Grand Theft Auto IV -- It might feature crime and prostitutes.

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chills

― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

is there music? some goon reported it had Philip Glass stuff on there.

― kingfish, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

ah, here we are:

This trailer shows that GTA IV is set in New York City and the main character is an immigrant with an Eastern European accent, who says, "Life is complicated. - I killed people, smuggled people, sold people. Perhaps here, things will be different." It shows Times Square as well as many other familiar landmarks, including the "GetaLife Building", an obvious parody of the MetLife Building. All of the cars and buildings seem to indicate a present-day setting. The trailer parodied Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi as it used Philip Glass's original music from the film as well as emulated time-lapsed filming.[citation needed] The trailer's tone is substantially darker than that of the previous games in the series.

― kingfish, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

The trailer's tone is substantially darker than that of the previous games in the series.

Yeah, that guy is going to look pretty ridiculous doing Sanchez motorcycle tricks while listening to The Strokes or whatever.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

So in what era is this mofo set?

― Leee, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

New York. There are scenes of the Statue of Liberty, the Chrysler building, and the Flatiron building.

― calstars, Thursday, 29 March 2007 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Get in!

Extremely pleased it's back in Liberty City/NY. And it looks fucking gorgeous.

and oooh the roller coaster !

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

So, is it really Liberty City?

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 30 March 2007 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

I meant what decade is it set in?

― Leee, Friday, 30 March 2007 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just watched it on the youtube (looks 4real), and it sounds like early Aughties?

― Leee, Friday, 30 March 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

So, this coming on out both PS3 and Xbox360 right?

― treefell, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

It's Liberty City but it looks nothing like the original and a lot more like the real NY. I guess that was part of the tagline "things will be different"

The opening scene with the subway train looked the most similar to the old Liberty City tho.

Will the actual game footage have different graphics, I noticed around the ferry port scene they had a lot of high detailed garbage in the water which probably won't be there in game mode. Although GTA cut scenes have always been just in-game graphics. ?

But it's nice to know where we are now :)

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Why must the internet taunt me with things I can't have :(

― kv_nol, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

You're not going to get it? Or do you mean because it's not out yet?

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit! PC version should be out when, I wonder?

I better start saving up for a new PC by the look of that.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's not out yet :(

Also Pash very sadly OTM. I think I'll wait to see what it needs and get that instead. Or I'll snap and get a 360, I am not paying €700 for a PS3!!

― kv_nol, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

PS3 price cut in October predicted

Still not worth it.

― onimo, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

Will we get PC version a year after release like GTA:SA? If this ends up console only, I'll be rather upset.

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like it's set pretty present-day to me. IGN has some screenshots of the Times Square part, and the ads, cars and fashions look pretty contemporary-- and no way are they going to have the WTC in the game, even conspicuous by its absence.

Come to think of it, what'd they do for Ground Zero in Spiderman 2 and True Crime 2? Did they address it as space in the financial district, or just pretend it wasn't there?

― antexit, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Is it called GTA IV because it's the fourth of the versions set in 3D? or because it goes (title wise) ;

GTA I
GTA II
GTA III
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
GTA IV

or is it simply a double edged sword?

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I believe that the popular reasoning is b/c GTA3/VC/SA were more or less three different versions of the same game.

Or maybe even the third generation of GTA games, who knows how these guys think.

― kingfish, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

The latter. The main series is I, II, III and IV. All are set in Liberty City, IIRC, except maybe GTA2, which had either multiple cities or multiple boroughs (burroughs?), I can't remember. London 1969, Vice City, and San Andreas don't count in the main "numerical" line-- they're more like mods. Just really, really fucking amazing mods.

At least that's how I understand it.

― Will M., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Grrrrrrrrxpost

I remember each numbered game being a new echelon of awesome as I played thme (I was so addicted to GTA 1, then 2 blew my mind becuase theree were factions, then 3... well, you know. i might actually give up sex for 4, from the look of that trailer)

― Will M., Friday, 30 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

it all makes sense now, thank you

(although I think San Andreas was slightly more than just a mod for GTA3)

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

GTA2 was indeed pretty neat, but I was always a little confused as to where it was supposed to be set. It all seemed a bit mixed up with it's fads.

Better than London though, which was god awful and just seemed to be a huge rush job.

― Ste, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, with careful shopping and self-building, new GTA4-capable PC would deffo be cheaper than a PS3. This assumes that we will actually get a PC release, obv.

― g-kit, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, we have to give up sex to get this? I'm not so sure I want it that badly!

― kv_nol, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

GTA IV i mean.

