Grand Theft Auto 5

[Drakul]

I'm going the whole hog and getting the collectors edition.

[Savio]

Really hoping Rockstar will crack down and ban people who ruin online play. I used to love doing Races in GTA 4 because they'd become so chaotic with 16 people, high traffic, pedestrians, damage, etc. but now every single lobby you go into will have a couple of people who don't care at all about winning and simply drive the wrong way, block roads, and in general ruining it for everybody that actually wants to play properly. You can request the lobby leader to boot those people, but seldom does anything actually happen.
My fav thing about the GTA:SA online game was the "Capture the prime minister" Where you were put on 2 teams; Rebels or Secret Service your objective is to either kill or protect the prime minister and the person to pull off the kill becomes the prime minister next round.

[Drakul]

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[Drakul]

I can't recall if I said this already but we know one of the new radio station in GTA V. It's called Nightride FM. Someone called Kavinsky will have music on it.

[Drakul]

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Draw distance looks good. Though, after seeing the map of RDR from atop a mountain, I never had an doubt it would be cool.

[Savio]

I have this huge feeling I won't like the story line :/

[Drakul]

Why?

[Drakul]

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[Kalyx triaD]

Okay then.

[The Destroyer]

I can't recall if I said this already but we know one of the new radio station in GTA V. It's called Nightride FM. Someone called Kavinsky will have music on it.
He had a track on the Drive soundtrack. Not normally my thing, but it was actually pretty decent.

[Mooияakeя™]

HE was in GTA4 too. He's amazing. French electro stuff.

Wish M83, College and Phoenix were on there. and ofc, Air / Daft Punk. The French really do offer some good shit musically.

[Savio]

Why?I didn't like "PayDay: The Heist". I hope there are more story-lines than just doing the jobs, I think there will be and I will probably like those missions the most.

[Drakul]

I didn't like "PayDay: The Heist". I hope there are more story-lines than just doing the jobs, I think there will be and I will probably like those missions the most.

Well according to some magazine that's either French, German or Brazilian...
The heists aren't actually part of the main story. Though that makes no sense to me because they are focusing on them a lot. Either way, there are said to be only 6 actual heists so it's not just them.

I'm sure the story will have a lot more going on the just heists. With 3 characters, each with their own life, I'm sure plenty more will be going on.

[Drakul]

The official site (http://www.rockstargames.com/V) has launched.

New screens:
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Page stretch and maybe spoilers:
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Grove Street with Ballas everywhere. Guessing you'll have to reclaim it.

The social media site in the game is called "Life Invader".

[Drakul]

Yet more screens:

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[Drakul]

One of the things mentioned today was a political campaign taking place in San Andreas to elect the next governor. Here are their campaign videos.

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[Savio]

I bet the final mission of the game you have to choose between letting one of your buddies live and having the other one die....(I will choose to have Trevor die)

[Drakul]

I thought that too but they each have their own specialities and stats so that would be R* asking us to give up 1/3 of the stuff we can do, so I doubt that's going to happen.

[Drakul]

Snow in the bottom left.

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[Drakul]

GTA's Facebook parody:
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Also, looks like memes are around the the ingame internet/FB at 0:07.

[Drakul]

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[Drakul]

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[Drakul]

Ok, some details.

Firstly, Online wont be accessible until the first of October. At least we get plenty of time to go through single player. Each lobby will hold 16 people.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

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Grand Theft Auto Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for 16 players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with Grand Theft Auto V, but will continue to expand and evolve after its launch with new content created by Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto community. Grand Theft Auto Online takes the fundamental Grand Theft Auto concepts of freedom, ambient activity and mission-based gameplay and makes them available to multiple players in an incredibly detailed and responsive online world.

In Grand Theft Auto Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, band together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the entire community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.

Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, and taking part in missions, jobs and activities to earn reputation and cash to open up new opportunities to rise through the criminal ranks. The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, creating the first ever persistent and dynamic Grand Theft Auto game world.

Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V and launches on October 1st.http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/227/a/8/gtavonline1_by_xbulletz-d6i8ddu.gif

[Drakul]

Multiplayer screenshots:
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[#BROKEN Hasney]

"Initially, you'll be able to create races and deathmatches, which are probably the simplest. And then, over time, when we feel comfortable that people are ready to get the new creators, they will be released. So it'll be a trickle, but it'll be a constant release of new creators and new content. We don't want to overdo it. It's a complex system.

With a lot of these things, we don't see the problems until we actually sit in a big session and play. We've got a thing called Passive mode. If you're spawning and being killed immediately, go to Passive mode - it means you can't shoot people, but they can't shoot you. So you can just kind of hang around and get to grips with the game.

You also showed how, if you're carrying a lot of cash, and then die, that money then spills onto the streets, so there's a big risk carrying cash around...

Yeah. You want to be visiting the bank a lot. So, do I want to do this job with fifty grand on me, or do I want to go to the bank and take five with me? It's another little gameplay element.

You can also insure cars now, so that - if someone steals it, or blows it up - you can get that same car back for a premium. You can also leave your cars somewhere in the world, and come back to that place and they're still there...

We don't let anyone steal your personal vehicle. If we were in a personal vehicle, and I jumped out as the owner, you could take it. But if it's locked, it's locked. You could blow it up, if you're that way (inclined), but anything that's going to annoy other players, we will punish by giving you what we call a Bad Sport stat. We store how you behave in there. If you're too bad, you will be punished.

Can other players see when someone has a Bad Sport stat?

Yeah. They'll be able to check it out, and think "I'm not playing with that guy."

We saw, in the recent gameplay trailer, that you could invest in stocks and shares as well - will you be able to do that too in GTA Online?

Yeah. You can go online, buy some shares in a car company, target that company's cars, blow them up so the insurance will replace them and the stock price will go up. Everything's tied in, the same as it is in single-player.

So could you, as an online group, organise into cartels?

You could, yeah. But then, of course, there's the government - us - who has to make sure there's nothing untoward happening.

How do the heists in GTA Online compare to the heists in single-player? Will they be more like the tentpole heists in GTA V, or the 'Blitz Play' mission we saw in the demo a couple of months back?

Initially, they'll be simpler. But we do have plans to set up heists that could contain twenty individual components. A lot of these questions are hard to answer because there's now, and then there's what we have in our heads for the future. But to answer your question: initially, they'll be fairly straightforward heists, but they will get more complex as time goes on.

One thing you did confirm was that minigames like tennis were available - does that mean you can play four-player tennis?

That's a good question. Four-player tennis is something we've never even thought about, you know that? Shite. No, tennis is only two-player. Can I write that down?! (Goes off to get a pen and paper.)


We've made a contribution to GTA V!

That'll be fairly straightforward, actually. I should mention that, when you play those sports games, you won't be terrorised by jet fighters when you play tennis. In the sense that, you can enjoy a game of tennis in your online world without people spoiling things for you.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/423020/gta-v-interview-rockstar-north-president-leslie-benzies-on-gta-online/

[Drakul]

Say you're hanging out in your high-rise apartment enjoying the view down below. You spot a flurry of red and blue lights in the distance and decide to see what's going on. So you switch on your TV, tune into the news, and suddenly you're watching your friend fleeing from the police in real-time thanks to the news helicopter flying directly above him.

I suggested this before GTA V was officially revealed. Glad it's actually in.

[Drakul]

Not sure which preview this is from but it sounds cool. Hoping it's true.

