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The Official Grand Theft Auto IV thread: The World Is Yours
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endlessflood
Member
Apparently, every time there is thunder in Liberty City they simultaneously experience an earthquake that measures 9.2 on the Richter scale.Laurent said:
If you want to see if your rumble is working, wait for a thunder storm. The rumble is ridiculous (in a bad way).
Edit: push the PS button and make sure that the Vibration function is ON for your controller. But it's true that the vibration is weak in GTA IV for the most part (the massive exception being thunder, WTF?)
BobFromPikeCreek
Member
Has anyone noticed that the hit detection with vehicles in multiplayer is way off? I'll slam into someone on my screen with my car, and then suddenly they'll slide across the screen, immediately standing up.
Little Jacob
What the hell is he even saying??
Rode in a cab and train too..great experiences. GTAIV has really brought GTA series up a level. Bikes are crappy now though :\
Just a question:
see that mission you do for vlad where you get the option to kill or save some guy? I chose to kill him, what happens if I had saved him?
Jamesfrom818
Banned
BobFromPikeCreek said:
Probably lag
Anyone else think the Assassination missions were some of the more interesting ones? They are much smaller, almost bite size missions, but I think they were very well done. Unlike a lot of the epic, heavily scripted story missions where you wade through wave after wave of bad guys these were simple challanges. But, I think from a design stand point they worked very well.
I think if Rockstar had included more of these sandbox style missions, with a couple of ways to complete them, it would of been a nice change of pace. It seemed in the end, it was all epic shootouts and chases. But then again, I did them all one after the other once I completed the main story.
BTW if anyone cares. Completing the main story, all side missions and getting all the people you meet to like you took me 39 hours and shows up as 71% completion. I haven't finished any of the "jobs" you do for Brucie{other than the racing} or Little Jacob and I only did ONE random encounter. That came out to 410 achievement points, all of this without touching the multiplayer. Oh and I have almost 800k.
I like how you're simply presented with a problem and then come up with your way of taking care of it as you see fit. Both of the boat missions I finished with a sniper rifle from land. The gang of bikers would scatter if you just shot at them, so I simply lobbed 2 or 3 granades, they didn't know what hit them. I didn't bother chasing the guy to the helicopter either, parked a block away and took it out with an RPG. Got in front of the convoy and took the limo out with an RPG as well.
I think if Rockstar had included more of these sandbox style missions, with a couple of ways to complete them, it would of been a nice change of pace. It seemed in the end, it was all epic shootouts and chases. But then again, I did them all one after the other once I completed the main story.
BTW if anyone cares. Completing the main story, all side missions and getting all the people you meet to like you took me 39 hours and shows up as 71% completion. I haven't finished any of the "jobs" you do for Brucie{other than the racing} or Little Jacob and I only did ONE random encounter. That came out to 410 achievement points, all of this without touching the multiplayer. Oh and I have almost 800k.
endlessflood
Member
If youLobster said:
don't kill him, you get some random missions off him later. But they don't count towards 100% completion, they're just curios.
SentientStone
Member
This is not about freezing (my PS3 version has only ever froze once while loading the game)... but I need serious help on a mission.
How do I get up there?
Edit:
Shit, nevermind. :lol
For the mission "Pegorino's Pride", I am supposed to go up to the vantage point to oversee the meeting but I cannot for the life of me figure out how I can get up to the vantage point. It seems as though the place is a room very high up on the building but I cannot find any ladders, doors, or anything else that lets me get up there. I have been walking around this building for well over 10 minutes and cannot figure out what to do.
How do I get up there?
Edit:
Shit, nevermind. :lol
Completed it this evening, first GTA I've played to completion (got to the end of GTA3 and Vice City only to just lost interest, and did about two thirds of SA). Was a little disappointed in the end but it was still a great game.
And multiplayer almost kills me with laughter, so regardless of my gripes with single player it was a worthwhile purchase. How much is there to do in the game after you've cleared it?
And multiplayer almost kills me with laughter, so regardless of my gripes with single player it was a worthwhile purchase. How much is there to do in the game after you've cleared it?
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
yeah I'm going to keep trying to play without auto-aim. It does make things more tactical. With auto aim shooting is far too easy. Doing it without auto-aim feels like more of an accomplishment.MrCompletely said:
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
A little over 2 hours.Wizpig said:
I would play for longer, but I dont have the time.
