Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition is coming?!

I was so pissed about the exclusivity thing that I refused to buy either of the expansions when they were released for PS3 and eventually sold off my copy of GTA4 as well.

Seems that now is the time to buy back in for this disgruntled gamer. Hopefully you'll be able to switch characters/plots on the fly and use all the weapons in all three games. (doubt it)
 
John said:
that cover is like a poster for monotonously consistent character design
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which is funny because the characters are mostly very far away from the typical white-action-adventure hero in most game.
 
Massa said:
You mean a worse version of Roman?

Gay Tony had great mission design but the writing and characters were mostly bad, with a few exceptions.
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Still better then LoTD, which has it's story peter out after the first few missions and becomes typical GTA story telling. LoTD is just completely worthless and really kind of a disappointing GTA game. Theres not a bunch to it. The story is weak compared to 4 even and the missions are even more sub-par then IVs.

Rollo Tomasi said:
My copy didn't come with any DLC voucher code. All the DLC is on the disc.
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Is your copy for PS3? That would be the reason.
 
So still no official confirmation from Rockstar? Surely if the release date is October 26 they would have started promoting it by now?


Square Triangle said:
Seems like they get lazy on the 360 and reissue a new disc on the PS3?
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I always assumed that was just a disc space issue; with a DVD they are probably fairly tight for space but with a Blu-ray there would usually be oodles of room to spare in the case of multiplat titles.
 
Square Triangle said:
I know Capcom released Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition as the same ol' RE5 disc with a voucher code for the DLC.
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My copy didn't come with any DLC voucher code. All the DLC is on the disc.
 
Massa said:
You mean a worse version of Roman?

Gay Tony had great mission design but the writing and characters were mostly bad, with a few exceptions.
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I'd disagree, I found Tony and Luis's relationship to be the most believable, or at least the most engaging, relationship in any of the GTA4 stories. Every other character just served as a way as fleshing out the way those two characters felt about each other, or as a way of shining a light on the contradictions and other hypocrisies in their relationship, which may or may not be your cup of tea, but I usually love that sort of character story, and this was no exception.

There were far too many incidental characters or lazy subplots in GTA4 and L&D for my liking. BoGT kept it simple.
 
Rez said:
There were far too many incidental characters or lazy subplots in GTA4 and L&D for my liking. BoGT kept it simple.
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Well you do have the subplots that are just about Luis such as his mom and friends that don't really go anywhere. They just end.
 
Sweet. I have LaTD on DLC but have no idea where my GTA IV disk is. This will be perfect as I wanted to finish GTA IV and finish both expansions.

Saves will work with these right I assume? I don't see why not.
 
$40 for the PS3 version with the expansions + base game wouldn't be too bad now.

Too bad I already own the base GTA4 for 360, and I doubt trading that in would give me a good value to this. :(
 
Rahxephon91 said:
Well you do have the subplots that are just about Luis such as his mom and friends that don't really go anywhere. They just end.
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I suppose, and maybe I'm more forgiving here than in the other stories because I liked the missions they resulted in and didn't think they got in the way of anything else, but I liked those because they were such a direct contrast to the life he was living with Tony.
 
I just couldn't deal with the awful missions in L&D. That bomb the van mission? Urgh. The mission structures were so limited to shoot-em-ups.

And then it did that thing where it wanted to make an ultra-gritty, believable world and then made the characters super-heroes who could
break into a prison, kill a guy
and then escape again. At least BoGT was self-aware.

On top of all of them, for such a short story there was already so much fluff. So much of what happened after
Billy
, on of the few interesting characters in that game, went to prison was completely pointless. I stopped caring about everyone in that game so damn fast.
 
Am I the only one that really enjoyed vanilla, L&D, and BoGT? They were all fun to me.

Now where the hell is my GTAV announcement? It's been over 2 years since GTAIV already.
 
I liked all three of the games whilst the vanilla GTA:IV had it's issues i fet they were ironed out in the DLC packs.

In the last one especially i felt R* had found the perfect balance between realism and escapism without pushing the game into the more OTT elements of San Andreas.


Net_Wrecker said:
Am I the only one that really enjoyed vanilla, L&D, and BoGT? They were all fun to me.

Now where the hell is my GTAV announcement? It's been over 2 years since GTAIV already.
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It's got to be soon,it feels about right for an announcement. I'm expecting an even bigger play area. Especially after RDR and seeing the deserts and the sheer scale of that game.
I have very high hopes for what they have in store for GTAV.
 
I actually think the beginning of LoTD really sets the stage for a pretty mature and gritty story, one without the problems that were in GTAIV. Billy is a criminal and he knows it, but at least he can be a good criminal with something for himself, it's just obviously he can't do that with the current gang. It's just after that its pretty uneventful and the game dosen't really do a lot with it's story. It tells you the situation, but really dosen't get into it's details. It then ends pretty much how you expected it to end.

Other then that, the missions just weren't very exciting. You could say the same for 4, but that game has the freshness that this Liberty City brings that's pretty amazing to me and then pretty awesome missions like the bank heist.

And no I really enjoyed all the GTAIV things, even LoTD. I just think its the weakest one.
 
I think the reason I actively dislike L&D's story as opposed to my usual "uh, whatever" to the majority of video game stories out there is BECAUSE it started off so well. It just totally let me down after the great first hour or two. Which, on a larger scale, was my problem with GTAIV. BoGT remained interesting to me throughout, though.

Even RDR had fricking Mexico, luckily it managed to totally redeem itself later on.
 