The duo agrees to hold up a gas station. "Masks on, yeah", one character says, before cycling through the Interaction Menu where you can select glasses, hats, masks etc. The masks are more than cosmetic: ditch it after the hold up, and you'll lose a wanted star. He dons a gorilla mask and bursts into the store. "Put the money in the bag. This is a stick up! Come on! Quicker!" At first we suspect the shouting is for our benefit, but AI characters will react to the urgency in your voice, stuffing money more quickly in the bag.

[Drakul]

Maybe you and some buddies want to throw on a couple masks and hold up a convenience store for a quick bit of cash. Easy money, right? Well, the player who physically receives the money from the cashier gets to decide how it's split between the team. If your buddy stiffs you on your share of the profit, you can either chase him down and steal it for yourself or keep your hands clean by hiring a hitman to take him out--it's your call. The game even tracks who your rivals are and lets you know when they've come online so that you can exact a little vengeance.

[Drakul]

We seriously need a TPWW crew. I know Hasney started one but I don't think it took off did it?

We should custom our cars plates with "TPWW".

[Drakul]

Summery:

Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, choosing their favourite weapons and vehicles and taking part in missions, jobs and activities.
Players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, band together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes.
As progress is achieved through the world of GTA Online, players will be introduced to new characters, missions, rewards and such.
A maximum of 16 players can be active at any one time as part of an online universe of hundreds of thousands competing to earn Reputation Points (RP), money and almost limitless material acquisition.
As you speak into your headset, your GTA Online character will lip-sync broadly in time.
When robbing a liquor store, AI characters will react to the urgency in your voice, stuffing money more quickly in the bag.
You can pick up your phone to 'ring' friends in single player and invite them into your world. Your friends will be listed under 'Contacts' on your phone.
The Content Creator will allow players to create and share their own missions and activities via the Social Club cloud. Other players can beat your target times and scores, then rate your mission. You can even choose which creators you want to follow and curate your favourite missions.
Passengers will be able to change the in-car radio.
You can assemble a team from your friends list, or recruit according to specialist skills.
As you rob a liquor store or perform a heist, the team member that does the job gets the cash and can choose how much to share.
It's possible to spread the wealth by sharing cash, weapons and ammo among your team. In turn, they can 'defect' and try to steal your cash.
Your custom cars show as markers on the map and get impounded if you leave them too long. You can pay to retrieve them.
The Feed, a twitter-like program, appears on screen to relay all your emails, texts and messages from Social Club.
You can switch between single player and online mode by selecting your multiplayer avatar from the character wheel.
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, and at some stage GTA Online will head into new locations. Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V and launches on October 1st.

More info to come.

[Kalyx triaD]

My life is over.

[Savio]

Hiring a Hitman sounds fun

[Drakul]

There will be loads of property to buy at different prices, according to their views and location. You can use your in-house CCTV to spy on people at your front door, or take showers, surf the net, change clothes and watch the game's many TV channels.
You can take out insurance and ring for a replacement car if yours gets destroyed.
You can pay a personal mechanic to fix your cars automatically, or deliver them to any location.
You can also check any vehicle's stats for speed, handling etc, before making your choice to purchase.
You can watch real-time events such as as police chases from your TV.
Your custom cars show as markers on the map and get impounded if you leave them too long. You can pay to retrieve them.
You will be able to deposit your money into your bank account as often as you can. When another player kills you, they can snatch the wallet right from your dead body.
You can switch between single player and online mode by selecting your multiplayer avatar from the character wheel.
If you're fleeing from another player, you can call up a buddy to hide your radar blip.

[Drakul]

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[Drakul]

This is in MP but it's a safe bet to assume it's also in SP:
If you steal a car, the police will be keeping an eye out for it. If you are spotted driving around in a stolen car, you get a wanted level.
To get past this, you have to find a car mod shop that is willing to change the plates and spray it for you.

[Savio]

Cool, might get annoying at times during a mission though.

[Drakul]

Yeah, hopefully it's a timed thing. Like the guy you stole the car from wont "notice" for an ingame hour or something. Assuming you steal it when he has it parked.
If it's instant, that could be annoying.

[Drakul]

You start GTA: Online arriving to Los Santos pennyless and you must complete a few missions first to get a feel of the online.
Your ranking will be based off of shooting, driving, parachuting and flying skills.
People can access their data through Social Club and via their iPhones or iPads.
There is a mode called "passive mode" which means you can't shoot people and they can't shoot you.
A "Bad Sport" stat will be given for bad behaviour such as blowing up another player's car, and if it's done persistently you will be punished.
If your multiplayer character at Max Payne 3 had a high level, it will be carried over to GTA: Online for more bonuses that you will unlock.
Matchmaking is based off of ranking, so it prioritizes your friends' rankings, crewmembers' rankings and even strangers so that when you need people, you know who to get.
GTA Online tracks who your rivals are and lets you know when they've come online so you can get some revenge on them.
You will have contacts available at anytime that will provide different services on or off mission, as you rank higher you will have access to characters with new and stronger abilities. Examples of such are being hidden from the radar and setting a bounty on another player if you're being chased.
If you steal a vehicle, you can spray and change the plates. Some vehicle customisation businesses might not be willing to do that and you may get a wanted level.
Weasel News will pick up people that have got wanted levels.
There is a planning room in people's apartments.
If you are in a heist and need some help, you can invite your friends and they will be teleported to you instantly.
The experience is seamless between transitions for free-roam and missions.
You can call up a private security firm to bring in an airstrike, i.e. destroy street races.
There's a stock market, which won't be available at launch but will be insane whenever Rockstar does put it in. You can invest in a car manufacturer and then storm around the city destroying every one of their cars so they have to pump out more (and their stock increases accordingly).

[Extreme Angle]

I'm in for TPWW night :D

[Drakul]

I had a thought. What if we were all going around togethor and another group robbed a bank? Do you think we could all hang around nearby, wait for the other group to rob the bank and attempt an escape and, when they least expect it, we jump out either in cars or on foot and take them down and claim the cash for ourselves?

If that was possible, would we automatically get the wanted level from them if there were no witness?

A few of us in speed based cars to give chase, one or two in a helicopter for ariel support and the other in the back with a gun of some kind. Maybe someone driving a bus into their path to force them to stop or at least slow down?

[Savio]

I really hope they have the "Kill the VIP" mode

[Savio]

I had a thought. What if we were all going around togethor and another group robbed a bank? Do you think we could all hang around nearby, wait for the other group to rob the bank and attempt an escape and, when they least expect it, we jump out either in cars or on foot and take them down and claim the cash for ourselves?

If that was possible, would we automatically get the wanted level from them if there were no witness?

A few of us in speed based cars to give chase, one or two in a helicopter for ariel support and the other in the back with a gun of some kind. Maybe someone driving a bus into their path to force them to stop or at least slow down?
That would be extremely fun to do. But I think that might not be possible because everyone would do it?

[Drakul]

Yeah, it would be fun but it would be a nightmare, logistically. You'd need to know who was robbing where and when. You'd need to quickly assemble your crew, cars and weapons and you'd have to try and guess which route they'd take so you could ambush them.

If there was some way of gaining that info ingame, like bribing a member of the other group by giving him X dollars if he led his guys down Y Street or something but that seems highly unlikely.

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[whiteyford]

Okay the online stuff intrigues me. Intrigues me greatly in fact.

[Kalyx triaD]

The biggest TPWW Inv was GTA4. This should be even bigger. And possibilities are literally insane. According to the details we can all live in one apartment, and decide to fight crime instead of do it. "The Real World: Kick-Ass".

