which city for GTA 5?

take out your iphone and shazam it

is there a cheat code to skip all the story bullshit and have everything unlocked so i can do the fun part of the game?

Yeah pretty sure there's a sandbox mode when MP starts up-- but the whole map is unlocked right from the beginning, and you don't have to play that much for all the minigames to get unlocked.

Is this the first GTA in a long time where the minigames seem like they'll be worth playing in their own right? I played 9 holes of golf yesterday--aside from the fact that there's only those 9 holes to play, it's just as deep and satisfying as playing Tiger Woods-- more kinda since you can walk from shot to shot, something I've always wanted to do in a golf game-- and you can beat freak out after you miss a two-foot putt and beat your golf club against a tree or pour gas all over the green and set it on fire, a mechanic conspicuously absent from most golfing video games

is there a way to check what track is playing? or do i just have to cycle through all the radio stations until i get back to the one i'm on?

hold down L on the d-pad and it brings up a radio selection wheel which will show you the current track.

what custom plates did people get?

assman

I went with QUALCOMM for some reason

lol

aside from the fact that there's only those 9 holes to play, it's just as deep and satisfying as playing Tiger Woods

It's pretty fun but I wouldn't go that far!

my ANTEXITSUX plates looking p.good

there are too many save points when you die during missions imo

i agree. in theory adding more was the right thing to do, but they have sometimes added too many, sometimes just in the wrong place. not a big deal, but occasionally noticeable.

nice touch getting j.b. smoove & danny mcbride on the talk radio

Gotta give Trevor the full rik rubin

After just under a week of solidly playing it I'm still discovering new bits and pieces. Who knew there was a racing track? Completely deserted though - as was the 'Vinewood Bowl - I wonder if these little unused places will feature in a mission, or are they just superfluous, but nice, detail?

Yeah I think it's basically a certainty that it's getting robbed. What would be REALLY cool is if you rob it during a horse race.

paleto bay heist was p.good. game can feel like it's on rails at times during the missions but they give you just ~enough~ control to undermine that

FIB stealing all my cash is some bullshit though. when can I earn some serious money

dunno if i'm on early hype but this feels easily the best gta ever, and i loved iv (which i know people hated) but also all gtas. every element is so intensely there, and there's no real effort to get into it. personally i enjoy tatting trevor all over with "fuck cops" etc and then getting a huge beard/mullet/wraparounds, pluis beyond all this the screwing around is amazing. and the music is an incredible selection, whatever station you put on you're either hearing old classics or discovering stuff you never knew about.

This is my favourite GTA, definitely

But: my favourite GTA soundtrack was GTA 3. The off-track Moroder, the opera hits, the game-specific pop stuff and I'd never heard any of the other tracks anywhere else before or since. I dunno, I preferred it when the music contributed to the world-in-a-bottle rather than hearing Rihanna or Stardust on licence.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say. Before this came out I was hoping you would be able to ride horses in the countryside, a la RDR. Obviously not, and fair enough, but seeing the racing track makes me wish there had at least been a side game where you could enter a horse race.

just done the laslo mission and god the writing is so bad it's shameful. can see the cogs turning, "now we have to make this plot development happen so lets do it in the most simplistic 101 dumbfuck hackneyed way possible". also getting hugely bored of the exposition car journeys. on the other hand lamar is a great and genuinely funny character. also lold at that wade guy a bit, esp the "i just want to be wade" line

gotta say i quite like the trevor stuff, it's moronic but it has no pretensions otherwise. plus i got him a "fuck the cops" tattoo on his midriff and ran around killing people with just y-fronts and a camo waistcoat on, after getting him a nice mullet/massivebeard look going on.

when thinking fashion never forget ammu nation

and yeah it's impressive and great and everything but as far as a huge leap forward it's not that much different from gta4 in how it looks and works. story is more fun but that's not saying much. the difference from vice city/san andreas to gta4 was pretty huge, but this just feels a bit more polished than the last one.

dunno, for me the actual gameplay is just so much deeper. it really is way more inside my mind than other gtas.

i suppose there was a period of time before this game came out that you could pick up a ps3 for cheap, sigh

