which city for GTA 5?

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

The hardcore station was cool back when it was the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 soundtrack

Best soundtrack was Grind Session.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grind_Session

The multiplayer lobby is focused on 4p+ missions, so if you want to do another 2p you should quit back to the map

Yeah this is where it was going wrong for us, when we dropped back to the map we'd end up in different sessions. Might get better luck next time though.

Go to station for me is Mirror Park, which is maybe a terrible thing to admit. But there's nothing on there I knew already, and very little I don't like.

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.

That happened to me too and I got really angry with him for it.

I love the hardcore channel, not least for Keith Morris' DJing. Love the fact that the one Black Flag tune on the station is the one that Chuck and not Greg Ginn wrote.

But my go to is perhaps the soul/funk station, then the space disco station, then the classic rock station, then the pop station (which always seems to be playing Amerie, which is awesome). My favourite thing is listening to lachrymose AOR while committing foul crimes - remember sweet memories of bad behaviour in Vice City soundtracked by John Waite's Missing You...

Soulwax
Flymo
Worldwide

Flymo and Worldwide for me after I tired of Bless Your Heart

i'm not as enamored w/ the soundtrack as most players seem to be :/

the real answer here is "beyond insemination"

The soundtrack is fine but I don't pay attention to it that much tbh

I miss the classical/opera stuff from GTA3

As I mentioned upthread, I miss the original songs from GTA3

Hey Brilliam sorry I had to murder ya

Haha no worries. First time seeing a familiar face in GTAO!

Wish GTA offered DLC packs for the soundtrack - assuming you have 4-5 stations that you enjoy listening to, 6-8 songs per, it doesn't take long to burn out. $5 and I get 8 new tracks for each station? Sold.

Got my own shitty apartment. So nice having a garage. Ordered up the free Elegy at last since I now have a place to put it.

The TV thing where you can watch other players adds a whole new weird element to this game. I had grabbed an expensive car to take to Simeon, and while I was heading down the highway, everyone got booted off. It was suddenly an open session and I was the only player.

I drop the car off and head back to the apartment. It's 15-20 minutes later. I turn on the TV and see there are two other players back in the session - one ranked 9 and the other ranked 44. No. 9's just out and about ramping his motorcycle downtown and it doesn't take long for No. 44 to come up and shoot him. I watch it all on TV.

So it's just No. 44 and me now, but I'm on the couch. He starts robbing liquor stores. I also see that despite his ranking, he can't drive his motorcycle for shit. I say what the hell, maybe I'll got out and find this guy. He's got a lot of cash from the robberies.

I go outside and see his blip is about a block away. I walk toward him and we both just pause. Suddenly, I hear sirens in the distance. His blip takes off like a banshee the other way. And that's when a cop who's apparently chasing him smashes right through me in the middle of the crosswalk and I die right there.

brilliant. the fact you watched it on tv for a bit is what makes it.

Saw one guy getting chased by the cops - he landed a helicopter inside the military base and stole an airplane. Then he lands the plane to grab the contents of a crate, gets shot at by some cops, shoots the cops, grabs the police car and starts ramping over the cliffs.

Best part is that not only was it on TV, but it was being covered by Weazel News like it was the OJ chase. Drove by the guy later as I was looking to update the Elegy and I was all, Hey, it's the guy from TV.

PPlains, don't stop these posts anytime soon ok? It's almost better than playing.

None of you are ever on this thing.

I also suspect that you all aren't really women either.

i was on dis ting earlier!

i'm on dis ting rn (and likely will be all night)

Maybe doing it wrong because ill crew always fast asleep.

ILX crew, not the crew from Kankakee.

flying around last night came across a cool looking smugglers cove. Landed my chopper on a neaby beach but in my excitement just ran straight into my rear propellers.

ouch.

[spoiler alert regarding the epsilon missions]

It felt good to finish this set of missions with a big fuck you to the high priest haha. Fuck you for making me wear those robes for 10 days straight. Fuck you for making me walk around the desert all that time and fuck you and thanks for the money asshole!

otm

antexit and i were playing last night and the matchmaking/team-making was SO WEIRD! in every game where it wasnt just the two of us, it would routinely put us on different teams, despite the fact that we are "friends" and are in the same crew. isnt the whole point of crews that you end up on the same team in missions? as well, it kept putting me (level 7) with another low-level player, and putting antexit (level 20) with a player around that level. why!?