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

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Since they changed that achievement multiplayer has been working perfectly for me, I used to get disconnected from about 4 out of 5 matches before, so they seem to have sorted that out at the same time, which is fantastic.

No ladyzombie outfit though :(.

limón, Sunday, 1 June 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Have been playing a lot of free mode on multiplayer recently. Of course you can just tool around the city in single player but it's somehow more fun when there's other real life people there, even if they're just strangers. Of course you get more than a fair share of twats just trying to turn it into deathmatch; but I've had some good times, just driving round, picking people up, heading into the museum to fuck shit up, getting police stars and teaming up to fight off the cops...

ledge, Sunday, 1 June 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I played multiplayer for the first time on my own xbox live account today. The very first person I shot gave me the rockstar achievement.

polyphonic, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link

how many people are on the servers max? question relates especially to freemode

Ste, Monday, 2 June 2008 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link

I dunno, sometimes when it's full of twats and I've tried to leave and join a new game, it's dumped me back in the same one repeatedly, which suggests fewer than 16 people. Which can't be right. Why do you wanna know?

ledge, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link

ok, got the rockstar achievement also on my first kill last night too.

I had the best deathmatch ever too, so it was a terrific night.

Euler, Monday, 2 June 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link

oh just wondering, just curious.

deathmatch is pretty decent, some hilarious deaths.

Ste, Monday, 2 June 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Owing to an autosave cock-up, I lost everything I did on Saturday, which means I have to get all tooled up do Manny's missions again

OH LOOK A PASSING POLICEMAN IS ANGRY AT ME SHOOTING A LOCK OFF A DOOR OH LOOK SOMEBODY'S HEADSHOTTED ME WITH A SHOTGUN THE SECOND I WALK THROUGH THE FUCKING DOOR AFTER SPENDING FIFTEEN PAINSTAKING FUCKING MINUTES DRIVING HERE IN A WAY THAT DOESN'T "SPOOK" A DRUG DEALER HOW ABOUT THAT

I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THIS

MPx4A, Monday, 2 June 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I hated that mission too. Not a brick to be found 500 yds away from that place.

I kept getting frustrated this weekend losing missions, so I just played suicide bomber. Walk into a traffic jam, stand between a couple of cars, pull the pin... the death scenes for explosions and death-by-cop are intense. I detonated myself off of the Empire State Building at one point, and the screen faded out before I ever hit the ground.

Pleasant Plains, Monday, 2 June 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

MPX4A: go topside, not front door.

David R., Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:26 (fifteen years ago) link

You know what would be awesome? a (spoiler)(/spoiler) tag for ILG that just makes the text color white (or the same as whatever your background is) so to read it, you could have to highlight he text and/or copy it to a notepad depending on your browser.

because seriously reading this back is like WAIT SPOILER UH SPOILER? SPOILER SPOILER

Will M., Tuesday, 3 June 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link

cosign

ledge, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I have gradually reluctantly learnt the names of everyone I will kill later in the game just from people all over the Internet half-assedly going "yeah I did that in the bit just before spoiler you beat Michelle to death with a bat in front of her parents" and shit, it's not that easy to violently jerk your head away from the screen and hurriedly scroll down every time

Yesterday a Policeman saw me shooting a cab driver through the windshield so I could claim the fare back, but the cab driver did the foot-jammed-on-the-horn thing and whizzed round in a perfect little arc to smash the cop up against his own car. I went to bed and came back to find the wrecked taxi still there, full of mah money.

I have a suit and the second island, so the autosave cockup is a distant memory.

MPx4A, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link

i keep finding random money, there was some at the AutoErotica shop for ages even when I went away and came back. And then ther was some in my apartment.

Ste, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Gah I just got arrested FOR THE FIRST TIME, having completed the story. (Ok I did get arrested v early on but I reloaded an earlier game 'cause I didn't want to lose the gun I'd just been given).

ledge, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link

haha, yeah it's a killer ain't it. I couldn't handle my unlucky arrest-losing-hundreds-of-weapons and so just reloaded prev game, which meant the redoing of a few difficult missions and hidden packages and lots of other things. No fucking way was i losing my gunz man.

Ste, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link

i was arrested mid-mission but hitting the button to get into my car and having Niko swing round and promptly try to jack a passing police cruiser :(

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/liberty_city_police_face

MPx4A, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Haunted swing set!!

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/gta-iv-glitch-is-this-playground-haunted/a-2008060415315162083

that rules so much. guess what just hit my to-do list for the weekend.

Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 June 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah I've had a go with that, it's actually pretty scary! I haven't yet figured out exactly how it works so I can't get the massive catapult effect every time. But, in single player, if you back your car in then you won't fly out of the windscreen.

ledge, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

oh yeah i came across that weird swing shit some time ago, crazy.

Ste, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

that bank job was a pain. thank god for kiki clearing my wanted stars afterwards

stet, Friday, 6 June 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Had a really fun time last night playing GTA Race mode on multiplayer. It's like a much, much more violent version of Mario Kart.

polyphonic, Friday, 6 June 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

A even more in-depth conversation about lollipop girl's fingers:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301889

Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link

i revisited this tonight, and had a lot of fun (took ilxors advice on spending attitude and went bit mad)

and lol at Kiki on the way home in the car after a night of drinking she just decided to throw herself out at high speed.

