Here's a story of why I think GTA V Online is simply the greatest thing ever for gaming. The Online mode is unpredictable and offers something new each and every time you play it. Case in point, this is what happened to me this afternoon. One of the things that happens in Online Mode is that you can get a Bounty placed on your head, ranging from $1k to $15k. What happens when you get a Bounty on you is that your White Dot on the map turns into a Red Skull, which tells all the other players currently online that you are a target. Whoever kills the player with the Bounty collects the reward.
Bounties set off a chain reaction as players swarm on you from all sides, taking their shots and hoping for the best. It's both scary and exciting at the same time, in which you become the primary motivation for EVERYONE playing GTA V Online. So, once I was alerted to the Bounty being placed on me (a retaliation from another player who had a Bounty that I was trying to collect. I didn't succeed......yet). My first inclination when I realized I was Bounty marked was to head to the beach and I would just swim as far as I could out in the ocean. But after thinking about how exhausting that would be to button mash the entire time to make my player swim, I quickly thought of another way to go.
I went straight to the harbor to grab a helicopter and make pursuit of the guy that placed the bounty on me. I tracked him down at the airport and we engaged in some mid air machine gun play. But I was taking to much damage, so I had to retreat back into the city away from the airport when I was being targeted by another player in a Luxury Plane. If you are in this plane, you can't fire any kind of weapons. So, I'm sure you can guess what happened next. We are 20,000 feet in the air when he is making flybys, trying to crash his plane into my helo. He nicked me a couple of times, but on the third flyby, he actually crashed into me, blowing himself up! But what was shocking is that my helo actually survived the blast, but I did take some serious damage as my helo's power had gone out and I had to land the top of a skyscraper as I was descending at a fast rate.
So, I'm trapped, with nowhere to go. Can't parachute off the building because I am surrounded by sh*tload of players waiting at the bottom of the building to pounce on me. What is worst is that I have a 3 Star Wanted Level. When you get 3 Stars or more, that's when Cops in Helo's descend on you and shoot at you. So, I'm on top of the building, ducking and dodging the bullets, trying to hide (if you can successfully hide for a certain length of time, the wanted level goes back to 0. So, this went out for a good 10 minutes. Did not think I would last much longer. But this is where the story gets good....
The player that placed the Bounty on me had gotten a different Helo with machine guns and came at me blasting away. So, I have to dodge this f*cker as well as two Cop Helos!!!!!!! It was INSANE. Whenever I had a few seconds of peace, I would unload on the player and I mean I UNLOADED like never before and I couldn't take him down! He was heavily armored, which saved him time and time again. But I didn't quit. I kept at it and ducked behind some cover waiting for his return fire. I didn't see him, but I heard a huge EXPLOSION and saw the wreckage of his helo on the corner of my rooftop. I immediately went over and just started unloading on the burning pile of junk when I realized that if you in it when it explodes, there is no surviving,
So, I gloat and start to walk away when I see that the f*cker had not only escaped from the helo, but he was parachuting/gliding onto my roof. We both started to panic to see who would be able to kill the other. By the skin of my teeth, I came out on top. This was a moment that I wished I had the ability to record it all because to me, this was EPIC in every way and it's something that will NEVER be duplicated by any other player for as long as the game exist, I eventually got the Ride Like The Wind Achievement, where you have to survive a full day with a Bounty on your head. Full day in GTA V is about 50 minutes of non-stop game play. I'm very proud of this particular achievement as it's insanely hard to get. Most people "cheat" by hiding in their garages or houses where other players can't get into for the entire duration of playtime. I did it the right way. Man, THAT was FUN!!!!
For obvious reasons, I had to document this moment here. If I can't have video, at least I will be able to read about it again and again in the future.