Nice I will now end up owning it on 3 stores and still haven’t finished the story.
Hah, it’s the only GTA I’ve ever finished. Even triple-dipped (360, Xbox One and Steam).
RDR2 is on Gamepass. Only one Rockstar juggernaut giveaway per service!
Cormac
6623
Gamepass is NOT a giveaway…
But I guess it is cheaper than buying the game for a while.
(and I just checked, its not a gamepass PC release? boo!)
Bluddy
6624
This is a good strategy for epic: give away older games that go on deep sales at this point ($15 for GTA V) but are well regarded.
Its like Humble Bundle, but its free.
robc04
6626
They both tend to give me games I already have or don’t want, so they are pretty similar.
That’s too bad. I buy so few games that I almost always see something I don’t own. Whether I want it or not is still another issue.
Game Pass for Xbox, not for PC!
Razgon
6629
And epic store is down - I wonder if just the rumour of GTA as a freebie is enough to crash a gamestore?
Cormac
6630
Unpossible! I thought they had the bestest most epic store around!?
It’s down … in an epic way! ;)
CraigM
6632
On the one hand GTA V is a well reviewed game that many people loved.
On the other I have played many other GTA games and ultimately I do not care for them. Like GTA IV, I played a bunch of it, beat it even, but the average enjoyment of my time was low. It had moments, but the incongruity of story and gameplay, the excessively dour and cynical tone, and the Do It Again Stupid gotcha mission design really grate on me.
KevinC
6633
I find I enjoy about a couple hours of messing around in a GTA game, just looking at the city and maybe punching a pedestrian or two. Then I’m pretty much done. It is a series that just doesn’t seem to have any hooks for me at all.
If you hit the blue button you can learn how to spell “Back to home” in many different languages.
That’s epic.
The problem with giving away GTA5 is that it includes access to GTA Online, which is a fairly popular multiplayer game with all the usual problems with money farmers, real-money trading, hacking, griefing, etc. That’s why Epic is so overloaded, not by actual games like you and me trying to get a copy, but bots hoovering up keys for GTA Online.
That’s my theory, anyway.
CraigM
6636
Yeah, for me I find that 90% of the things I remember enjoying tend to be just faffing about in the city. Doing wheelies down the street, flying helicopters under bridges, and trying to abuse physics to get my vehicle in physically impossible locations.
It’s the actual game part I dislike.
My problem is I have a thing where I can’t just abandon a game, I feel the need to finish it. Ironically games I like, but don’t want to end tend to be the ones I never complete. But a game like GTA I will push through past the point of enjoyment to ‘finish’. See also Assassins Creed games. Except I actually like those, I just tend to get tired of them before the end.
GTAIV was a masterpiece. GTAV was barely good enough for me to finish.
dsmart
6638
403 error for the past few hours
rei
6639
GTA5’s protagonists were too messy for me especially Trevor. I preferred SA/GTA4’s as antiheroes.
