• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    4 months ago

    My favorite feature of GTA Online was when I’d get destroyed by someone with every weapon, only to respawn walking distance from them over and over and over. They’d kill me repeatedly before I even had a chance to do anything. The only way I could escape was to hope I found a car quick, or hope they got bored of spawn killing me.

    This game is a fucking joke. Rockstar has been a shell of its former self for years.

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      4 months ago

      I got hooked on shark cards for a while when I played GTA:O, I probably spend thousands of SEK on them for months, then one day I realized what a fucking shit game it is, and uninstalled it.

      This was eight or so years ago now, and I have not played it since.

      I don’t consider the money wasted though, I consider them part of my education, I learned from this, and can now see the signs before I spend money.

      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, I never consider it a waste if you got some personal enrichment from it as an outlet. My goal was to never spend any actual money on the online portion and eventually people just got way too overpowered. It was a glaring example of pay-to-play and how it can ruin a game. It shut out any chance of growth and fun.

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      4 months ago

      My favorite feature of the game was when you went into a friend’s only game, just so that you can get a handle on mp before subjecting yourself to actual mp, and halfway through driving through the city, you would merge into a public game and get shot to hell with no warning, and when you let out an exasperated “awww come on” the game triggers voice chat, which you never set up and didn’t know the game had it, and only realized when the 10 year old kid that just fragged you comes on the mic with a “cry more noob” or some similar retort.

      Oh yeah, super fun game.

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      4 months ago

      Yea but imagine how fun it would be to spawn camp some poor sob who has the audacity to sign into GTA online.

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      4 months ago

      tap to run intensifies

      gated quest area intensifies

      But the single player design yo!

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      4 months ago

      One time I was just trying to do my money laundering restocking in GTA:O (iirc it was money laundering, it was whatever business you got when the game went free on epic games) and a guy on the flying motorbike killed me for no reason and it wasted a ton of time, eventually I killed him back and he spawned in the desert in front of me so I spawn killed him until he apologized.

      I’m not saying what I did was right, I did it in the heat of the moment. But man, that game is really good at making you mad at people.