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

[MirrorNoir]

Why does everyone love GTA: San Andreas? It's not amusing watching niggers shoot and steal, because they do it all the fucking time.

It's the first GTA game with life simulator elements to it and a focus on customization.

Also, it's set in 1992, which for a lot of Gen Xers and older Gen Y types, holds a special place in their hearts in terms of being a magical year for them ala how 1967 is to the boomers.

True, GTA: VC was originally conceived as an expansion pack. I feel it's unfair to just dismiss Vice City as a mere expansion pack given the final product. New city, new protagonist, new mechanics, new story, expanded lore, new, LICENSED soundtrack. VC refined what III brought to the table.

I'd add that VC=SA in terms of quality. Both have different high points to them, but both are games that, IMHO, eclipse GTA3 beyond all belief.

I'd personally give the nod to VC over SA purely because of the music; VC has the best of the 80s music scene circa 1986 whereas SA suffers from NONE of the non-rap giants (no Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Metallica, or Madonna) and lesser tracks from major rap acts due to them being cheaper to license than the hits.

SA is mostly the same way, except CJ despite being a hardened gangbanger for some reason has more of a soft spot than the other two and allows a crazy spic to pussywhip him around, developing slight bitch-dependency along the way.

CJ's probably the closest the GTA franchise has to a good guy protagonist. He escaped the gang life, only came home after his mom was murdered and he had to attend her funeral/deal with that tragedy, and only fell back into crime for the sort of noble goal of saving his neighborhood from outside forces, traitorous friends, and a corrupt as fuck villain in the form of Samuel L Jackson at his most villainous that were actively harming it and the people living inside of it.

 

[Pissmaster]

I had a really specific problem that I figured out today, so I figured I'd post it here in case anyone else has this happen:

I grabbed GTA5 when it was free on Epic, and installed it via the Heroic launcher. Heroic has a feature that automatically makes Steam shortcuts to your Epic & GOG games, with artwork and all. But, if you launch GTA5 on Windows over Steam Link, your whole session gets locked up because of UAC. Steam Link connections, no matter what, cannot click on the UAC prompt, so you have to do it from your actual PC.

So I looked up a way to disable it for just GTA5, and found this on Reddit: https://archive.is/MBOoe

• Open Epic Games Launcher
• Go to Settings
• At the bottom, click to expand Red Dead Redemption 2
• Select Additional Command Line Arguments
• Enter -skipInstallers in the text area

Turns out, you can do that via Heroic, too. Click Settings:


and then put -skipInstallers in the argument box


It doesn't work in the Steam shortcut, but it does there, so you have to put it in Heroic no matter what. So there you go, I don't know if that'll be useful to any of you niggas but if you wanna run GTA5 remotely, that's how you do it

Oh, and if you're running GTA5 for the first time, it uses Rockstar's own launcher because they're assholes so it'll need to install that and then update it and then make you log into your Rockstar account and that's just something you gotta do because of niggers.

 

[The Last Stand]

Oh, and if you're running GTA5 for the first time, it uses Rockstar's own launcher because they're assholes so it'll need to install that and then update it and then make you log into your Rockstar account and that's just something you gotta do because of niggers.

What's the point of downloading a game from Steam if you're still required to download another launcher to access your product?

It's the first GTA game with life simulator elements to it

Call it a stretch, but people would laud on GTA IV or RDR2 for being "realistic," but praise San Andreas for having "life simulator" effects? Why?

 

[Friendly Primarina]

CJ's probably the closest the GTA franchise has to a good guy protagonist. He escaped the gang life, only came home after his mom was murdered and he had to attend her funeral/deal with that tragedy, and only fell back into crime for the sort of noble goal of saving his neighborhood from outside forces, traitorous friends, and a corrupt as fuck villain in the form of Samuel L Jackson at his most villainous that were actively harming it and the people living inside of it.

I'm pretty sure The Introduction showed that CJ was just a low-rent thug in Liberty City, robbing people and stealing cars. It would be a stretch to say he "fell back into" crime.

