How are you liking GTA V?

[woodaba]

I haven't played a whole lot, but I can say a few things.

-I don't like the character-switching all that much.
-Life Sim aspects REALLY don't work in a character driven game.
-Story is nowhere near as good as IV.

Aside from that, it's pretty damn awesome. The world is amazing, the handling is better than IV's once you get used to it, and it's one of gaming's few worlds that actually feels like a living, breathing, place, unlike a level hub. Aside from story aspects, it's probably the best GTA ever.

 

[MHR]

I love it and I haven't even played it or seen any gameplay! (PC) That map is just huge and fantastic. I hate the country areas in old San Andreus but the large city makes up for it in this one I'm sure, and a countryside that's THAT big presents a sense of wonder with the exploration that won't soon expire, making being stuck in friggin tractorland more like an adventure than a disaster.

And I love the idea of the guy that's like Al Bundy with a terribad homelife and he hates his family except he's successful (not a shoe salesman.)

 

[Poetic Nova]

I really like it, even if it's overhyped as hell and i'm not a fan of half it's fanbase (there are serious douchebags in it). It's not the next best thing since sliced breadbut a HUGE step up from IV of which i'm only missing a few vehicles from.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I really like it though it feels decidedly last gen. Very much looking forward to seeing how gorgeous it looks and how smoothly it runs on PC and the next-gen consoles.

 

[IrateDonnie]

I have loved the bits I have been able to play, I guess the only "complaint" is that I have to wait for my daughter to be in bed or somewhere else before I play again, her vocabulary doesn't need to be expanded that much, lol.

You're not alone there.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yes. But the cars I've customized have lasted much longer than they would in San Andreas. So I'm not sure if you completely lose your car if it blows up. But you can store it in a garage.

I really miss buying a car back in Saints Row1/2.

Actually, most of my complaints come from comparing it to Saints Row 2. I can't help it. I know it's telling a different story and setting things up differently, but GOD do I wish this was a Saints game.

Otherwise, it's a blast. Well, I'll never get the flight bits done in a million years, but....

 

[Something Amyss]

I really like it though it feels decidedly last gen. Very much looking forward to seeing how gorgeous it looks and how smoothly it runs on PC and the next-gen consoles.

If the loading times and the like don't take nearly as long and they can pretty up Los Santos, I'll probably buy the PC version.

...After waiting a decent amount of time for someone else to fix anything that's broken.

 

[Glongpre]

Is the soundtrack as good as Vice City? Probably not, nothing can top that soundtrack...

Vice City is just too good.

 

[The_Scrivener]

Another small curiosity is the "help I'm being robbed" things.... I'm a mass murderer and steal cars every 10 mins but somebody else does it? Not on my watch, buddy!

Welcome to GTA's universe: the only place where a game's disconnect between storytelling and gameplay is not only excused, but pretty much ignored altogether because hey, gangbangs and such.

"My name is Nico Bellic. I want to be a better person."

*Cutscene ends*

Tap button. Back up car. Run over 7 pedestrians.

I don't get this series anymore. If people want to have sandbox fun and go hog wild, why not just play Saint's Row? What is the appeal of playing as the absolute scum of society? How do we motivate ourselves to be projected onto hooker throat slitters for 30 hours? Why should we care what they're doing or what happens to them when all they do is exhibit mental patient behavior? It's fine in a city with clowns running about or in a gang war with cartoonish rival gang tropes. But GTA now plays way too straight-faced. Is the message that LA is a shit pit? Is it that there exists a real place stranger than fiction where sinful, barbaric phoniness and domestic terrorism is the norm? Then why the hell do we play as 3 assholes from there with no radar for anything else and no relatable motivation? Why aren't we playing as an outsider who comes in and goes, "wow, this is fucking terrible." Would that really eat too far into Rock Star's shock dollar sales?

 

[Jack Joe Tip Toe]

Another small curiosity is the "help I'm being robbed" things.... I'm a mass murderer and steal cars every 10 mins but somebody else does it? Not on my watch, buddy!

Welcome to GTA's universe: the only place where a game's disconnect between storytelling and gameplay is not only excused, but pretty much ignored altogether because hey, gangbangs and such.

