You can reliably get in now, but its still really odd. Yeah, you might want to avoid this for a day or two.
I think GTA V is day one digital on PS3. please try
Actually, after some earlier jitters, it worked surprisingly well tonight. I’m not sure exactly why it was so bad today during the day. Other releases get pounded just as much, I think, but don’t usually get that screwed over. In any case, the worst seems to be behind.
Are you on the XBox or PS3? My attempts on a PS3 in the UK are being met by an utter, dismal refusal.
I tried getting on in the ps3 last night. It let me create a character and showed me the intro scene, but would quit back out to the single player every time it tried to hand control over to me for the first mission.
Any 360 Dopers fancy a GTA V hang out at some point? I’m Vortigern83 if anyone’s interested 
Ditto - I created a character who looked a camp, haggard James Woods, then the intro conversation, and then failure.
Xbox.
Same here. I got as far as “creating online session” (or whatever the message was), and saw my character standing in a group with other avatars, and then it just cranked endlessly and wouldn’t let me exit. I had to force-quit back to the Xbox Live menu to get out.
I haven’t even finished the main story yet, so I’ll be a couple more days before I join you all online (PS3 version.)
I’ve got about 30 hours into it and am 20% done.
And I’m 47 and the wife and I are child-free. I play as long as I want.
Same for me. But I get side-tracked easily with the side quests and all the very entertaining mayhem created by just blundering around San Andreas.
Also, I’ve been trying for more “gold” completions of missions, and replaying a few of the missions to get them. Some of what you need to do to get “gold” is really fun.
I hope when you say ‘same here’ you mean the camp haggard James Woods bit. Then we can cover both consoles hanging around race meets, never racing, but making people fel uneasy.
My guy kind of looks like what Teller (of Pen and Teller) would look like if he’d become a serial killer instead of a magician.
People are comparing this to Sim City, which I think is completely unfair. I can still play the single player until this all gets sorted out.
Trevor just got killed by a mountain lion.
I was running around the hills after dropping off some poor sap at the cult compound, and bam! out of nowhere a gigantic cat kills Trevor.
For some reason I couldn’t stop laughing.
Anyway, randomly button mashing with the character creation in GTAO resulted in a guy that looked like Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. However, all I got to do was stand in a parking lot while annoying people yammered into their microphones, which doesn’t seem like a particularly fun game. I mean, I’m sure there are people out there that like hanging out in parking lots with complete strangers, but that seems like a rather… niche market for a triple-A title.
Actually mine looks more like a haggard Kurt Cobain, but I understand they’ve always wanted to work together.
So just like in previous GTA titles, you can buy clothes for the characters. In GTA V’s case, there are MANY options. For Franklin and Michael, for some reason they’re not choosing (by which I mean, when I’ve logged off and log on again) the clothes I’ve bought for them. Which I did attempt to base on their apparent tastes, but not well, seemingly.
With Trevor I found some clothing store in an out-of-the-way place (well, ok, yes it’s on the map). The clothing in the place is pure, uh, “white trash.” So I picked out for him a pink tank top with “Pussycat” emblazoned on it, a pair of baby blue short shorts, and pink spot sunglasses. I laughed so hard at seeing him in this outfit I just had to leave him with it.
He chooses to wear it every time.
(ETA, well except for that time when I switched to him and he was stranded on the beach of some deserted island, wearing nothing but his tighty-whities, surrounded by corpses, drunk off his ass. Amusingly, he made it all the way to the strip club on his own, just in the tighty-whities, after I stopped laughing and switched to Franklin, leaving him there on the beach to figure himself out.)
Sending Trevor on a rampage with his “Pussycat” T-shirt and baby blue short shorts is comedy gold.
Trevor, best GTA character ever!
I jumped back to Trevor from another character, and found him exiting a strip club wearing a white sun dress.
I sm thinking that Trevor has a very rich and varied life when I am not around him. I tend to pop in on him in some odd situations. Once he was wearing nothing but sweatpants throwing up in a public fountain.