which city for GTA 5?

i suspect there's a lot more stock movement scripted to story missions -- i've seen a couple things out there about one or two but i wonder about the rest

thing is cuz you cant short stocks, its not like you can cash in on something right before you kill a CEO or whatever

and if you're expected to research the companies to see who the company's competitors are, i dont think that really qualifies as a fun thing to do in a GTA game

well no.

what i mean is, after the final mission, the news is screaming about GOLD PRICES SOARING and i wondered if it had some meaning

pp please chronicle your every moment in GTA in this dry style, I am finding it hilarious

^ this. something about you hearing them talk but not being able to speak back makes it so great

like a sinister rutger hauer figure, drifting silently through san andreas

i suspect there's a lot more stock movement scripted to story missions -- i've seen a couple things out there about one or two but i wonder about the rest

Recently I did a mission where a rich guy asks for a ride to the airport. As you drop him off, he gives you a little bit of money and tells you to invest money in a stock. So I put the 50 million I had in the bank for Michael all in that stock.

So far I have only lost 20 million dollars as a result of that investment!

yeah that's a specific one -- surprised it didn't work for you, maybe you missed the window. i made a shitload!

i made a bit of cash on that one

man, buying stocks is terrible though, you have to keep pressing the plus button one at a time? i actually would have invested more if i hadn't already spent five minutes on that.

you can hold it down

i made a bit of cash on that one

I would have if I hadn't kept the stocks after the window :(

^ this. something about you hearing them talk but not being able to speak back makes it so great

I've got a mic now, I just don't use it often.

I did use it last night in some caper where two teams had to steal this van and take it back to a guy who wanted the drugs inside. My team got inside a pick-up truck at the beginning and I was the driver. I'm pretty good at driving, but the truck had no traction, so I was sliding around a bit.

So I say, "Dammit, get off of me cat" even though the cat was sleeping on the bed behind me.

rutger hauer wouldn't do that :(

rofl!

currently having to wear cult robes for ten days. im pretty sure it will all lead to nothing other than me spending shit tonnes of money for nothing.

as great as i think this game is its still waay behind the original san andreas in terms of content and challenges.

the only thing ive struggled with so far are the two chopper missions for flight school.

and seriously races? so lacking AGAIN. original san andreas must have had at least thirty races and they were all pretty tough.

im still enjoying my time with it though. just not sure how much longer it will last

Yeah the Story races are all way too easy.

Although if I want my ass handed to me, there's always online races. I rarely win at those.

man, buying stocks is terrible though, you have to keep pressing the plus button one at a time? i actually would have invested more if i hadn't already spent five minutes on that.

― socki (s1ocki), Monday, October 21, 2013 6:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can hold it down

― goole, Monday, October 21, 2013 6:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

c'mon sloc get it together gramps

seriously haha

"Dear Mr. Ford, your new 'Model T' carriage is very comfortable and attractive but I fear it is much too heavy for the common horse. Mine pulled it only a half-mile and nearly died from the exhaustion."

http://i.minus.com/ibeD9qtOkTWriC.gif

katamari gta

sooo i updated xbox live and it totally destroyed my saved games? like I was at 40% or so and now I'm at the beginning. is there some way to fix this? I'm pretty ticked off

have you tried turning it off and back on again? (srs question, my save game bugged out to after the update but a restart fixed it)

http://i.imgur.com/9CHAn77.gif

sooo i updated xbox live and it totally destroyed my saved games? like I was at 40% or so and now I'm at the beginning. is there some way to fix this? I'm pretty ticked off

have you tried turning it off and back on again? (srs question, my save game bugged out to after the update but a restart fixed it)

I had the exact same problem. I turned off the console before it got a chance to save (which IIRC it asks you before it does anyway on a fresh boot) and booted again, directly into SP instead of via Online, and it put me back where I was, mercifully.

_sooo i updated xbox live and it totally destroyed my saved games? like I was at 40% or so and now I'm at the beginning. is there some way to fix this? I'm pretty ticked off_

_have you tried turning it off and back on again? (srs question, my save game bugged out to after the update but a restart fixed it)_

I had the exact same problem. I turned off the console before it got a chance to save (which IIRC it asks you before it does anyway on a fresh boot) and booted again, directly into SP instead of via Online, and it put me back where I was, mercifully.

How do I boot directly into SP? nb this is a borrowed xbox and I have no idea what I'm doing

Just turn the game on and don't press A during the loading screen (because if you do, it'll switch to online, and as i learned pressing A again doesn't load SP, even though it SAYS it does... they had like 500 QA and shit like this isn't fixed wow)

I was doing an online mission where you're supposed to steal a big plane and fly it back to Sandy Shores. I killed all the guys and took the plane. There were two other players sitting around doing nothing. Right before I finished the mission one of the dudes used a remote detonator to blow the plane up and the mission failed. I was angry but also impressed.

Shot a guy in a deathmatch coming at me on a motorcycle. Felt pretty cool until I also shot the motorcycle and died in the ensuing explosion.

xpost haha, find it nuts how people go online on gta and just hang around chatting with mates, sit around relaxing, doing nothing much until they encounter our intrepid ilx hero, eyeball each other warily and then it's just a matter of time before shit goes down

i don't think i 'get' the online. which is funny. because in a certain sense the 1p is even more pointless

Last night, there was a guy just sitting in his tank down by the beach, shouting "Come and get me! Look at my rating! Yeah, that's right. Go ahead and put a bounty on my head!"

