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The Official Grand Theft Auto IV thread: The World Is Yours
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ToyMachine228
Member
Cedeo said:
Basically the same here. Thinking of trading it in while the getting is good. Just not drawn to play through again. It's tempting to keep it to see what the DLC Episodes turn out like, but really what can they offer outside of more of the same of what I already have on the disc? Idk, just not really feeling GTA anymore.
womfalcs3
Banned
MMaRsu said:Does anybody know where I can get all the logo's from the radio stations? I want to have album images on my ipod
The guidebook has them, and they're in color. Obviously you'd have to scan them, and the downside is they're pretty small in size. I don't think the iPod needs large pictures though.
MMaRsu said:Does anybody know where I can get all the logo's from the radio stations? I want to have album images on my ipod
I don't know if I can say this or not (won't post a link), but over at demonoid if you look up the GTA IV soundtrack 2 of the torrent pages have all the logos.
Please don't ban me!:lol
neoism
Member
Do you get Romain mission percentage for the last mission, I have 93%
Does anyone know how much percent the last mission gives you I have it left and all of the pigeons left I don't want to go through all of them and beat the game and only have 99.90%, and not knowing where or how to get the remaining % thanks
Does anyone know how much percent the last mission gives you I have it left and all of the pigeons left I don't want to go through all of them and beat the game and only have 99.90%, and not knowing where or how to get the remaining % thanks
MMaRsu said:Yeah too bad I don't have the guidebook nor a scanner :lol .
Thanks though
Here is a good chunk of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gta_iv_soundtrack
Not sure if there's a full mission breakdown, but according to http://www.achieve360points.com's guide.neoism said:
John Dunbar
correct about everything
I finished the game with only 63% or something like that. I had a bit of an "that's it?" feeling with the ending. Wasn't interested at all in doing those cop car things or killing birds or whatever shit they want you to do to increase the percentage. Don't think I'll play it again any time soon. I'll rather play River City Ransom or something.
By the way, what the fuck happened to
.
Also, I decided to check Gamefaqs to see what happens if
Overall definitely a good game, and probably deserves the 10s since 10 apparently just means "pretty good game" these days, but it left me feeling a bit underwhelmed. I can't think of a single thing I want to do in the game after the story ends.
By the way, what the fuck happened to
Bulgarin or whatever his face was? I think I saw him twice in the game. Thought he'd die or something, or did I kill him and just forget?
Also, I decided to check Gamefaqs to see what happens if
You choose differently at the end (deal or revenge). Sounds damn cheap if you ask me. Same last mission? Fuck that. Well, maybe later, I got a save pretty late in the game before the choice, so I might try it if I'm bored enough.
Overall definitely a good game, and probably deserves the 10s since 10 apparently just means "pretty good game" these days, but it left me feeling a bit underwhelmed. I can't think of a single thing I want to do in the game after the story ends.
Paranoid_Robot
Member
I just finished the game and it's definitely a superb game, but I have to say I am a little disappointed. In my opinion it's not a 10/10. There are too many annoyances for me.
I lost the sandbox feel from previous GTA's because everything resets in the world before the start of each mission. When I'm in a car / motorbike chase and I shoot down the guy he never dies. You can only kill the person your chasing when the game tells you to, which isn't shown clearly.
I'm surprised there are still no checkpoints. The last mission is a bitch and it would have been much easier if I could have had at least one checkpoint. It's not fun doing the same part of a mission over and over again. I realize it has to be challenging but come on.
I don't think the story is "oscar worthy", sure it's great but I think the previous GTA's were so wacky and weird with the story which suited the world better. It's a refreshing change and I think the main characters and the ones you meet at the beginning are funny. However after about 5-10 hours into the game I couldn't give a shit about the characters that were introduced.
I think having a really realistic story and the world around you being pretty crazy don't gel too well together. There are some moments that take you completely out of the game which were touched on the 1UP show but this doesn't really bother me as much as the other points.
I thought the missions were too repetitive and building relationships with characters was boring and pointless.
