which city for GTA 5?

So I recently returned to San Andreas.

I had been playing "The Ballad of Gay Tony" for the first time. While I wasn't so crazy about the original Grant Theft Auto IV - with the closed bridges, the constant calls to go bowling, the small quarters of Liberty City but without the bustling population of the real New York - TBoGT was pretty fun. (I talked more about it here.)

I quit playing GTA-V years ago. Both me and my PS3 burned out. I had popped it in a few months ago on the PS3 we use for the Internet, and it wasn't the same. I gave it a second (third?) chance when I remembered that GTA-V had a similar gate glitch to GTA-IV's swing glitch. I had never encountered it because at the time, I had no idea what the hell people were talking about, in regard to that thing.

Played the first couple of missions - again - and realized, holy hell it was going to take forever to get back to where I was on the deceased PS3. I assumed the online portion would be nothing but tumbleweeds and hackers since everyone had moved on to PS4, but having seen the still-active online lobbies of IV, I dove in.

It's definitely a different scene now on the PS3's version of GTA-V Online, but I haven't seen any asteroids in the street yet. Lots of RP numbers in the middle triple digits, making me feel like a n00b ranked at just 137. Players for the most part are interested only in gunfights or setting things on fire - not much change from when I was on.

I noticed one of my characters hadn't robbed all the stores yet, so I made that my new mission. One player who had been a white flag in his apartment messaged me with "wanna rob stores together?" I felt like I was being watched!

Another player messaged "hey". I replied back with "hey". He asks "know any mods?" And then he left.

I was looking one night behind the police station in East L.S. for some cars to sell. It was a pretty active lobby, but no trolls so far. That is, from out of nowhere, my car exploded and the caption "DeadThreat69 killed Pplains" came up. But there was suddenly a huge list of captions on the right appearing at once: ""DeadThreat69 killed OtherPlayer1", "DeadThreat69 killed OtherPlayer2", "DeadThreat69 killed OtherPlayer3"... Like we all exploded at the same time.

Which was confirmed when I respawned and everyone simultaneously exploded again ten seconds later. Kinda had to beat the clock to check out of that session before I blew up a third time.

I left right before the heists became a thing. It's strange, that was apparently the last big update the PS3 had. So while everyone else is setting up nightclubs like they're Tony Prince, we're still out there casing the Fleeca Bank on PH1. Just to get Lester off my ass, I went through the motions of starting heist, but man, the servers are shit. I've watched that intro with the Chris Parnell guy talking about breaking some dude out of prison too many times. Most of the time, everyone leaves and I wind up walking out of some unfamiliar apartment building. Another time, I was designated the pilot so I went to the airport. By the time I was on the runway, we had failed the mission somehow.

During my first go, I joined in the middle of the prison heist. There's one scene where you have to go out to Blaine County to get an airplane. I drove all the way to the Sandy Shores airport before realizing, shit, the plane's at that little airport in Grapeseed, on the other side of the lake. Finally got there, jumped out of my Dubsta 6x6, and promptly got shot in the head, which failed the mission for everyone.

Few nights ago, did the Fleeca (where you only need two) with someone else. Servers were so bad. He was driving the car and smashing into everything. Except - we'd hit something and then suddenly be back on the road about 500 feet away. Like the server was buffering the time between the two of us. At one point, we had to steal one car from a garage. I jumped into it and took off back to Lester's. But when I got there, other dude was standing there under the bridge - next to the car I had just stolen.

Checked in to my old house in Paleto Bay. Drove the Dubsta in there, but the garage was full. Transferred one of the cars into storage, and *pop*, the Dubsta appeared in its place. Walked back outside and - there was my Dubsta on the street! Quickly did a 180 back into the garage and ... the first Dubsta was still there! Got excited and since the one in the street still had the tracker symbol on it, I drove that one back to L.S., thinking the dupe in the garage would be locked up.

It wasn't. Went by there yesterday and it was gone.

The kids are older now, but I still don't like playing this game in front of them, which isn't easy since I'm in the living room now. You don't notice how many NPCs just say WHAT THE FUCK? at random intervals until your eight-year-old is behind you on the couch playing Fortnite. I don't even like listening to West Coast Classics with them in the room. Started playing the SP and got to the mission where Franklin has to videotape the actress by the pool. Quit that one on the spot.

The thrill is gone, but it's still been fun. Doing mundane things like riding the entire length of the subway. Trying to remember how to get into wall breaches. The boy and I got to share a moment the other night after I hiked to the top of Mount Gordo and the scary ghost appeared before us at 23:00. ("Get closer!" he kept telling me.)

In fact, I've been having such a time that I've completely forgotten about finding that gate glitch. I'll have to do that soon and then decide whether the family needs a PS4 for RDR2.

GTA Online works much better on my PS4 than it did on 360 but it's still pretty buggy. The Doomsday Heist stuff was pretty cool, though. I haven't checked out the last two updates since then.

I’m on PC but if you guys want to play some online stuff I could prob join

I discovered this guy last night... a surreal event on its own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z85unLxuKyE

Turns out, it's the guy who DJs Rebel Rock Radio. And turns out, he's got a crazy wikipedia story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesco_White

I was just looking to see if he had some money hidden in his trailer or something.

Nice!

I like how you deck him at the end

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60951/New-Simeon-Premium-Deluxe-Repo-Work-and-Executive-Office-Giveaway

Executive office giveaway ???

