I finished the main game today and it looks like it took me 35 hours. A very good game to say the least, though I think there is a lot more potential in a game like this. Better characters, better story, better heists and sequences. Red Dead 2 was superior and if they could come up with a Red Dead equal in a GTA V type world, it would be great.
These were my first two Rockstar games and I have to say, I’m impressed. Both games had a lot of polish and tons of content. I did a pretty good chunk of Strangers & Freaks on top of main quests. I also drove the whole map(as close as possible) and did everything but try golfing.
Yeah, a really fun game with a great open world.
The game definitely had its low-points. I did this quest entirely, but anything flying or underwater was lame.
What’s the issue with flying? I play on a PS4 seems ok to me.
GTA5 is almost the only game I’ve played after buying the console on an impulse 5 years ago. It came with a FIFA game which quickly became boring, and I’ve tried an F1 game too but lost interest. RDR2 has promise but I’ve not played it enough to really get into it.
Love GTA5 though. Completed it a long time ago but still have fun stealing jets and shooting up anything I can find. Only recently managed to steal a tank for the first time that’s fun for a while. Also liked the races on the online version.
At least there aren’t any flying missions in GTA V that annoyed me as much as the remote control helicopter mission from Vice City or the remote control airplane mission from San Andreas.
I mean, if you can get it cheap, what the hell, amirite?
I say all this as a guy whose patience with video games is 1/10th what it used to be. I was once an avid gamer; when I was a kid, man, I’d play 'em all every chance I got. Now, honestly, probably nine in ten games I guy I give up on very swiftly; if it isn’t really, really compelling, I’m out. (I am really struggling with holding up interest in RDR2, though I paid a lot for it and will try it again because it’s so well regarded.) So maybe you can stick with a game longer than I can.
GTA IV was kind of an outlier. They removed some of the sillier missions and crude humour compared to other entries in the series. Whether that makes it a better game is a matter of taste.
My biggest criticism of GTA IV is that there were a bunch of radio stations that I didn’t find interesting (e.g. I’m not a big fan of death metal or electro dance music).
Well, I think it improves handling generally, and definitely the plane’s stability when you’re trying to land. You’ll notice the difference when flying with Trevor (who maybe has 3 out of 5 flying skill to start with?) versus the other two. The flight school’s good for upping your skill, as you can crash without consequence.
Re: GTA4; I liked its grittier style, though I seem to remember the car handling was quite poor given the entire premise of the game series… And it had some pretty good DLC too, where you played a Hells Angel-type figure (the chap that Trevor stamps on when you first meet him in fact), and a nightclub lackey. It also (re)introduced parachuting - I think flying may have been completely missing from the GTA4 main game.
I remember having some difficulty getting IV to work on PC. I got it running eventually, and I don’t remember exactly what the issue was, but I definitely remember it being a pain in the ass to fix it. Maybe it’s all fixed now, this was years and years ago.
As for the game itself, It took a little while to get into, but ultimately I really enjoyed it.
I love this game. I recently bought a new gaming rig and it runs flawlessly on maximized settings. The 144hz refresh on this monitor makes a huge difference too.
I love driving, especially motorcycles. I’ve gotten good at it. If you struggle with driving on PC, I seem to have great luck in the most backed out 3rd person view. I think the trick to steering rapidly through turns and tight spaces is your mouse hand timing the movement of the camera angle with your turns.
I found this to be true and I massively improved at driving since the game demanded a lot of it. It had a learning/adjustment curve, but I was pretty solid at driving by the mid-game. By the end of the game, I made it through the big climactic police chase on my first try. By the way, the big final chase was amazing. Trucks blowing up, police cars flipping, I actually said out loud, “This is thrilling,” and I was alone when I was playing. Games rarely get me to say anything out loud, but the final chase was amazing.
All this talk about GTA reminded me that I never finished playing GTA: San Andreas; I found the driving portion of the final mission too annoying, especially since you have to do a relatively long shooting section just before it.
But I thought I’d take another stab at it just to see what it’s like after all these years. My immediate reaction is that I forgot all about the missions that I had to retry 5 or even 10 times in a row (doing a barrel roll in a sports car without damaging the car? ouch). At least most of the missions have been relatively short so far. There’s also that one stupid mandatory mission where you have to practice holding your breath for 15 minutes before you’re even allowed to accept it.
The other thing I’ve noticed is that the streets don’t see like they’re really “alive”. Cars and pedestrians pop up out of nowhere and there’s not much background noise if you’re just walking around: silence punctuated by occasional engine sounds or pedestrian one-liners.
I really liked the details in GTA V. I had people take pictures of my car if I parked and was in a nice car. I saw hikers out in the more remote areas. I listened to a few conversations people were having while walking.
After almost 15 years, I finally finished GTA San Andreas. I didn’t have any problems with the driving part of the final mission, probably because I reduced the controller sensitivity from 50% to 25%; that helped reduce oversteering.
If I never do another GTA plane mission again, it will still be too soon.