which city for GTA 5?

You can probably cop a used PS3 for under $150 by now?

I mean, that's what I was thinking.

Did figure out how to take the hard drive out. That felt pretty powerful. Not sure if there's any use in that though.

Can you just swap it into a new (used) unit? Same hardware so I don't see why not

The LTS update looked fun - for some reason I love the idea of a Team Deathmatch where you don't respawn, as it increases the tension and jeopardy, and indeed think it would be great if there were a racing option where, if you wrecked your car, that was it and you'd be fucked for the rest of the race (I love the idea of absolute wrecks struggling to complete the final lap). But I tried to take part in the Event over the weekend but kept getting shut-out. They always get madd oversubscribed for these events, the servers don't seem to be able to take it.

I played the Capture The Flag match over July 4 where everyone fought with fireworks bazookas at the Coliseum. I hated it.

I think I've discovered that I'm the biggest pansy with the online experience since I really have enjoyed the "working together" concept and the challenges that arise with that rather than the "kill everyone you see" methods of game playing (though I have enjoyed those too, at times.)

i much prefer working with people than pwning them too, mostly because i lack the skills to pwn.

the one LTS I managed to get running involved airplanes, and was hell fun, but then it devolved to one guy who'd never got in a plane hiding out in a hanger, and the opposition flying around outside, trying to figure out where he was. Cool tactic, bro, but not much fun to watch after I'd been killed, and it lasted for aaaaaages, and we still ended up losing that round (and then the game hung after that, thanks to the servers getting borked).

ah, GTAO

I think it went downhill for me after I stopped playing Survivals.

Used to love Survivals. Even thought it was cool watching other players shoot the bad guys quite literally over my dead body. Before I got ranked, it was the only time I'd get to play with something like the howtizer thing (The mini gun?) And the payouts of $20K were more than the others.

But then I became rich. And then I got all the weapons. And then spending ten minutes or more shooting everything I see for $20K didn't seem all that worth it. Why should I waste my time hiding in a dumpster in a junkyard somewhere when I could be doing wheelies off of hilltops?

And somewhere after that, it was "why should I waste my time doing wheelies off of hilltops when my family is downstairs and more importantly, I really need to finish this season of The Wire?"

Swear to God I'm suspicious about this downloading the new update and the PS3 blitzing out.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/playing-it-safe-with-the-grand-theft-auto-pacifist-915?utm_source=vicefbuk

really enjoyed that, thanks

so, first person GTA?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/04/grand-theft-auto-v-a-new-perspective

whoa cool

i preordered this for ps4 for some reason

Can't wait to replay in first person on PC in Jan. I guess this means I'll be paying full retail again those bastards

idk 1st person gta reflexively sounds awful. just me?

Absolutely. But I think 3rd person GTA is borderline awful, so take it with a grain of salt.

http://k42.kn3.net/taringa/9/2/9/0/2/0/5/alerisca/748.gif?6884

COME AND GET ME, TENPENNY!

I wouldn't want to spend the majority of the game in first person (obviously, since so much of the pleasure in the game is in observing your character in the environment), I can see where it'd come in real handy here and there. I always find the shooting isn't quite precise enough when you're driving, for example (to shoot drivers, shoot out tires, hit just the right spot with the sticky bomb so you can detonate it next to the guy pursuing you).

I think it would be great driving, as I believe gta always needed a proper dashboard camera. Considering it's basis lies in being a driving game, it's pretty criminal it doesn't have one already. I guess with all the different vehicles it's perhaps a lot to ask on smaller systems.

first person view on foot, could be useful in combat situations I guess.

It's just not gta though is it. Slowly this game is gradually becoming all other modern games. bah.

if this works with oculus rift it could be really cool

not that i have a pc capable of playing it

or an oculus rift

but y'know it's the principle of the thing

i often use 'first person' when driving, have always preferred that.

I used to, until V where the view is virtually plonking you on the front grill of the cars.

i'm a 1p evangelist w/ driving games but V's camera is undriveable

Next Gen GTA 5 out tomorrow. I already have it on PS3 and wasn't going to bother, but apparently Target stores in the US (with a mobile department) are offering a $30 off coupon towards a Xbone/PS4 copy of GTA 5 if you trade in your 360/PS3 copy. Think the deal runs for a week.

http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/2lj9z6/gta_v_trade_in_your_lastgen_copy_at_target_and/

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/17/7234541/grand-theft-auto-v-in-first-person-is-crazy

genuinely excited about the first-person mode at this point

stopped reading at:

...made GTA V the best game in the series to date

Kotaku was raving about it too:

Basically, everything smutty and shocking and moral-panic-inducing about GTA is significantly intensified in first-person. The harrowing gunfights are more harrowing, the wild car chases are wilder, the shocking massacres are more shocking, and the tasteless sex exploitation is even tasteless-er. But then, the beautiful sunsets are even more beautiful, and the thrilling stunts and extreme-sports activities are even more thrilling and extreme. The game contains multitudes, as always, and now those multitudes have been multiplied.

http://kotaku.com/yes-you-should-play-the-new-version-of-gta-v-1659433742

I just want a Hi Def remake of San Andreas. No changes to story, characters, vehicles, etc. Is that too much to ask?

