A Crimeless Playthrough of GTA Online

ever since the first installment of the grand theft auto franchise the series has been surrounded in controversy due to its realistic depiction of violence crime and gore all of these games are built at their core with criminality in mind allowing rockstar to create unique and gritty stories about the many moving parts of the criminal underworld most of these games will have you follow the life of a criminal with little to no freedom from that premise the only slight exception to this being the game gta online where you have the freedom to choose who you are and what you want to do of course much like the other games 99 of everything you can do in this game is completely against the law but what if we tried everything in our power to thrive and survive in gta online without ever committing a single crime if this sounds stupid to you believe me you don't even know the half of it so before we get into this i'm going to lay down some ground rules obviously i'm not allowed to commit a single crime no running red lights no stealing vehicles no theft etc i'll also be doing my absolute best not to kill anyone even in situations where it could be considered self-defense as the fictional city of los santos is based on the real life city of los angeles i'll be trying my best to abide by california's laws and for the final rule i'll be doing this challenge completely solo no one will be allowed to help me make money my end goal for this video is just to reach 1 million dollars however if you guys enjoy this i wouldn't mind making a part 2. now that all of that is out of the way let's start our journey to be a goody two-shoes in a world filled with toxicity and explosions the first thing on our to-do list is to create our character i decided to give him some pretty basic brown hair some freckles and some baby blues and after spending an embarrassingly long time thinking of a name for this guy i eventually decided to go with nigel after pressing accept and taking his mug shot it just then dawned on me that i have literally no plan as to how i'm going to be doing this but alas i was now locked in and ready to face whatever this challenge would throw me i chose to go through with the tutorial and after watching this shockingly outdated introduction nigel finally arrives in the city of saints after getting off the plane we are greeted by a suspicious individual known as lamar and after a bit of chit chat we enter his car not even 10 seconds off the plane and we almost immediately failed his challenge as lamar gives us a loaded and untraceable firearm california is known for having some of the most restricted gun laws in the u.s you are generally prohibited from openly carrying any kind of loaded firearm as this is a cutscene however i obviously can't do much about it but don't worry i'll be sure to hand this weapon in to the proper authorities the first chance i get in the meantime lamar drives us around los santos whilst telling us about some pretty shady jobs that we can do to make some money which we obviously won't be doing after a couple of minutes lamar parks his car and then challenges us to a race which unfortunately as we are still locked into the tutorial we have no choice but to participate in it as soon as the race starts i try my best to obey all traffic laws however as i'm from england where we drive on our left side of the road i found this as surprisingly difficult as i waited at red lights and gave way to pedestrians everyone else sped past me and to the surprise of no one i lost as soon as the race timer ended for whatever reason my car went into auto drive mode and started to drive recklessly as i clearly wasn't in control and i couldn't do anything to stop it i'm not counting this as a fail on a challenge after the race lamar forces us to do a job for him but he doesn't give us many details as to what it entails since we're still in a tutorial we have no choice but to comply after the cutscene ends i realize that i've been put in a car with another player and he's the one behind the wheel panicking i quickly jump out as i don't want to be associated with this maniac i then quit the job through my phone and of course in typical gta fashion i get stuck in an infinite loading screen and have to restart my game once i get back in the same job starts up but thankfully this time i'm by myself as i'm about to drive off i stop and think of something is this vehicle actually insured in my name and is it road legal without wanting to take the risk i decided to walk to the mission objective instead which took a hell of a lot longer than i thought it would when i arrived there i walked up to these kind gentlemen and politely told him that i was here to pick something up to which they responded luckily dying isn't a crime in california but engaging in combat with a whole gang of armed men and stealing their illegal substances definitely is as this clearly wasn't in the job description i quickly quit the job but to my dismay i was once again forced into starting a job i had no way to pass this mission without doing something illegal and therefore it was impossible to progress this run was over before it even truly started and the only way to get past this was to skip the whole tutorial altogether and that's exactly what i did i deleted the old nigel and made a new nigel but this time i skipped the tutorial and finally after wasting over an hour i was in free mode the first thing i saw when i spawned in was two players ramming into each other with their cars as to not get involved with these unlawful individuals i left and made myself a private session this is where the real journey begins i have no money no cars no house just a clothes on my back and a strong moral compass by my side i was ready to take this ill legitimate weld on the first thing i did was hand in this illegal firearm over to the cops once that was done i then brainstormed some ways to get myself some easy and clean money my first fault was to head to the shooting range as it was relatively close by and just because i needed a legal way to blow off some steam after playing for a few minutes i decided to call it quits to check how much money i made so far and i'm happy to report that i made absolutely nothing the only thing i got was a measly 10rp at this point i was starting to question if this challenge was even possible and if i was just wasting my time however still hanging on to what little hope i had i thought that game of tennis would surely give me a little bit of money at least after walking all the way to the nearest tennis court i quickly came to realize that i wasn't even a high enough level to play tennis i thought that there was literally no way to make money at the start without breaking some rules but then i remembered something there are 100 collectible action figures which are strewn around the map each one giving you 1 000 and 1 000 rp feeling encouraged again i looked up a map of all the action figures and went for the ones that were closest to me although this is a good beginner way to get some money it's still an excruciatingly