Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

[TLO]

Picking up my copy in the morning. Can't wait.

[Wallcrawler]

Grand Theft Awesome, unless youre one of those people with just the 4GB HDD on 360. Game requires that you have at least 8GB free to install disc one. You can then either install disc 2 as well, or simply play the content from the disc, but you absolutely have to have 8GB storage on 360 to play.

Minor nitpick, they're still using A for the goddamn sprint. SOME OF US LIKE TO TURN OUR CAMERA WHILE WE RUN FOR OUR LIVES, R*!!

Heh.

That aside, the hour and a half I spent with it was loaded with awesome. Driving is phenomenally better than 4, and the cover and gunplay system is right on point. Gunfights are a helluva lot of fun, and that's really a GTA first for me. Seems like you can finally use weapons besides an SMG while in a car as well, as I fired a regular pistol out my window at someone who wasn't moving along fast enough. They got the message.

Streamlined the radio stations into a weapon wheel like menu, so that you can flip to your favorite station, or if youre like me, turn it off, instantly.

Minimap is great, allows you to see a lot of area around your location and GPS guide gives you a line to your destination.

If you get messed up, your character reflects that with visible injuries and bloody clothes that persist until you return home and save the game at the bed. I took a bit of a tumble off of my BMX on the halfpipe and looked like roadkill.

Quick Save option available through the cell phone when not in a mission. Thank You Jesus.

The ability to replay missions becomes unlocked at the end of each mission, so that's cool. With as many ways as there are to approach these, this ups the replay value instantly.

That's about all I have for now. I didn't play very long. Did a few missions and laughed out loud several times at the dialogue, so really looking forward to more of that. The big installation time, and downloading my ability to fly the blimp really ate into my play time this evening. Calling it a night, and playing some more tomorrow.

Everything points toward this being a ****ing masterpiece.

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Grand Theft Awesome, unless youre one of those people with just the 4GB HDD on 360. Game requires that you have at least 8GB free to install disc one. You can then either install disc 2 as well, or simply play the content from the disc, but you absolutely have to have 8GB storage on 360 to play.

Minor nitpick, they're still using A for the goddamn sprint. SOME OF US LIKE TO TURN OUR CAMERA WHILE WE RUN FOR OUR LIVES, R*!!

Heh.

That aside, the hour and a half I spent with it was loaded with awesome. Driving is phenomenally better than 4, and the cover and gunplay system is right on point. Gunfights are a helluva lot of fun, and that's really a GTA first for me. Seems like you can finally use weapons besides an SMG while in a car as well, as I fired a regular pistol out my window at someone who wasn't moving along fast enough. They got the message.

Streamlined the radio stations into a weapon wheel like menu, so that you can flip to your favorite station, or if youre like me, turn it off, instantly.

Minimap is great, allows you to see a lot of area around your location and GPS guide gives you a line to your destination.

If you get messed up, your character reflects that with visible injuries and bloody clothes that persist until you return home and save the game at the bed. I took a bit of a tumble off of my BMX on the halfpipe and looked like roadkill.

Quick Save option available through the cell phone when not in a mission. Thank You Jesus.

The ability to replay missions becomes unlocked at the end of each mission, so that's cool. With as many ways as there are to approach these, this ups the replay value instantly.

That's about all I have for now. I didn't play very long. Did a few missions and laughed out loud several times at the dialogue, so really looking forward to more of that. The big installation time, and downloading my ability to fly the blimp really ate into my play time this evening. Calling it a night, and playing some more tomorrow.

Everything points toward this being a ****ing masterpiece.

Agree on all points. This is a masterpiece. Now get to workin on Red Dead 2, Rockstar!

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Grand Theft Awesome, unless youre one of those people with just the 4GB HDD on 360. Game requires that you have at least 8GB free to install disc one. You can then either install disc 2 as well, or simply play the content from the disc, but you absolutely have to have 8GB storage on 360 to play.

Minor nitpick, they're still using A for the goddamn sprint. SOME OF US LIKE TO TURN OUR CAMERA WHILE WE RUN FOR OUR LIVES, R*!!

Heh.

That aside, the hour and a half I spent with it was loaded with awesome. Driving is phenomenally better than 4, and the cover and gunplay system is right on point. Gunfights are a helluva lot of fun, and that's really a GTA first for me. Seems like you can finally use weapons besides an SMG while in a car as well, as I fired a regular pistol out my window at someone who wasn't moving along fast enough. They got the message.

Streamlined the radio stations into a weapon wheel like menu, so that you can flip to your favorite station, or if youre like me, turn it off, instantly.

Minimap is great, allows you to see a lot of area around your location and GPS guide gives you a line to your destination.

If you get messed up, your character reflects that with visible injuries and bloody clothes that persist until you return home and save the game at the bed. I took a bit of a tumble off of my BMX on the halfpipe and looked like roadkill.

Quick Save option available through the cell phone when not in a mission. Thank You Jesus.
The ability to replay missions becomes unlocked at the end of each mission, so that's cool. With as many ways as there are to approach these, this ups the replay value instantly.
That's about all I have for now. I didn't play very long. Did a few missions and laughed out loud several times at the dialogue, so really looking forward to more of that. The big installation time, and downloading my ability to fly the blimp really ate into my play time this evening. Calling it a night, and playing some more tomorrow.