"My name is Nico Bellic. I want to be a better person."

*Cutscene ends*

Tap button. Back up car. Run over 7 pedestrians.

I don't get this series anymore. If people want to have sandbox fun and go hog wild, why not just play Saint's Row? What is the appeal of playing as the absolute scum of society? How do we motivate ourselves to be projected onto hooker throat slitters for 30 hours? Why should we care what they're doing or what happens to them when all they do is exhibit mental patient behavior? It's fine in a city with clowns running about or in a gang war with cartoonish rival gang tropes. But GTA now plays way too straight-faced. Is the message that LA is a shit pit? Is it that there exists a real place stranger than fiction where sinful, barbaric phoniness and domestic terrorism is the norm? Then why the hell do we play as 3 assholes from there with no radar for anything else and no relatable motivation? Why aren't we playing as an outsider who comes in and goes, "wow, this is fucking terrible." Would that really eat too far into Rock Star's shock dollar sales?

GTA V goes back to making the protagonists assholes again, like they should. I would play Sainsts Row 4, but it looks like shit. If I wanted to hear a What is Love joke I would watch Night at the Roxbury. And Saints Row reminds me of Meet the Spartans where the parody too much at the same time and it becomes a mess. At least GTA know what it's targets are. Saints Row seems confused. And it starts to lose it's appeal after a while.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

Another small curiosity is the "help I'm being robbed" things.... I'm a mass murderer and steal cars every 10 mins but somebody else does it? Not on my watch, buddy!

Think like a criminal, if I sell drugs in this hood and someone else comes in they are muscling in on my turf and must be dealt with. If they are robbing someone or stealing a car in my hood it's the same thing, that car and that persons money are mine to take, not someone else's. I see it as protecting my hood, protecting the cattle that exist for me to slaughter when I get hungry. The muggers and car thieves are modern day cattle rustlers, you aren't helping the victim so much as protecting your own property. Loy's of gangs are like that, they will actually stop any criminal that isn't affiliated with their gang.

I am too good at thinking like a criminal...

 

[Mithcha]

Honestly, I found it very boring at first. It entered with a scene that should've been exciting but I just found confusing (the controls are changed, with greater use of the D-pad - I do not like this change). Triangle is to save damnit, not right d-pad. Gaarh!!!!!! Trouble is switching control layouts fucks up other other more important buttons so bleh.

I also had a cold, so was likely quite, quite out of it.

That said I got done playing a few hours ago and once I just let go of any preconceptions and just started doing the general GTA thing of shooting random innocent bystanders, the game became alot of fun. Tennis is amazing. I'm not even out the city yet, it's so vast. I think you really have to stop and look around occasionally to really appreciate the game. Running from the police is now fun rather then frustrating. I keep getting wasted but I don't care because the chase was fun, did I manage to hide? Have they seen me? Which way are they going? Can I get away with punching this old lady before they come? All very important questions.

4am ramble over.

 

[BodomBeachChild]

I love it. They handled it way better than IV. The driving is meh, and I do kinda miss the style of IV but this is fun. I thought I'd be alright with Trevor but he's a fucking loon. Not sure I like him as a person... but so far that is my only gripe.

 

[RJ 17]

Well to be honest, I just rage-quit for the evening. I picked it up about 4 hours ago so I really haven't had a chance to get too far into it. I just did a mission that ends with Michael calling up the 3rd protagonist, Lester, to go meet him for the first time. I switch back to Franklin because I had some things I wanted to do as him. And I'll be god damned! An Infernus (Lamborghini) parked 3 feet from where I "spawn in" as him! Badass! So I hop in it and take it back to my house to put it in my garage. Well there's already a car there, fair enough, I'll just park the Lambo in the street, back that car out, and park the Lambo in there. All is going well until I back the car that was in the garage out into the street, but when I hop out, I get sucked into a mission from the f**king crack-whore tow-truck lady. And yeah, as soon as she stops spitting her teeth at me with every word she says, the Lambo's gone. I tried to blow her head off with my shotgun only to find out she has plot armor. You know, I could really do without some BS tow-truck side-missions, I don't care what the end benefit is. If I never see that f**king b**ch again I could play the rest of the game in peace.

