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

I would marry it but it might kill me.

what a way to go tho huh!

If I want to kill you guys, should I get a 360 or a PS3?

i got multiplayer to work for the first time ever last night, and was shot to ribbons...

psleeee

i've only managed to connect to multiplayer once... i think my NAT might be to blame, as it is, apparently, 'strict'. anyone have any advice?

is there really no reward for finishing the street races, what a joke

so i spent a good part of yesterday getting a car on the roller coaster, all was going well until i got to the top and the car rolled over and got stuck inbetween the tracks.

what's the best vehicle to ride on it with?

and still does anyone know the buttons to press to 'let someone go' ?

and been laughing a lot a the lazlow Integrity station, especially the nerd guy and the bloke who thinks he's entitled to touch womens 'bits' if they're showing in public.

Took Roman to play darts in a helicopter. He didn't seem impressed by my choice of ride. Taking him home, I landed on the other side of the road from his house and the idiot got run over. Then I landed the helicopter on top of a police car, destroying the chopper and getting 4 stars. Then Roman rang me asking to be picked up from the hospital. So in a police car I'd nicked, with the wheels already shot out I managed to pick him up and take him home, at which point my stars vanished, yay!

- Missions so far seem pretty easy.

- Enjoying the ragdoll technology very much. I pushed Dardan out the window in his mission and he broke his back on the dike out front.

- Found some sketchy drug house with bongs and pipes and hobos wandering around on top. Threw a few of them off onto the highway below.

- Pushing people in front of trains wasn't as cool as I thought it'd be.

- Made it to Algonguin by going down the subway line. Didn't get past the upstairs of the police station, but did gain an AK out of it.

- Haven't figured out yet how to simply ride in the taxi. I whistle, it says hit the "Y" button, and I pull the driver out of his cab.

- I hear Bigfoot lives in the Village.

-the Missions get more difficult (obviously), but the sheer number of them is perplexing to me. I played it an awful lot this weekend and am still only about 25% through the game.

-Once you whistle for the taxi and it stops for you, you have to hold down "Y".

Dear Rockstar:

GTA is not an FPS, stop expecting me to mow down like 20 dudes in a closed space when your targeting system has only been upgraded from "balls" to "ass"

and still does anyone know the buttons to press to 'let someone go' ?

You just leave. There's no button.

Am currently trying to get the "Fly the co-op" multiplayer mission time limit achievement. Hangman's NOOSE = pretty easy if you all know what you're doing. Bomb da Base II - there is a handy glitch which should make it easier although I haven't got it yet. Deal Breaker - fuckin ell. Hardest thing is that you need to do it with only two people so you have to mess around in the lobby for ages trying to find a game with one other person, or kicking people out of games.

GTA is not an FPS, stop expecting me to mow down like 20 dudes in a closed space when your targeting system has only been upgraded from "balls" to "ass"

-- AJ Styles, Monday, May 12, 2008 5:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this

there is much fun to be had in mowing down 20 dudes in a closed space even if the targeting is less than perfect. you boys should stop those tears, pick up the gamepad and play the mission again. i'm sure you'll do much better next time.

I watched my wife use molatov cocktails to "beat up" Roman's adversaries on the basketball court.

dude I'm not saying I couldn't do it, but any button function involving "half pressing" is fucking dumb

I love how any criticism of a game becomes "YOU SUCK AT IT D00D"

yes i find a small fault with the 'hiding' ability is when someone suddenly appears opposite you, then you have to leave hide mode and then wrap the camera around 180 degrees before you can even stand a chance of targeting the guy.

Still having heaps of fun though, only 3 more cars to get for Stevie!

And if Packie beats me at Pool once more I think I may have to burn him, yes burn him.

I suck at it AND think the targeting is a hunk o ass

especially when dealing with guys on either side of you

Jesus Christ, the bank mission is ridiculous.