Like, that's all he's going to do? Sit in a tank by himself and yell into the microphone?

One of his buddies went into passive mode and started running toward him. I was still pissed about my passive experience from the other night, so it was especially satisfying that he never saw me coming across the parking lot toward him in a Hummer.

Here's a list of what's unlocked in each level of the online game:

http://www.gosunoob.com/grand-theft-auto-5/gta-5-online-reputation-level-unlocks/

i think it would be super fun to do 'story mission' type stuff co-op online, if people are generally with it, which they generally aren't ime. i shd try to give that more of a shot.

i tried out some team deathmatch, but the joining/matching wasn't great leading to small teams. and there was one dude who was leveled up enough to have an SMG, meaning he rocked everybody else up and down. the shooting is so much less tight than MP3; lotta bad perspective problems making corners really weird

racing is way more fun, which weirdly i'm pretty good at. idk how people can be so bad at that? i won the intro race by a bunch.

and there was one dude who was leveled up enough to have an SMG,

Didn't know that was you on that motorcycle.

I'm RP 15 and got placed in a match with a bunch of people ranked 3 to 5. When the cut scene began of the team members holding their little pistols, I felt bad for 1/10 of a second.

Because it sucks for me when I get placed in a match with folks ranked 20-40 and I'm ducking assault rifle and sniper shots.

Horde mode, that's what I want to unlock

after that I don't find the unlocks very exciting until like level 40

survival = horde = level 15

That's where I'm at now.

Fortunately, Dave Matthews and Blues Traveler haven't come looking for me just yet.

I had the exact same problem. I turned off the console before it got a chance to save (which IIRC it asks you before it does anyway on a fresh boot) and booted again, directly into SP instead of via Online, and it put me back where I was, mercifully.

― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:05 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this did not work :(

i think i might have accidentally had it save with a fresh boot or something? i cannot, for the life of me, figure out where my games have gone. and honestly, even though i was having a load of fun with it, i'm not sure i want to redo fucking everything at this point

The cool thing is that you can see some of those upper levels if someone ranked that high invites you in.

I did one the other night where you just jump out of a helicopter and try to land on one of the buildings downtown without splattering -- no checkpoints or turns.

this did not work :(

― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 22 October 2013 17:49 (40 minutes ago)

If this didn't work, there are a couple of possibilities:
1. You completed enough of the brand new game to get an autosave opportunity, and selected "yes."
2. You are signed into a different profile.
3. There are for some reason different save files.

If it's 1... you're pretty much out of luck. Check your manual saves if you have any, maybe they'll be further along than the game's start. Otherwise, you may have wiped your progress. The fact that there are no rolling autosaves is a fucking travesty.

If it's 2, easy fix: log in on the right profile. But I doubt this is your problem.

If it's 3... well, I guess the best thing to do would be to go into your Xbox Dashboard and look for the individual save files and see if they're wonky in some way. It'd be hard for me to help from here, but maybe something will pop out at you?

Seriously, I can't believe how much of a step back this game is re: save/load, user experience, etc. Didn't San Andreas have rolling autosaves? BOOO ROCKSTAR BOOOOOOOO~

You guys are having so many problems with this game that I'm not having!

here's a new one: something about the multiplayer on this causes my router to flip out. just about every time it's booted me and my wifi has crashed

about ten minutes ago the whole frikkin xbox just went black so i don't even know what is happening

maybe its a heinous plot to make us all buy XBONES

i keep trying to find crew sessions but either nobody's online, the games are full, or i'm just playing weird hours (late night EST weeknights usually)

so instead i wind up doing robberies with EmpathicPotato69 or whoever who's always trying to shoot me in the head from the passenger seat as i'm driving us there

also somehow i find the experience of WATCHING online deathmatches to be like 100% more engrossing than actually participating in them, esp. with the camera angle switches

^^ yeah. Especially being able to switch to different players.

I joined the ILGGILX crew, but you guys are always sleeping.

Joined a Simeon "go get this moving car" mission with some random the other night. Not only was he driving (fine), but he kept setting the waypoint for our moving target. Then he'd follow the purple path, even though the blue icon for the car floated further and further away. I say to him "Let me set the waypoint since you're driving," but no dice. I mean, damn, you can do those missions solo, you know.

Haven't been in freemode lately, so no hilarious stories. I do keep getting into the mission where you simply jump out of the helicopter and try to land on the building, but I keep dying. It's like a parody of a GTA game.

Played my first lengthy chunk of online last night, with a friend, and a) took far too many attempts to get into the same session, given that we started out in the same XBL party, b) every time we did a 2 man job together it'd end and then we'd get 6 other 1-8 or 4-8 man jobs (mostly races) to choose from, are there just not many 2 man story-type jobs around? Because one on one racing isn't that fun and one on one deathmatching is worse. c) if we decided not to do any of those and tried to drop back into freeplay instead, it'd push us into different sessions again, and we'd have to try over and over to get back together again. Infuriating.

But in the end we stopped doing jobs and played some golf and some darts and it was pretty great fun.