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Grand Theft Auto IV (Warning: Spoilers)
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Reynar_Tedros
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Jul '06
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Date Posted:
5/1 9:36pm
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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Man, that conversation with Faustin's wife was deep. Kudos to Michael Hollick for one of the best voiceover performances I've ever had the pleasure to listen to.
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Darth_Invidious
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Jun '99
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Date Posted:
5/2 7:56am
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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Leto II posted:
The Internet in the game really is amazing. Although, I felt dirty checking out women's profiles on the fake Match.com thing. Like I was cheating in some way. Actually, I'm still quite shocked by the Internet's sheer scope. When I got the cyber-café mission, I figured I would quickly read through all the Internet stuff, and get it out of the way.
Little did I know that the fake Facebook pages, dating websites, and everything ELSE would be loaded with fake profiles; that there would be news websites, company websites, ringtone websites, links-within-links-within-LINKS...I'm pretty sure I ended up on a didgeridoo website at one point. You could literally spend days going through all the **** on there. It's insane.
Epic game.
I think, in order to win Michelle back, I'm going to take her on one of Brucie's helicopter rides. If she still won't give me any action, I'll crash the ****ing thing into Middle Park with everyone in it.
Wow, I've already scored with her twice and I've not even taken her on spectacular dates. Let alone taken her into Algonquin since i's still locked at the stage I'm in. You're probably not doing something right with her. She seems to like the rugged, Eastern European-fresh-of-the-boat look you start with, and she enjoys simpler stuff like bowling, darts, drinking at bars or dining at a diner like the one across the street of your first safehouse.
The best part is later on, when Niko's talking to Badman, and he has this look of "Good god, what the ****?!?" when he looks over at Jacob for the translation.
God, even with the subtitles on trying to understand what Little Jacob's saying is a chore and a half. That has to be the thickest Jamaican patois I've ever heard in my life.
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jangoisadrunk
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Mar '05
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Date Posted:
5/2 11:01am
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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I didn't think it was possible to not score with Michelle. The only date that didn't end in the bedroom was the very first one, and that's because I didn't "try my luck." It was a first date after all.
I'm starting to agree with Jello about Michelle though. She's boring, has bad taste in cloths, and is too easy to entertain. I don't know if I want to kill her, but she's boring me to death.
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Title: SFF:F/TV Trivia Host
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Jun '07
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Date Posted:
5/2 11:49am
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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Her dialogue over coffee also lacks creativity.
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Leto II
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Date Posted:
5/2 4:42pm
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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Brucie is awesome. At first, I didn't know why he was awesome. Then I realized what he reminds me of.
(Also, shooting an RPG at three guys coming at me while the car next to me is blaring "Goodbye Horses" = AWESOME.)
I was on the "Final Destination" mission for Mikhail, where he asks you to chase down and eliminate a rat in his organization. Had a hell of a time chasing the bugger down, as he was in the Viper-looking car that was way faster than the car I had hijacked for the chase.
Finally managed to catch up to him at an intersection where AI-driven cars had snarled traffic pretty bad. Leaned out the window and dumped a clip from the Micro-SMG into his back bumper, and his car lit on fire.
A couple of seconds later, he stumbles out of the driver's side wreathed in flame, and falls to the ground. I get the mission cleared sound, and I'm laughing so hard I forget to get away from his car in time...
...Did I mention he had stopped because of a large traffic jam of AI-driven cars?
Several explosions and much cursing and frantic fleeing later, I managed to get away from the scene. My car was still drivable, despite being knocked around pretty bad in the blasts, but I noticed that my back tires were on fire. I thought it was pretty cool-looking, and drove around for a while with flaming tires.
Then the fire spread to my gas tank. Kaboom.
jangoisadrunk posted:
I didn't think it was possible to not score with Michelle. The only date that didn't end in the bedroom was the very first one, and that's because I didn't "try my luck." It was a first date after all.
I'm starting to agree with Jello about Michelle though. She's boring, has bad taste in cloths, and is too easy to entertain. I don't know if I want to kill her, but she's boring me to death.
Haven't had a chance to fire it up yet today, but I'm getting the feeling now that Michelle may turn out to be FBI, or some kind of government agent.
The whole, "I-won't-talk-about-my-past-and-all-of-my-furniture-has-tags-on-it" isn't exactly subtle.
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GrandAdmiralJello
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5/2 11:00pm
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So I went on a date with Michelle earlier, but made the mistake of doing it on a bike. (I couldn't resist the 'ol Faggio) I was speeding like usual and slammed into a truck on the bridge, sending her flying off of it. She died and the date ended. That was awesome. 
I saw two taxis crash, and their drivers get into a fight while other people cheered them on.
I love shoving people and then walking on top of them for some reason. Ditto jumping on top of cars--the drivers actually can't see and they yell at you for it.