I think its a huge leap from GTAIV, yeah visually it has a similar feel but they've improved so much. It's basically everything that was great about San Andreas with the pretty graphics from IV.

when I was driving patricia back to mandrazo, chicago's "if you leave me now" came on the radio

was that scripted? regardless, it was awesome

wham!'s "everything she wants" b2b w/robyn's "with every heartbeat" yesssssir

bit too early to be talking about this but imagine some of the otherwise unused game furniture (racetrack etc) might turn up in some of the inevitable DLC episodes

You love it:

http://youtu.be/wpG9CzSmcew

cozen that happened to me too. OK!

Echoing that Trevor is the most fun to play, feels the most appropriate for a gta game. I like to think of him as the gta III protagonist , a lot older, and with a voice.

I haven't been paying attention to "bad writing" because I haven't played a game with good writing. I have laughed a couple times (mostly Lamar).

Also, realizing that Trevor is actually psycho and not just krazee has been real cool. Weird how all these American games over the last few years have done this thing where they make you realize the good guy protagonist is actually a crazy armed psycho

Trevors methlab house above the liquor store... *shudder* never have I wanted to have a shower so badly as after 5minutes of seeing that hole. And him puking just added shit to the pile.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/23/grand-theft-auto-v-reportedly-crashing-old-xbox-360s

One that's meant to have a fairly high success rate sees you delete all game data, clear your system cache three times then delete marketplace data from storage system items before unplugging your console for three minutes. After this, you should install disc 1 and power off without inserting disc 2, then restart the console and install the second disc.

then stand on your head and hold your nose and drink water from the far side of the glass while clicking your heels together three times

didn't get the exposure right
http://prod.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/9932/XXj-HbFlYEOK8G34Hs2AQg/0_0.jpg

hahaha

has anyone bought property? none of them seem that i've seen worth it at this point. like the Car Scrapyard is $275,000, and it provides a weekly income of "$150 per destroyed car". so...i guess if that means if I destroy 10 cars it'll pay $1500 a week? And then it'll take 183 "weeks" (275K/1.5K) to pay off the purchase? i guess i could take in 50 cars to bump the weekly income to $7500 a week. but still. that's a lot of time invested in the boring task of bringing cars to an out of the way property.

the others that i've seen seem similarly crappy. is there a good deal that i'm missing?

the headshop by the beach brings in $9300/wk iirc

when thinking fashion never forget ammu nation

― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Sunday, September 22, 2013 4:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hai i've played like 4.5% but i think this is key

also when do you get money

xp ok i see haha

the first heist brings in a good amount of money and it's not too far in if you concentrate on the story missions, so if you're in need of $$ you might want to just progress the story that far

Kinda surprised me actually, how much money that mission draws. I'm used to spending the large part of these games scraping along with a pistol and whatever I can collect from vanquished foes. Completed one heist mission and now my characters have got every weapon, all with a shit ton of ammo and maxed out accessories.

I blew all that money on bad investments so I'm still pissing around with pistols and bugger all ammo. :(

Don't make decisions based on money, but on what kind of missions you want to do. The drug running property in Sandy Shores was a no brainer. I don't care if it makes money or not. I want to fly around and distribute drugz.

Which is an argument against buying properties without missions or gameplay associated with them, I guess, but maybe you don't know that until you buy em? Do the pot stores just sit there and make money? That's kind of boring.

I keep getting messages from the headshop that they're running low on supplies but how do I trigger the missions to rectify that?

so, what's the best wiki? wikia? ign?

That torture part was so long

only seminoteworthy thing i've done so far: did the ? mission with franklin that's a street race. i happened to be carless at the time, so grabbed some shitbox off the street and lost. i figured it would just let me retry, but i guess it didn't. later i rolled into a custom shop, and the same character (?) sassed me for losing!

also got a pop-up that my car god repo'd at one point but i couldn't tell wtf icon it was telling me to hit up to get it back

straight fire beautiful game tho

The Trevor missions are some seriously satisfying deathfests. Really enjoying the sniper rifle ones.

You can retry every mission in the game, gooley