[RoXer]

I call leader/founder/president of Group TPWW clan/gang/whatever it's called.

So it is written.

So it is done.

[RoXer]

Who wants to be Vice leader/founder/president?

[Blitz]

I got Vice leader/founder/president.

[RoXer]

Drakul is very proactive so he can be our european ambassador

Hasney can be the muscle

Kalyx is our tech guy

[Savio]

According to the details we can all live in one apartment, and decide to fight crime instead of do it. "The Real World: Kick-Ass".
I call the shower from 7:00-7:20 (am)

[Kalyx triaD]

As tech guy I promise to keep us all informed of the last heists so we can stop it. And rob the robbers.

[Kane Knight]

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I think I'm finally sold. not by the one image, mind. Just, overall.

[Kane Knight]

I call the shower from 7:00-7:20 (am)

So are you Kick-Ass or Sheldon Cooper?

[Heisenberg]

Is this TPWW group on XBOX360 hopefully? Need to know this, I'll sacrifice myself to make missions succeed and stuff.

[Kalyx triaD]

More than likely 360.

[Heisenberg]

That's what I have it reserved for, my PS3 is mainly a BluRay player and old school ps1/ps2 access box.

[RoXer]

Heisenberg is definitely the soldier role

[Kalyx triaD]

We need a pilot. And a driver.

[Savio]

Fuck I am a PS3 user :(

[Drakul]

Drakul is very proactive so he can be our european ambassador

Hasney can be the muscle

Kalyx is our tech guy

European Ambassador sounds like the role you'd give to the one you want to keep out of the way. You'll all be robbing a bank and I, as EA, will have to wait at home.

In RDR I became quite good at hunting someone down. Anytime someone became most wanted, I'd travel to their location and take them out. Often without them even knowing I was there.
I was also good at taking out entire gang hideouts by myself.

Not sure what that'd translate into in GTAO.

Is this TPWW group on XBOX360 hopefully? Need to know this, I'll sacrifice myself to make missions succeed and stuff.

More than likely 360.

Yes, it's an Xbox 360 thing.

What's cool is that each property you buy has a planning room. So, I'm assuming we can actually use it.
That would mean we'd actually be able to plan out a heist or something. Not sure how that'd work.

Unless it brought up a map on everyones screen and the leader could move a cursor around and set markers for everyone, maybe individually. So Kalyx knows he needs to stand across the street with a rocket launcher, Hasney knows he has to wait around the corner in a car etc. That's not too far fetched an idea, is it?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

If I get this on a console and not wait for a PC version, I'll get it on PS3. There's probably a reason they're only demoing that version and not the 360 one.

[Fignuts]

And a driver.

Yo.

[Kalyx triaD]

I wanna be the fighting guy now. I'll use knives.

[Drakul]

If I get this on a console and not wait for a PC version, I'll get it on PS3. There's probably a reason they're only demoing that version and not the 360 one.

They've said multiple times both version are identical.

They have some deal with Sony, I think. That's why they have mural painted fot GTA V that said "for PS3" and doesn't mention the 360 version.

[Kalyx triaD]

A childish deal, btw. Hilarious.

[Drakul]

More money for R*.

[Kalyx triaD]

They're not being the children here.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Almost every major publisher has these deals. That's why FIFA over here only says for PS3 and will only say XBone going forward and Call of Duty only mentions 360 on the ads.

Also, every dev is saying that the versions will be the same for every game. Doesn't really matter, my 360 isn't hooked up and I'll probably just borrow it and play a little chunk of it until the PC version is out. Saints Row IV will more than keep me occupied until then.

[Drakul]

I think any difference will be very minor. Like shadows being slightly sharper on one than the other.
I doubt the 360 version will be noticeably better or worse.

[Drakul]

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[El Fangel]

:drool:

[Drakul]

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[Savio]

If I get this on a console and not wait for a PC version, I'll get it on PS3. There's probably a reason they're only demoing that version and not the 360 one.
:y:

[Kane Knight]

In RDR I became quite good at hunting someone down. Anytime someone became most wanted, I'd travel to their location and take them out. Often without them even knowing I was there.
I was also good at taking out entire gang hideouts by myself.

Not sure what that'd translate into in GTAO.

Apparently, you're the goddamn Batman.

If I get this on a console and not wait for a PC version, I'll get it on PS3. There's probably a reason they're only demoing that version and not the 360 one.

the primary reason, as covered, not being a technical one.

[Kane Knight]

Also...Is this the first 360 game with a mandatory install, or have there been others?

[Drakul]

Forza 3 had a mandatory install. One discx was the game, another had the cars on it.

[Savio]

Oh fuck yeah I need to buy a backup harddrive to make space :/

[Drakul]

I need to buy a transfer cable to move stuff from my 60GB to my 120GB. Don't fancy spending £15 on something I'll use once.

[Savio]

You think I could just buy a 32GB flash drive to back things up on? I am running out of outlets

[Drakul]

CVG interviewed Leslie Benzies (R* North president) about GTAO

CVG: What scope have you got for expanding beyond the locations we're seeing already?

Leslie Benzies: Well, one thing we've toyed with - and we've talked about this before so it isn't a spoiler - is the ambition to grow the world until it's the world. We're going to just add on new things to it, new places all the time.
We've set this up so there are no limitations. The only limition is the size of the disc and how much memory we've got. We could, if we wanted, simulate the entire world, diffrent countries, whatever.
Whether we do that or not...but we've got a bunch of old stuff that we're toying with using.

[Drakul]

Maybe a series of DLC cities? San Fierro, Las Venturas, Vice City etc?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Forza 3 had a mandatory install. One discx was the game, another had the cars on it.

Nah, you could play it without installing Disc 2. Just missed out on a little bit of content.

[Drakul]

A little bit? I was under the impression it was the vast majority of the content.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Disc 1 will contain the main game, around 300 cars, and most of the tracks. Disc 2 will have the other 104 cars and 29 tracks

[Drakul]

I see.

[Kalyx triaD]

Oh god the idea of Vice City in the GTA5 engine...

[DAMN iNATOR]

Oh god the idea of Vice City in the GTA5 engine...

MIND = BLOWN.

[Drakul]

Does Miami have anything that could make Vice City interesting? The hook for VC on the PS2 was that it was the 80's.
I remember Stephen Fry traveling through all the US states on TV and saying Miami was bland and dull. What was shown did seem to back that claim up. So, is there anything to Miami?

[Kane Knight]

Forza 3 had a mandatory install. One discx was the game, another had the cars on it.

Ah. Yeah, I don't follow Forza, so I wouldn't know. I have Elements or Essentials or whatever it's called, still in shrink wrap, from my replacement 360.

Oh fuck yeah I need to buy a backup harddrive to make space :/

The one problem I've found with PS+ is that my HDD is full.

Of course, the "problem" only exists in that I have too many games I like to/want to play for free on my HDD, so it's one I can live with. But I seriously need to upgrade my HDD.

I need to buy a transfer cable to move stuff from my 60GB to my 120GB. Don't fancy spending £15 on something I'll use once.

Nobody you can borrow one from? I loaned out my cable to several friends.

[Kane Knight]

Does Miami have anything that could make Vice City interesting? The hook for VC on the PS2 was that it was the 80's.
I remember Stephen Fry traveling through all the US states on TV and saying Miami was bland and dull. What was shown did seem to back that claim up. So, is there anything to Miami?

Mike Westen, Sam Ax, and Fiona Glenan.

[Kane Knight]

GTA: Burn Notice Edition.

