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Letter scraps - your opinion?


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Personally, I don't think it was worth the effort. All of that just for a crappy story and a short mission where some bloke legs it one. Was anybody else disappointed with this?

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What? After collecting them it doesn't give you anything? wow....I'll remember not to collect them then.

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Achievement and 100% completion aside, it's a pain in the balls. The parachute onto lower part of the large bridge one was f*cking annoying, I turned into a real Trevor

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I was hoping for a great LA Noire throwback - investigate this guys house, interrogation etc. but it was just another short and simple s&f mission. The only thing you get in return is (eventually) 100% and a t-shirt to boot.

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Letters are collectables - same as pigeons in IV, tags and photos and horseshoes in SA, and packages in III. They're there as an incentive for people to go out and look at this incredible, detailed world Rockstar have created.

 

If you don't like simply exploring and collecting, then clearly you're not going to like this part of the game.

Personally I really enjoy it as a contrast to the somewhat more intense missions - and I guess there's enough people like me that it's worth R*'s while to keep putting them in every GTA.

 

 

p.s. Why parachute onto the bridge stantion? I landed a helicopter there - took no time at all.

Now admittedly the helicopter then fell off once I'd got out and I had to jump off. But it didn't take long!

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In the HD era, Rockstar have fallen painfully short in terms of rewarding the player.

 

GTA III:

 

100 Hidden Packages - Almost All Weapons and Body Armor at Hideout

FireTruck - Flamethrower at hideout

Vigilante - Wanted Bribes at Hideoute

Paramedic - Health + Adrenalin at hideout + Infinite Sprint

 

GTA VC:

 

100 Hidden Packages - A lot of weapons at hideout

Firetruck - Fireproof

Ambulance - Infinite Sprint

Vigilante - Extra Armor

Pizza - Extra Health

 

 

GTA SA:

 

Tags - Weapons in Los Santos Hideout

Oysters - Infinite or at least full breath

Horseshoes - Weapons at Las Venturas and Full Luck

Photos - Weapons at San Fierro

Vigilante - Extra armor

Paramedic - Extra health

Burglar - Infinite Sprint

 

 

GTA IV:

Flying Rats - Nothing

Drug drives - Nothing

Car thefts - Nothing

Car texts - Nothing

 

GTA V:

 

Bounty Hunting - Nothing

Gun Smuggling - Nothing

Hunting - Some money

Epsilon - Either money or a useless tractor

Flight School - Flight stat increase but no bonus for completing them

Sports + Yoga - Maybe some stat increases, but still...

Letter Scraps - A short bland mission

Spaceship Parts - Space Docker car

Nuclear Waste - Nothing (to my knowledge)

Submarine Parts - A small amount of money.

 

What happened to the rewards?

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In the HD era, Rockstar have fallen painfully short in terms of rewarding the player.

 

GTA III:

 

100 Hidden Packages - Almost All Weapons and Body Armor at Hideout

FireTruck - Flamethrower at hideout

Vigilante - Wanted Bribes at Hideoute

Paramedic - Health + Adrenalin at hideout + Infinite Sprint

 

GTA VC:

 

100 Hidden Packages - A lot of weapons at hideout

Firetruck - Fireproof

Ambulance - Infinite Sprint

Vigilante - Extra Armor

Pizza - Extra Health

 

 

GTA SA:

 

Tags - Weapons in Los Santos Hideout

Oysters - Infinite or at least full breath

Horseshoes - Weapons at Las Venturas and Full Luck

Photos - Weapons at San Fierro

Vigilante - Extra armor

Paramedic - Extra health

Burglar - Infinite Sprint

 

 

GTA IV:

Flying Rats - Nothing

Drug drives - Nothing

Car thefts - Nothing

Car texts - Nothing

 

GTA V:

 

Bounty Hunting - Nothing

Gun Smuggling - Nothing

Hunting - Some money

Epsilon - Either money or a useless tractor

Flight School - Flight stat increase but no bonus for completing them

Sports + Yoga - Maybe some stat increases, but still...

Letter Scraps - A short bland mission

Spaceship Parts - Space Docker car

Nuclear Waste - Nothing (to my knowledge)

Submarine Parts - A small amount of money.

