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Any Austin ends his GTA5 road trip with a swim toward Vice City

His tour of the places Los Santos keeps off to the side runs from a cemetery's mourning dog to a Home Depot-style parking lot.

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Why GTA5 Hides Its Best Details

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0:30Austin explains why he bought an original Xbox 360 copy of GTA V before GTA 6 arrives.
1:52First stop: the Los Santos cemetery, with groundskeepers, a reflecting pool and a mourning dog.
5:56Chumash, a detailed Malibu-style town the story campaign mostly ignores.
9:56Paleto Bay's quiet streets, where startled residents flee over fences.
15:42You Tool, the desert hardware superstore modeled on a Home Depot.
20:11The final stop: an airport beach he had never visited, and his goodbye to Los Santos.

A million views came within about a day for "Why GTA5 Hides Its Best Details," and it reads like a farewell. Any Austin bought an original Xbox 360 copy of the game to revisit it as it first shipped, then drove the highway loop around the map, stopping only where the story never sends you.

The argument fits in one line of his: GTA 5 "has the same amount of amazing things, but they're all off to the side." So he goes to the side. A cemetery with groundskeepers, a reflecting pool and a dog keeping vigil at a grave. Chumash, the Malibu-style coastal town he calls "an entire quaint little community just hidden off the road in plain sight." Hiking trails and info boards on Mount Chiliad that reward you with nothing but the view. Paleto Bay, which he names "the best residential neighborhood in any GTA game ever," complete with startled locals hopping fences to get away from him.

The tour peaks at You Tool, the game's giant desert hardware store, where he concludes that Grand Theft Auto 5 "is a game with a Home Depot parking lot in it." The video also carries a sponsored segment for a meal-kit service.

The comments read like a reunion. Viewers trade stories of long hikes up Chiliad with friends, one suggests the graveyard dog nods to Greyfriars Bobby, the Edinburgh terrier famed for guarding his owner's grave, and many laugh at a bleeped "Walgreens." Others call it a sunset video for the game.

Austin seems to agree. An on-screen note points back to his first GTA5 video, 11 years ago, and the last stop is a barren beach past the airport fence he had never visited. Facing east, he says that after GTA 6 arrives, "coming back here is always going to feel like looking back." Then he walks into the ocean and swims toward Vice City.

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What viewers say

They delayed GTA VI so austin could finish this series
@Change24See it on YouTube
Austin is the only YouTuber who can walk into a fictional bathroom in GTA and give a 5 minute critique on the tiling
@MemeocalypseTolaSee it on YouTube
GTA VI is gonna feed this man for decades.
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Thank you Austin. Took me 13 years to find out there’s a Home Depot in GTA 5
@zay4le732See it on YouTube
This almost feels like a sunset video for GTA5.
@ScorpioPluto11See it on YouTube
now you have to introduce your first ever gta6 video with jason swimming into vice city for a smooth transition
@dopeydoz966See it on YouTube
Can‘t wait for the unemployment rate, traffic signs, weird places and rivers of vice city
@DaFuchs187See it on YouTube
The dog in the graveyard must be a reference to Greyfriars Bobby, the little Skye terrier in Edinburgh who slept at his owner's grave for a decade
@dannyshields11See it on YouTube
9:35 10+ years ago my friends and I hiked all the way from the plaza near chumash to the top of mount chiliad, stopped at the clothing store on the way in the middle of nowhere to change into hiking outfits, set up campfires w the gas can when we made it to the top of the smaller peaks, and swam through the rapids leading down to the swamp. It probably took us 4+ hours but easily one of my favorite memories from gta online, also there are definitely hikers on the trails
@gage3917See it on YouTube
"Im Any Austin, thanks for watching"

Nah thanks for making this, genuinely.
@xArzinoSee it on YouTube