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IV was such a disappointment to me that I haven't even tried V yet. SA felt so expansive and open to me that when I played IV, it felt like I was trapped on sto

IV was such a disappointment to me that I haven't even tried V yet. SA felt so expansive and open to me that when I played IV, it felt like I was trapped on story-telling rails. Have they reversed that trend in V?

nickpsecurity 10y ago
You should play V. I don't know if you'll enjoy it but it's the biggest, loaded world they've ever done. Controls way better. The characters and dialogue are super-fun, too, even when missions make it pretty linear. Hell, even my mom liked watching me play for the characters. You also get some replay value on missions from ability to switch characters in real-time. You can try different ways of doing the mission with different people. The world itself obviously has piles of stuff to do as in the trailer that I luckily still have bookmarked since the trailer itself was put together so well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI My problem with it was that the single-player was great. Lots of people and things I ran into. Lots of fun random things. Online was broken for that first month so couldn't do that. A glitch also made my cars disappear out of garages. I eventually just kind of got done with it after a month or two. Great experience but just a month or two given I wasn't going to go hunting, endlessly customize my character, play golf, etc. Might as well be on The Witcher or Skyrim for that kind of thing. People that like setting up crazy stunts, chain explosions, etc still had more fun but I just watch the best ones on YouTube to skip the work part of it. :) So, you should get at least a month of enjoyment out of it with it being pretty cheap by now. Trevor was worth it by himself since I'm pretty sure hypothesis is true that he's the first character modeled after the way most GTA players play GTA.
cr0sh 10y ago
I'm not a gamer. I've only barely played any of GTA, but what I have I liked. When GTA V came out, I couldn't believe the level of detail and the size of the world, and how much could be done within it (especially in "sandbox" mode). I was so stoked about it, I plunked the money down to build a dedicated GTA V Windows box (and I haven't used 'doze at home in well over 15 years). It was the first and only game to get me to do this. Now - I'll level with ya here - I never put that box together; I still have all the pieces (it was going to be a Mini-ITX with 16 GB, GTX 970, etc stuffed in a ThermalTake Core V21) - I just never got around to it (I even bought the game on Steam). Now I'm thinking about using all of that for a new ML workstation to replace my current aging system (but I can still use it for GTA V I guess). I know this isn't a ringing endorsement, but if a game can make someone like me that hyped about it - to drop money into parts for a complete new system just to play the game, from somebody who isn't a gamer, nor a Windows user (or fan) - well, that game has to be something special, ya know? The only other game that moves me like this is currently near vaporware - Cyberpunk 2077 (and I haven't heard anything recent on it, since I've been heads down in my ML course).

nickpsecurity 10y ago

You should play V. I don't know if you'll enjoy it but it's the biggest, loaded world they've ever done. Controls way better. The characters and dialogue are super-fun, too, even when missions make it pretty linear. Hell, even my mom liked watching me play for the characters. You also get some replay value on missions from ability to switch characters in real-time. You can try different ways of doing the mission with different people. The world itself obviously has piles of stuff to do as in the trailer that I luckily still have bookmarked since the trailer itself was put together so well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI My problem with it was that the single-player was great. Lots of people and things I ran into. Lots of fun random things. Online was broken for that first month so couldn't do that. A glitch also made my cars disappear out of garages. I eventually just kind of got done with it after a month or two. Great experience but just a month or two given I wasn't going to go hunting, endlessly customize my character, play golf, etc. Might as well be on The Witcher or Skyrim for that kind of thing. People that like setting up crazy stunts, chain explosions, etc still had more fun but I just watch the best ones on YouTube to skip the work part of it. :) So, you should get at least a month of enjoyment out of it with it being pretty cheap by now. Trevor was worth it by himself since I'm pretty sure hypothesis is true that he's the first character modeled after the way most GTA players play GTA.

cr0sh 10y ago

I'm not a gamer. I've only barely played any of GTA, but what I have I liked. When GTA V came out, I couldn't believe the level of detail and the size of the world, and how much could be done within it (especially in "sandbox" mode). I was so stoked about it, I plunked the money down to build a dedicated GTA V Windows box (and I haven't used 'doze at home in well over 15 years). It was the first and only game to get me to do this. Now - I'll level with ya here - I never put that box together; I still have all the pieces (it was going to be a Mini-ITX with 16 GB, GTX 970, etc stuffed in a ThermalTake Core V21) - I just never got around to it (I even bought the game on Steam). Now I'm thinking about using all of that for a new ML workstation to replace my current aging system (but I can still use it for GTA V I guess). I know this isn't a ringing endorsement, but if a game can make someone like me that hyped about it - to drop money into parts for a complete new system just to play the game, from somebody who isn't a gamer, nor a Windows user (or fan) - well, that game has to be something special, ya know? The only other game that moves me like this is currently near vaporware - Cyberpunk 2077 (and I haven't heard anything recent on it, since I've been heads down in my ML course).