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

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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.

    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.

    That's it? I bought two copies of this game just so i can watch a guy gets a gun shoved up his ass?


    It better be worth it.


    P.S: Link to the source?

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    killamajig wrote: »
    These are Michelle spoilers, btw:
    Dear Michelle,
    Stop being so obvious.

    Signed,
    I know you're a cop
    I pissed her off by taking her to Perestroika and she sent me a text a couple of days later with 'I'm not going to see you for a while, Niko. I have another assignment.'

    That wasn't obvious at all.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Michelle has enjoyed everything I've done with her so far. 8-ball, bowling, drinking, cabaret... I got some action after each one. Go Niko!

    I think I'll take her to the gentlemen's club next. See what she thinks of that.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So now that I finally am playing the game does it make me a bad person for not being overly impressed, no scratch that actually fairly disappointed with the graphics? I mean I'm enjoying the gameplay (the rough hour I've played so far) and the little details are nice, but as a whole the graphics are very blurry, fuzzy/grainy and washed out even right in front of you which I know was done on purpose but.. bleh. I guess I just got too hyped. :(

    I am far, far more impressed with the animations, the Ai interactions, the complexity of the buildings and architecture and the way its all come together to create the city itself. However then I stop think and realise that all those pedestrians and animations and polygons are simultaneously existing with almost top of the line graphics and I'm just blown away. It's not the best of the best but that's because they left some room to process other stuff. And I'm glad they did.
    Of course I fully agree on every other aspect of the game except for the overall graphics presentation.

    You can't have both. There isn't enough flour to bake that big of a cake. There never will be. So choose which one you prefer because it will always be that way while processing power is finite. Once you have chosen, let the other one go. There's nothing you can do for him.
    We'll see what Saints Row 2 and Prototype have to offer.

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  • TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Went to a midnight launch at a futureshop near my place. Showed up at about 11:45, got home with a copy by about 12:30. Great game. What really sucks though is that my friend was with me, got home, popped the disc in, and his xbox RRoD'd him. He was pretty pissed.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered 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.

    That's actually a special move in The Wheelman.

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  • the Togfatherthe Togfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ok, headed to best buy to get mines copy. Sounds like some truly fucking awesome things happen in this game...I cannot freakin wait.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Mr Pink wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    So you guys are saying this game is ok?

    Eh, it's alright.

    Edit: Well, that was the worst top ever.
    Hah, as if Mr Pink tops. =P

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I love this protagonist.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    killamajig wrote: »
    Dear Michelle,
    Stop being so obvious.

    Signed,
    I know you're a cop

    That spoiler could use some clarification, fella.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I love this protagonist.

    Hell yes. I care about a hundred times more about Niko than I ever did about CJ or Vercetti.

    edit: We're all about about up in here.

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  • SmashismSmashism Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Got some class in 30. Watching some TV in Niko's apt in the mean time. Funny stuff, if you got time to kill, watch it!

    LOL bullworth academy was just on the TV

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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I love this protagonist.

    It's the eastern europe accents that do it for me. I don't know why but I can get behind that accent a lot better than some baller from the hood. Oh wait, I know, I'm a white male from suburban wisconsin.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    oddment wrote: »
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

    Rarrrrgh! I was happy when you guys all got your copies, but now I am sad that I have to wait longer to play mine :(

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Veevee wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I love this protagonist.

    It's the eastern europe accents that do it for me. I don't know why but I can get behind that accent a lot better than some baller from the hood. Oh wait, I know, I'm a white male from suburban wisconsin.

    Where seldom is heard/A discouraging word
    And the whites are all Polish or Kraut


    :winky:

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    oddment wrote: »
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

    Rarrrrgh! I was happy when you guys all got your copies, but now I am sad that I have to wait longer to play mine :(

    If you concentrate hard enough you can emulate the game disc using your MIND. Just make sure not to lose control of your bowels while in your Zen state, because that is mad embarrassing.

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  • AntishowAntishow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Mr Pink wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    So you guys are saying this game is ok?

