Mr. GOH! Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 Franklin's is nice if you have to keep a car spotless while going full-speed through Los Santos. I almost never use Michael's, but I use Trevor's ALL THE TIME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 I use Trevor's occasionally, but I usually forget about the other two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 I'm liking the random encounters. Drove a guy to the airport after his car broke down, he gave me a stock tip for something that went up thirty points. Wishing I'd invested all $500k instead of just $100k now. Then I ran across a No Country For Old Men-style drug deal gone tits-up and stole the cash only to find some guys on my tail after that. They were shooting the crap out of me on my bike, even when I rode halfway up a mountain and then flew back down the otherside. Eventually, found a decent location and smoked those fools. This was all during one 'journey' to go buy something. Fell in love with the bike I was riding. And some other random thoughts: - Only just discovered how to switch between different types of the same weapon class after I was wondering how the hell I get Trevor to use the Combat SMG I'd 'bought'. - I was hoping this little piece of music would be more of the game's theme, or at least during character switches. Really dug it when I first heard it in the trailer. - I'd heard about being able to insure your vehicles so they can always be recovered if destroyed (I think the impound is where you can buy back discarded/lost ones) - As Trevor, I drove a drunk and horny couple back to their motel and they started having sex in the car. Could see it whenever you pressed to look behind. - Accidentally skipped the tutorial for tennis (not sure if the coloured circles are tips for shots...) but I've won 2/3 matches so far...even though the game seems to think it is only 1/2. Never seen a stat buff from it yet though. - The exercising demons side mission was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 I've decided I don't like Trevor as a character, and I avoid playing as him as much as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 I wish Trevor were more Boyd Crowder and less...complete maniac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 Trevor is great. I make sure to initiate all multi-protagonist missions as him. He's the embodiment of GTA chaotic nonsense, in a package that acts like a the methed-out lovechild of Hunter S. Thompson's writing persona and Tony Montana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 See, the complete non-structured, run around do random ass insane things never appealed to me in GTA. I prefer to do things for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 "Because it feels good" is a reason, and in our post-modern world of relative morals and ethics, well, that's as good a reason as any other. In fact, maybe we just make up other excuses when that's the only reason we ever have for our actions. Trevor embodies this line of thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 20, 2013 Report Share Posted September 20, 2013 I agree, but to me it doesn't feel good unless I have some underlying reason. Without that it's boring. If you enjoy it though more power to you. *Edit* - I suspect this is the same reason I don't care about multiplayer either: I need some kind of story-type justification for why I'm doing what I'm doing, and some sense of advancement in that story, or it just feels pointless and boring to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 I totally get why Trevor's there, and he makes the game better as a result; now there's an excuse for blowing shit up and mass murdering tons of civilians. But yeah, I'm with Ethan. He's not a very likeable guy, and some of his dialogue is just plain creepy. I think he'd be a lot better if he was more subtle, a 90's Jack Nicholson type of psychopath, but oh well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/19/grand-theft-auto-v-sales-set-record-why-are-surprised-when-virtual-violence/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 And so it begins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 Weazel News: confirming your prejudices! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) Go fuck yourself fox news....ETA:...Is it bad I laugh at most of Trevor's lines?(Would explain the short supply of friends in my general area.) Edited September 21, 2013 by Vecha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 (edited) I highly recommend buying the cab company as soon as possible. Los Santos is a huge place and free rides go a long way. Edited September 21, 2013 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 I think he'd be a lot better if he was more subtle, a 90's Jack Nicholson type of psychopath, but oh well. Agreed. Though, I really don't think Rockstar know the meaning of the word 'subtle'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 Trevor is hilarious and ironically probably the most "real" person in the cast, despite how insane he is. I can imagine him being a real person. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 I do find him entertaining a lot of the time, but there's enough time that he's off-putting that I just prefer not to play as him when I don't have to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 I also find it irritating how he's drunk half the time when you switch to him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 Ifruit (temporarily) exclusive to the IPhone, eh? I wouldn't mind if they let you at least use the features from the website. Really, I have little desire to even use my phone to do anything outside of/for GTAV (or any game that isn't on my phone, which is about all games I play), especially when it's something that could and should have been in the game itself anyway. I just want to be able to do Chop stuff. I've always found timed exclusivity a bit of a kick to the balls of anyone who bought day-1, and who likely won't be playing the game anymore when the developer decides to let customers have (usually buy) it. This is no exception. Especially since the game keeps reminding me about how I could be doing other stuff if I had decided to buy Apple's products. On the other hand, since there is no good reason to make people do this from their phones (I'm sure the pretense is extending the "experience"), and since smartphones are the giant gateways to personal information that they are, I'm sure that this is part of some massive data triangulation scheme. At least that's what I'm going to tell myself every time I'm playing the same game with Chop, and the (GTA) game is reminding me that I can teach him new tricks. Oh yeah, aside from that, I'm loving the game. I'm still in the early phases though, where I'm likely to stop what I'm doing to listen to 10 minutes of a talk radio segment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 I doubt it's as sinister as timed exclusivity sounds, I'm guessing they just developed the iOS version first because it's easier to do (less fragmented device base). Note: I am an android user and wouldn't get an iPhone even if it were free. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredEffinChopin Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 It's possible that they didn't have the foresight to have it ready for everyone (everyone in R*'s mind, which = everyone that owns a smartphone, and screw anyone else) to use from day-1. At very best, it was a really silly oversight, and pretty negligent; to pack in this 1p function (?) in, remind gamers of it as they play, but not have it available for a great deal of them to use. It seems silly to me though, that someone with their resources wouldn't be able to have an Android app ready for a title they've been working on for years, and that seems to have been in-mind as they were putting things together in the game. Or that they would have to develop two smartphone apps separately, even, due to any kind of constraint. If it wasn't coming from the company that I also suspect of trying to pretend that the (eventual) PC versions of upcoming games doesn't exist in hopes of selling two copies to people, I might not suspect anything beyond a lack of foresight as the reason for it. It's R* though, and I don't put shit like that past them for a second. Sure, we can make arguments for why they might push out the console versions first, but it's not like other devs don't manage to release on 3-platforms simultaneously with regularity. Anyway, while I genuinely think this Ifruit thing is lame both in concept and execution, and that (as I've now made clear) there is a possibility of planned, timed exclusivity for it, I was mainly using the term just to refer to the fact of the exclusivity, rather than any possible intent; and the second part of what I wrote was mostly in jest. Just to be clear. Sometimes I worry that my avatar lends a tone to my posts that I don't intend for them to contain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 I'm finding I'm enjoying Trevor's psychosis more on some of these later missions (both main and side). I think I just had some of the stuff that bothered me all crammed right together, giving me a negative impression of him (as a character, obviously as a person he's horrible no matter what). I still don't have any desire to play as him when I don't have to, but when I do I don't mind it like I did before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 Probably the only time I'll be in this thread, but I actually helped out a customer today with the flash drive fix. At first I gave them an 8GB flash drive thinking that would be enough. He came back and I realized, "Oh yeah, that install is 8GB." They were great flash drives, and on sale, so at least the kid has a good 8GB drive handy while he uses a 16GB one for GTA V. Correct me if I'm wrong, but once you're using a flash drive for the 360, it's formatted for use only with the 360. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 It's still computer readable, so you can copy the files to a PC to back them up. I think it's FAT32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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