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poptart_fairy posted:Finally found a goddamn copy of the game. What point does all the side stuff unlock so I can then ignore the main storyline forever after. You should finish the main story straight away. It's well worth it, mostly for economic reasons.
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Oh man, the way Trevor laughs at the masks they're all wearing in that one heist i laughed so hard seeing the masks. I wore one of them out when roaming but then did a side mission and it disappeared
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For some reason it's the funniest thing in the game for me so far. He just sounds so genuinely amused by it 
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The disappearing cars bug has made into the British national news. Admittedly on Radio One, the national station aimed at under 30's, but still, a bug in a game is very clearly not national news. That's loving ridiculous. Also, I bet I am not the only one who really hopes the game never comes to PC. I am starting to get a bit fed up with PC gamers saying it's definitely coming to PC, we found references to PC, it's DEFINITELY coming. And it's going to be so much better! I am a PC gamer myself, but the elitist tone they have sometimes grinds my gears. vvv Yeah, I know it's a bit silly. And half finished? Piss off, it's an amazing game with a few flaws. Funso Banjo fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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Sep 24, 2013 13:30
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Funso Banjo posted:Also, I bet I am not the only one who really hopes the game never comes to PC. I am starting to get a bit fed up with PC gamers saying it's definitely coming to PC, we found references to PC, it's DEFINITELY coming. And it's going to be so much better! I am a PC gamer myself, but the elitist tone they have sometimes grinds my gears. Yes, because that's a completely reasonable viewpoint, just ignore them instead, maybe if this game was modded it could be something other than half-finished.
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Sep 24, 2013 13:34
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JebanyPedal posted:Yes, because that's a completely reasonable viewpoint, just ignore them instead, maybe if this game was modded it could be something other than half-finished. You're kinda proving his views. The game is not half-finished.
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I know this flies in the face of video game philosophy, but I actually get kind of a kick out of how you barely get anywhere with money. Western crime fiction since the dawn of modernity has been running off of the flaws and pitfalls inherent in capitalism and this is probably the first GTA game that's really forceful about that. I laughed out loud at the result of the second heist (the Trevor-organised one): Take: $20,000,000!  Reward void: -$20,000,000!  . It seems all the more obvious to me when the tagline was that the game's all about "the pursuit of wealth" or whatever it was. In 95% of cases, it's almost completely futile.There are obvious ways to disagree with this direction though. Maybe blame the number of players who criticised the amount of money you tended to amass in IV? Another thought I've had is that the game - for all the "finally a non-serious GTA!" talk - is actually a fair few shades darker than IV at times, maybe on par or even outdoing Red Dead Redemption. A comparison I thought of was an encounter you can get with the young girl in IV, the one who ran away from home to go to Liberty City to become an actress, only to be immediately picked up by a porno producer and pumped full of heroin. For such a gloomy, cynical game, Niko's reactions to this humanised him and it actually had a surprisingly happy ending where she goes home and later emails Niko telling him she's enrolled at a community college. Contrast that with the early V mission where Michael "saves" his daughter from the porno producers/drug dealers on the boat. This time the damsel in distress is fully aware of what she's doing, and when Michael somewhat naively asks since when television people and drug dealers have walked hand-in-hand, his daughter replies, "It's Los Santos, Dad!". The Housers have evidently adopted the USA quite affectionately for all their stereotyping and provoking. Sam in particular from what I hear loves living in New York, but IV was keen to point out how close what is essentially the centre of the developed world - Times Square, Wall Street, the Upper East Side - is to some of the poorest, miserable, most run-down areas imaginable. LA, the cultural capital of the USA (for all intents and purposes) and the developed world at large is so consumed within itself that it barely notices the smell of its own waste; as V points out the continuing economic problems, LA or Los Santos moves on with its fingers in its areas, business as usual. Rockstar, for their questionable skills at satire on occasion, etc., have created some contemplative crime companion works for the era, I think. Also I bought stocks as Michael yesterday while hanging in Trevor's trailer. Nothing like investing while the sounds of your friend taking a poo poo serenade you. EDIT: Funso Banjo posted:The disappearing cars bug has made into the British national news. Admittedly on Radio One, the national station aimed at under 30's, but still, a bug in a game is very clearly not national news. Welcome to the great, esteemed world of British media! Incidentally I keep finding more and more reasons to want a new London GTA. Hedgehog Pie fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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Sep 24, 2013 13:38
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Mokinokaro posted:You're kinda proving his views. The game is not half-finished. Actually until October 1st it kind of is.
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Sep 24, 2013 13:40
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This bombing run where you have to blow up three rows of targets is IMPOSSIBLE.
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Sep 24, 2013 13:44
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Teenage Fansub posted:This bombing run where you have to blow up three rows of targets is IMPOSSIBLE. Go do flight school. You'll learn how to fly properly and then the mission is actually really easy.
