which city for GTA 5?

here's the link the socialclub website spit out for the race i made

http://rsg.ms/1d2MpRl

let me know if you like it. or if you can even get it to show up. or if the link works.

I tried to recreate the chase scene. Don't know if this works for 360 or not. Made it on PS3.

To Live and Die in L.S.

http://i.imgur.com/NdPw0ch.jpg

So you can totally knock those big orange balls down from the soda stands and roll them around like they're your own little pet.

who rolls pets?

http://www.petcarebypost.com/images/_lib/boredom-breaker-activity-tents-tunnels-and-play-balls-glitter-hamster-ball-9010670-0-1358358735000.jpg

I admit, I could've phrased that better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mmfGIuib6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TG31jSUQg
I must admit to finding this dude's videos quite addictive. they certainly inspire me to jump back on gta online in the hope of such yuks. but then I just get pulverised by some pwner over and over again...

Yeah, me and my buddy rolled that orange around the vineyards for a lot longer than I thought we would. I shot it down first and went chasing after it, but apparently it looked to him like it never left.

- BUDDY: It's still here, from what I can see.
- ME: What do you mean it's still up there? (Turns away from orange to see "new" orange back up on soda stand. Look back to vineyard and "old" orange is gone.)

So we were pretty pleased with ourselves when we managed to roll the orange and keep it together between us. Somehow, the authorities became involved (as they do) and even after dying, we'd respawn and celebrate that the orange was still there.

I don't know. We had been running races and staying out of freemode, but we were inspired to go back into Los Santos and look for trouble. He had bought a bright pink moped which we decided would be the perfect vehicle for some drive-by's. One guy wouldn't come out of his apartment, so we parked the moped on his porch and rang his doorbell. We were about to leave again when dude came out and shot my buddy in the chest. Knocked us both over since I was riding behind him on the moped.

Now it was on. Got into a firefight before the apartment dude raced off in a regular car. I could go on and on about it all, but it involves exchanging bullets with a limousine, said limo planting a sticky and sending us on the moped about 50 feet into the air, me grabbing the firetruck and blasting the limo driver as he came out of Ammunation and somehow killing him with water... Had the headset turned on to just me and my friend, so I don't know if they were 12-year-olds or what. To me, they were just pawns in the game, man, pawns in the game.

Anyway. Freemode was fun for once.

if you care about this kind of thing, a guy took the time to lap test every single car in the game and came up with a ranking for every class of car

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx_tHjuVuROD1k2lTfzHB4q-BHGK7Wgsj

helpful if you like racing, since apparently those stat bars don't mean much.

another guy found all the cars that have a lot of mod options:

http://gtaforums.com/topic/602582-list-of-the-best-vehicles-to-mod/

Man, they add jumps and the race creator tool, and suddenly I'm obsessed with the racing again. I love so many of the races that people are making.

yeah, it's added a lot to the experience. but getting people to spontaneously coordinate to try them all is still a problem. people seem to loooove that freeway jumps race.

i've also found that the ramps don't really play well with all vehicles off-road.

my latest pet peeve: people who don't vote in lobbies. dude. let's get off this screen. thank you.

oh and i think i figured out the 'fast start' thing in races. i couldn't get it to work for anything until i had my tv turned up too loud. the 3 2 1 go! countdown has a booming noise on every count, but there's also a slight echo on each one. the trigger instant is on the final echo, not the final beat.

I somehow nailed the fast start thing on a half-dozen races in a row the other night. I don't know how, though me trying to hit that final beat after a few beers may have helped.

i don't really play gta 5 anymore - i've gone back to saints row instead :/

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2014/01/20/grand-theft-auto-v-gives-players-chance-eddie-adams/

His character stays in passive mode, wears a “MEDIA” jacket, and travels around Los Santos in a news van.

I would blow this guy up in his little media van to Kingdom Come.

Took this one once because it kinda made me pause for a moment and just say to myself, "damn."

http://i.imgur.com/HGwLkU1.jpg

But then I went right back to blowing shit up.

surely you all know this but R* dropped the hammer on the money cheats. my passively acquired $1.5 billion returned to $200k. but my sweet pad, 10 tricked out cars and many boats and aircraft are still with me. rendering the game somewhat goal-less.

had a couple PP-style odd interactions, all wordless. there's a funny tension when a guy pulls up to you in his car, and you don't know, are you going to shoot me? run me down? invite me to something? this guy just kept honking til i got in. then he drove around aimlessly for a while. i shot at a few people, never enough to get more than 1 star. then he found another player standing idle. he parked, got out, drilled the guy. then he just stood there. i wondered if he was messing with the camera. the third man respawned and came back for us both. for a split second i thought, how can i explain that i wasn't responsible for his murder, but then, out came the carbine. i think by then we had attracted 2 or 3 stars, and it was kind of a shitshow after that. i was just looking for an SUV to steal, and then this.

the 'prison thugz fight' deathmatch is totally stupid and everybody loves it

"Prison Thugz Fight" a nice palate cleanser, I feel.

I never even got any of the counterfeit money but they still took all the money I earned, I guess because I had a lunar lander in my garage [which is now gone :( ]

I have now done Jumps Jumps Jumps infinity times.

they took earned money??!?!???!

Yup. I never received a dollar from anyone.

Prison Thugz seemed like a lot of fun until that asshole drove a bus in through the doors.

Oh shit you can do that?!

yeah a dude last night went like 17-2 by driving the truck around. on my team thankfully.

i've tried it but people seemed a little more adept at hopping out of the way...

come to think, is that the only instance of the blue prison bus on the entire map?