Rahxephon91 said:
I actually think the beginning of LoTD really sets the stage for a pretty mature and gritty story., without the problems that were in GTAIV. Billy is a criminal and he knows it, but at least he can be a good criminal with something for himself, it's just obviously he can't do that. It's just after that its pretty uneventful and the game dosen't really do a lot with it's story. It tells you the situation, but really dosen't get into it's details. It then ends pretty much how you expected it to end.

Other then that, the missions just weren't very exciting. You could say the same for 4, but that game has the freshness that this Liberty City brings that's pretty amazing to me and then pretty awesome missions like the bank heist.

And no I really enjoyed all the GTAIV things, even LoTD. I just think its the weakest one.
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I loved the missions especially when you took along a posse and had little street battles with the other gangs.

Yeah the ending does come out of nowhere but it is DLC. I would have loved to have seen this game as the main one,the story was their it just needed a few more missions to feel substantial.
 
w/o new content this seems not really attractive considering the addons are standalone?
I haven't played the addons yet, but my interest is low as they don't include other cities. I already spend 40 hours in this city, booooring.

Throw in a zombie mode/addon and I may consider it (my hate is still strong for GTA4, ok mostly because of its reviews).

updating the engine(s) would be nice, too.


oh and if there is still no custom music option for the PS3 version: fuck you.
 
SolidusDave said:
w/o new content this seems not really attractive considering the addons are standalone?

Throw in a zombie mode/addon and I may consider it (my hate is still strong for GTA4, ok mostly because of its reviews).

updating the engine(s) would be nice, too.


oh and if there is still no custom music option for the PS3 version: fuck you.
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Zombie mode is coming in RDR

And hating GTA because of reviews is a little silly dude the game is excellent.
 
graywolf323 said:
wonder how the music and what not will work

there were differences between the download and disc only releases if I remember right
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yeah, just the radio stations are different. I have a feeling they are just using the disk images for this, so no Vice City Radio :(
 
Dabanton said:
Zombie mode is coming in RDR

And hating GTA because of reviews is a little silly dude the game is excellent.
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I know, that's why I want it in GTA4 as I think it may actually be more fun.

For me it was a very disappointing GTA after Vice City & especially SA.
I mentioned the reviews because on top of that, thanks to the stupid reviewers it is rated as the best PS3 game and second best 360 game (orange box being first :> ) of this whole generation. No. No... no, no, no. Not even close to the truth.
You are right, this should not affect my opinion of this game, but it does >:|
 
I guess that sort of conflicted personality is much more believable to me than a bunch of bikies who, for some reason, decide to split of from Johnny with a weird non-character comic relief-equse lackey for entirely forced reasons only to have to kill them all off and eventually break into a prison and single-handedly take down the entire police-force.

A guy in a well-off apartment working as a 'right-hand man' for a has-been, struggling bar owner, who happens to help his old friends out every now and then because he feels guilty for leaving them all behind doesn't seem outside of the realm of possibility in that world.
 
the entire point of Luis is that he is, essentially, a low-life GTA cut and paste hero at the end of any other GTA storyline, where he has already found some redemption thanks to Tony (who hired him after his prison stint). examining what one of those character's lives might be like after the usual GTA low-life crawl to the top is so much more interesting than starting from square one again, and I feel like the DLC package was the perfect place to explore it.
 
Rez said:
I'd disagree, I found Tony and Luis's relationship to be the most believable, or at least the most engaging, relationship in any of the GTA4 stories. Every other character just served as a way as fleshing out the way those two characters felt about each other, or as a way of shining a light on the contradictions and other hypocrisies in their relationship, which may or may not be your cup of tea, but I usually love that sort of character story, and this was no exception.

There were far too many incidental characters or lazy subplots in GTA4 and L&D for my liking. BoGT kept it simple.
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I actually agree with you when it comes to Luis and Gay Tony, I felt they were some of the best characters in GTA. The problem is every other character, and how they game tried way too hard to be funny and it just wasn't.
 
I guess unclear wasn't the right word. It was just completely two-dimensial and almost cartoon like. That was L&D's main problem, in my opinion. There were constant sharp contrasts between the ultra-realistic grit and the cartoony motivations of certain characters and the things they have to do in order to succeed.

BoGT found a nicer middle ground for me where the contrasts just felt more natural, even though I was stealing a train carriage with a golden helicopter.
 
I love the assassination mission in BoGT where you jump from the helicopter and have to land on the helipad on the roof. Then battle your way through security and then shoot the target out the window before basejumping out the same window and landing on the truck waiting for you to escape on.
 
Gay Tony had some awesome missions, they were easily the best of the GTA4 games.

I didn't really care for any of the characters in the games. It was really a weak cast all around. The only one I kind of like is Johnny because
he gets to beat Roman and make him shit himself.
 
If this is on PC. Is $40. Isn't download tokens. I'll pick it up.

GTA is too big to download. Stupid shitty isp.
 
Sold off my copy of Episodes From Liberty City on 360 awhile back. Had planned on just buying them on PC at some point, but seeing this complete package, I may buy GTAIV yet AGAIN! =/
 
Haha, I bought GTAIV vanilla a year ago, made it to the last mission and couldn't be bothered to finish it. Maybe I should trade it in and pick this up.
 
DJ Crimson said:
So is the DLC all on disc? If it is, I'll probably get it.
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Any news on this? Thinking about getting it for PS3, but I sure as hell ain't buying download codes.
 
Princess Skittles said:
Are those three different characters?!

Jesus. That's just.. wow.
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Jewish

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Serbian

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Puerto Rican
 
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