Current Events > Playing GTA 5. I think this time... it's growing on me.

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The introduction of powers or special abilities is probably a carryover from 2010's Red dead redemption redeye ability, I like it especially Franklin's ability. A real game changer to basically go full speed in a car but in slow mo, I can win races easily like that.

Here's the thing, I really don't like the new GTA 4 and 5 engine with the weird ragdoll physics and the character not even being able to turn properly without doing a weird 360 loop de loop. Can't fathom why people like it more than San Andreas or even 3's system. I'm getting used to it a bit, helps that there's stuff to do and I don't utterly despise the protagonists like I did 4's whiny "I come to America for a new life I don't want to kill anymore" dude.

Michael doesn't have a special ability? Nothing happens when I click L3+R3. Unless it's a spoiler later on, I only just got Trevor to meet Michael

Michael's special ability is he can slow down time during a fire fight. It's not as useful as the other two so I never used it very often

Yea the character controls are pretty clunky. It's why I couldn't get into Online. Trying to play missions that require precision when your character moves like a tank is awful

The 3 protagonist thing... is an interesting decision. I wonder what spurred that design. I've noticed that sometimes the same mission activates for 2 characters, but I miss part of a cutscene if I choose one character over the other. Makes me want to know what scene I missed if I chose to start the mission as the other character but not enough to replay and find out.

I know I'm 9 years late for all this, but GTA 4 basically killed my love for the series over a decade ago but now I'm running out of games and got it on sale although I'm annoyed that the extra cash and stuff of the version I got is for the online portion crap, not the actual game. Thought I would be able to cheese the game with 1 million dollars from the get-go.

TheHoldSteady posted...

Michael's special ability is he can slow down time during a fire fight. It's not as useful as the other two so I never used it very often

Yea the character controls are pretty clunky. It's why I couldn't get into Online. Trying to play missions that require precision when your character moves like a tank is awful

I must have missed that, maybe I should replay the game rather than pick up where I left off a year ago. I'll try to see if it'll activate during a shootout.

I really hate the new aiming too. I can't fathom how anyone doesn't prefer and love GTA San Andreas's large aiming reticule that A) can actually be seen, not a tiny circle with a dot in the middle that you have to keep your eye on and B) shows the HP of enemies and changes color from green to yellow to red so you know they're about to die.

I just did another play through of it and I agree with the original physics. I had to play it with no updates so the framework and physics weren't as good when I played it with all the patches.

Wish it wasn't over 50gbs to play it updated/online.

It's nice that when you pull up the weapon wheel you can switch between the different weapon tiers which means you can use any type of pistol or shotgun on the fly, you don't have to choose either/or. A surprisingly convenient addition from the post ps2 gta games.

I wonder if it's a conscious decision to not have healing items and loot+craft system in GTA. They put those things in RDR, but even though there are animals in GTA 5 they don't have any drops (which I'm fine with of course) nor healing items (which I would have liked)

How the hell do you get money from Trevor's airstrip trafficking business? I get emails that my property generated money, but it hasn't been added to my funds at all

Anyone? Does anyone even bother doing hangouts?

Wait did GTA 5 not do DLC/expansion packs like GTA 4 did? I remember ballad of gay tony which was alright plus lost and damned

saspa posted...

Wait did GTA 5 not do DLC/expansion packs like GTA 4 did? I remember ballad of gay tony which was alright plus lost and damned

There was going to be a single player DLC expansion but It got canceled in favor of more GTA Online updates. Rockstar doesnt care about the singleplayer mode anymore.

The_Wheelman1 posted...

There was going to be a single player DLC expansion but It got canceled in favor of more GTA Online updates. Rockstar doesnt care about the singleplayer mode anymore.

That's a shame. I have heard throughout the past 10ish years that GTA online is popular and even has people spending real money for in-game money. I never really cared for anything online related. For one thing the shooting is the worst part, has never been why I play GTA. It's just part of the experience of driving around, exploring the city, doing missions and stuff for the story and overall experiencing the game.

Huh no more ambulance missions and firetruck missions. It's fine, I only used to do them for the increased health and being fireproof, which is not how this post gen 6 game is designed around.

Play GTA 5 on PC fully modded. It is a top tier game. That base game stuff is trash.

Lol I invaded the altruist camp (what is this area referencing?) by jumping over the fence and they've got a rocket launcher and body armor! Had to kill a couple waves of those crazy cultists but got me a few rocket launchers which will be helpful for later missions I'm betting.

That rag doll physics engine is a multi-million dollar physics engine and its the most realistic we have in gaming.

youre drunk

Could someone tell me what's with the bizarre artificial ammo cap gta 4 and 5 have. You can only carry 20 rocket launchers at a time? Why