[Drakul]

Nobody you can borrow one from? I loaned out my cable to several friends.

No. None of my friends have a 360. Maybe 3 of them have a Wii. Not a Wii U, just a Wii. I the only one with a real interest in gaming.

Mike Westen, Sam Ax, and Fiona Glenan.

Who? Who? Who?

GTA: Burn Notice Edition.

I don't watch that. Guessing that's where those people are from.

[whiteyford]

Try ebay for the cable?

[Miotch]

I call Galactic Overlord of the TPWW group.

[Kane Knight]

No. None of my friends have a 360. Maybe 3 of them have a Wii. Not a Wii U, just a Wii. I the only one with a real interest in gaming.



Who? Who? Who?



I don't watch that. Guessing that's where those people are from.

Yeah, it was the only thing I could think of this side of the 80s that involved Miami. Not counting remakes.

It's also the only way I could see Miami being interesting.

Plus, BDC and I had talked at length about a GTA-style Burn Notice game in the past. I think he even posted about it.

[Drakul]

Try ebay for the cable?

Going to buy a used one from CEX for £6, use it and sell it along with my 60gb hard drive for a profit.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Wario-mario_party_8.png

Yeah, it was the only thing I could think of this side of the 80s that involved Miami. Not counting remakes.

It's also the only way I could see Miami being interesting.

Plus, BDC and I had talked at length about a GTA-style Burn Notice game in the past. I think he even posted about it.

So that's a yes to Miami being dull?

[Kalyx triaD]

Does Miami have anything that could make Vice City interesting? The hook for VC on the PS2 was that it was the 80's.
I remember Stephen Fry traveling through all the US states on TV and saying Miami was bland and dull. What was shown did seem to back that claim up. So, is there anything to Miami?

Being my hometown, I can't sell something I grew up in as some magical town or anything, but in the context of GTA I could propose a few things:

- Like Vice City, I imagine a GTA5-era Miami would again focus on South Beach, Little Havana, and parts of Downtown. Taking these areas into account, and with obvious expansion, I95, Downtown Miami proper, Hialeah, Miami International Airport, and Bayside (where the Heat's AAA stadium resides).

- Miami is already like LA without the hills and rich people, but modern Miami's Downtown has grown a lot since the Vice City 80s rendition. Our skyline has grown and you may remember parts of that in Driv3r's Miami stage. While not the steel and cement metropolis of Liberty City, the tropical/exotic urban mix may be cool in the new engine. This would be the most familiar of GTA-type locals.

http://www.condo-southflorida.com/images/Miami-Downtown-ATNITE.jpg

- Just a little South of Downtown is Bayside, where the AAA stadium is. Think of Bayside as a mix of Coney Island, Cuba, and Madison Square Garden. A lot of our postcards with boats and such are of this place (the rest almost surely South Beach). Bayside offers your port-side fun with docks of boats and lots of little markets to make chaos in. If you'd be able to enter the arena, it would make for an interesting deathmatch map - or perhaps basketball minigames.

http://www.watertaximiami.com/images/american-airlines-arena.jpg

- Miami International Airport looks like every airport ever, and would be accessed via taking I95 north. So let's just take a look at I95. It was used as the main highway in Driv3r and would connect all the major areas. The big chase in Bad Boys 2 was on I95.

http://www.interstate-guide.com/images095/i-095_st_17.jpg

- Also, the first scenes on Scarface where the Cuban refugee camp was, as well as the basketball fight scene in Only The Strong, took place under the same I95 overpass downtown. This would make for cool meetings and shootouts. It's also to this day a pretty fucked up area.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Miami_FL_I-95_downtown_under02.jpg

- South Beach is almost exactly how it seemed in Vice City. Further expansion could add a more realistic connection to I95 (it just sort of blended into Downtown in Vice City) as well as a functional Star Island, home of Miami's super rich, ready for you to buy and live in.

http://s.freshnewtracks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/South-Beach-Sunrise.jpg

http://listings.theagencyfl.com/idx/head_pics/218_Star_Island_Miami_Florida.jpg

- Along with MIA, Hialeah is more westward vs the all the East Coast areas I described. It also rounds things out with it being the residential 'commoner' part of the area. A key attraction is the horse race track that may be good for lulz.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/hialeah-obama.jpg
Best picture I could find.

- I almost forgot, there's a monorail that cycles between Bayside and Downtown that could be functional and offer a track to run around recklessly on.

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/venezolana74/venezolana740805/venezolana74080500056/3050052-miami-beach-monorail-with-buildings-on-the-back.jpg

I would love to see all of this rendered in GTA5 visuals and detail. It would certainly be my main city and has more than enough diversions for possible minigames and general messing around.

[Drakul]

The one thing I want in as far as new areas is the one place I know wont ever be in.

A Scottish map would be great. We have mountains, forests, large cities, small towns, cliffs, caves, beaches, lochs, huge rivers etc.

It would be fun to be able to have a shoot out on top of Edinburgh castle, maybe even using the cannons.
Sniping from the Law Hill in the GTA equivilent to Dundee (Discovery City?), maybe stealing the actual Discovery ship.

Probably tons more stuff too.

If it's not American or London it has zero chance.

[whiteyford]

Running over neds would be fantastic.

[Drakul]

Every GTA has so much Scottish humour and so many references, they may as well just set one here.

Remember being surprised when I played San Andreas and saw the Forth rail and road bridges. Or seeing the "Visit Dundee" poster in GTA III (or was it Vice City)? Tons of them.

It's also fun watching videos of professional American games journalists, acting all serious, and they say "BAWSAQ" and are completely oblivious to what they just said.

[whiteyford]

If there's a mission to destroy Weegie land I'd preorder GTA Scotland now.

[DAMN iNATOR]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gZrcUDRUBjw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Probably one of the best moments in all of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

[Savio]

An ex still owes me that game.

[Extreme Angle]

GTA: Wales is where it's at...

We have stuff.

[Drakul]

If there's a mission to destroy Weegie land I'd preorder GTA Scotland now.

I want Edinburgh so I can shoot down an enemy helicopter with a cannon. It would be really cool to have a shoot out under the city in all the old chambers and stuff. You know what I mean, right?

Other cities have other attributes towards them too. A game with Edinburgh (Castle City?) as the "main city" and Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen as smaller cities with countryside, mountains etc in between would be fun. Just like SA on the PS2 with LS, SF and LV but on a much much bigger scale.

[whiteyford]

GTA: Wales is where it's at...

We have stuff.

Just stuff nobody wants:kiss:

[whiteyford]

I want Edinburgh so I can shoot down an enemy helicopter with a cannon. It would be really cool to have a shoot out under the city in all the old chambers and stuff. You know what I mean, right?

Other cities have other attributes towards them too. A game with Edinburgh (Castle City?) as the "main city" and Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen as smaller cities with countryside, mountains etc in between would be fun. Just like SA on the PS2 with LS, SF and LV but on a much much bigger scale.

Liked Project Gotham for driving around Princes street, be nice to have identifiable landmarks to kill people at. Running over students at the Fringe. etc. Pity Arthurs seat isn't bigger.

[Emperor Smeat]

Even though Rockstar is treating GTA V Online as if it was a separate game, they have no plans to ever release it as a stand-alone game.

Grand Theft Auto Online was revealed to the world yesterday, when it was confirmed that it would ship with all retail copies of Grand Theft Auto V on September 17, but would not go live until October 1.

