which city for GTA 5?

ste, what's that? you mean you can stand in a tunnel and make a hundred cars pile up? i'd do this myself in story mode but i know some pro gta5 guy can make a much better video (the one linked above with the guy driving over mountains lobbing bombs at helicopters was superb, much better than a 'video of a guy playing a game' has any right to be)

(i can't play this on my xbox because my xbox is, uh, not able to go online so im gona hang on for like 18 months til its cheap 2nd hand for ps3 and play it online on that)

but yeah, more videos of mad shit please!

flight school :(

specifically the land on a moving vehicle thing. i need to do that really?

i played this for hours today and all i did was moving shipping crates around with a truck and go to dumb flight school

honestly so much of this game seems to be make-work to draw out the playing time. i find it grim

the crates/flight school period is the last uneventful but before the game gets really good imo

but then again i thought flight school was kind of a blast

uneventful bit*

skydiving on the truck wasn't as hard as landing on the highway bridge. that's one of those i hit silver on the first try and then couldn't even complete again.

I barrelled through the story without getting sidetracked and I regret not letting the world ~unfold~. I own some nice cars and I drive them around. Any recommended side-missions? Right now I'm Trevor chasing down celebrities for knick-knacks and taking poor souls up north if you know what I mean

Recommend doing the drug drop stuff at Trevs airfield.

keep doing the 'taking poor souls' stuff

do all the random encounters, there's some really interesting ones amongst the mundane 'bring back a stolen vehicle' ones.

have you browsed the epsilon web site yet? As Michael if you go onto their site it starts some missions.

The hunting was more interesting that I expected, well it was at least better than the Cletus initiation.

buy the property, they will give you missions. Yeah mostly samey delivery stuff but if you just like being kept busy

goole, yeah that landing on a bridge was brutal for me too. I just kept repeating it (which felt like forever) until I lucked out with a gold.
Still haven't returned to retry those chopper time races though, eurgh.

and those parachute jumps are pretty good, but landing is a fucking nightmare for me.

flying is impossible out of first-person view

And I purchased the hangar and now it lets me into the airport without cops all over my ass. Which is cool and one thing I hated about IV.

I like the nice touch that you can still see the other characters wandering about the game.

flying is impossible out of first-person view

I'm not too bad in third person, but with some of the combat jets and choppers they have a decent HUD.

one trevor mission had me flying out over the sea at night in the rain. Just could not see the horizon or how far the sea was, unless lightening flashed. Very cool.

I did a couple Epsilon missions but the "bring us these cars!" mission is not my idea of fun. Will definitely do flight school and parachuting missions tho

I spent two hours online last night, working to get my ranking up from 5 to 7.

There's such a different vibe to it. I got spawned outside of the laboratories northeast of town in the desert. As I was running up the road looking for a car, I could hear the gamers on their head sets and thought, I could be shot by a sniper at any moment!

i played this for hours today and all i did was moving shipping crates around with a truck and go to dumb flight school

how does it compare to

http://www.oocities.org/nar927/shenwork.jpg

the thing about the parachute mission is that you can barely see the target on account of the big ol parachute

On level 15 of online I finally unlocked Survival modes, which are basically horde modes (my favorite kind of multiplayer mode). One thing that's interesting about the online is that so much of it stuff is initially hidden from you until you unlock it. Also I like that you can bookmark particular levels/missions that you like and make playlists of them.

Last night I found myself in a group with some dudes who had maybe hacked the game or something... we kept doing this easy mission over and over again and it was worth 9k each time. But then some guy started observing us and suddenly we couldn't restart it anymore. Bummer. But I made a lot of quick cash!

lmao adam

loving that you can essentially play this game as Matt Sweeney http://distilleryimage0.s3.amazonaws.com/7be7ab00306811e3ab3c22000a1fc513_7.jpg

Getting a wanted level for throwing a punch at a bush is bush league. I was trying to figure out how to hop anyway.

KIFFLOM.

Finished the last rampage, in Echo Park

not sure if this is an obvious #protip, but doing the stunt jumps with Franklin's special skill makes a huge difference.

