It’s hard to believe there was a world without Grand Theft Auto V on PC. Originally released in September 2013, GTAV broke practically every sales record and was lauded in almost every circle. When its „definitive“ edition debuted on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One during last holiday season, many were questioning if Rockstar would be able to pull it off on PC considering the numerous delays and spotty track record. While they made huge promises and had all the potential in the world, whether or not they were able to optimize Grand Theft Auto V on a bevy of current and last generation machines was still up in the air. While it may have taken Rockstar 19 months to bring their biggest and best game to PC, the result was well worth the wait.
Lo and behold, Grand Theft Auto V . If there was any game that realized Rockstar’s fetishism toward wanderlust, it was this game. Man, was it big. Really big. Too big. With a world so massive in scale, Rockstar had to introduce more things to do to keep things from feeling pointlessly vast. These activities ranged from towing cars to video darts. Now, Rockstar does deserve credit for finding so many things to do in such a big game. However, the fact that these activities are so trivial and ultimately meaningless to the player is Rockstar’s self-induced punishment for making the world so enormous. There is a very strong chance that you haven’t seen everything in GTA V and you probably never will. It’s that big. But there are other methods to reach your destination. Call a cab to take you to where you want to go. Well, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of that expansive world? That whole chunk of time you would’ve spent running thousands of meters away is now completely meaningless, which essentially means that Rockstar designed the game that way for no reason whatsoever. It’s dysfunctionally optional.
The arguments are there that VR is a powerful piece of narrative device. The people you play as in the Grand Theft Auto series are largely awful people, and seeing the world through their eyes is a breakneck way to deliver that message to players. I could even see it causing emotional scenes, like pulling the trigger on Duck in Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1, that much more powerful, but in the case of Grand Theft Auto V, its meaning may take a backseat to just how terrifying the act of killing is.
As we’ve said, and as you already know, there’s a bunch of cool stuff to do in GTA V when you’re either done with the story or just feel like talking some breathers in between. When a game is riddled with mini-games, it usually hints and the overall product being of questionable quality. But Rockstar got it right once more with GTA V. Rather than being there as compensation, these mini-games, and tasks that you can immerse yourself in throughout the game help make it all seem that much more real. But man, Tennis, Golf, Stock trading – this does kind of seem a little bit like a retirement simulator on the side, doesn’t I, Infinite Craft like many of my friends and colleagues, am a strong supporter of virtual reality. I remember seeing early YouTube videos of a guy hooked up to a massive virtual reality headset suspended from the ceiling by a tangle of cords while walking along a conveyor-like platform that tracked his movement. Even though the clip didn't even show what game he was playing, I was excited, but the cumbersome nature of the device made entering a virtual world seem like a luxury only the absurdly wealthy would ever get to enjoy.
All of Grand Theft Auto V’s clever, if at times blunt, commentary about the American dream and class warfare wither away when you see a video like this. It is nearly impossible to show the Omni video to someone and explain to them the cultural significance of GTAV. After attempting the feat with a nongamer friend of mine, she simply stated, „So in this game you just run around and rob people?“ Once the idea portrayed by the clip gets into your head, it’s nearly impossible to worm out.
If you haven’t played that much GTA V Online in a while and you’re thinking of getting back to it, be weary because there are going to be people on your server that are at way higher levels than you are and they will have the means to kill you on repeat with ease. The higher your level, the better quality of weapons you get. That can get annoying when all some people want to do is go around killing other players. But with all the explosives, melee weapons and guns available, you’d think that people would be a little more creative with how they took you out. As funny as this meme is, there’s a good deal of truth in it. You can’t walk five minutes without some d-bag flattening you with his
All jokes aside, this is a pretty apt description of what playing GTA V Online is like. Imagine the hectic, unrelenting carnage of someone going berserk on the AI in the campaign and now take about a dozen or so of those same people and put them all together on one server. It’s not pretty. Luckily, Rockstar implemented things like Heists and various multiplayer elements and game modes to keep player blood lust at a low. But that doesn’t stop someone from spamming you with a machine gun every so often. It isn’t all that uncommon for players to completely lose sight of their current goal once they pass another player on the road… and proceed to spend the next five minutes trying to kill them for no rea(Image: https://burst.shopifycdn.com/photos/the-front-side-of-an-olive-green-classic-car.jpg?width=746&format=pjpg&exif=0&iptc=0)
