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

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Negrodamus wrote: »
    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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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    BEAST! wrote: »
    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

    Click the GTAIV logo on the left with the girl. Then you get access to all the cool shit.

    Apparently crime in Liberty City has gone up 800,000,000%-odd since yesterday.

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  • Toxic PickleToxic Pickle Thash grape! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    So here I am at work. In approximately 2 1/2 hours it will be lunch time, which is when I am going to pick up my copy of GTA IV. I then will have to suffer through another 3 1/2 hours of work before I can head home and actually play, during which the game will be sitting on my office desk, taunting me.

    But I have taken tomorrow off work to play, and my wife understands that she will not have my attention tonight or tomorrow.

    The wait isn't long now... but is physically painful.

    Those of you on the PA GTA IV list, send a friend request.. I'll add you so that I can get in on some multi-player action until some spots open up and I can get on.

    C'mon, I need volunteers to kill and be killed by!

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    whats the social club about, i must have missed whatever that is

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  • killamajigkillamajig Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I just grabbed a taxi back to my safehouse(which cost me 89 dollars, christ).

    As I stepped out of the taxi, a mini van hit it from that side, clamping me in for a moment.

    The cabby got out and was saying something in anger. there was no room for him once the animation for him leaving the cab ended, so we both got glithcy for a second. Then we both popped over to the other side of the mini-van.

    He then punched me in the face yelling "I have no short term memory!"

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  • irnirn Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    whats the social club about, i must have missed whatever that is

    https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/

    it seems to be down right now... think "bungie website and halo 3" I suppose... now with extra gangsta

    oh and sucks to be these guys:

    http://kotaku.com/385183/rockstar-support-no-gta-freeze-fix-in-sight

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    also, i added everyone on the US PSN list in the OP. hopefully that list is somewhat current? i need some good people to explode things with.

    anyone whos on the PS3 feel free to add me, my PSN name is Ah_Pook.

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  • PhotonPhoton Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    This torturous day of work is finally over, off home to commence killings! hooray!

    Photon on
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  • pheknophekno Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    also, i added everyone on the US PSN list in the OP. hopefully that list is somewhat current? i need some good people to explode things with.

    anyone whos on the PS3 feel free to add me, my PSN name is Ah_Pook.

    Ditto...I'm not in the OP list but I will be adding people later. My PSN is phekno.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ah_Pook wrote: »
    also, i added everyone on the US PSN list in the OP. hopefully that list is somewhat current? i need some good people to explode things with.

    anyone whos on the PS3 feel free to add me, my PSN name is Ah_Pook.
    i added everyone in the OP last night, i'm at work currently so i can't add anyone though so if you want to add me my name is BeastZero

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Willeth wrote: »
    BEAST! wrote: »
    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

    Click the GTAIV logo on the left with the girl. Then you get access to all the cool shit.

    Apparently crime in Liberty City has gone up 800,000,000%-odd since yesterday.
    oh wow...actually now it's all working....i'd already clicked that and it showed the 7 badge thingies but clicking them did nothing....now it does something..yay

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Quick question, are cutscenes skippable?

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  • the Togfatherthe Togfather Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Bought'd. I scurried in with the rest of the 18-35 year old males, grabbed my fake plastic box that said GTA IV - XBOX 360 and traded it in for a real version at the counter. And I drove back like a fiend. Now I wait...and wait...and wait. Probably about 10 hours. No sweat.


    right?



    *gulp*

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    killamajig wrote: »
    I just grabbed a taxi back to my safehouse(which cost me 89 dollars, christ).

    As I stepped out of the taxi, a mini van hit it from that side, clamping me in for a moment.

    The cabby got out and was saying something in anger. there was no room for him once the animation for him leaving the cab ended, so we both got glithcy for a second. Then we both popped over to the other side of the mini-van.

    He then punched me in the face yelling "I have no short term memory!"

    That...that is freaking classic. I love this game so hard.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Quick question, are cutscenes skippable?

    Nobody knows because we're ALL WATCHING THEM.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Autosave is a fucking godsend.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Quick question, are cutscenes skippable?

    Yes.

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  • ChanceChance Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I seem to be infected with a sickness. Now that I have GTA IV in my hand, I'm beset by a strange sensation I can only describe as 'patience'. Blockbuster opened at 10AM today, and I was there to pick up my preordered copy. GTA IV GET! I was hungry, so I went to Subway before heading home.

    I sat down and watched some comedy network, and ate my sandwich. Then I went up to my room and patiently took down the maps of San Andreas and the town of Bulworth - sorry old friends, there's a new open world dog in town. I went and took out my contact lenses.

    I noticed I had missed The Colbert Report last night (crashed early to get up early), and it's on in half an hour. I think I'll watch it, and get to GTA later. Freakish, freakish behavior I have never exhibited. Maybe I'm subconsciously trying to stretch the happy-happy place between buying a game and playing it.

    *

    Oh, and I gotta' say, I'm always extra-glad to be Canadian whenever I get a Rockstar game. Y'know the maps that come in GTA and Bully? Well up here in Canada we get two, every time. One's english and one's french, so I have a street map and subway map up on my wall now, for quick and easy access. Oh, Canada!

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Okay, guys, seriously...what the FUCK.

    I've been trying for like...weeks...to register with the Social Club, and every fucking time I try, I get this bullshit about "not all required fields were filled in and/or your email address is already in use". The problem is, all required fields were filled in, and my email address is not already in use.

    Why has this shit persisted for weeks on end?

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    killamajig wrote: »
    I just grabbed a taxi back to my safehouse(which cost me 89 dollars, christ).

    As I stepped out of the taxi, a mini van hit it from that side, clamping me in for a moment.

