Alright boyz! Here we go! GTA V This sh-t is awesome thread!!!!
 

Drops tomorrow. Gonna be the best video game this generation. Suck it Halo bitches.

With Love,
Rockstar

I've been pleasantly surprised that some sites are actually engaging in a conversation about the representation of women in GTA V (see Polygon). There's also a conversation about how the player must participate in torture and whether this is actually appropriate, even by GTA standards (see Eurogamer). Maybe the game review press is actually moving out of dudebro mode and growing up a bit. No matter where a person comes out on these issues, just having these types of conversations seems like a step in the right direction if we want to take the medium more seriously as an artform.

I posted in the 2013 Video games thread.. this is going to be the climax game of this generation of consoles. It's at a 98 at metacritic last time I looked.

Grabbing it tomorrow for sure. :)

I ordered it from Walmart.com since I wanted the special edition and by the time I got around to ordering it, Best Buy and Gamestop didn't have it available anymore. Never done Walmart before so I'm a little nervous it won't get here.

I'll be walking into a Wal-Mart at midnight, for the very first time, to hopefully pick this up! Crossing my fingers that my 8 year old 360 can run it. Is there any difference between my old 360 (other than storage - it has only 450mb space) and say a brand new one off the shelf today?

Well it's an 8GB install, so you are gonna have a hard time with that. :(

Luckily I can just put in a big enough thumb drive and install right to that, woo!

Grabbing my preordered copy in ~8 hours. Can't wait for this!

Thank God for global release dates!

Any updates on when this is coming out on PC? Ive looked around and cant find any definitive info.

Probably when it comes out on next gen.

July 2014, best estimate?

Picking up tomorrow at lunch. I don't have the patience to wait for the PC version and Rockstar's PC releases seem to take a month or two to run well anyway.

They haven't announced anything yet, though I'm going to be waiting for the PC version before picking this one up so I hope it's relatively soon.

Any news on whether the PS3 version is inferior to the 360 version (like usual for most games)? My 360 seems like it is starting to crap out, so would like to get the PS3 version if it is comparable.

I ordered via free shipping.. Best Buy.. I need to wait a few days or no work will be done. :)

28 out of 37 reviews so far give it a 100 out of 100.

So my Best Buy is opening at midnight tonight. I don't have a pre-order, and I've never done a midnight launch there, only at Gamestop. I probably wouldn't go to a Gamestop at midnight without a preorder, but am wondering if I should even bother at Best Buy? Anyone have any experience with this?

I am staying sober for my Bengals MNF game because my ass will be walking into Gamestop as soon as the game ends. Can't fucking wait.

To me the idea of a game being on 1 disc instead of 2 seems like it would help performance, but what do I know.

Got mine over lunch! Woowoo!

Should I bother buying through PSN or just run out and grab it tomorrow? It's Sony, so I'm sure the download will be a clusterfuck. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind playing a little late tonight.

It's installing now. Woot woot.

I've downloaded online from the PSN before (Last of Us) and it went very smoothly. Only downside, you can't trade it in, which I'd have done with that game, but I doubt I'll ever do with this one

Awesome prologue

I've got 1200 minute remaining in the download. Can't blame Sony though, not like they could anticipate how popular this title would be.

Installing now, to the thumb drive. Looks like its going to take 2 hours to install, I hope this isnt a bad sign.

Only took 45 minutes to install not too bad.

Drove past a Gamestop on the way to Walmart, there must have been at least 200 hundred people lined up just outside the store. Got to Walmart and walked straight up to the counter and bought it. Suckas!

Don't install GTA V second disc on Xbox 360 - it will fail - Pocket-lint

BREAKING: The PSN version has the same problems as the 360 dual disc installed version : GrandTheftAutoV

PS3 disc version not plagued with above issues.

The largest DDoS attack to date is somewhere in the range of 200 Gbps, right? If 1 million people opted for the PSN download to play today, that's a sustained combined load that would near 1100 Gbps.

Anything to this? I just always assumed it was the same game...

Usually the PS3 versions are buggier because they are ported from the 360 version... at least if you are EA Sports. I know the PS3 version of Skyrim was considered inferior to the 360 version.

Hit Walmart and got it this morning, played through the prologue and the first mission.

Driving is definitely harder than previous versions.

I take it this will be released for next gen? If so, I'm going to have to try real hard to wait until then...

That's the assumption but R* still says "nope."

Might need to check it out further, but last I read, the game was developed on the ps3, and is only ported over to xbox360.

It seems you are correct.

GTA 5: Xbox 360 VS PS3 Comparison Video

http://www.gamerevolution.com/manife...platform-20307

The game is inside my house, but I'm still at work :(

I want impressions, dammit!