I agree apart from that, though. CJ is a pretty nice guy except for that one time.

 

[Korpon]

I agree apart from that, though. CJ is a pretty nice guy except for that one time.

CJ randomly burying a dude alive who did nothing wrong was pretty out of nowhere.

And yea CJ was technically an associate with the Mob in LC, stealing cars for Joey Leone.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

CJ randomly burying a dude alive who did nothing wrong was pretty out of nowhere.

And yea CJ was technically an associate with the Mob in LC, stealing cars for Joey Leone.

That's what I meant by "that one time."

 

[The Last Stand]

I want to add that cops in V are absolute cancer. All logic gets thrown out the window when a two star wanted level grants you half the LSPD with aimbot on your ass. Evading them takes several seconds once you're out of their vicinity. IV's wanted system was much fairer.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I don't know about you guys, but my nice guy CJ murdered a music agent just because some guy who cleans toilets told him too.

He also buried a guy alive in a porta-shitter for catcalling his sister.

And there was that one time he murderd a girlfriend with a dildo just to get an access card to a casino...

 

[The Last Stand]

I don't know about you guys, but my nice guy CJ murdered a music agent just because some guy who cleans toilets told him too.

>I want you to take that motherfucka out.
>CJ ponders...
>KILL him?
>Well, I don't mean date him.

Hey, I like a nice mustache myself!

 

[Friendly Primarina]

"I want you to kill this guy for me."
"I dunno, man"
"You a busta CJ!"
"Well ok then."
- literally every conversation CJ has with his idiot friends

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA V returns to Xbox Game Pass this month. Includes both the XB1 and Xbox Series S|X versions. Progress can be transferred over between generations.

 

[Cod of War]

CJ randomly burying a dude alive who did nothing wrong was pretty out of nowhere.

And yea CJ was technically an associate with the Mob in LC, stealing cars for Joey Leone.

But some of the workers cat-called his sister, so him killing everyone, destroying the site and burying the foreman is justified...somehow.

 

[Korpon]

But some of the workers cat-called his sister, so him killing everyone, destroying the site and burying the foreman is justified...somehow.

And to be fair to them, she was dressed like a literal ho'.

 

[The Last Stand]

Playing GTA V/Online on xCloud, there are currently QUEUE TIMES to play via GPU. Three minutes. And I have not played since the Casino update, so I'm likely going to get bombarded with ads calls. At least it loads fast with it running on Xbox Series S servers.

Wait until GTA V reaches the top of the XBL charts again.

 

[TVB]

Wait until GTA V reaches the top of the XBL charts again.

Which won't take too long because R* tards are still clueless consoomers

 

[The Last Stand]

Tinfoil hat theory: since Black Ops Cold War is free on PS+ this month, having GTAV with Game Pass is MS's way to be competitive with Sony's PS+. And justify the price hike. Given how GTA V sells like hotcakes even eight years later, it's genius.

 

[cybertoaster]

So what happened to GTASA-VR?

I got a friend who bought the meta viewmaster-thing just for that game.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

So what happened to GTASA-VR?

I got a friend who bought the meta viewmaster-thing just for that game.

lol I own a Quest 2 and forgot that was announced.

IF it could be half as fun as RE4VR I'd be fine with it. I get the feeling it's dead though.

 

[T-21]

While he got it right with anti-consumer changes on GTA Online, he used Kotaku's article as reference of all sources. But yeah, the GTA+ paywall just to get most cars you don't want indeed fucking stinks.

 

[Mega Black]

I want to add that cops in V are absolute cancer. All logic gets thrown out the window when a two star wanted level grants you half the LSPD with aimbot on your ass. Evading them takes several seconds once you're out of their vicinity. IV's wanted system was much fairer.

Whoever is designing the police systems at Rockstar is a fucking lunatic. GTA V police are nofun personified, to the point where even killing someone in the middle of the woods leads to the entire county trying to murder your ass. RDR2 is worse with infinitely spawning heavily armed lawmen zeroing in on your location by the dozen.