Ah, a taxi driver had the temerity to dent my car, so I went up to him and shot him in the head through the window. His body fell onto the steering wheel, which actually set off the horn. That was amazing.
I was playing a mission where I kept killing all my helpers over and over again either by accidentally blowing us all up with rockets, or driving so recklessly that the car would explode. I managed to bail from the car, and the others made it out when the car stopped... except they were on fire. It was awesome. They were rolling on the ground to try to stamp out the fire, but it was no good. 
I stole Greek vases and Egyptian sculptures from the Metropolitan museum to adorn my apartment. I also lauched rockets inside the contemporary art museum because "modern art" sucks. I = a high end crook now.
Everything about this game is extraordinary: they've really gone above and beyond with the immersion, and not in the lame "cheap substitute for real life" thing, but in an actual sort of quality parody with both arcade style hilarity and in-depth gameplay.
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Title: SFF:F/TV Trivia Host
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Date Posted:
5/3 1:06am
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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I've been playing this for about twelve hours total and have completed less than 20 percent of the game. It's amazing how deep it is.
I agree on the Michelle being FIB bit. Trying to score coke off me and the new furniture is less than subtle.
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Leto II
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Date Posted:
5/3 11:54am
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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5/3 12:32pm (2 edits total)
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Okay, I'm running from the cops; the crazy bastards want my blood for hitting their car a little too hard, and to get away, I attempt to jack a car, bullets whizzing past me as the cops get closer.
Niko pulls open the door of the poor bastard's car just in time for him to get riddled with bullets, à la Total Recall.
I think four words can sum up how awesome GTA IV multiplayer is: "Ice Cream Truck Race."
Another time, I thought I was safe inside the apartment until a cop busts in and starts firing. I shot him in the head, and then saved/went to sleep. I woke up, and his body was still slumped in the corner like a flesh trophy.
(Also, has anyone yet tried to legitimize Die Hard IV by taking out a helicopter with the plume from a fire hydrant?)
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Armenian_Jedi
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5/3 6:19pm
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I'm playing GTA III right now.
Does someone want to loan me their 360 or PS3?
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Boba_Fett_2001
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Dec '00
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5/3 6:25pm
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Dude, I bought GTA3 back in December and I still need to beat it!
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Reynar_Tedros
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Jul '06
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5/3 7:30pm
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**** **** **** ***** *** ****** ******!
My Xbox 360 freezes in the middle of every game I own, not just GTA IV. And I'm right in the middle of the ******* game! I wanna know what ******* happens!
****!
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Leto II
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Date Posted:
5/3 7:44pm
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RE: Grand Theft Auto IV
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Reynar, you wanna know what REALLY sucks? Drunkenly staggering out of a bar, only for some pedestrian to start a fight with you, with his hick friend then opening fire.
Was waiting for the train to come, and some chick next to me says something negative about my clothes...
...so I walk behind her, shoving her. She stumbles and loses her balance, as one of her feet find nothing but air instead of the train platform, landing down on the train tracks as the whistle of her impending doom sounds.
I don't see her get up; all I see and hear are a blur of train cars and the sound of a human body being pulverized.
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Title: SFF:F/TV Trivia Host
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Date Posted:
5/3 9:56pm
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The freezing is the precursor to the RRoD.
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GrandAdmiralJello
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5/4 12:17am
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I am a god. Want to know why?
In this game, walking around while drunk is pretty hard. Driving long distances is nigh impossible, but still doable. Flying a helicopter while drunk exceeds all mortal limitations. But it's just wicked cool.
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Leto II
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Date Posted:
5/4 8:40am
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For the moment, I yield to Jello -- I have yet to even try that particular stunt. Honestly, there's just so much to do in this game, that if you get killed in the middle of a longer mission, you can occupy yourself elsewhere and not redo the mission right away.
(The ease which the cops pull out their guns and unload is disconcerting. I wonder if Rockstar is making some kind of social point, here.)
GTA IV is quickly approaching "Best Mission-Giving NPCs Ever" status with me. In fact, this game is approaching lots of "Best *blank* Ever"-things with me. At this point, in order for this not to be the best game released in years, it'd have to take an Indigo Prophecy-esque dive into incomprehensible insanity. And these are the past two years that've seen releases like Mass Effect, Oblivion, Mario Galaxy, and Call of Duty 4.
The comments your girlfriend makes when you're having sex are priceless. I fear the realism, here. "Look honey, it's a penis, only smaller!"
Driving a Faggio, dropping a grenade behind me, and hearing my buddy Sean blow up on XBL was almost as great as dropping the Molotov Cocktail, then watching someone drive past me on another Faggio engulfed in flames. I totally turned the guy into The World's G**est Ghost Rider.
Also, when I finished the "Final Destination" mission, I just sat there staring for at least another twenty or thirty seconds, simply amazed at the detail on the bullet-riddled car. Jesus.
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