    Eh, it's alright.

    Edit: Well, that was the worst top ever.
    Hah, as if Mr Pink tops. =P

    hehehe.

    So, what's everyone using their lockbox for?

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    killamajig wrote: »
    Dear Michelle,
    Stop being so obvious.

    Signed,
    I know you're a cop
    hahahaha...totally........she's terrible

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Antishow wrote: »
    Mr Pink wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    So you guys are saying this game is ok?

    Eh, it's alright.

    Edit: Well, that was the worst top ever.
    Hah, as if Mr Pink tops. =P

    hehehe.

    So, what's everyone using their lockbox for?

    Sperm locker?

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  • AmphetamineAmphetamine Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Veevee wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I love this protagonist.

    It's the eastern europe accents that do it for me. I don't know why but I can get behind that accent a lot better than some baller from the hood. Oh wait, I know, I'm a white male from suburban wisconsin.

    Where seldom is heard/A discouraging word
    And the whites are all Polish or Kraut


    :winky:

    You have no idea how true this is.

    arrrgh fucking 6 hours till I can get it.

    Amphetamine on
  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    oddment wrote: »
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

    Rarrrrgh! I was happy when you guys all got your copies, but now I am sad that I have to wait longer to play mine :(

    How much longer you have to wait?

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Veevee wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I love this protagonist.

    It's the eastern europe accents that do it for me. I don't know why but I can get behind that accent a lot better than some baller from the hood. Oh wait, I know, I'm a white male from suburban wisconsin.

    Where seldom is heard/A discouraging word
    And the whites are all Polish or Kraut


    :winky:

    My guinea status allowed me to really get behind Tommy Vercetti much moreso than CJ or the mute from GTA3. I'd say so far (having not yet gotten ahold of GTAIV) that Vercetti is my favorite protagonist from the GTA series. From what everyone's saying about Niko, though, he seems to have won over the masses. Why the fuck is it 11 a.m. and not 5 p.m.?

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    oddment wrote: »
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

    Rarrrrgh! I was happy when you guys all got your copies, but now I am sad that I have to wait longer to play mine :(

    If you concentrate hard enough you can emulate the game disc using your MIND. Just make sure not to lose control of your bowels while in your Zen state, because that is mad embarrassing.

    Do I go nab the Lexus, Fiat or Merc parked outside? And pick a random fight with someone in the office..

    oddment, I'm here at work for another.. 3 hours, give or take. Then I'll have to wait for tv access, so probably no play until about 11 or 12 tonight D:

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Antishow wrote: »
    Mr Pink wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    So you guys are saying this game is ok?

    Eh, it's alright.

    Edit: Well, that was the worst top ever.
    Hah, as if Mr Pink tops. =P

    hehehe.

    So, what's everyone using their lockbox for?

    Sperm locker?
    I'm going to fart into mine moments before showing it off to people encouraging them to look inside. :winky:

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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    oddment wrote: »
    Aaaaah... 30 mins until I finish work and then a 45 minute walk in the blazing sun... and then I shall finally be able to PLAY GTA4 instead of just reading about it! Gonna try it on my housemates HDTV before she comes home and wants to play her copy... then I shall be relegated to my room to further enjoy it, albeit in SD.

    Rarrrrgh! I was happy when you guys all got your copies, but now I am sad that I have to wait longer to play mine :(

    If you concentrate hard enough you can emulate the game disc using your MIND. Just make sure not to lose control of your bowels while in your Zen state, because that is mad embarrassing.

    Do I go nab the Lexus, Fiat or Merc parked outside? And pick a random fight with someone in the office..

    oddment, I'm here at work for another.. 3 hours, give or take. Then I'll have to wait for tv access, so probably no play until about 11 or 12 tonight D:

    Go and buy a TV on your way home from work. Niko demands it!

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Store.. opens... hour..

    ;-;


    So. So, coffee. Can I... Um. You know, can I shoot... Uh. Well, the cup? T-that is, um. Shoot them out of, um, their, their hands? With a gun? And... And what if, what, uh. What if its... You know, hot?

