er, prostitutes...
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Missions are [...] longer
I think this makes me sad, I think. Wasn't long-ass missions one of the annoying things about San Andreas?
― ledge, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
It was the lack of save points mid mission that really got to me!
― kv_nol, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The Wu-Tang game is great.
― adam, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
xp Yeah, save points would help. I only ever attempted the last mission once - after fighting my way into the building, and fighting my way up all the stairs, and fighting my way past the big bosses, I was all PLEASE LET THIS BE OVER NOW. But no, suddenly the building was on fire and I had to fight my way all the way downstairs again. I died, of course, and then gave up. SO CLOSE. I'm kinda disappointed I never finished it.
― ledge, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I did it 8 or 9 times. Always lost at the same place where the brother is hanging off the fire truck. I could never drive up close enough. It just pissed me off that there was no checkpoint at all :(
― kv_nol, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The last mission does let you skip stuff though. If you fail the mission after you get out the building and then restart, it let's you start from when you started chasing the firetruck. This is in the PS2 version, I don't know about other versions.
― V, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Not on the PC it doesn't. Yet another reason why I like the PS2 more than PC at the moment!
― kv_nol, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
No? Wow, does that suck. On PS2 I think there are three different spots in the last mission you can restart from, provided you get past them in the first place.
Oh, boy, these new screenshots. Rockstar will now have the distinction of having made two games based in Coney Island!
― antexit, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
WARRRRIORSSSS!!!
― kv_nol, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
This is the wrong board, but I'm still happy to see NBA Playoff fever reach the shores of the Emerald Isle, even if belatedly!
― Leee, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
They brought good comics too! (Cheers again)
― kv_nol, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Trailer 2 due out 26th June
― Ste, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
so it's in, and I'm downloading it now. anyone else seen it?
― Ste, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://grandtheftauto.yahoo.com/
― stevie, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm... it seems less impressive than the first one somehow - maybe it's the music(?) - though there are some nice looking scenes. I'm eager to see some non-cut-scene footage though at some point....
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 28 June 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Looked like a lot of that footage was gameplay to me, wasn't it?
― antexit, Friday, 29 June 2007 13:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I doubt it.
I think I'm gonna get really sick of that dude's accent if I have to hear it for 40 game hours.
― polyphonic, Friday, 29 June 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
the old trailer with the phillip glass music is hilarious. i havent watched the new one yet!!!
― cankles, Saturday, 30 June 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The Phillip Glass one is a parody (or homage perhaps?) of the Francis Ford Coppola produced film "Koyaanisqatsi". Once you realize this, it's the best game trailer of all time. Shot for shot, it's identical, and the soundtrack is the same.
― melton mowbray, Saturday, 30 June 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
All sorts of Koyaanisqatsi clips on youtube.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 30 June 2007 12:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that is very similar!
― polyphonic, Saturday, 30 June 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember these, and now i only just realise Philip Glass did that ultra strange version of Bowies - Heroes. I heard it on an Aphex Twin album.
― Ste, Monday, 2 July 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
A lock box?
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
The idea that you're supposed to buy this sixty dollar game then buy two more episodes six months later to actually play the "complete" game is something that's really starting to grate on me. How much is this shit actually going to cost if you want to play the "full" game? 120 dollars?
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Welcome to the next level of "high budget games"
See also: the insane rise of low-cost, "casual games" market. Coincidence? I think not.
― Will M., Friday, 20 July 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Can somebody PLEASE confirm that there are no missions in this game where you have to use a forklift to load crates into the back of a truck?
― Jeff LeVine, Friday, 20 July 2007 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
lol OTM
― Ste, Saturday, 21 July 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahaha, I was drunkenly talking to a mate earlier tonight about fork lift truck missions! I purposely chose my real life job to avoid that sort of thing. I don't need it in my favourite games! See also the "airing books" section of Shenmue 2.
― melton mowbray, Saturday, 21 July 2007 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Plz to also avoid missions that involve aiming either rocket launchers or miniguns with a ps2 controller.
I would like that lockbox!
― kv_nol, Monday, 23 July 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Delayed to somewhere between February and April 2008 :(
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
yep, just came here to say that.
http://ir.take2games.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=258238
― marmotwolof, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm disappointed, but I guess I feel like there are so many other interesting looking games coming out this fall / winter, that it's not too big of a deal
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Bioshock hits this month, so that ought to take care of some needs
― kingfish, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=7278970&postcount=195
― marmotwolof, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
:( :( :(
― antexit, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
bums
― Ste, Thursday, 2 August 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
If I were God, I would have given the developers this idea: Once you complete 100%, then you unlock a PLAYSTATION in ur base that lets you replay any mission.
― Leee, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
If I were me, I'd point out that NYC does not actually have brown air
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
That's such a damn good idea. There was a mission in San Andreas where you're jumping barrels in a plane, and if you fall out, it shows you landing on a car. I finished the mission in one go, so I've never been able to see this.
I hear the computer bar where you check your e-mail in IV is called tw@.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
they almost cottoned onto this in Vice City Stories, where for the first time they let you replay the Rampages.
it would be a good idea though, saves me having to replay the whole game again. not that i'm complaining about that too much :)
― Ste, Thursday, 13 September 2007 09:58 (sixteen years ago) link
So with a new trailer coming out in a week or so, do you think this game is back on track for a release in early 2008 (maybe by April)? Or are they going to drag this thing out till this time next year?
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Was it ever off-track? i thought they made a statement just recently reiterating the timeframe. Not that they didn't do that in like August of this year, too. Occasionally I think about what it'll be like if this game comes out and it's broken or it sucks or it's been trumped by other games that came out during the delay... And I am really, genuinely embarrassed by how disappointed I feel by even the THOUGHT. Like, it hurts my feelings.
I am a grown man!
― antexit, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm very curious to hear some details on what kind of multiplayer stuff they're putting in there too. No info has been dribbled out so far, right?
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
What about the save system? Have any of the previews talked about that at all? Is there any chance that they've come to their senses and inserted a quick save - or at least checkpoints on the longer, multi-part missions? It really isn't fun having to completely repeat twenty or thirty minute long missions (speaking as somebody currently stuck on repeat with the last san andreas mission) over and over
― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't San Andreas kind of do this, actually? You can skip past the earlier parts of long missions that you have to retry. And there's a checkpoint on the last mission too, although it's a long way in.
― The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I only hit one checkpoint on GTA:SA, the mission with the Russians. There weren't even any taxi cabs with the arrows pointing to them.
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Am I wrong in thinking that all you can skip is the drive to the mission (in SA? on ps2). When I die I almost always just reload, so you can't do the skip trip, but then it's quicker anyway since one still has all their weapons and everything (you lose 'em when you get out of the hospital, and then you still have to make your way back to the mission starting point too, I thought). It would be funny if just now I learned I was playing the game wrong - making it harder than it need to be. I've been trying to finish this game up finally, but now that I've finally made it to the last mission I'm losing the will. This morning was only my third try at it (first time died clearing out the third floor, second time died in the fire on my way back down) & after twenty five mnutes of work (not fun) I got to the point where you have to catch smoke dropping off the back of the firetruck and just couldn't catch up. Not sure I want to go through all that again (and possibly again and again)
― Jeff LeVine, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
you were so close...
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Many of the missions have checkpoints. On the last mission, the checkpoint starts at the point when you're in the car, chasing the firetruck.
So if you hadn't reloaded, you could skip all of that stuff.
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link