Anyone out there playing GTA4?

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Post by BinaryB » Thu May 01, 2008 7:17 pm

Nick the Zombie wrote:*sign*

best game that I can remember playing in a LONG time. It's competing with studying for my law finals, though, which is bad :)

+1

:( :lol:


I work at EA games too and there are a lot of people getting "sick"...

Lucky I have a better excuse.
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Post by thelocalhost » Thu May 01, 2008 7:29 pm

I am only 5-10% into the game and I am still not comfortable with the controls. The controls are really frustrating.

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Post by v00d00ppl » Thu May 01, 2008 7:31 pm

1ntelligent Fraud wrote:I'm 12-13 hours into the game and I'm still having those "Oh shit! I can do that?" So far one of my favorite things to do is sucker punch someone and get them to hit you back in front of a cop. You'll either see someone taken away to jail or an always entertaining gun fight. Tuff Gong is definitely my favorite radio station too.
tuff gong, fusion, classics, and the dancehall station are my favorite stations. i wonder hw much that tuff gong license cost.
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Post by nate_D » Thu May 01, 2008 7:39 pm

feyshay wrote: I'm still amazed by Call of Duty 4.
agreed. cod4 is the hotness.
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Re: Anyone out there playing GTA4?

Post by Marx » Thu May 01, 2008 8:21 pm

1ntelligent Fraud wrote:
Marx wrote:
1ntelligent Fraud wrote:Picked up a copy today. Music's probably going to get put on hold for a bit. Couple hours into it and this is shaping up to be one of the best video games I've played in a long time. The Atlas Shrugged of video games.
you're completely wrong, Mario Kart Wii is the best video game ever made. the War and Peace of all video games.

PS Ayn Rand is a Whore
Funny that someone with the s/n Marx would bash Ayn Rand. She would probably hate you right back. The electro station's pretty solid but I can't listen to that kind of electro house for very long. The insane amounts of compression get to me after a while. Classic is a really badass station too. Honestly I'm impressed with all of the stations. I've heard Coltrane and Sonny Rollins on the jazz station thus far, a lot of Bob Marley on Tuff Gong. This game's amazing.
The only thing Ayn Rand and Karl Marx have in common is their disdane for Capitalism. Past that they are almost completely opposite.

Ironically, GTA 4 and MarioKart are similar in that they both have a lot of drving in them. Past that they are almost completely opposite.

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Post by 1ntelligent Fraud » Thu May 01, 2008 10:12 pm

Not that I want to take away from discussion on one of the sweetest video games I've ever played, I'm going to have to ask for a little clarification on Rand hating on capitalism. Unless I was too stoned to miss something this major while reading through what I thought was 1100 pages of laissez-faire capitalism loving Atlas Shrugged... Egoism aside, one of the major points of the book was to show what can happen if you mess with a balanced system of capitalism. Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog, Wesley Mouch's bullshit coalition, etc; I'm asking out of ignorance not arrogance because I have only read Atlas Shrugged.

Having said that, I take back what I said about the electro station. I can deal with a few Justice songs to hear some of the gold they play. How far are you guys in the game? I'm at ~19% and loving every minute of it. I'm actually finding the game a little inspiring for music. I'm currently working on a lot of sample driven stuff so all the cars, crashing, guns, and violence and making some of the gears upstairs turn.

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Post by ausgeno » Thu May 01, 2008 11:47 pm

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DJ: François K
Genre: Electro/Dance
Tracklist:

* Alex Gopher - "Brain Leech (Bugged Mind Remix)"
* Black Devil Disco Club - "The Devil In Us (Dub)"
* Boys Noize - "& Down"
* Chris Lake vs Deadmau5 - "I Thought Inside Out (Origianl Mix)"
* Justice - "Waters of Nazareth"
* K.I.M. - "B.T.T.T.T.R.Y. (Bag Raiders Remix)"
* Kavinsky - "Testarossa (Sebastian Remix)"
* Killing Joke - "Turn To Red"
* Liquid Liquid - "Optimo"
* Nitzer Ebb - "Let Your Body Learn"
* One + One - "No Pressure (Deadmau5 Remix)"
* Padded Cell - "Signal Failure"
* Playgroup - "Make It Happen"
* Simian Mobile Disco - "s & Acid"
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Post by Tone Deft » Sun May 04, 2008 3:57 am

this game is just awesome, hundreds of nice touches to what was already a great franchise.

a nice map showing all kinds of stuff
http://grandtheftauto.ign.com//maps/1/Liberty-City-Map

some cheats
http://www.mahalo.com/Grand_Theft_Auto_4_Cheats

20% complete and I've mostly been wandering around playing with the AI. the DJ Premier Radio station has been killing me, not to mention hi def. I really like the new system of running from the cops' radius over the Pay n Sprays. the GPS nav is a godsend. etc etc etc.
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Post by nate_D » Sun May 04, 2008 5:08 am

yeah i'm around 20% too. just opened up the middle island. it's like a whole new world to explore. anybody got on xbox live with it yet? i've spent most of my time there. my gamertag is n8 diamond.
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Re: Anyone out there playing GTA4?

Post by majestic » Sun May 04, 2008 1:30 pm

1ntelligent Fraud wrote:This game's amazing.
+1

Astounding depth and detail, first-class soundtrack and some very funny shit. :)

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Post by robotsound » Mon May 05, 2008 2:06 am

i am so happy that all the competition has put their beat making on hold! jk

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Post by pabloaugustus » Mon May 05, 2008 3:04 am

v00d00ppl wrote:
1ntelligent Fraud wrote:I'm 12-13 hours into the game and I'm still having those "Oh shit! I can do that?" So far one of my favorite things to do is sucker punch someone and get them to hit you back in front of a cop. You'll either see someone taken away to jail or an always entertaining gun fight. Tuff Gong is definitely my favorite radio station too.
tuff gong, fusion, classics, and the dancehall station are my favorite stations. i wonder hw much that tuff gong license cost.
yeah, good point, I'm sure that greedy beezy Rita Marley is making out big time, while Aston Family Man Barrett, who wrote many and arranged almost all of the catalog gets the shaft.
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Re: Anyone out there playing GTA4?

Post by pulsoc » Mon May 05, 2008 1:17 pm

Marx wrote:The only thing Ayn Rand and Karl Marx have in common is their disdane for Capitalism. Past that they are almost completely opposite.
8O

Rand was the Uber-capitalist!

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Post by Tone Deft » Wed May 28, 2008 6:59 pm

anyone else finish? ;)
not the whole thing, just got through the main storyline. I'll never get to 100%. once you get the combat system down the missions get a LOT easier.

truly a 10 out of 10 game.
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Post by contakt321 » Wed May 28, 2008 7:02 pm

I have been playing this more than I would like to admit and I am also at around 20%.

The multiplayer is surprisingly fun, however annoying that there is no way to set up a filter for say "auto-aim on only" or "auto-aim off only", game length, etc.

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