shootthebandit said:
So ive been playing quite a bit and must be half way through. Currently at the point where im stealing those cars for the rich FIB dude and it seems that all ive done so far (barring the first jewel heist) has been shit jobs for other people with shit pay. Dont get me wrong theres loads of mission variety and i loved the maryweather heist but i didnt get paid for it. Im lucky i got the cargobob and sub first try (more by luck than judgement) or else i wouldve wasted a shit ton on hospital fees to get no return on the heist
Franklin even makes a comment about going full circle back to car repos.
I want to know (without being to specific) if it starts to pick up a bit in the second half. Hopefully the rest of the missions are all big heists. Im hoping theyve done this deliberately to build up to an amazing second half. Also with there only being 69 missions it seems a bit short. Considering all the heist set up counts as a mission the count goes up fairly quickly.
The thing is that's how pretty much all the GTA's play out. For the most part, you've ALWAYS got some monkey on your back...often times more than one. The game is about biding your time until you're ready to shake those monkeys off your back and start making your own way.
It could be argued that the final heist in the game makes up for the lack of pay with the other heists (since the three main characters all become multi millionaires by the end of it), but really your only chance of making a LOT of money is to save all the Lester assassination missions until the very end once you've got a crap-ton of money to play the stock market to your advantage with those missions.
Because of that, I'm already thinking about starting a new game since I did the Lester missions as they became available and didn't invest in the companies he mentioned would profit from the missions. That's pretty much the only way I can see buying the Golf Course, for instance, which has the hefty price-tag of $150 million. Gotta be careful though, according to an article that was on this website today, there is a maximum amount of cash you can have - a little over 2 billion - before a glitch kicks in and rolls you into NEGATIVE 2 billion, essentially ensuring that character's financial life is officially dead and buried at the center of the earth.