So; it's a mere 4 weeks away, and I'm busily trying to clear the decks of any other games currently in play (Darksiders 2, will you ever end?) to ensure all available gaming / real life time will be furrowed into this.
From what I've seen so far, I'm excited. Predictably so.
The announcement yesterday regarding an online mode akin to 'Red Dead Redemption' is the icing on the cake.
Nothing warrants your devotion like those first few days playing a new GTA- lookin forward to cappin somma you fools in the near future!
I took sick days to play San Andreas, but never even finished the dull GTA4. Saints Row 4 is out next week, though. WOOHOO!
I playing San Andreas on my work MAC laptop at my lunchtime at many weeks... beat me that!
This game looks absolutely incredible, but there's simply no way ill have time to play it, especially during the next few months which are likely to be mental...
Quote from: Goaty on 17 August, 2013, 12:40:41 AM
I playing San Andreas on my work MAC laptop at my lunchtime at many weeks... beat me that!
San Andreas got a bad rep i think it's an awesome game i still play it on the PS2 and PC i wish it had been online with lots of players on the same server.
San Andreas never really clicked with me, I think it was the whole gang culture thing that I just find a bit stupid.
I love the series though but I never seem to complete any of them, there is almost too much to do and too many opportunities to just arse around instead of getting on with the game :).
I hope they do a better job of the PC version this time around, I ended up getting the last on on the PS3 because of how shoddy the PC version of 4 was.
Xbox 360 achievement list now up...
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/grand-theft-auto-v/achievements/
Quote from: strontium71 on 17 August, 2013, 09:24:09 AM
Xbox 360 achievement list now up...
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/grand-theft-auto-v/achievements/
One of the achievements is for collecting spaceship parts. Must change my PSN tag to 'Fox Mulder'! :D
the online mode sounds absolutely crackers, really looking forward to this.
Played them all to death. Love the basic premise of the game. Be a feckin' hooligan! Online? Not sure if I'll dig it or not, but I'll certainly give it a whirl.
Due to the fact actual shops are a bit thin on the ground, I'm gonna pre-order this online.
Anyone spot a good deal?
Cheapest I've seen is £35 at Greenmans Games. You can trade 2 games at Shopto and get it for a fiver - this offer includes some fairly old/shit games too...
I've never really played Grand Theft Auto. All the stuff about shooting prostitutes etc really put me off.
I haven't actually been a big fan of Rockstar's output in general - the horse riding mechanic in Red Dead ruined the game for me and I thought Max Payne 3 was as dull as ditch water.
GTA 5 does look interesting though and I'm sure it'll be a massive technical achievement. I may try to get it on rental somewhere to see if I like it.
Quote from: Pete Wells on 19 August, 2013, 10:36:27 AM
Cheapest I've seen is £35 at Greenmans Games.
Must be sold out Pete, can't see it.
I'm looking for a PS3 copy which generally seems to be a little bit pricier that the 360 version.
Amazon or Play.com might be the safest bet to ensure I get a copy ASAP.
Gruddamn 60 Euro...
I'm in the minority, but I thought GTAIV was the best of the bunch so far. Where others criticised it for being 'boring', I saw an attempt at making a slightly more realistic, more weighty, more grounded - and as a result, more immersive game. The crazier, overpowered, jetpacks and rocket launchers, instant gratification side of the GTA games - something Saints Row now specialises in - to me gets very boring after half an hour or so. The game is much more interesting to me when it is more restrained in scope. In GTAIV I got a lot of enjoyment out of simply driving around the city, taking in the sights.
I really enjoyed GTA IV too Radiator, and the subsequent 'Episodes'.
Personally, my all time favorite was Vice City. It was just so cleverly put together and enjoyable.
And that soundtrack...I actually bought some of the CD's, and still occasionally listen to them on the iPod to this day.
Just bought a copy of GTA V on Amazon there by the way, worked out 55 Euro incl. postage, so not too bad.
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 August, 2013, 10:48:54 AM
Quote from: Pete Wells on 19 August, 2013, 10:36:27 AM
Cheapest I've seen is £35 at Greenmans Games.
Must be sold out Pete, can't see it.
Here you go Link, gone up a quid since this morning!
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/playstation-3/games/action/grand-theft-auto-v/ (http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/playstation-3/games/action/grand-theft-auto-v/)
Quote from: Pete Wells on 19 August, 2013, 12:00:43 PM
Here you go Link, gone up a quid since this morning!
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/playstation-3/games/action/grand-theft-auto-v/ (http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/gb/en/playstation-3/games/action/grand-theft-auto-v/)
Word must be out Pete, got an 'Error 404' for that hyperlink to their website. I'd say they've sold out.
Ah sure, I've provided Amazon with some much needed financial support anyway!
Sometimes ASDA does got few pounds off on day of release.... Same with Call Of Duty every year.
Quote from: Link Prime on 19 August, 2013, 12:14:18 PM
Word must be out Pete, got an 'Error 404' for that hyperlink to their website. I'd say they've sold out.
Ah sure, I've provided Amazon with some much needed financial support anyway!
Still working for me Link. Just pop your credit card details on here and I'll order it for you :D
You dont actually have to shoot prostitutes in any of the GTA games.
I use a baseball bat.
Ordered this for £34.99 from Tesco using the code TD-R4NQ. Exciting!
Quote from: Pete Wells on 22 August, 2013, 04:00:12 PM
Ordered this for £34.99 from Tesco using the code TD-R4NQ. Exciting!
Nice!! Thanks! Just order it! Let you all know that code finishing on 1st September!
Thought 'screw it' at that price it's worth a punt even if I can only play it for an hour or two a week - and I can save an extra fiver thanks to some clubcard points, so ordered a copy....
....or would have done, were it not for Tesco having the most cretinous, obnoxious checkout I've ever encountered. It can't find my address on its system, and as there's seemingly no option to manually enter an address, its impossible for me to place the order.
Nice one, you fucking chumps.
Wonder how much revenue that harebrained oversight loses them per year?
could you order it to a friends house who is in their database?
I order it in 5 mins, with post it to my workplace without any problems, so it must be not your day?
I've gone as far as taking a couple of holiday days off from work, for GTA time. Well, its not like I was going to use them for anything useful.
Quote from: radiator on 22 August, 2013, 04:48:36 PM
Thought 'screw it' at that price it's worth a punt even if I can only play it for an hour or two a week - and I can save an extra fiver thanks to some clubcard points, so ordered a copy....
....or would have done, were it not for Tesco having the most cretinous, obnoxious checkout I've ever encountered. It can't find my address on its system, and as there's seemingly no option to manually enter an address, its impossible for me to place the order.
Nice one, you fucking chumps.
Wonder how much revenue that harebrained oversight loses them per year?
So Tesco is run by a bunch of morons in the UK too?