Everything points toward this being a ****ing masterpiece.

awesome
Do you have to do additionanl downloads for aircraft etc/?

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by Dayze

awesome
Do you have to do additionanl downloads for aircraft etc/?

No, the preorder bonus was to allow you to fly that big ass Atomic Blimp. That's the only aircraft that needed downloading. You can call for it on your phone and it will get dropped off at the closest place to you that can accommodate its size.


As for your other question, there are a few missions that need to be undertaken at the outset, as sort of a "get to know how GTA V is gonna work" kinda deal. Once you get out of that and back to your house, you can do whatever.

Seems like the good stuff doesn't unlock without progressing the story though, so its a good idea to get cracking on that so you can buy the badass guns and unlock the parachute.

Weapon upgrades are pretty slick. Im digging that quite a bit.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

No, the preorder bonus was to allow you to fly that big ass Atomic Blimp. That's the only aircraft that needed downloading. You can call for it on your phone and it will get dropped off at the closest place to you that can accommodate its size.


As for your other question, there are a few missions that need to be undertaken at the outset, as sort of a "get to know how GTA V is gonna work" kinda deal. Once you get out of that and back to your house, you can do whatever.

Seems like the good stuff doesn't unlock without progressing the story though, so its a good idea to get cracking on that so you can buy the badass guns and unlock the parachute.

Weapon upgrades are pretty slick. Im digging that quite a bit.

hah, my non-preordered Walmart copy had the Atomic blimp code in it.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Streamlined the radio stations into a weapon wheel like menu, so that you can flip to your favorite station, or if youre like me, turn it off, instantly.

wut? The radio stations are one of my favorite parts of any GTA game.




From the few reviews I have read, the number one complaint of the story is

Spoiler!

there is little reason for the characters to be together. All I can say is that Franklin and Micheal getting in debt to the mexican cartel for $2.5 mil is a pretty goddamn good reason.

[Ultra Peanut]

Yup. So good. So so so good. My biggest complaint so far is a relatively minor driving thing: I'd rather the cam pull a hard reset to centered and behind you if you click the right stick, instead of the slow flip from the back view to the front. Maybe that's just my Euro Truck Sim config tricking me. Aside from that, the driving feels exhilarating. Cars feel out of control but it's not that hard to Fast & Furious it the heck up. When cars break, they break REAL GOOD. It looks spectacular and the amount of detail in this game in general blows my mind.

Everything works so well, and I just had my first classic GTA police chase. I walked up to a firefighter, he called me a piece of shit, and then he shoved me. Bam, the cops are looking for me. I ruined my car (the Futo I didn't have room in my garage for ), stole a cop's sweet red sports car, and ended up gliding through back alleys at 100000 mph until making a soft landing in the Los Santos River. Then I drove into deep water, the car died, and I ran up the embankment to the other side. At some point the cops decided not to chase the innocent subject of racial profiling, so I stopped walking to admire an impressive view of the skyline at twilight.

I tried to use the photo uploading stuff (I guess it's not stored locally at all =[), and it's a beautiful integration in theory but I've only managed to successfully upload one so far. Maybe when the game is "officially" released or whatevs the servers will work. Or there are just eight hojillion people already crushing them.

And I totally agree about the dialogue, totally exceeding my expectations. Lamar in particular has some great lines in the few missions I've played.

This really feels like everything I wanted in a GTA game, and the anticipation of Online in two weeks is even more overwhelming now that I've seen the incredible canvas it's being built upon.

Also plus also, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY THE RADIOWNS. It's my favorite part of the GTA experience and I'm adoring it so far. I also love the dynamic score that plays when you're out in the world.

I haven't liked a game this much since -- uh, Gone Home I guess. That's not that long, but still!

[Ultra Peanut]

Here is the one photo I managed to upload:


(It's cool, she's not dead. Just stretching.)

These people just gave me another Skate, basically. Minus the skating. Maybe.

[Dayze]

damn. I hope my Gamestop has a copy today.

[OnTheWarpath15]

Good call on Wal-Mart.

Had 4 copies left, no one was in the store, in and out in less than 5 minutes.

[ragedogg69]

The graphics seem way improved over IV. Or maybe it is just more colorful. I loved the beginning. Also running it from my ps3 HDD and not getting any of the pop ups as seen here: http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/16/473...mparison-video

On reddit they said the same can happen on a ps3, but i have a 1 TB 5400 drive in my, so that maybe why I dont have a problem.

[DMAC]

It's really hard being at work knowing there is a copy waiting for me to pick up at Best Buy.

[Buck]

Originally Posted by DMAC

It's really hard being at work knowing there is a copy waiting for me to pick up at Best Buy.

I ordered a copy for myself and one for my brother from amazon so I keep getting text updates that's they are being delivered today and that's really pissing me off lol.

[SLAG]

Originally Posted by Buck

I ordered a copy for myself and one for my brother from amazon so I keep getting text updates that's they are being delivered today and that's really pissing me off lol.

I pre-ordered mine on amazon too - UPS is very predictable They always come around 6PM !