I wish I had more desire to play this game, but I feel I may have overloaded on it. I will return to it soon, no doubt.

i know what you mean. i went through a stage, after doing a fair amount of stuff, suddenly getting fed up and not having the urge to attempt anything in it. So left it for a good few days.

Fired it up last night tho and I can't put the fucking thing down again, I feel more part of it's world now it's sucked me in big time.

I'm only posting on here cos the controller is out of juice.

I'm only posting on here cos the controller is out of juice.

That's why I have two.

Any consensus as to which of the multiplayer games is any good?

if you have a group of friends, it's pretty great to go in free mode and do something krazy like take up residence in the prison and try to get six stars

I like deathmatch and race and gta race and cops n crooks.

Race really does deliver a top notch racing game - ok generally in a game of 16 players, 10 of them are idiot n00bs who pile into the first corner withotu braking and do their best to fuck it up for everyone else, but if you hang back and avoid the carnage, or manage to get out in front, then you generally end up having a good race with the 6 players who can actually drive.

GTA race is a bit like wipeout, ie racing with guns, but in wipeout you can't get out of your car, jump into a bus to create a roadblock, collect a rocket launcher, and camp by your roadblock, destroying everyone as they try to get past.

Cops n crooks - can be bad or good depending who you play with (really this applies to all the modes) but when it's good it's very very good; there's a million different ways each game could turn out, from clinically executed takedowns to hilarious random carnage.

I'm only posting on here cos the controller is out of juice.

Didn't I tell you to get a 360 instead of a PS3? DIDN'T I??

i may be getting one also

Pushing people in front of trains wasn't as cool as I thought it'd be.

First time I did this the guy dragged himself to his feet and staggered off down the tracks, so when the train actually left the platform it knocked him off the bridge at ridiculous speed and on to the bonnet of a taxi on the road below

Shooting taxi drivers through their windshield at the end of your journey and taking your money back is the new Hooker Trick, but if their foot gets jammed on the accelerator you end up getting carried fifty feet down the road by a constant-horn-blaring death wagon and smashed to pieces up against a hot dog stand or some shit

cops n crooks = best multiplayer.

I'm slowly making my way through the early missions and came across my first "Choose Your Own Adventure" ending.

That fucker better not come back after me like the German soldier in Saving Private Ryan.

My housemate chose to kill Dwayne instead of Playboy X. It's a good choice if you don't want to have another friend to hang out with, but Dwayne is my favorite dude.

SPOILER ABOVE

MORE RELATED TO ABOVE SPOILER i killed playboy x but goddamn dwayne is such a whiny bitch that i wish i iced him instead

I love how much of a drag he is. Brucie and Roman are too perky.

this is great, please keep with spoiler-type stuff, because after I "dealt" with Vlad I felt kinda icky and put the game down for a few days. I'm a gentle soul who can handle the anonymous slaughter just fine (yeah I know) but when it's face to face, I get pretty overwhelmed. So I want to get re-excited about the single player (multi still awesome).

MORE RELATED TO ABOVE SPOILER i killed playboy x but goddamn dwayne is such a whiny bitch that i wish i iced him instead

OTM, even if it means losing a safehouse. "Waaaa! I had all my friends killed and now I've got no one to go bowling with!" And he had the nerve to tell me "well YOU were the one who wanted to go bowling" when I cut the game short.

The Snow Storm mission is doing my head in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z9oJT4cdhA

OH WHEN WILL MY SORNY KARD ARRIVE IN THE MAIL.

Choosing Dwayne gets you some familiar threads if you check the wardrobe.

Killed Dwayne and I feel bad.

Agh, and now there's an e-mail from Dwayne wanting to hang out. so eerie and sad.

Playboy was the aggressor, not Dwayne.

My friend had the controller. I was all "OLD SKOOL" and he was all "$$$".

Got 25000 for it, which is something. But Playboy was all "i don't ever want to see you again. you cold. you need to live for something."

The money won't seem worth it after the highly lucrative bank mission.

?What do you mean? Do I need Dwayne for that or is it just a massive payday?