I had a run in with one of their stores / managers a few years back, and without boring you with a tl;dr tale suffice to say I've boycotted them ever since. Hate the place.
It's currently £34.99 on Amazon....
Good on yer radiator! Tesco order cancelled, Amazon placed!
WHAT!?! Ben Affleck is going to play GTA V? I'm cancelling my order!
Had a look at some of the reported soundtrack lists online over the past few days. If this is genuine, it'll be on my car radio a lot...
West Coast Classics (classic hip hop)
Host: DJ Pooh
Tracklist:
2pac - Ambitionz Az A Ridah
N.W.A. - Appetite For Destruction
N.W.A. - Gangsta Gangsta
Kurupt - C Walk
DJ Quik - Dollars and Sense
Snoop Dogg - Gin N Juice
King T - Played Like A Piano'
Geto Boys - Mind Playin' Tricks
Tha Dogg Pound Ft. Mack 10 - Nothin' But The Cavi Hit
Too $hort - So You Want To Be A Gangster
Snoop Dogg Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E
Snoop Dogg Dr. Dre - The Next Episode
Mc Enit - straight up menace
The Dogg Pound - What Would You Do
Kausion - What You Wanna Do (Ft. Ice Cube)
Ice Cube - You Know How We Do It
Quote from: Temponaut on 22 August, 2013, 06:58:12 PM
I've gone as far as taking a couple of holiday days off from work, for GTA time. Well, its not like I was going to use them for anything useful.
Me too, ha. Gonna pull the settee forward, get some munchies in and wallow in it. :-P
Epically pumped for this game! And can't wait to hear what Lazlow is up to this time. :D
Pity they've not announced the PC version yet. Well if they don't want my money I might just have to spend it on Battlefield 4 instead.
Does look lovely.
GTA V really does look the bollocks!
There a leaked about GTA V map... and it's biggest, gotta to need a faster machine!!
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/11/leaked-gta-5-map-shows-off-the-insane-size-of-los-santos (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/11/leaked-gta-5-map-shows-off-the-insane-size-of-los-santos)
Quote from: Goaty on 11 September, 2013, 12:01:30 PM
There a leaked about GTA V map... and it's biggest, gotta to need a faster machine!!
Perhaps a spacecraft?
This was talked about on the radio last night and it's the most expensive game in history. £170 million to make and market :o :o
See if you can see a mutant turtle in the shape of the map
Or Homer?
(http://i.imgur.com/Em6a4s2.gif?1)
(http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2013/09/Los-Santos-610x813.jpg)
Compared to the GTAIV map, shown in black:
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18zrjbsx57fa7jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)
Crazy.
Don't know if I will get this.........YET!!!!
Though I have all the other GTA games in my collection. Some, that are all PSTWO games, are recent aquisitions made through Ebay!
I don't play them, I just collect them.
BTW, my X-Box 360 name is Mitigatedshark! (The machine made that one up for me!) So, go on add me to your friends list as I don't have any yet.
I can imagine with this GTA that I'm never going to have time to do all of the missions and whatnot, but I think it'll be so much fun, and weirdly relaxing, just to wander around aimlessly.
I used to do that in GTAIV sometimes - just go sightseeing - but the whole countryside angle should really bring a new element to it.
Yeah, the beaches too.
Just got a pre-delivery email from Amazon...they're coming SOON.
I just want driving on motorbike and looks at the countryside...
I'm away next week (release week) but have it on pre-order from Amazon so will be waiting for me when I get home. Apparently if you pre-order it we are getting a free blimp and dlc, which should be fun...
Can't wait to get stuck into that map, don't think I'll ever see everything it has to offer.
BTW my PSN is dodsy if anyone from here fancies causing some havoc with GTA online when if launches, just drop me a message with the friends requests so I know who you are.
(On a side note regarding the size of the map: Is there a comparising next to the Skyrim map? That was bloody huge as well, just how they compare)
Quote from: dodsy on 13 September, 2013, 12:37:42 PM
BTW my PSN is dodsy if anyone from here fancies causing some havoc with GTA online when if launches, just drop me a message with the friends requests so I know who you are.
Good call. My PSN is Dikiminster. I'll add you later if that's OK. Other folks feel free to add me, too And post your names on here if you're interested in getting together online. ;)
Anyone else going to be playing it on the 360?
*tumbleweed*
Quote from: strontium71 on 14 September, 2013, 09:23:39 AM
Anyone else going to be playing it on the 360?
*tumbleweed*
I'm on 360, and will be getting it.
Due to a lack of originality on my part my tag is NapalmKev.
Cheers
With equal er...originality , mine is erm...strontium71 :o
Quote from: Goaty on 12 September, 2013, 12:46:48 PM
I just want driving on motorbike and looks at the countryside...
In real life or in the game?
I used to do this in Zelda - Ocarina of Time sometimes (but obviously I was on Epona). Goodness knows what aimless fun can be had with a map of that scale.
And I think that's the mark of a truly great game - one where you don't mind tootling around doing nothing much of anything (as opposed to ones where you are frantically scrabbling around trying to figure out what you are meant to be doing next).
I have both the X-Box 360 & PSThree, but don't know if I will be getting it yet.......Though I do have every other Rock-Star game on either of my Playstations!
Just got my email from amazon, my copy is on the way :D
Me too!!!
And me! I'm so excited, I just logged in to say that!
How big is it in comparison to San andreas?
(http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/GTA-V-San-Andreas-Comparison-Map.jpg)
Here you go - although a lot of it is open country.
Can't wait, I've listened to Lazlow playing some of it on the radio, this game is gonna be glorious. Incredibly pumped for this
I thought san andreas was big.................the new map is epic!!!!!
It get 10 of 10...
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review)
Quote from: Goaty on 16 September, 2013, 03:22:51 PM
It get 10 of 10...
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/grand-theft-auto-v-review)
Edge have given it a ten, also. Anyone lucky enough to get a copy early?
There's an app for the game called iFruit which lets you train Chop, modify your car and other things on your tablet device. When I get the game tomorrow the licence plate on my car will be Wellsy, nice!
Tried it, aimed for a Dredd numberplate, (already taken) settled for Minty, and then got a notification that Chop the dog had taken a shit and I needed to clean it up.
I then uninstalled the app.
Quote from: Steve Green on 16 September, 2013, 08:11:55 PM
Tried it, aimed for a Dredd numberplate, (already taken) settled for Minty, and then got a notification that Chop the dog had taken a shit and I needed to clean it up.
I then uninstalled the app.
With 333MB download and forgot PSN password so I fuck it and delete the app, not worth for any numberplate in game!
Driving past my Local EB thismoring and the line for this was huge!!! I've never seen omany eople lined up for a game in this town. I'd loveto play it but dont have the time, Total War:Rome 2 is just eating all my available time at the moment and BF4 should be out roughly when i finish TW.
