>Lol, grow up.

Irony is truly dead.

>Lol, take your own advice. People can buy something and still complain about it, it happens all the time.

Complaining about something being lazy and bad before you buy it while admitting that you're already planning to buy it despite those complaints is stupid. Period.

Oh no...anything but that...I'm so scared...this is me absolutely quaking with fear right now...

Whenever I get around to playing it there's a good likelihood it will become the replacement for me, just because of ease of access.

The sad immigrant with a dark past storyline is definitely not doing it for me. My issues grappling with the physics, my issues with the lack of mission checkpoints, and my issues with the unengaging story with the character that's too dour, depressing, and one note for me to care that much about have really added up to a very tedious experience. I've really tried to give it a chance but I think I'm done with it.

the story mode (I have never played GTA Online in any capacity) of GTAV is just a really special game to me. It came out at a time when I hadn't been a gamer in years. The last game I played to completion at that point was Metal Gear Solid 4 because I was and am a massive fan of (most of) the Metal Gear Solid series. Since then I had completely fallen out of gaming for a really long time. It wasn't until my younger brother moved in with me for a variety of reasons that he brought along all his video game stuff.

GTAV was the first game he purchased for his Xbox after he moved in and I became obsessed with it. I related in so many different ways to all the characters of the game, and that story for as satirical, over the top, and absurd of it is was a really deep and rich experience for me and still is every time I revisit it. It's the game that made me a gamer again. So I hold it in very high esteem.

alright, thank you. I'll give it another go and see how it feels to me. It's so wildly different in tone, and in basic game mechanics/physics, from V that it was just jarring to kind of go back in time to that one. It's strange I suppose that GTAIV is so much harder for me to travel back in time and play than San Andreas was, but maybe that all boils down to that arcade style that you touched upon. I want to like GTAIV so I'm definitely willing to be patient with it...but yeah, it has admittedly been a bit of a struggle for me so far.

Thanks for not taking my post as some kind of attack on the game. I've been shouted down a ton on reddit for not particularly enjoying X game or another, regardless of how mild my criticism might be. So it was nice to have a serious response that took my general criticism at face value and acknowledged that it's not just me not "getting" something, but could in fact be a valid reaction.

I'll give it a couple more play sessions and see if it really grabs me.

I gotta be honest. I recently finished playing GTAV's story mode again after having not played it for a couple of years. It really put me in a GTA mood and I wanted to keep that going so, seeing how much praise this game always gets, I decided to go backward and give GTAIV a try. I've put about 3 hours into playing the game and total and at this point I'm on the verge of just calling it and giving up. I just can't get into it. I find everything just kind of blah, depressing, and boring. The much vaunted driving physics in particular annoy me rather than satisfy that itch I was trying to scratch.

Anyone got any words of encouragement? I'm not super far into the story...Probably about an hour and a half of that 3 hours is story missions so far. Is this just a "push through until it gets good" situation? Or is the hype for GTAIV more based in nostalgia than the actual reality of the game? Keep in mind when considering that question that I have also gone back and started replaying San Andreas and so far that one is way more engaging and fun.

>So what? Can’t really do anything about vehicle collisions, people in rural areas sometimes need to protect livestock… 4-6000 individuals is a pretty healthy population considering how massive their territories are. What is this study trying to even say?

The article is trying desperately to make some statistics meaningful...but they really aren't.

>The Republican elite are all in favor of Trump being convicted of bribery rather than his other crimes.

Exactly. They've really just been trying to figure out how and what they can charge him with that won't blowback on the established political leadership of the party. They have their hands in too much of what Trump did for him to ever face prosecution for any of it, but prosecution for this has no way of bouncing back on anybody important with the party and take's the need to deal with him off their plate as it ends his political career. At least that's what they're likely hoping for.

They're in luck. Donald Trump and employees of and or appointed by Donald Trump are not in charge of maintaining the safety of the insurrectionists this time, nor in charge of defending the DA staff for that matter.

>This one would be especially interesting to see completion vs playtime.

agreed. This is one of those situations where the game is so massive there might just be a lot of people who get caught up doing whatever they feel like doing and never really progress the main story forward. I know that I'm that way with Skyrim. I've never once completed the story for Skyrim on any platform, ever, but I've sunk about 100 hours into it on Steam.

>I'm one of those people. I tried multiple times. Beautiful scenery. I just can not get into it. It just feels like work when you have to push yourself to play a game

This is how I felt about the game each time I've tried to play it. I just get bored, and I get bored really fast. It's a beautiful looking game, and the world is incredibly impressive, I just find myself not having a whole lot of fun. It's just not a game for me.

>I finished the first mission.

I started the game after not really being that big a fan of the first one...my wagon wheel broke and I fixed it and then I ended up lazily flopping my wagon over and I just gave up.

Jesus Christ that was harrowing.

>Only if they live on Magrathea.

I was not expecting this reference.

Shocker, a government official in one of the very few mostly blue/democratic party controlled districts in the entire state of Texas is the only state official to face any consequences.

I could have told you that. It's to the point, living in Michigan where it's legal, where if I'm feeling soreness, pain, headaches, or even slight nausea... I'll take a couple hits off a bowl or a joint and within about 30 I'm usually back on my feet. Works better than any bottle of aspirin or Tylenol ever did.

...you mean to tell me BuzzFeed hasn't already been using AI to generate their content?

...that's really sad.

>i think the theoretical answer is YES. We also have physicists who firmly believe that time travel is not just possible, but is in fact now a matter of engineering. Keep a skeptical eye on the nay-sayers. Keep an optimistic eye on those who are trying. At 14, the future is yours. Take it and run!

I prefer to keep a skeptical eye on those who are trying as well as an optimistic eye on those who say nay.

Yes, but people have no idea how to actually discuss AI because very, very, very, very few people actually understand what it is, or what it means for an AI to "learn", or even how an AI can learn in the first place.

Yeah, that's gonna win over a jury for sure.

Why doesn't anybody ever just say her fucking name? It would make for so much more clarity in the headlines.

"Writer E Jean Carrol Files New Lawsuit Against Donald Trump."

There! Done. So much easier to read, and I know all the parties involved.

Dude, Carpenter has stated outright that the movie is about Reagan's America. He said without equivocation or caveat "it was about giving the finger to Ronald Reagan."