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

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  • DietarySupplementDietarySupplement Still not approved by the FDA Dublin, OHRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    JAEF wrote: »
    Man I got an invite from two of the PS3 Crew but was in the middle of a mission and needed to save. By the time I finished the invite was gone and I had no way to send a message or ask to join. A little weak. How about a game later tonight around 5 or 6 PST gentlemen? I'll be on the G&T Vent.

    It's like people never even read my replies... I'm in, I'll add you.

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  • The DoctorThe Doctor Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Does anyone know if you can hit the strip club in Party/Multiplayer mode? If so...

    PA ROAD TRIP!!!


    You can but theres no strippers. :(

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  • LookFreeGrenadeLookFreeGrenade Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh god I went to my first Magic/song show.
    She sang a song about alien abduction.

    Hilarious.

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  • DirtyDirty Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    arod_77 wrote: »
    JAEF wrote: »
    Man I got an invite from two of the PS3 Crew but was in the middle of a mission and needed to save. By the time I finished the invite was gone and I had no way to send a message or ask to join. A little weak. How about a game later tonight around 5 or 6 PST gentlemen? I'll be on the G&T Vent.

    Im' in.

    See you in vent

    I started a seperate thread for us losers with the PS3 version, to try to get things a little more organized.

    Dirty on
  • GrimReaperGrimReaper Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Does anyone know if you can hit the strip club in Party/Multiplayer mode? If so...

    PA ROAD TRIP!!!

    If ever there was an appropriate title: Dude, where's my car?

    Also, I was in the middle of a freeplay game. I'd gone to the airport, grabbed myself a helicopter.. flew to the statue of freedom (I think that's the name for the Statue of Libery in GTA 4) and was just lining up to jump out to view the heart thing when I got disconnected. Figures.

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    The Doctor wrote: »
    Does anyone know if you can hit the strip club in Party/Multiplayer mode? If so...

    PA ROAD TRIP!!!


    You can but theres no strippers. :(

    Someone has to make a halfnaked chick as their character. I call not it!

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  • KogareruKogareru Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    Someone has to make a halfnaked chick as their character. I call not it!

    My multiplayer char is a cute lil brunette with a skull on her tshirt. I will be more than happy to visit a strip club. :winky:

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  • RoriProfessorRoriProfessor Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Neva wrote: »
    I need halp! I'm stuck on Dwayne's first mission.
    The one where you need to go to the strip club kill those 3 guys. I can kill the first one okay, but the other two are surrounded by body guards.

    I'm still annoyed with how GTA handles retrying missions, where you have to spawn all the way back from where you received your mission instead of just where you're suppose to be. I've tried that mission about 10 times and lost about $20,000 from the medical fees and the cab rides back to the area.

    This mission took me a few trys too.
    I was being sneaky the first few times. I would go into the first room and beat the guy to death, so everyone in the club wouldn't pull a gun on me. But no matter what I did after that, I would be killed before I could kill the next two.

    What worked for me was just capping the first dude, using his doorway as cover as I took out the rest of the guys in the club. You should of killed the second guy somewhere in that shoot out. The third guy ran out the back door and should be in a car as soon as you leave the club. If you have an automatic, you should be able to kill him before he drives away.

    Thanks alot guys.
    What I did what took out the first guy in the security room, then I stood back near entrance and sniped the second guy so I could get ready to leave the place when the third guy escaped.

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  • JimJimBinksJimJimBinks Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh god I went to my first Magic/song show.
    She sang a song about alien abduction.

    Hilarious.


    I missed the beginning of the song because I was too busy cleaning up the Diet Mountain Dew I spit out during the magic show.

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  • ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    Zenitram on
  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Kogareru wrote: »
    Kris_xK wrote: »
    Someone has to make a halfnaked chick as their character. I call not it!

    My multiplayer char is a cute lil brunette with a skull on her tshirt. I will be more than happy to visit a strip club. :winky:

    Added bonus points for your xbox live account name being "BurliestMuff"

    Although now I dont want to goto the strip club with you.

    Spoiler for early Dimitri mission
    This reminded me of the mission where you have to go whack around the guy who's making porn and not cutting in Dimitri.

    "Look at that muff! You dont see em like that anymore!"

