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Grand Theft Auto V |OT| It's Time To Go Home

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x-Lundz-x

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Well I just finished Heat. You guys owe me an hour, because that's how long the movie needed shaved off before I could consider it great. So much unnecessary bullshit, most of it around the whiny wives/girlfriends and for people who are in the movie a whole 5 minutes before they either die or disappear.

I swear I envision you as the grumpiest old man yelling at clouds all day. There is nothing in this world that can make you happy lol.
 

JP

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This may be better off in it's own thread so people in different regions can keep up to date with it but it's now available to download again in the UK store on the PS3. Not tried the PC Store so don't know about that or other regions.

The theme isn't available to download yet.

As mentioned before the game is an 18GB download so it's a biggie!
 
Well I just finished Heat. You guys owe me an hour, because that's how long the movie needed shaved off before I could consider it great. So much unnecessary bullshit, most of it around the whiny wives/girlfriends and for people who are in the movie a whole 5 minutes before they either die or disappear.

Haha, never change Derrick!
 
That guy hates GTA, look at his other tweets. He says he's tired of the same old gangster routine, and is looking for any reason to hate it.

Ignore him.

I'm not worried in the slightest, it's just that some people who have a problem with this kind of content (which people who are buying it shouldn't, I should add) may want to know.
 

Derrick01

Banned
Yeah - why would you want any character or story development via supporting characters?! More 'splosions and guns sucka!

"waaah all you do is fuck me and then leave for your EXTREMELY IMPORTANT JOB catching murderers waaah"

"waaah you're a bank robber/killer and you didn't tell me but I'm still going to run away with you because I make smart life decisions"

Nice of the allstate guy to make an appearance for all of 2 scenes before getting gunned down. Good to see young natalie portman in there too for....some reason.

I'm blown away by the character development.

edit: I'm not saying it was an awful movie but it really did run about 45 minutes-1 hour too long.
 

MormaPope

Banned
I think you'll like Collateral more Derrick, if you haven't seen it already. Oddly enough I think you'll relate to Tom Cruise's character in Collateral.
 

dreamfall

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I tend to love Destructoid fellows. I absolutely adore Holmes.

That being said, I like my gangsters. I like my heists, I love my gangsters in decline balancing their marital problems and careers, I love my gangsters dreaming bigger than just street level gang shit. I love my psychopaths who don't mind embracing insanity to destroy everything in front of them.

In my veins, GTA!
 

Symphonia

Banned
Just gave Littlewoods a call (open at 8pm on a Sunday night, damn, that sucks for them) and I just got confirmation that it's due to be dispatched first thing tomorrow morning with delivery on Tuesday. I can relax.
 
"waaah all you do is fuck me and then leave for your EXTREMELY IMPORTANT JOB catching murderers waaah"

"waaah you're a bank robber/killer and you didn't tell me but I'm still going to run away with you because I make smart life decisions"

Nice of the allstate guy to make an appearance for all of 2 scenes before getting gunned down. Good to see young natalie portman in there too for....some reason.

I'm blown away by the character development.

edit: I'm not saying it was an awful movie but it really did run about 45 minutes-1 hour too long.

Oh Derrick
 

hlhbk

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I tend to love Destructoid fellows. I absolutely adore Holmes.

That being said, I like my gangsters. I like my heists, I love my gangsters in decline balancing their marital problems and careers, I love my gangsters dreaming bigger than just street level gang shit. I love my psychopaths who don't mind embracing insanity to destroy everything in front of them.

In my veins, GTA!

Reading his tweets it appears he is sick of traditional gangster stories.
 

DukeBobby

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I'm not worried in the slightest, it's just that some people who have a problem with this kind of content (which people who are buying it shouldn't, I should add) may want to know.

True, although I don't think he had any intention of buying it in the first place, especially if he hated the themes in the previous games.

Still, his tweet is a great way to get people worried about low review scores, even though that is clearly not what he is referring to.
 
WTF?

Just downloaded and tried to install and got an error message, something about corrupt data or ?

Just trying again, will post all info.

Any ideas whilst I'm trying again?
 

Derrick01

Banned
I think you'll like Collateral more Derrick, if you haven't seen it already. Oddly enough I think you'll relate to Tom Cruise's character in Collateral.

