The Reward Theory

[Zolag]

Wassup, my brother-brother? I was just playing GTA when I had this kind of revelation about the Chilliad Mural, the jetpack, etc and decided to share it with you. Hope this idea hasn't been discussed in this forum yet, otherwhise I will just lie on the floor in fetal position and cry.

 

So, my comrades, here it goes. I named it the "Reward Theory", for obvious reasons which will be explained further on this post.

 

This is it, the image that generated all the hopes, doubts and even desperation from thousands of GTA V players across the globe. The freaking Mt. Chilliad mural. If you thought all the other theories were crazy, wait till you hear this one pal.

From my perspective, we've been seeing it all wrong from the very begining, and also being sort of trolled by R* for our view of the mural to stay this way (glyphs in Mt. Chilliad rings any bell?).
In my humble epsilonist opinion mates, the mountain represents YOUR gameplay. That's right, YOUR gameplay (see how important you are here?).

At the top of the mural there seems to be, as many have called it, an "all-seeing eye". Yup that illuminati crap. So, if the mountain is YOUR gameplay, who else oversees YOUR gameplay but, (BINGO!) YOU!
YOU are that little red eye on top of the mural pal, and all those lines and boxes with markings? Well, that is the course of your story, and those little boxes are the things you need to do to complete it entirely, thus recieving 3 rewards in the process.

The squares or checkbox are that which you need to complete in order to get 100% game completion. There are 5 of these: main missions, hobbies and passtimes, stranger and freaks missions, random events and miscellaneous. Get all of that and you will earn 3 rewards (actually 2 but you'll see my point).

So, you might wonder, which are these 3 mindf*cking rewards I'm talking about? Well, to begin, the most obvious and the one you get right away (notice the line that goes from the eye goes directly to the egg) is a new strangers and freaks mission you play as Franklin in which you hunt madafaking Bigfoot. All of the mission is one huge freaking easter EGG itself (do I really need to explain myself here?).

 

Why, you may ask? Well one of the biggest mysteries in GTA's history began when someone claimed to have seen bigfoot roaming around the woods in GTA SA thus began an endless search (kind of like this one) to solve such mystery. The other part of the easter egg comes when you hear bigfoot talk. A clear resemblance of RDR: Undead Nightmare mission were you had to kill all of the bigfoot race (KILL ME HUMAN!)

 

That's reward number 1. Now reward number two, you see, isn't that easy to find. IF you have 100% game completion, and if you go to the top of Mt. Chilliad at 3:00 am with a lighting storm you will see it. The UFO. But that's not all, there are 3 UFO's in game (4 if you count the underwater ufo), making all kind of weird sounds, disabling your helicopter and more. Pretty cool reward, one might say. Indeed it is. But, apart from being an awesome reward, this (such as the mural), shows us what is to come. Seen the FIB logo in on of the UFO's? Or maybe, how the lights of the UFO at FZ points at a bunker which holds an elevator indicating there is a lower level, an underground base? Yup, it's getting spicy.

 

Now we go to the final part of this crazy, dellusional theory. The jetpack, the freaking jetpack. I want to make it clear... it ISN'T in the game (sorry to dissapoint you guys), yet it doesn't mean it won't be. See it know? Just give it a thought. This are all tiny clues R* is leaving us to let us know what's coming. That's why nobody found it yet and why nobody will.

Subtle clues. The future DLC will contain aliens and the jetpack (thus the conection between the UFO box and the jetpack box in the mural) and include a massive government conspiracy. This is also why the jetpack box has a line that comes from outside the mountain (outside of your gameplay), meaning someone from the outside (a.k.a R*) will have to trigger it for you to see it (DLC).

 

Also think of it from two perspectives. One is yours, the other is R*. From your perspective, would you rather find the jetpack in a cave in the middle of the ocean having nothing to do with the story, or play new mindblowing missions, packed with action which will finally pay off with a jetpack? I kinda like this idea.
And from R* perspective, they know what the jetpack means to most players, and they are going to (quoting Jay Norris) milk every penny in the process! It's profitable guys, deal with it.

 

I used to live in lie too, but I see the truth now, brother-brother! Believe! As Cris believes in you!

Hope it helps, let me know what you think. Kifflom!

[Raavi]

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