(A needed rewrite from my original post. This is also the most edited post I’ve ever made)
I got GTA V today. Discovered some money I had stashed and used it. Downloading and installing took up to nine hours. That’s a lot.
Been playing for a few days now. Still getting used to the plethora of controls (such as steering and flying).
The game seems to be similar in ways than GTA IV, as in anything goes. The “safety features” that protect children and stuff, are removed. And this is the result. Such as Los Santos and China competing for “world’s most polluted city”. Just stuff to facepalm and laugh at, that would never be heard on actual TV or the radio.
And the stereotype stuff in this game, sometimes is just too much for me. I could give examples, but I would be offending people. It’s just how I feel.
Trying to understand the plot, it’s pretty much everywhere. Yet the three guys who are part of the game know this, especially Micheal, who all he wanted was to retire in a Mansion in Los Santos, with fast cars. Yet he’s also under the radar via the FIB (they faked his death and stuff). And now he’s getting mixed up in all of this. He’s lost his kids. He’s lost his wife who doesn’t love him. He’s also in therapy.
Franklin, he starts as a kid trying to make somewhat of a living reposing cars, to a sleazy boss who sells them back for double what they paid for. He’s also forced to sell dope and live on the streets, with an Aunt who doesn’t give a fuck about him. He’s getting mixed in this shit, but is willing to do whatever it takes to get paid.
And then there’s Trevor, the crazy, wild asshole. Who’s discovered Micheal isn’t dead anymore and is pissed off, because Micheal took his cut of the profits of a bank heist to pay for that really nice house, while he lives in a poor small town called Sandy Shores, far North of Los Santos.
He wants revenge, and revenge he will have.
Time to talk about the likes and dislikes;
Likes;
-Los Santos is beautiful, compared to the grainy, polluted graphics of GTA IV.
-A way to “cheat” myself out of having to complete an undesirable mission for failing three times, yet still completing. 🙂
-In most scenarios, I can drive safely. Those scenarios are going to a mission or just leisurely driving around.
-There’s still a Classic Rock station (Los Santos Rock Radio), straight from GTA IV. And it has a lot of good 70’s and 80’s music.
-Able to drive anywhere I wish without having to do the main questline to unlock sections of the game (unlike GTA IV).
-The game world is pretty huge.
-Of course, high praises for the First Person view. It’s my favorite.
-Random times where there’s a speeder with a cop car behind them.
-You can save anywhere you want, using your ingame smart phone.
-Realistic, believable physics that you can feel with the vibration of your controller.
-Get a wanted level, and the light on your controller flashes red and blue. With no wanted level, it’s based on who you’re playing (Franklin = Green, Micheal = Blue, Trevor = Orange).
-You don’t ruin the main storyline if you play as just one guy. Eventually, missions for that guy stop showing up, encouraging you to flip to the next guy and do his.
-You can go golfing, with its own GUI. Not something you could do in GTA IV.
–No annoying cousin named Roman that bugs you every five minutes, asking to hang out to go bowling. (which of course THIS is the biggest praise)
And the dislikes;
-AI traffic ‘intelligence’. Going on a Red light, passing you while you wait at a red light, sitting on a green light, going really slow for no reason, crashing into other cars, swerving into you for no reason…..just like real life it seems.
-Super sensitive steering controls, with no real options of setting them to be easier.
-Forced street racing mission I couldn’t skip. Thankfully I fucked up so much that the game allowed me to skip and still got paid. All it did was unlock optional street racing missions, which I won’t be doing.
-No way to set your ingame smart phone to use non-military time.
-No way to turn off challenges for most modes (like the shooting range and flight school) to do these at your own pace (and not make me nearly break my controller in two…)
Finally, the neutral stuff:
-I find it somewhat funny of when you have a passenger in your vehicle and if you hit something(and this passenger is saying something to you), the dialog of the NPC stops for two seconds then continues where it left off.
-Proof there’s no “ZoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmmm-bah” button that Dad3 has been famous for, that he can use as an auto-drive. It’s all him with editing the video to go super fast and adding his voice after it.
And so there you have it. I still like it. Not as much as I did with the forced challenges of practicing. “Well, you landed! That’s good.. but it wasn’t fast enough!” *MISSION FAILED*
Wouldn’t that want to make you want to throw your controller down?