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
aha, i know who dwayne is now!
― stchick (stevie), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
another pigeon bit the dust last night, yay
i spent some time on party mode, with no other players. this at least gives you oodles of free weapons, nice cars, and no police. gets boring after a while, but if you just wanna let rip with no hassle it's a good option.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Friday, 1 May 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck all the friends. fuck dwayne, fuck roman, fuck jacob, fuck everything except killing people and occasionally tearing across the city listening to "the journey" or "vibe".
― Local Garda, Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
― "Together we could rape the universe" (omar little), Saturday, 2 May 2009 00:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Chopper vs. Chopper on L&D multiplayer is so fucking awesome.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Saturday, 2 May 2009 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i find the l&d dlc to be much better than the main game - i've been playing all the gang missions and races long after completing it all, whereas i just couldn't be fussed with the extra bits on the main game. plus it just looks better, that gritty fuzzy effect on the screen. absolutely love it, is there a standalone thread for it or is this the only one? it really should be released for ps3 and pc, it's criminal that not everyone can play this.
does anyone have any details about the next episode? i hope it has a rollercoaster mission, i keep seeing it on the horizon and wishing and hoping something would happen on it
― NI, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ am glad to hear this, as i haven't really investigated it much beyond a few games of multiplayer, and am intending to invest some time upon it once i've shifted my current workload... not that i don't love GTA4 itself of course, especially since i've completed three leaf clover...
― pen(istentiary) (stevie), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The only problem with chopper vs. chopper is that no one plays it. I sat around waiting for someone to show up but after 10 minutes no one did. Too bad; easily the best multiplayer mode if you don't want to work in concert with a bunch of juggalos.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
ive still not played multiplayer on this (or anything on xbox360). i don't really get what would be fun about playing people i've never met. i'm not even that fussed about playing my mates on there - this mindset will likely change completely once i try it out.
spent the last few days reading through this whole thread and i gotta disagree with everyone above saying this isn't as good as SA etc. i prefer gta4 in every possible way, loved playing it every step of the way. they couldn't really do yet another daft cartoony one, playing it (mostly) serious was the only smart move they could make for the series to progress.
i've borrowed the gta4 guide off a friend, so i can go through those extra hidden missions (the people waving you down at the side of the street, etc), just hoping they're still there once i've completed the main plot, does anyone know if they are? hope they do an extra book for the lost & damned stuff too, though im not sure there's any extra bonus stuff in that - are there no other l&d fans on here? it's AWESOME, seriously! really cannot wait for the next episode
(also, im not much of a pothead (used to be in the late 90s) but i ate some weed the other week and got pretty mashed, stumbling about head buzzing and freaking out, and the only thing that sorted me out was driving around in vehicle-view, listening to the journey, just checking out the sights, driving real carefully. made a bad whitey into a thing of joy and i'm actually looking forward to doing it again!)
― NI, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
gta4, turning bad drug experiences into good the world over
― NI, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
the Journey is great for turning every bizarre scene that happens because of this game's crazy AI into strangely moving art movie shit
I am downloading L&D now but it's taking ages; still only at like Ray Boccino on GTA4 after a year but I can only take so much of Nemanja Vidic engaging in bleak murders
was playing GTA Chinatown on wifey's DS at half time at Villa Park the other week and a cute little girl came up to me and peered over the screen to see what I was playiing just as I offloaded 14 bags of heroin for a massive amount of money. I don't think she understood but I felt dirty.
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
the production values for L&D are crazy good
shame about all that cookie monster shit playing in the clubhouse but I guess you can't have bike gang lamers listening to italo disco and R Kelly
I think there are just a couple more random characters for the expansion
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/955085/56262
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
oh great thanks!
i had a quick go of the chinatown game on the ds before but i didnt get into it straight away, it's a ridiculous way to think but i kept comparing it to how incredible gta4 looked and played - i'd be best off thinking of it as a totally new kind of game i think. is it worth sticking with?
this thread has encouraged me to stick l&d back on after a few weeks away, still so so so good. i could do these gang wars and races all day and not get bored (never really got excited about the races in gta4). i can sense replaying the entire thing from the start soon - chomping at the bit waiting for the next ep. actually i might start with gta3, then vice city and SA. considering buying a ps3/2 one day to play the liberty/vice city stories (are these worth playing?)
not sure if anyone knows but does this new windows 7 allow you to play old games fullscreen on the in-built XP emulator thing? haven't really looked into it properly yet but i sure hope this is the case otherwise i imagine im fucked for playing the old gtas on this machine
― NI, Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ha yeah every time i load up it's a mad rush to get him out of that damn clubhouse and away from the shitty music being blasted out, set him on a bike and stick The Vibe on
― NI, Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Chinatown wars totally worth sticking with, and yes i know what you mean about comparing it to gta4. it can be a little frustrating wanting to look from a different view other than top down sometimes, maybe they should have built it on a different city map than gtaiv
the 'stories' games are pretty good, especially liberty city. it's more of the same gta3 but with obviously some neater coding. and the camera movements have been mended.good thing with the Stories games, absolutely loads of secret missions and stuff to do. i found VC stories a little buggy, but still pretty fine. also vehicles seem to explode way too quickly.
lol just as i speak, my walkman randomly plays Big Pun, "little did we know we riddled a man in little italy who didn't do diddly ..." frmo Liberty City Stories radio.
oh yeah Stories music is pretty good too.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 14 May 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks ste, i'll definitely check out those Stories games one day. judging from your comments above, you seemed like one of the people most into GTA4, have you played L&D yet? if not you should see about borrowing an Xbox360 off someone to get it, i think you'd totally love it
― NI, Thursday, 14 May 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i know, i want a 360 for so many things too. it's going to happen i think
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 14 May 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
GTA DS is uglier and more cramped than you're used to but is compulsive and has v. creative mission design
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Friday, 15 May 2009 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://kotaku.com/5270673/gta-iv-fabulously-expands-with-the-ballad-of-gay-tony
― Kennedy had just been shot and it was now 1964 (stevie), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
(apologies for posting a kotaku link)
wow, sounds amazing. like people say on that link it'll likely lead to a lot of crappy cheap jokes for the jocks to snicker at but still, can't wait. bit more b/g info here: http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Luis_Fernando_Lopez
are there plans for more DLC or is the final installment? and are they both xbox 360-only forever or will that change after a year or whatever?
― NI, Wednesday, 27 May 2009 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I think M$ paid top dollar to make them xbox exclusive for all-time. it'd be pretty big news if this changed
― zinguist (cozwn), Wednesday, 27 May 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Gay Tony must surely involve shitloads more disco and house stuff on the radio
I hate how this game's attempts at satire have started basically amounting to people loudly shouting that they are stupid/rich/corrupt as if that doesn't kind of break the immersion
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9NEBQ0fZjQ
― mouth diaper (stevie), Sunday, 6 September 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link