iirc you can get your own private online experience. dunno if they removed that. one that you can invite your friends to. this was the best way to experience the online world in 5, but the most ass-noying part of it was when you all did a job together, it would dump everyone but the host out into a public server.

One of my favorite passtimes in San Andreas was to take photos with various NPCs and notable characters with the camera.

I’d get like tons of photo-rolls from the bedroom camera spawn in CJ’s mom’s house, then go on missions like with Sweet where there wasn’t a time limit and/or the wanted level was disabled, just go…

Don’t worry sigma7, as long as you’re not strutting around your apartment with a clear raincoat and a fire-ax, extolling the virtues of Huey Lewis and the News, I think you’re safe!

I too enjoy Phil Collins. I actually enjoy Peter Gabriel’s solo career more than his Genesis years. And yeah, Gabriel is more prog-rock…

The human praying mantis ...

Get this kid cybernetic reinforcement of his bones and ligaments, and begin the era of Mantisman.

Good thoughts.

4's gonna be a pretty good timestamp of that era. Dunno about 5 because the discord seems to be rural folks in base rather than city folk, but again, too early to tell.

Carcer City IIRC is a rough sketch of Detroit via Robocop lens. What would make 1950s Carcer City cool is that its every-industrial…

It got to a point in 5 that I really didn’t ever want to leave the city proper because they went bananas imo with the wildlife in 5's rural areas.

It was a carry-over from Red Dead Redemption in which you were always watching for fast-moving predators in the wild.

But when you’re trying to do some rural mission that has…

<3 <3 <3 :D

I was gonna say, Genesis has 2 major camps, people who love Gabriel-Genesis, and people who love Collins-mained Genesis.

And to some people, they really, really, REALLY dislike Phil Collins.

Astute observation, I agree very much on that dichotomy.

One of the few things I enjoyed in 5 was when Trevor murdered Johnny. Felt like a R* meta-commentary for that DLC mistake.

RDR was the first game from R* I raced to 1k on, and promptly sold to get games I’d actually enjoy. Similar reasoning.

Basically, there are lots of people who love Westerns, and then there’s even more of us who are like “Oregon Trail” and just think of dysentery.

That’s probably why I love Organ Trail so much.

I played it on PC during GFWL era and didn’t mind that interface because I was a 360 player on the regular for multiple games. For the non-Xboxers, probably was a total do-not-want.

If you didn’t like 4's choppacontrol, add in wind resistance, aircraft wobble, and all sorts of fun ideas as such.

Biggest issue for me is that all the supercars are capped at some same top-speed that isn’t close to being what a supercar could achieve in 5.

I’m up near the top of those pages of leaderboards, but I imagine from last grapevine discussion that the hacked insta-complete mission stuff probably has borked the whole leaderboard.

At roughly the 6 min mark when you caught up to the other vehicles, I started my own obsession to see if you’d catch the leader before the end of VC Endurance. Was not disappoint!

Good times, thanks for sharing. I believe you as far as the mania of trying to do it in one take ... plus you made it look a lot easier…

Get ready for asshole-bleaching mini-game in GTA O at some point. Be the pornstar! A whole new metaphor for taking its customers for a virtual ‘ride!’

The 100% completion checkbox mechanic with replays in Gay Tony was a great balance of true challenge and getting access to great missions in general.

In 5, most of the checkboxes were just pure annoying comparatively, and the missions were really really really really sparse for replay value among them, which added to…

4 took a more serious turn, which I dug greatly, but it’s a contrast from other games that had more wacky-slappy in their narrative.

5 was just an exercise in why Saints Row stole the soul of GTA.

If you have a wild hair, track down the lesser-known Scarface: The World Is Yours game. Takes place with a quick re-write of the ending of De Palma’s film, and if you loved the drug deals in Chinatown Wars, holy shit, they make an entire game out of it on its own in STWIY.