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Grand Theft Auto IV thread of hype and stray bullets
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BobTheFork
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?? wait wha... oh it is now thats for sure.Himuro said:
<.< >.> so how about that multiplayer... <.< >.> should be something else. ^.^
MrTroubleMaker
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bishoptl said:
me too
thanksbishoptl said:
Hah, the one thing that I keep remembering is how THQ canceled the Saints Row PS3 version, in fear that it would collide with GTA in the holiday season...when in fact, it would probably have done quite well, provide a nice stopgap for that type of game during the last few months, and be good for the sequel later this year.
Once GTA IV comes out, nothing else comes close, IMO.
Once GTA IV comes out, nothing else comes close, IMO.
There's room for Saints Row 2 and GTA IV, in my heart at least. Euphoria will be the biggest difference to me - I can't wait to check it out in the GTA universe. Saying that Euphoria may kill Saints Row 2 for me.
I think Natural Motion will get a lot of money from the gaming industry if Euphoria's implimentation in GTA IV lives up to expectation because the bar will have been raised and, like Havok and similar physics engines, there will be no going back to the 'old' tech once people have experienced it.
I think Natural Motion will get a lot of money from the gaming industry if Euphoria's implimentation in GTA IV lives up to expectation because the bar will have been raised and, like Havok and similar physics engines, there will be no going back to the 'old' tech once people have experienced it.
dejay said:
I agree. After reading every preview since the first round of them , if I had to sum up what will be different in this GTA compared to the rest with one word, I would say "weight" If there's one thing the previews don't differ on it's the fact that Niko walks with a sense of gravity, his movements seem natural because of this. Cars handle totally different now, why?
Because in previous GTA's cars drove like they weighed 50 pounds. Now you have to take into account how much your car weighs before you go ripping through a corner.
And while this may have a learning curve because you can't go in and play it right away like it's an old GTA, it's going to feel so rewarding when you ditch the cops or even a buddy online because you calculated every move you made properly.
flipswitch
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preview of the game at http://www.gameplayer.com.au
Apparently there's a lot of pop-up in the game:
Still its not without a few faults that will need to be polished in the remaining months before release. Pop-up is a bitch and plagued the code enough to be distractingly noticeable
I wonder if it's car fade in or pop-up...or both!
-Explosions are extremely robust and pretty. When we shot down the helicopter, the ball of flame lit up our screen and made a thundering bang before being swallowed in a cloud of black smoke.
-Car damage is quite awesome, from bullet holes in the windscreen, to popped tyres sending sparks flying into the air and damaged bonnets flipping overhead at speed to go spiraling into the crowd.
-In the mission to Live and Die in Alderney, Frankie could have died. We were under no obligation to protect him and had the A.I got lucky he may have expired. This would have affected future dialogue streams, but not the mission. So characters can die if chance doesnt favor them and the game is prepared to deal with such an event.
-There are so many dialogue streams in this game it is unbelievable. You can learn so much about the characters just from the way they talk shit to each other when nothing else is doing.
-Jacob the Jamaican pot dealers accent is so thick and munted you can barely understand a word the dude is saying.
-Niko was offered drugs twice in our play through, but denied them on both occasions.
-We caught a brief glimpse of one of the safe houses in the game. You can change your outfit there should you please, although the options are based on what Niko would realistically wear (i.e. no chicken suits).
-During the mission Harboring a Grudge we engaged in a massive shoot-out down at the docks. It occurred during a thunderstorm. The rain looked quite awesome as it bucketed down, but it was the lightning that was most memorable. As it cracks a flash rattles through the whole world, throwing its own weight behind at atmosphere already encouraged by the bursts of fire coming from everywhere and the environment falling to bits under the combat.
-There is a definite shift in skill level of the A.I as you go up the chain of the law. Get caught in the open while fighting the Feds and expect a head-shot.
-When you die, the screen fades to black and white and the camera shifts to a first-person view of your final resting place it is quite affecting, and again, not a small bit cinematic.
-A big head-on crash will cause you to go flying out of the windscreen to serious injury and possibly death: Niko aint got time for seatbelts.
-Jumping out of a moving car can create a truly awesome ragdoll/Euphoria effect that makes Saints Rows insurance scam missions look like a piss-weak joke. We wasted a good ten minutes just laughing our arse off driving into busy areas at full pace and then bailing out the door.
-Niko likes the ladies.
Apparently there's a lot of pop-up in the game:
Still its not without a few faults that will need to be polished in the remaining months before release. Pop-up is a bitch and plagued the code enough to be distractingly noticeable
I wonder if it's car fade in or pop-up...or both!
-Explosions are extremely robust and pretty. When we shot down the helicopter, the ball of flame lit up our screen and made a thundering bang before being swallowed in a cloud of black smoke.