I'm thinking I should have watched that too. From what I remember seeing from that movie when it was coming out I get the impression it's more about just Cruise and Foxx than useless secondary characters. I hope anyway.
 

MormaPope

Banned
Reading his tweets it appears he is sick of traditional gangster stories.

Which is an odd thing to throw at GTA V. Franklin is the most neutral or safe character in the game, the other two seem much more haphazard and dangerous. Franklin is a fantastic balance of both bravado and temperament.
 

hlhbk

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If anyone with the game is reading this thread can you give your impressions so far without spoilers? How is the story? How is the gameplay? How is the game overall?
 

MormaPope

Banned
I'm thinking I should have watched that too. From what I remember seeing from that movie when it was coming out I get the impression it's more about just Cruise and Foxx than useless secondary characters. I hope anyway.

There are bits with other characters, but those bits last a few minutes at most and those bits don't involve romance or slow burning developments. Collateral is all about Cruise and Foxx and the dynamic between both characters.
 

painey

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my Amazon.com order didn't dispatch :( I have Mondays off so it would have been perfect.. now I'm gunna have to hope it can make it to me in 1 day
 

dreamfall

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Reading his tweets it appears he is sick of traditional gangster stories.

But what I love about all the trailer footage I've seen is that Rockstar is approaching the gangster character from three very different perspectives. I love that! The subtleties associated with each approach, the different methodology, the different activities all associated with each converge with heists.

I can embrace tradition with great variety!
 

hlhbk

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Unfortunatly Jonathan Holmes isn't budging and won't expand more. I half wonder if he did it to bring attention to himself?
 

Heimbeck

Banned
my Amazon.com order didn't dispatch :( I have Mondays off so it would have been perfect.. now I'm gunna have to hope it can make it to me in 1 day

All my release day delivers have been dispatched one day before release and have all arrived on time, so I wouldn't worry.
 

dreamfall

Member
Unfortunatly Jonathan Holmes isn't budging and won't expand more. I half wonder if he did it to bring attention to himself?

Nah! I'd like to think he's just speaking his mind- it's not the game for him, he's expressing it! All goooood!

This wait is interminable. Reviews will make it bearable.
 

waypoetic

Banned
Oh c'mon, Jonathan Holmes is all about quirky indie games and he's got Nintendo deep in his veins (source: podtoid). His opinion on a game like this means absolutely nothing.
 

Big-ass Ramp

hella bullets that's true
Ok, well we know from leaks that V isn't fundamentally broken in someway that its not even worth a purchase. That sounds to me like a problem with the commentary in the game, probably misogyny if I had to guess. Sterling's review probably says something like "in 2013, this level of sexism is not acceptable"
 
Wait him saying the set pieces are great is a spoiler?

Everyone is terrified of being banned lol I love it. I have NEVER seen this kind of hysteria for a game prior to release. Is there anything comparable to it? Then again, maybe it's because I'm so invested in it and have been in this thread since it was created.

It's been said many times before but one thing I love about the GTA games is how much the world itself is a character itself. Well I suppose that can be said for all Rockstar developed open world games, can't it? Those ones specifically anyway.
 

hlhbk

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Everyone is terrified of being banned lol I love it. I have NEVER seen this kind of hysteria for a game prior to release. Is there anything comparable to it? Then again, maybe it's because I'm so invested in it and have been in this thread since it was created.

It's been said many times before but one thing I love about the GTA games is how much the world itself is a character itself. Well I suppose that can be said for all Rockstar developed open world games, can't it? Those ones specifically anyway.

When Halo 3 came out GAF was in mass hysteria. This thread doesn't even come close.
 

Derrick01

Banned
Ok, well we know from leaks that V isn't fundamentally broken in someway that its not even worth a purchase. That sounds to me like a problem with the commentary in the game, probably misogyny if I had to guess. Sterling's review probably says something like "in 2013, this level of sexism is not acceptable"

Oh god I hope we don't have to go through yet another game where the industry pretends they care about misogyny for 5 minutes before going back to groping cosplay girls at conventions.
 

Artex

Banned
I just got back from Family Video. I rented:

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