Like I said, I still think the game is a massive achievement and it's really great. It's actually a very fun shooter which adds a great amount to the gameplay, the different feel of the cars are great, the city is beautiful to look at, the amount of depth in the game is outstanding and it's the best sandbox game of this generation.
I still can't help but feel a little underwhelmed but I can't wait to see what they improve in the next iteration. I hope they don't do Vice City. Tokyo is still my first choice for the next one but who knows. Overall I think it's a great game, but I don't think it will be game of the year as I predict MGS4 or LBP will be.
I lost the sandbox feel from previous GTA's because everything resets in the world before the start of each mission. When I'm in a car / motorbike chase and I shoot down the guy he never dies. You can only kill the person your chasing when the game tells you to, which isn't shown clearly.
I'm surprised there are still no checkpoints. The last mission is a bitch and it would have been much easier if I could have had at least one checkpoint. It's not fun doing the same part of a mission over and over again. I realize it has to be challenging but come on.
I don't think the story is "oscar worthy", sure it's great but I think the previous GTA's were so wacky and weird with the story which suited the world better. It's a refreshing change and I think the main characters and the ones you meet at the beginning are funny. However after about 5-10 hours into the game I couldn't give a shit about the characters that were introduced.
I think having a really realistic story and the world around you being pretty crazy don't gel too well together. There are some moments that take you completely out of the game which were touched on the 1UP show but this doesn't really bother me as much as the other points.
I thought the missions were too repetitive and building relationships with characters was boring and pointless.
Like I said, I still think the game is a massive achievement and it's really great. It's actually a very fun shooter which adds a great amount to the gameplay, the different feel of the cars are great, the city is beautiful to look at, the amount of depth in the game is outstanding and it's the best sandbox game of this generation.
I still can't help but feel a little underwhelmed but I can't wait to see what they improve in the next iteration. I hope they don't do Vice City. Tokyo is still my first choice for the next one but who knows. Overall I think it's a great game, but I don't think it will be game of the year as I predict MGS4 or LBP will be.
Captain Glanton
Banned
^^^Pretty much my opinions. I just finished the story yesterday, I haven't touched MP, and I feel zero desire to play it again. Maybe in a few months.
neoism
Member
Guys thanks for the replies, I'm just (once hes seen the credits hes DONE guy) I never beat a game before doing everything if I choose to do so. I'm currently at 96.80% with the last mission and the pigeons left and I just wanted to find out if its worth .7 at least since the pigeons are with 2.5%. but I'll just beat it to find out thanks!MMaRsu said:
Man, listen to some of you guys turning on the game.... youre just burnt out!!! Play a game for 40+ hrs straight and that can happen.... but dont you think by proclaiming how over the game and everything else you are now just detracts from your experience.
Heres my biggest thing with the game.... I wish they could have sorted out some of the 'simulation' issues that have plagued the series forever. Like when you see a car you want so you drive just a bit round the corner to park in your safehouse then walk up the street to find the car has disappeared.
All the instances of the world not being consistent enough. Its like the best way to find a cba if you cant see one is to run up the street a couple steps then simply turn around, and usually there will be some at the lights.
Stuff like that is what gets to me after a while... hopefully they can really fix them for the next game.
Heres my biggest thing with the game.... I wish they could have sorted out some of the 'simulation' issues that have plagued the series forever. Like when you see a car you want so you drive just a bit round the corner to park in your safehouse then walk up the street to find the car has disappeared.
All the instances of the world not being consistent enough. Its like the best way to find a cba if you cant see one is to run up the street a couple steps then simply turn around, and usually there will be some at the lights.
Stuff like that is what gets to me after a while... hopefully they can really fix them for the next game.
Ok so I'm in the mission where I have to go to an interview, but right before I enter the building it says that I have to wear a suit and a tie and some smart shoes or something. But I tried every suits and every shoes from Perseus and I still can't begin the mission/interview. What's the deal?
DeceitDecide
Member
Sorry if this is a stale question, but after you beat the game can you still go out on dates with people?