CU Radbacker
Just got it at work post, thanks Tesco!
This installs pretty quick....6450 of 8486MB in about 15 mins.. :D
It's sitting on my desk right now. Won't get to play until tomorrow night at the earliest though, as I'm out tonight.
There was a disappointing lack of no-shows at work today. When Modern Warfare came out the HR department must have thought there was some kind of bug going round.
My lady wife has just got in from work, and has been playing GTA tennis for the last twenty minutes.
It's funny to see women start moaning about GTA V online, at last we got men's version of 50 Shades of Grey! haha!
Quote from: Goaty on 17 September, 2013, 06:38:37 PM
It's funny to see women start moaning about GTA V online, at last we got men's version of 50 Shades of Grey! haha!
Time for me to log off of for the night, I think...
A good amount of people in my year were off today to play this. Gutted I can't get it for awhile, big fan of the series.
Oh, and if you get your hands on a copy of the XBOX version, only install one disc. It messes up the graphics or something if you install both.
I used to think a lot of the moaning about GTA's chauvinism was misplaced, based as it is on the assumption that the game universe isn't an equal opportunities offender when it comes to the stereotypical portrayal of men and women both, but it's hard to deny when we're at the 15th game in the series and still no playable female characters even when the hook of the current game is that there are three main payable characters at all times.
I saw the amount of chav scum* lining up for this last night at the Xtravision/Tesco midnight openings and realised that once they were sold out a lot of those people - mostly kids - running around in the small hours around my estate whooping and hollering would be very disappointed. Naturally, I decided to go and buy a copy to help make this moment happen sooner. Glad I did - my gripe with GTA4 was not, in retrospect, that it was po-faced, joyless, and aimed at people who want to take things far too seriously, but based on GTA5 it was in fact the lack of variety.
I must have failed that very first GTA5 mission at least seven times, as once I was behind the wheel of a car I ditched the mission (to drive from A to B) and instead drove like fuck and within minutes was out of the city, being chased across a dam by cops, cutting across country and mowing down a herd of goats in the process, crossing rivers, deserts, passing shanty towns and suburbs along the way - and I still think the actual horizon is a bit of a ways off, not that I got near it as the pigs did for me shortly as I'd picked the red car that handles like a brick. Once I did the first mission and got to wander about, I still didn't get very far as the map is so huge it is practically impossible to get anywhere without committing a crime, though fair play most probably don't have the impulse to do a running clothesline on everyone they come across like I do, but hey - what kind of world is it where you can pass a skate park full of hippies and not skid 180 degrees to go back and mow them down? Not a world I want to live in, I can tell you.
Fantastic and fun game, though going on the shelf until I get my work done as I can see this bastard claiming even more of my time than Saints Row did.
* I am not saying that people who like GTA are chav scum, I am merely relating that only chav scum were to be seen on this occasion.
[spoiler]Aliens... [/spoiler] :o
Managed to grab half an hour on this last night, but had to call it a day when I could barely keep my eyes open (due to the fact it was very late rather than anything to do with the game).
It all looks hugely impressive so far, though all I've really done in the game is get lost and drive round and round some shipyards, then got chased by a vanful of hoodlums after they picked a fight with me and I beat them up.
It's been a long time since I played GTAIV, so could be misremembering, but the controls feel much tighter than I remember them being - I always feel like I 'm having to make do with slightly twitchy, weightless, unrefined on-foot controls in GTA games, but it feels a lot more weighty in this one.
Exploring in this is so much fun I stopped whatever it was I was doing at one point and tore off towards the horizon after seeing what I thought was a SETI array, and sure enough it was and I ran about like a kid for a bit, then for some reason was at an abandoned airport using the runway for doing high speed wheelies and stoppies. It started raining at one point when I was in the city and I stopped to look at it splash on cars and paper vending machines and this scabby, wretched-looking man dressed in rags and standing by a shopping cart full of his possessions asked me for any spare cash I might have and then just stood there, his arms not so much attached to him as hanging off him as it poured down. This is a really well-designed game that brilliantly captures the hair's breadth separating the luxury and squalor that exist side-by-side in a major city.
Also you get to play as a Rottweiler and bum other dogs.
Installing now- 6809 / 8466MB.
Fingernails left: 2/10.
Projected sleep reduction: 68%.
It really good graphic game! As I been shot few times with blood on my suit, and later mission, I still got same blood! and nice blood on the cars... sad is it?
Like most of you, I abandoned the missions after the first car-chase one, and went exploring.
Wound up taking a cable car to the top of Mt. Chiliad in the middle of the night- spooky Silent Hill type moment when I found a drawing on the wall with reference to [spoiler]Alien spacecraft[/spoiler].
Googled it this morning, and there's loads of crack-pot theories / spoilers out there. Will avoid, and figure this out for myself.
Also; I committed sinister cold blooded murder and got away scott-free; in the middle of nowhere I bumped into some happy-go-lucky chap walking his dog.
Without a second thought I STABBED THEM BOTH TO DEATH, leaving their bodies for the vultures.
Should a video game make you feel guilty? :D
You sounds sadistic Link Prime!
There was one moment I feelings like Riggs in Lethal Weapon 2 moment. Which was awesome!
Played a bit more last night.
As amazing as it clearly is, does anyone else think there's a bit of a disconnect between the hugely atmospheric environment and sense of place, and the ludicrously over the top actions you're expected to perform?
Of course I know GTA is supposed to be set in a heightened, hyper-real universe, but even so it's a bit jarring that you have to gun down 30+ cops in the opening, then later with Franklin, commit mass murder while attempting to repossess a motorbike. As if anyone would be willing to kill a single person - let alone 20 - in such a situation. Even in GTAIV, the first few missions eased you in, asking no more of you than to commit petty vandalism and intimidation.
I think it's the storytelling ambitions of the developer bumping up against the kind of frantic, fast-paced gameplay modern gamers expect which causes a weird disconnect (or 'ludonarrative dissonance' if you want to sound like a tosser) and it's one of the many reasons that I think games don't handle narrative well. It's just especially jarring in this game precisely because it's otherwise so convincing and evocative.
I'm not for a second saying games shouldn't be fun, but I hope that in the next generation things like combat and interaction will be nuanced to the point where they won't have to constantly spam you with enemies to keep things interesting, and just fighting a single enemy could be every bit as thrilling, visceral, fun and demanding as gunning down hundreds of them - which to me feels like a crutch that games have to fall back on.
Still, it's an incredible achievement from what I've seen so far. It says a lot that I actually watch the cutscenes and care somewhat about the story and characters.
One last thing - I can't work out if the game auto-saves? Can you only save your game at your safehouse? Because that seems demented in this day and age if so...
Quote from: radiator on 20 September, 2013, 11:56:02 AM
One last thing - I can't work out if the game auto-saves? Can you only save your game at your safehouse? Because that seems demented in this day and age if so...
