I thought we had a thread on this, but after glancing through 30+ pages of other games, I do not see it. Not sure how many other folks per-ordered, but I know I will probably be playing a lot of this once it is released tonight. As for release times, they are doing a simultaneous release based on midnight in Britain. BST (British Standard Time April 14 @ 12:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time, US April 13 @ 7:00 PM PST (Pacific Standard Time, US April 13 @ 4:00 PM AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time April 14 @ 9 AM AWST (Australian Western Standard Time April 14 @ 7 AM I am looking forward to the online heists. Who is with me?
my current thoughts exactly. i love the fleshed out worlds GTAs deliver but the super-structured on-a-rail missions always seem so disconnected from the "do whatever you want" mentality they try to push as the theme. if that isn't the case this time around i'll be all over it...
Many of Rockstar's recent games have left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, and GTA 4 all had what to me were extremely depressing stories. I'm not going to say they weren't well written (except LA Noire, which I hated in general) but they're not games I would want to spend much time playing. I really liked a couple of the main characters in them, and watching the game shit all over them again and again just got to be too much. I'll take a pass on this unless I can pick it up a few months from now for a $5 steam sale.
Not sure where you get that... of course story missions are going to be more directed and focused. But you can explore out and do all the little side things, activities, exploration. There are a ton of things outside of the main story line to do.
You wont get it for $5 any time soon. I have no idea how this story goes down, I have not finished it. Red dead was a fantastic story, but very sad. GTA4 was sad and a little frustrating to see how it plays out. But they are both well done. The bit that I played looks very good, and I think the story will be interesting.
The online stuff definitely looks great, I think someone has to rank up in multiplayer to actually be able to do the heists first.
yeah, its been an ongoing complaint i've had with the series as a whole. i know it isn't a RPG, but with such an amazing and immersive open world with all the systems in place to govern it i've always been a bit surprised there isn't more than 1 way to complete most missions. they just seem to have pretty demanding fail-states. i wouldnt want branching story lines or anything like that, i know they're telling a story (and ive liked the stories), just would like multiple ways to complete the objective that would add some replayability beyond just dickin around. maybe i'm wrong and there are lots of ways to get things done and i just havent played them recently enough to remember having those choices, i admittedly didn't play gta4 too long before moving on with all that said, i'm curious about the online portion but haven't looked into it at all so forgive my ignorance. beyond these heists i assume its mostly open world focused? are there "objectives" beyond the heists (cops/robbers or something)? how do they handle grouping or is it just every man for himself and, if the latter, is the open-world just kind of a sandbox DM for folks waiting to do the heists? are the heists kinda similar to payday gameplay then? again, hopefully these questions are at least relevant, haha, i really have no idea what the online portion entails