Oh, that one... I legitimately thought you were talking about the one where you have to move the cranes around and stuff. I could have done without that.
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RTTP: Grand Theft Auto V
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Oh, that one... I legitimately thought you were talking about the one where you have to move the cranes around and stuff. I could have done without that.
Conor_Fool
Banned
I beat it on ps3 shortly after release and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I recently just started another PC playthrough on a 980ti and oh my fucking god it's beautiful
Strangelove77
Member
Great game, but I really don't think the story is anything special. I thought Franklin was dead weight. Really dull character.
I think Vice City, San Andreas and RDR have way better and more compelling stories.
Micheal and Trevor are great though.
I also never played it in first person - how is that? Good?
I think Vice City, San Andreas and RDR have way better and more compelling stories.
Micheal and Trevor are great though.
I also never played it in first person - how is that? Good?
B-B-Bomba!
Member
Thanks. Yeah I'm sure it's still good value. On some level I also appreciate that its value is held in a single buy-it-or-don't product, not diluted over a handful of 'optional' add-ons. But this is a tangential fling at modern DLC practices, which have started to grate. It's old now, but I just bought Mass Effect 3. I'd need to remortgage if I wanted to play that game to its fullest.
stargateheaven
Member
Patrick S.
Banned
The FOV when driving in first person view is really really bad, and you're seated much too close to the steering wheel. If it weren't for that, I'd never switch to third person view again in GTA V. There used to be an FOV mod, but it stopped working after a patch, and getting banned for these kind of mods is ridiculous anyway
I can never understand the hate people have for Trevor. He's 100% designed to personify the kind of mindless mayhem players regularly engage in in this game, and he's never meant to be taken seriously, even during the mission OP hates. Maybe it's a bit too on the nose for self-parody? That mission was intense, but in a South Park/GTA kind of way.
I personally thought the crane and submarine missions to be far, FAR worse, but to each their own. I haven't played through GTA V since it came out on PS3/360 and I'm dying to play it again. Will probably fold and buy it on PC and/or PS4 real soon.
I personally thought the crane and submarine missions to be far, FAR worse, but to each their own. I haven't played through GTA V since it came out on PS3/360 and I'm dying to play it again. Will probably fold and buy it on PC and/or PS4 real soon.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
Trevor is basically GTA incarnate.
he's actually really well acted, too, I think... his banter with Michael actually reveals some of the best acting moments in the game.
stuff like this little exchange really highlights the nuanced acting, tone, eye movement, etc...
https://youtu.be/R0F37QPZlrU?t=153
plus he's hilarious
https://youtu.be/OOETAx4GrZg?t=77
https://youtu.be/qMYxuIOdYik?t=66
love his banter with michael, who has some underrated dry wit imo like these two line
https://youtu.be/qMYxuIOdYik?t=23
or this one
probably my favorite game to just watch cutscenes and listen to dialogue in other than FF XII two best games around for entertaining voice acting
plus the game itself is damn fun to goof around in (especially 3-man Hangouts), set up interesting shootouts, (e.g. rolling shootout from a train) or just watch random crazy shit happen haha
ROUGE_BLOCK
Member
Reminds me that I need to pick up the remaster, needs to play this bad boy on XB1.
NullPointer
Member
All GTAO stuff.
I'm currently in the middle of a replay on PS4, and I still have the same praise/complaints as I did the first time.
The world remains the most impressive contemporary environment ever created for a game. The attention to detail, the diversity, the day/night cycle are all incredible. It's seriously astounding how much work was put into it.
What bothers me is that there are no good reasons to explore outside of sightseeing. The side activities are awful, and there is simply nothing interesting to find. I have no interest in finding book pages or UFO parts.
Also, Rockstar was so proud of their fake stock market that they were extremely stingy about letting you make money any other way. Mission after mission you get screwed out of payment. Properties are prohibitively expensive and earn very little. I know you don't really need a ton of money in the game, but getting rich has always been a rewarding part of every previous GTA.
Great game in many ways, but also many design decisions I disagree with.
The world remains the most impressive contemporary environment ever created for a game. The attention to detail, the diversity, the day/night cycle are all incredible. It's seriously astounding how much work was put into it.
What bothers me is that there are no good reasons to explore outside of sightseeing. The side activities are awful, and there is simply nothing interesting to find. I have no interest in finding book pages or UFO parts.
Also, Rockstar was so proud of their fake stock market that they were extremely stingy about letting you make money any other way. Mission after mission you get screwed out of payment. Properties are prohibitively expensive and earn very little. I know you don't really need a ton of money in the game, but getting rich has always been a rewarding part of every previous GTA.
Great game in many ways, but also many design decisions I disagree with.
I prefer Witcher 3's open world, even if it the sandbox element isn't as good. The day night cycle and weather system is better IMO.
Still baffled you can't use online content in SP mode.
QuantumSquid
Member
Yes.
Technically the updates that added new cars to GTA Online do impact singleplayer because the Legendary Motorsport website updates in both modes to sell the new vehicles.
QuantumSquid
Member
What parts of the gameplay did you think were rough? I had no problems with it, I felt it was easily the best of the series.
Swimmer9800
Member
Rdr is still my favorite Rockstar game.
QuantumSquid
Member
I still enjoyed them, but they definitely lacked challenge. For my playthrough on PC, I chose all of the "go in loud" approaches, and they were still really easy. Just dudes streaming in through a door while you pound them with assault rifle bullets until you're told to move to the next room.
Pops Maellard
Member
I thought this, but it turned out that at least personally, 50 hours of last gen GTA V really sours you on the experience, despite how much better the game looks and runs.