+1

Ordered PS3 version, but may not get to play it for a while after it comes. :(

http://richlittle.com/

I Finished "Grand Theft Auto V" In One 38-Hour Sitting*

edit: contains plot spoilers

Good enough to kick beaten and stabbed for apparently

Man mugged for copy of 'Grand Theft Auto V': Associated Press Business News - MSN Money

Finally met Trevor. Having fun playing with all three, and it's funny because I kind of play them as their personalities would suggest they'd play.

I did my first heist mission, which was a blast. You pick from a couple of options on how you'd like to handle it, and then you also pick from a number of candidates to be along in your crew. Very fun experience.

I sort of want to stop on the way home and see if any of the local stores have copies left, but I also have Civil War II to play tonight that I just purchased today. Might be too much gaming $ in one day.

According to Eurogamer there's not much of a difference between the two.

Face-Off: Grand Theft Auto 5 • Face offs • Eurogamer.net

I was waiting for someone to bust a link to a youtube video or something, nicely done.

Watching people play through this on youtube, it looks pretty amazing. Visually its crazy good. Just exploring the map will probably be one of the most fun things about it.

I'm weak. Installing.

Got about 15 minutes in and the wife and 4 year old came home, at which point it was explained that GTA is "not appropriate." Therefore, it's currently paused until the little guy goes to karate.

Talk about idiots lining up. There's like 40 copies of both the xbox and ps3 version sitting at my highly trafficked target.

The Michael mission with weed was fucking surreal. Hahahahaha.

Also, compared to GTA4, Los Santos just feels alive. They added the stuff in RDR where random shit happens every now and then.

3.5 year old in the home and the PS3 on the family room TV means fugetaboutit.

Man some of you guys got far already.

I only just met Michael and did the boat thing.

Of course I also did one tow-truck thing for my cousin's GF and also just drove around causing mayhem in a bunch of different cars to try to improve my driving and get used to the layout of the city. Went up on the cable car to the mountaintop, that was cool. Went up into the rich homes in the hills and stole me a sweet convertible (like the one you "repo" at the beginning) that I parked in my garage.

Yeah, I strolled right in to my local big box store and picked up one of the tons of copies they had without a preorder or anything. In and out in like...10 minutes.

Do I have to do every single training session in Flight School to prepare for this heist or can I bail after a couple?

Just went up to Pacific Bluffs and some museum or something (with a gate at the front entrance, is it supposta be the GTA version of the Getty museum?) and found a Pegassi Infernus Super. BOOYA!!!!

Wish I could figure out how to make a new car my character's default. After Michael loses his first car, I picked up some lame 4 door sedan and parked it in the garage just to have a car.

Later, I finally found a sweet sports car, souped it up to the max, and also parked it in the garage (the sedan now sat in the driveway.) To make sure I kept that car, I drove the sedan into a wall and left it.

However, now both of these cars are in Michael's property, with the crappy sedan in the driveway and the souped up one in the garage. And, to make matters worse, when switching over from another character to Michael's, he's always out somewhere driving the shitty car.

Maybe I'll blow it up or something.

Geek fight!

Running away from the cops up a mountain, a mountain lion attacked me and killed me in one quick motion. I did not expect that!

Use the big garages to store alternate cars. Not the one in your home.

Iirc, every char will always have their defauly vehicles outside of the ines you steal/buy.

So what was the beef there? He didn't want to show ID for a prepaid game?

Got to Trevor last night. Compared to him, Michael and Franklin are pretty boring. :D

That lady is the worst thing in the world. Her tone alone with a customer is worthy of some sort of disciplinary action.

It's a great example of an employee forgetting that the customer is always right.

According to the description he showed a business card when asked for ID, that shockingly not being a valid form of ID resulted in him being a whiney asshole.

So, GTA 5, it is pretty groovy, yeah?

I wish I had more time to play.

That's what I got out of it..

Now where is my fcking game?????

Is the customer really always right?

SI

Yeah - I jacked another of those sweet supercars last night in Vinewood and headed out with Michael to explore the whole map before doing anymore missions. Want to get rid of all the "foggy" areas, so I drove the outside of the island and now am headed inland up over the mountains to fill in the interior. That'll probably take me most of tonight. Haha.

Wish I'd have known that. Michael loses his default so I guess the first car you grab becomes his permanent default then? I've thrown grenades at this damn sedan and it keeps coming back:D

You have to purchase the big garages though right? That costs some serious $$.

No, but you should always act like they are. :)

No, especially not when their behavior is causing an inconvenience to all of your other customers. He's should have considered himself lucky he wasn't sent to the end of the line to give him time to find his ID.

I've read elsewhere that there are problems with the PSN download that are the same as the 360 with installing both discs. Looks like the game was optimized to read data from both the hard drive and disc to make up for slow read times and lack of RAM on both systems, meaning if you're just using a hard drive things are going to load slower.

I've experienced FAR worse from brides or mothers of brides on multiple occasions. It doesn't matter how bad their behavior is. If it's bad, people know it. There's no need to do what she did to point it out. Just let him go and realize that everyone else knows how stupid he was to act as he did.

