Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[Dom Cruise]

Is this one of the best examples yet of the decline video games have been on?

It's the fucking year 2021, this shit is just downright embarrassing to release a game this ugly and janky in such a futuristic sounding year.

 

[The Last Stand]

Decided to give San Andreas a fair chance on gamepass. I'm already encountering issues that i never saw in the original game such as mission bugs including a nasty one that prevents me from progressing. Very poor form.

I have it on GP as well. Why on Earth is it just one game? It will likely be removed after a month or two. I will try it and try to 100% it before they DO remove it.

 

[Ita Mori]

So are the talk radio channels, especially in Vice City, intact? LOTS of shit that I would think would get cut like the femcel wicca chick, the psychopathic predatory lesbian feminist who wrote a book about dressing like a man, etc

Mostly, yeah.
Devs were too fucking lazy to even moral police.

Is this one of the best examples yet of the decline video games have been on?

Lol no.
This is nothing but greed and incompetence, which has existed even as back as the Atari 2600.

It can get so much worse.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

Mostly, yeah.
Devs were too fucking lazy to even moral police.


Lol no.
This is nothing but greed and incompetence, which has existed even as back as the Atari 2600.

It can get so much worse.

At this rate, let's pray for a crash. It'd be necessary at this rate.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Mostly, yeah.
Devs were too fucking lazy to even moral police.


Lol no.
This is nothing but greed and incompetence, which has existed even as back as the Atari 2600.

It can get so much worse.

Thankfully there were some standards then, even if not always in earnest. Now? It's automatic, touch and go bullshit that reeks of pandering, without an iota of standing by the product.

 

[The Last Stand]

I have it on GP as well. Why on Earth is it just one game? It will likely be removed after a month or two. I will try it and try to 100% it before they DO remove it.

100% Completion in GTA San Andreas

Attaining 100% Completion in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas requires the completion of numerous tasks, listed below. However, GTA San Andreas has extra tasks that are not required for the achievement but are also available to complete; many players refer to this as "110%". In the Beginning Big...

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition Achievements

Full list of all 34 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition achievements worth 1,000 gamerscore.

www.trueachievements.com

Holy fucking shit, there's a lot to do for 100% in that game.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

100% Completion in GTA San Andreas

Attaining 100% Completion in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas requires the completion of numerous tasks, listed below. However, GTA San Andreas has extra tasks that are not required for the achievement but are also available to complete; many players refer to this as "110%". In the Beginning Big...

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition Achievements

Full list of all 34 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition achievements worth 1,000 gamerscore.

www.trueachievements.com

Holy fucking shit, there's a lot to do for 100% in that game.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts.

The OG 100% is far more easy than GTA III and GTA VC imo. You don't need to do rampages or stunt jumps. But the real challenge are getting gold in those driving schools (the 100% req is only passing with bronze) & the collectionables (since are 4 types in all the map, not only one type like in the earlier ones).
But by far is the longest. That i can assure you.

 

[The Last Stand]

The OG 100% is far more easy than GTA III and GTA VC imo. You don't need to do rampages or stunt jumps. But the real challenge are getting gold in those driving schools (the 100% req is only passing with bronze) & the collectionables (since are 4 types in all the map, not only one type like in the earlier ones).
But by far is the longest. That i can assure you.

I know the list said you only need to complete the vehicle schools. No way I would even attempt Gold for them. The hardest tasks I see would be the girlfriends, import/export, firefighter, dancing, marathon and the bike challenge. The rest of the collectibles would be tedious to accomplish.

Thank God for guides but still who would even want to do all that in one sitting?

 

[Ita Mori]

At this rate, let's pray for a crash. It'd be necessary at this rate.

It won't happen and even if it did, people overestimate it's consequences.

It won't happen because:
- Industry is too big to fail at this point. It's outgrowing every other form of entertainment, and the bergsteins have already invested their chosenite gold into it. AAA giants have a better chance than Hollywood of getting government bailouts.