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2020/03/27/gta-6-release-date-setting-vice-city-2020/

rockstar studios, max payne 3 development team, 2013

gather around team. we need to figure out the release date for GTA 6 in 2021, right now

God that is so fucking stupid

at the same time, if they're looking for a release date and they think it's going to be fall 2021, might as well make it align!

https://i.imgur.com/h0lwPre.gif

Starting up online from scratch, on level 4. Going slow so I get the hang of it

I jumped in the other day, I think I'm only on level 7 or something. Tried an open wheel race - got wupped but enjoyed it.

There was a treasure hunt game that I took part in too, had fun with that too.

Might start playing this as well.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61795/the-cayo-perico-heist-coming-december-15-to-gta-online

Island infiltration action and a sub. Drug dealin’ nautical shit

Who’s in for a perico heist this weekend?

sure if a level 2 or whatever can join. I tried a group mission once. They were like "oh ffs". I died the exact same, quick way 3 times. They were like "oh ffs"

i did finish single player... but Steam servers were down that weekend so I can't prove it.

the club with Moodymann is pretty neat. that's all i done with the update so far.

I think I’m level 7 or something. Haven’t played in a few months nor checked out the update yet

I revisited GTA IV last night, started a fresh save and am loving it. The city is so much more vibrant than V for me.

I also tried revisiting San Andreas on the ps2 this afternoon and man this game is brutal. There's a lot to do though, lots and lots and lots.

Ps2?

yeah, the og san andreas GTA.

I play IV on the ps3 too, because the pc version is shitty.

Playing this shit tonight

good luck. Just finished my session. Somebody give me a yell when lockdown is over, me and Lil Jacob will be playing pool at the Cafe til then.

An ting.

What time? How do i join a specific game?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/l0rezv/how_diffrent_games_open_doors

I figured out how to play this game. I “wake up” online and just hang around my apartment during the day. When the sun goes down I go for a walk.

Enjoying San Andreas on ps2, more than I thought I would tbh. After you recover from the initial gut-punch of low poly visuals the game becomes a monster of activity. So many places where just boarding a vehicle triggers some kind of side mission.

Loving the driving, as has been the best gta for motorbike controls I find.

Have done 80 tags out of 100, but having hard time remembering where the last ones are. The orange tags are quite hard to see.

Just opened the San Fierro part of the map and started all those back water type missions with Catalina and The Truth. Stuck now on the harvester mission that I keep failing for various reasons each time. But I'm gathering more rifle ammo on each attempt.

Forgot there was a betting shop in this game where you can gamble on the horses. The low poly interior models of the shop are almost empty and depressing looking - most realistic thing in this game.

Managed to max out my muscle which I don't believe I ever bothered with when I played it originally, I look terrific! And passers by often agree.

Attempting 100% on this, I predict driving licence section gonna be fun.

I love San Andreas. My favourite GTA.

Managed to max out my muscle which I don't believe I ever bothered with when I played it originally, I look terrific! And passers by often agree.

I remember spending a long time working out to max those muscles but zero time bathing* or changing my clothes. That earned me plenty of comments from passers-by.

*in the game :)

Is changing your clothes the only way of 'cleansing' in this game? Cos yeah I'm getting those comments too.

I don't want to change my outfit though, I like my dumb hoodie and beach shorts.

Change and change back again

I think swimming cleans you too so work out at the beach

I know there's a specific thread on ILM for Lee, but RIP Lee Scratch Perry who performed the DJ role on Blue Ark for GTA 5

Love the Money Come Money Go song as well.

For a second I was flattered.

Bet you were wondering what Dr. Dre and Phil Collins had in common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UviLsT1RO04

“it turns out Dr. Dre’s phone isn’t just missing — it’s in the wrong hands. Not only that, but the phone also contains the hottest property in the city: new, unreleased music from Dr. Dre himself.”

Uh huh

I think the reward for completing this is going to be some unreleased dr Dre music

I think I'm okay with never really playing V again tbh

btw, I lied.

Because my friend now owns it and we've been having some fun online together.

One thing about the online, and we could probably coat most of Rockstar productions with this, is just how janky they make the presentation in regards to choosing jobs and missions. It's all over the place in terms of interface. Bombarded with messages about what's now available aaargh. Too many options that are pointless - why would I want to bother choosing a 'starting radio track' ? Take that shit out ffs.

It's nice to have an extra selection of cars from online, but this for me highlights more about R* neglecting any updates to solo mode where I don't see a problem with them providing extra vehicles to purchase.

We got a PS4 finally since PS5's are rare to find these days.

Had no idea that GTA Online had a subscription rate now. Wouldn't have bought – fuck, our third or fourth copy of this game? – had we known that.

Maybe I'll fork over the $5 a month eventually, but there were so many moments online where I'd think, "At least I'm not paying for this shit."

That's odd. I played a bit of it last month on PS5 and didn't have to pay a subscription. I bought V on PS4 when it came out and have vanilla PS plus.

How would you compare the ps4 vs ps5 gta experience ?

I only played for like an hour or two but it just feels very old, despite the improvements to the frame rate or whatever. The gunplay especially feels a million years old.

I got a few missions toward getting to the Dr. Dre stuff but I didn't make a ton of progress.

gta 6 will have female protagonist. gonna ignite gamergate 2.0? i guess gamergate 2.0 was the MAGA movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h77eSIlwhKY

This guy says it will have male and female protagonists and be set in Miami

Time for a gta 6 thread yet?

to be fair those rumours have been going around for a while now, and I don't believe Rockstar have confirmed anything other than that they are working on the game.

Strong possibility on both accounts though. Agree about a new thread, happy to endulge in any speculation etc on the next game.

Starting it

100s of videos of gta6 leaked

https://kotaku.com/gtavi-gta-vi-gta-6-grand-theft-auto-leak-video-dump-1849550414

so you'll probably be able to figure out which city it's in now

*nods* it's Leeds