Just pop out your phone and select 'Quick Save'.
Nice one, thanks.
How is the driving in this one? One thing that stopped me from playing GTA Four was that I couldn't complete a mission where I was in car chase. Cars are were hard to control in this one.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 24 September, 2013, 03:10:41 AM
How is the driving in this one? One thing that stopped me from playing GTA Four was that I couldn't complete a mission where I was in car chase. Cars are were hard to control in this one.
In my opinion, the driving has massively improved over IV.
I'm normally a bit shit at the street races, but had no problem with the first two I encountered in this game.
This is the first GTA game I've really played properly and I'm loving it (played little bits of all the previous entries at friends houses but not really 'got it'). I'm playing it as non-gittishly as possible so far - I feel bad if I run people over for no reason etc.
I find the driving fine and all of the vehicles handle differently. Quad bikes are great fun!
Re; The misogyny thing. It seems to me like the game is trying to say something about how men are portrayed in popular culture (and probably women and children too). Every male character in the game so far has been an archetype - washed up gangster, wannabe gangsta, physically deficient computer nerd, hipster IT workers, slimy car dealer/con man etc.
I'm not sure that GTA is guilty of misogyny but it is incredible that they still don't have playable female characters - even if it were just to mix things up.
In terms of archetypes - this is a game and whilst some characters will be around for a while, a lot are fairly disposable so why try and build these into complex characters? Easier to go with "wannabe gangster" and get back to the action. Yeah, its an immature narrative but it suits the medium.
I've never had too much of a problem with driving in GTA games, but I'm definitely finding in 5 that I'm crashing/running people over accidentally a lot less.
ISTR in previous games it was very easy to accidentally incur the wrath of the police, but that hasn't happened once to me so far.
Quote from: Recrewt on 24 September, 2013, 02:12:49 PM
I'm not sure that GTA is guilty of misogyny but it is incredible that they still don't have playable female characters - even if it were just to mix things up.
In terms of archetypes - this is a game and whilst some characters will be around for a while, a lot are fairly disposable so why try and build these into complex characters? Easier to go with "wannabe gangster" and get back to the action. Yeah, its an immature narrative but it suits the medium.
I think you're right. It's essentially an advanced form of 'Cops and Robbers' and the characters need little more motivation than that.
It's men version of Fifty Shades of Grey!
Quote from: Goaty on 24 September, 2013, 06:07:02 PM
It's men version of Fifty Shades of Grey!
I don't think you should be wanking to it,
Goaty.
Girl Ruins GTA5 For her Man ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psRfJl9rBSo[/url]
Good Game reviewed it here! (http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/)
I hope that's the right link.
Sorry, that link will not take you to the right segment, just the right episode. For the correct segment, you wi ll to scroll down :-\
Damn it, how GOOD is this game? Seriously addicted. Easily the best GTA ever for me, and a serious contender for all time greats. Only minor niggle is that the missions can be a little scripted and hand-holdy, but it's so polished and fun. Just doing the flight school training is great fun - like a mini Pilotwings! Thought I'd be too busy to play it, but ended up being able to take a few days off. Currently about 30% complete.
Quote from: radiator on 25 September, 2013, 11:43:19 AM
Just doing the flight school training is great fun - like a mini Pilotwings!
Excellent. I didn't now there was a flight school. I managed to nick a small aircraft at the airport and fly it across the map, but boy, I had trouble keeping it in the air...and in a straight line! :lol:
You'll have fun with the flight school then, starts off easy but gets hard very quickly, requiring you to fly side-on, or upside down..!
I also really enjoy the shooting range challenges, gives me flashbacks to Perfect Dark!
Not play it for a week as on holiday and it was 6% last time I check, and GTA V Online is on at 12pm today!
Quote from: Goaty on 01 October, 2013, 10:29:16 AM
Not play it for a week
Neither have I, for a number of time-consuming reasons.
I'm itching to get back into it tonight though.
Much to my surprise and delight I've been able to spend loads of time on it the last 10 days - and I adore it. Haven't been this consumed by a videogame in a long, long time. I'm actually rationing out the story missions now, and concentrating on hoovering up all of the side missions and other activities like the races, smuggling runs/triathlons/shooting range challenges etc - really savouring it all. My completion is currently around 55% - but I'm guessing I'm probably about 75% of the way through the story missions (I've just[spoiler] brought down the Merryweather transport plane[/spoiler]).
I dearly want to get to 100% completion, but I'm worried that I'll lose interest trying to find all of the [spoiler]spaceship parts/letter fragments[/spoiler]. I've only found 4 or 5 of each so far, and don't relish the prospect of going through FAQs/Youtube videos to try and find the rest - I did that with the pigeons in GTA4 and gave up in despair and boredom long before I found them all. I wish they'd built in some way of tracking or finding them - maybe the sonar phone App? I know Chop can help, but can't imagine it being all that effective.
All these people are complaining about not being able to get on GTA Online today?
What did they expect?
It's launch dayand there are millions of people
probably clicking 'gta online' at the exact same time, and it only launched a few hours ago!
I find it rather annoying when people say there has never been any playable female characters in a GTA. There were 2 in the first one if I recall correctly. Then again, selecting them didn't really change your appearance or anything. :lol:
Just finally play Trevor...
Oh my gosh, he taken out [spoiler]SAMCRO[/spoiler]!
Yesterday while playing GTA V for a short while , I discovered a building site, found a bulldozer & have been driving over police & civilian cars alike – while this wasn't my plan – this was very addictive. Crushing cars under the bucket ... hmm, I do pass a bulldozer on my way how from work ...
Finally beat it on friday night. Now I've restarted again and am just rushing thought the required missions to get to the big score heist, as a friend told me that [spoiler]if you save the assassination missions until after you pull of the big score, you can invest all your money when you do the hits and make hundreds of millions[/spoiler] which im going to need if I want to buy the golf course.
Anyone else out there bummed that they don't have cars with hydraullics? Nothing that a patch couldn't fix though I'm sure.
Oh and if anyone wants to play online, my forum name is the same as my gamertag. Hit me up.
Quote from: Recrewt on 24 September, 2013, 02:12:49 PM
I'm not sure that GTA is guilty of misogyny but it is incredible that they still don't have playable female characters - even if it were just to mix things up.
Why? I've seen this argument a few times now.
Look at what GTA influences are. Heat, taxi driver, carlitos way, scarface and good fellas, french connection.
Maybe it just doesn't work any other way
Crazy that you can have played the game for dozens of hours over many weeks, and STILL be finding stuff, like the racetrack and chemical plant I stumbled across the other day.
God this game's good.
Anyone know how to commence the 'Knife Flight' missions? Or do they not actually appear on the map and you have to discover them yourself?
Quote from: radiator on 07 October, 2013, 09:43:15 AM
Anyone know how to commence the 'Knife Flight' missions? Or do they not actually appear on the map and you have to discover them yourself?