Oh and no Zero missions.

Ceeeeeeejaaaaaaaay

otm. San Andreas is still the king of GTA imo. Granted I've only played 5 for a few hours...

RIP Catalina *tips 40* (xpost)

Driving through San Fierro with "Can You Feel It" pounding, hopping other motorists like a demented Bullitt.

damn, no pc version til next year. can imagine this being great using keyboard + mouse. ended up hating gta5.0 because of shitty writing and sluggish movements of main character. this should sort the latter anyroad

Well whoever gets it, let us know how it is.

Watched Drive the other day, and that introduction heist driving sequence really made me remember how I wanted the GTA series to develop. More intelligence in how you avoid police etc, instead of just more on foot running shooting blah blah.

there were some drive-inspired driving features in watch dogs - you could give police the slip by turning down alleyways and turning off your engine.

I eluded the cops plenty of times by driving into a garage.

I mean, ok, it was the fourth dimension wall glitch of a garage that violated the rules of time and space, but hey, they could never figure out where I was.

make sure you set your power save settings to more than one hour before installing this file

The first-person mode is a cool bauble but not a realistic way to play the game.

There are a few things here and there that seem different but otherwise it's the same game so far. I'm not noticing any big improvements in the graphics. Maybe the ocean looks a bit better. Obviously it's very stable and plays well compared to the 360.

The biggest change so far has been the online player creator, which is a little more refined, and the character models look better.

If you get a phone call, the sound (e.g. the phone ring, Lamar's voice), will come through your controller instead of the tv. I turned that shit off real fast. If you're being chased by the cops your controller will flash blue and red. It's cool in theory but gets old super fast.

It took me like three hours to install the file fwiw

3 hours???

4 if you include the first attempt that failed when my system powered down

If you're being chased by the cops your controller will flash blue and red.

oh ffs.

Took me like 30 minutes max to install the game (on PS4). What could the difference possibly be between PS4 and Xbone to cause such a disparity? Does PS4 need fewer assets to be loaded on? Is the drive faster? Weird.

I think FP mode is pretty rad. I don't know if I'll play the whole campaign with it turned on but it really, really changes the feel to me. The little details really come out (punching a guy and seeing his glasses fly off, for example, made me lol). Seeing the city from this new perspective makes it totally unfamiliar and makes me want to replay the whole game fresh. You notice a ton of detail in a way that seems very new. (Were there always food trucks in this game? Were the newspapers you see blowing around always printed with headlines pertinent to where you are in the narrative?)

And, I noticed right away, killing non-aggressive NPCs feels VERY VERY WRONG AND HORRIBLE. It makes that "murder simulator" epithet politicians have been using about GTA for 10+ years actually seem appropriate.

On the downside, when you're used to how detailed character models are in FPSes these days, seeing GTAV from that perspective makes it kind of look like ass. Which sort of defeats the purpose of getting it for on next-gen.

I haven't tried online yet but BIG BIG OTHER BONUS which is practically worth what it costs to trade up the disc in my book is the hundreds of new songs on the radio. The funk station is much better, there are a bunch of awesome new songs on West Coast Classics (I heard "Afro Puffs," "I Got 5 on It," and a Spice-1 track last night), and the adult-contemporary station is now more like a 70s and 80s oldies station but has a ton of great new songs (am I crazy or was "Danger Zone" not on the soundtrack until now?). I would easily have spent $20 or so just to get a radio re-up like this as DLC on the last-gen version. Country station still sucks and continues to sound like it's programmed by someone plugging the phrase "outlaw country" into the allmusic search engine.

Took me like 30 minutes max to install the game (on PS4). What could the difference possibly be between PS4 and Xbone to cause such a disparity?

i dunno but as a ps4 owner who recently got an xbone as well i've been dismayed by how long games take to install on it. it took literally all night to install forza horizon 2 from disc.

I'm PS4. No idea why it took me so much longer.

Maybe because I did digital download?

Download plus install would explain it

I completely downloaded it before I started the install though.

So I double dipped on this and don't regret it. Shit is SLICK on PS4. 1st person isn't as easy to play in, you really need the extra peripheral vision, but it's still well implemented. I use it mostly to just wonder around and look at stuff. The amount of detail in this game is super impressive.

heists.

i sold this game fyi

you definitely put a dent in it