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What GTA4 Should Have Been - Let's Play GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Ep 9 up)

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Blip's taking fucking ages to upload so here's the link for the Youtube version for now. It's going to replace Viddler as secondary host, as I really see no benefit to Viddler at all anymore.

    [Episode 7 - The bus that couldn't slow down.]
    Blip.tv - [vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mZ8IPsNQks]YouTube[/vidurl]

    There's a related video on the side for a GTA4 LP in shitty quality with NO COMMENTARY and it still has 14,000 views. Christ. If quality actually was reflected proportionately in viewcount my videos should eventually have a hundred thousand when compared to that.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Finally, some well deserved boastfulness from Adus, aka "all my videos are so bad!"

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Decided to mess around a bit while there's a lull in videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4hp-nLBdI

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Adus wrote: »
    Decided to mess around a bit while there's a lull in videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4hp-nLBdI

    I have created the greatest thing of all time

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    i'd hate to see you out of control

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'm sorry.

    [Episode 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment]
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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You know I thought the puns started a lot earlier than they did.
    And the sad thing is that Episode 9 has arguably worse commentary....

    EDIT: And I seem to have come in a lot quieter than everyone else :(

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I should have raised the volume of the commentary track in general. I also need to figure out a new way of processing these videos. The quality may be a lot better than GTA4 but they still look very pixelated despite I think I'm uploading with pretty decent settings...

    Changing from 360 to 480 on Youtube doesn't seem to raise the quality at all.

    Blip is apparently refusing to convert this video as well. I guess I'll try uploading it again.

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  • valgomirvalgomir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Oh god, my ears D:

    You could say, with this part, you kind of opened
    a Pun-dora's box...

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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    valgomir wrote: »
    Oh god, my ears D:

    You could say, with this part, you kind of opened
    a Pun-dora's box...

    Let's Play on words.

    I can't wait to see Episode 9...

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    episode 9 is fucking fantastic

    way better than horrible puns

    Rent on
  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    My "splash damage" pun reigns supreme though.

    Rent said so himself!

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You guys seem to remember more about episode 9 than I do.

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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Adus wrote: »
    You guys seem to remember more about episode 9 than I do.

    What has been commentated can not be uncommentated.

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Spent like all night trying to improve the quality of these videos without doubling the filesize. Suffice to say it did not work. So enjoy waiting an hour for the blip version to load with no noticeable increase in quality!

    Seriously, this is driving me fucking insane. Why am I the only one who cannot make decent looking videos in a reasonable size?

    [Episode 9 - State of the Union]

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  • valgomirvalgomir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    On the topic of shotgun rape, I don't want "Crank 2: High Voltage" go unnamed. It doesn't have tits though.

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    you can actually wheelie on a chopper, but you need to be going full pelt down a slope, pull straight back, and even then you'll only end up like klyka and get about an inch up in the air

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    [Episode 10 - The most kawaii video]

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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    This is pure gold right here.

    PURE GOLD

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Yes it is a shame no one besides the people already involved with the commentary seem to be interested.

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  • valgomirvalgomir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Adus wrote: »
    Yes it is a shame no one besides the people already involved with the commentary seem to be interested.

    Yoo-hoo, forgot about me?
    Am I not kissing your ass hard enough already, is that what you are trying to tell me Adus? IS IT?! D:

    In all seriousness, Trynant couldn't be more correct about this episode.

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  • niktheniknikthenik Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Sorry caught up late for it.

    But I have to say awesome Let's Play, great commentators, fun to watch, keep up the great work.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I don't really want to get too far ahead in this LP, cause I haven't seen the first one just yet, and I'm worried about GTA4 spoilers.

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  • Torso BoyTorso Boy Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    heenato wrote: »
    I don't really want to get too far ahead in this LP, cause I haven't seen the first one just yet, and I'm worried about GTA4 spoilers.

    I really wouldn't worry. There aren't any major spoilers I can think of and both the episodes' plots are better than GTAIV's anyway. The overlap is minor, and it's mostly for the sake of novelty.

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    None of the commentary has really discussed GTA4 either. I don't really think it's even possible for Lost and Damned to spoil GTA4's story since it doesn't follow Niko at all. He just happens to be involved in a couple missions that Johnny is.

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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    To be fair, most of the commentary has really discussed The Lost and the Damned either. It's pretty off-topic.

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  • chasmchasm Ill-tempered Texan Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The shotgun in TLAD isn't Terry Crews' gun. The one in TBoGT is. With the same Frag-12 rounds.

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  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'm playing through this right now too. Pretty good. Finished GTA4 a couple days ago, loved the story until the end, but only because the plot wasn't as strong as it was in the beginning and middle.

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    [Episode 11 - Cowboy Bebop spoilers]

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Linking the direct downloads from Blip from now on in case anyone cares. You can find the ones before this in the OP.

    [Episode 12 - The dude business]
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  • TrynantTrynant Maniac Brawler Rank 20.100 and full WildRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I like the screenshot you have for this episode.

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  • valgomirvalgomir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I... I have no words. That flashback was so perfect. I actually had to go back and watch it again and again.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    What did I tell 'ya? GTA4 spoilers!

    I'm joking though. It's pretty obvious Roman would get kidnapped multiple times.

    Anyway, if Klyka was talking about the PC version of saints row 2, on steam in that conversation, then...he's got a pretty good reason for not buying it, since the PC port is the worst port I've ever seen.

    Speaking of, how IS the port for GTA4, and the episodes?

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    For me they're fine. Not flawless. I have graphical hiccups and framerate problems every now and then (even without Fraps running), but nothing game breaking (unless you count the rare instance of the world forgetting to load like in video 41 of the previous LP).

    At the same time I had no problems at all with SR2, so what works for me might be different for you.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Well with Saints row 2 it's basically RANDOM if it works or not.

    Hmm. Well, I meet the requirements for GTA4, so in theory it should work fine. Really will have to look in getting them.

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    [Episode 13 - The cops saw you enter]
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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'm feeling generous so here are the last two L&D episodes:

    [Episode 14 - DeSean of the Dead]
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    Blip.tv - Blip Direct Download - [vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxS5U5V2VIY]YouTube[/vidurl]

    [Episode 15 - Brotherhood is magic]
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    Blip.tv - Blip Direct Download - [vidurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLi8mqI93c]YouTube[/vidurl]

    Ballad of Gay Tony will be next.

    Also
    credits, if anyone cares. No commentary, though.

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  • dexterdexter Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'm looking forward to watching this. I never played any of the expansions since I wasn't sure if they'd be any good. I loved GTAIV though.

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  • heenatoheenato Alice Leywind Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'll be looking forward to The Ballad of Gay Tony, if only for the fact that there is NO POSSIBLE WAY it can be GRAYER than lost and the damned.

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  • valgomirvalgomir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Oh boy, what a ride.

    I'm SO looking forward to TBOGT and more craziness with you guys!

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