― kv_nol, Friday, 30 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if this will have anything to do with the other GTA games, or if it really will be completely different. I just don't know how they can rationalize the old Liberty City suddenly becoming bigger and more NYC-like, especially if both GTAIII and GTAIV take place during the same time.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm willing to give them the retcon when they faithfully recreate new york that well. can you imagine, like, if it were to scale? fucking driving from staten to jersey in real time? but also running people over? mental.

we don't HAVE to give up sex... but i WOULD. well, i would if they made a dead-rising-gta-iv mashup where you have to escape a new york completely filled with zombies. THAT would be the best game ever.

― Will M., Friday, 30 March 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am not paying €700 for a PS3!!

kv_nol, I thought you were a Yank?

― Leee, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

GTA1 had multiple cities too - Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas were all in GTA1.

I'm pretty sure Spider-Man 2 put a park at the WTC site.

― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 31 March 2007 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

PP, the Liberty City map in GTA3 wasn't exactly identical to its counterparts in GTA1 and 2, I don't think-- Matter of fact, aside from having the some of same neighbourhoods, I don't think they're anything alike. What's the problem? New technology, new iteration, new map. You don't really want to be playing on the same old maps anyway, do you?

― antexit, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

The only GTA games I've played are GTA3, Vice City, and GTA:SA (and Liberty City Stories.) And all four of those games exist in the same universe, where a character in GTA:SA can travel back to the Liberty City featured in GTA3, etc.

So I'm wondering if Rockstar is really going to break away from the storyline and characters that they've used for their last five releases and really go "completely different". Which would be really cool, because as I've said before, I don't know if I want to do another goddam fire engine mission.

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 31 March 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well yes, I think that seems to be the idea, that with the new generation it's a reboot of the series. They've got to know that everyone's sick of doing the same old stuff, and that their imitators are making better last-gen-type GTA games than they are right now. I can't see them letting go of all the characters, though.

― antexit, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

trailer looks "gritty"

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 1 April 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 1 April 2007 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

kv_nol, I thought you were a Yank?

Nope. Irish.

― kv_nol, Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

their imitators are making better last-gen-type GTA games than they are right now

Srsly, who?

Rockstar has to walk a fine line. Yeah, some progression would be cool, but too much change and they risk killing everything that those of us who love GTA love it for.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 2 April 2007 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

I assume he's talking about Crackdown and Saint's Row?

― marmotwolof, Monday, 2 April 2007 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Noodle otm. I'm perfectly willing to play another firetruck mission, but it sure would be a relief if they'd change the gameplay. They haven't changed the way the firetruck missions play out since GTA3. How about burning buildings and not just vehicles?

Climbing in a firetruck and pressing R3 and NOTHING HAPPENS would be devestating to the GTA community, the point with all these side missions is that you don't *have* to do them. Only the narcistic die-hard gta fans want to get 100% anyway, don't we?

Having said all that I sure am glad there aren't any pizza delivery missions in Vice City Stories, that shit took ages to complete.

― Ste, Monday, 2 April 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

If Crackdown or Saint's Row are better than any of the GTA3 iterations, then I'm Asuka Kasen.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 2 April 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

In blissed-out anticipation of October, I'm playing through Vice City Stories, somewhere in the middle of it.

― calstars, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Def. Liberty City - I freeze-framed it @ the bit w/the crossroads with the big advertising hoardings, and there's a banner for "liberty tree" on the left of the screen. Also noticed a cluckin' bell on the right of the crossroads and a hoarding for sprunk!

NB also there's a cablecar running alongside the bridge.

French Connection-inspired, maybe?

I can hardly wait!

― Pashmina, Monday, 2 April 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm already worrying about which machine I don't want I'm going to have to buy to play this.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha OTM

― Ste, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, I can't justify the PS3 even for this.

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Pashmina, that's the Roosevelt Island gondola, innit? As featured as well in Spider-Man.

And I'm not saying Crackdown and Saints Row are better games overall, but I don't think anyone could deny that the nuts-and-bolts gameplay is better by leaps and bounds. After playing Saints Row and having gotten used to all the common-sense fixes of frustrating gameplay issues in the GTA3 series, I can't even play Vice City Stories, which I got at around the same time, without getting pissed off.

― antexit, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. i think that the thing that GTA has over all the knock-off titles was the sensibility and the writing. The satire of american culture and violent entertainment(even as itself was violent entertainment) raises it several levels above most other things.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the thing is coming out for the 360, and it shouldn't be to hard to find used two year old consoles

― kingfish, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

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