long process as i had to either walk or get a cab to the figure locations it must have took me just over an hour to make 5k i quickly came to realize that i needed a better mode of transportation if i wanted to collect these action figures more efficiently so i saved up five thousand dollars for a faggio which if you don't know is a cheap but pretty crappy moped after going to purchase it i was told that i first needed a garage to store it in i reluctantly looked up the cheapest garage and cringed when i saw that it cost 25 000 this meant i was going to have to collect 25 more of these figures just by walking and using cabs not wanting to sit through hours of this i did the only thing someone in my position would do when they're in desperate need of money i tried my luck at the casino after paying the vip fee of 500 i spun the lucky will and prayed for something good my prayers were answered as with one spin i managed to win forty thousand dollars at this point i was ecstatic i could buy a garage a faggio and still have a ton of money left over and that's exactly what i did now that i had a decent mode of transport collecting these action figures will be a lot easier of course there were some which i couldn't collect as i needed to trespass in order to get to them but despite that i was actually starting to rack up a bit of money just to prove that i haven't committed a crime up until this point here's a quick overview of my stats anyway now that i was a high enough level i had access to games such as tennis darts and golf i tried all of them in hopes of them paying out some money but none of them did that's when i tried out flight school and holy cow that was the best thing i've done yet if you get a gold medal on one of these challenges you can win upwards of thirty thousand dollars the best thing about it is that it seems to be completely legal i spent an hour grinding these out until i got gold on everything once i had finished i had over 250 thousand dollars okay things were starting to get quite serious now the only issue is that replaying these flight school missions only gives you a fraction of what you earned the first time so it's very much a one-time thing i was starting to realize that i had no repeatable way to make money as all of the ways i've made money so far have all been one-off for currencies that can't be repeated to hopefully find a solution to this i went to the jobs menu and tried to look for a job that will be completely legal but still has a good payout stuff like death matches last team standings and captures were all out of the question as they all needed another player to start them all contact missions were out too as they all involved doing something illegal the only two jobs that i could realistically do was either races assuming that they are legally done and parachuting i found parachuting to be the slightly better option as they could be done slightly faster than a raise and also had a better payout so with no other option i cracked on and grinded out these parachute jumps easily doing 40 plus doing these parachute jumps got me an average of one thousand dollars every minute which is a lot better than collecting action figures but it's still pretty terrible so i decided to brainstorm some other ways to make money i remembered that there was some daily treasure that you could find in a shipwreck which would give you twenty thousand dollars the money was good but once again it's just not sustainable just when i thought i was going to have to stick with these parachute jumps i got a text from maude asking if i was willing to do some bounty hunting this was a very intriguing offer as doing these bounty hunts would pay a pretty penny the only issue is that i would have to either kill or beat these bounties into submission which is obviously illegal especially as good old nigel here hasn't got a licence to be doing these bounty hunts however if i could make one of these bounties accidentally killed himself in a very unfortunate accident in which i had no involvement nor set up in any way then i would likely complete the bounty and walk away with my morally questionable but still completely clean money and that's exactly what i aim to do after being told the rough location of our first bounty target as well as what he looked like i parked up in the area and began my search i found the guy a little while later and approached him as soon as i got close he got mad and began assaulting me as any normal civilian would do i called the police whilst running around in circles when the cops eventually showed up i tried to get their attention by letting the guy punch me in front of them but they didn't even seem the least bit concerned they just watched on emotionless as i was getting my ass handed to me then they just drove off and carried on with their day i called them a second time but once again they were utterly useless as it was very clear that the police wasn't going to help me i led the bounty to a nearby gang of armed bikers who are usually very jumpy but even they didn't seem to care i then tried to get creative by leading the bounty onto the highway hoping that he will have a unfortunate accident however as i also needed to follow traffic laws when i was on the highway i couldn't stop or even slow down causing me to go too far away from the target which in turn failed the mission in hindsight this was a really bad idea luckily not long later another bounty target shows up this time in sandy shores when i get there i realized that the guy was actually armed with a knife and was hell-bent on stabbing me with it as this was a bit more serious than the last bounty i tried calling the cops again to see if they would do anything about this crazed lunatic trying to kill me but as i should have expected they just watched on as the guy literally stabs me to death which caused me to yet again fail the mission it became abundantly clear that if i wanted to dispatch these bounties without getting my hands dirty i had to be more creative about it our next bounty target was located directly in the middle of the city surrounded by huge skyscrapers this gave me an excellent idea i lured our friend here over to a nearby alleyway which just so happens to have ladders that led right to the top of the building when you're this high up one small slip is game over i lured the guy all the way to the top and tried all different kinds of tricks to get him near the edge but he wasn't having any of it i eventually noticed this really precarious ladder that was quite difficult to use i wanted to see how mr bounty man here would tackle this obstacle and as it turns out he didn't handle it very well now that was quite the fall but the guy just shrugged it off and kept coming after me i tried it again thinking that he surely must be on very low health after that fall but no he took another plummet like a champ and got up like nothing happened i tried it for a third time and once again he just politely refused to die i must say i admire this guy's determination unfortunately while i was trying to make him fall for a fourth time i end