which city for GTA 5?

Really got to work on defending myself from snipers. I would've lasted ten seconds in Vietnam or Austin, Texas.

The Beach Bum expansion is pretty minimal but I do like getting all the free vehicles.

yeah shame there wasnt more content but you can never complain if its free i guess

is there anything to be done once you beat the game or is it kinda just fucking around for fun?

immediately after the credits rolled i got dropped in as trevor with his mom asking for medication but it didn't seem like a "real" mission

by "beat the game" i mean complete story mode not find all 50 rocket pieces or w/e

was wondering that myself.

trying to silver or gold the missions? idk. you do have your fully unlocked weapon loadouts during those replays

im going nuts trying to find the ten epsilon tracts. especially as you need to get them in order. after the story mission ive still plenty to do

is there anything to be done once you beat the game or is it kinda just fucking around for fun?

Well, I love the online play. Nothing that's in the post-story world is as fun as the online stuff, imo. But I would recommend completing any missions that you didn't complete. For example, the last few rampages are really fun.

immediately after the credits rolled i got dropped in as trevor with his mom asking for medication but it didn't seem like a "real" mission

I completed this mission and really enjoyed the resolution fwiw

Rode the rails out of town last night. Got bored and shot the engineer. Cops came out and I wound up falling over the front railing, getting killed.

Friend of mine joined online and he's getting into it, calling me at home to ask how an ignition bomb works. He's still learning the ins and outs. We were playing survival, he gets killed and sent to spectate. I hear him in the headset, "Wait is that you, plains? Is that you by the dumpster? Here comes some more bad guys." Meanwhile, keep in mind that there are two other random guys playing with us. It's cool though.

I somehow got a $7K bounty on my head and there were four or five blips outside my apartment, waiting for me. I call him up on the cellphone and tell him to come over and shoot me in the face if he wants some money. I see his blip come around the block (he's a crew member, so it looks different) and park by the other blips. Before I know it, explosions are rocking the building and I keep seeing a black caption card come up that says "E_X-X_shitfinger killed plainspal. Shit! I hear him say. A few moments later, more explosions. "plainspal killed E_X-X_shitfinger." "boyslayer__69 killed plainspal." Goddammit! I hear him say.

It was getting late one night, so we went our seperate ways. He was looking for to buying an apartment with a garage for the first time. I went back to my apartment and watched him on TV. Last I saw of him, he was backing his car up into the garage.

Nice to have him on though.

sounds like a decent, conscientious fellow

One of my best friends. No one can prairie dog any better from an abandoned airplane fuselage than him.

god i love your stories pp

Not much has been happening lately. I got all pissy last weekend because I stole a car and got a $7K bounty on my head. If you can stay alive for 48 real-time minutes, you get paid the bounty yourself. I got $9K the day before by jumping into a submarine and sitting on the bottom of the ocean for nearly an hour. This little French boy kept trying to shoot me from a helicopter, bullets leaving trails in the water like the first scenes of Saving Private Ryan. But I survived.

This time, I decided to go across the street and climb halfway up the crane in the construction site. Still within the bowels of the building so no helicopters could get me, far enough up to avoid getting shot from the ground, and if anyone tried to climb up, there I'd be, right at the top of the ladder with my barrel pointed down.

Worked for a little bit. Two blips show up on the map. "Nuh he somewhere up in that tower," one of them whispered. I cycled through my weapons and got ready.

Then more blips showed up from the other side and triggered a gang attack with the actual game itself. So now I've got players and computer-generated gangsters firing their guns off and guess what, some of those bullets can indeed travel the 60-70 feet up where I'm at. I start lobbing grenades off of the platform I'm on, hoping to if not kill, then scare away any of the players.

Somewhere in all the excitement, one of those blips made it up the ladder and was now on the platform, aiming his assault rifle at me. I run toward him, getting so close that instead of being able to shoot me, he punches me (which isn't quite as fatal.) I back up, take my shot, forget that I still have grenades on my wheel, hit him in the chest with a pineapple and we both blow up.

When I respawn, I'm back on the ground. Not only that, but somehow I've become an official participant of this gang attack. And before I know it, all the bad guys have been killed, everything goes sepia, schwing/slam MISSION PASSED +150 RP, freeze-frame.

