which city for GTA 5?

that first mission with michael/trevor/franklin together made me like this game again. super awesome especially for a series that is not exactly known for good mission design

while not without occasional misfires, improved mission design and integration into the flow of the game are the biggest reasons V is so good.

The mission design is awesome. The only two missions I haven't immediately wanted to play a second time were the yoga one and the big rig+stolen cars one.

My personal favourite so far is Trevor chasing the burning plane on a bike

is there in-game internet? please say yes.

There is, but it's pretty underdeveloped

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9220-flying-lotus/

Pitchfork: And you actually appear in the game.
FL: I'm in the game!
Pitchfork: How did that happen?
FL: I was in the right place at the right time. They were wrapping up some scenes in the game, and I was in New York, and they found a part for me that's in the story. I play some gangsta-ass motherfucka from the hood [laughs], and there's a scene where I'm playing basketball. When I recorded my lines, they had this headset that they put on you to capture all your facial features and everything, so they got my face. It's super weird. That's another reason why I wanna beat the game, so I can see how I'm represented in polygons.'

lol, i love that he's in the game and hasn't seen himself yet! (from earlier in the article it seems that he's at the 40% mark)

going to be p.nice in GTA 6 on new hardware when diplo, skrillex, calvin harris, & zane lowe can all have a three hour radio station each

I haven't played this yet, but the mission design is better? And yet the game is super easy? Those seem kind of contradictory.

I mean I guess they could just be really fun yet really easy

the mission design is better but the game is super easy

both statements of fact

they're just a bit more inventive (though they do fit the standard 'go someplace - listen to some chat - go some other place - kill someone' formula) on the whole w/lots of checkpointing thrown in and there's not much model airplane-style annoying failing

http://kotaku.com/two-important-things-gta-v-is-still-getting-wrong-1405642943

map stuff is particularly otm

To actually play the story missions using free-aim is to make GTA V ruinously difficult.

um waht no

just no

all good points. max payne was so smooth.

i shd try free aim! why not.

i like having to look at the minimap to get my directions. the huge glowing signs in saints row fuck with my precious immersion.

in re kotaku gripes

i got kinda good at the gun range challenges, tho it's an absurd bitch running through them 3x (if you care about the xp)

annoyingly some of them only seem possible to gold if you've modded up the weapon in q

ok fuck a yoga mission you guys

17mil up on HAL now yassss

I thought i'd already bought HAL but seem to have messed up a save. Finally got the mission that introduced Michael earlier this evening. I'm becoming determined that this is the first game I see through to the end. Miles behind everyone else, though.

Neat interview with the three leads: http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-feed/2013/09/the-gqa-grand-theft-auto-v-actors-talk-franklin-michael-and-crazy-trevor.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSmrXJbPeeA

Haha:

Pitchfork: What was your favorite video game before this one?

FL: Final Fantasy VII, but it's a little dated now....

re: lotus not finding himself in the game: i know several actors who have done voice work in GTA and have never seen themselves in game. It's a big game and rockstar doesn't even send you a copy of the game!

"So what other voice over acting have you done?"

"I shouted 'CHEESY VAGINAS' in grand theft auto four"

do rockstar pay their actors well? can imagine it being like the music rights thing - heard somewhere they get a pittance, real payment is exposure to a global audience.

on another note, what's the difference between 'traditional gta' and 'assisted aiming'?

in traditional gta, gun shoot you!

lol, also it took me what felt like ages to fully get what a small green P? meant, as opposed to a large blue D

kinda embarrassed here but i've still not fully worked it out. i just go off the colours, but yeah what does size and the letter itself relate to?

the stuff about aiming in that article above is bob on. so so frustrating, esp as the shooting range. aiming on a control pad is bleugh as it is but to not even match up to max payne 3, rdr or sc:bl is bad bad bad

thanks a ton to whoever above suggested making the mini-map as minimal and basic as possible - improved it no end. recommend it to anyone who still finds themselves playing through that little bitty corner of the screen

The "blips" mode would be a good middle-ground between the full mini-map and none at all, but for reasons known only to God and Rockstar, they've removed the health/armor/special bars from the bottom along with the map

^ apart from this!

Yeah that's a big drawback but you can always turn it on for the mission

HAL just keeps climbing. still in at 24mil

I expect the first "I SAW BIGFOOT!" rumours to start imminently.

― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 11:37 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw Bigfoot, btw.

Trevor's biceps tat is kinda lol/mostly sad

gravel-voiced Canuck with buddies called MICHAEL and FRANKLIN just makes me wonder if they wrote him with Will Arnett in mind

60% complete. there is so much game in this game, what a game, game game game game game

driving trevor's motorcycle over the top of the train is going to be the death of me

do paramedics ever do anything but pronounce people dead at the scene and drive off? cops also just seem to have much dumber AI than in IV, all they ever do is ram people off the road and try to shoot them dead if they get out of the car - this is kind of annoying when someone has just called the cops on you for standing near them

liked how in IV you'd actually see people getting arrested and cuffed etc

I also miss weird satnav woman

just remembered to claim my complimentary pre-order blimp, definitely worth doing as an easy way to explore the leftover bits of the map with non-fiddly controls, gets its own bit of moody atmospheric score as well

(mild spoil) what's the song at the end of yoga mission when you're flying over the city on ketamine? loved that bit even though there was no actual point to it. looked/felt like the awesome far cry blood dragon

found it: The C90s - Shine a Light (Flight Facilities Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tsM_uY_fKw (includes game footage)

love flight facilities stuff anyway but thought c90s had given up long ago, nuts to see them given such a high profile spot

still under 10%, so impressed by this game... but as mentioned above, this seems a lot more clumsily sexist and offensive than even previous GTAs. did everyone in the rockstar offices get dumped by their girlfriends or something?

so close the 150 mil for the golf course w/michael after making 100mil on PIS

made 100 mil for franklin betw. PIS & HAL

stockmarket seems glitchy to me, arrows on the spreadsheet show the stock rising but when i look at the graph it's falling. Just don't get it.

Think I invested in PIS yesterday though, hope I did anyway. How much are you putting in?

lol @ the biggest most controversial ultra violent game in history having everyone invest in stocks and play golf and train a fucking dog

fuck training a dog, but the golf and tennis are both pretty good, and there is something to enjoy in the jarring change of pace.

i was thinking, this is when you know they have succeeded with a sandbox, when you feel like you could fuck around forever and never get bored.