“We don’t have any plans to sell GTA Online separately,” a Rockstar rep told Polygon. ”It will come free with every copy of GTA V and doesn’t require a code, online pass, or anything like that.”
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/rockstar-has-no-plans-to-release-grand-theft-auto-online-separately/

[Drakul]

Panoramic images from the GTAO trailer.

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[Drakul]

http://s2.postimg.org/8rkkwbm2x/plane_sea.jpg

[Kane Knight]

So that's a yes to Miami being dull?

Far as pop culture goes.

I mean, it's a big city. Most big cities have shit going for them. There's everything from sports to culture and back, but Miami lacks the rep a lot of other cities have.

Kal posted some stunning pictures and I'd defer cultural knowledge to someone who lives there over a yankee who's only been there once in their life (and over fifteen years ago, I might add), but it doesn't seem to have a national identity like New York or LA (or even Boston).

[Kalyx triaD]

Yeah Miami's too mixed up to stand out in any one area. We're a little bit LA, Cuba, and whatever. I mean yeah it's this vacation spot but we have nothing in terms of Lady Liberty or some fancy bridge. Just a bunch of beaches that every coastal city has and lots of palm trees. I still think it would be cool to play around in as a sandbox game.

[Kane Knight]

GTA: Wales is where it's at...

We have stuff.

You could explore the quarries where the BBC films 99% of their shows. Recreate Doctor Who or...Those other shows on the BBC!

I really would like to see some foreign cities brought to life GTA-style. Especially with the scope they can now offer. Sleeping Dogs was nice, but it still felt small and video game-ish.

Plus, it gets a little silly gunning down millions of people outside of America's trigger-happy culture.

[Drakul]

I think that's one of the biggest hurdles for setting a GTA outside America. Very few places have the USAs love of guns.
Unless they tried to mix up the gameplay a bit and tried to have combat focus more on melee and hand to hand.

[Drakul]

The achievement list has leaked online. I want to ask that anyone who decides to look and/or post them to keep any discussion relating to the achievements marked as spoilers.

I'd hate to read a post and see stuff like "Wow, judging by this achievement, we have to push Micheals wife into a cavern as part of the story." etc. That's just an example I made up, incase anyone thinks I'm spoiling something.

[Kane Knight]

Yeah Miami's too mixed up to stand out in any one area. We're a little bit LA, Cuba, and whatever. I mean yeah it's this vacation spot but we have nothing in terms of Lady Liberty or some fancy bridge. Just a bunch of beaches that every coastal city has and lots of palm trees. I still think it would be cool to play around in as a sandbox game.

The skyline would look pretty awesome.

I think that's one of the biggest hurdles for setting a GTA outside America. Very few places have the USAs love of guns.
Unless they tried to mix up the gameplay a bit and tried to have combat focus more on melee and hand to hand.

One of the more absurd things about Sleeping Dogs was that they go out of their way to tell you guns aren't common in Honk Kong, unlike America.

Five missions later you've killed more Chinese people than Cao Cao.

The achievement list has leaked online. I want to ask that anyone who decides to look and/or post them to keep any discussion relating to the achievements marked as spoilers.

I'd hate to read a post and see stuff like "Wow, judging by this achievement, we have to push Micheals wife into a cavern as part of the story." etc. That's just an example I made up, incase anyone thinks I'm spoiling something.

[Kane Knight]

I don't even know why I quoted that last part. I'd remove it, but I'm lazy.

[ClockShot]

Watched the multiplayer video a couple days ago and I enjoy it.

Only thing I'm hoping for is that I can play it solo and nobody bothers me. Got back into Red Dead Redemption multiplayer and all I kept getting was posse requests over and over AND OVER! And there's no way to boot the player unless you get the majority votes.

Just let me do some races, or rob a couple jewlery stores, or just explore at my leisure. And I'll be happy.

[Kane Knight]

Note to self: find Clockshot's GT and harass him with posse requests. :shifty:

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Is multi-player cross platform?

[Kane Knight]

lol

[ClockShot]

Note to self: find Clockshot's GT and harass him with posse requests. :shifty:


Heh heh. Now you're just having fun. :p

[Kane Knight]

You should know by now that everything I post is super serious!

[Savio]

Is multi-player cross platform?Only on the Wii and Wii U version.

[Mercenary]

Put in my pre order yesterday. The mail better get here fast on September 17th

[Drakul]

Info about GTAO.


The camera will zoom out and pan away to your online character seamlessly. During the animation, a matchmaking process will be in progress.
You can do almost anything you can do in single player in GTA Online.
You can change weather, time of day, time you want it to rain or to be a certain weather state, radio station to be tuned at the start of the race or mission in the Content Creator.
You can watch races and deathmatches on your apartment TV.
There are masks to hide from the cops.
The Online will be run on the Social Club servers, data will be stored on the cloud. There are datacenters from NY to San Diego, and more Rockstar studios.
Each GTAO mission requires a rank depending on difficulty and complexity. The bigger your rank, the more difficult the missions will be.
There are around 700 missions in GTA Online. 500 will be available to play on release, as more will be added eventually.
GTAO Missions will be ordered randomly as you play Online.
For certain online heists you might need certain weapons, vehicles or characters such as a sniper or a driver. This will also depend on the mission creator if you download the mission from the Social Club.
Some GTAO missions are so complex they need plenty of good communication.
There will be descriptions to help each character on its heist function.
There is something called "team lives". If you have 4 team lives and 4 people, if everyone dies there will be 0 lives left, or if you die 4 times, the team will have 0 lives left, which means if anyone dies, it's mission failed.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Put in my pre order yesterday. The mail better get here fast on September 17th

Could be my first midnight pickup of a game ever I think. Depends if the Gamestop around here is doing that.

[Drakul]

Info about GTAO.

There are masks to hide from the cops.

I've read that you can dispose of your mask after a robbery and it'll remove one star from your Wanted level. Not sure if that's true.

[Kane Knight]

Some GTAO missions are so complex they need plenty of good communication.



This is great if true, but I'm skeptical. Every time I hear this said about something, I see a bunch of micless folks storm through the game in question.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I hate games that end up being more work than fun. Might be skipping the complex missions for my sanity.

[Drakul]

This is great if true, but I'm skeptical. Every time I hear this said about something, I see a bunch of micless folks storm through the game in question.

I am a little worried by the emphasis on using a mic in online. You shout into the mic to get store clerks to give you more money and faster, you need a mic to get through these complex missions and I wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two other uses for the mic we hadn't heard of. Like hiding around the corner and making noise to bring a guard over so your team mate can get past him unseen or something.

I can't use a mic for a few reasons so I feel I'll be at a disadvantage when it comes to robbing people or attempting the complex mission.

[Drakul]

I hate games that end up being more work than fun. Might be skipping the complex missions for my sanity.

I don't think you can pick the mission. You just go to a mission giver and are given a random one from the 700 available. You might get a simple A to B drive and shoot out or you'll get something much more complex.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I am a little worried by the emphasis on using a mic in online. You shout into the mic to get store clerks to give you more money and faster, you need a mic to get through these complex missions and I wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two other uses for the mic we hadn't heard of. Like hiding around the corner and making noise to bring a guard over so your team mate can get past him unseen or something.

I can't use a mic for a few reasons so I feel I'll be at a disadvantage when it comes to robbing people or attempting the complex mission.

Wait what? Voice commands being mandatory? How does that work with the 360? Kinect?

[Kalyx triaD]

There are no mandatory voice commands.

[Drakul]

Wait what? Voice commands being mandatory? How does that work with the 360? Kinect?