Not done them myself yet but I believe the Knife Flights are like the hidden packages in that they don't appear on the map. You need to fly a plane sideways inbetween building, not sure which buildings though.
Sorry for spoiler it, but there a link of everythings else in the map.
http://uk.ign.com/maps/gta-5/los-santos-blaine-county (http://uk.ign.com/maps/gta-5/los-santos-blaine-county)
I can't see a legend on that map...
I heard a rumor today at work that if you shoot Michaels house with the rocket launcher as another player he will text you and tell you to stop. Another one was [spoiler]if you choose to kill Trevor at the end, you get his cut of the last score[/spoiler] Both are unconfirmed by myself so far but sound plausable enough.
Finished the 'torture' mission last night.
Not very nice, but sure its only a game! :D
My missus came in from work just as I was taking the pliers to that poor f-cker.
So far she's walked in on me playing this game on three occasions, and seen;
A lap dance (the objective of which is to grope while the bouncer isn't looking).
Yoga.
Gruesome torture.
Her silence spoke volumes.
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 October, 2013, 01:54:10 PM
So far she's walked in on me playing this game on three occasions, and seen;
A lap dance (the objective of which is to grope while the bouncer isn't looking).
I've tried this many times in real-life in my younger days. When I used to frequent these establishments a lot.
That sounds so close to home.
As for the game, I saw in this in
Todd's Hi-Fi on Wednesday morning and decided not to buy it yet. I wait until the price drops considerably from $89.00.
Quote from: ThryllSeekyr on 10 October, 2013, 03:02:52 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 09 October, 2013, 01:54:10 PM
A lap dance (the objective of which is to grope while the bouncer isn't looking).
I've tried this many times in real-life in my younger days. When I used to frequent these establishments a lot.
That sounds so close to home.
:o That's why he's the Mayor, yo.
Gosh! Trevor's a real guy!
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So I got the game a week ago. I've spent countless hours engaged in county wide police chases by car, plane, helicopter and on a few occasions trains. I've stolen jets from the military base as tanks accidentally blasted trucks full of their own soldiers. I've been caught up in massive police shootouts and looked on in awe as downed officers were dragged to cover, blood trailing, by their comrades. I've seen choppers explode in the wind farms, the NOOSE grappling from them being flung far into the Blaine County wilderness.
The games pretty fun, aye. ;-)
Anyone still playing this? I'm just doing the penultimate mission for my 2nd play through the game. Is everyone still finding new stuff to do in game? Or did you play it death in the first week or two?
I finished the campaign last night, though I was doing a lot of side missions and stuff as I went so I'm at around 82% complete.
I'm now mopping up stunt jumps and activities and all that stuff. I'm aiming for 100% completion and all the singleplayer achievements, but it depends on my patience.
Haven't touched online yet, might dip my toe in at some point (I don't actually have a Gold account at the moment).
Quote from: radiator on 19 October, 2013, 05:58:58 PM
Haven't touched online yet, might dip my toe in at some point (I don't actually have a Gold account at the moment).
One reason why I'll miss free PSN when I eventually get a PS4.
I'm not on gold either and it let me play online last weekend. I haven't tried since. Not sure if I got a free 48 hour trial or whatever of if the game doesn't need gold to be played online. Anyone know?
So a month on, some gripes:
The stunt jumps are a real pig in this one. When you're on a roll doing one after another its immensely fun and satisfying, but success in lot of them often comes down to pure luck and many require you to land in a very specific spot, requiring a lot of trial and error. Whats worse is that there's no option to retry them, so failure can set you back aaaaaages (leading to lots of fannying around fetching an appropriate car etc - doubly irritating when you're in a remote area) and so it can feel like a bit of a jarring throwback to the older GTA games, which were always frustrating. You can exploit quicksaves to lessen this to some extent, but it takes bloody ages to reload a save so you spend much more time staring at the loading screen than you do playing! Also, sometimes the game will handily decide to make your vehicle disappear on a load.
And those stunt jumps in the docks area can eat a dick.
Furthermore, I've finished the main game and am 88% done, but still don't understand the collecting/buying/saving of vehicles at all. Each character has their own vehicles which they start the game with, and these are 'safe', as in they will always spawn outside your safehouse, but when you buy new vehicles, these get delivered to your safehouse, but then sometimes get delivered to your downtown garage, which is really confusing.
Bought vehicles also seem very transient - I spent a bloody fortune doing up a bike for stunt jumps earlier on, and then it disappeared when I loaded a save, and it wasn't stored anywhere - safehouse, garage or even the vehicle reclaim. So when you trash or lose a vehicle, it's gone for good? Kind of makes a mockery of the whole thing, doesn't it? But then the stunt plane I bought will always respawn at the airstrip? It's all frustratingly vague and inconsistent. I know this was a bug early on, but I thought it had been patched? Ialso seem to have encountered an annoying bug(?) where I can no longer call a cab - they are always 'busy' when I try and call, which makes the collecting quests all the more frustrating.
I'm also finding that I really, really, really wish things like stunt jumps, bridges, knife flights etc appeared on the map (as in they appear on the map once you have completed them). I went through with a guide doing all the bridges, but have found I must have missed a few as I am a couple short, and now seemigly the only way to do the remaining ones is to start all over again. Really irritating, and feels very last-gen. While playing through the main game, I would manually mark each stunt jump or point to return to later on the map with a waypoint marker, later on discovering that the game had was randomly deleting them as it went. Literally the only way to complete all the sidequest tasks is to sit with a phone/tablet while playing, looking up maps/guides/youtube videos, which does somewhat drain the fun out of it all.
I also almost lost my rag with the later 'Kifflom' missions and the third (fucking ridiculous) triathalon - which are instances where it genuinely feels like Rockstar are actively trolling the player - perhaps not a wise tactic if they want people to keep buying their games.
I love this game, and really want to 100% it and go for all the singleplayer achievements, but these annoying quirks are really starting to try my patience, especially as I don't get too much time to actually play. Hopefully they'll sort this out in subsequent patches or the next GTA game.
I'm really enjoying the game but have no desire to get 100% by flying under all the bridges or whatever.
I just do the bits that I find fun and I really enjoy the main missions.
I haven't bothered with buying vehicles either. Mostly because I don't get how it works, as Radiator says, but also because there seems little point. I can always grab a parked car from nearby and I find it more fun to just grab whatever's lying around than to drive the same thing all the time.
I think if they're going to put systems in the game they should make them work properly though!
Once I've completed the main story I'll probably move onto the next game in the pile but I'll remember this as being the most fully realised open world I've played in.
