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The Official Grand Theft Auto IV thread: The World Is Yours

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VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
360 Version is apparently region locked. This is coming from a Pirate though...
 
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Spider_Jerusalem

Member
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29: “We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…” Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.

What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:

“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”

Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”

There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.

Sincerely, Jack Thompson
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Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
 
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got2bekidding

Member
Spider_Jerusalem said:
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."



Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
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I hope she files a restraining order against this loon.
 
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Dimmuxx

The Amiga Brotherhood
Spider_Jerusalem said:
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."



Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
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That can't be real can it? :lol
 
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Sandman42

Member
I really didn't think that Jack Thompson could be more of a joke than he already is. I was wrong.

He's like a real life Neogaf troll.
 
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Ten-Song

Member
Spider_Jerusalem said:
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."



Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
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Yeah, how dare Take Two sell an M rated game to me, an.... adult... whom knows the difference between pretend and real life... unlike J-T, who seems to have some sort of delusion that he's making the world a better place by doing nothing but pissing people off.
 
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Router

Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew
Cdammen said:
Why the 29th? Why not on the 28th or right now? Why not sell the game as soon as it arrives at a store?
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Not all stores get it at the same time. If stores could sell it as soon as they got their stock it would disadvantage others that have to wait for theirs to arrive.
 
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prettyvacant77

Member
Spider_Jerusalem said:
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."



Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
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Router

Hopsiah the Kanga-Jew
Spider_Jerusalem said:
OMG :lol :lol :lol

"Jack Thompson is at it again. Just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the attorney sent the following letter to the mother of Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick."



Your son is a bad boy Mrs. Zelnick, please stop him! :lol :lol :lol
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Link or it didn't happen. :lol
 
GrayFoxPL

GrayFoxPL

Member
Tieno said:
:(


I found another host
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/206801.html


Plz dunt be mad at me
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Thanks!

Skpped most of the intro, didn't want to spoil that. The car driving gameplay - fuck it was dissapointing. Not the gfx ofcourse, way to shitty quality, but how it moved. It looked like..."old stuff".

I see the retarded, fixed camera while driving is still in place. I actually want to know where I'm going when I take a turn without having to guide camera with the second stick!

Hmm...
 
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VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
Router said:
I told you guys that Australians have nothing but contempt for release dates.
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We get fucked over so many times with them, we take all we can.
 
Xdrive05

Xdrive05

Member
xbhaskarx said:
What is that at 13 seconds,
does he get shot while falling off the building?
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I took it to mean he
banged into something (maybe a windows mounted air conditioner?) on the way down.
 
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BenjaminBirdie

Banned
Xdrive05 said:
I took it to mean he
banged into something (maybe a windows mounted air conditioner?) on the way down.
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There's something all messed up about that scene. The scream at the end has no source, and no,
there's no way he hit anything on the way down
.
 
Ploid 3.0

Ploid 3.0

Member
GeoramA said:
Derek! Finally a videogame character with my name. Hope he doesn't die...
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lol that's how I am. Every tv character with my name (Tobias) either go missing (animorphs), or the series die off (arrested development). I foretold the Arrested Development future.
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
Thanks for the link to the gameplay video. I've loaded the page but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I'm going to have to keep the browser tab open because I'm sure it will be taken down soon enough. What should I skip as far as spoilers go?
 
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Fallout-NL

Member
GrayFoxPL said:
The car driving gameplay - fuck it was dissapointing. Not the gfx ofcourse, way to shitty quality, but how it moved. It looked like..."old stuff".

I see the retarded, fixed camera while driving is still in place. I actually want to know where I'm going when I take a turn without having to guide camera with the second stick!

Hmm...
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Yes, adjustments of expectation are definitely in order. Don't know how I let myself be fooled by those early glowing reviews time and again.
 
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BenjaminBirdie

Banned
Fallout-NL said:
Yes, adjustments of expectation are definitely in order. Don't know how I let myself be fooled by those early glowing reviews time and again.
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Yikes. If anything, the atmosphere and clear production values vindicate those reviews a thousand times over.
 
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BobTheFork

Member
Fallout-NL said:
Yes, adjustments of expectation are definitely in order. Don't know how I let myself be fooled by those early glowing reviews time and again.
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You saw a guy drive poorly and crash I wouln't give up hope just yet. BTW, did you expect it to drive differently than every other GTA game, I never got that impression from reviews so far. Just that now all the cars drive differently from each other.
 
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got2bekidding

Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
There's something all messed up about that scene. The scream at the end has no source, and no,
there's no way he hit anything on the way down
.
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The way I see it is that he hits that pipe sticking out
I agree about the scream though.
 
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Eric WK

Member
BenjaminBirdie said:
Yikes. If anything, the atmosphere and clear production values vindicate those reviews a thousand times over.
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Absolutely. Liberty City is the star of GTA IV, not the driving.
 
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xbhaskarx

Member
Xdrive05 said:
I took it to mean he
banged into something (maybe a windows mounted air conditioner?) on the way down.
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Pause it at 13 seconds, no part of Ivan's body is near any part of the building, and Nico is not shooting down at him. Yet he makes an "oof" sound and blood splatters away from his body as if he gets shot. The fact that he stops screaming "aaah!" right before the "oof"/blood would also seem to indicate that he's just been shot. Also, his body reacts as if he got shot and goes limp at that point.
Yet like half a second after hitting the ground, he lets out another "aargh!" scream. Is he still alive? Even if he was, that seems unrealistic. I hate to be negative, but none of it makes any sense to me, the whole video is pretty bizarre.


The pipe: is that not the pipe he was hanging from? It's tough to tell on a youtube video...
 
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got2bekidding

Member
xbhaskarx said:
Pause it at 13 seconds, no part of Ivan's body is near any part of the building, and Nico is not shooting down at him. Yet he makes an "oof" sound and blood splatters away from his body as if he gets shot. The fact that he stops screaming "aaah!" right before the "oof"/blood would also seem to indicate that he's just been shot. Also, his body reacts as if he got shot and goes limp at that point.
Yet like half a second after hitting the ground, he lets out another "aargh!" scream. Is he still alive? Even if he was, that seems unrealistic. I hate to be negative, but none of it makes any sense to me, the whole video is pretty bizarre.


The pipe: is that not the pipe he was hanging from? It's tough to tell on a youtube video...
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Different one. Keep your eye on it as he falls. You will see him hit it which makes his body physics change during the fall.
I'm definitely finished watching videos though. I've seen what I wanted to and the game is looking great.
 
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