No voice commands but the store clerks do react to the volume and urgency of your voice. That's confirmed by a lot of places.

You need to communicate with other players in the complex missions, not AI.

[Drakul]

I think te AI reaction will just be based on loudness. You could probably scream the alphabet and it'd work.

[Savio]

I might use all 4 lives a few times :(

[Kane Knight]

I am a little worried by the emphasis on using a mic in online. You shout into the mic to get store clerks to give you more money and faster, you need a mic to get through these complex missions and I wouldn't be surprised if there was one or two other uses for the mic we hadn't heard of. Like hiding around the corner and making noise to bring a guard over so your team mate can get past him unseen or something.

I can't use a mic for a few reasons so I feel I'll be at a disadvantage when it comes to robbing people or attempting the complex mission.

Personally, I think encouraging microphone use in an online, social setting is a good thing.

Not sure how the actual emphasis will end up playing out, though.

I might use all 4 lives a few times :(

Good thing you're off on the Ps3 with the short bus then!
:p

I don't like this system, for the record.

[Savio]

I hope i don't but if I do I will shame Disconnect.

I imagine trolls will kill themselves 4 times in a row to prove how hilarious they are.

[Extreme Angle]

So what system will everybody being getting this for?

360.

[ClockShot]

Playstation 3.

[Mercenary]

PS3

[Kane Knight]

I hope i don't but if I do I will shame Disconnect.

I imagine trolls will kill themselves 4 times in a row to prove how hilarious they are.

And the reactions will be awesome.

I think doing that shit is dumb, but people reward them so hard by spazzing out like SammyG at a party.

So what system will everybody being getting this for?

360.
360 since it's the console pretty much all my friends have.

If it's good, I may get it for PC down the line and slap on some mods. But then, I'm stuck playing with randoms, so I may not.

[Savio]

All my Cousins/College friends have PS3 (except for most of my frat). Everyone else has XB360. Still like having the PS3 though to play PS2 Games.

I myself get huge CT hand cramps in my left hand when playing 360 for a long period of time.

[Kane Knight]

I actually prefer the Xbox 360 controller. I never liked the PS series of controllers. Though I'm wondering if the PS4 will change that.

Probably not, though.

[OssMan]

I was gonna pass on this for a while for whatever reason, then people started talking about the online thing so I thought I would join in, then people mentioned they were going to do it on Xbox so I am back to probably passing on it for a while for whatever reason.

[Kane Knight]

Nobody wants to play it on the Gamecube.

[Drakul]

Who wants a one of a kind sports car?

http://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames/img/global/news/upload/actual_1377184653.jpg

A one-of-a-kind production in partnership between Rockstar Games and West Coast Customs. Stay tuned for your chance to nick it...

[OssMan]

Nobody wants to play it on the Gamecube.
Noh dude

[Kane Knight]

I noh rite

[#BROKEN Hasney]

You can preload it now if you bought it on PSN. All 18GB of it.

EDIT: Possibly just in Europe

[Drakul]

Here is an image of the Banshee from the post above. No word on if this was it in the process of customisation or if it was completed at that moment in time.
Still no idea how you actually win it, either.

http://media.gtanet.com/images/7380.jpg

[Savio]

Just found out I can delete stuff in the game utilities folder. 32 gigs of free space avail now :)

[Drakul]

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/868-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/867-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/866-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/865-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/864-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/863-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/862-1280-1.jpg

http://media.gtanet.com/gallery/gta-5-screenshots/fullsize/861-1280-1.jpg

[Extreme Angle]

The ending has been leaked online, so heads up guys :y:

[Savio]

Spoiler:

Snape Kills Dumbledore

Spoiler:

Everyone has a fun time :)

[Drakul]

The ending has been leaked online, so heads up guys :y:

It's going to be a pain trying to avoid that info. Especially when someone tries to be "hilarious" and post it everywhere.

No idea what they thought would happen letting people preload the game.

[Mooияakeя™]

The fuck is that real life Banshee based on? What have they customised?

[Kane Knight]

The ending has been leaked online, so heads up guys :y:

It's TPWW, so I kind of expect to have it spoiled in a week.

Thankfully, it's TPWW, a site that conditioned me to not care almost a decade ago.

[Drakul]

The fuck is that real life Banshee based on? What have they customised?

Something called a Bravado. I've no clue about anything car related.

[Kalyx triaD]

Gonna be on GTA Online 100% of the time anyway.

[Emperor Smeat]

Supposedly most if not all of the recently leaked GTA V spoiler stuff appeared to have originated from PSN in Europe due to a mistake by Sony.

You can check out the statement from Sony below, as it appears on the PlayStation Blog:

"Regrettably, some people who downloaded the digital pre-order of Grand Theft Auto V through the PlayStation Store in Europe were able to access certain GTA V assets. These assets were posted online. We have since removed the digital pre-order file from the PlayStation Store in Europe. We sincerely apologize to Rockstar and GTA fans across the world who were exposed to the spoiler content. GTA V is one of the most highly anticipated games of the year with a very passionate following, and we’re looking forward to a historic launch on September 17."
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/08/24/sony-accidentally-leaked-grand-theft-auto-v-assets-early.aspx

[DAMN iNATOR]

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/grand-theft-auto-v/achievements

I don't believe those have been posted, but apologies if they have and I somehow missed it in my usual boneheaded manner.

[Mooияakeя™]

Soundtrack is fucking weak as hell.

Worst GTA one I've seen if the leak is true.

[RoXer]

Based on what's leaked the classic rock looks kinda weak and punk looks a little thin. That's about it.

[Savio]

Where is the soundtrack listed.

[RoXer]

https://www.google.com/#fp=809d417c21baa308&q=gta+v+soundtrack

[The Destroyer]

Various places. First one I found:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a509649/grand-theft-auto-5-soundtrack-features-muse-snoop-dogg.html

[The Destroyer]

Yeah that really wasn't hard.

[Savio]

Lots of places get blocked at my work :/

[Kane Knight]

These are pretty sparse for a GTA soundtrack, yes?

[Drakul]

More Details and Screens from the Grand Theft Auto V Special and Collector's Edition Digital Content

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The high-end Khamelion electric car. Available in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Collector's Edition.

Grand Theft Auto V's Special and Collector's Editions (available for pre-order from select retailers while supplies last) include a bevy of enhancements and accessories for all three of protagonists as well as your character in Grand Theft Auto Online as you navigate the streets, skies and showrooms of Los Santos and Blaine County. Here are more details about these unique digital items that are included as part of the Special Edition and Collector's Edition:

Additional Weapons
Regardless of which version you've chosen, your local Ammu-Nation will always be stocked with a pair of special firearms at no additional cost that also have their own unique customization options, skins and attachments - the .50 Caliber Pistol and the Bullpup Shotgun. You'll also have access to the Hammer, which acts as a brutal melee weapon.

Bonus Outfits, Tattoos and More
When visiting any shops around Los Santos and Blaine County, Michael, Franklin and Trevor will receive a special 20% discount along with access to special items

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Michael, Franklin and Trevor each sporting some of the unique additions to their personal wardrobes.

Custom Characters for Grand Theft Auto Online (Collector's Edition only)
GTA Online introduces a new spin on traditional character creation with the hereditary-based creation system. Select your character’s appearance by choosing your parent’s heritage, then use the gene dominance meter to dial-in which parent your appearance favors more. Additionally, you'll customize your character's daily activities - everything from family time to illegal work and sports to couch potato hours all have an impact on your character’s appearance and skill set (and you can always rank up your skill stats more via gameplay). As part of the Collector’s Edition package, you'll get Niko Bellic, along with both Claude and Misty from Grand Theft Auto III to use as parent options within the character creation system.