Now that you mention it....

I'll try tonight and see if I can drive that bus out of the prison, out of the stupid verified deathmatch, out of the online session and maybe take it for a spin on Gran Turismo 5.

I wish there was a good way to find user created races. I played one last night that I loved so much. It starts off inside Fort Zancudo, and traffic/cops is turned on. You have four stars essentially for the whole race. Very very chaotic and fun.

map of the gang attack locations, which are time sensitive:

http://www.gamingreality.com/2013/10/gta-online-gang-attack-locations.html

I went through some of those one night. Took me forever to get past that cult one on the mountain since they'll shoot at you any time of day.

Was coming back from all that through the tunnel when *SLAM* ~~ GANG ATTACK! Wha? All of a sudden, there were members of The Lost taking shots at me from inside the tunnel. Kinda exciting when danger pops up on ya like that.

Forgive me for a Dad moment, but six-year-old Beeps came up with the name "Shoots & Ladders" for our game. I thought it was pretty good.

We've taken it away from her four-year-old brother though. Even after emptying the ammo, he still had a tendency to pistol-whip any pedestrian he saw. The final straw was the weekend when he began proclaiming that everything was bullshit.

He and I still sit down and race cars. He picks the colors and pats me on the back when I successfully land a jump.

when did u start letting yr 4yo play video games and when would you say he started developing dexterity/acumen for gameplay? sounds like he's pretty good now?

He's been tapping an iPad since he was just over a year old. He started playing with a joystick, games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Katamari around two or so? I mean, he didn't really know what he was doing, but it was around then that he made the connection between the game controller and what was happening on the screen.

He and his sister have a Toy Story game that's very sandboxy like GTA, and that's been going on for over a year. It's crazy how those two have memorized where in the game certain features are, how you have to go down that tunnel and up that ladder to get to the treasure, etc. It's got races, find these pieces of whatever, strategies like you have to go hit the knob in that room to turn on the thing in this room.

He's gotten pretty good. He plays the old Sega version of Crash Bandicoot, where you have to spin around to get this guy or jump up to get that guy. Also some Frogger moves of jumping onto and then immediately off of a hippo's back to get somewhere. I'm impressed.

i started up a female online character, just to see what it was like, and if having a low-level character w/o any money or whips was still fun. it kind of is? here's what i learned

in the intro mission, lamar shows up with a rose at the airport and keeps asking to have sex with you.

i've always liked playing dress-up in these sandbox games. the ladies' clothes all look pretty good. and since the game has some kind of 'market pricing' for goods (you've notices this in the mod shop, haven't you? esp with paint jobs?) it means the clothing is pretty cheap! since it's about 100 to 1 dude avatars the demand is low.

i received 1 unprompted friend request after about 5 mins of freeroam play. lol.

you share a bank account with your first online player, but nothing else, to my knowledge.

My second character is female too. Characters share a bank account, but also, when I take my male first character into his wardrobe to get dressed, there's an option for "Pumps" that wasn't there before. (It's always empty, though.)

that popped after xmas, before i started up the life of a new female criminal. i think the elf shoes were in the pump category, and now everybody is stuck with it.

i like working out totally irrelevant quirks of this game like that, and having no clue how, like, stealth works

The "stealth" in this game is infuriating. I went on one of those jobs where you blow up a bunch of cars, at the docks, and figured I'd just pop dudes with the sniper rifle from a container lift, easy peasy. Climbed all over, jumped everywhere, nobody did nothing. Settled in, raised the rifle to my eye: everybody goes ham and starts shooting me. What's the point of sniping of you can't do it unnoticed??

The only time I've ever seen stealth work is during deathmatches.

Even the silencer you can fit weapons with seems to be bullshit.

Right? Like why buy it

i think the silencers and stealth mean more in pvp game modes

open letter to rockstar games:

can you change the way lobbies work, please?

they should be set to a particular game type, like race, deathmatch, mission, w/e. then your 6 vote selections would all be in the same category. 9 times out of 10 people want to keep playing in the same game type. which a lot of the time just means repeating the same event, if that's the only one given.

the bottom row of 'procedural' votes (repeat, refresh, freemode) could be changed to votes to switch the game type to another. it makes no sense to have a vote option to return to freemode anyway, there's a quit button! who cares if a majority vote to return, why dump the voting minority out of the lobby?

i have never played a 'vehicle deathmatch' except i think on my very first time logging in. they don't turn up in lobby votes, that's why! duh. a lot of content is basically stranded and unplayable.

thanks!

freemode is different from quit because if you freemode you all go to the same session, whereas if you quit you go your separate ways. Important if you've got a gang together.

i do agree that the lobby system needs work though.

oh really? i've never noticed that i guess!

so it turns out i'm like really good at racing in this. i suppose doing a bunch of research and (esp) having a billion dollars for a week helped. being able to hang back and be cool while everyone runs into each other is key.

oh really? i've never noticed that i guess!

so it turns out i'm like really good at racing in this. i suppose doing a bunch of research and (esp) having a billion dollars for a week helped. being able to hang back and be cool while everyone runs into each other is key.

hanging back is crucial I've learned (the hard way, several times)

it is pretty satisfying to have someone try to ram you and totally fuck it up

i know this isn't gran turismo, but it is a little disappointing that there is basically one car that is just better than the rest in each category, and that the tuning options are so barebones. there's really no tradeoffs and no reason to have certain cars at all. in the racing anyway, but in the missions too for that matter.

You can tune your cars up as much as you can in the story mode, provided you're a high enough level / have won enough races. My Elegy is maxed out.