which city for GTA 5?

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!

my assumption was that it had max payne stuff all over my screen cos the last socialclub thing i did was that game, and i don't even have GTA5 yet. maybe not?

oh hey shout out to 'crotchwatcher', that is A+ gamertag

lube up your eyeholes fucker cos i'm going to fuck your tiny mind

everyone feel free to post flattering and fulsome things about me here if you want special consideration at promotion time

Just stole my psychiatrist's Porsche and drove to a strip club, a setback in therapy #GTAV

I am beginning to feel this GTA boasts some deeper level of immersion than previous ones.

Also the pause/map music is incredible.

I didn't make this crew and I haven't posted here in three years.

Haha! Well, I made the crew and you were first to accept an invitation. Then I realised you could only own one crew but I needed to make another. So I left and rejoined, which I guess transferred ownership to you.

I think the Max Payne stuff is just because they haven't turned GTA online on yet so MP is still the only game that fully supports crews.

Also the pause/map music is incredible.
it's haunting my dreams alright

it's a bit like the end of Motherboard, maybe? And Take my Breath Away

Also the pause/map music is incredible.

YES

Stuck on PC. grrrrrr.

I have been wanting to replay Vice City, but I recently bought a 360 controller and on PC half the buttons DO NOT WORK and I went through a lot of keymappers, none of which worked. Finally I found this mod

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=162687746#114052

Apparently it works with San Andreas as well.

If you don't use that mod, your right analog stick (camera), the D-Pad, and the trigger buttons all do not work! Also, for some reason it would not work in "Windows 98 compatibility" (don't ask why this was set, I don't remember) I had to turn off compatibility mode.

I noticed in the opening creds that it's Tangerine Dream, the pause music and mission stuff. Really want to hear it all.

Felt pretty seedy in the strip club, it was a fact finding mission.

When does the online stuff activate?

great news: everyone except for Cozen has been promoted

Online activates 1 October

Just found out that since we changed our internet provider I can no longer get on xbox live w/ my ethernet cable, gonna have to invest in a dongle for a shit old 360 Arcade that I won't even want in 3 months, psshaw

Yeah I'll join once I hook it up again also.

lol @ the hierarchy now

i'm happy just being muscle in a solid, forward-thinking operation

!!! attn: Z S !!!

dude i think your twitter has been hacked irl

WHOA

sorry!! it looks like someone or something sent out dozens of direct messages to people.

weird. never happened to me before!

This game feels like it was written by a men's rights guy

how do you connect your ps3 to teh social club thing

also this naggy iphone thing is not good

This game feels like it was written by a men's rights guy

Maybe it's just that I associate GTA with Vice but I thought about Gavin McInnes a couple times

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TzNsM2LzUzw/T3tgcex-mtI/AAAAAAAAAIo/hyeySXwW8t0/s1600/oldmangamer.jpeg

^^^ Slocki in this thread

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

that guy is having more fun than i did

Women in this game are either whores or shrews

The Tesla car is rad. I don't think I would have noticed it had I had not been wearing headphones.

lots of nice cars, find myself endlessly speeding around the industrial parts with their long straight roads.

that's in between feeding stray hitchhikers to cannibals.

Trevor is really something else.

Yeah I was going to ask people about the tone of the game. It's occasionally funny, one of the radio DJs screamed "the Internet is a k-hole!" last night, the shrink parody is good, but it's frequently juvenile, sexist, and kinda racist.

It could probably stand to be cynical in the way that exposes prejudice rather than cementing it, I mean like The Onion or something is incredibly dark but largely a force for good, and you imagine it has women writing for it, seems doubtful for GTA.

I guess all the GTAs have been a bit like this but this one is more claustrophobic and concentrated.

It's not even just that it's casually sexist, it's like the writers take every opportunity to be sexist. EG the aunt and the mom exercising. Or the American Apparel spoof ads on the radio, they could attack that from the left but they go the other way entirely.

haven't had a chance to sit down with this until tonight - i just looked up and realized it was six in the morning!

totally enthralling so far - i didn't get very far in la noire or red dead redemption, and it's been so long since GTA IV that i forgot just how much more immersive rockstar worlds are than, say, those of the saints row games (which i still love for different reasons). the juvenilia/sexism/racism is obviously really problematic but i guess i've been playing GTA games for so long that i can kinda take it in stride at this point? the taboos were definitely part of the allure when i was playing GTA2 at 17; i cringe at it now at 30, but it's never been the main reason i've played these games. i wouldn't begrudge anybody for feeling uneasy about this stuff, but i'm less turned off by it than i thought i'd be given all the advance reactions.

also i got DJQUIK as my vanity license plate, which i'm way too happy about

Do you always get a big thunderstorm at the bit where Trevor first travels into the city? fuckin amazing anyway

the gaming press seems to be united in accepting that the satire in GTA games is amazingly clever and that it SKEWERS America when most of the time it's just this clunky, illusion-shattering shit like the Fox News knockoff literally having "Confirming Your Prejudices" as its amazing satirical genius slogan

I like that the game has an option to sync up with some real-life Facebook functionality, and also that mission where Michael goes to their office and does something that is essentially counter to the spirit of that business relationship

also, really wish I hadn't read the soundtrack spoiler links when they came out cos some of the stuff on there would've had me properly cackling with glee when it first came on

happily hadn't noticed Don Johnson's foghorned-voiced lone solo hit had crept in there though, soundtracked a bagsnatching interlude beautifully

still waiting to hear something in particular that was meant to be on there but hasn't turned up on the radio though, the big one, the elephant in the room if you will

also

cara delevingne hosts the pop station and her dialogue is seriously awful, such a weird choice of dj (she's never done anything like this before has she?). was gona post about it on that crepey ile thread dedicated to posting unflattering photos of her but nah

you ain't kidding buddy, yeesh

almost suspicious about their motives for putting her out there tbh

ha is that cara d, jesus! i dunno tho, she did say the line "the internet is a k-hole" which i enjoyed. the pop station is pretty good, misteeq's "scandalous" had me reaching for the volume button on my remote last night.

to turn it up rather than down

How have you guys played the heists so far? I've just played the first one, invested a fair old whack in my crew so I'm pretty annoyed that they don't tell you until after the mission's started that their stats will improve each time you use them but the % stays the same. Would've used cheap'ns if I'd known.

All the same, it it was fucking thrilling smashing all those jewellery cases and seeing the take go up - 10 seconds and one case left, whaddaya do?! Fun gaming

I went quiet on the jewels, bombs on the freighter. Note to self: always hire the best possible team