- People are too addicted to stop consooming. The 83 crash happened because parents told their kids "lol fuck off" at the idea of spending $50 every now and then for pew-pew on the telly, and older people had better impulse control after getting shafted multiple times by shoddy developers.
Today, that doesn't exist. People young and old have to have their vidya fix, no matter how bad or mediocre the product is. These products are their defining personality trait and the center of their lifestyles.
For some, they've replaced the black holes in their souls with it. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft aren't companies, they're religions.

- Then there's all the retards who buy cosmetics/microtransactions from mobile and/freemium games to the tune of billions. Imbeciles who have no brain matter and drop thousands on DOTA/COD/Apex skins or whatever Genshin Impact sells. Crash? What crash?

Even if it happens, who cares?
The crash of 83 only affected the US and was only felt on 2nd gen consoles. Japan never had a crash and the PC software market in the US suffered no ill fate either.

The rot is here to stay.
The fact a company like GSG exists and even profits alone proves it. Vidya customers are the easiest crowd to swindle and steal from. They even cheer you on as a hero as you do it.

100% Completion in GTA San Andreas

Attaining 100% Completion in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas requires the completion of numerous tasks, listed below. However, GTA San Andreas has extra tasks that are not required for the achievement but are also available to complete; many players refer to this as "110%". In the Beginning Big...

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition Achievements

Full list of all 34 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – The Definitive Edition achievements worth 1,000 gamerscore.

www.trueachievements.com

Holy fucking shit, there's a lot to do for 100% in that game.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts.

Not really. When I was a broke college kid I 100%'d SA several times.
It can be done in a month at a leisurely pace. GLHF.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I know the list said you only need to complete the vehicle schools. No way I would even attempt Gold for them. The hardest tasks I see would be the girlfriends, import/export, firefighter, dancing, marathon and the bike challenge.

I don't recall the firefighting being difficult, but my memory is foggy at best.

Thank God for guides but still who would even want to do all that in one sitting?

14 year old me did. Not having money for games is a great incentive to just play the few you have to death.

 

[Ahriman]

So are the talk radio channels, especially in Vice City, intact? LOTS of shit that I would think would get cut like the femcel wicca chick, the psychopathic predatory lesbian feminist who wrote a book about dressing like a man, etc

Apparently they had to cut out many tracks. For fuck's sake.

Here's the GTA Trilogy remaster's full radio station track listing according to Rockstar

www.eurogamer.net

Look at V-Rock:

They cut out the Love Fist track! The whole point of Love Fist is that it's a made-up band, what the fuck happened?!

This pisses me off so damn much.

And then there's this:

GTA Trilogy has removed some cheats for technical reasons

www.eurogamer.net

"Technical reasons" my ass.

I hate this so much...

 

[Jack Awful]

I wonder how much money Rockstar will earn off of retards.

Shameful.

 

[Jack Awful]

Apparently they had to cut out many tracks. For fuck's sake.

Here's the GTA Trilogy remaster's full radio station track listing according to Rockstar

www.eurogamer.net

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Look at V-Rock:

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They cut out the Love Fist track! The whole point of Love Fist is that it's a made-up band, what the fuck happened?!

This pisses me off so damn much.

And then there's this:

GTA Trilogy has removed some cheats for technical reasons

www.eurogamer.net

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"Technical reasons" my ass.

I hate this so much...

They cut out one of the Love Fist songs but left in the other. WTF

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

There is some confusion because there are reports from streamers that Japanese Boy and Video Killed The Radio Star are in fact in the game radio.

I'll still play it. Long as it doesn't crash ala Cyberpunk. And it can't be as botched as Cyberpunk. I expect obvious patches for faces and stuff.

But was Candy Suxx always meant to be.....Mae West sized? She gained weight from the picture I saw but in other images from throughout the years she's bigger than she was in the original game?

 

[The Last Stand]

First impressions: the GPS feature you saw during missions is false advertising. Waypoints do not give a GPS route when you place it like in IV/V. And you cannot delete autosaves AFAIK. I'm going to AFK for the Today was a Good Day achievement. Save scumming does not work.

 

[Ahriman]

They cut out one of the Love Fist songs but left in the other. WTF

Precisely, I don't even understand it.

