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Re:Video Games Are Boring by eropple on Monday November 07, 2016 @09:21PM (#12897089)
> Sure, you can run around causing mass chaos and deaths; but you can also do none of those things

No, you literally can't. You have to kill people en masse from the very start of the game. And, if you want to progress far enough to unlock the various features of the game, you have to do downright reprehensible things.

I've played, and enjoyed most of, GTA5 (though I think the developers, at this point, should fuck off with the faux-satire, they lost the plot a long time ago), but I understand why other people don't.

Re:Video Games Are Boring by talmand on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:05AM (#12900762)
And I quote: "Once you reach a point in the game, I forget how far into it, you choose what to do."

Once you have reached that point, you can do pretty much anything you want. Yes, I understand you have to do bad things to get to that point. That's why I agreed with the comment about if you still have moral objections to the game, then that's cool. I personally would prefer they allow you those options from the start, but I can understand why they do not for gameplay purposes.

Re:Video Games Are Boring by groovy2shoes on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @04:50AM (#12908682)
IIRC, the only required part of GTAV was a single introductory mission representing a flashback of two of the main characters pulling off what was seemingly their last heist. Took like 10 minutes to finish. After that, free reign of the city. There are also some non-violent missions you can accept, like filling in as driver for your friend's tow-truck service and repossessing cars. They're actually pretty fun.
Re:Video Games Are Boring by eropple on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:31PM (#12912394)
Without doing a good chunk of missions, the game's set of activities doesn't open up.