GTAV's Story Mode Sucks

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There is plenty of hate about GTAV - TakeTwo's greedy business model, lazy additions to GTA Online, etc.
But SP always seems to escape the criticism - until now.
Many gamers these days are too young to know the material being referenced, or more aptly - ripped off.
Talk about running out of ideas.... GTAV literally offered NO original ideas. As I played through the story mode a second time, I kept being reminded of past media that did it all so much better.
No wonder they never released any SP DLC; they have nothing left.

The story campiagn is total derivitive schlock.

They even reused setpieces from their own damn franchises!

Not only did they rip off GTA San Andrea's setting and the infamous train mission Wrong Side of the Tracks, but also GTA IV's bank heist mission Three Leaf Clover. They also just reused game mechanics from Max Payne and Red Dead Redeption.... did GTA V offer anything new, or did they just repackage their 'greatest hits' as a new game?
Wait, did I say 'their greatest hits'? More like 'their only good ideas'....

They also ripped a bunch of classic movie scenes off, including but not limited to pulling the stilt house off the cliff/crashing the car out of the barg container from Lethal Weapon 2... the only two action scenes I even remember after 40 mindless hrs of gameplay.

The story didnt even have a coherent plot or moral theme.... it was just a schizophrenic mishmash of action setpieces, stolen from movies and other games. And idk if anyone but me noticed, but they totally dropped the side plot about Michael's stolen boat.

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Dont give me this "thats the point" or "theyre just tongue-in-cheek references to Hollywood excess" bs.... the game is not that smart. This game set record sales and is rated as one of the best.,,, further proving that most of my fellow gamers are Lemmings (lol Rockstar joke).
Rockstar are a bunch of unorignal hacks, cashing in on their last true cashcow. You may not have noticed, but your brain did.

SHAME.

[ಕ್SGT.eRazorXಕ್]

I think that most of the people who played the storyline multiple times at this point can understand this pretty good. But really i dont think that GTA V is what it was supposed to be in the minds of the writers nearly ten years ago.
The game also had its massive budget, but really now, you know this game is only 70% done in SP. Things like immersive ai behavior and environment interaction has to be modded into the game to get a full experience, prolly cause the old gen cons were already fighting with what there was. And there's the point i don't understand, why didnt R* made a major overhaul of the storymode while devving for the current gen cons and PC ? Sadly it seems that R* just wanted to get all the cash with minimun dev costs, game is getting advertised anywhere anyway, so or so, they could've atleast given us a reason to buy the game again for the damn full ♥♥♥♥♥ price, but instead we got ARMA...eh wait GTA:O updates that made the game richer in "content" (i'll get to that later), but killed any form of balance or real usefulness of gaming skills except youre an ace pilot or great driver, other than that...*sees bikemark on map* oh damn that bikes fas-wait, did that thing just flew over the maz-*rocket impact, horrible screaming* haha ez l2p n00b getgud rektxxx oppressor rulezl!!11
And dont get me started on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Deluxo.

Anyway, after the second playthrough you know that the game feels pretty barebones now...And thats the tragedy about all this, the games magic went flying the f out because of this, and because R* followed a DLC practice which made it loose it all. Remember all the jetpack videos and such ? b u y f o r o n l y 2 . 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 $ b o i . I just cant think of any reason why they couldnt atleast give the jetpack the honor it deserves in GTA and make a mission in singleplayer where you can obtain it! no, hehe. not even that, or something similar in Online, and the doomsday mission for it was not really the thing you expected from a nearly mythological artifact for the community in GTA V since its release being finally obtained. Oh, and it handles like crap.

The singleplayer was spoken over there and there, cast members here saying "hmhmhm maybe yea maybe maybe." and people were generally excited at some points in time for a sp DLC coming out or even a standalone that was "leaked" but deep inside everybode knew that theres a 0.1% chance of R* giving us any real new content like another map or before mentioned SP additions, i think we can all agree that this game is dying, or maybe died long ago as a GTA.

This doesnt mean that its a bad game, its just downright ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seeing a game with so much potential lying in the dirt, while getting thrown at with rocks from which it has to eat and survive. Mods can restore this a little bit, but theyre still mods, not something everybody is into or willing to sacrifice game stability, but they help getting a feel of what the game couldve been.

[globefish23]

Rip off?
Rockstar can't rip off their own intellectual property.
They own the franchise.

Besides, what's the problem of reusing the same game engine with its same mechanics?
Pretty much every developer does this.
To mention your example, GTA:SA reused the same engine as GTA3.

And every single game in the GTA series uses Hollywood movies and contemporate pop culture as the basis for all the satire, spoofs, allusions and injokes.

And yeah, when you're focusing your franchise on gangsters and criminals for over 20 years now, your bound to run into repetition.
But the GTA London and GTA Vice City games, L.A. Noire, as well as the Red Dead Redemption series are a nice spin-off from the modern gangster style.

[Sovereign Star]

That's the point, they want you go to Online to milk you even more money for shark cards.

You finally realized the grand master evil plan by Take-Two.

[Lar Dass]

whilst i do admit the IV story was waay better and so was SA, V was still fairly good but i kinda wanted more emotion, but i guess it was like an action film so not really
also they killed johnny!!!

[gaqo]

It's just a Watchdogs rip off!

I'm new to GTA, but I like what they're trying to do. Some of it is by the book post modernism; multiple character angles, the satire(or mock satire), and the constant self referencing and referencing of popular culture(ie:ten million people get it).

