at what pricepoint should I buy GTA5

[PrincessFrosty]

Full price, the PC version is the definitive version, this is a AAA game in the truest sense of the word, most of the minor issues people have had can be fixed, the game is phenomenal.

I think at 75 hours the singleplayer is more than worth it, but the countless hours of multiplayer and to finish off the game 100% is going to extend the value of the game into the far future. This is the first really worthy game of the AAA title we've seen on the PC in literally years.

 

[Face2Face]

This is the first game that I paid full price for in many years - $59 on STEAM. Like SKYRIM, it's worth every penny.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I've paid retail twice for this game on PS3 and PC, considered completely worth it if you enjoy GTA Online. I've got enough hours out of this game and still playing.

Finished single player on PS3, once is enough.

Meh, I HAAAAATE GTA Online and I still think GTA V was worth a double dip at full price. There's enough new stuff added to single player to justify going back in (new collectibles, new side activities, new strangers/freaks missions, first person mode, etc.).

 

[Grooveriding]

The current price is worth it unless you can't manage it atm.

 

[dsotm172]

GMG still has it for 47 dollars. Absolutely worth it. Even at full price. I made a crew with a few friends and have been having a blast with GTA Online. Single player is also very fun. Great voice acting, hilarious radio stations. So much stuff to do. If you don't own this game you're missing out.

 

[Majcric]

Op, it's definitely worth the full price. I think Rockstar did a fine job with the PC copy.

 

[artemicion]

If you've never played GTA 5 yet on console, IMO it's about a $30 game. I bought it at launch for Xbox 360 and I regretted paying launch price for it. I'd have been happy with the game if I waited for a sale though. Obviously, if you've already played through it on console, it's worth way less IMO (personally, I have no plans to rebuy on PC, unless maybe I get a new rig I want to benchmark with GTAV and even then I'd be willing to pay about $10 for it).

It is really spectacular and impressive what Rockstar built, but I respect it more as a technical accomplishment than a game that's fun to play. The world is huge and detailed, the production quality in terms of cinematics and voice acting is top notch, etc. But the game itself feels like a dozen video game genres crammed into one game (which is an impressive achievement) but I found that no single gameplay mechanic was necessarily superior to a dedicated game in that genre. Like, I'd rather play a driving game then drive around in GTAV. I'd rather play a dedicated shooter game than get into shootouts in GTAV. I'd rather play a real sports game than any of the sports mini games in GTAV. I'd rather explore around in Skyrim or some other open world RPG than randomly walk around in GTAV.

Also, I hated the story. It was like watching an episode of Jersey Shore or Real Housewives. Just a bunch of unlikable people putz around trying to work out their trainwreck lives.

 

[escrow4]

Meh, I HAAAAATE GTA Online and I still think GTA V was worth a double dip at full price. There's enough new stuff added to single player to justify going back in (new collectibles, new side activities, new strangers/freaks missions, first person mode, etc.).

Such as? 5 towing missions? Hunting down 50 scraps of paper? Yoga? And first person mode? HA!. Its worth $30 if that. Better yet, just replay III and the first San Andreas. Before Rockstar sold out and started focussing on multi-trash.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Such as? 5 towing missions? Hunting down 50 scraps of paper? Yoga? And first person mode? HA!. Its worth $30 if that. Better yet, just replay III and the first San Andreas. Before Rockstar sold out and started focussing on multi-trash.

There are new vehicles and weapons, more wildlife, double the number of songs, the murder mystery missions, the wildlife photography missions, the monkey graffiti collectibles, the peyote collectibles, the stunt plane missions, stock car racing, more random events, the previously mentioned first person mode and dramatically improved graphics, along with a video editor if that's your sort of thing, and modding capability, all in a game that I haven't played in over a year despite enjoying it immensely when it came out. That's worth $60 to me. It isn't to you. So be it.

 

[Majcric]

Such as? 5 towing missions? Hunting down 50 scraps of paper? Yoga? And first person mode? HA!. Its worth $30 if that. Better yet, just replay III and the first San Andreas. Before Rockstar sold out and started focussing on multi-trash.

I'm by no means a GTA fanatic. but come on, if any game released in the last few years is worth full retail I think GTA 5 should be included. Even if you only play the story mode from start to finish.

I do think a lot of the other GTA games had better missions but as a whole IMO GTA 5 competes well.

 

[Bill Brasky]

If you've never played GTA 5 yet on console, IMO it's about a $30 game.

This is exactly the impression I got when I borrowed GTA 4 from my buddy on PS3. It was *ok*.

