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

which mission is that?

the one with the bank job, and subsequent dramarama.

oh yeah that one's fuckin wild.

wanna know a cheap way to win it?

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.

yes pls goole!

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.

no initially about it for me, i was still shit at driving when I finished Lost and the Damned!

switch to 'behind the windshield' view if you can, is much easier, and funner too

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 U R GENIUS

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

that kiki sounds like trouble

chinatown wars is a gorgeous little game

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, 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...

at the moment i'm enjoying standing in the baseball field on Bohan, and throwing grenades up onto the expressway above.

last night. a muthafucking pigeon

(9 to go)

you really get to see much more of the city with the in car view.

its the only way i drive now (though motorcycles are oddly vertigo inducing)

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.

steam is satan

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/shared-blogs/palmbeach/thompson/media/David%20Caruso.jpg

"disappeared, or ..... abducted."

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/shared-blogs/palmbeach/thompson/media/David%20Caruso.jpg

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/933037/53480

AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

blocked here, what are we looking at?

a walkthrough guide for completing GTA without committing any crimes

he advises having lots of save slots on the go in case you accidentally ding a car on the way to a mission

how do you complete some missions where you *have* to kill some dude?

ie the hospital mission, where you have to kill the guy in the bed

its by killing as few people as possible.

the guy is clearly a mentalist.

there is no reward for doing the game in this way; it is "just for fun"

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.

is dwayne the guy i killed, the guy whose swish penthouse i now live in?

That's Playboy X, Dwayne should still be alive if he's dead.

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.

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

aha, i know who dwayne is now!

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.

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".

Chopper vs. Chopper on L&D multiplayer is so fucking awesome.

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

^^^ 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...

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.

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!)