which city for GTA 5?

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.

Simeon and Martin tend to give you 2p missions, whereas other missions tend to be 4p. If you want another you can usually just call them. You can always do any mission with 1p or 2p though. If you don't want to have other people in your missions, make sure you turn Matchmaking off. Then once your friends are in the mission with you, you can open matchmaking. You can find the setting for this in the start menu under Online, although some missions have a Matchmaking toggle for easier access.

Once you finish the mission and continue, you'll get six missions to choose from, as well as "replay" and "refresh" and "free mode". Once you're at this point, you will basically never see another 2p mission. The multiplayer lobby is focused on 4p+ missions, so if you want to do another 2p you should quit back to the map and call Simeon or another mission-giver and see what they offer you.

Other good 2p options include robbing stores, gang attacks, etc. These are free mode so you don't need to worry about matchmaking as long as you're in the same freemode with your party.

maxed out my bank account at $2+B

B-)

Michael's investment in Tinkle continues to piss all over me

Finished it last night, got all the money in the bank, invested it in Pisswasser, guess I'll see if I want to come back to the game later.

Once I bought the Los Santos Customs with Franklin, I burned out on customizing cars; owning the pot shop is just annoying - go pick up a van and drive it here!

Not that great a game overall - the missions weren't all that engaging or difficult - died a few times in missions where you have to fight off hordes and never got the hang of flying the helicopter but that's it. So many bad drive from point A to point B missions, I never could get the satisfaction of a good random street mugging/killing because the cops always get called.
Once Trevor takes over the strip club, the side mission is that you can now touch the strippers without fear of a bouncer? Um, yaaaaay.

kinda wanna talk about the soundtrack more itt -- what are all y'all's go-to stations? What songs will you steal a car just because it's playing and you wanna hear it better? What are the duds?

I had Trevor get in a car once and the radio was playing "What a Fool Believes".

He said something like "What is this shit?" and changed it to the Black Flag channel.

Got sick of the hardcore station real quick cuz it's Trevor's default and I've heard most of those songs a hundred times to begin with.

the soulwax station is great for racing

West Coast Classics
Lowdown 91.1
Los Santos Classic Rock - nothing like "Baker Street" coming on and starting a brawl just like in Good Will Hunting
Soulwax

there's lots of good stuff but so far i havent found like "my" station.

i like the space disco one, forget its name

oh yeah the lowdown is the funk and soul one right?

dont listen to the hardcore one very much as i realized i dont really enjoy hardcore music anymore! (did i ever?)

kinda sick of all of them. but i love "if you leave me now" a little bit more.

If "Music Sounds Better With You" or "I'd Rather Be With You" ever come on then I immediately switch over, just cannot beat driving fast in this game with "Music Sounds Better" blaring out. "Night Nurse" is also a gimme if I'm doing some cruising in one of the missions while the dialogue's going on. But otherwise I like Radio Los Santos and the FlyLo one

the 'modern rock' one is way bad