I don't play many retail home console (as in boxed) games any more - for example, aside from Vanquish and Bayonetta which I bought and didn't get into, before GTA V I've only bought Ni No Kuni (Jan 2013) and Arkham City (Dec 2011) in the last few years, but the ones I do play I like to really savour and wring every last drop out of - not because I 'm tight or anything, I just get a lot of satisfaction out of doing so. The notion of just burning through the story mode and then discarding it in favour of something new seems a bit, I dunno, wasteful? I dunno, it doesn't appeal to me personally, each to their own etc. I enjoy the story missions, but with most games that just feels like the entree - In a quality game I get as much if not more enjoyment out of side quests and whatnot. Most games I wouldn't bother to aim for 100%, but then I don't play most games! As for achievements, I pride myself on maintaining an above-average gamerscore for each game, but I'm not mental and will draw the line - for example the pigeons on GTA 4. Stuff like that is just no fun at all.
In the specific case of GTA V, I just adore the game and want to spend as much time in the world as possible. What I love about hoovering up all the side missions and miscellaneous tasks - tedious as it can often be - is that it reveals lots of little nooks and crannies - or even whole entire towns or beautiful scenic spots - that you'd otherwise miss just doing all of the main missions. I'm still staggered at the sheer level of detail and polish they put in the game - it's truly insane. The flying under the bridges thing sounds boring, but it's actually really fun - really mastering the copter controls is like playing with a really good RC copter sim, and playing the flight/parachuting missions feels like a new Pilotwings game or something.
Quote from: radiator on 27 October, 2013, 08:42:40 PMAnd those stunt jumps in the docks area can eat a dick.
This.I finished the story, have being going for 100% and all single player and multiplayer achievements but those jumps are just ridiculous.
QuoteI finished the story, have being going for 100% and all single player and multiplayer achievements but those jumps are just ridiculous.
As I understand it, you only need to complete 25 out of 50 stunt jumps to count towards '100%' completion, so there's that.
But yeah, they're
incredibly spiteful and unfair. When you attempt them in a car, you invariably hit the sides of the ramp/lorry thing, often through no fault of your own, and fail. But a bike - even a ludicrously overclocked racing bike - doesn't seem to have enough weight and heft to make the specified jump length, and you often die on landing, leading to a lengthy wait to respawn at your safehouse, then
another long loading time reverting to your quicksave, so you have to wait in total about 3 or 4 minutes to have another attempt.
To add yet another layer of Xbox controller-endangering frustration, I find that when using Franklin's Slo Mo driving ability to line up the angle perfectly will often cause the stunt jump to simply not register or activate.
Must have spent an hour or more so far trying to crack them, and only succeeded on 1 out of the 5.
In any other game, I would have given up ages ago. The most annoying thing is that it didn't need to be so frustrating!
I haven't played this yet, I'm waiting for the PC version, but you can BUY cars in a game called Grand Theft Auto, and people actually do? That's it, I give up trying to understand the world.
Quote from: Mister Pops on 28 October, 2013, 12:51:52 PM
I haven't played this yet, I'm waiting for the PC version, but you can BUY cars in a game called Grand Theft Auto, and people actually do? That's it, I give up trying to understand the world.
Well, sometimes you
need to. You know that thing where you need a bike to perform a specific task, so you drive round aimlessly for ages and ages looking for a bike, and because of sods law you never see one, yet when you don't need one they're bloody everywhere! Also, you pretty much need to buy special vehicles like the stunt plane, and there are special, or rare, cars that can only be bought.
As to my earlier point, I have just discovered that if you sign up to the Rockstar Social Club website thing, you get access to detailed stats about your game to show which missions and tasks you are missing and a map that shows the location of letter scraps and spaceship parts, and you can also see which ones you have found and which ones you still need, easing a lot of the frustration.
Which is all massively helpful, but so obscure its almost useless. Why couldn't that stuff just be in the game? Or at least included as part of the - largely useless - iFruit app instead?
Also, as far as I can tell the map doesn't show you things like stunt jumps or knife flights.
Anyone else used the phone camera much?
Here's a few snaps I've taken....
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I was randomly driving around and hit a sign and got a "1 OF 50 SIGNS DESTROYED" or something similar. This is well after beating the same so I've hit quite a few signs. Has anyone else found any "hidden achievements" similar? Now I'm driving around hitting every sign I see hoping to work out what kind of sign's I need to hit.
Quote from: GrinningChimera on 29 October, 2013, 01:58:00 AM
I was randomly driving around and hit a sign and got a "1 OF 50 SIGNS DESTROYED" or something similar. This is well after beating the same so I've hit quite a few signs. Has anyone else found any "hidden achievements" similar? Now I'm driving around hitting every sign I see hoping to work out what kind of sign's I need to hit.
I believe this is part of one of Michael's side missions for the crazy real estate guy. You have to destroy all of his rival's signs which are dotted around the proxy Hollywood Hills area. If you go to the rival realty firm's website via the browser on your phone (look for the email from him and you can follow the attached link) you can see where they all are, and even set the coordinates to each one to your GPS.
I used a baseball bat for extra satisfaction.
I would say that just finishing the 'main' story missions really is less than half the game - there are tons and tons of 'strangers and freaks' missions, and working your way through them, while optional, opens up lots of extras and activities.
I would definitely recommend people sign up to the Rockstar Social Club thing - it gives you a complete breakdown of everything you have and haven't done in the game, including all the secret side missions.
Quote from: radiator on 28 October, 2013, 01:25:07 PM
Anyone else used the phone camera much?
Here's one for you Radiator; Dr. Friedlander had a little motoring accident (after confessing his love for me)
he got away from me. sends me txts and emails from time to time telling me how he's doing and what he's up to
Just finished the GTA V story. It's a great game. My minor niggles are that the shooting mechanic was little frustrating - both the cover system and auto aim were a little inconsistent. The other thing was that I'd prefer the camera to be locked to the position of the vehicle you're driving rather than sort of float about. As soon as you get in a car it should give you a rear view of the vehicle like you'd find in a Need For Speed game.
Neither of these things ruined my overall enjoyment of the game though. It's a brilliant, well written, funny, work of art.
Which ending did you choose?
I went for option C. I couldn't bring myself to bump off either of the main guys and those other arseholes had it coming!
Quote from: JamesC on 02 November, 2013, 06:33:02 PM
I went for option C.
I went for option C too, even though I suspected it would lead to Franklin's demise.
Glad it didnt!
I really don't think I'm in humour to get the 100% on this game, so am wrapping up at 85% with all main missions done and only two 'strangers & freaks' (including the UFO one) left.
Things like the overly long sonar collection side quest and the "Dear Customer: F*CK YOU" 3rd triathlon (where the player has the pleasure of pressing the 'X' button repeatedly for 30+ minutes) made me realize there's better ways to spend my time.
Started up GTA Online for an hour yesterday, very good fun- will be getting stuck in this week.