DeceitDecide
Member
raYne said:
Thank you, kindly! I'm about to beat the game, and I just wanted to make sure I could still get some of those relationship perks I may have missed along the way.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Completed the game today. Most of my complaints have already been covered. For me, the main problem was that there were these cool mission ideas involving using the internet, searching the police database, calling your target's number to pick them out of a crowd, etc., but all these concepts ended up just being kind of one-off things that you only did once or twice, and the rest of the missions in the game were generic chasing/shoot-out stuff.
Really enjoyed it for the most part, though.
Really enjoyed it for the most part, though.
2 Minutes Turkish
Banned
Hey guys, I posted this in the Sticky thread, but it doesn't look like that thread gets the attention this one does, and I thought this was pretty important and could help a lot of people.
I'd be interested to know if it works for anyone else whose 360 has dies from GTAIVitis.
2 Minutes Turkish said:
I'd be interested to know if it works for anyone else whose 360 has dies from GTAIVitis.
Finncognito
Member
Do you have glasses/a hat on? If you do, remove them and try again.Ninty said:
Dr Zhivago
Member
raYne said:
Well, as I said earlier,
he shows up as 'deceased' on the police computer.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
pop-in is starting to get really bad on my end(PS3 Version). I'm actually running around near happiness island and janitors are popping in right in front of me. That has never happened before. I'm starting to fear my PS3's life, so I think I'm gonna be playing GTA IV a lot less until I get my hands on MGS4.
disappeared
Banned
73% done now, but I'm starting to get a little burned out after almost 70 hours. I've already started taking longer breaks between playing it, going back to Oblivion and giving LOST: Via Domus a quick spin. I fear that if I keep plowing through everything so fast I'm going to wind up getting really sick of Liberty City, which is something I don't want to happen.
Bearillusion
Banned
I've only just started GTAIV but I'd just like to say that I would like a GTA where you have the choice to play as a good guy. For example at the start of the game you are getting out of jail for grand theft auto. You're a petty theif and part of a crime family. The police approach you to work for them and then the choice is yours as to what your character becomes. Crazy want to be crime lord or the guy that brought the family down.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
a real life Brucie ?
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.j...rtified=&fuel=&body_code=0&search_type=both&d
sorry if old
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.j...rtified=&fuel=&body_code=0&search_type=both&d
sorry if old
psycho_snake
I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
I've been playing the game without auto-aim. Its not too difficult, but some missions become so frustrating. I'm doing that mission in the museum and its fucking hard.
BrodiemanTTR
Member
So I beat this game yesterday, and, as someone who came into the game very excited about the story and the new, more cinematic approach that Rockstar was taking to it, I'm left feeling sort of unfulfilled. Generally I'm pretty hard to please when it comes to plot, be it in a game, or film, or whatever, so I guess I don't know what I was expecting, but I was running around today just getting in standoffs with the cops, and every time I started over I thought, "Is this it, really? No more missions? No more story?"
The story was okay, I guess. In my opinion (of course), it just lost focus. The beginning with Niko and Roman struggling with small-time gangsters like Vlad and Faustin was great, but after that it just became too muddled. A lot of characters and subplots felt wholly unnecessary, and a good majority of the missions felt soulless, due largely to the fact that about 85% were either chase or shootout missions with some random target and weak prop-up justification. Did every character have to have exactly four or five missions? There were a few characters, like Derrick and Dwayne, that could have either been one-off missions or just completely eliminated, and a few, like maybe Vlad or ULP, that could have been more prominent. When the game stopped being about Niko and Roman trying to survive in America and Niko finding the man he's looking for, and just became Niko doing killer-for-hire jobs for five different guys at once until plot development fell out of the sky, the story went south. The whole second act was pretty weak (Roman and Dmitri both disappeared), and when your second act is weak, your third act is going to suffer. Like Niko, when I finally killed
, it was a total anticlimax.
I also didn't appreciate how
ends up being the final villain if you make the choice everyone damn well should have. He's another of those characters that just felt stuck in to lengthen the game. The whole ending sequence probably wasn't helped by
. It might as well have been
or some other random character. I think a shorter, more focused, maybe 10-hour singleplayer game would have been fine considering the new multiplayer, and probably would have allowed more time for the devs to work on more open-world hijinks or maybe some better cutscene animation.