I'm still standing there when the game returns, blip comes up behind me with a headshot, I go down and I hear in my headphones "Seven thou, nigga." That's when it occurs to me that it's 2 am, I'm 40 years old and I've got family visiting me the next day. Fuck this shit.

But I wasn't gone long. Like I said, been playing with my friend. He told me that he read online that when you get a bounty put on you, the game will let you wait it out in your apartment, out of harm's way.

If you can stay alive for 48 real-time minutes, you get paid the bounty yourself. I got $9K the day before by jumping into a submarine and sitting on the bottom of the ocean for nearly an hour

I'm totally gonna do this.

I get such a kick out of the online game, even though I'm not on so often, and I am pretty much garbage at video games. The other day a guy got a $7k bounty on his head near me, and I tracked him down and fucked up his car on a two lane blacktop. We both exited out vehicles, which was dumb because I am not good at the shooting - I shot him once but he got two shots at me and I was pretty close to dying, when a car came from nowhere and knocked him over, letting me finish him. It was such a fantastic moment.

There's an apartment in the lower hills of Vinewood that has an unrelated parking garage near it. You enter from the top and there's one lane that curves down to the exit. Inside there's this corner where you can back up and see anything first that comes toward you. The cool part is that on the map, it looks like you're in the apartment or standing on its roof or something.

in my limited time doing it, my favorite thing about the online is coop missions. which is like the least popular thing to do, right?

the chicken coop missions

I love co-cop missions but my ardour for them is complicated by the knowledge that I am generally the weakest link in the team. i did the mission where you steal a helicopter and squandered all of my team's spare lives getting shot while my team-mates killed their way to the chopper, respawned just next to it as they were taking off and scored an equal amount of points for essentially dragging them down.

just for a minute returning to the origins of the thread do you think they'll ever break the la/nyc/florida maps?

break from them

i mean

• I like missions too, but only with either a friend, crew member or someone who knows what the hell they're doing. I got lumped into one the other night where you were supposed to go into the grounds of this mansion, kill a guy and then deliver the photo back to Don. (Dom?) The summary itself even said something like "The place will be surrounded, so you may want to come in from above where they won't expect you."

so of course, the three other guys steal a car and try to ram it through the front gate.

• I don't know about alternate cities except to say that it'll be 2020 before we likely see another Rockstar one. How was it in Saints Row, being in Detrago or Chilwaukee or wherever? I like the Japan idea myself.

yeah tokyo would be my dream scenario... or maybe a multi-city map based off europe

that said if it's easier logistically to keep building off LA i would be ok with that

nyc is really boring to me tho

It's not really an exciting place to drive around in, much less crash airplanes into each other.

100%

nice

now get to the top of that mountain!

Still playing, still getting into adventures, nothing worth writing home about. There's this one member of my "crew" who never talks except for the occasional text that says "You lead the way, I'm drunk!" The other night, we drove up to the arts museum and bashed each other for awhile with melee weapons like broken bottles and baseball bats. Probably doesn't merit a four-paragraph description.

Last night, I went back to the virtual apartment and watched the rest of the players on TV, listening to their chatter. On one channel, there's a guy running down the sidewalk with a sniper's rifle. The next channel, there's a guy hiding behind a dumpster, looking out for the guy with the sniper's rifle. Up in the mountains is a player ranked at only No. 5, running through the bushes all by himself. There's a player shopping for clothes at Binco.

On the headset, there were these two Midwesterners, possibly Canadians, arguing with each other. Apparently they were brothers or cousins, trying to have a shoot-out with these other guys, but one of the brothers kept "accidentally" shooting the other. "Stay out of my way then!" "Stay out of your way? Tell me then exactly who you were aiming for up on that roof awhile ago, eh?" One of them ran into his apartment and the other was trying to get buzzed in. "No, man. Not after what you did to my car. Say you're sorry first." I would've chirped up with a "Dave's not here" reference, but that would've "outted" me as someone over 25.

The chatter is horrible. Just like anywhere, the obnoxious assholes are the loudest. There was a laid-back voice with a west coast accent arguing with a nasal-voiced Southerner. One was getting called faggot and the other was getting called nigger, though I don't think either of the two were black or homosexual. As nasty and offensive as the conversation was, it never got heated? Those words are like gunpowder, and yet, you'd think these two different ethnicities were simply telling your mama jokes to each other.

