BenjaminBirdie
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Wizpig said:By the way i really love the online features, it's like a portable 360 at times, please add me if you can:
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Could you elaborate on this a bit? Sounds intriguing.
Wizpig said:By the way i really love the online features, it's like a portable 360 at times, please add me if you can:
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Extollere said:I don't understand what happened by the first time I jacked the truck I only got like a couple of shot gun rounds. Does it depend on which box you open from the back?
Stoney Mason said:Really early in but enjoying it. People really need to knock of the GTA 4 comparisons though since the platforms completely different and determine a lot of the direction of the game.
I have a hard time driving. I always had that problem in the old overhead GTA's also though because of the view.
Yeah and turn the GPS on top screen and it's like you're playing Pac-Man!Tobor said:Just stay in the middle lane and you'll cruise while just glancing off cars. The driving is pretty easy when you get the hang of that and learn to trust the auto correction.
Definitely, the Dukes and the Stallion are pure shit but everything else handles pretty well with the only caveat being that the big cars aren't particularly useful.Yeah, im like 25% in, but driving is a piece of cake now.
The kind of car is the biggest factor for me, some cars you can drive really easy, others are a pain >.<
AstroLad said:Yeah and turn the GPS on top screen and it's like you're playing Pac-Man!
Definitely, the Dukes and the Stallion are pure shit but everything else handles pretty well with the only caveat being that the big cars aren't particularly useful.
I like it. Makes me more efficient; although I can certainly see how some would consider it cheating of sorts or find it annoying because it only shows you legal routes. As to the latter, I don't follow it rigidly so I find it less troublesome in that respect.Tobor said:I don't like the GPS on the top screen personally, but it's a nice addition for anyone having trouble.
AstroLad said:I like it. Makes me more efficient
AstroLad said:Yep, to put it sappily it really recaptures the magic of GTA3. It's certainly flawed in many ways, but then again so was GTA3, but that desire to keep coming back and doing different sidequests, and to just cause chaos and see what happens reminds me so much of playing GTA3 for the first time. I liked SA a lot too, but that was because of depth rather than the aforementioned magic.
skinnyrattler said:I friggen love this game. It proves that there is a difference between 3 (mostly) and Vice City (somewhat) and the rest. I love just doing shit. It does have a special quality: I can't stop with the drug scene. I love it. And the only objective is to get more money. I'm gonna drop 60 hours into this and will probably keep at it later. I like fucking with the police and driving is better. I would really love if they took all the shit out of the streets that slow you down.
Gameplay-wise, sign posts and trees do nothing. Yes, it's realizm but only for realistic's sake. They need to go back to GTA3 and drive around again and realize driving recklessly at high speeds is an asset. With these big open cities, they need to encourage fast, reckless driving. It IS Grand THEFT Auto, not Sunday morning traffic jam in the country. I want to speed up, smack into a car, turn around, get a fast start, smack into the same car, hit the policeman, take off down the highway, across the entire city, throw a molotov during a drive by. It shouldn't be ridiculously easy but 20 minute chases with a 4 star wanted rating should be pretty doable. The cars shouldn't disappear. They should encourage the driving to get more stars and drive faster.
Take away all the light poles and such that slow you down. Fuck realism, for once. Fuck it in the ass. GTA soars with a great soundtrack, fast driving and lawlessness. Embrace this shit, GTA. I can drive in traffic tomorrow on the way to work. I cannot speed down the road, hit a cop and fuck a hooker.
I didn't go in depth but just standing on my soapbox with the driving issue. Either way, most fun I've had with a GTA since 3 and VC. Not saying it's a better game but it does hit that sweet spot that can be summarized by finding a rocket launcher in GTA3 and spending 15 minutes on top of a parking garage and shooting cars and helicopters. GTA really nailed that down in the early part but has lost it's way. Chinatown got it back to the basics and really improved on certain aspects compared to GTA4: driving, GPS (better include onscreen GPS in all GTAs from now on), property buying and drug trade for distractions. I don't want to play darts. I want to rampage and deal drugs. I want to drive real fast. This GTA hit it real nice. If you are semi-interested, I would definitely recommend.Evilink said:I've never played any GTA, so I came in here looking for a fellow GAFers honest review to get me interested...mission accomplished.
Darklord said:Holy shit, right at the end of the game(I think?) I finally realized you don't have to start missions from the beginning. God damn.
Caesar III said:Yesterday I found the graveyard with a Left4Dead like Mission of Survival. This was great :lol
this game is so awesome.
ElfoMan said:What do you mean?
:O something else I need to doCaesar III said:Yesterday I found the graveyard with a Left4Dead like Mission of Survival. This was great :lol
this game is so awesome.
Make sure you have an automatic gun full of bullets. Those girls will rape you if you dont.markot said:I havent found the hooker one yet >.<
Pretty addictive game, especially the drug running... hehe, can make crap loads on coke!
I did not know what happens first, I had no weapon at all so I had to chainsaw the first bunch of themjoetachi said:Make sure you have an automatic gun full of bullets. Those girls will rape you if you dont.
ElfoMan said:What do you mean?
AstroLad said:that's weird i beat it and my only complaints were that it was a tad short and easy. never thought it dragged at all though
FlyinJ said:How do purchased cars work in this? If you buy one and lose it, is it gone for good?
One of the few things I dislike about this game is that it retains the old-school GTA garage system. Why would I ever buy an expensive car, when I can't retain it? I could understand if it was something like "well, you destroyed it so it's gone", but half the time you bring a car to a mission and you have to leave it behind and it's lost.
crispyben said:So, did anybody figure out what these whirly blue things mean/are/trigger?
BenjaminBirdie said:I really do love the atmosphere and the diversity and the tone of this game but holy cow the controls on the cars are atrocious. Is there an ebrake button because turning is ridiculous. I just tried to do Wheelman this morning and ran out of time.
It's like the third mission!
Linkzg said:R is the handbrake like in the PS2 GTA games (pre-trigger support)
And by default the game has it so that your car is on tracks, so it basically locks onto the road, like a very light version of Tron. You can turn that off in the menu if you want it to be more free.