That's number one on my laundry list of complaints about this game, which also includes the absurd lack of mission checkpoints (which I'm sure has already been covered) and the lack of forced exploration of the city (which I saw talked about a few pages back; I would have been fine with the first couple missions on each island being essentially sightseeing -- like flying a helicopter through Star Junction, or a shootout on the bizarro Brooklyn Bridge). Overall, I had a lot of fun, and it's a very good game, it just failed to live up to even my fairly temperate hype, and easily could have and should have been so much more.
The story was okay, I guess. In my opinion (of course), it just lost focus. The beginning with Niko and Roman struggling with small-time gangsters like Vlad and Faustin was great, but after that it just became too muddled. A lot of characters and subplots felt wholly unnecessary, and a good majority of the missions felt soulless, due largely to the fact that about 85% were either chase or shootout missions with some random target and weak prop-up justification. Did every character have to have exactly four or five missions? There were a few characters, like Derrick and Dwayne, that could have either been one-off missions or just completely eliminated, and a few, like maybe Vlad or ULP, that could have been more prominent. When the game stopped being about Niko and Roman trying to survive in America and Niko finding the man he's looking for, and just became Niko doing killer-for-hire jobs for five different guys at once until plot development fell out of the sky, the story went south. The whole second act was pretty weak (Roman and Dmitri both disappeared), and when your second act is weak, your third act is going to suffer. Like Niko, when I finally killed
Darko
I also didn't appreciate how
Pegorino
me never going on a single date with Kate either
Faustin's wife
That's number one on my laundry list of complaints about this game, which also includes the absurd lack of mission checkpoints (which I'm sure has already been covered) and the lack of forced exploration of the city (which I saw talked about a few pages back; I would have been fine with the first couple missions on each island being essentially sightseeing -- like flying a helicopter through Star Junction, or a shootout on the bizarro Brooklyn Bridge). Overall, I had a lot of fun, and it's a very good game, it just failed to live up to even my fairly temperate hype, and easily could have and should have been so much more.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
If you're enjoying the San Juan Sounds station, the Xbox Live Marketplace has the FULL videos for two of the songs on that station, FREE.
-Sexy Movimiento by Wisin & Yandel
-Ponmela by Julio Voltio
-Sexy Movimiento by Wisin & Yandel
-Ponmela by Julio Voltio
StriKeVillain
Banned
They should have had merengue and salsa on San Juan Sounds, not just reggaeton. I wish they would add more songs to the stations for DLC.VanMardigan said:
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
striKeVillain! said:
Agreed.
I wish I could buy a CD of the entire Electrochoc mix, minus the DJ. I could go download all the songs, but the way they're mixed together on the station is just ridiculously awesome. It's one of the best mixes I've heard.
Having played the game, that almost seems fake. If it's real, then that's fucking awesome.
MrTroubleMaker said:
Having played the game, that almost seems fake. If it's real, then that's fucking awesome.
Anyone else on the 360 (or PS3) having a really hard time with the DVD access? This is the 5th time I'm in the middle of a hard mission, all of a sudden the disc stop spinning, the high-rez textures don't load and I get the disc cannot be read error.
Damnit is my 360's DVD dying?
Damnit is my 360's DVD dying?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Oni Jazar said:
I've never had that issue. Sounds like your optical drive may be having a problem. I'd try a long session with another game to see if it's the drive or the game.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Oni Jazar said:
I've been having this exact same problem, only been noticing it with this game so far too.
Is anyone doing the marathon? What a pain in the ass.
I've got 20 miles left to swim, 240 to walk/run, 2800 to drive, and 5400 stunts to do.
I can put a rubber band on to do the walking, but I don't know if I'll ever do the driving. For reference, I think the roads going north-south in Algonquin are straight for about a mile. I can't imagine driving up and down that nearly 3000 times.
I've got 20 miles left to swim, 240 to walk/run, 2800 to drive, and 5400 stunts to do.
I can put a rubber band on to do the walking, but I don't know if I'll ever do the driving. For reference, I think the roads going north-south in Algonquin are straight for about a mile. I can't imagine driving up and down that nearly 3000 times.