Grand Theft Auto V

[Molarmite]

Re: Grand Theft Auto V

I pre-ordered my copy at a small town Game Stop. Anyone have any experience with midnight releases at non-big city locations? I've never done a midnight release and I kind of don't know what to expect. Does everyone just sit in their car until midnight? Will it be weird? Will I be ostracized for not being a hardcore gamer?

I live in a college town of about 25,000 and they explained to me that everyone comes in after 8 and grabs a number to wait in line. At midnight they call in 10 people at a time based on the number you got and once those 10 are done, another 10 go in. He said they had 477 for the last COD game and it only took 30 minutes to get through everyone.

[dickey1331]

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I dressed up for a midnight release of the Show. Made my wife dress up too. It was a lot of fun. We were also the only people picking up the Show as some other major game was out that day too.

[Mabster]

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Every location is different as its up to the manager on how they do it. I've been to one location where they had pizza and drinks and did a trivia thing for the game being released (skyrim) and handed out prizes.

I've been to 5 different locations, big and small, and I've never been to one where they made everybody wait outside. Usually it's show up when you want, finalize the preorder, get a regular receipt, get inline and wait for midnight to get the line moving.

Now, I show up at midnight and get in line when its already moving and finalize my purchase when I get to the front. Some people have to earn their gamer cred though and have to be the first in line and wait for 2 hours or whatever. F-that.

My grammar is horrible using Tapatalk.

[longranger]

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Anyone selling copies early????

[Jr.]

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Seeing commercials on TV only makes the wait more difficult. Like others have said.. I don't remember being more excited for a video game to be released.

Maybe Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on N64 when I was 13

[Kramer5150]

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At 35 I can't recall ever being more pumped up for a video game. Lol.

At 40 I can't recall ever being more pumped for a video game

Gonna be 45 in 2 1/2 weeks,and I'm just as excited as I was on Christmas morning when I received my Evel Knievel stunt cycle.....lol

[Boltman]

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Gonna be 45 in 2 1/2 weeks,and I'm as excited as I was on Christmas morning when I received my Evel Knievel stunt cycle.....lol

42, totally remember that!

You gave me nostalgia goose bumps my friend.

[gopher_guy]

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Maybe Ken Griffey Jr. baseball on N64 when I was 13

Haha wow. That game.

"Hi, this is Ken Griffey Jr. Let's play some major league baseball."

Heard that line probably thousands of times in my childhood, lol.

[VDusen04]

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A couple of fun tidbits. First, the campaign - including all the side missions - should supposedly stretch past 100 hours.

We knew Grand Theft Auto 5 was going to be big. Los Santos is the largest Grand Theft Auto map to date and it has "20 movies' worth of score" – and all of this adds up to 100 hours of gameplay across the campaign, side quests and back alleys of the city, Rockstar Creative Director Dan Houser tells The Guardian.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/09/09/gr...merican-dream/



Next, as could likely be assumed, GTA V is the most expensive game ever made, checking in at $265 million, more than double that of GTA IV. They're expected to sell 25 million units in the first year and earn $1.57 billion. http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/09/gta-5-...llion-3955201/

[JazzMan]

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I pre-ordered my copy at a small town Game Stop. Anyone have any experience with midnight releases at non-big city locations? I've never done a midnight release and I kind of don't know what to expect. Does everyone just sit in their car until midnight? Will it be weird? Will I be ostracized for not being a hardcore gamer?

Living in a town of 23,000, I've been to a few midnight releases at our Game Stop. For Halo 4, a friend and I met up at Game Stop and basically cut in line in front of 10 people to be 5th in line because we had two friends already sitting there since like 7. We got there at about 8:30 or 9:00 and sat there until 11:00, when they opened the doors and began letting people inside. They had pizza inside, and around 11:45 or so they began sorting people in lines inside the store. I was like 9th in line, so I got the game at like 12:05 and got home at like 12:15.

Depending on the area that you live at, it shouldn't be weird. I would have figured that there'd be a bunch of weird people at the Halo 4 release, but it was mainly just filled with college students and nerds.

[gopher_guy]

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Hey guys,

1 week.

[SinisterAlex]

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Hey guys,

1 week.

This entire thread is going to become a disaster zone one week from today...

[kingkilla56]

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Is there any doubt this will be GOTY tho? The last of us was cute but man this ish has it for me before it even drops.

[buickbeast]

Re: Grand Theft Auto V

I pre-ordered my copy at a small town Game Stop. Anyone have any experience with midnight releases at non-big city locations? I've never done a midnight release and I kind of don't know what to expect. Does everyone just sit in their car until midnight? Will it be weird? Will I be ostracized for not being a hardcore gamer?

I'm 32 and my 21 female roommate hates games but can't stay by herself alone at home so she comes to come to midnight releases with me. Last game was NCAA 14 (blah). I live in gainesville and she was the only girl there lol.
Maybe I'll dress up as trevor or somethin for this one lmao

[DaveDQ]

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At 35 I can't recall ever being more pumped up for a video game. Lol.

At 40 I can't recall ever being more pumped for a video game

Gonna be 45 in 2 1/2 weeks,and I'm just as excited as I was on Christmas morning when I received my Evel Knievel stunt cycle.....lol

42, totally remember that!

You gave me nostalgia goose bumps my friend.

That's awesome. My GTA 5 equivalent would be...