DuffMan

It was in every topic on the old boards too.

Thanks for reminding me, I had forgot that. But I did tweak the settings when I was validated, and I only get "Inline Notification". And I also had two other notification issues, I don't know if anyone can answer on them. They should all be fixable through the notifications setup in your settings.

I'd rather they just didn't bother at all.

Oh found it

We didn't have gold members on GTA-SA. When they were added we got new team icons. Someone did try to make a gold member badge by editing one of these but it didn't look that great.

Just seeing what they look like, and what people think. I love them.

tbf it's only the last testchamber you have to really run anywhere.

I reckon they'll go into it the same level as IV, but they'll use feedback from RDR to make it more fun. I'd be happy with free mode, racing, and a couple of Deathmatch-style modes. Mafiya Work was my favourite from IV, but basic Deathmatch was kind of lame. RDR was similar. I bet the social club will be much more heavily involved in multiplayer this time around. As I said earlier the main key for me is to not make it such a grind to unlock everything in MP. Either that or have more stuff unlocked by default. And don't have any multiplayer-based achievements/trophies. They're just the worst.

I think a GTA game is still a GTA game regardless of what you tack onto the end of the title. They'll always sell millions. If you want to see GTA being milked though, wait until Take Two gives into EA or Activision.

Would be interesting to see if there does end up being a link. I mean GTA IV was originally supposed to be released in 2007, with work beginning right after SA released in October 2004, and I'm expecting to see GTA V in 2012. I'd be surprised if they had already started planning GTA V so far in advance. The time gap between III, VC and SA was much shorter so they could easily have had a basic plan down for that series. Would be kinda shit if it was set in France. There's nothing there except wine, bread, windfarms, striped jumpers and silly hats. I think though, if we get any subtle hints, we'll find them in L.A. Noire.

Speaking of team icons, I still really miss these babies. But for the time being I'll add the ones from iGTA. I have no idea how good they'll look but we'll soon find out. Wouldn't mind using the old SA ones again though

Good point, I'll get onto those tomorrow. I have to be at work in 6 hours

You're gold on here too

I expect so. You'll have to PM Psy about it though. EDIT: lrn2read Ant. All those features come with the upgrade

I updated my post iGTA5 has already been launched for the masses, we just can't process sub payments on here atm.

Testing Ok, it doesn't break the tables on these forums, so I don't see the harm. The file size limit is going to remain at 100kb however. Regarding the subscription, for some reason IPS has made it so you have to pay extra for the subscriptions add-on. If you upgrade on iGTA then I can promote you on here but we'll probably have to think of another solution for simply upgrading on here.

I thought it was near-perfect, to be honest. And the 'slow-as-fuck travelling in a monotonous landscape' was something I thouroughly enjoyed doing. Even more so online when you were in a posse. Nothing more badass than seeing a group of four or five cowboys approach the town on horseback. It would be awesome if R* had some sort of country/rural area in GTAV where the folk still live like they did in the good ol' days. lol It's fine when you're exploring an area for the first time but when you're on your own (I was never talking about multiplayer so I'm not sure why you switched to talking about online posses) back and forth between Blackwater, Seth's chapel and Nigel West Dickens in Gaptooth Ridge with no way of fast travelling, only to find out you're learning how to pick flowers, it's exceptionally boring. A wild western shooter shouldn't take 5 hours before you actually do some shooting. GTA V better not make the same mistake.

Yeah I got into it, bought Undead Nightmare too. The tutorial missions just took too damn long.

Why wouldn't we? R* hit the nail firmly on the head with the mission structure and variety of missions found in Red Dead. If they can carry that over into GTAV, they'll be guaranteed a sure-fire hit. I wouldn't say that got it exactly right. I actually gave up playing RDR at one point because it took so long to get into it. I appreciate they have to help the learning curve, but they didn't have to put in a tutorial mission for every little feature. I think this was a complaint with SA and GTA IV too. It took SO LONG to get into the actual story and decent missions where you start killing townfolk that the game was downright boring for the first 3/4 hours, though it was probably worse in RDR thanks to the slow-as-fuck travelling in a monotonous landscape. If there's one thing Rockstar doesn't take from RDR, it should be that.

Fairy nuff... Fair enough...

Hairy muff. For anyone who is interested in the MP/beta, here are the requirements for the beta unlocks:

Yeah the contents haven't been announced yet, but I'm only buying two or maybe three games this year so I figured why not. Why no interest in the multiplayer? The beta gameplay looks brilliant.

Release: 20th September 2011 Pretty good interview about the series so far, and stuff about the GoW3 beta: http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/03/11/talking-gears-with-cliff-bleszinski-part-1?show=HD Couple of beta MP gameplay videos. Month long beta starts next month. I pre-ordered the Epic edition today (£100 from GAME). It also comes in a Limited edition, but they haven't announced what is included in either yet. I don't really care, I loved the first two. Anyone else looking forward to it?

Yep, I hate those so much. They litter every page of the internet. I use Shellfish to block them in Chrome: http://open-bits.com/shellfish/