QuoteThings like the overly long sonar collection side quest and the "Dear Customer: F*CK YOU" 3rd triathlon (where the player has the pleasure of pressing the 'X' button repeatedly for 30+ minutes) made me realize there's better ways to spend my time.
Heh - did you do the Epsilon missions? They get increasingly trollish as they go. In one you have to wear the Epsilon robes for something like 10 days in-game - basically meaning you have to spend 15 minutes going to sleep and waking up to speed up the day cycle. Then the next one involves you having to walk around on foot in the desert for 5 miles. Frustrating enough, but all the more so because you can be randomly killed by a mountain lion* or abducted by some weirdo who tasers you and leaves you - minus the robes - on the train tracks. Either of these events - or leaving the area - resets the 5 mile counter. And what made this mission especially trying was that I ballsed up the final Epsilon mission and ended up having to do it twice...
*Seriously, fuck those bastard mountain lions. It's bloody ridiculous that they are basically insta-death and are only ever a major annoyance. Moutain lions aren't even particularly dangerous in real life and tend to avoid humans rather than attack them, and it seems especially stupid and contrived that they can basically kill you by gnawing on your ankle
once when you can also survive multiple gunshot wounds and car wrecks.
QuoteThe other thing was that I'd prefer the camera to be locked to the position of the vehicle you're driving rather than sort of float about. As soon as you get in a car it should give you a rear view of the vehicle like you'd find in a Need For Speed game.
You didn't seriously play the whole game with the cinematic camera did you?!?!
Tbh I found the standard in-vehicle camera slightly too low, meaning that I had to constantly be nudging it up with the stick so I could see in front of me. This was alleviated by finding out you can set the camera higher up in the options. Weird that they'd make the annoying low angle the default - did
no one really flag this as a potential problem during testing?
Quote from: radiator on 04 November, 2013, 01:09:52 PM
QuoteThings like the overly long sonar collection side quest and the "Dear Customer: F*CK YOU" 3rd triathlon (where the player has the pleasure of pressing the 'X' button repeatedly for 30+ minutes) made me realize there's better ways to spend my time.
Heh - did you do the Epsilon missions? They get increasingly trollish as they go. In one you have to wear the Epsilon robes for something like 10 days in-game - basically meaning you have to spend 15 minutes going to sleep and waking up to speed up the day cycle. Then the next one involves you having to walk around on foot in the desert for 5 miles. Frustrating enough, but all the more so because you can be randomly killed by a mountain lion* or abducted by some weirdo who tasers you and leaves you - minus the robes - on the train tracks. Either of these events - or leaving the area - resets the 5 mile counter. And what made this mission especially trying was that I ballsed up the final Epsilon mission and ended up having to do it twice...
*Seriously, fuck those bastard mountain lions. It's bloody ridiculous that they are basically insta-death and are only ever a major annoyance. Moutain lions aren't even particularly dangerous in real life and tend to avoid humans rather than attack them, and it seems especially stupid and contrived that they can basically kill you by gnawing on your ankle once when you can also survive multiple gunshot wounds and car wrecks.
QuoteThe other thing was that I'd prefer the camera to be locked to the position of the vehicle you're driving rather than sort of float about. As soon as you get in a car it should give you a rear view of the vehicle like you'd find in a Need For Speed game.
You didn't seriously play the whole game with the cinematic camera did you?!?!
Tbh I found the standard in-vehicle camera slightly too low, meaning that I had to constantly be nudging it up with the stick so I could see in front of me. This was alleviated by finding out you can set the camera higher up in the options. Weird that they'd make the annoying low angle the default - did no one really flag this as a potential problem during testing?
No, not the cinematic camera, but when you get in a car the camera will sometimes be facing the front of the car and will then pan around to the rear as you drive off. Then when driving fast, if you do sharp turns you'll get a full on side angle view of your car as the camera catches up. I just thinks it makes handling and judging tight gaps more difficult. In a NFS game, for example, you'll never get more than a three quarter angle of your vehicle's rear (and that's only when drifting).
It's only a minor complaint but if you're going to have driving as a main part of the game then handle it like the diving game experts handle it. Same goes for the shooting sections.
To be fair to them, I think they really tightened up the shooting in this latest one - and frankly, it isn't fair to judge the controls in an open-world game against a linear game - as a linear game is always going to be more polished.
I've had arguments with friends about this, but I still maintain that Japanese devs by and large do the most balanced, tightest and most satisfying videogame controls. Western-made games almost always feel a little too loose and twitchy to me, and GTA - while an improvement, is no exception.
One other slightly irksome thing for me would be the slightly annoying ragdoll physics and the exaggerated falls when you jump into a wall or something. Seems to take the player character ages to stand up again!
I'd really appreciate any advice on this...I'm out of my depth with games and my boys want a PS3 fro Crimbo. They tell me a PS4 is useless because it's 'next gen' and won't run GTA V...
It seems weird not to get the latest PS... is it true there is no plan to produce GTA V for next gen systems?? Surely not???
...also...what kind of a screen would I be best to get (gaming quality/value for money/reasonable enough price wise)...any thoughts on how best I should set up a system to primarily play GTA V...?
Muchos Thanks in advance....very much muchos in fact.
A next-gen (PS4/Xbox One) port of GTA V is currently unconfirmed but heavily rumoured for a spring 2014 release.
A potential solution would be to get a second hand ps3 for now if they just want GTA V.
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 04 November, 2013, 02:29:19 PM
I'd really appreciate any advice on this...I'm out of my depth with games and my boys want a PS3 fro Crimbo. They tell me a PS4 is useless because it's 'next gen' and won't run GTA V...
It seems weird not to get the latest PS... is it true there is no plan to produce GTA V for next gen systems?? Surely not???
...also...what kind of a screen would I be best to get (gaming quality/value for money/reasonable enough price wise)...any thoughts on how best I should set up a system to primarily play GTA V...?
Muchos Thanks in advance....very much muchos in fact.
Hey Bubba,
Without getting into a whole Microsoft vs Sony debate, I'd heartily endorse the PS3 over the Xbox 360 due to the fact that PSN (PlayStation Network) is free on PS3, therefore GTA Online (packaged on the same disc as GTA V) can be played for free.
The best deal I've seen out there is this;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStation-500GB-Super-Console/dp/B00BF6D48I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1383575666&sr=8-3&keywords=ps3+gta+v
From what I've read online GTA V will be released on the next gen consoles (Xbox One & PS4) sometime in 2014.
What enhancements it'll have, I don't know, but I would honestly think there wont be any real difference with the current gen version.
Also, as far as I've read, PSN access will not be free on PS4.
So If you're after GTA V / GTA Online this Christmas- I'd go for a PS3.
Regarding monitors/ TV screens to use for gaming; there are new versions of HD screens brought out every 25 minutes, so for me it would be a matter of popping into your local mass-market electronics store and looking for the best screen for the best price (and shopping around too, as prices vary hugely).