I am simultaneously embarrassed and amazed at the behavior of some of these white kids and the non-white people who interact with them. I heard one Asian-American describe himself as such to a white kid and immediately get bombarded with "Yeah, but wherrrreee arrrre you frrrrommm, then?" questions. The two guys I talked about above went into this weird spiel where the white guy was all "you're right. I would never say things out loud in person. I only do this on Playstation." while the other guy described the difference between being Hispanic and Latino. We all learned something about ourselves.

Well, we all learned something until the the nasal guy went off about the Latino's mother squeezing him out just on the other side of a barbed-wire fence. Then it went right back to where it started and I had to turn it off.

I got the Space Docker. The thing cost 125k to insure, geez.

Also it drives like shit.

Where do you get those? They make funny sounds though and look cool at night.

Someone who has one drives with you into their garage. You get out of the car in the garage and immediately get back in. Then you drive out with your own duplicate car. Then you insure for 125k

Oh one of those ways.

I got a free Vacca by doing the whole buying it online, not immediately replacing the car I wanted replacing, going back to the single player and then hitting ok, ok. Trouble with those is that you have to have the money upfront to pay for a Vacca in the first place.

I was thinking about single-player.

My biggest pet peeve, and GTA4 was especially horrible about this, are the one-on-one, heartfelt character discussions that occur when you're driving from Point A to Point V somewhere. "Man, you were always the cut-up back in the day." "What are you talking about, my heart's always been in this game!" "That's right. It's just that sometimes the game changes on you." "That's right, man. *pause* That's right."

SHUT UP.

I'm about halfway through the single player. Last night I was leaping over a train in a dirt bike to chase a burning plane and said to my wife "LOOK! IT'S LIKE I'M ACTUALLY IN AN ACTION MOVIE!"

The look she gave me :(

haha oh no

I know that look far too well

90.5% through now. Still searching for those last papers/spaceship items.

Also struggling with the 5th epsilyon tract clue, but don't tell me the answer, seems I reckon I'm looking for a ruined church perhaps. hmm. (I know I don't need them for 100% but gotta do em)

It also says that I'm down on 2 freaks/stranger missions. I'm damned if I know which ones - I've been all over this fricking map!

did you do all of tania's towing missions? that one confused me for awhile. try calling her as franklin if you haven't cleaned that up.

I know that look far too well

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damn, way to break it to onimo

http://i.imgur.com/cbMbgJw.gif

I was at 90% when I completed the main mission, and I left it at that.

There's a family row raging at the minute as my sister-in-law has bought her 11 year old son this for Christmas.

I've got a bad secret:

The four-year-old plays this.

Now, he's in a game where the weapons are out of ammo, so he can't shoot anything. He mostly steals buses and drives around and climbs ladders. If there's a crane in the distance, he'll spend ten minutes running to it.

he also likes to swim the length of the L.S. River. The other day, he got ate by a shark and both he and his sister were nuts about it for the rest of the day.

I'm not crazy about it, but it is fun to watch him explore. He has punched bystanders, but they came back pretty hard and punched him back. He mostly just runs around. I'll come in after he's done, and there's Michael under a bridge somewhere, standing on a barrel.

I walked in last night, and he's standing in Michael's living room with Franklin standing next to him. "Look!" he says. "It's my friend!"

Please don't call child services. We're monitoring this closely.

l'il plains stories are the next logical step in this thread and i for one am very excited to hear about these pint-sized adventures into mayhem

Snuck into the police station through a glitch and took this photo

http://i.imgur.com/2VDrAdq.jpg

I used to tease Second Lifers. Still do, actually.

Hey, it's a game. It's fun to play. I shouldn't beat myself up for it.

by the way, here's a picture I took right before I beat myself up.

http://i.imgur.com/uM9YZ2c.jpg

The other day I started a new online character. I was doing one of the first missions, and something happened I haven't experienced in a long time ... I ran out of ammo! I only had a basic pistol and a little bit of ammo at that point. I had two guys left to murder so ran in and punched one guy to death, stole his gun, and shot the other guy. It was kind of exhilarating.

there's this one thing that's got me trippin
there's this one thing that's got me trippin

Na na nananana na

someone gave me millions of dollars in a game last night. millions. what do i do? also, lots of guys in the game were indestructible. am i in a lobby for bad sports? I AM NOT A BAD SPORT.