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The Fearsome And Mammoth Only Allowable Grand Theft Auto IV Thread
Scandanavian War Machine:
i use the shotgun and the M4 when the situation warrants it, but mostly i use the pistol because i have over 700 rounds for the thing and maybe 30 or 40 each for the shotgun and M4. i use the uzi when driving for the most part but even then i'll switch to the pistol if the uzi's running low on ammo.
i love beating random civilians with the baseball bat. there they are, minding their own business when they get knocked upside the head and Niko starts yelling "Say something now, tough guy!" or "Just stay down!"
Melodic:
I used the ghetto weapon set until about the halfway mark. Now I'm decked out with all of the high-power variants. I think I like the ghetto ones better.
LordNagash:
I like to take my time in battle and aim. Pistol for close range headshots, rifles for long range. Shotgun is for fun, and Uzi is for drivebys.
est:
Ok, so. There are good things and bad things about this game.
- The storyline is pretty good. Nothing super special, but interesting and well-executed and for the most part the characters are interesting enough to be entertaining.
- Graphics engine is really good. The atmospheric settings like lighting and weather are all excellent.
- Driving about is a lot of fun. Not super-realistic, but a good balance between realism and fun.
- They've fleshed the world out a fair bit. The world feels a lot more "full" now, even if you still can't use most of the stuff.
A lot of what is good about the game has already been said, and I agree with most of it. That said, here's my negatives:
- The mini-games are pretty shit. I went bowling with the first girlfriend & got bored of it halfway through. I went and played pool with Roman and got annoyed at it because the physics are fucked. The ball will occasionally just stop wherever the fuck it wants. I got sick of it and deliberately tried sinking the black until he won anyway. He asked for another game, I said no. I've since turned him down playing pool because it was such a shitty implementation of the game.
- So far the filler content looks to be fairly superficial. You go to an internet cafe and it's the same shit on the pcs all the time. Maybe it changes later? I dunno. I just think that they could make a whole bunch of stuff and cycle through it.
- So far the radio stations are pretty boring compared to the previous two games. I've been channel surfing a bit. I've had a couple of good music moments. One was driving home from someplace at night and Testarossa Overdrive came on. I suddenly felt the need to drive really fast. Other than that it's been pretty lacklustre.
- In regards to the new Police system there is both good & bad, but the negative outweighs the positive. I appreciate that the cops are only called when someone sees you and calls the cops, and that the alarm only goes up when cops arrive and see you at the scene. I hate hate fucking goddamn hate the new "get out of the circle and cops nearly instantly forget you" shit, though. I walked out the front of my house, knifed 5 dudes to death then drove 2 mins up the road to evade the cops. That is fucking weak.
- Obvious training area is obvious. I absolutely hate the fake "oh, there's cops on the bridges" shit they always pull. I understand the need to keep us boxed in at the start, but surely there's got to be a way to do it that doesn't feel so bullshit.
- I said earlier that the characters are interesting enough to keep me entertained. Note I didnt' call them good. The main characters at the start are basically just caricatures. About two seconds after meeting Vlad I knew exactly what was going to happen later. About two seconds after meeting the first girlfriend I got the impression that she was a narc or something. That's not a spoiler because it hasn't been revealed to me. It's speculation at the moment, but from shit she's saying it seems pretty obvious she is either an undercover cop or fucking stupid. That said, I love the Jamaican guy (mon). Probably because I can't understand most of what he says, but whatever.
- I wish Niko would take more damage from car crashes and such. I have dived out of a car going as fast as I could get it, jumping over some monument thing & hit a park fence. The screen went red-tinted for a sec and I lost a small chunk of health. Same with another time I hit a stunt jump at max speed, went into slow-motion, landed on the other side of a river and smashed straight into a tree. Niko flew out the front windscreen onto the ground and he still only lost about a centimetre of health.
At the moment the game feels a little too easy. The missions are one thing and I am sure they will get hard later. The underlying mechanics of the game, however, will probably not change. The police are too lenient and easy to get away from and it is really very difficult to get hurt badly outside of a decent fight. I am sure that some people will see these things as positives, but it makes me feel like there's absolutely no reason to consider any action I do. When there is basically no risk to anything then everything will get boring pretty quickly.
All that might make it seem like I hate the game, but nothing could be further from the truth. This is probably the best game I have played in a very long time. I think that I am being so hard on it due to all the perfect review scores it's garnered and all the bullshit hype that's surrounded it, as well as it being so close to perfect that things like this stick out and annoy me. I am going to play the shit out of this and I expect that I'll have a load of fun. I suspect that this will be the game that finally gets me to sign up for a Live Gold account so I can run around in LC with some of you mob and raise hell.
est:
Oh and, here is a "GTA moment" for you:
After I had flung myself out of the car jumping over a monument, dusted myself off and started looking around I noticed that an Ice-Cream truck had bumped into a bum and knocked him over. As the bum stumbled to his feet I ran over to the truck and tried to jack it. The guy resisted, so I punched him a couple of times and started to pull him out of the truck. The bum looked through the front windscreen, eyes wide in shock and shouted "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" and just stood there staring.
I got the driver out of the truck and floored it, running the bum over and flying off down the road (well, as fast as a brick on wheels can "fly off down the road"). After a little while I heard a kind of panicked wailing, so I tried to see what was going on. I spun my viewpoint around a couple of times & eventually saw that there was a guy in the passenger seat of the truck sitting there like a stunned mullet, wailing and panicking. So I did what any sensible person would do: I floored it again and aimed the truck toward the nearest cliff-like structure, bailing out before it went over the edge. Niko stood up and casually sauntered away as I giggled like a madman on my side of the screen.
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