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  • AxenAxen My avatar is Excalibur. Yes, the sword.Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh god I went to my first Magic/song show.
    She sang a song about alien abduction.

    Hilarious.


    I missed the beginning of the song because I was too busy cleaning up the Diet Mountain Dew I spit out during the magic show.

    The Magic Show was awesome.

    Axen on
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  • OldboyOldboy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    PantsB wrote: »
    Utsanomiko wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I want a new girlfriend. I keep trying to use the dating website but they keep telling me, "oh look you're bad but don't worry there's someone out there for you!"

    Is this concerning GTA IV or...?

    Some cokehead teen gave me a hundred dollars when I walked past him on a street corner.
    That was in GTA IV.

    I wonder if that's the part I missed.

    Early in the game I was on my way to get a Roman mission when I saw on my mini-map an icon of a person. I stopped, walked up to the person (Looked like some teenager) it went into a cutscene. I could see people were talking but I heard no dialog. It was completely quiet. So, not wanting to miss any dialog, I panicked and turned off the game. Since restarting I haven't been able to find that kid to find out what that was about.
    Supposedly you're supposed to be able to get mission from random pedestrians, but I haven't seen that or heard anyone actually reporting it.

    I noticed the blue man icon near Roman's shop early on, but was on my way for an urgent mission and ended up missing it. Didn't think much about it until I read about you lot getting free moneys from some dope fiend. I haven't seen that one since, though I did run across another yesterday...
    It turned out to be Badman, the Rastafarian whose speech is damn near impervious sans subtitles. The core of the conversation came down to this:

    Badman: "Gonna kill some Russians."
    Nico: "Fine, lets go kill some Russians."

    After which the two of us drove a short distance to find about seven Russians in an alleyway, whom we commenced killing thereupon. I've thus far insisted on leaving subtitles off as it heightens my own amusement, but the pre and post conversations for this secret mission with Badman made me wish I had any fucking clue why I was murdering Russkies.

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  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zenitram wrote: »
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    wait till closer to the appointment time the location will show up.

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  • ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    wait till closer to the appointment time the location will show up.

    I actually missed the appointment because of it :( Loaded my saved game and still nothing, so I figured I'd see what the deal is here.

    Zenitram on
  • SakeidoSakeido Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oldboy wrote: »
    PantsB wrote: »
    Utsanomiko wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I want a new girlfriend. I keep trying to use the dating website but they keep telling me, "oh look you're bad but don't worry there's someone out there for you!"

    Is this concerning GTA IV or...?

    Some cokehead teen gave me a hundred dollars when I walked past him on a street corner.
    That was in GTA IV.

    I wonder if that's the part I missed.

    Early in the game I was on my way to get a Roman mission when I saw on my mini-map an icon of a person. I stopped, walked up to the person (Looked like some teenager) it went into a cutscene. I could see people were talking but I heard no dialog. It was completely quiet. So, not wanting to miss any dialog, I panicked and turned off the game. Since restarting I haven't been able to find that kid to find out what that was about.
    Supposedly you're supposed to be able to get mission from random pedestrians, but I haven't seen that or heard anyone actually reporting it.

    I noticed the blue man icon near Roman's shop early on, but was on my way for an urgent mission and ended up missing it. Didn't think much about it until I read about you lot getting free moneys from some dope fiend. I haven't seen that one since, though I did run across another yesterday...
    It turned out to be Badman, the Rastafarian whose speech is damn near impervious sans subtitles. The core of the conversation came down to this:

    Badman: "Gonna kill some Russians."
    Nico: "Fine, lets go kill some Russians."

    After which the two of us drove a short distance to find about seven Russians in an alleyway, whom we commenced killing thereupon. I've thus far insisted on leaving subtitles off as it heightens my own amusement, but the pre and post conversations for this secret mission with Badman made me wish I had any fucking clue why I was murdering Russkies.

    Subtitles don't help with Badman. The guy makes basically no sense.

    Sakeido on
  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    i really wish there was a subtitles option that didnt subtitle the english dialog, just the russian and stuff

    Ah_Pook on
  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zenitram wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    wait till closer to the appointment time the location will show up.