 

[escrow4]

There are new vehicles and weapons, more wildlife, double the number of songs, the murder mystery missions, the wildlife photography missions, the monkey graffiti collectibles, the peyote collectibles, the stunt plane missions, stock car racing, more random events, the previously mentioned first person mode and dramatically improved graphics, along with a video editor if that's your sort of thing, and modding capability, all in a game that I haven't played in over a year despite enjoying it immensely when it came out. That's worth $60 to me. It isn't to you. So be it.

So fetch quests and add-ons to pad out the short campaign. Great!

 

[JoJoman88]

Someone apparently misses bowling with Roman.

Don't forget the stupid bird hunt or playing darts with Roman!

GTA 5 FTW, there is so much to do and see in this game. I think i spent 4 or 5 hours just driving around looking.

 

[TeknoBug]

Wait.. what negative comments?

 

[futurefields]

No, it isn't:

- Seriously cut back campaign with disjointed missions randomly shoved in - you start the heists after you pull a house down the hill to pay off some "major" player even though you have no problem killing dozens of others major players (and bashing Simon say in the beginning, never mind what you do to Merryweather). Half the heists you either get very little or have to give back what you stole. Not enough heists. Movie producer thing goes nowhere. David Weston dead-ends early too.

- Sandy Shores is neglected after a few throwaway missions with Trevor, and what happened to Trevor Phillips Enterprises? What about Trevor's safehouse in the LS? Not even mentioned?

- Michaels family randomly disappears and then just as randomly pops up 90% towards the end with some character development randomly thrown in, still way too little.

- No character development - already mentioned Trevor, Franklin leaves the hood and that's it, then Lamar magically turns up towards the end.

- Strangers and Freaks is partial filler - 5 towing missions? Random skydiving?

- The world is empty, of course you can't enter any buildings or interact with anything unless Rockstar built it in.

- No overall plot, you end up killing a few groups just because of a tenuous link from the past which could have been interesting but just ends up rather trite and generic - the Kortz shootout was the only highlight from that angle. Otherwise a whole pile of the game is you following some corrupt coppers just because instead of just capping them in the first place (which would have turned out to be a better plot with those consequences). What plot lines there are are poorly developed (if at all) see above.

Rockstar focusses too much on the online rubbish and neglected the rest. Its a whole lot of random missions with little cohesion or character focus. IV went places, even the original San Andreas (which I never liked) went somewhere. So did III and Vice City and they all had a single character. You have 3 protagonists you need a lot more campaign. This, as cheap as you can get it.

This comment is so spectacularly off the mark. It sounds like you didn't play much of the game. I don't know how you can say GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas "went somewhere" and GTA 5 doesn't. It's just such a loaded bs comment with no validity too it.

I've always loved GTA series but let's be honest, this is the first GTA with missions that are actually fun. GTA games missions have never had the cinematic quality that these take on. Where it feels like you are entering a scene from a movie. They didn't start doing this kind of thing until Red Dead Redemption and they've taken it to an even higher level here.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Honestly people are looking at GTA4 with rose tinted nostalgia glasses. The world was a cartoon, the city was small and claustrophobic with narrow streets, there was more filler than necessary. You can say "but there were more places to go" but who the hell wants to spend all game going on dates with characters? That's filler, especially when most of the places you can go were copy and paste jobs. There was no need to have 3 strip clubs and 5 bars. Those locations were just there to make it appear that there was a lot of stuff when there wasn't. GTA 5 feels like the world is more real and alive, and doesn't try so hard. The physics are fake and stupid in GTA4, the driving was tons worse than it is now, and there is absolutely no need for there to be as many weapons as they added to that game. At least the characters in GTA 5 have some character, the protagonist in GTA4 was so one dimensional it was pathetic.

Seriously GTA5 is a huge upgrade over GTA4 because what is there serves a real purpose and isn't there just to add more crap.

 

[Blanky]

$30 is the most i'll pay total for a game and that one was good and is worth the $30. Since PC games cannot be resold, wait until it's $30. If console, you should buy it now and play and sell.

GTA V is not perfect and its main fault is the heist missions are very improperly done; generally way too easy, and selection/building of people in them is useless.

Everything else about the game is good, it's obviously the best GTA and if you like these games it's a no brainer.

 

[escrow4]

This comment is so spectacularly off the mark. It sounds like you didn't play much of the game. I don't know how you can say GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas "went somewhere" and GTA 5 doesn't. It's just such a loaded bs comment with no validity too it.