TrynUrLuck
Member
Besides graphically it was a step down in every way from part 4 imo. Physics, driving, shooting, story, online, etc. That being said it's still amazing and I did buy the game twice day 1 on ps3 then ps4.
QuantumSquid
Member
I don't know how anyone can think the shooting in GTA 5 is worse than GTA 4. Mechanically GTA 4's shooting was really, really weak. I think if you put the games side by side and judged them instead of just going off of memory, the improvements in 5 would be apparent.
opticalmace
Member
Really? Sours it in what way? I probably put about 50 hours into the last gen version, now that you mention it.
Net_Wrecker
Member
The only things that stuck with me from this game are the incredible world detail and Slink Johnson absolutely stealing every single scene he was in, finding some way to translate Houser-speak into something that sounds natural and funny. The more time passes the more the game, as a whole, disappoints me. Character control is still awful, combat feels worse than the games it's pulling from (RDR and MP3), side missions are trash, the economy/properties are pointless, the narrative is capital G garbage..... idk man. After the initial "OMG THIS WORLD" awe wore off, the rest felt completely hollow. I wrapped up the final missions, which weren't satisfying whatsoever, and never even bothered to go back and clean up the map or wrap up the post game stuff. This incredible world, these great actors, this huge budget, this insane combination of composers crafting an amazing score, and.... this is the game we got? It's the first time I finished a new GTA and thought "Maybe I'm over this." All the ingredients to make an huge scale atmospheric crime epic and they just.... made another clownshoes GTA.
I need a dev to apply that Witcher 3 sauce to a modern open world action game.
I need a dev to apply that Witcher 3 sauce to a modern open world action game.
They're both horrible in the shooting department, but there was definite improvement going into 5. Still nowhere near enough considering it came out after RDR and MP3, both of which were significantly better. I don't understand how they were backwards from RDR so badly in some areas. You can say they were made by different studios within Rockstar but it doesn't make sense why the guns felt and sound so much worse in GTA.
Aiming and sluggish movement
RoninChaos
Member
Probably the greatest open world game of all time. Wish it had a better soundtrack. Seeing how good it looks makes me want a vice city remake sooooooo bad.
QuantumSquid
Member
I agree that the movement is sluggish when you're just walking around, but it becomes reasonably responsive when you aim down your sights.
I personally don't mind the slow movement since it makes the animations look super realistic, and there are plenty of open world games out there (i.e. Saint's Row 3, 4) that have pixel perfect movement and it looks kinda strange.
BarringGaffner
Member
People don't give the driving enough credit.
Doing even a 3 star car chase is exhilireating in first person without the map.. I actually think the quality of the design of the roads and map becomes much clearer when you're only focusing on what is in front of you rather than just looking at the map to see the easy escape. Every road giving you endless options, leading to more options.
Compare this to other open world or even racing games and there is really nothing that comes close in terms of the entire package.
Doing even a 3 star car chase is exhilireating in first person without the map.. I actually think the quality of the design of the roads and map becomes much clearer when you're only focusing on what is in front of you rather than just looking at the map to see the easy escape. Every road giving you endless options, leading to more options.
Compare this to other open world or even racing games and there is really nothing that comes close in terms of the entire package.
MGSV tho. Superb-feeling and looking. My ideal movement system is similar to MGSV's when you're out on the prowl/doing missions, and when you're chilling out/interacting with NPCs at say, Mother Base, or any game's hub you have GTA's immersive brisk walking.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
Solid game and a ton of fun to play online with friends.
I do find GTA 4 a lot more fun to just dick around in though. Which is weird because at the time people were complaining that GTA 4 was too serious before the Ballad of Gay Tony. I really miss the physics engine from that game hopefully it will be BC soon.
I do find GTA 4 a lot more fun to just dick around in though. Which is weird because at the time people were complaining that GTA 4 was too serious before the Ballad of Gay Tony. I really miss the physics engine from that game hopefully it will be BC soon.
visiblemode
Member
Fantastic game. Adored it.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
yeah, though to be fair, GTA V is basically a PS3 game...
I mean, they shined it up for current-gen with some new effects or grass but I think even sometimes I forget the core world system (e.g. weather or time of day) and design (e.g. landscape or building geometry) is still from a 3 year old PS3 game.
Zoidberg Jesus
Member
How's GTA Online on the PC? According to Steam reviews, there are a lot of hackers. Is that true? I beat the single player mode on PS3, but I was thinking of playing through it again on PC, and maybe playing online a bit, if it's decent nowadays.
Also, how lenient is Steam's refund policy? For example, if I bought GTA 5 and there were too many hackers, would that be good enough reason for Steam to credit me back? I would be OK with just getting Steam credit back.
Also, how lenient is Steam's refund policy? For example, if I bought GTA 5 and there were too many hackers, would that be good enough reason for Steam to credit me back? I would be OK with just getting Steam credit back.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
helps a lot to change the aim sensitivity and turn up aiming acceleration while removing the aiming deadzone.
also, the game has no 'character weight' (the turning circle momentum or inertia) when you're aiming...
so if you half-press Aim to do a free running aim, you can spin in circles 1:1 movement/input with no character weight momentum/turning circle inertia, and aim and turn on a dime.
QuantumSquid
Member
Steam guarantees you a refund of the game to either the payment method you used to buy it OR your Steam wallet (your choice) as long as your playtime of the game is under 2 hours and you make the refund request within 2 weeks of the purchase.
brokenbeans
Banned
Holy shit. 👌
QuantumSquid
Member
Hahaha, that is great.
TrynUrLuck
Member
No memory involved, I still play the game on my PS3. I couldn't play 5 without the auto aim because of that awful dead zone or whatever it was. Literally unplayable without autoaim. If only it controlled like MP3.