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Sep 24, 2013 13:46
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Cerebulon posted:I don't know how accurate this is, but even if the scale is slightly off it would seem the map isn't nearly as big as Rockstar claimed: I remember GTA:SA being quite big with a lot of backcountry and a desert with an airbase, but seeing this map and comparing to the current map, GTA V is much bigger and more detailed. Don't know how big RDR is though.
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Teenage Fansub posted:This bombing run where you have to blow up three rows of targets is IMPOSSIBLE.
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Sep 24, 2013 13:47
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Which mission is the bombing run? A side mission?
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Sep 24, 2013 13:48
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thehustler posted:Which mission is the bombing run? A side mission? Side. You buy a hanger as Trevor, which gives you plane and buggy smuggling missions. In the plane you drop goods or bombs on targets.
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Stare-Out posted:Fuckload of words describing all the bad things in the game. drat, you're not easy to please. This game is amazing, it's fun and maybe you should have just played it to have fun. And not to see a completion bar reach 100%. Complaining that the gameworld is too big, that mountain lions (in the mountains!) can kill your character... Seriously? EDIT: and the guy who called the game half-finished. What. There's 1 bug about cars not always saving, it's hardly game breaking. I never store cars in GTA games, just run around, take what you like, cruise with it until it explodes/you get bored (whatever comes first). Rinse and repeat. shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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He's wrong about the cops too. I've seen them as part of normal traffic quite a few times.
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I've barely touched the story, but I wandered out of town and found some oddball cars. Someone mentioned the old metal tractor, which I was able to find. I also found a VW van, 911 Turbo (which is unbelievably fast), and a Ford GT. I really need to learn to get away from the cops when I have three stars, because they're all over me like flies on poo poo. I also found 1/50 scrap of a note about someone's murder at the lighthouse.
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I think the sheer amount of content and detail in the game make any small omissions all the more apparent. Yes, there's a few dubious decisions (no vigillante missions?) but calling this game unfinished is ridiculous. It's overflowing with stuff, and there's still Online to come. EDIT: As much as I miss the vigilante stuff, it may have been left out because of the Cops and Crooks mode in Online. Which is fair enough, but those missions were always a good way of getting an impromptu yet structured chase/firefight while free roaming. Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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Sep 24, 2013 14:02
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Is there any way to get out of your car but leave the radio/engine on? Sniping people from the winnebago would be a lot more fun with some radio.
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Tried to take a selfie with a cop. Two star wanted level.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Side. Ahh, I did the first one of those plane runs but didn't know about bombing.
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Is there a list of which hitchhikers are worth it to take to their destination and which are better to take to the Altruists?
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Mokinokaro posted:He's wrong about the cops too. I've seen them as part of normal traffic quite a few times. smallmouth posted:
With a fast car it's quite easy, race to an entirely different part of the map to lose the cops. They'll search for you (with their view indicated on the mini map) and stay out of that long enough. Hide under bridges from the heli and in alleyways. Also ditching your car and walking up some part where there are no roads is a good way. Or switch cars a couple of times when out of police view. Or use the los santos customs. In the countryside I usually use one of the 4 wheel ATVs or a crossbike and just go way off the road, that usually prevents them from finding you.
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beedeebee posted:drat, you're not easy to please. This game is amazing, it's fun and maybe you should have just played it to have fun. And not to see a completion bar reach 100%. Okay, so cops can spawn in normal traffic, that's good to know. I just haven't seen them at all so far. My issue with the size of the world is that aside from LS itself, things are spread a bit thin is all. Mountain lions can be lethal and again, that's fine, but insta-kill is a bit much.
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How does one start the Epsilon missions? Do you have to finish those online puzzles? They're kinda impossible and I can't seem to find a guide
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Stare-Out posted:I never said I didn't like the game. I think it's excellent and one of the best games I've played all year. But it's not perfect and those are all things that bug me personally. Going for full completion (as in, experiencing everything the developers wanted the player to experience) and having fun are not mutually exclusive. I've had tons of fun playing the game, and I've had some frustration playing the game. There's a lot of cool stuff with law enforcement. Like the FIB guys protecting the scientists at the satelites near the Senora Desert airfield. Or the unmarked crown vic trolling around shining flashlights at the homeless people. As well as highway cops on bikes sitting at the side of the highway. Also the fact that they switch from LSPD to sheriffs when you go outside Los Santos. You really should pay more attention to the game instead of just following a guide. Coming from someone that also did 100%.
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my new dog posted:How does one start the Epsilon missions? Do you have to finish those online puzzles? They're kinda impossible and I can't seem to find a guide One of Michael's ? missions should kick it off. Edit: It'll be in the desert (or at least it was for me. The way it played out could mean that it's randomly placed).