You have to have thick skin in those situations and take a deep breath if you know you're going to react in an adverse way. I think my 12 years of umpiring competitive fast-pitch softball trained me well how to let just about anything go.

Forgot they came free with preorder. :)

Ok. That second heist didnt prepare me for the amount of $$$ i would be swimming in. :)

The way I always handled customers when I worked at CCBill was to treat the assholes with respect and speak calmly until they showed they were unable to be rational. Then I would just hang up. The good customers, the ones who understood that things can sometimes go wrong, the ones who were patient and calm... Those people usually got more than an average customer would have gotten when it came to my effort and any possible refunds, etc.

The way my fiancee handles customers at her hotel is she simply tells the assholes to leave. You'd be amazed how often she has to do that, but I attribute it to the type of people that tend to come in since her hotel is one that gets a lot of overflow from the nearby casino. The "high rollers" are generally the ones that are the biggest assholes, too. They're getting a free room that normally goes for 90 bucks a night and they still whine and complain when they don't get free upgrades to whirlpool suites, etc.

So to sum up, IMO the customer is fairly often quite wrong. (not that fairly often is that often anyway.. Maybe 1% or so?)

My 360 has been collecting dust for over a year now. With GTAV out I thought I should fire it up, make sure it is connected to the TV still then go out and purchase. Instead, I turn on the Xbox and get the so called red ring of death. I'm going to try and open it up and fix it via the Youtube instructional videos. I can almost guarantee this won't work!

I genuinely think there are customers that are better to steer towards your competitors because they cost more than they bring in so they actually are a net loss to your business.

And that's before we get into the ones who are good customers but are unequally burdened by something you have to do across the board: think the "good kid" who has to abide by the curfew that you created because of the "bad kid".

SI

Wrong thread. :D

I guarantee that despite that dickwad storming out and will "never will buy here again," most every other person in that line just became a customer for life for the way she handled it.

Personally I'd have gone to the register, given him his deposit back, and told him to leave the store.

Yeah, the inability for microwaves to be kept in rooms is a hindrance that wasn't a hindrance before idiots en masse started breaking them or just outright stealing them.

As for the game, I am enjoying watching playthroughs of it quite a bit. It's a busy game, but I don't feel like anything is forced or constrained by time, which is awesome. I'm hoping to find a video of someone simply driving around the map showing off landmarks and whatnot just to get a feel for the vastness of it all.

Aaah

He was an asshole, but she came off as unprofessional. Personally, I would never buy anything from her if I could help it.

I always liked how Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines, would make it a point to respond to letters where the customer was in the wrong or went over the line. He would send them a letter stating that the customer isn't always right, and for a boss to assume so is a disservice to his employees. They are welcome to take their business elsewhere, and if so they would certainly miss their business.

Not in that case. Though she came off rather annoying.

I love this. The last time I actually complained was when I was jipped and then treated like shit in a Subway. Moral of the story, they had a buy one get one $3 sub special. What they made me was a six inch sub and cut it in half. When i questioned the policy about $12 foot long subs the manager decided to insult me. I shot off an email to corporate and they personally called me to let me know exactly how in the wrong I was.

12....12 dollar....12 dollar foot long....pretty sure that isn't how the the song goes.

End thread jack.

Greatest game of all time and FOFC is discussing customer service anecdotes :)

What did they tell you?

I bought some meth one time from this weird guy named Trevor...

If you really insist. I always start to story with the last lines of conversation from the woman who called me and myself.

Subway rep: "I just wanted to get in touch with you to let you know that you were wrong."

Me: "Whatever."

-End of call

The gist of the roughly three minute convo was:

1. She wasn't going to answer any questions I had. She had already done all the fact finding she needed to do. She didn't want me to ask any questions. I was wrong. That was all she wanted to let me know.

2. I escalated the situation with the manager by wrongly accusing her of selling $12 foot long turkey sandwiches.

3. I purchased a $3, 3 inch turkey sandwich and I was given a 3 inch turkey sandwich for free. That was the deal that was offered and it was the deal that I was given.

EDIT: And before this gets any further off track. It was not the deal that was offered. To my knowledge they don't even sell 3 inch subs, and they definitely don't sell $12 foot longs.

They definitely sell 3 inch subs. That is typically their kid size. Of course, I don't believe it costs $3 for one of these either.

That said, you are expecting them to do math to compute that the deal equated to a $12 foot long.

Sorry, i stand corrected.

The garages come free if you have a rockstar social club account associated with your online id.

The margins that Subway makes on the $5 foot-longs are razor-thin, so make sure you don't get chips or a drink and stick it to them, dubb.

Better yet, have them make one and return it.

I come to this thread for GTA V insight and I'm getting Subway information.

Played through a few Trevor missions last night. This has been my favorite part of the game thus far. Trevor, IMO, far outshines the other 2 main characters.

Oh cool - so I'll just set one of those up!