GTA 5 Singleplayer Mode Underrated?

[Psycho]

I always played GTA Online, but found that I had the most fun when I was in a solo lobby, just doing my own stuff, away from griefers, hackers, & all the stuff online brings. But I've been playing through the story mode for the first time and I'm enjoying it way more than I would've thought.

The singleplayer world is better (it has animals, smarter NPCs, etc.), and it's just really fun. Just as fun as multiplayer.

How many of you have completed the story mode? I'm gonna guess that most people only play online and never even bothered with singleplayer

[Zero McDol]

The things is, story mode has more in it for a solo player to enjoy. At the same time, story mode doesn't include a lot of things that online has in it.

So if playing story:
No apartments
No dlc cars
No dlc business, heist, car meet content
No custom characters

...but what you get it is:
Random events in the world
Drive a taxi and pick up fares - must steal a taxi to get this
The stock market
Triathlon
Car wash
Dating, sort of - Michael can go on dates with his wife, and all characters can drive a stripper home for intimate relations (not shown). The dating aspect is pretty limited and imo, was better in GTAs' 3 and 4.


There's more of course and that's the advantage of SP vs Online.

So to me, it's always been a fight between wanting what I get in online vs wanting what I could have in story. Had the invite-only or solo session offered all of the things from story mode, I'd be a great deal less conflicted about it.



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[kandar]

A lot of the early online content was meant for a future update to SP. That was before R* broke their promise and decided to go down the micro-transaction/online route. In later articles, they tried to backpedal stating, "...we did not feel single-player expansions were either possible or necessary.”

I was honestly baffled as to why there was no functioning Casino in SP or barely anything else, outside of story mode, until online launched with micro-transactions.

[Maviba]

GTA has always been mainly a singleplayer game.
So most people probably bought it for this when it got released in 2013.

the only reason why I started playing online was because there was no new DLC for the main game any more.
but after I saw what happened to the game, I definitely won't support GTA6 ONLINE but stick with the single player game.
back to the roots for me.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by Maviba:

GTA has always been mainly a singleplayer game.
So most people probably bought it for this when it got released in 2013.

the only reason why I started playing online was because there was no new DLC for the main game any more.
but after I saw what happened to the game, I definitely won't support GTA6 ONLINE but stick with the single player game.
back to the roots for me.

Feel you.

In my own case, I couldn't care less about the actual story; my interest lies in the sandbox options that story mode gets. My reasons why story mode has never stuck with me are these:

No dlc cars
No apartments
No custom characters

Forced music in houses
Forced personal vehicles
Forced non-personal vehicles disappearing

Everything else about story is awesome to me .

If story mode had had these listed things and removed the forced stuff, I'd play it way more often.

Vice versa for invite-only session options in Online. I'd play Online way more often if the invite-only session had the sandbox options that story has in it. As is, I'm simply conflicted.

Don't get me wrong. Rockstar makes decent stories; I've just never been interested in playing through them.




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[Ribalder]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

The things is, story mode has more in it for a solo player to enjoy. At the same time, story mode doesn't include a lot of things that online has in it.

So if playing story:
No apartments
No dlc cars
No dlc business, heist, car meet content
No custom characters

...but what you get it is:
Random events in the world
Drive a taxi and pick up fares - must steal a taxi to get this
The stock market
Triathlon
Car wash
Dating, sort of - Michael can go on dates with his wife, and all characters can drive a stripper home for intimate relations (not shown). The dating aspect is pretty limited and imo, was better in GTAs' 3 and 4.


There's more of course and that's the advantage of SP vs Online.

So to me, it's always been a fight between wanting what I get in online vs wanting what I could have in story. Had the invite-only or solo session offered all of the things from story mode, I'd be a great deal less conflicted about it.



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back in san andreas u could date and it was discovered have sex was in game, but not in the final release, som1 found it, and put out the 'hot coffee' mod as it was known, but the reason congress called rockturd in to answer the public outcry over these violent video games and this one in particular- was for killing cops. nothing about the ability to have sex, haha. hilary clinton lead the hearings btw.

back in SA u could rampage against cops for a long time, never die, even at 6 stars the national guard came after u with tanks.. cheesy blocky tanks with a side door like on a house lol. an the ai was just way st00pid-er.
since the gov't 'talked' to them, 4 an now 5 u cant win out for very long against cops. trying to teach u not be bad boys n girls I guess, but more n more mofos b trying real life GTA sh*t..