So whatever. Switch back to Michael and start driving to Lester. As luck would have it, I spot another Lambo. Well Michael's got a garage, so lets take it back there! Drive over to his house and pull up to the garage.......only to get sucked into ANOTHER mission about going on a bike ride with his son. And yeah, as soon as we get out of the house, the Lambo's gone...again.

Now, I don't know if I was obscenely lucky in finding 2 Infernus's in such a short span of time or if they made them a lot less rare than they were in previous games, but having lost TWO of them just as quickly as I found them because of getting forced into f**king missions, I'm a little bit pissed off...as I'm sure the tone of this post will express.

So my over-all complain boils down to this: yeah, it's nice that installing the game makes for quick, seamless transitions from free-roaming into missions. But when those transitions devour TWO chances to have my favorite car essentially at the very beginning of the game, that's when I start to find them to be a HUGE pain in the ass. Personally I'd much rather it be "hit X to start the mission" once you get to a spot where one is supposed to start...that, or DON'T DESPAWN THE F'ING CAR I WAS JUST F'ING DRIVING WHEN I F'ING START AN F'ING MISSION!!!!!

 

[Casual Shinji]

I spend a metric fuck tonne on car mods, park it in what I am told is a safe place to park it, complete a small mission and poof its gone for good. They each seem to have there own car but it over rides better ones... Like Franklin has this racer type car, I modded it and then got him a porche looking car and modded that, for ages it stuck at his house but then one time, poof!

I think Rockstar is aware of how their car saving system is still utter shit. So instead of fixing it, or just copying what the very first Saints Row did (save as many cars as you want, and if one is totaled spend many to retrieve it), they just gave each character a pretty fast car on their own lot.

The first thing you need to learn when playing GTA is 'Don't value any vehicle'.

 

[EternallyBored]

I spend a metric fuck tonne on car mods, park it in what I am told is a safe place to park it, complete a small mission and poof its gone for good. They each seem to have there own car but it over rides better ones... Like Franklin has this racer type car, I modded it and then got him a porche looking car and modded that, for ages it stuck at his house but then one time, poof!

I think Rockstar is aware of how their car saving system is still utter shit. So instead of fixing it, or just copying what the very first Saints Row did (save as many cars as you want, and if one is totaled spend many to retrieve it), they just gave each character a pretty fast car on their own lot.

The first thing you need to learn when playing GTA is 'Don't value any vehicle'.

You do get to buy garages later that lets you save a number of cars at the same time and retrieve them at your leisure, but yeah probably not a good idea to customize any random cars until you buy a couple garages first.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I'm really liking it so far. The one big flaw in the game I've run into so far is the vehicle handling It feels like driving on ice.

But they did a really REALLY good job making the open world feel dense and alive. I guess it comes with the territory of making the most expensive game ever, but god damn did they put a lot of stuff in it. Usually within the first hour or so of playing a game you'll start to see the seems on it, but I've played it for about 5-6 hours so far and I'm yet to hear or see one repeated dialog line or character moment. That's amazing to me. Especially considering it's running on 7 year old hardware.

 

[omega 616]

I spend a metric fuck tonne on car mods, park it in what I am told is a safe place to park it, complete a small mission and poof its gone for good. They each seem to have there own car but it over rides better ones... Like Franklin has this racer type car, I modded it and then got him a porche looking car and modded that, for ages it stuck at his house but then one time, poof!

I think Rockstar is aware of how their car saving system is still utter shit. So instead of fixing it, or just copying what the very first Saints Row did (save as many cars as you want, and if one is totaled spend many to retrieve it), they just gave each character a pretty fast car on their own lot.

The first thing you need to learn when playing GTA is 'Don't value any vehicle'.

I've played every gta game on console to date, I know cars are like disposable cameras but with the game saying "save cars here" 3 times and with the implementation of mods they would be safe.

Won't make that mistake again!

 

[Pekchenko]

Loving this game already and only played about 4-5 hours, completely contrary to Greggs review i actually think the characters and story are really well written.

Having said that i haven't yet encountered Trevor and i'm at the point where i have just planned the heist as Michael. How long left do i have until he becomes a playable character?