BRAINSTORM:

can you double up your insider trading take on the assassination missions? ie you ride the competitor stock up to its scripted amount of +50% THEN buy up the damaged stock at its scripted bottom and wait for it to come back to average (does this even happen?)

cozen help me out here

Yeah I think so

Finished the game :(

You can share your insider knowledge with the other characters

I bought the 'Overlooked' blood red jacket from one of the clothing stores...now have to find the rest of the jack Torrance outfit

convo between trevor and lamar: always pretty funny

Don't do the third triathlon unless you absolutely have to.

Why does the attack helicopter handle so poorly?

username: this guy's first and last names. no periods or special characters.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/The_Wire_Cedric_Daniels.jpg

Call me up. I'm still at No. 13, so don't ask me for a rocket launcher.

Also I don't have a mic. You can take the wheel and be Steve Buscemi, and I'll be the guy who hasn't said a fucking word since we left Brainerd.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/30/100-little-things-in-gta-5-that-will-blow-your-mind

all cool, many i've noticed, a couple i don't think are real

how do ppl play this game?

i mean, do you concentrate on story missions? go looking for side quests? or just run around acting crazy?

i never really feel the urge to dive into the like, game's internet

i follow the story and do some of the more ridiculous side things when they pop up

i also spend a lot of time stealing planes and shooting people with a sniper rifle

Almost like life, missions are like chores I gotta do to earn money when I'd rather be just driving around town. "I guess I'll go over and see what this is all about."

Like I said above, I've been online mostly lately. You have to earn money through missions and races just to get things like ammunition or even a place to park your car. And right now, I'm driving something that looks like an orange Dodge Neon with no garage. The initiative to win missions and make rank is much more prevalent.

And just having other players involved makes it more interesting. The other night, I was landing the chopper, robbing the convenience store, taking the chopper out over the water to escape the cops, etc. repeat. There were a dozen or so other guys chattering and shooting each other across town, but I was ignoring them, working solo.

So I'm robbing this store clerk, right? Got the shotgun aimed right at him and he's emptying the register. I hear one of the other players say, hold up, there's a helicopter here. I think someone's in there. Dude comes in with his little cowboy hat on and stands right in front of the counter. I don't have a mic, so I can't ask him what he's up to. So I just assume the worst, that he's going to steal my money and helicopter. With that, I turn the shotgun and blow him back out the door. Everyone chattering goes nuts. I JUST GOT SHOT! WHO WAS THAT?

Anyway. Outside of my family and co-workers, that's how I've been interacting in real time with the rest of the world lately.

i generally do all the side shit and exploration i can until i run out of stuff, then push the story forward. but that's generally how i play all sandbox games.

the story missions in this are really good tho (generally)

some of this game is a little boring but i've found switching characters alleviates that a lot.

that sounds kinda awesome (the online)

are you not able to just steal cars off the street?

You can, but like the game, you're prone to wanted levels, etc.

When you appear online, usually your car is parked nearby, so it's easy just to run and grab that.

Every so often, I'll start a mission with some randos and we'll spawn next to my car. To them, it looks like any old car to steal, so they'll jump in. We're doing a mission anyway, so whatever, here are my keys, baby you can drive my car if you want.

(I assume theirs doesn't show up because they have, you know, GARAGES.)

are you not able to just steal cars off the street?

Unlike in story mode, the cops will never stop noticing high-level cars are stolen in online mode. I don't think you can even respray them. The spray dudes will say that the car is too hot or etc. But that doesn't mean you can't put a car in your garage and deal with it.

And there are limitations when it comes to stealing the primary cars of other online players. There is a setting that allows you to not even allow people to enter your car as a passenger.

Is there actually a way to buy/sell bawsaq from a PC? I can look at the stocks but i can't see any transaction buttons...

I don't believe you can.

holy shit that third triathalon, thirty minutes of button mashing.

When I was like halfway across the lake I thought "oh maybe this one is just a swimming one" but nope.

Is there something I'm not getting with the cycling section? Every time we went up steep hills I was overtaken even though I had full stamina.

Still won though.

Sounds like you guys are going for 100% completion ?!? Why else subject yourself to such finger torture?