-Car damage is quite awesome, from bullet holes in the windscreen, to popped tyres sending sparks flying into the air and damaged bonnets flipping overhead at speed to go spiraling into the crowd.
-In the mission to Live and Die in Alderney, Frankie could have died. We were under no obligation to protect him and had the A.I got lucky he may have expired. This would have affected future dialogue streams, but not the mission. So characters can die if chance doesnt favor them and the game is prepared to deal with such an event.
-There are so many dialogue streams in this game it is unbelievable. You can learn so much about the characters just from the way they talk shit to each other when nothing else is doing.
-Jacob the Jamaican pot dealers accent is so thick and munted you can barely understand a word the dude is saying.
-Niko was offered drugs twice in our play through, but denied them on both occasions.
-We caught a brief glimpse of one of the safe houses in the game. You can change your outfit there should you please, although the options are based on what Niko would realistically wear (i.e. no chicken suits).
-During the mission Harboring a Grudge we engaged in a massive shoot-out down at the docks. It occurred during a thunderstorm. The rain looked quite awesome as it bucketed down, but it was the lightning that was most memorable. As it cracks a flash rattles through the whole world, throwing its own weight behind at atmosphere already encouraged by the bursts of fire coming from everywhere and the environment falling to bits under the combat.
-There is a definite shift in skill level of the A.I as you go up the chain of the law. Get caught in the open while fighting the Feds and expect a head-shot.
-When you die, the screen fades to black and white and the camera shifts to a first-person view of your final resting place it is quite affecting, and again, not a small bit cinematic.
-A big head-on crash will cause you to go flying out of the windscreen to serious injury and possibly death: Niko aint got time for seatbelts.
-Jumping out of a moving car can create a truly awesome ragdoll/Euphoria effect that makes Saints Rows insurance scam missions look like a piss-weak joke. We wasted a good ten minutes just laughing our arse off driving into busy areas at full pace and then bailing out the door.
-Niko likes the ladies.
Tieno
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Didn't fans complain that they saw too much of the game with GTA SA? I don't mind this secretive stuff, I've seen and heard enough.chubigans said:Gah! That was a close one. *wipes off brow*
Does anyone else really loathe the way Rockstar promotes their GTA games? How I'd love some actual gameplay footage and some detailed multiplayer impressions, but they string us along until release.
Definitely builds hype and works well for their marketing, but I'm still sad.
robertsan21
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MMaRsu said:
it didnt annoy me, infact I thought it made CJ even more badass for rejecting it.
say no to drugs kids!
MMaRsu
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robertsan21 said:
I thought it was really wack...a dude like that who grew up in the hood and everything, all his homies smoking and he never even drinks a beer or hits the bong. I think that was really unrealistic..
I man I'm not even a gangster but I smoke weed :lol . It's not even drugs, it's a plant
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqKcsXgAKA
robertsan21
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Think Bishop has banned me more than any other mod here, at first I thought he had something against me and just banned me for the hell of it, so I am happy that you guys also get a taste of his insanity! :lol
deep inside I know you love me Bish but in a non gay way!
now back to GTA4, you think we will be able to rob banks anytime we want without having to be on a mission for it?
deep inside I know you love me Bish but in a non gay way!
now back to GTA4, you think we will be able to rob banks anytime we want without having to be on a mission for it?
I really loved GTA on the PC (Top down....woo!) but I am ashamed to admit I have only ever played GTAIII on PS2
Super hyped for GTAIV thought. I really want to get wrapped up in this one. One of the reasons I skipped the later GTA games was the lack of multiplayer. Stacking up cars in huge rows and nuking them all was so much fun...ahhh...memories. Not long now!
Super hyped for GTAIV thought. I really want to get wrapped up in this one. One of the reasons I skipped the later GTA games was the lack of multiplayer. Stacking up cars in huge rows and nuking them all was so much fun...ahhh...memories. Not long now!
robertsan21
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Safe Bet said:
Wew, thanks for the cleanup Bish.
So anyway, we haven't discussed multiplayer yet all that much. People here seem to want a similar multiplayer setup like Burnout Paradise. I would applaud that. I've only played the demo, but it was implemtented in a great way. Just cruising around, press a button on the d-pad and there you go, you're online. Isn't this what R* was planning also for GTAIV? I think I read such a thing in this thread. It would be great. About the game modes? Interesting to think about it. I've said this before, but if R* handles this right, the opportunities could be amazing. Multiplayer racing for the fans, a thieves vs coppers mode, hell maybe even a game where everyone meets up in the local bar, has a few drinks and then all step into the car, drunk ofcourse, to see who can drive home the fastest without hitting the most pedestrians
Oh R*, please don't screw up the multiplayer!
