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GTA IV Thread - IT'S OUT! **spoilers = tempban**

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  • McClyMcCly Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I just realized my 1-Month Live Trial is running out while I wait on my new 360.D:

    damn you, Microsoft!

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  • JoJoHoraHoraJoJoHoraHora ItalyRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Wait, so accessories aren't stuck on your body and can fall off? Can you put them back too?

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I think once you've bought them they're always accessible from the stand in your safehouse.

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  • Future BluesFuture Blues Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah, ok. That sounds good.

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  • SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    McCly wrote: »
    I just realized my 1-Month Live Trial is running out while I wait on my new 360.D:

    damn you, Microsoft!

    1. They give you another month free when you got your box back from the repair center.
    2. GTAIV has another month in it free.
    Enjoy!

    Could this game get better?

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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Okay, so who was I playing with last night? I need to match up tags to PA accounts. By the way, that was freaking awesome.

    In case anyone was wondering, the multiplayer is FRICKING INCREDIBLE

    I second this

    You've played multiplayer already? Without me??? How dare you!


    .....


    How was it? What games did you play?

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  • BlowfluBlowflu FloridaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    This game is pretty awesome, but there's something that's REALLY getting on my nerves. Every 20-30 minutes (sometimes less or more) the game freezes for 5 seconds and continues playing. Audio continues to play, but the screen freezes. Is this a problem with just my game?

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Chance wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    Well my copy came this morning, as did I. But this was about 10 minutes before I had to go to work, so I decided I'd hold off on opening it until I get home, in about 5 hours.
    That is too long :(

    You open it up and read the manual a thousand times. I've posted like 15x in the last twenty minutes... time for a GTA break.

    <--- blasphemer.

    Can't. I left the parcel on my bed at home, then left for work where I now sit, reading this thread. Already gone over the mini-drama of the other Brits waiting for their post (I just slept) and was relieved when they all got theirs. Now I'm just sitting, reading threads, doing some work, and pining.
    :x

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I'd say it is a problem with yours only...something like that would probably have gotten reported a long ago.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So I start to beat someone down with my fists on the sidewalk. All of the sudden traffic stops and 5 guys get out of their cars and come running after me. There is no way I can kill them (no weapons) so I run to a police officer and let each guy hit me once. All of the sudden two other cop cars show up and theres now 6 officers with drawn weapons yelling at the 6 attackers to get on the ground.

    Out of no where the pedestrians pullout 2 shotguns, 2 pistols, a bat, and a fucking RPG. After a small but intense battle everyone is dead and all of the sudden I have a stash of weapons I could only dream about earlier.

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  • NegrodamusNegrodamus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Smashism wrote: »
    *snip* Could this game get better?

    Zombie mode would take it from best game ever, to best anything ever.


    edit: Veevee, your story is similar to how I acquired my first handgun and bat. It was awesome to see the police go after the dudes who randomly attacked me.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I have a couple of questions:

    What's the difference between the RB and A button handbrakes?

    And how do you do the little dash from cover to cover thing?

    Also, shooting people in the legs is fun :) They keep trying to get up but they can't.

    Good stuff.

    Edit: woo I finally got my iMac to be able to share music with my 360. Niko, prepare to meet a wonderful little band known as Gogol Bordello.

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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So, what are the indoor locations like? Can you walk into places like hospitals and police stations? If you get busted/killed, do you appear inside them, or out on the street in front as in previous games? Also, again asking, hows Juliette Lewis on Radio Broker and are the songs Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani and Teddy Picker by Arctic Monkeys in the game... I've been told they are by this very forum, but I can't see them in the song lists in the manual!

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  • Dirty DrawersDirty Drawers Lord of the undie world Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Blowflu wrote: »
    This game is pretty awesome, but there's something that's REALLY getting on my nerves. Every 20-30 minutes (sometimes less or more) the game freezes for 5 seconds and continues playing. Audio continues to play, but the screen freezes. Is this a problem with just my game?

    I haven't had any problems. I was fooling around with it for a while and didn't run into any sort of technical anomalies. You may want to delete some old saved games that you may no longer use to see if it frees up some memory, or disk space.

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  • belaraphonbelaraphon michiganRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I have a couple of questions:



    And how do you do the little dash from cover to cover thing?



