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

Calstars, you're still basically in the training levels if you're not much past the Ivan mission-- it does get quite a lot harder pretty fast. And more fun. Lots of Niko vs. 50 guys type missions.

yeah I suck at these things, it took me 8 tries to do the one where you beat up the Albanians and then chase them in the car. I'm bad with the cars so far. I did a multi race in helicopters last night and I was even worse in them than in cars. But I'm ok in deathmatch, and wow is that fun! once I get a little better I'll try some of the other modes.

Do it Grimly. You can come over and play it first if you like. But then you'll buy it.

hang on, does that mean you've taken possession of your girlfriend's console and copy of GTA? heh

i was freezing up like CRAZY last night and i was furious... FURIOUS... but ya disabling the internet connection worked.

there was NO WAY IN HELL i was going to go thru that idiotic 12-step bullshit list. am amazed that rockstar's QC is so bad they managed to ship a completely broken game. it's terrible.

i mean did they even test it in actual consoles before they put it out??

This thread has convinced me to wait for the bugs to work out and the inevitable summer (winter?) 360 price drop. They're going to have to come down a bit to compete with the wii for christmas, right? I mean, what other system sellers are due out on the xbox in the next six months?

FALL OUT THREE

pretty sure it's actually four dude

http://www.100xr.com/100_XR/Artists/F/Fall_Out_Boy/Fall.Out.Boy.jpg

lol forks there are no bugs in the 360 vn!! w00t w00t!!

that kill lyle rivas mission was THRILLING!!

I did it on the first go and I was buzzing right after... the chase missions are so tricky but totally rewarding if you pull them off...

I'm just past the bit where you have to start making choices... excited to see how it pans out

also, put my little d00d in a suit asap

looking for some nicer threads tbh

If Lyle Rivas was the biker gang mission, then fuck yeah. They had me cornered with one sliver of energy left, and I picked them off one by one. It was fucking amazing.

ya that mission was awes

different from lyle rivas tho

After finding my first flying rat, I'm a bit obsessed with finding more, but the damn borough is so huge, those fuckers could be anywhere...

Shit, I hope this isn't a dumbass question, but does anyone else have a problem changing radio stations in certain vehicles? Is this a feature or a bug? As far as I can tell, the higher end vehicles are no problem, but when you try to switch the dial on middle to lower end ones you get just static and can't even re-tune in your original station. I think I also noticed that, when this happens, there's no radio playing in the safehouse, so it could well be a bug. Anyone else get this (I'm on a 360)?

Could also be a location/reception thing, maybe?

The Lyle Rivas mission was also very cool. Lots of good ones so far, and it's early.

One thing made me laugh in the lyle mission - I'd just failed for about the 4th time, got out of the car and said to myself "this is some kind of bullshit". Nico then announced "this is bullshit!"

However I am starting to appreciate the benefit and fun in the softly softly approach to the missions where you have to kill warehouses full of dudes. Normally I charge in guns blazing, but really that's lazy and stupid and doomed to failure.

Don't recall having any radio problems. n.b. Journey is pretty good but Electro is my fave.

Have got really into Radio Broker now, that Q LAZZARUS song is awesome.

My Addiction Rating - Serious Habit, my longest time played - 15 hours! haha

Still no rampages though, but then neither did SA.

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I now have a camera phone, was using it while in the back of a taxi. amazing.

Races have become way too easy, there are no car restrictions. I even started lapping them on one race.

30 flying rats so far, i wonder if you get anything for every 50?

loving the boats, the water is cool to look at especially going slow and watching the wave effect.

On the bank job at the moment, seems quite big, failed it so am just going around cleaning up my relationships now and finding side stuff to do. I've turned off my gps as i'm so fucking hard and now know my way around, besides the one way system was making it send me round in bloody circles.

yeah i like this game, i'm posting this from the ps3 lol

connecting to the ps3 seems to have done something to my modem, it won't let me connect now from my PC just doesn't recognise the line anymore. any ideas?

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nggggggggggh

the bank heist mission was EPIC

I just did the Lyle Rivas, but haven't noticed any choices yet... did I miss them? (Maybe you didn't have to.... Spoiler...

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Kill the boyfriend? Kill the "snitch"? Do the other crazy shit Dmitri asks you not to do?

and i'm reading about freezes on both xbox and ps3 now, but it seems an unfortunate few

no probs with mine so far, touch my wood.

it's still the small things in these games which get me all woah. Like throwing hand grenades in water. Ker-bloooom!

When cars drive through fire, and their tires become enflamed. And then 'poof' you see the rubber blow off.

The 4 different sirens and horns on police cars !!

Did my first vigilante mission yesterday, they're quite tough.

Love fucking using the sniper rifle.

I'm starting to get those 'gta meets life' moments now, from too much play. This morning I heard a car horn outside my house. I then had an image of me looking out the window to see somehow badly parked across the kerb trying to get my attention, possibly to go play darts or something.