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by Ribalder:

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

back in san andreas u could date and it was discovered have sex was in game, but not in the final release, som1 found it, and put out the 'hot coffee' mod as it was known, but the reason congress called rockturd in to answer the public outcry over these violent video games and this one in particular- was for killing cops. nothing about the ability to have sex, haha. hilary clinton lead the hearings btw.

back in SA u could rampage against cops for a long time, never die, even at 6 stars the national guard came after u with tanks.. cheesy blocky tanks with a side door like on a house lol. an the ai was just way st00pid-er.
since the gov't 'talked' to them, 4 an now 5 u cant win out for very long against cops. trying to teach u not be bad boys n girls I guess, but more n more mofos b trying real life GTA sh*t..

I rarely ever bother the cops in GTA V, unless by accident for the most part.

Same for III and IV. Even when triggered, I usually just run till the star disappears. I did do a battle on one occasion in GTA V to see how crazy 5 stars were, but for the most part I just enjoy the sandbox.

As to the politics, it's to be expected with a GTA game.

[Ribalder]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

Originally posted by Ribalder:

I rarely ever bother the cops in GTA V, unless by accident for the most part.

Same for III and IV. Even when triggered, I usually just run till the star disappears. I did do a battle on one occasion in GTA V to see how crazy 5 stars were, but for the most part I just enjoy the sandbox.

As to the politics, it's to be expected with a GTA game.

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drop a trainer in V and set god mode, god vehicle, unlim ammo, all weapons, spawn some hooker bodyguards, an lay waste as long as u want..
ahhh, a relaxing rampage

[Ten Bears]

I only play sp for LSPDFR.

A call out for a dangerous person(s), turns into a 15 minute, high speed pursuit, with a helicopter overhead and multiple agencies responding. Cars smoking and shots fired! Someone's going to jail and it's not me... A couple extra mods, and it's a good cop sim.

Don't get stabbed... Fun Stuff.

(But when I do play sp, no rage hook, I'm Trreevvoorr...)

[SqueakyTweaky]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

The things is, story mode has more in it for a solo player to enjoy. At the same time, story mode doesn't include a lot of things that online has in it.

So if playing story:
No apartments
No dlc cars
No dlc business, heist, car meet content
No custom characters

...but what you get it is:
Random events in the world
Drive a taxi and pick up fares - must steal a taxi to get this
The stock market
Triathlon
Car wash
Dating, sort of - Michael can go on dates with his wife, and all characters can drive a stripper home for intimate relations (not shown). The dating aspect is pretty limited and imo, was better in GTAs' 3 and 4.


There's more of course and that's the advantage of SP vs Online.

So to me, it's always been a fight between wanting what I get in online vs wanting what I could have in story. Had the invite-only or solo session offered all of the things from story mode, I'd be a great deal less conflicted about it.



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All of the things you mentioned can be added to singleplayer via mods and much more

[daniel]

okay

[Nero]

If they had actively incorporated some of what is in online into singleplayer it would have been great sadly it was always kept separate, when the online game is solo lobbies anyway it makes even more sense

[Braiah123]

Bro, if they updated it just a tiny bit, it wouldn't be so dead. If they added some new cars or some new missions, it'd bring singleplayer back

[Maviba]

Originally posted by Braiah123:

Bro, if they updated it just a tiny bit, it wouldn't be so dead. If they added some new cars or some new missions, it'd bring singleplayer back

every story driven (sp)game is going to "die" at some point, especially once its successor is heading towards the starting grid.
if there wasn't GTAO, it would be pretty quiet around GTA5 now.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by BoatSwain:

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

All of the things you mentioned can be added to singleplayer via mods and much more

Very true, but half the time I end up having issues with the mods.

Either a mod is out of date and no longer relevant or I'm stuck waiting for script hook to update. I eventually just got tired of it, after a time where the s hook took a month or two to update.

Now I'm just hoping that Rockstar will be interested in at least adding a few things from story into an invite-only session.

That'd be good enough for me.

[RatBoggles]

Dumb people / children don't have time to appreciate a well crafted story. They want instant gratification via flying motorcycles and shark cards / PVP. More singleplayer content won't earn rockstar as many sheckles as their monetized online experience.