GTA 5 - Views?

[imp]

Bring back the amiga and atari 800.

[Beanz]

Bring back the amiga and atari 800.

I still love my Amiga wrote so many tunes on it and used to make simple animations for onstage projection. Loved Shadow of the beast, Super Guina sisters, speedball, worms, deluxe paint, for a musician octomed the tracker and Music X, a very early DAW just blew me away.

[Gandalf]

I played Trevor for the first time proper today and the man is full on mental. I took him to the barbers and gave him a full on grizzly beard and a mullet as I think that is what he would want. I also took to the skies for the first time and the lighting is just beautiful up there. It is such a massive leap on anything else out there. The water and skyline are worth half the admission price alone. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

My only qualm today was the final triathlon which took 27 minutes of pressing the X button. It was exhausting and a bit trying, but the nice graphics kind of got me through it. Perhaps the races are a bit too easy as I finish 1st in them mostly on the 1st attempt and the same can be said for the side games, but the sheer variety and depth and wealth of things to do is great. I think my initial exploration of 4 hours also made the races easier as I kind of knew the winding mountain layouts and city streets already. Maybe that was a lesson learned from GTA 4 where I didn't do any prep and found some of the races harder than these. I made it too easy for myself by being too meticulous. I guess Rockstar kind of predicted the experienced gamer too as this game gets into the harder missions much sooner that GTA4 did, though there has been nothing terribly difficult so far. Having said that, they have carried through the mission success ratings and so you can replay missions to improve your success rate. Many of my passes are silver or bronze and so when I replay the game (as I surely will), that is what I should aim for. In that sense, maybe it is difficult as I am not reaching gold as often as I should.

Greenbeanz, you are going to love this game! Such fun! To think that when I was a kid it was the Commodore 64 and then the Megadrive. I recall that a new game like Streets of Rage 2 would cost 45 pounds and yet here in 2013 you can buy something like GTA5 for less than that and with the layers and layers of satire, depth, gameplay and graphics etc that it has, means it is such good value.

[OumaFan]

I've had a XBOX 360 for about three years and literally haven't turned it on in about two years, but I bought it. Haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but apparently the XBOX still works so I'm probably going to start messing around with it tonight.

[OumaFan]

The map is gigantic. Look at it compared to San Andreas. I remember thinking that map was almost too big to really explore fully



And this is just LA, not LA, San Francisco and Las Vegas

[0james0]

I remember each time, the jump from say a C64 to the Mega Drive, then to a PlayStation, saying to all my mates "look at the graphics, look how real it looks, it will never get better than this!"

Get my GTA tomorrow!

[AdamGB]

I think that the jumps are getting smaller and smaller.

16bit consoles to 32bit/64bit consoles was HUGE, 32/64 bit to 128 bit was big, the next jump up took time to fully look next gen (Resident Evil 4 looked better than several 360 launch titles) abd what I saw at E3 this year wasn't a HUGE leap.

[OumaFan]

Just started. It's pretty.

[OumaFan]

GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas (didn't play 4 really, just a bit), you got to know the neighborhoods, etc., my first impression after an hour or so is you'd have to be unemployed to really know your way around this place. The detail is insane, it's not surprising that they spent years on this thing.

[0james0]

Installing now!

[Spicoli]

Copy seems to have fallen into me basket earlier. Wish I would have known about the friggin 16GB required . Dumb question here, but hey...can you use an old removable hard drive from another x box run to a x box 4GB

[0james0]

Copy seems to have fallen into me basket earlier. Wish I would have known about the friggin 16GB required . Dumb question here, but hey...can you use an old removable hard drive from another x box run to a x box 4GB

I think you can.

The game is unbelievable.

[0james0]

I love the fact they have managed to keep everything that was great about GTA intact. Even going back to the original top down versions, it still has that same feel, but obviously now loads better.

Loads of little things that happen in the game seem almost a homage to the old ones, or are things that I thought I wish I could do when playing them!

[Cressa121]

I got this yesterday, I haven't done many missions though. After I repo'd the bike I've just been driving around exploring. The detail is incredible.

[VictorCharlie]

I don't own a gaming system but every Christmas I get my brother a game and we barricade ourselves in his den and geek out for a couple days. Looks like I know what I'm getting him this year.