"The store also practiced extreme nepotism as the big manager of the store was the owners girlfriend who would sit in the back room 90% of the day looking at shoes and handbags online her entire shift. She'd occasionally come out to the front, but if any significant number of customers would come in she'd race back to the safety of the back room to look at shoes some more."
Wow, thats like every place I worked as a chef and retail. Girls just being there for aesthetics.
Holy Hell, GTA launch party in 8 hours.
What, a launch party that lasts a whole day? Where?
Anyone start planning potential Free For All games?
Rockstar created the "King Kong" one, and there was a discussion about a Die Hard with a Vengeance one (where one team would plant bombs around the city, and give the others riddles to find them).
[snip]
Anyone come up with others?
Just off the top of my head with what little I know of multiplayer:
Capture the Swag: One player, as referee, grabs a semi truck or other tough vehicle and tells everyone else to split into two teams and move to two given locations. The truck is then left somewhere roughly equidistant from the teams', wherein the ref declares its location and the place it must be driven intact (be careful when shooting near the truck; you might want to stick with precise headshots).
The winning team is the one that has a team member behind the wheel when it reaches its destination.
Mafia: One referee gives theo ther fifteen players a mission or a set of goals they must complete as a group. Nothing too complex or difficult, but it will keep the group split up around the city. However, three of those players are given a text message stating they are traitors and must discretely eliminate the others. The non-traitors are not allowed to randomly attack each other to root out traitors; they must vote on whom to kill, execution style (perhaps once every so many minutes), and the referee will note what side they were on.
Or maybe not. Maybe we'll just come up with other stuff on the fly and test it out ad-hoc.
Are NPCs and everything still in online mode? If so, free mode for me is basically going to be elaborate heists and getaways to a secret lair somewhere. Some people stand guard, one guy has a getaway car, everyone else goes into a bank or something or other.
I am becoming very paranoid that I didn't preorder though I know there will be numerous copies come Tuesday.
BUT I AM SO PARANOID.
Strangely, preordering didn't help me much with that. Maybe it's just 'cause I imagine the worst in everyone, but all last week I had this horrible idea that some rat bastard at the Blockbuster I preordered from would like, steal my account info and take the game before I showed up on Tuesday.
Freakish. It's not going to happen - it is just paranoia - but the point is preordering didn't help at all. In fact it mighta' been a little worse, 'cause my worry wasn't just that I wouldn't have the game, but I'd be out $68.00 as well. (Everything will be fine, everything is okay, they aren't really out to get me...)
I have also been thinking of all the shit that could go wrong: There is a huge computer glitch at GS and I lose my game(and the $$), they short order and I am late, my 360 redrings, I steal my wifes 360 and it redrings, power failure at 12:01 AM, someone steals all my TVs, in my mad effort to get the box open I fling my disc into the waiting paper shredder, dog eats it. It goes on. Only 26 hours 59 minutse to go.
My worst nightmare already happened with the fuckups at EBstop putting me down for the WRONG version of the game and telling me it's too late to fix their mistake. So I just have to pray that they can fix it up when I come for the midnight launch.
Anyone start planning potential Free For All games?
Rockstar created the "King Kong" one, and there was a discussion about a Die Hard with a Vengeance one (where one team would plant bombs around the city, and give the others riddles to find them).
[snip]
Anyone come up with others?
Just off the top of my head with what little I know of multiplayer:
Capture the Swag: One player, as referee, grabs a semi truck or other tough vehicle and tells everyone else to split into two teams and move to two given locations. The truck is then left somewhere roughly equidistant from the teams', wherein the ref declares its location and the place it must be driven intact (be careful when shooting near the truck; you might want to stick with precise headshots).
The winning team is the one that has a team member behind the wheel when it reaches its destination.
Mafia: One referee gives theo ther fifteen players a mission or a set of goals they must complete as a group. Nothing too complex or difficult, but it will keep the group split up around the city. However, three of those players are given a text message stating they are traitors and must discretely eliminate the others. The non-traitors are not allowed to randomly attack each other to root out traitors; they must vote on whom to kill, execution style (perhaps once every so many minutes), and the referee will note what side they were on.