Special Ability Boost
Michael, Franklin and Trevor each have a their own unique Special Ability, which can be activated once each of them fills up the Special Ability bar based on various actions. Michael is an expert

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Hit the streets of Los Santos with the CarbonRS sports bike.

Unique Vehicles and Garage Property (Collector's Edition only)
The Collector's Edition also features an exclusive garage to store custom vehicles, that comes stocked with the CarbonRS sports bike and the Hotknife - an open frame 1930’s style hotrod. In Grand Theft Auto Online your garage and the high-end Khamelion electric car, which is specific to GTA Online, are both purchased through in-game websites accessed through your Online character’s cell phone.

[Drakul]

Custom Characters for Grand Theft Auto Online (Collector's Edition only)
GTA Online introduces a new spin on traditional character creation with the hereditary-based creation system. Select your character’s appearance by choosing your parent’s heritage, then use the gene dominance meter to dial-in which parent your appearance favors more. Additionally, you'll customize your character's daily activities - everything from family time to illegal work and sports to couch potato hours all have an impact on your character’s appearance and skill set (and you can always rank up your skill stats more via gameplay). As part of the Collector’s Edition package, you'll get Niko Bellic, along with both Claude and Misty from Grand Theft Auto III to use as parent options within the character creation system.

This sounds interesting, if I'm understanding it correctly. It seems like they're pushing it as close to "RPG" as they can without it actually becoming one.

[Kane Knight]

I'm not sure how much I like it, but it doesn't look like it's going to hurt anyway, so :y:

[Kalyx triaD]

Gender, race, and clothing is all I give a damn about.

[Mooияakeя™]

Something called a Bravado. I've no clue about anything car related.

Anyone got any pics of this normal motor before this Banshee overhaul?

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Soundtrack is fucking weak as hell.

Worst GTA one I've seen if the leak is true.

Not surprising since a radio would have current things on them and music sucks today.

Vice City was set in the 80s when music was better along with San Andreas set in the early 90s.

I barley remember the soundtrack from GTAIV but it was probably similarly shitty. All I remember is Katt Williams and Ricky Gervais stand up. Do they have something like that in the new game?

[Heisenberg]

What about GTA for Playstation, taking the disc out and placing a CD in the Playstation to jam the hell out.

I appreciated that

[Kalyx triaD]

It's called custom soundtracks now.

[Kane Knight]

What about GTA for Playstation, taking the disc out and placing a CD in the Playstation to jam the hell out.

I appreciated that

I'd just like to be able to load music from the HDD of my console/PC and use that.

I was disappointed when I put Burnout Paradise on my computer and found that option appeared to be missing. I mean, I could always load it up in WMP or something, but that means it drowns out any speech.

The attitude seems to be "we licensed this music, so you're fucking well going to listen to it."

Ah well. Sure I can find something I like, no matter the soundtrack.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

For the most part i listen to the comedy/talk radio stuff more than the music. When i was replaying Vice City i usually was listening to Pressing Issues with Maurice Chavez.

[The Rogerer]

I'd just like to be able to load music from the HDD of my console/PC and use that.

I was disappointed when I put Burnout Paradise on my computer and found that option appeared to be missing. I mean, I could always load it up in WMP or something, but that means it drowns out any speech.

The attitude seems to be "we licensed this music, so you're fucking well going to listen to it."

Ah well. Sure I can find something I like, no matter the soundtrack.What do you listen to?

[Drakul]

Launch trailer coming this Thursday.

[DAMN iNATOR]

For the most part i listen to the comedy/talk radio stuff more than the music. When i was replaying Vice City i usually was listening to Pressing Issues with Maurice Chavez.

"WHA'CHU THINKING, ASSHOLE?!"

[Drakul]

In GTA 1, I just listen to whatever happened to play in the car I was driving. In GTA 2, I would listen to Lithium FM or KGBH with Bomba-Tomba.

In GTA III, I was pretty much listening to Chatterbox the entire time. V-Rock in Vice City, Radio X in San Andreas and Vladivostok in IV.

I'd love to hear Sage from San Andreas as a DJ in V. Maybe as someone who wont let go of the 90's and her youth despite being around 40 years old.

I'm wondering what Laslow will be doing.

[Savio]

Hate that they put Lazlow on the rock station in Vice City, should have been on a talk show.

[Drakul]

Crews now have hierarchies.


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•Commissioners: The Crew’s most trusted member(s) - that essential right-hand man or woman that the Leader relies on for Vice Presidential advisement and executive action. Commissioners have the power to manage and administrate all aspects of the Crew on behalf of the Leader, including the ability to promote members internally or invite new members in.

•Lieutenants: Made members with specific privileges to keep the Crew in check and hand out promotions or demotions amongst sub-ordinate ranks. Crew Representatives and the mob of Muscle would be wise to keep their Lieutenants (and above) sweet.

•Representatives: A tier of Crew members who have shown and proved their commitment to the clique - whether with ace performance in competitive modes, or just by rocking their Crew's emblem faithfully since day one. Crew Leaders can assign these special players as Representatives who will have basic permissions to aid recruitment efforts.

•Muscle: The rank-and-file mob of Crew members who are happy to play their position of causing some havoc Online, doing their Crew's emblem justice and fighting for its good name. Muscle-level members may not have nor want any administrative power but they're often the heart and soul of what makes your Crew fearsome. Ambitious Muscle who are looking to prove themselves to the Crew Leader and rise up the ranks may even prove a threat to their Crew superiors, if any are deemed to be slacking on their responsibilities or performance.

[DAMN iNATOR]

In GTA 1, I just listen to whatever happened to play in the car I was driving. In GTA 2, I would listen to Lithium FM or KGBH with Bomba-Tomba.

In GTA III, I was pretty much listening to Chatterbox the entire time. V-Rock in Vice City, Radio X in San Andreas and Vladivostok in IV.

I'd love to hear Sage from San Andreas as a DJ in V. Maybe as someone who wont let go of the 90's and her youth despite being around 40 years old.

I'm wondering what Laslow will be doing.

Integrity 2.0 in IV is pretty hilarious.

[RoXer]

As I've already said, I call leader

[RoXer]

(Tentative list of Hierarchy)

RoXer - Leader
Blitz - Commissioner
Kalyx - Commissioner (Tech dude. Assuming there's tech stuff to do. He'll disable alarms and whatnot.)
Drakul - Lieutenant/European Representative
Alvarado52 - Lieutenant
Fignuts - Lieutenant (Getaway driver on most missions)
Requiem and former TPWW poster DS - Co-Lieutenants (Carjacker experts. Before we start a mission, they fetch our cars)
Hasney - Lieutenant
Miotch - West (Best) Coast representative
Heisenberg - Muscle (And will ALWAYS be muscle because I can't imagine him being anything but. Will never be promoted even though he totally should be. Or maybe I'll place him in charge of all the muscle.)

[Drakul]

I think I'd make a good leader.

[Drakul]

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[RoXer]

yeah but you didn't call it

[Savio]

I'd support Drakul over RoXer, I have PS3 though.

[RoXer]

Are crews cross platform? Can you join a crew no matter what console you're on?

[Emperor Smeat]

Were they cross-platform for Max Payne 3 since Rockstar is using the same crew system for GTA V?

[Savio]

Sadly no, I remember reading that last week.