So anyway, we haven't discussed multiplayer yet all that much. People here seem to want a similar multiplayer setup like Burnout Paradise. I would applaud that. I've only played the demo, but it was implemtented in a great way. Just cruising around, press a button on the d-pad and there you go, you're online. Isn't this what R* was planning also for GTAIV? I think I read such a thing in this thread. It would be great. About the game modes? Interesting to think about it. I've said this before, but if R* handles this right, the opportunities could be amazing. Multiplayer racing for the fans, a thieves vs coppers mode, hell maybe even a game where everyone meets up in the local bar, has a few drinks and then all step into the car, drunk ofcourse, to see who can drive home the fastest without hitting the most pedestrians
Oh R*, please don't screw up the multiplayer!
I've been playing a lot of San Andreas lately on my PC. I'll probably buy a console version and a PC version. Console because I can't wait to play and PC for mods, and I aim so much better. A loaded AK/M4 = rapid 1 shot one kill for me. Easy headshots.
Flying sucks with m/kb though so I have a logitech gamepad for that >:]
Quickly closing in on the end of San Andreas, fun game and I'll be ready for IV. Looking forward to the new police net type chase system.
Flying sucks with m/kb though so I have a logitech gamepad for that >:]
Quickly closing in on the end of San Andreas, fun game and I'll be ready for IV. Looking forward to the new police net type chase system.
Himuro said:
That's certainly an understandable concern. As long as it doesn't happen more often than it does in Saints Row, I'm fine with it. It always happened far more to other drivers than it did to me, which made it wonderfully hilarious (especially when their body crashed through my windshield as well, making their ragdoll corpse an unintended passenger). I hope getting ejected through the windshield is not limited to just Niko in GTA IV.
I am thrilled that so many previews are praising the explosions in GTA IV. I am so damn tired of the weaksauce explosions we're still getting these days.
PjotrStroganov
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swander said:
Many devs make the inverted controls default, as well as the other way around. One or the other, it can't be taken for granted. It's nice that the Xbox 360 lets you choose the preferred control option for yourself. Didn't know that.
I was just thinking about a little problem I always have when playing GTA. I am playing GTA:SA today again and there is this mission I keep failing. It's in the beginning where Big Smoke and CJ are going after a train on motorbike and you have to ride a whole lot of miles back when you fail the mission. I would like to see something which solves this, so that you can straight away go the person who gave you the mission.
Is there any solution for this?
Is there any solution for this?
SolidSnakex
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Himuro said:
Yep everyone is treated equally in GTA. In the sense that everyone is a bunch of assholes, killers ect. That's what's great about it.
There are no really good people in the series, yet we still end up liking the characters.SolidSnakex
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Himuro said::lol
When someone brought that up at SA I was in shock. I just couldn't believe it. :lol
But even Donald is a fucking snake. He starts gang wars to drive down the price of land so he buy it.
That just makes him a good business man.
SolidSnakex
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For a real blast from the past, here's the original GTA3 trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=284zdUQhjlk
Amazingly enough, they showed that at E3. Times have changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=284zdUQhjlk
Amazingly enough, they showed that at E3. Times have changed.
anachronous_one
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Yes, clearly it's an unrealistic representation of life, for a person in CJ's position to be able to think for himself.MMaRsu said:I thought it was really wack...a dude like that who grew up in the hood and everything, all his homies smoking and he never even drinks a beer or hits the bong. I think that was really unrealistic..
I man I'm not even a gangster but I smoke weed :lol . It's not even drugs, it's a plant
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqKcsXgAKA
Zombie James
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If Donald Love isn't in GTA IV in some way (even if it's just a gravestone) i'll be mad.
SlasherJPC
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MMaRsu said:I thought it was really wack...a dude like that who grew up in the hood and everything, all his homies smoking and he never even drinks a beer or hits the bong. I think that was really unrealistic..
I man I'm not even a gangster but I smoke weed :lol . It's not even drugs, it's a plant
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqKcsXgAKA
But if he still did all the chronic, he wouldn't have cared enough about his momma being shot dead in the first place, aka no GTA:SA.
Zombie James
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Himuro said:
Grumble, grumble...
Confidence Man
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BenjaminBirdie
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Confidence Man said:
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Zombie James
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Confidence Man said:
:O
squatingyeti
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Is no one really concerned about the pop-up flipswitch pointed out in that article?
Distractingly noticeable doesn't sound good. I guess it's ok as long as a car or barrier doesn't just manifest itself right in my way when it looked all clear.
Distractingly noticeable doesn't sound good. I guess it's ok as long as a car or barrier doesn't just manifest itself right in my way when it looked all clear.
Zombie James
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The LCPD recruitment video :lol :lol
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