Grand Theft Auto V

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:56 pm

I've finished the main campaign, yet I continue to be stunned by the attention to detail and the sheer...ahem..depth of this world.

I have purchased a marina with a submarine, and have wasted the last two hours looking for nuclear waste barrels undersea. I've found some barrels, a crashed airliner, and...a UFO...so far.

This is the biggest time suck I have ever purchased.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:19 pm

If I was a younger man I would so make a crazy-ass YouTube video of GTA V mayhem set to Guy Clark's "L.A. Freeway" and it would be so bitchin'.

Brando70 · Post by **Brando70** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:21 pm

Holy balls, I saw this on Kotaku. If you don't watch the whole thing, start around 2:20 and watch to the end.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:52 pm

I was on a particularly boring conference call, so I put together this:

https://play.spotify.com/user/robvarak/ ... gCAlhY34Tm

It's a playlist inspired by the 3 protagonists. I put Michael at about 53 years-old, so I went with the kind of stuff that a mobbed up guy of that age would probably go for. The Trevor stuff is country-baked stuff: Bakersfield Sound classics, Cosmic Cowboy $hit and some other lunatic country perfect for ganking hippies on the road to Joshua Tree. Franklin is just a slightly deeper cut look at the classic L.A. hip hop stuff. Some overlap with the game there, but it works. Did a little bit of online crate digging for a few older tracks, though. Enjoy.

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:29 pm

Brando70 wrote:Holy balls, I saw this on Kotaku. If you don't watch the whole thing, start around 2:20 and watch to the end.

Holy shitballs. That was incredible.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:08 pm

Fantastic. Gotta get myself more sticky bombs.

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:04 pm

FYI, The online component goes live at 7 am EST.

MizzouRah · Post by **MizzouRah** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:45 am

Diablo25 wrote:
Brando70 wrote:Holy balls, I saw this on Kotaku. If you don't watch the whole thing, start around 2:20 and watch to the end.

Holy shitballs. That was incredible.

Haha... FANTASTIC!

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:48 am

Diablo25 wrote:FYI, The online component goes live at 7 am EST.

So far, it's just running around and shooting people. We'll see.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:50 am

Well, it's glitchy. I've restarted three times. The first time in, I was unceremoniously dropped behind the Vinewood sign, with no fanfare, no introductions, no nothing. Ran, and ran, and...ran, until I found a car, then I was shot. Reloaded, and...was shot again. Then got some floating dude telling me that I could go into passive mode so I wouldn't get shot. There was nothing else to do, so I reloaded. I got the full intro, with Lester picking me up at the airport and all. He drives me to a spot, and I'm told to go to a blue spot to start a race. Only...there was no blue spot.

So I reloaded again, and it put me right back in the place where the blue spot was supposed to be. There was a blue spot this time, but now I've been in a "waiting for other players" screen for 15 minutes.

Oh well.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:36 pm

Unless something dramatic happens sometime today, don't expect to get a crew together online tonight. It ain't gonna happen. I wonder if Rockstar were government employed?

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:02 pm

Teal wrote:Unless something dramatic happens sometime today, don't expect to get a crew together online tonight. It ain't gonna happen. I wonder if Rockstar were government employed?

We're still a long way from the point where a game that's so wildly popular won't just overwhelm the servers upon release.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/1/479049 ... ver-issues

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:13 pm

RobVarak wrote:
Teal wrote:Unless something dramatic happens sometime today, don't expect to get a crew together online tonight. It ain't gonna happen. I wonder if Rockstar were government employed?

We're still a long way from the point where a game that's so wildly popular won't just overwhelm the servers upon release.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/1/479049 ... ver-issues

Yeah, I know.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:25 pm

Some brief early impressions. I found it helpful in letting me know what to expect:

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/01/begin ... re_twitter

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:46 pm

I was on this morning... insane wait times on loading screens, but made my character (that heredity thing is weird), watched the intro (greeted by Lamar who wasted no time hitting on me... female avatar, you see) and did one race and one mission. It's gonna be great once it gets going.

I sent a request to join the DSP Crew, haven't checked if it was accepted or not.

edit: scratch that, I'm in. Looking forward to mayhem!

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:34 pm

Considering it's taken 2 wks just for the iFruit and Rockstar Social club stuff to work well, my hopes weren't that high that GTA Online would be working right out of the gate. I'm not so bummed as I'm just taking lengthy detours through the single player. Keep the impressions coming though, much appreciated.

TCrouch · Post by **TCrouch** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 3:34 pm

I had no issues with loading GTA Online or creating a character, or any sort of bugs with Lamar, etc. But as soon as I stepped in the blue circle, I got the dreaded "Waiting for players" junk. Never ended.

I reloaded the game, thinking I may just not go to the blue circle and wander around--as soon as it loaded, my character auto-walks to the blue circle and starts it all over again.

It may be an interesting experience as a solo guy running around in that world, but I can't even get to it as of yet. I'll give it another whirl later tonight and see if anything's resolved.

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:10 pm

TCrouch wrote:I had no issues with loading GTA Online or creating a character, or any sort of bugs with Lamar, etc. But as soon as I stepped in the blue circle, I got the dreaded "Waiting for players" junk. Never ended.

I reloaded the game, thinking I may just not go to the blue circle and wander around--as soon as it loaded, my character auto-walks to the blue circle and starts it all over again.

It may be an interesting experience as a solo guy running around in that world, but I can't even get to it as of yet. I'll give it another whirl later tonight and see if anything's resolved.

When I was thrown from the sky into the world without any intros or anything (my first foray into the world), I drove around for quite awhile. Interacted with one dick who just wanted to follow me around and shoot me. After that, all it's been is what you describe.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:22 pm

All I got was a black screen saying downloading online policy which never materialized so I went back to the story.

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:15 pm

Everything (launch, character creation, etc.) went great. After that...Launching Game......infinity.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:23 pm

Created, went thru intro, I did the first race , stole some drugs, bought clothes and then the game disconnected. When I came back all progress was lost including my created character.

Off to a flying start!

Diablo25 · Post by **Diablo25** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:57 pm

Just tried it again and nothing. Game just hangs on loading screen. Guess I'll give it another try tomorrow.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:43 am

Diablo25 wrote:Just tried it again and nothing. Game just hangs on loading screen. Guess I'll give it another try tomorrow.

Same thing, no chance to even create my dude. I am content just playing the story for now. I am sure there are things to iron out online still.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:04 am

Diablo25 wrote:Just tried it again and nothing. Game just hangs on loading screen. Guess I'll give it another try tomorrow.

Same here. Gave up after sitting forever in loading screen, waiting to start a race.

XXXIV · Post by **XXXIV** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:35 am

pk500 wrote:
Diablo25 wrote:Just tried it again and nothing. Game just hangs on loading screen. Guess I'll give it another try tomorrow.
Same here. Gave up after sitting forever in loading screen, waiting to start a race.

Made it by this the first time. Not the second third fourth or even fifth try. Then off to bed.

Im scared once I do make it past that race again, the game will lose my progress again.

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