfahrer round the main highway loop on a motorbike for as long as you can

i was just playing a mission where i had to hijack a big clunky van that didn't drive very fast, so i could barely outrace the cops, and of course i couldn't switch vehicles, and i literally spent half an hour driving around the map bored and agitated

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/200648/Opinion_The_tragedy_of_Grand_Theft_Auto_V.php

they've captured the feeling of LA really well xp

ha

yeah driving in LA is terrible, making a video game where that's a big part seems like...torture

well it's not like traffic is a problem

I'm finding the chases are among the funnest parts of the game, actually. It's really exciting to have ditched the car somewhere and be hiding under a porch or in an alleyway while the police are searching the area, with your guns out, stressing out as they pass right by, saying DON'T MAKE ME KILL AGAIN-- or sticky-bombing the area where the cops will park to draw you out if they figure out you're there, or, as I did last night, parking the car outside a parking garage and leading a trail from the gascan right up the garage to where you're going to hide

one of my friends was p blown away that a bunch of his lil graffiti characters around la have been put in the game

i'm trying to join the ilx crew right now!

Last night I found the in-game stock market. I have a very robust and diversified portfolio now.

I've only had this explained to me today, but apparently there are two in game stock markets, one is unique to your game and reacts to things you do but the other is a true public one which inevitably has just been going up and up, so people who put money into that on Tuesday are already MINTED as a result.

Just spotted that the Paparazzo's camera is clearly a Nikon.

i have to admit i don't really understand the crew thing.

http://i.imgur.com/X3DfAc5l.jpg

why is it filled with max payne 3 stuff?

the american apparel spoof on your phone's internet browser is quite funny/partly offensive.

loving the discovery of fave tunes in this, just roared away from the cops with "music sounds better with you" playing.

what I don't understand about the crew thing is why I'm the crew leader. I didn't make this crew and I haven't posted here in three years.

huh that's funny. i just figured you started it!