But there is a natural feel as the characters come together, and you are offered choices. I'll try some of the mods. And some of the earlier games. I see potential, and everyone steals ideas from everyone else. The creator of the only mod I'm using, looked at the graphical realism achieved in WD2.

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O'vey and pay!!!! be a good GOY!

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Originally posted by globefish23:

Rip off?
Rockstar can't rip off their own intellectual property.
They own the franchise.

Typical fanboy.... Youre missing the point.
In school, if you submitted the same essay twice in a semester, you couldnt get reprimanded for plagiarism, but youd def get an F for blatant lack of effort.

This game offers nothing original, but its still praised up and down. It get sales records. Easily manipulated fanboys liek you are the reason.
GTA Online is GTAV. The story mode is an embrassing distraction, that only serves as a long tutorial for all the tedious game mechanics.

[Practikill]

So, your dislike of the game invalidates the millions of players who enjoy it so much? The game is not perfect, but it seems to be one of the most successfull games ever.

Anyone who likes it is a blind fanboy?

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well i liked the story so much on xbox360 that i purchased it again for pc.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by the gamer maimer:

Originally posted by globefish23:

Rip off?
Rockstar can't rip off their own intellectual property.
They own the franchise.

Typical fanboy.... Youre missing the point.
In school, if you submitted the same essay twice in a semester, you couldnt get reprimanded for plagiarism, but youd def get an F for blatant lack of effort.

So now you're claiming that GTA V is a carbon copy of the previous games?

Originally posted by the gamer maimer:

GTA Online is GTAV. The story mode is an embrassing distraction, that only serves as a long tutorial for all the tedious game mechanics.

I played through the story mode 3 times before I even touched GTAO.
I think that GTAO is actually a diluted, shallow version of the immersing world of the single player.
All this grinding is pretty boring, when the only goal to achieve is buying a new vehicle - or property for more grinding.
Single player was much more fun in those 200 hours.

Originally posted by the gamer maimer:

This game offers nothing original, but its still praised up and down. It get sales records. Easily manipulated fanboys liek you are the reason.

I bought the 1.5 years after release during a -50% in 2016.
I've been playing computer games since the late 1980s.
I'm hardly easily manipulated.


I hope for you, that you could get a Steam refund, after realizing how abysmally bad this game is.

[Commancho]

GTA 5 has the worst single player experience in the entire franchise.
The prologue is great, but then it goes downhill pretty fast...

[Practikill]

Originally posted by Commancho:

GTA 5 has the worst single player experience in the entire franchise.
The prologue is great, but then it goes downhill pretty fast...

I've heard some say GTAIV has a better story. Unfortunately it's a crappy port that stutters so bad I can't play it. Tried every fix I could find, and nothing works. Plus Rockstar hasn't removed that GFWL BS. And the world looks all grey and dull.

At least, for me, GTAV runs great on my poor old rig.

[GamingDJ]

Okay but Rockstar has been ripping off content for a long time now , its nothing new , you do know that Gta Vice City is ripped off from Miami Vice right ? And that ending mossion Is ripped off from scarface movie .

Gta san andreas is a slight recreation of the infamous east coast vs west hip hop rivalry, ruder is a Damn straight rip off of Eazy E

My point is that they have been doing this for a long time now and its no secret and as long as its fun , does it really matter ? Personally I enjoyed the SP story but yeah it lacked the depth from the previous games but still fun , GTA 4 rreally made me sad going till the end as I had got attached to niko that much so I think the narrative did a great job , difficult to execute that with 3 guys I guess ....

[RageMojo]

Originally posted by the gamer maimer:

Originally posted by globefish23:

Rip off?
Rockstar can't rip off their own intellectual property.
They own the franchise.

Typical fanboy.... Youre missing the point.
In school, if you submitted the same essay twice in a semester, you couldnt get reprimanded for plagiarism, but youd def get an F for blatant lack of effort.

This game offers nothing original, but its still praised up and down. It get sales records. Easily manipulated fanboys liek you are the reason.
GTA Online is GTAV. The story mode is an embrassing distraction, that only serves as a long tutorial for all the tedious game mechanics.

I couldnt possibly disagree with you more. Online is a skinner box trash can. I enjoyed SP more than any GTA since Vice City. SP was great.

I dont agree with the people who whorship 4. I think the man dates were beyond annoying. It took itself too serious, the cars moved like boats and Roman was easily the second worst fictional character ever created, right behind Jar Jar Binks.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by deejay1204:

Okay but Rockstar has been ripping off content for a long time now , its nothing new , you do know that Gta Vice City is ripped off from Miami Vice right ? And that ending mossion Is ripped off from scarface movie .

Gta san andreas is a slight recreation of the infamous east coast vs west hip hop rivalry, ruder is a Damn straight rip off of Eazy E

My point is that they have been doing this for a long time now and its no secret and as long as its fun , does it really matter ? Personally I enjoyed the SP story but yeah it lacked the depth from the previous games but still fun , GTA 4 rreally made me sad going till the end as I had got attached to niko that much so I think the narrative did a great job , difficult to execute that with 3 guys I guess ....

Yep, that's what I explained in my first post.

It's called hommage, allusion or inspiration.
Not rip-off.

The True Crime series can be called rip off.
Rockstar even made fun of it in one of their in-game billboards ("True Grime").