Quote from: radiator on 04 November, 2013, 01:09:52 PM
Heh - did you do the Epsilon missions?
No- and now I never will! :D
Quote from: Link Prime on 04 November, 2013, 02:45:55 PM
Quote from: Bubba Zebill on 04 November, 2013, 02:29:19 PM
I'd really appreciate any advice on this...I'm out of my depth with games and my boys want a PS3 fro Crimbo. They tell me a PS4 is useless because it's 'next gen' and won't run GTA V...
It seems weird not to get the latest PS... is it true there is no plan to produce GTA V for next gen systems?? Surely not???
...also...what kind of a screen would I be best to get (gaming quality/value for money/reasonable enough price wise)...any thoughts on how best I should set up a system to primarily play GTA V...?
Muchos Thanks in advance....very much muchos in fact.
Hey Bubba,
Without getting into a whole Microsoft vs Sony debate, I'd heartily endorse the PS3 over the Xbox 360 due to the fact that PSN (PlayStation Network) is free on PS3, therefore GTA Online (packaged on the same disc as GTA V) can be played for free.
The best deal I've seen out there is this;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStation-500GB-Super-Console/dp/B00BF6D48I/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1383575666&sr=8-3&keywords=ps3+gta+v
From what I've read online GTA V will be released on the next gen consoles (Xbox One & PS4) sometime in 2014.
What enhancements it'll have, I don't know, but I would honestly think there wont be any real difference with the current gen version.
Also, as far as I've read, PSN access will not be free on PS4.
So If you're after GTA V / GTA Online this Christmas- I'd go for a PS3.
Regarding monitors/ TV screens to use for gaming; there are new versions of HD screens brought out every 25 minutes, so for me it would be a matter of popping into your local mass-market electronics store and looking for the best screen for the best price (and shopping around too, as prices vary hugely).
In terms of screens/TVs, the brands to get are Samsung, Sony or Panasonic. For a bedroom a 20-26" screen should be fine, a 32" if you want to be extravagant.
And make sure that you get an HDMI cable if there isn't one bundled with the PS3 - just buy a cheapie one - no need to spend a lot of money on an HDMI.
Lined Prime and Radiator, I can't thank you enough for this advice... I'm probably going shopping tomorrow now.
I'll let you know how I get along.
Big thanks!
No problem Bubba.
And one more brand to throw into the monitor mix; LG. They're making some quality HD TV's at great prices.
Quote from: Link Prime on 04 November, 2013, 03:06:08 PM
No problem Bubba.
And one more brand to throw into the monitor mix; LG. They're making some quality HD TV's at great prices.
My TV is an LG and it's bloody fantastic.
As for PS3 vs PS4, I'd go PS4 all the way. You may as well future proof your purchase as much as possible and it's almost a given that GTA V will be ported to the new system.
Other than that, if you're going to buy a PS3 leave it as late as you can before buying. The PS4 is released later this month and once that's out the number of second hand PS3s and price deals available will go up sharply.
Quote from: JamesC on 04 November, 2013, 03:17:34 PM
As for PS3 vs PS4, I'd go PS4 all the way. You may as well future proof your purchase as much as possible and it's almost a given that GTA V will be ported to the new system.
Other than that, if you're going to buy a PS3 leave it as late as you can before buying. The PS4 is released later this month and once that's out the number of second hand PS3s and price deals available will go up sharply.
All good advice.
AH!...of course, so I'm not going shopping tomorrow, JamesC...I'm waiting them out....and LG, my son mentioned that.
Although I may go for a 2nd hand number now and trade up later...that seems wise...and yet the kids thought the lack of a free online gaming facility was a deal breaker on PS4...
I'm all for future proofing...but it seems if I get a PS3 they'll be pretty happy. Of course I'm not looking forward to it at all ;)
Thanks again guys, I'm not floundering quite as much now.
Just to add my opinion - I bought the PS3 fairly early on and I remember the frustration with the relatively small amount of games available and the even smaller amount or decent ones. This is 'enhanced' by the frustrating policy of not making these consoles backwards compatible. So, what will likely happen is a raft of games to coincide with the console release followed by a period of upto 6 months before anything else decent comes out.
I was talking to a mate recently about how I'm a bit worried about my fat PS3 - I really need it to last another 12-18 months because if it were to fail in that time then I would have to get another PS3, beyond that and I would get the PS4 as there should be enough decent games out for it.
I know what you mean, Recrewt, that's always a bummer when a new system comes out.
I'm hoping that the delayed launch games may help bridge that gap somewhat. I'm getting AC4 at launch (along with my obligatory Need For Speed purchase), which I'm hoping will tide my over until Watch Dogs gets released in the spring.
There are some promising looking indie games coming out too and I'll be interested to see what PS Plus games will be offered as downloads in the first 6 months (surely some PS3 conversions?)
Tbh I've seen absolutely nothing to convince me that I need to buy either a PS4 or Xbone at launch - but then it was the same last generation. It was Halo 3 that finally got me to buy a current gen console, and that came out almost two years after the 360 did. The technological leap from the current gen to the next is also barely there these days tbh - I remember when new consoles meant genuinely new experiences.
It's a cruel irony of life that you reach a point where you can actually, finally afford to buy consoles on launch day, but by then you either don't have the time to play them or are jaded enough that you don't really care.
To be honest, the things I'm looking forward to most are the super quick loading times and the seamless online/offline multiplayer thing.
I've never really been fussed with online gaming but if my mates can pop up in something I'm already playing then it should be fun.
What does seem a bit different this time is that the majority of PS4 launch games will also be available on PS3, including AC4, Need for Speed Rivals and Watch Dogs.
I'll definitely be getting a PS4, just not yet.
Quote from: radiator on 04 November, 2013, 05:41:43 PM
It's a cruel irony of life that you reach a point where you can actually, finally afford to buy consoles on launch day, but by then you either don't have the time to play them or are jaded enough that you don't really care.
Ain't that the truth.
Human nature though- you'll never truly appreciate anything you can easily afford / obtain.
I worked my ass off stacking shelves in Dunnes Stores to be able to buy a Nintendo 64-
a lifetime ago.
Never did get that feeling of satisfaction since :'(
so I haven't played GTA for a couple of weeks. But since I've got an hour to kill, I thought I'd play around just going on a murdering spree.
WELL
I go into the subway system to evade the cops, and I see some red dots close by, but no visual. Well, as soon as I shoot them THEY APPEAR! That's right, invisible cops! They can shoot me, and damage me but until I get a shot to hit them, they are "invisible"
as far as glitches go, this one is quite entertaining
I think I shall call it predator mode.
Ok, got Crimbo sorted - I was out of my depth so thanks guys for all the advice.
Hopefully they're will be a Game of the Year version for the recently surpassed consoles I currently own in several months time.
Finally accomplished 100%! Anybody else managed it yet?