Yeah I'm going to unless online engrosses me.

Rockstar confirms GTA Online has a microtransaction system along with a few other details for the mode.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...yer-component/

Yay options!

And they even have one to let you skip if you suck too much. So everyone wins.

What Fignuts said. You didn't spend a fifteen minute drive to get to the action in NES games. Even RPGs were more straightforward than that.

Meth is magic. Why do you think Walter White's prognosis changed?

Either meth is magic, or his first doctor was ECG.

Good luck with that. This game is quite capricious and still has more than a few boring missions.

Nothing quite like getting ten minutes into the replay of a mission and then being DQed from the gold due to a random headshot.

Plenty of NES games had checkpoints, and when those checkpoints were fucked up or unfair, no one was like "Wow what a great challenge".

If you dont believe me, go and find someone who enjoyed losing to the final boss in ninja gaiden, and going all the way back to the start of 6 god damn fucking 1.

GTA V's checkpoints arent gamebreaking by any means. You often have to repeat fairly large sections of the missions. Given that combat is tougher, and that once body armor goes, you can only take a few hits if not a OSK, checkpoints are very welcome.

I... just got my ass kicked by a crossdresser...

How are people taking "selfie" pictures? Can't seem to find the option anywhere

Click R3 when in the camera.

So simple, surprised I haven't tried that sooner.

It... kinda sorta tells you.

It's one of the listed options at the bottom of the screen, yes.

Is everyone missing the part where I said GTA:SA had it perfect when you could skip the boring parts?
didn't say it was.

Jeez, AirEmu flights must be getting boycotted at the airport. Need to blow up some planes to manipulate some stocks and they just aren't showing up.

I don't remember GTA for the NES. Since the NES comment was the bit I was addressing, I assume it must have been to make the GTA:SA bit relevant.

Fignuts then goes on to talk about checkpoints on the NES and how they related. I'm not sure who you think is "missing" this.

With GTA:SA you wouldn't have to spend 15 minutes driving to the location because they had the skip option.

Really? I need to open my eyes a bit more :eek:

Which is appropriate, because it was an NES game.

I've noticed there are a lot more ladders and stairs, and accesses to roofs and higher vantage points than in other games. That verticality will add a lot to combat in GTAO, I think.

What the hell are you talking about?

You get one star for shooting Chop's poop

Hate Triathlons. 15 minutes of pressing "A" and I'm not even done with the bike portion. Fuuuuck. I think I have Carpal Tunnel.

Honesty at last. How refreshing.

Don't you get a one-star for shooting, period? Like, I know you don't get a star every time you do something (witness-dependent), but I thought just firing your gun in the air got you a star.

Prolly not gonna be around when online launches. Moving on Saturday and I have a feeling my internet won't be hooked up in time :(

Bigger take for us

I figured Franklin's neighbors called the cops. They can throw pool parties til dawn but a man can't shoot poop?

My neighbors hasn't been back since the shoot out with the police.

Only rednecks shoot the shit.

They were game-breaking (changing) when it debuted in GTA IV.

Going to make this quick because I'm incredibly jet lagged at the moment but I had the opportunity this week to visit New York to hang with several other GTA site webmasters to check out GTA Online and it is looking fantastic so far. Will come up with more when I've written up my full report but so far it's pretty impressive, if you have any questions fire away they've allowed us to talk about pretty much everything we saw this time around.

I don't know if you played Fable 2/3, but their online had orbs/ppl that we could hear if they had a headset on, are we going to have to hear ppl around us all the time like that? It'd be sweet for the initial experience, but I could see myself turning that option off.

I can't confirm that one way or another because the in-game chat function wasn't working in the build we played, we had to put together and Xbox Live party to use voice chat. There is some in game chat in there but not sure if it's based on proximity or just being able to hear all the other people in the game, I would imagine there are numerous settings you can tweak to set to friends only or nothing at all but it isn't something we tried.

Gonna go raid the weed farm, worth 100k apparently.

Where on the map is that near?

Braddock Pass, Mt Chiliad, supposedly its good to hit every couple weeks in game time.

Weed Icon appears when you're close.

I'm about to start a second game. Gonna try and see how rich I can get.

Don't know who I wish I could kill more. Wade, Floyd, or Jimmy.

Get rich or die trying?

What's not to love about a Juggalo who sounds like the kid from American Dad and the survival instincts of a nameless Star Trek extra?

Definitely Jimmy.

Picked up plane to uncover the whole of Los Santos, hit a flock of birds and it was one hell of a mess.

A flock of...seagulls?