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Funso Banjo posted:Also, I bet I am not the only one who really hopes the game never comes to PC. I am starting to get a bit fed up with PC gamers saying it's definitely coming to PC, we found references to PC, it's DEFINITELY coming. And it's going to be so much better! I am a PC gamer myself, but the elitist tone they have sometimes grinds my gears. It will be better though, mods, anti-aliasing, non-poo poo hardware meaning that there shouldn't be any framerate issues.
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I was out at sea diving for sub parts when a shark shows up and murders me before I can get a got stab at it. Respawn at the hospital, call a taxi back to the dock and immediately upon stepping out of the taxi I'm mauled by a mountain lion.
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Baron FU posted:There's a lot of cool stuff with law enforcement. Like the FIB guys protecting the scientists at the satelites near the Senora Desert airfield. Or the unmarked crown vic trolling around shining flashlights at the homeless people. As well as highway cops on bikes sitting at the side of the highway. Also the fact that they switch from LSPD to sheriffs when you go outside Los Santos.
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I just discovered something about the P-996 that changes everything. The bullets from its guns explode like grenades, making them even better than missiles for taking out cars and stuff. Seriously, you just need to land shots even vaguely near a car and it goes up. On the one hand I can't wait to use this thing against targets who actually fight back, but we also may be looking at Battlefield 2 levels of skygods in GTA: Online  edit: It is fragile as all hell though, a few plinks from police helis as I blew past them was enough to kill my engines permanently. Didn't even hit 5 stars that time. Icedude fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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Stare-Out posted:That's not exactly what I meant though. Taking GTAIV for instance to compare, in that game there were foot patrols on nearly every block and patrol cars driving around in regular traffic, and the whole time I've been playing, driving around peacefully in LS and walking around, I haven't seen a single police car amidst regular traffic or a foot patrol walking the streets. It's not a complaint as such but it still strikes me as a bit weird, especially as cops tend to swarm you so quickly and efficiently if you do even the slightest infraction. I hated that in GTAIV, most of the time it felt like I couldn't do a single goddamn thing without having cops all over me, it really kept me from loving around and having fun. I much prefer the way this game does it.
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From the other thread:quote:Fun stock market thing that doesn't involve assassinations: Where the hell do I do this and how? PS3 version, it's like this AI uses everything about the CELL processor, I'd need to block a place off with a bus and never swing the camera around ever. Got no chance the way it moves now. e: Stock easily shoots up though, if you manage to get this working. I have to try 1.5 lane roads and just wait. Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Sep 24, 2013 |
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If there's ever long form DLC for this game on the scope and size of like Undead Nightmare from RDR then I want it to exclusively be the Trevor & Lamarr Show. Possibly like a buddy cop flick or something. ...those two got chemistry.
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Mokinokaro posted:You're kinda proving his views. The game is not half-finished. He's a moron, don't mind his idiotic ramblings.
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my new dog posted:How does one start the Epsilon missions? Do you have to finish those online puzzles? They're kinda impossible and I can't seem to find a guide Go on their website and do the quiz. I don't think it matters how you answer. Once you're done, there should be a new ? on the map.
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Crappy Jack posted:Go on their website and do the quiz. I don't think it matters how you answer. Once you're done, there should be a new ? on the map. Note this only works for Michael though. Probably because they figure he's the only one with enough sustainable income to match their bills.
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Stare-Out posted:That's not exactly what I meant though. Taking GTAIV for instance to compare, in that game there were foot patrols on nearly every block and patrol cars driving around in regular traffic, and the whole time I've been playing, driving around peacefully in LS and walking around, I haven't seen a single police car amidst regular traffic or a foot patrol walking the streets. It's not a complaint as such but it still strikes me as a bit weird, especially as cops tend to swarm you so quickly and efficiently if you do even the slightest infraction. Foot patrols are a lot less common in LA than New York outside of the beaches and some of the more tourist spots. I've seen quite a few patrol cars in normal traffic though they are not as dense as IV. There seem to be changes to the npc reporting system that IV used though as I'm pretty sure civilians will report the sound of gunshots now even if they don't see you.
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Davoren posted:I hated that in GTAIV, most of the time it felt like I couldn't do a single goddamn thing without having cops all over me, it really kept me from loving around and having fun. I much prefer the way this game does it. Mokinokaro posted:Foot patrols are a lot less common in LA than New York outside of the beaches and some of the more tourist spots. I've seen quite a few patrol cars in normal traffic though they are not as dense as IV. There seem to be changes to the npc reporting system that IV used though as I'm pretty sure civilians will report the sound of gunshots now even if they don't see you. Also I know peds report gunshots and stuff, but shots from silenced pistols in the middle of the woods too? 
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I really enjoy the game and it's certainly one of the best games I've played in recent years. I have some minor issues with it as well (no emergency vehicle missions, not getting outfits/uniforms that give you in game benefits like SA did, limited number of heists/robberies) but from what I've been hearing/reading, most of those issues will no longer be a problem once GTA: Online comes out. Also, as awesome as the Buzzard is, I miss the Hunter
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