Topic: (The Lost & the Damned!)Grand Theft Auto IV Thread! (Read 16415 times)

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I just got done where you have to snipe the dude. That was fun... and easy. I tried phoning the number on the phone at first but nothing happened so I just shot the window next door.

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Weren't you the guy who asked everyone to kill the police and their choppers so you could get the achievement? Or was that some other orange guy that joined later?
Nah, I haven't found my headset yet so I didn't say anything at all. I already got the STAY ALIVE ACHIEVEMENT if that's the one you meant.

Also I dropped out much later than all of you so it was def. not a guy that joined after me droppin' out(I have no idea whether I was orange or not tho).
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Everywhere I look, there's GTA 4. Penny Arcade, advertisements, gaming sites, YOUTUBE, gamingw.net, even the damn daily show had a joke segment on it.


Fine, you bastards. I bought it. Are you happy now? I did my part as a PROUD AMERIKAN to mindlessly spend my tax refund on a 360 20g, and this wonderful game.



Bastards.
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fun little thing to note: if you just sit on a bike for a second or two Niko will put on a helmet that cuts his damage from falling in half.
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brucie is my favorite character in a video game.
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he has a special place in my heart because my co-worker thinks he's gods gift to women and does situps at every possible moment.  i don't even want to get into his car because he seriously drives while using a thigh master and it's no small wonder he hasn't wrecked yet.  it's a good thing he doesn't play videogames because he'd probably hump the tv when he sees brucie.
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On the Brucie note I just did the mission where you and it is really nice.

Is there a way to save cars, this early on? I am driving it everywhere, but I know eventually there will be a "get out of your car and onto a bike/run 40 miles on foot" mission and I will lose it :(​.
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We really need to get together and play sometime soon. I just finished a game with Lars that lasted for nearly 2 hours (felt more like 45 minutes). After some less than successful chopper vs chopper combat we teamed up to take two other guys us with the choppers. That didn't work very well either so in the end we found various buildings that you could enter and barricaded ourselves in there while the cops and other players tried to get inside.

Tons of explosions, tons of fun! I think the most hilarious moment was when we crashed into each other with our choppers, I lost the main rotor and Lars lost hit entire tail. Both crashed in the middle of the city :(

The multiplayer is great!
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On the Brucie note I just did the mission where you and it is really nice.

Is there a way to save cars, this early on? I am driving it everywhere, but I know eventually there will be a "get out of your car and onto a bike/run 40 miles on foot" mission and I will lose it :(​.

There should be a yellow rectangle labeled something like "Residential Parking Only" outside your safe house where you can save your car if you leave the car parked in it. I'm not sure if the 1st safe house has one but the 2nd and up should have them.

Also... has anyone else had this problem:

I've been playing the PS3 version of GTA IV without any major problems so far. I have saved like probably around 14+ hours of game play. I had to work like all day today, so my brother then decided to play GTA IV but for whatever reason he decided to start a new game on a new PS3 profile (I guess he didn't want to fuck with my save files). He plays up to and beats the mission "It's your call", my last game mission I beat was (and what should have been my game save file ) "A long way to fall". When I get home from work I turn the game on and it's already logged onto my PS3 profile and I loaded up GTA IV. I let the game get past all it's loading screens and stuff and when it gets to the part where it says "Loading - (your mission here)" it says on it "Loading - It's your call" instead of my file... It's basically trying to load my brother's profile save game which doesn't exist on my profile. Anyways it gets stuck at the loading screen so I hit the PS3 button and quit game. Restart the game and it loads the correct file this time but it's still stuck at the loading screen....

EDIT: oh snap I totally forgot I could copy the files from one profile to another. Anyways it works now, I just transferred all of my files from one profile to the next and it worked. Oh man I was totally freaking out lol.  :sweat:

EDIT #2: Okay it finally works 100% I think... I had to sign out of Playstation Network log into the game, let my file load up properly, then I quit the game, signed back into PSN and now it works while signed into PSN. Really bothersome... but whatever... I guess.
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Yeah we don't get problems like that on xbox, sorry mate.

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i dont got any problem's sorry

and too bad rami got it on 360 too LOL

Also, I don't get what's up with the trigger hate. I love Dual Shock 3's R2/L2 triggers and they are so much better than using X for accelerating. 360's triggers aren't as good but I think they are good too. You just need to play for a bit with the triggers and you'll get used to them in no time.
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how do you escape from the cops once they get helicopters on you?  two stars is easy for me, but 3-4 and i have absolutely no idea how to get away.
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how do you escape from the cops once they get helicopters on you?  two stars is easy for me, but 3-4 and i have absolutely no idea how to get away.
Try leaving your car and finding some good spot where you can take cover and then find another vehichle. Narrow alleys, under bridges or somewhere in shadow. A really fast car can also do the trick, I believe.

Also, speaking of Brucie (he really is fucking awesome), the mission where is hilarious.
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how do you escape from the cops once they get helicopters on you?  two stars is easy for me, but 3-4 and i have absolutely no idea how to get away.

Pay N' Spray as long as they don't see you go into it.

I've never gotten over 3 stars except on
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Ok so I found out I get my Playstation back in a week or so and since i gonna pick up my copy of GTAIV with it I decided to get my money back for the copy and now gonna just import one from Play Asia since PS3 is region free so no censored hookers and cutscenes for me! I'll post my PSN ID when I get it since my ps3 is going to be wiped anyways so I'm just gonna make a new account.

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Wait, Play Asia? Is that even in English?

I suggest using Video Games Plus, I pretty much import all my games from there because the prices are nice and delivery is usually fast.
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It's in English! here.. Grand Theft Auto IV at Play Asia. And Video Game Plus didn't have New Zealand.

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how do you escape from the cops once they get helicopters on you?  two stars is easy for me, but 3-4 and i have absolutely no idea how to get away.

Drive through alleyways between tall buildings or go under a bridge.  Like I said earlier, enemies in this game actually have to make sight contact with you so if you break line of sight with them it will throw them off.  You'll notice the little "x" of the helicoptor will change size when you break line of sight with it and it will start hovering in circles.  After that it's just a matter of dodging the rest of the cops.

Somehow I managed to dodge a 4 star rating and get the walking free or whatever achievement after I purposefully clicked on that pedophile website.  It was pretty cool because I never expected to pull it off.
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Yeah we don't get problems like that on xbox, sorry mate.

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But we do get random disconnections when joining games. Its a game of luck when you try to join a friends game of freemode, 50% you will connect and 50% you wont.
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Try leaving your car and finding some good spot where you can take cover and then find another vehichle. Narrow alleys, under bridges or somewhere in shadow. A really fast car can also do the trick, I believe.

Also, speaking of Brucie (he really is fucking awesome), the mission where is hilarious.
After I completed the mission a random pedestrian decided to play hero and starting shooting at me and in the process hit another guy. Next thing I knew about eight people were in a full on gun fight, with cops joining in a few seconds later. It was an awesome end to a funny mission.