Ste - did you figure out your modem problem? Have you tried unpluging the power (on the modem) and then plugging it back in?

yeah tried that a few times, i'll just ring up virgin guys next week and see if they can try restarting it from their end.

That fucking bank mission is getting on my tits.

my freeze problems are isolated to connecting to multiplayer, and those problems were nonexistent last night. I'm not pitching a fit - I got to run around a virtual Manhattan killing two of my friends with an AK47 as they tried - in vain - to run me over with various vehicles. I also got very good at a set of matador moves that allowed me to move out of the way of an oncoming car pretty quickly.

I must report my favorite kill from that session was firing a rocket right in front of an oncoming cop car controlled by one of my friends and having the car explode OVER me, leaving me untouched. Awesome.

dont worry the 360 multiplayer seems borked too

nigh impossible to connect : /

I get that sometimes, seems to be just a random local problem. Have had a handful of freezes on loading a multi game, and one after the end of a game, which would suck if you had a good result as it wouldn't be saved. Also had two games where everyone loaded ok but we all ended up alone in our own personal deserted liberty city.

The only problem I've had with multi on xbox live is when you join a game that's just starting but that you missed the options choosing screens. Then I've had long waits, 3 or 4 minutes of "loading game" on an otherwise empty screen. I've had that once or twice, but I don't consider that a bug. O/w no probs

The last 10 times I went online, I was totally fine. Just something we may have to deal with.

finally got back to where i was. took 9 less game days than first time round but my stats look like balls now. my 2 hour baseball bat rampage lost to history.

what i realized by going through all those missions again, or what was confirmed rather, was that i really fucking love this game. for the most part it's the same game as before, but it's like the GTA3 series was an old girlfriend who suddenly just got HOT and has just called to ask if you want to go for an intimate chicken sandwich at Cluckin' Bell.

when is GTA V?

they're saying fall.

i'm at the first brucie race and i'm sorry but it is STUPID that if you lose the race you need to go collect the car and drive over to the race starting point again. i thought for this one they were skipping over that shit!!

Are they putting out the soundtrack this time around?

Some girl dropped some litter so I picked it up and threw it at her. She started to beat me up! And wouldn't stop, so, you know, I had to kill her. Still have met any random friends despite running around as much as possible and bumping into people. "Are you my friend? Are you my friend?"

Finally unlocked Algonquin. Have been playing way more multi than single player.

i make it a tradition now to throw a donut at the Tw@t cafe owner's head whenever I leave the shop, he's stopped chasing me out now and just shouts abuse.

I've barely touched multiplay, I can't get into it at all. Tried Cops n Crooks but it just seemed stupid, the levels kept finishing before I even had chance to fire any weapons.

The races are okay though, but it's not as fun as MTA on the PC.

I've put in 60 hours so far, and still haven't finished the main game. I've progressed 51%

ledge, the random friends show up as green little pointy things on your radar. And when you're near them, the camera changes to cinematic one.

hahahahaha you cna throw donuts at him? amazing.

the thing w/ cops and crooks is you need the right crew to play. which is why i am planning an epic 8-man on XBLive tonight with all of my mates.

yeah cops n crooks with randoms can be fun or can be bullshit. same for races, which i'm still loving (when they go well...)

just gone to up rank 4 with $100,000 and i need another $150,000 to get to 5 ;_;

ledge, the random friends show up as green little pointy things on your radar.

shit i saw one of them but it was near roman's gaff and i thought it was just him so ignored it. maybe it'll still be there.

Is this coming out on PeeCee?

I'm a little bit of the way through Algonquin. It's weird how Algonquin is so huge, and yet there are like two places to eat on the whole island. They did a good job making the city feel realistic, but it would be nice if there were more open storefronts to play around in or interact with.

I know, ign were totally bullshittinv when they said that one in three buildings can be entered. Would be nice if you could tell which buildings you can enter instead of having to spaz up against the door to find out. Its some sub CoD4-cant-open-doors-WTF bullshit frreal

haha i know... are you supposed to just go door to door thru the whole city

how impossible are these achievements:
- blow up 10 cars in 10 seconds
- complete 10 melee attacks in 4 minutes

also, I totally outran the cops on a 4* wanted level and it didn't give me the achievement : (((

And now word has it on Ars Technica of reports of UPS guys stealing the game out of shipments. Jack Thompson was RIGHT; this game does cause crime!;

-- kingfish, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 07:18 (6 days ago) Link

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oh god, don't tell me that! game's still in transit.

-- circa1916, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:53 (6 days ago) Link

How's this for irony? UPS said they delivered the game this past Friday. Yeah, it never arrived. I'm currently wrangling with UPS and Best Buy over this.

Fucking bullshit.

If it actually got ganked, I wish the thief a slow and miserable death.