    Good stuff.

    if you quick tap RB around a door or two close objects niko will do a quick roll from one side to the other.

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    If anyone needs them I have a few 3-month live cards I'll sell for like $15 a piece.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    As expected, this game rules.


    Got home with it shortly after midnight and managed to follow the storyline for over an hour before roommates and friends showed up and controller-passing mayhem sessions broke out until 5 AM.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    belaraphon wrote:
    if you quick tap RB around a door or two close objects niko will do a quick roll from one side to the other.

    Awesome, thanks.

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  • NegrodamusNegrodamus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The cars have much more realistic weight and physics.
    You can't blast down a street at top speed, then brake at the last second for a turn. It'll take some getting used to, but I like how they've done it.

    Oh, and I'm fairly sure the RB/A handbrakes are the same, just double-mapped on the controller.

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  • BlowfluBlowflu FloridaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Blowflu wrote: »
    This game is pretty awesome, but there's something that's REALLY getting on my nerves. Every 20-30 minutes (sometimes less or more) the game freezes for 5 seconds and continues playing. Audio continues to play, but the screen freezes. Is this a problem with just my game?

    I haven't had any problems. I was fooling around with it for a while and didn't run into any sort of technical anomalies. You may want to delete some old saved games that you may no longer use to see if it frees up some memory, or disk space.


    I'll have to try that. I wonder if I can just exchange the game for a new one, but I did get the special edition...

    EDIT: I also have 12ish GB of free space. I'm pretty sure it's the disk.

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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Out of interest aswell, as I've heard it causes problems for Oblivion, have you cleared the HDD cache? I've never done this myself, and have no idea how... so if someone wouldn't mind telling me how, I might do that before I pop GTA4 in... if it may cause problems.

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Holy shit Amazon said that GTAIV would be shipped today and arrive tomorrow

    It shipped yesterday and will arive today

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I already got the game 7 hours ago but still:

    GTA 4 SPECIAL EDITION 360 VERSION GET!!!

    Put Klyka on the 360 list,please :)

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    What's the difference between the RB and A button handbrakes?

    Nothing. It's just easier to hit RB to handbrake when you're using your right thumb to aim while shooting out of the window.

    I have yet to perfect the handbrake-turn-to-facing-enemy-to-headshot-to-peel-out manoeuvre, though.

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  • DebaserZbsDebaserZbs Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I'm going to pick up my copy of GTA IV later today before work, but chances are I won't get a chance to really sit down and play it until next week. I'll try to sneak in a few hours here and there, but until my schedule balances out with work and school I'm going to playing super early in the morning. :|

    Oh, and please add my name to the XBLA tag list: DebaserZbs.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    getting flattened by traffic has caused some really funny random deaths. dudes dont just stop now when you wander out into the road. especially on the expressway.

    also, the cops really dont like it if you
    go through the tunnels under the bridges to get to other islands when youre not supposed to be there yet according to the story. thats a fun trip when youre looking for some instant 6 star mayhem through downtown.

    i need to add some PA guys for multiplayer madness, because even just playing with random schmucks its fun as hell. i can only imagine how great its going to be with actual people.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Okay one last question then I'm good:

    How do you stun punch? I think I missed that part of the tutorial.

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  • revolutionary beanrevolutionary bean Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ok this is driving me fucking crazy.

    I just bought a second copy of the game off jb hi fi because I JUST CANNOT WAIT FOR A WEEK FOR THE GAME TO SHIP FROM HONG KONG. I figured once i get my uncensored copy i will just sell this one or return it for store credit or whatever.

    One major fucking problem is that I keep on thinking that I'm missing a lot of stuffs that are censored on the Aussie version. It's like i feel that most of the scenes are uncomplete even though probably none of them have actually been censored. It's censor paranoia ffs.

    I NEED to know what the fuck has been censored.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    stun punch: hit them in the face with a baseball bat or rocket. those bastards will be stunned all over the place.


    i just did that mission too but i was too busy beating people to death with blunt objects to be able to tell you how to do it heh.

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  • belaraphonbelaraphon michiganRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Okay one last question then I'm good:

    How do you stun punch? I think I missed that part of the tutorial.


    i believe its just hitting "b" on an enemy that isnt quite aware of you yet. you have to be unarmed too.