    I actually missed the appointment because of it :( Loaded my saved game and still nothing, so I figured I'd see what the deal is here.

    You didn't get the notices from your cellphone?

    davincie on
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  • ThreelemmingsThreelemmings Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    GIANT TREE
    Subtitles don't help with Badman. The guy makes basically no sense.

    Regarding the Badman mission
    The funniest thing to me about that was that they said it in the opposite order you just mentioned; Badman complains, Nico's like "Let's go kill some Russians" and Badman says "Hey, we should kill Russians!"

    I realized Badman has just about the same comprehension of Nico's dialogue as we do of his. :lol:

    Also, the mission was basically he was being bothered by some drug pushers and the fish comment had to do with if they'd kept their mouths shut and not backtalked and left him alone he wouldn't have to go kill them all.

    Anyways, Badman's not really that hard to understand if you just remember he talks very circularly. Or maybe I just think at weird angles and this is the one time in my life where it will come in handy.

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  • BamelinBamelin Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    JAEF wrote: »
    Man I got an invite from two of the PS3 Crew but was in the middle of a mission and needed to save. By the time I finished the invite was gone and I had no way to send a message or ask to join. A little weak. How about a game later tonight around 5 or 6 PST gentlemen? I'll be on the G&T Vent.


    This was the main reason I got the 360 version over PS3 ... I kinda figured that online matchmaking would be a nightmare without being able to send messages inside the game.

    Bamelin on
  • ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    wait till closer to the appointment time the location will show up.

    I actually missed the appointment because of it :( Loaded my saved game and still nothing, so I figured I'd see what the deal is here.

    You didn't get the notices from your cellphone?

    I got the 2-hour notice and the 30-minute notice, but no location or destination appeared on my map.

    Zenitram on
  • BamelinBamelin Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Also, not sure if you guys have mentioned this yet, when playing multiplayer matches you can use your cell phone to call players on the other team!

    This puts you into a different VOIP channel, and when you hang up you go back to your team's channel.

    I was thinking about it ... can you imagine some of the player made gametypes you could do up in Free Mode? One traitor per team, who can communicate with the enemy. Very cool.

    Bamelin on
  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oldboy wrote: »
    PantsB wrote: »
    Utsanomiko wrote: »
    Rentilius wrote: »
    I want a new girlfriend. I keep trying to use the dating website but they keep telling me, "oh look you're bad but don't worry there's someone out there for you!"

    Is this concerning GTA IV or...?

    Some cokehead teen gave me a hundred dollars when I walked past him on a street corner.
    That was in GTA IV.

    I wonder if that's the part I missed.

    Early in the game I was on my way to get a Roman mission when I saw on my mini-map an icon of a person. I stopped, walked up to the person (Looked like some teenager) it went into a cutscene. I could see people were talking but I heard no dialog. It was completely quiet. So, not wanting to miss any dialog, I panicked and turned off the game. Since restarting I haven't been able to find that kid to find out what that was about.
    Supposedly you're supposed to be able to get mission from random pedestrians, but I haven't seen that or heard anyone actually reporting it.

    I noticed the blue man icon near Roman's shop early on, but was on my way for an urgent mission and ended up missing it. Didn't think much about it until I read about you lot getting free moneys from some dope fiend. I haven't seen that one since, though I did run across another yesterday...
    It turned out to be Badman, the Rastafarian whose speech is damn near impervious sans subtitles. The core of the conversation came down to this:

    Badman: "Gonna kill some Russians."
    Nico: "Fine, lets go kill some Russians."

    After which the two of us drove a short distance to find about seven Russians in an alleyway, whom we commenced killing thereupon. I've thus far insisted on leaving subtitles off as it heightens my own amusement, but the pre and post conversations for this secret mission with Badman made me wish I had any fucking clue why I was murdering Russkies.

    I got an mission from the drunk you see getting kicked out of an bar in the begining of
    Vlad's
    missions, he wanted help getting rid of his debts and told me his life story. After the mission I was 500 bucks richer!

    davincie on
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  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zenitram wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    davincie wrote: »
    Zenitram wrote: »
    I think my game is bugged, I'm on Final Interview....
    I'm supposed to meet this lawyer at the firm building for an interview. It gives me an appointment time on my organizer but I haven't seen a destination anywhere on the map or mini-map... Any help? Or is it a bug?

    wait till closer to the appointment time the location will show up.

