How many hours will you spend on GTAV

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I play GTA later than others since IV. I play on PC. San Andreas was my last console based GTA, but I broke out the slim a couple more times for the stories games as well, so I guess VCS was the last console GTA I played.

 

When IV first came out, I didn't get to play it, because for my own beliefs being that paying into closed and locked up architectures is stupid and counter to creativity, I never even considered buying a console ever since my PS2, which was really a GTA/R*games player box before I had a decent enough PC to play new games (new at the time).

 

Having had been able to see console players enjoy the launch and share their experiences with videos online, I spent a while already becoming acquainted with the game before ever even playing it. I purposefully avoided looking at the map layout or radar too much, went more for videos of free roaming and multiplayer than story missions and such to avoid spoilers of course, but still did watch a fair deal of the beginning portions of the game (broker arch), but not to spoil it for myself or because I wanted to see it, but more so that when I got my copy on PC, I could remember what I had already seen and then do it completely differently for myself, without having to spend the time on multiple replays of the game.

 

I did replay the game, 3 or 4 times I've been through the majority or beaten it, had a lot of fun in GTA IV. I think I had more fun than I would have if I had the opportunity to play it on launch, because I was able to see the "walkthrough/normal gameplay" version, and then take that knowledge and mess with the AI. Again, without being *forced* to replay the game I was already late to actually being able to play. I look at it like it saved some time for me, and as one of the more powerful experiences I've had with social gaming and sharing experiences in indirect ways (read:youtube gameplays)

 

Anyway, when I finally got my hands on my own copy on steam, I turned off auto save, played a 6 hour stint the first day, reloading and trying different things a few occasions, but mostly straight through broker, and had a blast seeing all the different ways the game handles myslef handing situations in different ways than it handled other players who played in other ways.

 

After a few sessions like that, I dropped off to about 1 or 2 hour sessions of one or two missions and some freeroaming each until I completed it my first time, but you have to understand, Modern Warfare 2 is very addictive. Anyhow, when I first get it, I'll probably have repeated this experience I had in IV for V, and so I totally forsee myself starting out at 3-6 hours per session, and then dropping it off to the shorter sessions - I like it, it let's me think on what Rockstar just presented me, each time.

 

I don't play MW2 nearly as much as I used to anymore, time constraints and all, trying to discipline myself more in the business sense, but even so, Call of Duty Ghosts will be out on all platforms new and old before GTA V is even officially announced and confirmed for PC by Rockstar, and it appears that Mark Rubin has his head somewhere outside of his ass on this game, and Glenn Schofield and his horse-like friend haven't shown up in the marketing yet, so I have high hopes for it. So we'll see. I'm sure at a minimal, I will split up my gaming time 50/50 between either MW2/V (if ghosts sucks) or Ghosts/MW2 50% and V 50% of the time. I don't get a lot of time for long sessions, and you gotta spend as much time as you can early on in cod to really be a top player in it, so it'll be a tough time for me in terms of gaming when V finally comes to the people's platform.

Fs thanks for the story.

 

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