Or maybe not. Maybe we'll just come up with other stuff on the fly and test it out ad-hoc.
I'm still not sure if we can be drunk in multiplayer or not, but I'm pretty sure we can, so check this: No weapons race that starts by a bar. Get drunk in the game. Meanwhile, we get drunk irl. Now race.
OR, turn off cops and pedestrians and you've got I Am Legend! Some are zombies/vampires and some are humans. Bad guys have to stay under bridges or something, inside buildings, during the day as the humans search for weapons and whatever.
To make it balanced, their base is way out of the weapon-spawn area. So they've got to be quick to go pick up ammo to prep for the... 14 zombies that come after you with... guns.
Epic sniper battles throughout a city, obviously.
Something like King Kong. A bunch of helicopters try to tackle a guy on the Empire State building who has a rocket launcher.
Pfft.. Just some random ideas from movies and whatever, nothing amazing.
I wish there was some way to basically make all peds want to attack the players. Free mode, with full pedestrians, all chasing the players down. Would be exactly like I Am Legend. Only not as depressing.
I've had my 360 for about 8 months now. No real problems to report. In all that time I've never really given a shit about the possibility that a RRD might lay waste to my unit. Never even gave it a thought. Of course, I do mostly PC gaming, and there haven't been that many titles I get excited about for the 360; until I started reading up on GTA 4.
I'm now convinced I'm going to get a RRD the minute I pop this game into the unit. I have no damn idea where this paranoia came from, but the fear has infected my soul will not leave.
My 360 got RROD'd about two months ago and although it interrupted a very enjoyable Mass Effect playthrough the 360 came back in less then 4 days working fine and as good as new. In retrospect if it lessens the chance of a rrod interupting GTA 4 then it all works out
Now I'm just paranoid that I won't be able to get a copy tomorrow because I didn't preorder, even though my route to uni takes me past literally 15+ places where I'll be able to pick up a copy.
Maybe a stupid question, but since I've got $65 in credit at any Hastings store...anyone know if your local Hastings are doing midnight launches for GTA?
Maybe a stupid question, but since I've got $65 in credit at any Hastings store...anyone know if your local Hastings are doing midnight launches for GTA?
Just because theirs may or may not doesn't mean it'll be the same for yours. You should just call them up in the morning and ask.
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I have a friend that works in a game store and he had opened up a copy early for the X-box 360 and PS3. I fooled around with the 360 version a bit and found myself crashing into invisible objects. There is a huge pop up problem with the 360 version but I figure its because the X-box we were using is faulty. The PS3 Version had no real pop up issues at all. Its a very pretty game though at any rate, but If I had a choice between the 360 and ps3 versions I would pick the ps3 to be on the safe side.
I didn't preorder the game and just saw a commercial on TV today that if you buy it from circuit city you get a $10 gift card with it...so heres to hoping CC has it on tuesday after work.
I have a friend that works in a game store and he had opened up a copy early for the X-box 360 and PS3. I fooled around with the 360 version a bit and found myself crashing into invisible objects. There is a huge pop up problem with the 360 version but I figure its because the X-box we were using is faulty. The PS3 Version had no real pop up issues at all. Its a very pretty game though at any rate, but If I had a choice between the 360 and ps3 versions I would pick the ps3 to be on the safe side.
Why would I take your word on this? You're the fucking Devil.
I have a friend that works in a game store and he had opened up a copy early for the X-box 360 and PS3. I fooled around with the 360 version a bit and found myself crashing into invisible objects. There is a huge pop up problem with the 360 version but I figure its because the X-box we were using is faulty. The PS3 Version had no real pop up issues at all. Its a very pretty game though at any rate, but If I had a choice between the 360 and ps3 versions I would pick the ps3 to be on the safe side.
Sounds like a faulty copy/faulty 360 to me, or some kind of glitch. I haven't had anything like that. Maybe like a lamppost popping in 2 miles down the road, but never crashing into invisible objects or anything like that.
