Unfortunately it kind of does. I enjoy changing the car's color and jacking up its power, but as I mentioned already, most of the other stuff doesn't matter. Upgrading brakes barely changes them, lowering suspension doesn't change its performance, either.
Also, get a sports car and level 4 engine upgrade tops out its acceleration. However, you can still add a turbo. Does that make it faster? No idea, the graph line is already tapped out. And now upgrade transmission. Does that make a difference? No idea.
GAWD I wish body armor didn't suck so fking badly. Make it a one-time increase in health is stupid. It should be a damage modifier. I don't bother buying it because in any kind of extended confrontation, the entirety of health is spent between 0 and 50% anyway. I'd also like to be able to buy the heavy duty bomb blast armor, like exists in one of those missions.
I think you're missing the point. Some people above have already said they loved single, but when you're done single all that is left is multi, so they are complaining that it sucks. Apparently it does and rockstar let out a patch this morning.
Wow, I hate that shit! I still am annoyed having to "jog" up and down stairs.
Wow, what a ridiculous wall of text. Are you even paying attention to the story. You arent in this for personal gain during the storyline missions. You are paying off a series of debts, and getting played like a videogame by the FIB. Then at the end the crew agrees to do ONE last job to score big before getting out. Thats why only the last mission nets YOU a big payout.
Pay attention to the story and it all makes sense.
The secret is to take all your earnings from the whole story, then do the Lester missions for Franklin. Each one makes one stock sky rocket. Make all three chars invest heavily each time. You can get hundreds of millions this way, you can even overload the 32-bit int (~$2.1B) and get negative cash.
I did some Lester missions early on until I read the secret, now I have ~$16m to do the rest. I'm hoping to earn anough to buy lots of cool stuff.
Its not broken or flawed, it all makes sense if you actually pay attention during the cutscenes. You arent supposed to have tons of cash until the end, this is called game design. If you owned all those properties before you finished the story it would make the story senseless.
No, it makes no sense and yes I pay attention to the story. Geeze...can you honestly say that stealing a chopper and sub for a heist that has zero pay and was unrelated to paying debt or any dealings with the FIB was anything other than a filler mission?
Not even that, but the fact that I had to rob a bank to buy a chopper non military grade chopper after I'd already stolen one from the military base itself is rather filler as well. I, for some reason, have to be all "legit" in obtaining this piece of equipment, but in order to be legit for that I can kill countless cops and soldiers (regardless if the money was for dirty cops, it wasn't just the dirty ones that responded).
The problem with this game was that they spend so much time on stupid things like golf, the game itself just wasn't more than a few hours long. I even made a ton of money (I own every property and still have over 1 billion dollars on Franklin) and after the main story, all the ? are stupid. They aren't full missions or entertaining for the most part.
I think splitting the story into 3 characters was also a bad idea. If they had focused on making everything for a single character (any of the 3, although I'd prefer Franklin), the missions would have been better, the story would have been better, and the game would have been better. The switching was okay for some parts, but most of the missions, I only did it when I was forced (like I had to fly the awful chopper and then switch to the gunner) or whatever. In all the missions where I had to do any shooting, I stayed with a single character unless the game forced a switch.
And they added awful mechanics like the heist members and their leveling for no reason. You can't do extra heists. You can't pick cheap guys and level them up (they die and you lose money for their incompetence). That was a waste. You should have just found friends who performed the tasks or had to do missions to recruit them.
I liked the game while I was playing it, but after beating it, I haven't even put it back in my Xbox to try out the online. It has virtually no replay value after playing it once over. It isn't even as fun to just cause mayhem in this one.
The economy in single player is beyond stupid. *snip*
All in all, it sounds like you've put many, many hours into the game and got your $60 worth. What else do you want from it?
Wow, what a ridiculous wall of text. Are you even paying attention to the story. You arent in this for personal gain during the storyline missions. You are paying off a series of debts, and getting played like a videogame by the FIB. Then at the end the crew agrees to do ONE last job to score big before getting out. Thats why only the last mission nets YOU a big payout.
