Owned properties

[jkim_1]

I'm still very perplexed when it came to owning properties. For example, after you complete all of Tonya's missions, you can purchase the towing impound as Franklin for $150,000 and you get $500 for every car towed. Who is going to play the game with the focus of towing 300 cars to break even? Don't even get me started with the golf course... Lets do the Lester missions so we can afford the golf course for $150,000,000 and make it virtually impossible to break even.

 

I liked the feature of owning businesses, but what I just mentioned in the previous paragraph alone makes it already flawed, and it doesn't end there. I'm sure this has been brought up numerous times, but you can't buy houses? No beach house for Mike, no normal home in Los Santos for Trevor (who the heck lives in a strip club?). Going back to owning properties, those businesses could've at least been cheaper so we can actually make a profit before the game ends. The only business we can make a profit in is Smoke on the Water for Franklin. I also think that more businesses should've been available to purchase, once we finish the storyline and get our money, what else can we do with our money rather than over spending on clothes that our character will never wear?

 

In conclusion, at least in GTAV we have something to spend money on unlike 4, but Rockstar did a poor job in making it into something that improves the replay value of the game after you finish the story. Another suggestion I have is to have the ability to enter the business you own, the only one we can go into is Vanilla Unicorn....

[Aerosmithfan999]

I would have loved it if every character could buy their own Los Santos Customs. It's frustrating how only Franklin gets free vehicle modifications.

[Jedi Master Tom]

Yea, but only if he drives the four hours to Blaine county. Stupid, why couldn't we pick which one we wanted to buy? Why not make them all available to buy?

[jkim_1]

I would have loved it if every character could buy their own Los Santos Customs. It's frustrating how only Franklin gets free vehicle modifications.

Agreed, it was also annoying how it costs like $350,000 and you only make $1,600 a week to the point where you have to completely customize every vehicle you own in every garage to compensate for the lack of profit.

[no_snacks]

I gotta agree OP. I don't normally bash GTA V for any little reason, but the property ownership (safehouses & businesses) was a real let down for me.

Without being too overhyped for the game, I was expecting a lot more.

Not being able to spend money on multiple safehouses was a real wasted opportunity.

 

I don't mind Trevor living in the Vanilla Unicorn though, it suits his lifestyle & personality. At least he has two safehouses we can use.

Like you said, why can't Franklin buy a safehouse in Sth LS? His personal garage is there for Gods sake! I know he wanted to get out of the hood, but he still has ties to the hood, so should at least be able to own a place there.

Michael should be able to purchase a safehouse in Chumash or Paleto Bay. He loves boats, so why not buy a nice beach house & moor his yacht & boats at one of the piers there.

I actually can't believe there is no safehouse for any of the characters in Paleto Bay.

Other than a bit of sightseeing, there is no real purpose to travelling up there. The clothes, tattoos & haircuts are the same ones that you get in LS. The LS Customs offers the exact same mods as LS too. Why not do what GTA SA did? Have different mods & clothes at different locations so you have a reason to go there.

 

The businesses could've offered more diverse management missions where you could gain cash rewards or just increase your weekly earnings for a couple in-game weeks.

Take out the competition or sabotage their supply lines to temporarily boost revenue etc. They're the sort of missions I thought we would do, not the repetitive "Someone stole the takings! Go catch them!" missions that became chores after awhile.

 

Don't get me started about interiors either.

 

 

[mmm chocolate]

Quick questions: how much does Tivoli Cinema pay per week?

 

How much does the golf course make?

[jkim_1]

Chocolate: For Tivoli you pay $30,000,000 for $142,300 per week. Golf course you pay $150,000,000 for $264,500 per week. Both I wouldn't recommend purchasing.

 

Wayne: I agree with pretty much your entire post, especially your last paragraph. Something like if you own Tequi-La-La and the manager calls you saying that the bartender took off and it's real busy so he needs your help. It would've also been cool if you could purchase a franchise like Up-N-Atom (In-N-Out) or Bean Machine (Starbucks?) instead of just investing in their stocks. This is minor but Trev should've been able to take over Floyd and Debra's apartment after he kills them, much like how Niko gets Playboy's penthouse from Dwayne in exchange for killing him.