[RoXer]

http://rsg.ms/15hgERF

Ok, everyone join and I will place you in the group accordingly

[Drakul]

Sent my membership request. Second in Command, please, in the same way the Prime Minister is second to the Queen but, in reality, is the boss.

[RoXer]

Check you messages again.

It said I had to accept and I did but I still only see 1 member

[RoXer]

And you'll be 4th in command. Our highest lieutenant.

[RoXer]

Should I bother making a sweet TPWW Emblem?

One thing at a time I suppose...

[Miotch]

(Tentative list of Hierarchy)

RoXer - Leader
Blitz - Commissioner
Kalyx - Commissioner
Drakul - Lieutenant/European Representative
Alvarado52 - Lieutenant
Fignuts - Lieutenant
Hasney - Lieutenant
Heisenberg - Muscle (And will ALWAYS be muscle because I can't imagine him being anything but. Will never be promoted even though he totally should be.)
hey fuck you buddy

[Drakul]

Should I bother making a sweet TPWW Emblem?

One thing at a time I suppose...

If it'll be shown ingame, then yes.

[Drakul]

I also accepted the invite.

[RoXer]

Miotch will be our West (Best) Coast representative

[RoXer]

I also accepted the invite.

It still only says 1 member?

[Drakul]

Says 2 for me.

[RoXer]

Yeah, it works now. Figured out how to promote too. Cool.

Everyone join now.

[Drakul]

We need a couch fort for our group.

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[RoXer]

It looks like stats and stuff for leaderboards are tracked cross platform so if you have a PS3 feel free to join.

http://rsg.ms/15hgERF

[Miotch]

Can you join multiple groups, or is this like CoD where you can only be part of 1 clan?

[RoXer]

It looks like you can join multiple crews

[Drakul]

You can be in multiple.

[The Destroyer]

Hopefully I will play it when it comes out, so sent a request.

[RoXer]

That's weird.

New members have to send a request to join the crew. And then, once I get that request, I have to send them a request if they want to join. And then they join or not based on the request I sent.

Goofy.

[RoXer]

Should prolly just make it public

There, made it public

[Kane Knight]

And then there's a request to request a request.....

[Kalyx triaD]

I joined the site, and the crew.

I don't know how much tech activities I'll have to do, but I'm fairly attached to being the psychopath who brings knives to a gun fight. I can also be strategist and weapon expert, as per my actual FPS competitive skill and interest in game balance. That would be more natural.

In practice, just think Bond's Q. I'll tell what you're gonna need for what job. I'll show you the weapons and the cars and the boats. I'll try to have a phrase before you head off like, "Happy hunting, mate."

[Drakul]

I'd actually really enjoy GTAO if everyone playing it was into it enough to actually plan out things and give each other position. One being the "Q", as Kalyx suggested for himself, another being "wheelman" etc and everyone fully working togethor to get a hiest done.

Kinda want to theme myself with my avatar and be the "Poison" to our little Mad Gear but we'd need a Hugo...and hot pants.

[Drakul]

By the way, according to Outside Xbox (a YT channel by the guys who used to do the UK Inside Xbox) the shower in each property is to wash the blood off of yourself after killing someone.

I wonder if blood will stay on us permenantly until we shower or if it vanishes after 5 minutes. I also wonder if walking down the street soaked in blood will attracted police or make civilians run away or something.

Another thing was my suggestion about shouting into your mic was correct. You can make noise into your headset to distract guards and let your friend sneak by them, according to Outside Xbox.
I guess we'd have to whisper to each other if we wanted to chat and not alert a guard during a stealth section.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Joined site and crew. We're going to take San Andreas over! Ballas ain't gonna have shit on it.

[Blitz]

Kinda want to theme myself with my avatar and be the "Poison" to our little Mad Gear but we'd need a Hugo...and hot pants.
Heisenberg is Hugo, obviously.

I call Rolento. Or the Kabuki dude from Final Fight 2.

[Drakul]

Sodom?

[Drakul]

That's the character, not a proposition.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Who is going to be getting this for 360 instead of Ps3? We going to need a seperate crew?

[Kalyx triaD]

Most of us will be 360.

[Drakul]

Who is going to be getting this for 360 instead of Ps3? We going to need a seperate crew?

I think RoXer said we can be in the same crew so we can share ranking and stats and stuff but we'll be seperate. So it'll automatically split into TPWW 360 and TPWW PS3.

That would make sense and be a good move by R* incase someone hopped between consoles and wanted to be in a specific group.

[Extreme Angle]

I'll be 360 :y:

[Drakul]

I'm getting a few ideas for ways to work as a team in GTAO. I just thought that, if your crew tag doesn't show onscreen all the time, you could join a game, help out with some random crews heist and when it came to getaway time you either just get in the car and drive off, leaving them behind without the money or have your team mates take them down along with you.

In my experience, based on RDR, people would jump on you to join their posse the second you started playing in free roam. I can see it happening in GTAO. May as well use it to an advantage.

[Drakul]

Sample of a few GTA V radio station on RollingStone site (http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/inside-the-grand-theft-auto-v-soundtrack-20130828).

[Drakul]

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[RoXer]

Who is "the_ripoff_art"?

[alvarado52]

I'm gonna make a crew for this on the 360. No name yet though, and since I believe in democracy, we will hold a vote for the name. Who's with me? If so, quote this and state that you're joining

[ClockShot]

Don't forget about the gang chain of command, Al.

Just read about it today, pretty neat how it works out. Now I gotta wonder if my #2 or some low level flunkie I brought it could take me out and take over the gang.

[RoXer]

Don't forget about the gang chain of command, Al.

Just read about it today, pretty neat how it works out. Now I gotta wonder if my #2 or some low level flunkie I brought it could take me out and take over the gang.

Have you not been paying attention the last 2 pages?

http://rsg.ms/15hgERF

Ok, everyone join and I will place you in the group accordingly

[alvarado52]

At work, I will set things up when I get home tonight. Hope for a good turnout of quality members...I would assume that I have Kalyx on my side, with Khuntry in tow?

[Blitz]

You haven't placed me accordingly, you son off a bitch

[RoXer]

You haven't placed me accordingly, you son off a bitch

Yes I did?

[Blitz]

You win this time

[Heisenberg]

http://rsg.ms/15hgERF

Ok, everyone join and I will place you in the group accordingly

Submitting my application to the group now, I want to fuck shit up

[Heisenberg]

Pretty damn pumped to be in a crew already. I hope to contribute by robbing banks and homes

[RoXer]

Heisenberg is in charge of all muscle. R. Lee Emery crossed with Stone Cold. He whips all the recruits into repping the crew proper

[Heisenberg]

Going to lead the charge against other crews who step into our territory. Probably going to get banned from XBOX Live within the first week of launch due to death threats

[Kalyx triaD]

I'm hoping you can have a gun collection of all your tricked out guns and you can give them out. This would help with my Q role. I'll collect guns and weapons and trick them out and just give it to you guys according to your mission.

[Heisenberg]

Any word on upgrades for Crew housing? That would be a great incentive to have everyone out and about doing shit.

[RoXer]

(I think a lot of the things we're hoping/wishing for won't be in. I would love the ability to delegate a heist/mission. Create a custom itinerary. Who does what/when/ and what happens after. In reality we can probably only set up custom waypoints and not much else.)

[Heisenberg]

Hopefully we could recruit non-TPWW crew members into the fold and beat the shit out of them and steal their stuff and blow up their vehicles as a warning signal to stay out of our area, then kick them out

[RoXer]

As leader, I approve.