Completing some of the Most Wanted targets last night really stressed some issues of the storyline missions for me. This is what happened: I had to chase two hummers to kill a target and in 2 attempts, it didn't work out. What I then did felt pretty awesome: I drove my police car to the exact point where the targets would show up. I get out, quickly select RPG and as these hummers come out of the opposite direction, getting ready to sandwich me, I shove a rocket into the first Hummer's face, making the other one burn from the chain reaction, forcing the targets out, after which I finished the burning corpses to be with bullets.
It just felt so good to be given the freedom in these missions to do whatever the fuck you want. Once a red arrow is placed above the cars, anything goes. In another MW chase mission I shot the biker within the first 10 seconds of his escape, feels good.
This stresses again what was so bad about those scripted chases in the main story: the game gives you the option to kill your enemies in a drive by fashion, but ONLY after they shove a scripted 'aint this awesome' moment down your throat, as in No Way on the Subway.
I know they wanted the missions to have a little length, but let the player who's experienced in driving 'n' shooting at least have his way.
I don't know, suddenly I just realized that all the chase missions in the MW list were WAY more fun than those in the main game.
It just felt so good to be given the freedom in these missions to do whatever the fuck you want. Once a red arrow is placed above the cars, anything goes. In another MW chase mission I shot the biker within the first 10 seconds of his escape, feels good.
This stresses again what was so bad about those scripted chases in the main story: the game gives you the option to kill your enemies in a drive by fashion, but ONLY after they shove a scripted 'aint this awesome' moment down your throat, as in No Way on the Subway.
I know they wanted the missions to have a little length, but let the player who's experienced in driving 'n' shooting at least have his way.
I don't know, suddenly I just realized that all the chase missions in the MW list were WAY more fun than those in the main game.
Darunia said:
I appreaciate the abilty to do what you want, but I thought the scirpted chase missions were a ton of fun. If they weren't scripted the game wouldn't have nearly enough memorable moments. If they let you kill people quickly, every chase would be exactly the same.
Personally, the msot memorable moments for me were missions like Snow whateverrhino4evr said:
in the hospital, for Elizibeta
I would pay for DLC if it meant more awesome missions like Three Leaf Clover. If it means more scripted chase scenes? No thank you. \:
Also, GTA needs fucking checkpoints. Posthaste! It would've made the final mission so much more tolerable.
And, obviously, I finally beat the story mode. Woo. Now I don't have to worry about my GAF-habit of automatically highlighting spoilers, since so many people don't use the tags properly. D:<
Tobor said:
Yeah I havent finished my first yet either.
man I cant believe how great things this game has going for it. Im still awed whenever I cross the main bridge and see the skyline and the buildings. Certain times on a HDTV this games looks quite simply phenomenal. Absolutely stunning.
rhino4evr said:
The stats screen shows me 94 mission. Amount of really memorable missions? For me probably somewhere in the single digit range. Especially after the Most Wanted missions. Just way more fun seeing your targets jumping out a burning car and just watch them till they finally burned to death.
There is no reason to not have scripted and non-scripted stuff in the story missions.
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
Are the acheievements just on the 360 version?
Yeah. The chase missions were my least favorite. As cool as it was to driveWon said:
through the subway
when you can so easily kill his partner mere seconds from the start
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
voltron said:
I love having achievements. Its gives you that little extra incentive to play the game once you've finished the main story.
psycho_snake said:
I love having achievements. Its gives you that little extra incentive to play the game once you've finished the main story.
I let this thing called fun dictate how much I play a game. You play a game to get points/back pats rather than play something else you would enjoy more?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
DeadGzuz said:
I let this thing called other people dictate how I should play a game what I should enjoy about it. You play a game to get satisfaction from your own sense of fun rather than blindly follow the contrary opinion of a message board poster?
Laurent said:
Set your cellphone to ring/vibrate.
I can't tell you how many times I've started up GTA4, walked out of the room for a moment but left the DS3 on a table or something, then get the shit scared out of me when Niko gets a call and the DS3 vibrates around the table and falls off.
They certainly don't overuse it, but it's there.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Won said:
TELL US ABOUT THE PLANE TICKET!!
;D