I've always loved GTA series but let's be honest, this is the first GTA with missions that are actually fun. GTA games missions have never had the cinematic quality that these take on. Where it feels like you are entering a scene from a movie. They didn't start doing this kind of thing until Red Dead Redemption and they've taken it to an even higher level here.

Provide plot examples that refute me. Go on. Niko had a start and finish. So did Claude. This was lets go rob stuff the end. The whole single player campaign was an ad for online. What cinematic quality? Random characters and plot lines that wobble in and out that go nowhere. I played and finished the single campaign player and it was poor. But provide examples. Go on.

 

[Maximilian]

GTA V apparently has a tank as well... GTA IV sorely lacked that.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Provide plot examples that refute me. Go on. Niko had a start and finish. So did Claude. This was lets go rob stuff the end. The whole single player campaign was an ad for online. What cinematic quality? Random characters and plot lines that wobble in and out that go nowhere. I played and finished the single campaign player and it was poor. But provide examples. Go on.

It seems like poor form to post potential spoilers in a thread where someone is asking whether they should buy the game, but there's no way to address that question without including plenty, so fair warning.

***SPOILERS***

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I actually liked GTA IV; I don't know why so many people like to hate on it after the fact. So I'm not going to bother trying to refute a point where you and I agree. But I strongly disagree with you about the plot build for GTA V. You have three distinct people with three distinct motivations; the young guy who wants to get out of poverty, the older guy who is struggling to make a straight life work but who can't outrun his past, and the psychopath whose pent-up frustration about his lack of career progress since the last big job he pulled has essentially driven him crazy. Their interactions all build around the fact that they have three different reasons for being involved with the story which culminates in a number of interactions where Trevor almost gets Michael killed, not to mention the choice at the end of who to kill (although, let's face it, you're always choosing the third way). I liked GTA IV and Niko, but I don't know how anyone could say with a straight face that Niko's story is somehow better than the protagonists of GTA V; they're both pretty cookie-cutter. And Claude? Anyone who thinks that a protagonist that never speaks somehow has more of a story arc than the characters in GTA V is either insane or watching The Miracle Worker.

As far as missions, though, GTA V absolutely blows GTA IV away. You have missions where you shoot down a plane and chase it across the country on a dirtbike, where you catch up to a plane in midair and crash a cropduster into it just so you can hijack it before getting shot down and parachuting to safety, where you break into and burn down a rival meth lab, where you rappel down the side of a building attached to a helicopter to snatch an informant, where you catch up to your stolen boat on the freeway so Franklin can jump on to it to get it back, or where you ride across the top of a train on a dirtbike to hijack it. People raved about the bank job in GTA IV that was ripped straight from Heat; now you get multiple heists reminiscent of Heat, including the scene where you literally knock over an armored car with a truck. You get a variety of assassination missions. You get large-scale shootouts. You get workable stealth sections. It's very, very well structured, even without the filler (and at least the filler this time doesn't involve an incessantly whiny cousin calling you every 12 seconds to hang out).

I liked GTA IV; GTA V is better in every conceivable way (except, ironically, the Online portion, which I thought was passable in IV and hate in V).

 

[Nebor]

About $3.50.

 

[TeknoBug]

About $3.50.

 

[JamesV]

I might buy it when it's $5, but I already bought it for the 360 when it came out.

I agree with most naysayers about 5; the world is a big set piece with little interaction. Nothing to enter, no random car missions if you find a car in the middle of nowhere, no stores to enter and rob (outside of missions), no hood takeovers or defends, and I could probably think of more things previous GTA games had that are missing.

So what do they give us? Yoga (yawn), tennis (yawn), golf(yawn), etc (yawn). GTA isn't really a sandbox game anymore, but a series of missions you have to travel to.

I played the hell out of 4's multiplayer, but got tired of 5's after about ten hours, which shouldn't make sense since 5 has much more options. It just feels boring grinding out cash, and the real money shop for in-game cash really put me off. I'll never buy another Rockstar game for full price.

 

[JeffMD]

This is a stupid thread. The game has been out for 1.5 years, if you still have not gotten around to buying it you obviously don't give a crap.

 

[StinkyPinky]

This is a stupid thread. The game has been out for 1.5 years, if you still have not gotten around to buying it you obviously don't give a crap.

This is the PC gaming forum, so the game has been out about three weeks.

Also, for me personally, I paid full price and don't regret it at all. The main story line was fun with interesting characters and the world is beautiful. I preferred it over GTA 4 with its boring as hell protagonist.