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  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I've yet to see a cop with coffee. Generally thats because I'm fleeing them but I haven't seen it yet.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    No space in my room for a tv, sadly :( I badly need to move out and get my own place.

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  • BinaryBinary Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Endangered Species (50)- Collect every hidden package in the game.

    Can't we have a sandbox game that doesn't have one of these BS "go find all these otherwise useless things scattered all over the damn map" achievements?

    That said, I have a backlog of games I need to work on before I get this, so it'll probably be a month or so before I try to pick it up.

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  • DissociaterDissociater Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Can't wait to get home! Picked up my SE today, it's so awesome, but I'm stuck at work for 5 more hours! Ack!

    I'm consoling myself by listening to the music of GTA cd that came with it, but that's just going to make me want to play it more.

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  • NegrodamusNegrodamus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    In response to the handbrake question, I just found that the A button handbrake doesn't work during a phonecall.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Smashism wrote: »
    Got some class in 30. Watching some TV in Niko's apt in the mean time. Funny stuff, if you got time to kill, watch it!

    LOL bullworth academy was just on the TV

    man i had to tear myself away from the tv after the serrated edge knife infomercial ended. so funny, but i have important business to attend to what with stealing cars and causing heinous amounts of property damage.

    i dont even want to think about the timesink that the in game internet is going to be.

    Ah_Pook on
  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Binary wrote: »
    Endangered Species (50)- Collect every hidden package in the game.

    Can't we have a sandbox game that doesn't have one of these BS "go find all these otherwise useless things scattered all over the damn map" achievements?

    That said, I have a backlog of games I need to work on before I get this, so it'll probably be a month or so before I try to pick it up.

    You dont HAVE to find them to complete the game.

    Whats great about the above is that the only effective way to actually find them. . .is to get out of your car and walk the city as you wont be able to hear the context clue inside a car revving it. These however are nothing new to the series and instead of having different categories of "collect the hiddens" its all one hidden that actually kinda works.

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Binary wrote: »
    That said, I have a backlog of games I need to work on before I get this, so it'll probably be a month or so before I try to pick it up.

    Fuck that noise. I think if there's any game that deserves to be bumped up to the front of your queue, it's GTAIV.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Antishow wrote: »
    Mr Pink wrote: »
    Idx86 wrote: »
    So you guys are saying this game is ok?

    Eh, it's alright.

    Edit: Well, that was the worst top ever.
    Hah, as if Mr Pink tops. =P

    hehehe.

    So, what's everyone using their lockbox for?

    New stash spot! WOO!!!!

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    has anybody signed up for the social club?? once you're logged in and linked with your console account, how do you see anything? i tried to click the LCPD Blotter thingy but it's not clickable, only draggable...boooo

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  • CliffjumperCliffjumper Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Binary wrote: »
    Endangered Species (50)- Collect every hidden package in the game.

    Can't we have a sandbox game that doesn't have one of these BS "go find all these otherwise useless things scattered all over the damn map" achievements?

    That said, I have a backlog of games I need to work on before I get this, so it'll probably be a month or so before I try to pick it up.

    I like treasure hunting for crap like that.

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  • NegrodamusNegrodamus Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    Smashism wrote: »
    Got some class in 30. Watching some TV in Niko's apt in the mean time. Funny stuff, if you got time to kill, watch it!

    LOL bullworth academy was just on the TV

    man i had to tear myself away from the tv after the serrated edge knife infomercial ended. so funny, but i have important business to attend to what with stealing cars and causing heinous amounts of property damage.

    i dont even want to think about the timesink that the in game internet is going to be.
    Yeah, I'm sitting here watching tv on my tv.
    It's fucking ridiculous, and I can't stop watching.

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  • irnirn Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    this game is really overwhelming... I completely understand the comic now... I just got done playing GTA:VCS last week and this feels so different... which is weird because to me, GTA IV reminds me alot of GTA III...

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