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

Is this coming out on PeeCee?

I'm a little bit of the way through Algonquin. It's weird how Algonquin is so huge, and yet there are like two places to eat on the whole island. They did a good job making the city feel realistic, but it would be nice if there were more open storefronts to play around in or interact with.

I know, ign were totally bullshittinv when they said that one in three buildings can be entered. Would be nice if you could tell which buildings you can enter instead of having to spaz up against the door to find out. Its some sub CoD4-cant-open-doors-WTF bullshit frreal

haha i know... are you supposed to just go door to door thru the whole city

how impossible are these achievements:
- blow up 10 cars in 10 seconds
- complete 10 melee attacks in 4 minutes

also, I totally outran the cops on a 4* wanted level and it didn't give me the achievement : (((

And now word has it on Ars Technica of reports of UPS guys stealing the game out of shipments. Jack Thompson was RIGHT; this game does cause crime!;

-- kingfish, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 07:18 (6 days ago) Link

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oh god, don't tell me that! game's still in transit.

-- circa1916, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 16:53 (6 days ago) Link

How's this for irony? UPS said they delivered the game this past Friday. Yeah, it never arrived. I'm currently wrangling with UPS and Best Buy over this.

Fucking bullshit.

If it actually got ganked, I wish the thief a slow and miserable death.

OK I got the melee one - it's actually 10 melee counters in 4 minutes - and the counters carry over between deaths, so it isn't so bad...

Are there rampages this time around? haven't seen any

Doesn't look like it, there were none in San Andreas either (other than 2 player mode). It's a shame cos I really enjoy the killing spree's, but it sounds like the Achievment list covers the same idea (are those on 360 only btw?)

Can anyone tell me how to do the 'let someone go', I've forgotten the button combination and so I keep having to execute my victims. (ps3)

Haha shit I sat down and watched TV in Niko's flat for like 15 minutes without changing the channel and nothing even repeated

I feel like with their attempts to be constantly cynical and funny these games always tend to throw quite a lot of shit for only a bit to stick, but stuff like "one of those tiny dogs that rich people keep in their vaginas" /having two rednecks on a shopping channel get properly fucking excited about knives was making me laugh my ass off like some dumb drunk dude being constantly ridiculous and gradually wearing you down

how the fuck do I hail a cab, it felt a bit wrong trying to get the dude home from his date while completely drunk and having to just give in and steal the cab after his girl's all been like "oh no crime is scary do you know anybody who does crimes?"

when you're drunk and try and hail a cab (L1), Niko usually doesn't do the normal whistle and hand raise. Just guess that one is ready to take, and then hold Triangle until he gets in.

yeah that tv is madness, i watched it for ages too. it was similar to typical late night or crappy freeview telly channels with repeating images but different dialogue. noticed lots of clips from san andreas too.

and pretty cool that you can do flips on bikes now.

I didn't realise that there are no swords, or tanks, or betting

also you'd think they'd have got a guy who can do a decent accent for the main lead

or chainsaws?

the arcade game is pretty neat though

them too!

xp

Still got a pretty high cackling with glee to playtime ratio though, mostly just from the ragdoll physics resulting from car crashes and mortally wounded people getting knocked off bridges by trains and shit

yeah, there's a lot missing from San Andreas but this one seems a LOT more fun! And SA was pretty good fun.

ragdoll physics (or whatevs it is now) is great, I was faced with a 'do i kill him' moment with a guy stood on the edge of some rocks. After fiddling with the controller trying to find the right button to let him go I accidentally pressed 'O' and pushed the poor guy down the cliff, and watched him tumbling down into the water. lol, so i had to shoot him after he swam back to shore.

and motorbike crashes make spectactular viewing.

How did you get your camera phone, ste? Was it given to you? i heard an advert for one on the radio. Also heard an ad for the ZIT music id/download service which I'll be trying once my rockstar social club thing is working...

the arcade game is pretty neat though

I played enough to get the achievement, never again.

you get it on a mission

cameraphone is rub. it should have been integrated into the social club ffs. and u can't save photies. worse than the doors thing tbh

skate really raised the bar on this kinda stuff tbh

also wht dork calibrated the aiming on the cameraphone?!! you have to aim 2m below anything you want pic? I mean, really??

can't save photos? boo.

cameraphone is clearly the least thought out thing in the history of gta games

what i wouldn't have given for a video editor a la skate in this game :(

does anyone else sometimes drive around obeying all the traffic rules? bueller?

: ///

lol

I was surprised to read that some of you are taking taxis rather than just jacking cars. I've so far found the cops so easy to evade that sometimes I'll just hop out of whatever car I've currently jacked if I see another one I like, and just jack it. Granted that's not when I'm on a date...

Yeah, stealing a car is just one star, right? You can evade that by just driving to wherever you're headed with no evasive maneuvers.

Has anyone successfully completed the double jump in station square?

At this point, anytime I have to go over a bridge I take a taxi, especially the free Roman taxi. It isn't even a cop-evasion thing, just pure impatience ... especially if I'm driving to complete a mission I've already tried once or twice.

Grenades are 100x more awesome in this game than they were in the previous games.

(For the record, i stopped reading this thread a week or so ago cos I am a spoilerphobe. I'll come back (and start properly multiplaying) once I've finished the main story).

taxis make sense - i do like driving but am seriously bored with having only one safe house across three islands. will i get another one? (don't tell me if you know)

double jump in station square? i will have to check it out.

$100g in multiplayer in two days!

mind you doing it in earnest you could probably get that in two hours. have seen guys at rank 8 already...

double jump in station square?

If you look on the map, you'll see a horizontal diamond south of Station Square. It's actually a mound of dirt in a construction area. The jump goes over the freeway where there is a second platform.

i use taxis for when my friends ring, because trying to reach them within an hour by driving is nigh on impossible.

and almost 50 hidden packages found so far!

and yeah i only recently realised how pointless that camphone actually is.

was playing a friend's copy last night for about ten minutes (mine is now en route from newly-restocked amazon) and we spotted haeretico/Ledge playing, but could not join an online game. HARUMPH

Stevie! Are you the one who keeps texting me about new cars to steal?

super cool: when you are in multiplayer and want to private chat with someone you phone them on their moby!!!!!

o_O

is the multiplayer voice chat only? or can you use a keyboard?

lol keyboard

(sorry)

aplology

we spotted haeretico/Ledge playing, but could not join an online game. HARUMPH

yeah i've only been playing ranked matches recently and you can't join a friend those. if i see y'all again i'll set up a quick match and invite you! or whoever. we should organise an ilg party match too...

totally

should be on tonight for a bit, if anyone's down? gamertag: cozeny

a few of my RL friends are planning a big ol' crazy game tonight at 9pm EST, if any of youze want in my gtag is brilliam. we cna probably take a few more on and it'll be insane.

I suck so hard at life. Still don't have this. Gave up trying to find it in shops after I tried again on Tuesday to no avail. Just ordered it on play so I should probably expect it next week some time. Fuck.

I have two copies (don't ask) but I can't sell you one of them, sorry dude : /

ste! it wasn't me!

ledge! game doesn't arrive till tomorrow and i don't know when i'll get to play. but my bro will probably be on, so don't be offended if you get in touch and get no reply, but i am well up for CHAOS when i can play.