My newest obsession in GTA 5 roleplay is playing hide-and-seek with other players, and allowing the winner to smash up the other’s vehicle because, well, having nice things in this game has never really been the done thing.
And so I find myself gunning it down the Los Santos freeway in my banged up Beater tow truck with a knot in my stomach. It took me six freaking months of mind-numbing garbage collection to afford the wheels I’ve since affectionately named Rusty. Having fallen deep into the new craze I’ve found sweeping pockets of the Grand Theft Auto RP scene of late, what, I’m supposed to just let some rando smash up my prized possession simply because I’m rubbish at hide-and-seek?
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I’m now heading back to the scene—the construction site in Pillbox Hill, Downtown Los Santos—to face my fate. I lost fair and square… not that this makes watching ‘YEPYEP2006’ smashing up my ride, Street Fighter 2 bonus stage style, any easier to bear. You dirty bastard.
With a grand total of $1,250 in my current account – a week’s worth of garbage collection wages and a shade shy of the $9,000 required to get ol’ Rusty back on the tarmac – betting my car in a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek suddenly seems ill-advised. Which is, of course, a huge part of the buzz tied to my latest roleplay obsession.
You see, I won the last three games. After a gruelling 15-minute session inside Michael De Santa’s villa, I out-foxed one player by climbing onto the GTA 5 Story Mode protagonist’s red-slate roof before lying prone behind a chimney stack. On another outing, an Elyssian Island nightclub proved a formidable fortress. Here, on the third floor of the perpetually unfinished Mile High Club skyscraper complex, a palette of black plastic four-inch waste piping was not adequate, truck-saving cover—a sentence that, after 11 years of GTA Online on PC, I did not expect to write.
There’s a nostalgic value tied to it all—from prop hunt in Garry’s Mod to actual hide-and-seek in my real-life primary school days 30-odd years ago. And, of course, poor old Rusty. Goodnight sweet prince and back to the waste management facility I go. And if you find yourself playing hide-and-seek in a GTA roleplay server soon, make sure you’ve splashed for car insurance ahead of time.
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