As a boomer who grew up playing GTA III and VC over and over for a long-ass time on an old-ish PC at the time, blasting "Cum On Feel The Noize" while running over civilians was one of my fondest memories of that soundtrack.

I feel so insulted.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Lol no.
This is nothing but greed and incompetence, which has existed even as back as the Atari 2600.

It can get so much worse.

Things are undeniably worse since the dyed hair brigade showed up though, things were never perfect, but they're worse now.

It won't happen and even if it did, people overestimate it's consequences.

It won't happen because:
- Industry is too big to fail at this point. It's outgrowing every other form of entertainment, and the bergsteins have already invested their chosenite gold into it. AAA giants have a better chance than Hollywood of getting government bailouts.

- People are too addicted to stop consooming. The 83 crash happened because parents told their kids "lol fuck off" at the idea of spending $50 every now and then for pew-pew on the telly, and older people had better impulse control after getting shafted multiple times by shoddy developers.
Today, that doesn't exist. People young and old have to have their vidya fix, no matter how bad or mediocre the product is. These products are their defining personality trait and the center of their lifestyles.
For some, they've replaced the black holes in their souls with it. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft aren't companies, they're religions.

- Then there's all the retards who buy cosmetics/microtransactions from mobile and/freemium games to the tune of billions. Imbeciles who have no brain matter and drop thousands on DOTA/COD/Apex skins or whatever Genshin Impact sells. Crash? What crash?

Even if it happens, who cares?
The crash of 83 only affected the US and was only felt on 2nd gen consoles. Japan never had a crash and the PC software market in the US suffered no ill fate either.

People have been clamoring for a second crash for almost 15 years, if it hasn't happened by now it's not going to.

The rot is here to stay.
The fact a company like GSG exists and even profits alone proves it. Vidya customers are the easiest crowd to swindle and steal from. They even cheer you on as a hero as you do it.

The rot is here to stay so long as they don't tell the dyed hair brigade to fuck off.

 

[TVStactic]

/v/ has one of many bogged threads for the current version.

kek

 

[Ita Mori]

They cut out the Love Fist track! The whole point of Love Fist is that it's a made-up band, what the fuck happened?!

I assume that R* cut a tard contract that gave the artists who recorded as Love Fist rights to the songs while R* got a cheap/free limited license for commercial use.
Again, retarded.

Look at V-Rock:

Damn, Ozzy must be hurting for money if he took both Bark at the Moon and Hellraiser away.
Even chief assholes Motley Crue are still around.

My question is, why can't R* license other tracks? There's a lot of 80's bands that would probably take a cheap payday and possibly garner a small boost in spotify hits.

Spoiler: Ideas for V-Rock off the top of my head that don't cause anachronisms

If I was allowed one anachronism:

VVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE RRRROOOOCCK

Things are undeniably worse since the dyed hair brigade showed up though, things were never perfect, but they're worse now.

The dyed hairs are there because of the rot.
If you want to blame anyone, blame to top AAA companies consolidating into the big 4 they are now and turning a business that was mostly for nerds by nerds into a corporate field.

The rot is here to stay so long as they don't tell the dyed hair brigade to fuck off.

The rot would still be there if every single dangerhair fucked off.
This business wouldn't be improved if you had every game be about Chad McThundercock fucking Staceys while genociding jews and niggers as Slayer plays in the background.

None of the DE's problems are due to IdPol or women in the industry. Please stop with these incel antics.
GSG's two self-admitted dangerhairs aren't even involved in the actual programming/porting. The thicc Brazilian is marketing and the other one is an artist for their own branding.

 

[The Last Stand]

Precisely, I don't even understand it.

As a boomer who grew up playing GTA III and VC over and over for a long-ass time on an old-ish PC at the time, blasting "Cum On Feel The Noize" while running over civilians was one of my fondest memories of that soundtrack.

I feel so insulted.

It's Cum, not Come? Shit.

I'll still play it. Long as it doesn't crash ala Cyberpunk. And it can't be as botched as Cyberpunk. I expect obvious patches for faces and stuff.

If you insist, get it on sale or have somebody buy it for you.

I wonder how much money Rockstar will earn off of retards.

Shameful.

Do you know how many shark cards they've sold since launch?