Having trouble already finding pidgeons, and still have about 100 to find.

Ste, Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link

i read somewhere that some of them are invisible, ie you have to toss a grenade through an open window or similar shit. fuk dat. if i finish the races and the bff achievement then i might get over 90%.

ledge, Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:43 (fifteen years ago) link

i read somewhere that some of them are invisible, ie you have to toss a grenade through an open window or similar shit

ok tell me you're joking

Ste, Thursday, 26 June 2008 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link

A even more in-depth conversation about lollipop girl's fingers:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301889

-- Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:34 PM (Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:34 PM) Bookmark Link

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?s=3afa17f9ee24ab5aa91b77e11a3c5dbf&p=11338284&postcount=42

Wow I never noticed that before.

I've always ended up in a trance when looking at the lollipop, imagining the bliss my penis would be going through in it's place.

onimo, Thursday, 26 June 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link

xp yeah some of them are definitely not visible from street level. only maybe one or two. see http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/grandtheftauto4/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-43129270&pid=933037, and http://www.zbproductions.co.uk/Collectables/Pigeons/Dukes.html no. 40.

ledge, Thursday, 26 June 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link

but they're not completely invisible? that's okay then, had me a little worried there.

Ste, Thursday, 26 June 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link

luckily they make a sound too, so with a good ear you can sometimes catch them cooing giving away their presence.

A nice trick i learnt to change the view slightly is to drive around in the larger trucks, the camera moves a lot higher up and you can see stuff you don't normally see in the normal cars.

Ste, Thursday, 26 June 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link

I've been coming across those flying rats all over the place, but I'm not about to start taking them out until I print out a guide. I learned my lesson with the street tags and oyster shells in GTA:SA.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 June 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link

I was feeling a bit guilty for having left this for so long when I've still got loads to do, but then had a sort of realisation yesterday. There's downloadable content on the way, and it's pretty likely that's just going to be a bunch of missions. But if I get that, and do them, I don't want all the peripheral things to be complete already, that'll just feel weird, like I'm playing GTA lite in a half-empty city. So yeah, I decided I'm actually pretty glad to have lots of stuff still to do. I think I'll save it. DLC in autumn, right?

JimD, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I turned it on yesterday and the xBox said it had just downloaded an update for GTA4. I have no idea what was installed.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link

There was a title update to fix some bugs in multi.

Will M., Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Multiplayer stopped working as soon as I downloaded it.

polyphonic, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link

I got through to "Jersey" last night even though I haven't unlocked it yet. I headed toward one of the bridges and got there somehow before the game could load the police roadblock. The game froze up for a few seconds and then whoosh, I was heading straight into Alderney.

I got six stars as soon as it happened, but I just thought it was neat that I didn't have to fight or sneak my way in there.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 June 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Jim - the DLC is probably delayed until the beginning of 2009 (or very late 2008)...
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/06/05/grand-theft-auto-iv-dlc-delayed-until-fiscal-q1-2009/
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53017

Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh. Well, I'm in no rush. :)

Wait a minute, WHOLE NEW CITIES!? Shyeah right.

JimD, Thursday, 26 June 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link

i was fucking burning over one of the bridges the other day, and i swear i was going so fast that somehow the game didn't have time to draw any other cars on the road. i blasted right across a completely deserted algonquin in under a minute - under ten seconds probably - but of course i ran out of road, and when i did, and stopped (ok crashed), and turned around, all the cars had come back ;_;

ledge, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link

That happened a lot to me in the pc version of GTA3.

abanana, Thursday, 26 June 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link

the behaviour of cars on bridges is stupidly frustrating. why randomly and wildly change lanes like that?

stet, Thursday, 26 June 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link

i think i hate this game.

Creeztophair, Thursday, 26 June 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I just fell back in love with this game today. Dangerous.

B.L.A.M., Friday, 27 June 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link

i find multiplayer race quite glitchy - cars shifting and rematerialising about the track - is this because my internet is too slow somehow?

stevie, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:59 (fifteen years ago) link

could be yours or theirs i guess. i always assume it's them. and then shout at them. "stop glitching all over me! get a faster internet! fuck you!"

ledge, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:24 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah i've fallen for this game again, i guess i burnt out on it too quickly when it was released. After a nice rest, it's all falling into place again.

The cooing technique became invaluable for a few pigeons last night, no way would I have found them belting around in a car with the radio on full blast.

Just walking around listening to conversations can be hilarious

"I'm a cop, and you're a dick head!"

Ste, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Once when I was being chased by cops one of them yelled "I'm gonna shit in your mouth!" !!

ledge, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I want to play the story again, and do things differently. I miss Roman.

Yes. This is what I'm going to do.

Ste, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link

the multiplayer races are the only part that holds my attention at this point.

polyphonic, Friday, 27 June 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link


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