 

What happened to the rewards?

 

I agree. I love the game very much, but i really liked the 3d-generation approach to rewards. At the time you got 100% completition in VC you felt like a one-man-army. Your health was higher, your armor was better, you had free weapons outside your mansion, your mansion contained small "trophies" (like the broken statue when you had collected every statue) and your mansion got more vehicles around it (water chopper, limo).

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Achievement and 100% completion aside, it's a pain in the balls. The parachute onto lower part of the large bridge one was f*cking annoying, I turned into a real Trevor

 

You could just walk over there from the mountain by making a couple of jumps.

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i love finding the hidden things. thats one of my favorite things to do in gta games. it gives me a reason to explore some areas of the map i would probally not explore to much otherwise. i wish they would add more hidden things to collect through dlc that would be cool.

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I'm still half way through them, I like to explore so I don't mind its a sh*tty 'reward' for doing it.

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Achievement and 100% completion aside, it's a pain in the balls. The parachute onto lower part of the large bridge one was f*cking annoying, I turned into a real Trevor

 

You could just walk over there from the mountain by making a couple of jumps.

 

How? Can you show me coz I doubt that, as I wandered all around the area before googling the precise location, parachuting or diving out with some luck of a heli seems only way....

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In the HD era, Rockstar have fallen painfully short in terms of rewarding the player.

 

GTA III:

 

100 Hidden Packages - Almost All Weapons and Body Armor at Hideout

FireTruck - Flamethrower at hideout

Vigilante - Wanted Bribes at Hideoute

Paramedic - Health + Adrenalin at hideout + Infinite Sprint

 

GTA VC:

 

100 Hidden Packages - A lot of weapons at hideout

Firetruck - Fireproof

Ambulance - Infinite Sprint

Vigilante - Extra Armor

Pizza - Extra Health

 

 

GTA SA:

 

Tags - Weapons in Los Santos Hideout

Oysters - Infinite or at least full breath

Horseshoes - Weapons at Las Venturas and Full Luck

Photos - Weapons at San Fierro

Vigilante - Extra armor

Paramedic - Extra health

Burglar - Infinite Sprint

 

 

GTA IV:

Flying Rats - Nothing

Drug drives - Nothing

Car thefts - Nothing

Car texts - Nothing

 

GTA V:

 

Bounty Hunting - Nothing

Gun Smuggling - Nothing

Hunting - Some money

Epsilon - Either money or a useless tractor

Flight School - Flight stat increase but no bonus for completing them

Sports + Yoga - Maybe some stat increases, but still...

Letter Scraps - A short bland mission

Spaceship Parts - Space Docker car

Nuclear Waste - Nothing (to my knowledge)

Submarine Parts - A small amount of money.

 

What happened to the rewards?

Yeah, they all lead to one thing, 100% completition. And the reward for having completed the game 100% is seeing a f*cking UFO. This is the kind of reward you'd expect from a f*cking Sims game or EXPANSION PACK even. Good god ...

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Achievement and 100% completion aside, it's a pain in the balls. The parachute onto lower part of the large bridge one was f*cking annoying, I turned into a real Trevor

 

You could just walk over there from the mountain by making a couple of jumps.

 

How? Can you show me coz I doubt that, as I wandered all around the area before googling the precise location, parachuting or diving out with some luck of a heli seems only way....

 

 

I had to land my chopper between the things and get out and grab the letter scrap... then die and respawn to go after the next one... or was that a spaceship part... I forget. Either way, it was a pain and I tried to get on from the mountain area by driving big trucks over to it and climbing on them and jumping over but it never worked.

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I didn't say that they shouldn't include collections in GTA, I was simply stating that I was expecting more of a reward or outcome for completing the notes. The prize for the UFOs is quite cool and something we can use and have fun with, plus the cutscene was better than the letter scraps.

 

I love exploring both irl and in games, that's pretty much what I spend most of my time doing in games (Skyrim, GTA, Minecraft) and I said to a friend that it's great how many places you see that you would probably never come across if you didn't do the collections. I just wish that the cutscene was more of a big deal and had more 'wow' if you know what I mean. It was just a let down for such a huge task, that's all. Shame.

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