got this yesterday, 2000 xbl points cost me £17 and what I've got left after buying the game isn't really worth anything, so essentially I've just paid £17 for something a third the length of a normal game. Colour me stupid.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 12 March 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
this was aiight, but it was http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/H45121a3549.jpg
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
It was longer than Halo 3 1p I think.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 19 March 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i hate on Halo.
― Blackout Crew are the Beatles of donk (jim), Thursday, 19 March 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7957863.stm
!ban dlc L&TD
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got this last week. It is so good! Is it me or is this much easier than previous GTAs? I find I complete most missions first go and usually I am terrible at GTA. My last mission was that amazing warehouse shootout after Dmitri kidnapped Roman, the shooutouts are way more controlled and much more strategic.
Also been using the dating service, was pretty funny last night, I went on a date with "Lawchick" aka Kiki and it was going well, really felt we had a connection, then after we caught a nice show at the comedy club this random car came out of nowhere and ran her over, killing her! Oddly she emailed me a few days later saying she felt better and it wasn't my fault and she'd like to see me again.
My radio station is The Vibe. If anyone is still playing this please feel free to share your stories here.
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Oddly she emailed me a few days later saying she felt better and it wasn't my fault and she'd like to see me again.
ha! robust programming, that
― goole, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i'm still playing this, its the only ps3 game i keep coming back to.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
three leaf clover seems to be quite a trial. i think you actually have to be good at the game to win this mission.
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
which mission is that?
― goole, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the one with the bank job, and subsequent dramarama.
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah that one's fuckin wild.
wanna know a cheap way to win it?
― goole, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I did that first time, not being a bragging douche, but a lot of people I talked/read posts of on forums had trouble with it.
I did find this easier than I seem to remember finding older GTAs, although SA was fucking years ago so I'm not sure how true this is.
― "Hey, We're Clubbing!" (Police Squad) (jim), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
yes pls goole!
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i got SA for xbla and the cars handle so easily its not really so much fun. i love the realistic physics of GTA4, even if it means the cars are (initially) harder to drive.
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
no initially about it for me, i was still shit at driving when I finished Lost and the Damned!
― "Hey, We're Clubbing!" (Police Squad) (jim), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
switch to 'behind the windshield' view if you can, is much easier, and funner too
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yah i did the whole game driving 1st person. i never got used to the slightly-off-to-the-left 3rd person cameras
ok, that bank mission: 1st make sure you're all armored up and have plenty of the m16 ammo. grenades are handy too. for most of it there's no trick, you just have to shoot dudes in the head and keep moving etc. after you get into the subway and then "have to" come out again is the cheap part. the game wants you to jack a car and evade a 3-star wanted level, but you can just walk back down into the subway with your crew and jog north out of the flashing circle. it takes a while. once you get rid of the stars, come out at the nearest stop, hail a cab and go home.
― goole, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
GOOLE U R GENIUS
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
for the record, i got as far as leaving the subway, before cops mash up me wheels while i was trying to kiki my wanted level down, heavy sigh
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
that kiki sounds like trouble
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
chinatown wars is a gorgeous little game
― lo (cozwn), Monday, 13 April 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― mmmm space tang (stevie), Wednesday, April 8, 2009 10:35 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark
The worst is when they shoot your tires. I always think, wow, why don't cops do that in real life more often?
Also, whenever I see Briggs bank security trucks leaving a real bank when I'm getting out of work, I think, wow, if only I had a rocket launcher and enough time to avoid the cops...
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
at the moment i'm enjoying standing in the baseball field on Bohan, and throwing grenades up onto the expressway above.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
last night. a muthafucking pigeon
(9 to go)
you really get to see much more of the city with the in car view.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
its the only way i drive now (though motorcycles are oddly vertigo inducing)
― greeheehee (stevie), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
can't do the motherloving nightclub mission :( failed on it numerous times a while ago, keep going back, and keep fucking it up, lots of times failing right at the last.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
steam is satan
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Does the DLC in this add the new weapons and games to the original GTA game? Haven't finished it but would like new stuff.
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
a new character, new missions, new weapons (which, i don't think, transfer back to the 'old' game) and new multiplayer modes. it is pretty ace.
― greeheehee (stevie), Friday, 24 April 2009 12:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I've lost all of my save games (and for grid) thanks to the shitty xbox memory card managing to completely lose the data somewhere between jimd's house and mine.
FUCK YOU MICROSOFT, FUCK YOU MORE THAN EVER
― Pro Creationism Soccer 2009 (ledge), Friday, 24 April 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
is there much difference in this game based on the choices you make? eg does everyone date the same women etc?
also does anyone else just totally abandon friends in favour of doing missions. it's so fucking boring driving to pick up jacob or someone and play some dumb as fuck subgame for 15 minutes when you could be murdering Irishmen.
― Local Garda, Friday, 24 April 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I traded this in towards Chinatown Wars and suggest that you all follow suit. it's roughly 1384384334343151 times better than GTA4 proper so far.
― jamescobo, Friday, 24 April 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Garda, if it pains you that much to drive across the islands, just hail a cab.
I think I beat the Three Leaf Clover mission on my first try too, or maybe my second -- not many, in any case. Very Heat like. /duh
― Leee, Friday, 24 April 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I just drove in a fast car for abou three minutes without taking my foot off the gas, finally got to the end of the northenmost motorway between the first two islands and rear ended the last car I saw at terrifying speed
it immediately burst into flames and the driver rocketed out of the windshield on fire
he thrashed around in blind panic, burning, for ages, and when his drop and roll finally worked his car exploded and made him do a little backflip; more cars came and blew themselves up in the process
I called an ambulance, but when the ambulance came the paramedic just irritably said "where's the patient?", because the man had struggled to his feet and was walking down the middle of the freeway into the sunset
then a taxi came and ran him over; I shot the taxi causing the driver to flee
the man continued to walk slowly into the distance; I followed him slowly while some evocative Jean Michel Jarre shit came out of the stereo
when I finally overtook him, I turned round and he had disappeared
the end
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!http://www.palmbeachpost.com/shared-blogs/palmbeach/thompson/media/David%20Caruso.jpg
― What an ego stroke that would be! (stevie), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:32 (fifteen years ago) link
"disappeared, or ..... abducted."
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/933037/53480
AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
blocked here, what are we looking at?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
a walkthrough guide for completing GTA without committing any crimes
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
he advises having lots of save slots on the go in case you accidentally ding a car on the way to a mission
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
how do you complete some missions where you *have* to kill some dude?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
ie the hospital mission, where you have to kill the guy in the bed
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
its by killing as few people as possible.
the guy is clearly a mentalist.
― stchick (stevie), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
there is no reward for doing the game in this way; it is "just for fun"
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 13:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm still yet to use Dwaynes bodyguard option, but Dwayne himself is pretty handy - having knocked out a bouncer with one punch after a night out in the strip joint.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
is dwayne the guy i killed, the guy whose swish penthouse i now live in?
― stchick (stevie), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
That's Playboy X, Dwayne should still be alive if he's dead.
― 88, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, Dwaynes the big black guy who's 'been in the joint' and complains a lot/world owes him a favour etc.
funniest moment was when he rang me randomly saying he thought he heard his phone ringing while he was in the shower, thought it might be me.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Have really been getting into multiplayer on this. Has its downsides - glitches sometimes prevent otherwise obvious kills from occurring - but its still pretty great.
One thing that has racheted up the playability: We only play with far blips on. That way, you know SORT of where the other people are, but only outside of a 4 or 5 block radius. After that, you've got to actually hunt and kill them
― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link