Shockingly enough I finished this GTA very quickly. Played about 35 to 40 hours, finished the game story, and cleaned up some post game story missions. I then hit multiplayer and had a bit of fun.
But, now I'm just done. The multiplayer is really oddly set up, getting groups together is not fun or easy with my set of friends online. I'm really not all teh interested in racing or poorly designed TPS with my friends, so the game is pretty much done for me.
As I wait for the DLC, I even find myself contemplating that the story & tone of GTA V was just very poor and uninviting, and further reflection does not improve that opinion. I'll play the DLC and will give it a fair shake, but I honest feel GTA needs to be thrown on the pyre of games this year that were supposed to be good but were narrative barren and full insulting themes/ideas.
My take away form GTA V and games in general this year is the following: Developers, your stories are STATEMENTS of a world view. When you pen a game story; back it up with millions of dollars of video, audio, and music; then you are make a very big statement. Your stories need to be written with care, by which I mean 'say what you mean'...you can say anything...but 'say what you mean' by owning it when people question you about it.
I will give RockStar points for probably meaning everything their game implies or says outright...they're assholes in that case...but they'd probably own it [slow clap].
Grand Theft Auto V
Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Sep 17, 2013
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