So I've actually been using the stock market to get some cash. Of course you need the Lester missions avaliable, and for the best results you need the money from the end of the game.

I was eventuallt forced to do tje first one though, couldn't advance without it. I invested with all three before the mission.

Micheal put in 1mil and got 500K return investment. Not bad. Every one else got a 300K return.

I made a thread for this and it's on the second page. I'm confused about how the whole 200 post limit thing worked so I made it so I wouldn't go over and get banned or something. Did I do it wrong?


Anyway, copy/ paste from there.


Didn't know if the other thread is allowed to have comments past 200... Don't want to get in trouble since I'm unfamiliar with multi-thread discussions. It seems like mods are pretty strict about it. So I made this one to continue the topic.

I didn't enjoy GTA: IV much at all and decided against getting GTA: V. But given the incredibly hype built up around it as well as the "OMG IT CHANGE GAMING FOREVAR" comments I kept seeing from these forums as well as everywhere else, I decided to give it a try.

I haven't been this disappointed by a game since Brink. A disjointed single player campaign combined with generic, unlikable characters made for a tremendously unpleasant experience. Bland, unimaginative, and it might as well have been called GTA 4.5. The map is vast but lifeless with little to do in the countryside.
The GTA Online portion was repetitive and tolerable, but overall I don't see why so many players are hailing this as something that will change the future of video games. Felt like a shallow experience to me.

Maybe I missed something that you guys didn't.

Well, to each their own. I mostly play GTA V for the exploration and open-world stuff, with the occasional dabbling in the main plot and side-quests. But yeah, I wished they spent more time developing the land rather than putting half of that development to making an underwater world with hardly anything in it.

I've never done the Online, and will never do so. I like my single-player experience.

You're a charming one at parties...

I don't have GTA V but it looks like a good game to me. I wouldn't hail it as 'King of Games', but it definitely looks pretty good and I hope I can play it soon.

I don't know what that's supposed to mean and Google/Bing didn't turn up anything.

I'm calling you the sourface, odd man out, the guy hiding in the corner hating being AT the party.

I'd say GTA V from everything I've read, both good and bad, is it's an immense improvement over IV. IV was so negative and grimdark cliche but V seems to be returning to more of that GTA feel based on what I've watched of ingame footage of the game. Am I saying you're WRONG to hold your dissenting opinion? No, but I do think it's negative for no reason but because 'this isn't what I expected!'. If you go into a game riding on the hype wave, you're inextricably bound to wind up disappointed. When I can afford GTA V, I'll be playing on my own personal expectations, not the praises and hailing of others as you have done. I find going into a game with little expectations allows you to enjoy the experience all the better than going in expecting it to be shining waterfalls of golden glory of gaming and being disappointed for not living up to those high expectations you rode in on.

I've heard the party pooper phrase on a lot of American television series, sorry I didn't put two and two together. It's not something I've heard used before in conversation and we didn't cover stuff like that in English Language or elocution classes.

And I had reasonably low expectations, I had at least hoped it wouldn't be more of the same. Alas, that wasn't the case. So of course every other face of the game was disappointing.

inb4deaththreats...again

I don't recall anyone issuing you death threats, but your critique seems mostly 'I hate it because I hate it.' and you don't exactly explain WHY you hate it. If you dislike a game, I can't hold it against you, but I think it's fair to ask a more laid out critique of why you hate it. For example, you say it's lifeless but I've seen a lot of players exclaim that the countryside has life to it.