[Bill_Assassin]

Money is pathetically easy to get in single-player if you save the assassination missions until after the final heist. I have around 700 million in each character's bank account and don't know what to do with it having bought all the theaters, bars, the golf-club, taxi company and others between the three of them.

 

The single-player DLC better give us new stuff to spend money on.

[Aerosmithfan999]

Yea, but only if he drives the four hours to Blaine county. Stupid, why couldn't we pick which one we wanted to buy? Why not make them all available to buy?

That's true. I always thought it was peculiar that Franklin owned a Los Santos Customs in the desert. Especially when there are other mod garages in the city.

[Stevilknievel]

I would have loved it if every character could buy their own Los Santos Customs. It's frustrating how only Franklin gets free vehicle modifications.

 

Its also quite stupid that when you buy the LSC out in the desert, the free mods benefit only applies to that particular garage and not all LSC garages, I mean where is the logic in that, every time I want free mods I go to drive all the way out there. C'mon give me a break.

[Osho]

Rockstar did a poor job in making it into something that improves the replay value of the game after you finish the story

Exactly.

Soon I found out that its not possible to enter few areas, dumbed down property missions, no more buying other assets, enter casino, and missing interesting opportunities for players to spend those huge numbers in dollars on, I can't make it through the game in future playthroughs.

I just wanted there to be all the previous elements in this game, but improved, if not heavily modified.

Still, the game ( single player ) hasn't finished yet with all the updates, and hopefully Rockstar should bring the game in proper form.

Though, it wasn't so hard to release the game with the basic and most popular features of the previous titles.

Edited May 29, 2014 by Osho

[fac316]

In VC we could run places like a porno studio, printing fake money, selling drugs as ice cream, build an empire to generate income. for being the smallest map we had a TON of safehouses. AND THE ASSETS WERENT OVERPRICED TO THE POINT WE'D HAVE TO PLAY GTAV TIL 6 COMES OUT TO MAKE A PROFIT.

[jkim_1]

I just want to reiterate that it was a bonehead move by Rockstar by making Tivoli Cinema so expensive with very little profit, and the same goes for the Golf Club. I didn't even buy the McKenzie Hangar because I didn't really enjoy the TPI missions with Oscar as I found them somewhat tedious (in spite of the fact that I like flying with Trevor). Same with the Collections Dock, I'm not going to play for two hours straight just to find all the parts, I want to do something fun.

[007Dini]

One would think that at least Michael or franklin's safe house will have a helipad.

[Osho]

It's possible that due to the development of GTA V spread across many Rockstar studios, the final release resulted in the poor ( in fact, terribly bad ) implementation of the many previously well-established content of the series.

May be there was a compulsion of the limitations of the hardware, and as well the time constraints along with the process of balancing every feature for players to enjoy them in GTA ONLINE.

I think, for the first time, in an open world game the studios are facing the challenge to keep the series successful for both, single player and GTA ONLINE.

And, as long as multiple studios are working on the game, it may lead to such bad ideas in the design of the features and less replay value, given the current condition of the single player.

I really don't like to see Rockstar's focus getting divided due to ONLINE, don't care whether it's separate or not, if we expect the days of the good GTA single player gaming return with the team focused more on the quality of the content and able to create a fantastic single player with the maximum time and resources, they should bring GTA VI much more improved and better than what we are missing now, and deprived from one of the many notable aspects of classic GTA's like simple property buying, for instance.

[jkim_1]

Osho: couldn't have said it better myself. If Rockstar decides to put more emphasis on Online at the expense of SP, it may drive future customers away from buying their future games. IMO I think online is just Rockstar's version of Sims in some way, I personally enjoy SP way more in spite of my complaints over the lack of replay value. Only if they put more emphasis on SP... This game would've been 10/10.

[chrisscorsese88]

I just want to reiterate that it was a bonehead move by Rockstar by making Tivoli Cinema so expensive with very little profit, and the same goes for the Golf Club.

 

Quick fact, in order to make money on the golf course, you would need to wait until at least 568 in-game weeks to pass. Since 48 minutes of real time is only 24 hours of in-game time, you would need to play this game for roughly 3,181 hours of real time (over 132 consecutive days) to make a profit. Not worth it IMO.

 

(Said this a while ago but I thought I'd freshen everyone's memories)