I didn't preorder the game and just saw a commercial on TV today that if you buy it from circuit city you get a $10 gift card with it...so heres to hoping CC has it on tuesday after work.
I didn't preorder the game and just saw a commercial on TV today that if you buy it from circuit city you get a $10 gift card with it...so heres to hoping CC has it on tuesday after work.
I saw that too.
I may try swinging my there, getting the GC, then picking up another cheap game or something.
One thing that I love about this game more than anything else is the physics engine. Watching your character do pained cartwheels over the pavement after a cop car plows into you is really satisfying.
"The store also practiced extreme nepotism as the big manager of the store was the owners girlfriend who would sit in the back room 90% of the day looking at shoes and handbags online her entire shift. She'd occasionally come out to the front, but if any significant number of customers would come in she'd race back to the safety of the back room to look at shoes some more."
Wow, thats like every place I worked as a chef and retail. Girls just being there for aesthetics.
Holy Hell, GTA launch party in 8 hours.
The girl that works(or worked) at the EB in Cary Towne Center(Cary NC) knew her stuff, was nice, good looking, and able to handle game geeks drooling over a pretty girl that worked in a game store.
I really don't feel like calling a bunch of stores to find out, maybe you guys know.
Think it will be easy to find the PS3 version on launch day w/out a preorder?
I know the answer on the 360, that's a done deal. After reading the IGN review, and considering the fact that I have both systems and no preorder, I'm thinking the PS3 might be the way to go.
I hear all the comparisons for GTAIV on Ps3 and 360 and I think to myself
"Hm, none of that matters. GTAIV has exclusive DLC, end of story."
Then suddenly the decision becomes really clear.
Also, I thought there weren't supposed to be console wars.
Personally, I would rather have shorter load times and less pop-in than some extra missions I would have never played anyways. But to each his own.
I might agree, if not for the fact that everywhere that has actually seen and played the game says the graphical and load time differences are negligible. Extra exclusive DLC is not what I'd consider negligible. Honestly people, if you think it's just going to be a few missions, you're crazy.
how can you possibly know that. it could be as simple as the mass effect content, or a full blown $50 expansion, but no one knows... maybe not even rockstar games.
then if EA buys them, it further muddies things.
give the money back to microsoft, ship content to both systems.... and there you go.
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edited April 2008
I thought I read somewhere a Rockestar developer said they decided not to use planes because, just like Vice city, it's just too small of a map and with the realistic speed of a plane you just zoom over everything too fast for it to be even useful.
I can see that. In San Andreas a city took what, 10-20 seconds tops to fly over with a jet? It was the big open spaces that the planes were good at traversing.
Since they obviously decided to put heaps of work into the city (which I'm glad for, as I felt San Andreas cities level of detail suffered for the inclusion of the outside areas, and they felt shallower as cities) and not have big outdoor areas.
Sure they could have put in a prop plane I guess but even they kind of skirted the line speed wise. It didn't take that long to travel around a city in one.
Honestly, planes were not of practical use within the cities themselves. You could fly through the skyscrapers and stuff but in the end you ran out of city. They'd have to put heaps of countryside in the game to accomdate a plan (or boring stretches of open water) and I'm glad they decided to forgo that route for more detail within the city itself. You definitely couldn't fly down the city streets with one, except possibly the stunt plane?
And I loved the planes.
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If EA buys R*, and R* hasn't already made the DLC...well, some of you may be fucked. Hopefully it won't be as bad as buying cheat codes, but it probably won't be anything spectacular or inexpensive, if EA has any say. I'm not even in it for the DLC and the idea of EA getting their hands on the multiplayer scares me a bit. Sure, you could use the default weaponry, but for just $5.99 you can have a portable nuclear device, or maybe an APC for you and your homies to roll in.
I thought I read somewhere a Rockestar developer said they decided not to use planes because, just like Vice city, it's just too small of a map and with the realistic speed of a plane you just zoom over everything too fast for it to be even useful.
