[tiam]

How does the online play go? Is it a giant free for all with loads of people per map like a giant battle royale? I know it has massive problems to get online but thatl clear up and if its a giant battle map and it works then ill have to buy the game.

[Aptorian]

About 16 people in the open world at one time. Most people seem to stick to the city area.

When you enter the missions it becomes like a "wow instance" you are either doing a co-op mission (that you can solo if you don't want company) or a team game where you are usually either doing death match or a story mission a la cops and robbers or a gang war.

[tiam]

With a map that big (im not sure how big it is but big according to reviews) how often do you come across someone? I was hoping for you to be driving along and someone picks you off with a rifle or crashes a plane into you or some other gta madness. Is there a prospect of them expanding it to a few more or can you find them with the radar?

[Aptorian]

Every player is represented as a white dot on the mini-map and you're constantly coming near other people. The thing is, people tend to be a bit cautious around each other. You can die easily and people will fuck you up.

After an hour of play I just decided that every player in the open world was my enemy.

[tiam]

Do you gain anything for killing them i.e. is there a benefit of say hunting them down with your best gear and weaponry?

[Black Winged Lord]

Jean-Claude Van tiam, on 09 October 2013 - 07:08 AM, said:

Do you gain anything for killing them i.e. is there a benefit of say hunting them down with your best gear and weaponry?

If they are dumb and carrying too much cash (haven't banked it via cell phone or visiting an ATM), you can get that if you kill them, there's also a bounty system which you can place on others and occasionally get put on you if you jack expensive vehicles off NPC,s which can really get busy with everyone trying to collect.

Mostly its just fun. Best moment so far was flying a helicopter after someone who only had a pistol and trying to squish them just for fun.

Travelling around with a couple of your crew and getting into a running battle with another crew can get fairly intense.

[tiam]

Black Winged Lord, on 14 October 2013 - 12:57 AM, said:

Travelling around with a couple of your crew and getting into a running battle with another crew can get fairly intense.

That sounds pretty good actually im gonna have to take the plunge and buy the game.

[Aptorian]

I would not recommend buying GTA5 at full price if all you want to play is the multiplayer. It is an interesting game add-on but it is not very polished or fulfilling in my opinion.

[tiam]

Crustaceous Apt, on 14 October 2013 - 11:21 AM, said:

I would not recommend buying GTA5 at full price if all you want to play is the multiplayer. It is an interesting game add-on but it is not very polished or fulfilling in my opinion.

I didnt really like the realistic and gritty ish gta 4. Ive been thinking about getting the new Saints Row as a mad sand box game. I think maybe your right and ill wait a while until it drops. Ive got Borderlands 2 to get through anyway.

[Jakovasaurus]

Switching to Trevor is the best!

[Jakovasaurus]

Awwww.... I chose the happy ending (keeping Franklin, Michael and Trevor alive). I could have (as Franklin) killed the other two, but we went through sooooo much together.

What a beautiful story of loyalty, redemption and forgiveness..... now to go have a prostitute give me a blow job (and afterwards I can feel self loathing).

[Traveller]

Dammit my game is freezing on the loading screen.... I can't even get into my game. I tried reinstalling it and it still just hangs on the pictures during the load.

Don't know what else to do really.

[Satan]

The Guardian plays GTA5.

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Grand Theft Auto 5? Sorry, I'm just a bit too Guardian
I can't pull an old lady out of a car to steal it, and don't get me started on the sugary snacks. I love GTA, but I'm a woolly liberal cartoon joke

Something awful happened to me last week while I was playing Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA). As usual, I was hijacking a car; either because I wanted to escape the police or because my other car was parked about 50ft away and I couldn't be bothered to walk over to it. It doesn't matter which.

However, this time the driver happened to be an old lady. A sweet old lady who pleaded with me not to hurt her as I pulled her frail body from her seat. That car was probably the only thing that still allowed her some degree of independence, I realised. The insurance company would probably dick her around, too. It might take her months to get the car replaced. And that's if she even had the confidence to return to the wheel at all, which she probably wouldn't.

Robbing the old lady, even though I knew she was just a lump of pixels, made me feel terrible. What sort of monster had I become? Appalled at myself, I gave her the car back and let her drive away in it.

I am rubbish at GTA 5. I think I'm just a bit too Guardian for it.

There have been other instances of this. I've only ever robbed one shop, and that was only when the game made me. I won't do it willingly due to a misguided belief that you should support the local businessman. I routinely get shot dead on missions because I don't like the idea of topping up my health meter with sugary snacks made from processed foods. I'm barely even skimming what the game has to offer, and it's all because I'm a woolly, liberal, cartoon joke.

This sounds like comic exaggeration, but I promise it isn't. If the game controller's R3 button allowed you to leave an apologetic note on the windscreen of the car you've just accidentally bumped into, then that's how I'd spend 95% of my time.