up falling victim to this poorly designed ladder and i fooled two stories to my death this was a tragic blow to my self-esteem in an attempt to forget about how i just got completely outplayed by an npc i played a couple of parachute jumps to clear my head after gaining back my will to live i once again attempted another bounty this time our target was located right next to vespucci beach which was actually very handy as the next two methods of killing him that i thought of involved the beach i first tried to lure him over to one of these fire pits in an attempt to get him to walk over it but as it turns out he was smart enough to walk around it so that was a bust my final idea was to drown him in the ocean simply walking into the ocean with him wouldn't work as he would never follow me in it's almost like he's definitely afraid of the water in order to make him overcome his fear i lured him onto the pier and down onto this little pontoon but just like last time no matter how much i tried to convince him he would never step foot in the ocean that's when something unexpected happened i just so happened to dive into the water at the exact time he was lunging for me which caused him to stack it and fall face first into the sea as soon as he fell in he attempted to find his way back up however due to his inexperience with swimming he died a few seconds later it was a truly unfortunate and unpreventable accident which i just so happened to benefit from may he rest in peace anyway that's one down four more to go the second bounty was at the court center from experience i know that the security guards at this place are very trigger happy and don't like it when you enter the place at night so i had to wait until day before entering the museum after finding the bounty and having her give chase to me i decided to lure her towards one of these trigger happy gods however as i really really should have learned by now it didn't work in fact the opposite happened he started to open fire on me which got me a one star wanted level for literally no reason after the dude shot me dead and let the bounty go free i was there gobsmacked as my once perfect stats were now tainted with a one star wanted level and to top it off my beloved folgio got impounded i begrudgingly took a cab all the way to the impound lot and paid the 200 fine now that i was reunited with my moped i headed straight to the next bounty you know the deal by now i went to the area i got him angry and i made him chase me i wanted to try the drowning method again as it worked like a charm last time but unfortunately the closest pier for me was on the other side of the alamo sea which let me tell you took a painfully long time to get to when i got there i pulled the old bait and switch on him and he fell into the water a few seconds later he was swimming with the fishes that's two down free to go the third bounty was very luckily located directly on del pero pier i quite literally couldn't ask for a better spawn i went down there and tried the same method as before but surprisingly she managed to get herself back up i tried it again thinking that was just some kind of fluke but no every time she fell in she would almost immediately make her way back up it seems like i've finally found a bounty who's a confident swimmer i made my way back up the pier to think of another way to terminate her that's when i saw this completely open ledge here without any railings this is a serious health and safety hazard that we can take full advantage of i'll order to this ledge and try to make her dive in with me after failing multiple times to pull this off she eventually fell in and with nowhere for her to go she eventually succumbed to the waves that leaves only two more bounties left until i get my hands on a big payday the fourth bounty basically played out the same i got her angry made her chase me and jumped into the water at the last minute now that i knew what to do this was becoming very easy on to the final bounty she was in sandy shores so once again i employed the same method i ran around the alamo c went to this wooden pier and jumped into the water last minute and just like that my suffering was over all five bounties were finally completed as a reward maude gave me the location of a nearby treasure chest it was finally time to claim my three hundred thousand dollars that was promised i went to the chest location and opened it up to my absolute horror i got no money whatsoever the only thing that i got was this old looking stone hatchet as it turns out you only get the 300 000 if you kill 25 people with the stone hatchet i was absolutely gutted not only did i just waste literally half a day going for these bounties but now i own a dangerous weapon which i could not drop i decided that the best course of action would be to stuff the axe so far in my pockets that i would forget i even had it besides i could potentially pass it off as an antique artifact anyway at this point i had tried literally everything i could think of but it still wasn't enough i drove around aimlessly for about 10 minutes i then decided to park up somewhere nice and cinematic as i gazed over the horizon i started to realize that i only really had three options either put my head down and grind parachute missions until i hit my goal gamble everything i own to try to win big or find a better and faster money-making method the first two options really did not build to me so i thought really hard about other methods that i could use to make money i went on my main account and tested a huge variety of different missions to see if they could be done legally but no matter what i tried i always came up empty-handed that's when it hit me during the week this was recorded in there was a triple rp and money events on all open wheel races which i assume are all completely legal after starting one of them up i raced for the track i then crossed my fingers and hoped for a good payout that's when i got this seventeen thousand dollars per race was miles better than the two to three thousand i would get from parachuting so as this quite literally was the safest and fastest way to hit my goal i put on my epic gaming gloves and took a swig of my mountain dew preparing for a two to three hour gaming session which admittedly isn't really that long but whatever cue the very epic gaming montage [Music] [Music] [Music] so there you have it one million dollars were made without committing a single crime we had a lot of mess-ups along the way there were points where i thought that was literally impossible but we made it and despite how frustrating and time-consuming this was it was actually quite fun at times and with that being said i hope you enjoyed this fun but stupid challenge as much as i did if you want to see more of nigel and his future misadventures then please let me know in the comments also if you know of any other ways to make money legally that i didn't use then please let me know because as you could probably tell i really ran out of ideas towards the end i look forward to seeing what you guys can come up with anyway i'll see you later

