Seriously i'm considering just waiting until this comes out on pc in which time I'll have purchased a super duper system, and it'll probly be twice as shit hot than either console versions. I'm finding it real hard to come to terms with coughing up that much money for a ps3/360 + HD telly for just one game.
i'll make my choice after hearing u guys review it on April 29
― Ste, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone else taking a sick day/vacation day on April 29?
anyone else feel ashamed of what they've become?
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll be home, but not for this necessarily. I might have to wait until my birthday (May 1) for it. We did buy a shit hot LCDTV though.
― sunny successor, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
May take a sick day. May try to pick the game up at midnight if a store within walking distance stays open.
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 14 April 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Ste - you could get a 360 and hook it up to your computer monitor (VGA cable sold separately). Still expensive for one game though. I wonder if R* is going to bother to put this out on PC - has anybody heard anything official?
― Jeff LeVine, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh, now i didn't know that. hmm.
― Ste, Monday, 14 April 2008 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I am officially excited about this now. Only problem is I won't have a really big telly until the end of May and it's usually difficult to differentiate between locations on the map with the one I have at the moment. But I'm not waiting until the end of May to play this. No way.
Am I the only girl in this beeyotch?
― Madchen, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
If they don't put this out on PC I will be very ;_;
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha! There are other girls, around, well, like, one I think. Abbott?
I am officially excited about this, and inadvertantly it turns out I am also off work on the 29th. I'll be bagging this for the 360.
Madchen, do you have an Xbox 360? What's your gamertag?
:D
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, but I am not hooked up to technology other than the telly yet -that will happen at the end of May too. I do have a sludge-coloured headset at the ready though, courtesy of Halo.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Have we noted that the release coincides with a bank holiday weekend? Bye bye hedge trimming, car washing and visits to stately homes then.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah! Are you going to jump on the Call of Duty 4 gravy train too?
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Madchen, I am here and excited too!
― sunny successor, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
going. to. be. mega.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=132265
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh. god.
― Ste, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
that sounds seriously delicous, particularly the new wanted star system.
Although I'd be interested to know how that works with police chases, would you lose your wanted level if you managed to lose the tail?
Does anyone know who the mystery guest celebrity is?
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:10 (sixteen years ago) link
can't believe this thread is over a year old
o_0
― czn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
haha my first post, a year of anguish and indecision
― Ste, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I was reading the cover feature of Edge this morning and getting all excited again.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
And there's a funfair! </girl>
― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you buy a 360 solely for this Madchen?
― czn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, I'll bet Rockstar Social Club will have cross-platform friend groups and stuff for stats-- hello ILG group!
― antexit, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(x-p) No, Stet gave it to me for my birthday. With Halo, which I am not getting on with (it makes me feel sick).
― Madchen, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Hell, this is the first GTA set after September 11th, isn't it. The amount of reactionary bullshit for them to draw from is a veritable ocean.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
san andreas?
― czn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
san andreas was set before 9/11, i nthe early 90s or so
― Will M., Wednesday, 16 April 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
did you guys not read that 9/11/2001 is the DAY the game starts??
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
it's gonna be a big part of it
Yeah, it's pretty weird-- I don't know why it's not being reported more.
They say it starts on Nikos' boat to america and RIGHT when the coastline of liberty city comes into view from the ocean the first plane hits.
― antexit, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess they were worried that the controversy might overshadow the other stuff about the game they want to publicize... it actually makes a lot of sense they wouldn't play it up.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
it will put the whole immigrant experience story in a much more contemporary perspective, for one thing.
― antexit, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess this is why they're not allowing planes in this one??
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
That's how they got AROUND allowing them! The security gets so much more strict after 9/11 you can't get onto the runway to steal one.
― antexit, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, that's smart!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
confirmed for the soundtrack
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/310803coup.jpg
― czn, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
look. just give me this goddamn game already. the waiting is too much.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
1up preview, though mostly positive, throws a little water on the fire...
"You'll likely notice the same graphical "quirks" that the series has dealt with since the jump to 3D [...] There's some long-distance graphical fade-in as well as some street-level hazards that appear only after you hit them. Traffic will be nonexistent one second, then three cars deep when you rotate the camera back around, and then completely disappear when your wanted level gets to two or three stars"
and the shooting is still a question mark in my book, they say "Pulling the left trigger halfway on the 360 controller lets you aim a weapon freely, while a full pull locks on to the closest enemy or nonplayable character in your camera's view."
I certainly don't like the sound of that half pull. And I wonder if having a lock on shot will take some of the fun out of the multiplayer
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
theres no button to just lock on?
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
More soundtrack details coming in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV_soundtrack
Jazz-Fusion station will probably end up my favorite.
― Eric H., Thursday, 17 April 2008 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm glad that I don't recognise most of those.
Looking forward to driving around to Oxygene though.
― Ste, Thursday, 17 April 2008 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a little confused since it's (according to upthread) based in 2001-ish? But, I see "Get Innocuous" by LCD Soundsystem on the Radio Broker station? Not too get too aspierube but they've been very good about avoid anachronisms in the past games, is that out the door now?
― Will M., Thursday, 17 April 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
erm guys i think slocki was joking about the 9/11 thing
GTA4 is set in 2007
― Ste, Thursday, 17 April 2008 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
L O L
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 April 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The trailer with "Get innocuous" was on TV last night. Have decided to buy 360 as they're on sale at the moment, play the hell out of this game and save up for PS2. God I want this game so much. GTA:SA doesn't work on PC so seriously starting to get withdrawal symptoms.
― hyggeligt, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
well, color me retarded, it sounded pretty awesome so i wanted to believe it -_-
― Will M., Thursday, 17 April 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
rockstargames.com/socialclub is supposed to be taking registrations today, i dunno when, exactly, but sometime. keep your eyes open!
― Will M., Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago) link
shipping to stores today, will anyone break the street date like argos did with halo 3?
I got my ipod touch a couple weeks before they were supposed to be selling them... might be worth a punt to play on some tesco worker's ignorance?
― czn, Friday, 18 April 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the soundtrack is now the feature i most anticipate with each new game.
― kingfish, Saturday, 19 April 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Having read the gamespot.com "hands=on" review of the multiplayer aspects, I could not be more excited for this game. Get here already!
― B.L.A.M., Sunday, 20 April 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
link?
my 360 is totally spazzing out now and pretty much refusing to do anything too processor intensive which basically means, swos=yes, xbla=yes, cod4=no. doesn't bode well for GTA4. not sure whether to courier the thing out to msoft on monday/tuesday and hope it's back in time for GTA4 next tues. anyone got any experience with msoft support on RRoD?
― czn, Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link