It wasn't always this way. When the first top-down GTA game was released in 1997, I was as recklessly immoral as they come. Back then I'd quite happily flamethrower a line of dancing Hare Krishnas for a giggle. But now that I've grown up into a hand-wringing, left-leaning ninny I've found myself trying to play the game as responsibly as I can. Like someone's mum would.

Playing GTA Online only makes this worse. The story mode makes you do a number of terrible things but that's fine because you're controlling a fictional character. But online, when I'm controlling a character who looks like me – albeit a skinnier, more attractive version of me – everything changes. For want of a better word, playing GTA Online turns me into a yellowbellied nancypants.

I'm pretty sure I'm alone in being crippled by this sense of social responsibility, too. When you play GTA Online, you can hear everyone else, and in my experience all the other players are either rapping six-year-old French arsonists or middle-aged men who only stop trying to murder me as gratuitously as possible in order to shout swearwords at their newborn babies.

And yet, despite all this, I'll keep playing. Because the beauty of GTA is that it's set in such a perfectly realised world that nobody ever has to compromise their ideals if they don't want to. There are plenty of other things to do within the game. So let's hear it for GTA 5: the most expensive biking around a mountaintop while listening to Eddie Murphy simulator that there has ever been.

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[Aptorian]

While not quite as extreme this was the same kind of feelings I had when playing GTA 4. The game just tool itself so serious and that combined with the (at the time) extremely detailed and beautifully realised world, just made me not want to be a bad guy. For a while there I actually thought was over these crime sandboxes.

GTA 5 wasn't like that though. The characters are more cartoony and the entire story is more loose than the previous game. It felt more like comedy action than gritty social commentary in this game.

I still prefer Saints Row though.

[Jakovasaurus]

Satan, on 04 November 2013 - 05:01 PM, said:

The Guardian plays GTA5.

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Grand Theft Auto 5? Sorry, I'm just a bit too Guardian

. . . . When you play GTA Online, you can hear everyone else, and in my experience all the other players are either rapping six-year-old French arsonists or middle-aged men who only stop trying to murder me as gratuitously as possible in order to shout swearwords at their newborn babies. . . .

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[QuickTidal]

Received this for Xmas and have given about 3 hours to it now.

It's really solid so far.

Though I totally fall into the camp that feels bad being a bad guy. I see the police and I think...wouldn't it make a cool game to have a GTA where you played as the cops and had to keep the crime rate down?

Everything feels like it did in the previous games, which is great because that dynamic works. I love deciding to stop playing for the day, saving my game, and then recklessly driving and trying to go out in a blaze of glory in some ridiculous way. I'll keep doing missions (I'm still on only Franklin so far), but another fave thing I do with these games (and I'm sure I'm not alone) is finding a place to stake out and take shit out to see just how wanted I can get.

Fun stuff!

[Aptorian]

The "prologue" where one characters story leads into the introduction of the next is definitely the best part about GTA 5. It's when the actual story begins to unfold that the game falls a part. There is so many inconsistencies and the ending felt so lacklustre that it spoiled the experience for me, to the extent that I wouldn't even put the game on a top ten of 2013.

Quite shocking really, since Rockstar are usually miles ahead of the rest of the industry in terms of creating a narrative.

[QuickTidal]

I honestly don't think I've ever paid any attention to the "story" in any of the GTA games. I don't think I could tell you what each of them was about besides basics about the protagonists and some mission points...otherwise, no idea.

It never seemed like the kind of game that hung its hat on that, at least to me.

[Jakovasaurus]

Been playing the Heists update that came out this week. If you can find other players online with a mic who are willing to cooperate it's a hell of a lot of fun. And you get a shit load of money when successful. Supposedly if you can do all of the heists with the same crew without dying you get 10 million dollars. ZINGA!

Anyways, give it go for some kick ass fun. The Heist DLC is free - all of the GTA V DLC is free, which is nice. The Heist DLC is sizable though @ 1.7GB.

[DeadHedge]

Jakovasaurus, on 14 March 2015 - 04:11 PM, said:

Been playing the Heists update that came out this week. If you can find other players online with a mic who are willing to cooperate it's a hell of a lot of fun. And you get a shit load of money when successful. Supposedly if you can do all of the heists with the same crew without dying you get 10 million dollars. ZINGA!

Anyways, give it go for some kick ass fun. The Heist DLC is free - all of the GTA V DLC is free, which is nice. The Heist DLC is sizable though @ 1.7GB.

Jakov, what system you playing on?

Me and the wife have had some great fun with the Heists, however trying to get a game is nigh on impossible. Spending in excess of half an hour just trying to get enough players.

Hopefully my sis and bro in law get back online soon as thats a guaranteed team lol

DH