What is the point of GTA V?

[MatTheCat]

Due to Rockstar's decision to opt for Always On DRM, I decided not to purchase this game and instead installed the 'Full Single Player Free Demo'.

Whilst the style, authenticity, and attractiveness of the world which Rockstar have created really does have to be applauded, as does the characters they have created and the story the game tells....

....after some 30% of my way into the single player campaign, the novelty is wearing thin and the rather thin gameplay is beginning to wear on me.


Is the point of GTA V, a bit like BF4, all about the online game?

 

[MatTheCat]

Oh right....

So the single player mode, is 'the point' of the game?

Oh well.....yet another wildly over rated mediocre piece of crap.....

....I know the environments are excellent, the characters, the dialogue............but this is meant to be a video game....and the gameplay is at best, 'generic'.

"You can complete missions anyway that you want"

Yes, you can drive any car, shoot any gun, activate any real time event that you want...

Great, except the driving mechanics suck compared to actual racing games, and the gunplay mechanics suck compared to actual FPS.........and pressing buttons upon request can never be more than filler or conjunction material.

 

[MatTheCat]

Having to remember several dozen key binds when many actions could be rolled onto 1 key and/or use context sensitivity for the action sucks as well I mean why does the phone even use keys (other than for shortcut actions) when it would be far better just to be able to interact with the mouse in most cases.

As with quite a lot of games these days, engine is designed primariy with consoles in mind and works best with a gamepad. I play with gamepad, and can't say that I have any of these issues you describe.

Over-rated isn't really a real thing. It's decidedly NOT mediocre either, and things aren't crap just because you don't like them.

The amount you moan and whinge about stuff is ridiculous. Your levels of negatively cannot be healthy for you.

Take away the massive sand box, and the characters, and the story, and all the other little details parodying modern American culture, all of which I admit are excellent.....

....and leave just the gameplay.

What you do have is indeed a very mediocre game. Of course, GTA V consists of all the other stuff that I just stripped away.....but surely the most important element of a GAME is the actual gameplay (which I have grown tired off)?

I can't help but think of other games, that have great story telling, characters, cultural observations and/or artistic re-inventions of culture. Games such as Bioshock, or Dishonored, that also happen to have compelling gameplay. But GTA V just doesn't.

Also, I was asking a genuine question. I was thinking that perhaps the online game must be really where it is all at with GTA V, considering the universal rave reviews. Only having access to the offline game, I am thinking that my low appraisal of the overall game might be akin to someone only having access to offline BF4 and thinking, "meh".

 

[MatTheCat]

It's far from being "a wildy overrated mediocre piece of crap", maybe it's just not for you. The "point" of GTA games is to provide the player with a beautiful immersive world that is ridiculously detailed and V does this in a way I haven't seen before.

Fair enough, but whilst I would agree 100% about how stunning a sand box Rock Star have created, and it is pretty cool to look around it, this 'beautiful world' is not that immersive a world. The only way to 'to open it up' is to drive to the various Mission Markers on the map. At first this is cool, but before long, this starts to seem like a loading screen that I got to do myself.

Say what you like about the AI in Dishonored, but when I was playing that game, not only was my imagination entertained, but my pulse was racing from the gameplay. Same with Bioshock (all of them), and someone mentioned Sleeping Dogs, which I completed and which had decent gameplay mechanics in it. The Witcher 3, I got bored of. Amazing story telling which actually gets a bit too much whilst the game play itself is über-meh after about level 10. Button Mashing crap. Skyrim, I also found to be a terrible bore.....

.....so maybe if the main attraction or point of a game, is a huge sandbox environment (and mediocre everything else), than that game isn't for me.


P.S. To the morally righteous Authoritarian Personalities posting their disapproval of my Free Full Demo Copy of GTA V; regarding the pirating of this game, who are Rockstar, Konami, Steam, or any other corporation to demand that I, and all my personal details be hooked up to the Information Highway in order to use a product that I have paid for? I pay for 90% of my games and can handle a 1 time online DRM validation, but anything beyond that, and certainly any Always On DRM, is beyond the pail. This was after all the move from Microsoft that killed the XBone prior to it's launch, yet PC gamers are getting hit with it all the time.....Even platforms such as Steam which are meant to have an offline mode still require to phone home every so often or they will lock you out of all your games, which you have paid for, if you haven't had the foresight to download a big bunch of pirate cracks in advance. I work away for weeks at a time, and have an expensive gaming laptop to keep me company, and compulsory Online DRM has left a very bitter taste in my mouth on more than one occasion. **** any publisher that opts to use it! They aint getting my support.

 

[MatTheCat]

Do you have a Facebook account? Google?

Much more likely that those companies will sell your details on.

Faceook!? Absolutely not!

and I don't have a 'Life Invader' account either!

(I have a Google account but NEVER give any real details and NEVER provide mobile phone details. If they insist, then I input a false number....everyone should do the same)

 

[MatTheCat]

Painful authoritarian pro corporatist drivel
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Don't insult other members

 

[MatTheCat]

GTA peaked with Vice city but they applied a lot of work and content with each version. The basic game is kinda irritating I think, errand boy etc but in small doses its ok

Yeah, precisely!

And having never really played any of the series before, I was kinda thinking, "surely there must be more to it than this to warrant all that hype, perhaps it is all about the online game?"

But apparently thinking this is hugely controversial.