I can see that. In San Andreas a city took what, 10-20 seconds tops to fly over with a jet? It was the big open spaces that the planes were good at traversing.
Since they obviously decided to put heaps of work into the city (which I'm glad for, as I felt San Andreas cities level of detail suffered for the inclusion of the outside areas, and they felt shallower as cities) and not have big outdoor areas.
Sure they could have put in a prop plane I guess but even they kind of skirted the line speed wise. It didn't take that long to travel around a city in one.
Honestly, planes were not of practical use within the cities themselves. You could fly through the skyscrapers and stuff but in the end you ran out of city. They'd have to put heaps of countryside in the game to accomdate a plan (or boring stretches of open water) and I'm glad they decided to forgo that route for more detail within the city itself. You definitely couldn't fly down the city streets with one, except possibly the stunt plane?
And I loved the planes.
I think an ultralight would be pretty practical/realistic.
Or a Piper Cub, which can get it's wheels off the ground at about 50 knotts.
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edited April 2008
I prefer helicopters to planes. Did all the way through San Andreas (what can I say, I like to fly things that I can land where I'll need them).
Which brings up an interesting question about GTA4: If you leave a vehicle somewhere that isn't a garage, will it still be there five minutes later? Too many times through the other GTAs, I'd park a car/bike/helicopter/Harrier, go inside an Ammunation and when I came back out it was gone. I really hope they fixed that particular annoyance...
...Holy shit, I just realized.
ONE DAY. 24 hours. I'm going to go to work and when I come home, GTA4 will be in my hands.
Haha man, IGN AU always marks lower than vanilla IGN and UK. Way to screw up metacritic! :P
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edited April 2008
No. Not for one plane.
Vice city had several different helicopters with different handling.
It IS too much work even to include a light plane with a new engine if you aren't going to include lots of planes. You have to code for the aerodynamics with a physics engine like that. They might have multimillion dollar budgets, but this means nothing. Just because there's a lot of money there doesn't mean it's valueless, or infinite. They decided it wasn't worth it, and put that money to neater ground based stuff.
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What, a launch party that lasts a whole day? Where?
Lets just say this game makes any previous GTA stripper / prostitute shenanigans look like a game of [insert preferred child friendly game]
Just think of the poor developer(s) who had to do so much painstaking research for this portion of the game.
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I hope they add planes as DLC because there's something enjoyable about dodging missiles in a Cessna.
Just off the top of my head with what little I know of multiplayer:
Capture the Swag: One player, as referee, grabs a semi truck or other tough vehicle and tells everyone else to split into two teams and move to two given locations. The truck is then left somewhere roughly equidistant from the teams', wherein the ref declares its location and the place it must be driven intact (be careful when shooting near the truck; you might want to stick with precise headshots).
The winning team is the one that has a team member behind the wheel when it reaches its destination.
Mafia: One referee gives theo ther fifteen players a mission or a set of goals they must complete as a group. Nothing too complex or difficult, but it will keep the group split up around the city. However, three of those players are given a text message stating they are traitors and must discretely eliminate the others. The non-traitors are not allowed to randomly attack each other to root out traitors; they must vote on whom to kill, execution style (perhaps once every so many minutes), and the referee will note what side they were on.
Or maybe not. Maybe we'll just come up with other stuff on the fly and test it out ad-hoc.
OR, turn off cops and pedestrians and you've got I Am Legend! Some are zombies/vampires and some are humans. Bad guys have to stay under bridges or something, inside buildings, during the day as the humans search for weapons and whatever.
To make it balanced, their base is way out of the weapon-spawn area. So they've got to be quick to go pick up ammo to prep for the... 14 zombies that come after you with... guns.
Epic sniper battles throughout a city, obviously.
Something like King Kong. A bunch of helicopters try to tackle a guy on the Empire State building who has a rocket launcher.
Pfft.. Just some random ideas from movies and whatever, nothing amazing.
Now I'm just paranoid that I won't be able to get a copy tomorrow because I didn't preorder, even though my route to uni takes me past literally 15+ places where I'll be able to pick up a copy.
