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

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was that the Mr F mission? Mine ended with a shoutout in a park, my bike ended up with no tyers.

big sesh today whilst i'm off. I have already a lot of ideas i want to check out.

haha last night, I tried to take LJ out for a drink in my helicopter but ended up slicing him up with the blades trying to park it. Then five minutes later he rings me asking for a lift from the hostpital, so we were cool again lol.

fucking love street races, the high performance cars are shit hot.

Mr F = Mentally Retarded Female?

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yeh the faustin motorbike mission was tricky!!

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brucie is hilarious but I coulda done without the bait and switch no homo mission. the game really blurs the lines sometimes

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fuck manny

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So I just completed the kill Lyle Rivas mission after about six tries - by the end I was ready to kill someone IRL. Reminded me that I actually have a love-hate relationship with this game, and man that was one hateful mission.

And Ste is otm about the relationship management. I wish people would stop ringing me all the time! I keep on feeling pressured to do stuff when really I just want to spend all day driving around like a bastard.

Just like real life!

IGN and 1Up went talked about how great the story was...don't know what I was expecting but it's the same embarrassingly bad dialogue as is found in the GTA3 sequels. GTA3 got it right by making the main character mute.

I don't know where this "bad dialogue" thing is coming from, as the games from III forward seem to do just fine in the dialogue dept. Tho that might be as much about the acting as anything.

Love Jacob & my idiot cousin (& even Vlad). Also love stealing a car in front of cops I didn't see, zooming around the city to get out of their range (while causing max property damage), and then slowing down long enough once I'm in the clear for the passenger THAT I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE WAS IN THE CAR THE WHOLE TIME to get out of the car & stumble away. I missed GTA.

Also love that, while tooling around, I found a "friend" on the street. Stop & talk to this guy that starts busting on me about his being rich and me being some sort of chump, then he gives me $100 and walks away. Thanks!

^^^^^^^^OTM. I was like "What the fuck is Jamie Kennedy doing giving me $100?"

I think I rememer reading somewhere that the dialogue or story was "Oscar caliber."

as soon as I got the cell phone last night I hopped on multi and had a blast (literally): I like deathmatch-type stuff but I really appreciate the "realistic" environment of GTA more than sci-fi setups like Unreal or Halo. And the rocket launcher brings the lols. I did a team deathmatch that was awesome too. Tonight I think I'll try a cops and crooks.

I don't have a good feeling for which of you are playing on 360, but I'll try to keep my eyes open.

the dialogue is great!

The dialogue for me is hit and miss, but hits much more often than any other video game I can think of. Still think the lip-sync in some of the cut scenes could use more work, and wish someone could figure out how to make the mouths of video game characters look more normal. Also, given how sophisticated the physics engine is, some of the characters still move around like hilarious robots with flesh-colored cinder blocks for hands.

Some of the vocal performances are really solid, and Niko is very likable. He reminds me of the moments when my dog seems to say, "Hey dude, I killed this rat for you!" Even his evil moments seem good-intentioned, somehow.

1. Shooting from moving cars while driving, while still not perfect, has been much improved.
2. The pool mini game is pretty good - shot about as well as I do in real life i.e. I lost
3. 2 trips to the Cabaret Club have been unbearable - hopefully I won't need to go there again.
4. Mercifully there has yet to be a mission involving loading a truck with a forklift!!! :)
5. Not really feeling the multiplayer after initially being into it - still haven't tried out all the modes though.
6. I did enjoy free roam - grabbing a helicopter and flying over the city at night... it's damn good looking.
7. City is BIG - and feels more and more real. I'm really impressed with the little things & that nothing really feels generic. Starting to learn my way around and recognizing the sights is fun. First drive across a bridge into new territory was a real joy.

there's a tall observation tower style building as part of the world's fair complex in Meadows Park. the view across to 'Algonquin' from the very top was really really awesome, which sounds like a retarded thing to say about a video game, but there you go. sunset was amazing.

fucking sold out everywhere, innit.

sometime this summer, i'll finally break down and get a 360 to play this. the chat about missions being hard is warming my heart.

huh? so far the mission have been quite easy (though I'm not super far into the game, maybe 10%?)

slocki and czn and them, saying something was hard, i dunno.

no point to this post other than to say, have fun gents, see you later when i get around to this

The missions have been easy so far. 'Ivan the Not So Terrible,' which features a high-speed jump through the Grand Army Plaza arch, being the most challenging thus far (still in Brooklyn).

Bummed you can't go into the Brooklyn Library.

Found an ilicit way into Manhattan.

fucking hell, i'm going to end up buying a 360 for this, i can just tell. and i forswore gaming two years ago :(

i got the widely-reported load screen freeze of death last night. checked the ps3 forum and people were saying they had spoken to take two and had been given a laundry list of things they had to disable on their machines and in the game AND were told they had to delete all of their saved game and profile info for the game. by this point i had already deleted my autosave because i assumed it was corrupted somehow, and i had a recent regular save too to fall back on. that didn't fix the problem - as before, the game started up fine until it got to the mission loading screen and then it just sat there. so i got into a bit of a panic and started deleting back through my saved games (DISCLAIMER: I had been drinking) and ended up deleting all gta4-related files on my HD, as per take two recommendation. couldn't even start a new game. so i took a look at this list of things they said to disable and i decided to go through one by one, starting with disabling internet connection. and what do you fucking know, that was all it was. i just had to sign out of ps3 online and everything was rosy. but by this point, everything was gone.

so in conclusion: lol @ me, lol @ fucking developers, and for the xboxers, lol @ ps3.

KIDS - don't get drunk and delete your saved games. however much of a good idea it seems at the time, you will prob regret it. this has been a public service announcement courtesy of Bobby S.

Roberto, which mission was this on?

Someone at work told me this was an issue with older PS3s.

for me it was after the first street race mission with Brucie, No. 1, but reading other people's posts on forums it has been happening on any number of different missions, so it doesn't look like a factor. the machine version/age looks like a red herring too although at first people were speculating it was a 6oGB thing, which is what i have. it has definitely been affecting other nmodels too, though. disconnecting from the internet seems to be working across the board though. i don;t know if it;'s a ps3 network wthing or if they'll need to release a patch. personally i'm too consumed with the 1p to even think about online multiplayer right now, esp with having to redo all of the missions i already beat. but i will never get back the hours and hours of pontless wandering and random baseball-bat beatings :(

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

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