Pay attention to the story and it all makes sense.
All in all, it sounds like you've put many, many hours into the game and got your $60 worth. What else do you want from it?
FACT! I finished a few nights ago. Each character had $40M and I had assassination left. I didn't even bother to do them. Why would I? To then buy a golf course and have nothing left to do? Basically you're fairly cash poor throughout much of the game until the very end unless you do the suitcase under water scam. Par excellence, after finishing the game I quickly lost interest. I bought a tank, played around for 20 min, and put it up for sale.The economy in single player is beyond stupid. There are a handful of missions / random encounters that offer a pretty good payout, and that all makes sense. But too many missions pay nothing, and since the properties at the upper end of the scale are so expensive, there's only one possible way to actually get them; save all the assassination missions until you've beaten the game, invest wisely in your manipulated stock market and make a killing. OK, fine; except now I'm rich, I own everything, and there's nothing left to do except a few random strangers/freaks missions and collectibles. There's no sense of progression. The entire game is "save your money, save your money, save your money, finish the game, do the stock market stuff, great, now you can afford things but there's nothing left to do." I would've preferred to play the story slower, but still had an opportunity to build up some sizable cash reserves and invest in property as I was playing through the story, not just get a huge wad at the end when I have nothing left to play for.
That mission was pure f**king bullshat. Absolute RUBBISH pulling that at the end, and then thethe Merryweather Heist; $20 million but I can't fence it? Bullshit!
Absolutely agree. During the game a $500k plane might have been nice to have, but I couldn't afford it easily, so by the end when I can suddenly I just don't care. The only vehicle I bought at all was a tank, I didn't buy anything else.The game gives you very little money during the course of the story, dumps a fortune on you at the end, and it feels utterly unrewarding as there's no sense that you've really built something from the ground up.
No, it doesn't.Pay attention to the story and it all makes sense.
Yep. The stock market SHOULD have worked like some people thought it did when it first came out. It should have been possible to manipulate it.What they need most is a way to do hostile takeovers of businesses like the clothing shops, ammunation, the extermination company etc. You should be able to destroy their assets of intercept shipments to them and then blackmail them for cash. Or they should have allowed you to tank their stock by destroying their assets and robbing the stores then when you buy enough stocks you become the majority shareholder and basically get paid as an owner. There is no way to do things like this.
Yep, interestingly there is very little actual difficult driving at all during core missions. There should have been far more getaway plays.You should have these cars and use them as getaway vehicles. They don't even do that properly. They need to let you stash vehicles around the city and mark them on your map as getaway cars and when you rob someplace or do an assassination mission to do a hostile takeover, use your strategically placed vehicle to evade the cops. This happens in a story mission but it should be a core gameplay mechanic.
Undeniable TRUTH. The leveling of heist members was a total load of horse shit. If it were possible to do random heists throughout the game--something that really should have been built in--this could have been worthwhile, but as it was it made no sense at all. IIRC they even level them up after the final heist. Wow, great, now Packie McCreary is a better gunner and I can use him on...uh, no mission at all. Ever again.And they added awful mechanics like the heist members and their leveling for no reason. You can't do extra heists. You can't pick cheap guys and level them up (they die and you lose money for their incompetence). That was a waste. You should have just found friends who performed the tasks or had to do missions to recruit them.
I actually hated that game. It was ungodly boring to me, like GTA minus the cars and minus the cool guns. I couldn't do more than around 5 hours or so.Rdr > gta5
After playing more, the biggest flaw of all for me is the cops. They magically know where you are when you are out in the desert sniping someone. How can they pinpoint you like that immediately? There's literally nobody else around and supposedly I was using a suppressed weapon. What makes it worse is you stand next to someone for a bit and do nothing just stand there, but for some reason that dude is all like "hey man I'm gonna call the cops" and bam you get one star. The hell is that?!?