    The cabby got out and was saying something in anger. there was no room for him once the animation for him leaving the cab ended, so we both got glithcy for a second. Then we both popped over to the other side of the mini-van.

    He then punched me in the face yelling "I have no short term memory!"

    Was he covered in crazy tattoos?

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Can anyone else not access multiplayer? I'm playing on PS3 and when I try to select Multiplayer on my phone, it says Cannot connect to game provide, please try again later.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Can anyone else not access multiplayer? I'm playing on PS3 and when I try to select Multiplayer on my phone, it says Cannot connect to game provide, please try again later.

    Uh oh, the truck have started to move.

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  • RoundBoyRoundBoy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    ohh... i am SO debating leaving early and picking up my preorder from blockbuster...

    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight. I guess it would suck even more if i lived in the Polygamist compound....

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Damn I get my copy tonight! I didn't pre-order though as I didn't think I had money but then I got a 2000 tax return and WAS LIKE FUCK AWESOME. So hopefully they have something at bestbuy...

    edit: I'm a student so thats a lot of money

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Man, people don't have their copies yet.

    Oh man.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    7 hours or so left for me

    :(

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  • Toxic PickleToxic Pickle Thash grape! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Autosave is a fucking godsend.

    When I was watching the live feeds and I saw the game auto-save after the guy completed a mission, I was so freaking excited. I mean, GTA IV has so many great new features, but I cannot express how incredibly awesome having the game actually fucking save after the completion of a big mission is, thus preventing me from fucking it up and having to do the whole thing over again for some reason.

    Or, as Bully has taught me, having the game freeze after just completing a big mission so I have to do the whole thing again. Fuck! This is why I've finally just quit playing that goddamn game.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dixon wrote: »
    Damn I get my copy tonight! I didn't pre-order though as I didn't think I had money but then I got a 2000 tax return and WAS LIKE FUCK AWESOME. So hopefully they have something at bestbuy...

    They will. Enjoy, my friend. Enjoy very much.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Quick question, are cutscenes skippable?

    Yes.

    Yes, goddammit. :x

    accidentally skipped one last night and had to reload because I was not missing any cutscenes

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  • RocketSauceRocketSauce Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    RoundBoy wrote: »
    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight.

    Niko wouldn't take that shit.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Can't decide whether subtitles are a good thing or not. Seems to distract me from the scenes themselves, but on the other hand the sound levels are a bit dodgy sometimes and I want to understand what the fuck Badman is saying.

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  • MisanthropicMisanthropic Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Not to mention some of it is in another dialect.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Willeth wrote: »
    Can't decide whether subtitles are a good thing or not. Seems to distract me from the scenes themselves, but on the other hand the sound levels are a bit dodgy sometimes and I want to understand what the fuck Badman is saying.

    Yeah, I use them, but I make sure only to check them when I have to. It's really useful when Niko speaks Russian, otherwise you have no idea what he's saying.

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  • rakuenCallistorakuenCallisto Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2008
    They will. Enjoy, my friend. Enjoy very much.
    LOL mundane all last night refused to get into a helicopter, he just decided to rocket launcher every single one of us else out of the air. It was hilarious, I found him on foot and picked him up, went 90 mph and he dived out of the car onto the freeway.


    I LOVE THIS GAME SO FAR. EVERYONE GET ON STORY TIME MAYBE MULTIPLAYER! ADD ME!

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    RoundBoy wrote: »
    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight.

    I guess she did not hear that they canceled the rest of the world of gaming now that GTA IV is out. You should print out the pamphlet for her.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    They will. Enjoy, my friend. Enjoy very much.
    LOL mundane all last night refused to get into a helicopter, he just decided to rocket launcher every single one of us else out of the air. It was hilarious, I found him on foot and picked him up, went 90 mph and he dived out of the car onto the freeway.


    I LOVE THIS GAME SO FAR. EVERYONE GET ON STORY TIME MAYBE MULTIPLAYER! ADD ME!

    Hell yeah, you know how I roll rakuen. :twisted:

    I mean, when a helicopter lifts off right next to you with three or four dudes in it and you're holding a rocket launcher, there's really only one thing you can do.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    RoundBoy wrote: »
    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight.

    I guess she did not hear that they canceled the rest of the world of gaming now that GTA IV is out. You should print out the pamphlet for her.

    Or write pamplet on the back of your hand and give her that!

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  • WildSpoonWildSpoon Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Ill be picking this up on the way home from work tonite. Add me for PS3 action if you wish.

    Psn is WildSpoon. Im MTN time zone so may be on too late for most gamij but im up for whatever if you dont mind rolling with a crazy canuck that usually doesnt have his headset plugged in (usually on a private TS server instead).

    im just having trouble deciding if i should take my own car home from work tonight or jack a random one to "prepare" for GTA action.

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  • Toxic PickleToxic Pickle Thash grape! Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dixon wrote: »
    RoundBoy wrote: »
    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight.

    I guess she did not hear that they canceled the rest of the world of gaming now that GTA IV is out. You should print out the pamphlet for her.

    Or write pamplet on the back of your hand and give her that!

    This.

    Pixeljunk Monsters? What kinda gay shit is that?

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  • RocketSauceRocketSauce Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Dixon wrote: »
    RoundBoy wrote: »
    I know my wife wants to play pixeljunk monsters instead tonight.

    I guess she did not hear that they canceled the rest of the world of gaming now that GTA IV is out. You should print out the pamphlet for her.

    Or write pamplet on the back of your hand and give her that!

    This.

    Pixeljunk Monsters? What kinda gay shit is that?

    That sounds like a math game we used to play on the old Apple II's back in 5th grade.

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