I have a 9 hour shift.
Then it's home, maybe have dinner. Then it's bed time for my tired ass.
Then it's .... hm... what was it again?
Oh yeah, GTA4!
One more sleep!
Meanwhile, I couldn't have cared less about this game until today and now my loins are quivering. Huh!
Just because theirs may or may not doesn't mean it'll be the same for yours. You should just call them up in the morning and ask.
Probably wouldn't be as bad if the review wasn't just stuff I already know about.
Now I'm so damned tempted.
Why would I take your word on this? You're the fucking Devil.
Sounds like a faulty copy/faulty 360 to me, or some kind of glitch. I haven't had anything like that. Maybe like a lamppost popping in 2 miles down the road, but never crashing into invisible objects or anything like that.
I saw that too.
I may try swinging my there, getting the GC, then picking up another cheap game or something.
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i ask because it'd be really lame if i couldn't have some sort of sneaky battle thing and just had straight up gunfights
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The girl that works(or worked) at the EB in Cary Towne Center(Cary NC) knew her stuff, was nice, good looking, and able to handle game geeks drooling over a pretty girl that worked in a game store.
Once you crouch it disappears.
Think it will be easy to find the PS3 version on launch day w/out a preorder?
I know the answer on the 360, that's a done deal. After reading the IGN review, and considering the fact that I have both systems and no preorder, I'm thinking the PS3 might be the way to go.
It's also a server option.
Well, the name does, but a dot remains. Going into cover removes both.
As the poster above said, it is also a server option
how can you possibly know that. it could be as simple as the mass effect content, or a full blown $50 expansion, but no one knows... maybe not even rockstar games.
then if EA buys them, it further muddies things.
give the money back to microsoft, ship content to both systems.... and there you go.
http://www.youtube.com/vegassteven
I can see that. In San Andreas a city took what, 10-20 seconds tops to fly over with a jet? It was the big open spaces that the planes were good at traversing.
Since they obviously decided to put heaps of work into the city (which I'm glad for, as I felt San Andreas cities level of detail suffered for the inclusion of the outside areas, and they felt shallower as cities) and not have big outdoor areas.
Sure they could have put in a prop plane I guess but even they kind of skirted the line speed wise. It didn't take that long to travel around a city in one.
Honestly, planes were not of practical use within the cities themselves. You could fly through the skyscrapers and stuff but in the end you ran out of city. They'd have to put heaps of countryside in the game to accomdate a plan (or boring stretches of open water) and I'm glad they decided to forgo that route for more detail within the city itself. You definitely couldn't fly down the city streets with one, except possibly the stunt plane?
And I loved the planes.
Of course, this is all speculation.
I think an ultralight would be pretty practical/realistic.
Or a Piper Cub, which can get it's wheels off the ground at about 50 knotts.
Which brings up an interesting question about GTA4: If you leave a vehicle somewhere that isn't a garage, will it still be there five minutes later? Too many times through the other GTAs, I'd park a car/bike/helicopter/Harrier, go inside an Ammunation and when I came back out it was gone. I really hope they fixed that particular annoyance...
...Holy shit, I just realized.
ONE DAY. 24 hours. I'm going to go to work and when I come home, GTA4 will be in my hands.
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Haha man, IGN AU always marks lower than vanilla IGN and UK. Way to screw up metacritic! :P
Vice city had several different helicopters with different handling.
It IS too much work even to include a light plane with a new engine if you aren't going to include lots of planes. You have to code for the aerodynamics with a physics engine like that. They might have multimillion dollar budgets, but this means nothing. Just because there's a lot of money there doesn't mean it's valueless, or infinite. They decided it wasn't worth it, and put that money to neater ground based stuff.
http://www.gamerevolution.com/static/index.php?section=feature&sub=violence&page=violence
i am shocked. if this is still the trend than this game could usher in a new era of peace. o_O
Heh, I used that exact article for a research paper last semester in English, which I consequently received an A on.
i salute you, sir, fuck media whores and their bullshit.