which city for GTA 5?

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

i did it up, true

kind of a casualty of forza honestly, which got me addicted pretty badly, then i hit a wall and kind of hated gaming in general and got rid of everything

Bought the final property today, Golf Course. Done with this game.

ha i'm mad curious about these heists tho, i must say

the idea of complex cooperation with xbl randos is a chilling thought tho

think i've hit that same wall tbh

I'm playing through the story again. A lot of the stuff they added to the 360 version was added (e.g., flight school) after I completed the story, so it's neat to see it folded into the game this time around. The early flight challenges are really tough.

Festive update

The snow looks fooking amazing, but some new vehicles and weapons too

looking forward to pc release.

how lame would it be to re-play IV at this point?

Not lame, been thinking of doing that myself. Also want to replay San Andreas but that's a mighty ask.

The new Slamvan is terrifying, I've coated mine with chrome and I'm just terrorising everything.

Homing Launcher.

God this game got me again

these games are so long i can never even finish them once let alone multiple times

^^^

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This ps4 only then?

no thats xbox 360

(the snow is only on the Online mode btw)

Ah ok. Thought it was some kind of temporary patch for the story mode. Would have been cool

the snow looks great.

are the multiplayer load times any better?

Never much played multiplayer so I can't compare really. Seems reasonable though.

Seriously though, I know they did the snow thing last xmas but it seems hugely improved this time around. Wish they could incorporate as a cheat code for single player, maybe at some point later perhaps.

Actually enjoying a bit of online action, it's a lot more open once you get past rank 5.

But parachute landing is still fucking annoying, I land perfectly in the centre of the targets but because of stupid animations it moves me 5 more metres out of range.

Are you sure you aren't coming in too hot

Had shoulder buttons pressed for a while, so should have been slowest

it's also about horizontal speed vs. vertical i think.

have they announced the date for pc release of 1st person? playing that using mouse & keys seems like it could be next step toward the ultimate STALKER game

are the multiplayer load times any better?

After some sessions on jobs I would have to answer. No.

Awful loading times for jobs. And it's crashed twice today, it's never crashed on single player mode in the past year and a half.

Yeah, they haven't quite stablized online enough yet, so I've been slowly replaying single player for the most part. I've also been struggling with the controls a bit. If you accidentally brush L1 while reaching for L2 you disarm yourself. In the heat of battle this has fucked me so many times.

lol I'm such a noob at this. Jobs are all a mystery to me, no idea what's going on. Everyone else on rank one million.

Blimey Goole, you're rank 220 ?!

yeah i was pretty zoned in on this for a while

How do I get in as a passenger? I just keep dragging people out of their vehicles

in what context? 1p? mp?

mp

for instance just trying to get in as passenger with other players

you have to go to the passenger side door iirc

Hmm, not sure how that would work for bikes though

After months of prompting from my brother, I finally started playing this about two weeks ago (GTA Online, specifically...I've still barely touched V). I think I'm kinda okay at it so far but nowhere near as good as these teenagers who've clearly grown up playing sniper simulators. All of the cars I've tried drive like ass so I generally stick to riding motorcycles. It's super fun to rip up and down mountains at top speed.

With respect to free play, I've slowly taken up the mantle of the Low-Level Avenger. Almost every time I sign on, I see these level 100+ chumps stalking people who have clearly just recently started playing. So, whenever possible, I try to take the upper-level dudes out. I mean, I usually get my ass handed to me (sometimes a half dozen times in a row, I'm still only at like level 32 myself) but it's been a good skill-building exercise. And on the occasion that I collect a bounty on a lower-level dude, I'll toss him a percentage of the reward to show that it's nothing personal.

I hate (HATE) the flying in this game. I was pretty good with the helicopters in GTA IV but I barely have any idea what I'm doing in this game. And the planes are a complete joke. I tried flight school but when I saw that the first lesson was loop-the-loops, I promptly gave up on that idea.

This is my first online gaming experience. The intensity of knowing I'm hunting or being hunted by real people (or avatars thereof) is both thrilling and nerve-wracking. I'm starting to feel like I need to implement post-GTA Katamari cool-down sessions.

I joined the ILG crew (OldLuncheonette) but I'm sure most of you guys have moved on to greener pastures by now.