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  • pheknophekno Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So, last night I decided to go pick up the game at GameStop, where I thought I had preordered it. I went to the front of the line and told them that I didn't have a stamped receipt yet. They asked for my phone number, and explained that I wasn't in their system as having preorderd it. This was at about 12:02am, so they had just begun handing out the game to the people who had preordered it, payed for it and had a stamped receipt. I asked if there was any way to get the game despite having not preordered it and they just handed one over. I didn't have to stand in line or anything!

    Anyway, the game is pretty awesome.

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  • UselesswarriorUselesswarrior Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Edit: woo I finally got my iMac to be able to share music with my 360. Niko, prepare to meet a wonderful little band known as Gogol Bordello.

    So Gogol Bordello didn't make the official soundtrack? That is disappointing, it was the first thing I thought about when I heard about the protagonist.

    Can you do custom soundtracks on the ps3 version?

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    oddment wrote: »
    Okay, so who was I playing with last night? I need to match up tags to PA accounts. By the way, that was freaking awesome.

    In case anyone was wondering, the multiplayer is FRICKING INCREDIBLE

    I second this

    You've played multiplayer already? Without me??? How dare you!


    .....


    How was it? What games did you play?

    Seriously, it was nuts. We played Free Mode, Mafiya, and Team Deathmatch. Surprisingly, my favorite so far is Team Deathmatch. Being on a team and working together is really fun, not to mention calling up the other guys and taunting them. It's absolutely insane.

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  • milehighmilehigh Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So I'm at work (posting from phone) are odds pretty good if I try and pick this up @ lunch. I'll be able to find it? I live in a pretty good sized area with a ton of stores, are shortages anticipated?

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Willeth wrote: »
    What's the difference between the RB and A button handbrakes?

    Nothing. It's just easier to hit RB to handbrake when you're using your right thumb to aim while shooting out of the window.

    I have yet to perfect the handbrake-turn-to-facing-enemy-to-headshot-to-peel-out manoeuvre, though.

    I've perfected the handbrake 180, just don't have my aiming down yet. I did manage to handbrake 180, get a shot off through the windshield of a car and still have enough speed to do another 180 and continue in the original direction. Didn't kill anyone, but it looked cool.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ok this is driving me fucking crazy.

    I just bought a second copy of the game off jb hi fi because I JUST CANNOT WAIT FOR A WEEK FOR THE GAME TO SHIP FROM HONG KONG. I figured once i get my uncensored copy i will just sell this one or return it for store credit or whatever.

    One major fucking problem is that I keep on thinking that I'm missing a lot of stuffs that are censored on the Aussie version. It's like i feel that most of the scenes are uncomplete even though probably none of them have actually been censored. It's censor paranoia ffs.

    I NEED to know what the fuck has been censored.

    From what I understand, only a single scene was censored, and you're not missing much.
    Basically a guy gets a gun shoved up his ass.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    just go to a best buy or walmart or whatever, they pretty much always have huge stacks of whatever big new game

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Anyone know how fast Amazon usually is when ordering somewhere else then U.S, and how expensive (shipping costs)? I was thinking of maybe getting it from there...

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    Chance wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    Well my copy came this morning, as did I. But this was about 10 minutes before I had to go to work, so I decided I'd hold off on opening it until I get home, in about 5 hours.
    That is too long :(

    You open it up and read the manual a thousand times. I've posted like 15x in the last twenty minutes... time for a GTA break.

    <--- blasphemer.

    Can't. I left the parcel on my bed at home, then left for work where I now sit, reading this thread. Already gone over the mini-drama of the other Brits waiting for their post (I just slept) and was relieved when they all got theirs. Now I'm just sitting, reading threads, doing some work, and pining.
    :x

    And there are so many of us. I need to get a wireless adapter hard. Trying to play BF2 with PAers mde me come to the conclusion that online multiplayer wasn't for me because I was stuck playing with random French people I didn't know rather than the PA crew who were all american in BF2. It will be nice to shoot people and then mock them in the forums afterwards (or be shot by people and not log in the day after so I don't get mocked).

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  • killamajigkillamajig Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dear Michelle,
    Stop being so obvious.

    Signed,
    I know you're a cop

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