Channel: InControlAgain

Views: 6,271,142

Keywords: GTA, GTA 5, GTA V, GTA Online, GTA Challenge, GTA V Challenge, GTA Online Challenge, GTA V Pacifist, Pacifist Challenge, Crimeless Challenge, GTA 5 Without breaking any laws, GTA V Legal Challenge, GTA V Pacifist Challenge, GTA 5 Crimeless Challenge

Id: sm7uY0xLEko

Length: 19min 35sec (1175 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 21 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/gangstasadvocate]

I want to say that’s not gangsta, but like it’s going against the grain of the spirit of the game so like it is…

[u/Surrounded-by_Idiots]

Is it legal to see someone drown and not render aid or notify authorities?

[u/shiner_bock]

Reminds me of Grand Theft Auto Pacifist from a few years back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRKbYNjRic&list=PL1tAmAFSc-YS63RrFMwkG0GuPVN70ku_G

[u/aka_liam]

This is so good.

[u/spaceturtle1]

Oh no. He was making money by collecting shipwreck treasures.

That might be a crime. He has to at least report it. And even then "In 1988, the United States enacted the Abandoned Shipwreck Act. The law dictates that rights to newly discovered ships within 22 kilometers of shore belong to the states."

But then again, I am not an expert. Just googled for a minute.

[u/serendippitydoo]

But there are entire no crime life sim servers, where there are Cop role players who put you in jail and everything.