GTA 5 - Views?

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Was watching my sisters bf playing this yesterday. Im not at all into video games but it looks fucking amazing.
We got the guy drunk on shots then off for private lapdance.
I heard it cost more to make than most Hollywood blockbusters ?

dearest budget on a game ever... my son was telling my you can site in the house and watch telly and it has real shows running on the TV LOL

Wtf... really lol.

I remember my dad coming home with a wooden and plastic box one night .. we gathered round the Bang and oulfsen tv and marvelled at the driving game (using the paddles lol) Air sea combat and Pele's international soccer lol.

Things have come a LONG way since the Atari 2600 console.
I swear my brother was playing asteroids for about half day once . on the back of the box was an instruction of how to submit proof of your score by photo if I remember right hahaha .

I feel old now lol

[Gandalf]

The game is stunning. Personally, I have a soft spot for GTA4 which gets a tough rep for losing its sense of 'fun', but it had a lot of fun in the missions. For me The Ballad of Gay Tony was when GTA really started to get wacky again and this fuses those together well. Franklin on his own probably wouldn't seem as 'fun', but with the 3 characters you have all the nuances of GTA being played out. I particularly like Michael with his dysfunctional family and weekly trips to the shrink who archly looks at his watch for the seconds to tick down. I haven't played Trevor yet, but from what I have read, he brings the 'crazy' into the game. I cannot wait to get my hands on him.

It is a huge visual treat as I said in my first post and that is what I spent my time exploring initially, but since then I am up to 15% completion and the game is so hard to put down. You just want to continue the story or play the side games. I really enjoyed the tennis and golf, but I found both to be too easy on normal level, so next time will try difficult. I've now watched 2 films at the cinema and again they add to the game. One was a parody of European existentialism and made no sense and the other was the curious fable of The Loneliest Robot in England. Quite bizarre, but enjoyable. For me the TV in the game is good and satirises just why I don't what very much TV. However, in the case of the game you want to watch to see how they are ripping it to shreds.

I think the TV smashing was just Michael hurling something through it, no guns were involved in that. It's a very funny scene.

Maybe this is a spoiler so look away now...........






The satire of society takes you even as far as assasinating a Mark Zuckerberg/Steve Jobs type figure as he is about to test a new phone live on stage and on Weazel news. I call up the phone whilst watching on TV at home and the phone is rigged to explode. I blew his head right off right there on stage. Afterwards, I sat there and thought to myself, 'That's fucked up'. However, it was brilliant as it fitted my view that Zuckerberg and Jobs have messed up society and so need to be taught a lesson for providing the CIA with cheap mass surveillance. The onstage assasination is a grand American tradition and you cannot ever criticise GTA for anything as everything is taken from the society around it. It's very clever.