    I actually missed the appointment because of it :( Loaded my saved game and still nothing, so I figured I'd see what the deal is here.

    You didn't get the notices from your cellphone?

    I got the 2-hour notice and the 30-minute notice, but no location or destination appeared on my map.

    Have you tried going in a cab an cycling through the locations you can go to?

    davincie on
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  • MistaCreepyMistaCreepy Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Holy shit....
    Executing Vlad was pretty fucking brutal.

    MistaCreepy on
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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Oh god I went to my first Magic/song show.
    She sang a song about alien abduction.

    Hilarious.

    Yes!

    I loved that.

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  • MiserableMirthMiserableMirth Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Guys I can't stop killing pedestrians long enough to play the actual game.

    MiserableMirth on
  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Guys I can't stop killing pedestrians long enough to play the actual game.
    wait..what? that isn't the actual game? o_O

    BEAST! on
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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    ARRGH SON OF A BITCH PEOPLE

    If you're putting things in spoilers, give some sort of a hint as to what is in that spoiler.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Played a 50 minute Deathmatch game (to $5000 dollars, which takes FOREVER).
    After I made it to second, I made the huge trek to the abandoned side of the city, and nabbed the helicopter.
    I then flew to the closest person and was promptly shot down by what had to be the LUCKIEST RPG shot ever.
    Mother fucker.

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  • ZenitramZenitram Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    This is the first GTA where I actually don't try to wreak havoc on the general populace. The only law I break all the time is speeding (of course). Killing random people or drawing too much attention to myself just seems to not fit in the context of the game (lol what?).

    Zenitram on
  • dmaurodmauro Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    ARRGH SON OF A BITCH PEOPLE

    If you're putting things in spoilers, give some sort of a hint as to what is in that spoiler.

    I blame the overuse of fake spoilers and underuse of real spoilers.
    Actually I don't really mind.

    dmauro on
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  • ZaylenzZaylenz Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I don't know if this has been answered yet, but I saw it mentioned that people had 100% with a NPCs like Michelle or Roman. I'm wondering how you can tell where you're standing is with these people. I do see the little thumbs-up icon after talking with them, but no numbers.

    Zaylenz on
  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    I drive super reckless and just hit people, but yeah aside from that and car stealing it's pretty tame.
    I just want to progress more so I can get better weapons, this Uzi ain't cutting it.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    i run over all kinds of peds when im trying to get somewhere, but i havent really laid into many random rampages yet. those only really get fun once you have a nice arsenal put together, which i havent assembled yet in the single player.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zaylenz wrote: »
    I don't know if this has been answered yet, but I saw it mentioned that people had 100% with a NPCs like Michelle or Roman. I'm wondering how you can tell where you're standing is with these people. I do see the little thumbs-up icon after talking with them, but no numbers.

    Check your Stats page in the pause menu.
    I only know I can check my status with Michelle, not sure about others.

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  • davinciedavincie Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zaylenz wrote: »
    I don't know if this has been answered yet, but I saw it mentioned that people had 100% with a NPCs like Michelle or Roman. I'm wondering how you can tell where you're standing is with these people. I do see the little thumbs-up icon after talking with them, but no numbers.

    Go to the stats screen, general and scroll down.

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  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Zaylenz wrote: »
    I don't know if this has been answered yet, but I saw it mentioned that people had 100% with a NPCs like Michelle or Roman. I'm wondering how you can tell where you're standing is with these people. I do see the little thumbs-up icon after talking with them, but no numbers.
    i bet i got a thumbs down from Vlad when I
    totally fucking killed him

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    ARRGH SON OF A BITCH PEOPLE

    If you're putting things in spoilers, give some sort of a hint as to what is in that spoiler.

    Same.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited April 2008
    Some people on the Social Club show up as having 100% completion in less than an hour. One guy apparently completed the story in zero minutes. I wonder how long until Rockstar boots those jokers.

    Speaking of which, the whole "100% in 7 days" contest is cool, but there's no way I want to hit 100% that soon. I'm enjoying this experience so much I want it drawn out over MONTHS.

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