you have to be at a complete stop. favorite mission has to be three leaf clover the bank robbery !
yeah i was like what the hell i'm just shooting then i stopped and it came up. Kinda made sense too. Going 100 while checking your email doesn't seem all that safe to me. lol
yeah i was like what the hell i'm just shooting then i stopped and it came up. Kinda made sense too. Going 100 while checking your email doesn't seem all that safe to me. lol
They actually do check their computers while driving in real life, though not at 100. Atleast I've seen them do that on cops, not even watching the road. Maybe Niko's just not a fucking idiot.
also, if you kill all the most wanted dudes on the police database, you get an achievement, if you're chasing some in a car, don't forget to open the driver's door when they are dead since it's often the target, cash will pop up.
I also noticed that hitting the horn when behind some dude who's parked and looking in his car's trunk will scare him (like any other dude), but he will often hit his head on the trunks door when standing up. no idea if that's on purpose but that's how it looked.
This game is so truly amazing, bla nothing to be added really to the thread other than my undying appreciation for scotland ;p
Actually Im going to add that I think the Kleinman Magition at the caberet is friking genius!
Who ever came up with their duo perfomance needs a bloody good slap ;p
I played ALL weekend. I seriously did nothing else but play GTA. Tried to play some Multi on Saturday, but couldn't connect to anyone (thanks for the invites though Vassago and Vahl), but I looked up which ports I needed to have open for better connection for my xbox and that seemed to have fixed it. Had a short game with Flaagan (who is awesome with the rocket launcher by the way :poly104:) and a few random online matches on Sunday.
Also, I have yet to find a second pigeon in the game! I've been casually looking around for them, but no dice.
Brucie... What can be said about Brucie. HAHA! Champion!
Another thing, I've had some reservations about Michelle as soon as I got some clothes from Modo/Perseus and she hated them. I even stopped trying to get lucky with her, because its much funnier hearing her disappointment than her "Tell me things, Niko". I too think she may be affiliated with the authorities, mainly from the eye-find website there's a filtered face in there which kinda looks like Michelle (Undercover Lover). Because of that, I went in search for a new chick. I've gotten 2 positive replies so far.
Been playing a LOT, the game is great but overall the character art is pretty horrible, and closeups on low-detail NPC models in cinematics, tisk tisk. Not to mention the fact that the main characters are only *slightly* better than the npcs....
Not like i expect much from characters in gta, but theres really no excuse in terms of hardware power anymore like there was on the ps2.
You tappin' the moonshine a little hard, EQ? I don't think the character art is that bad, considering. Everything in the game is pretty much loaded at the start. Insides of buildings, new islands, clothes, minigames, cutscenes - there's no loading once the initial game load has been made. No other game has done that on next gen as of right now and certainly not one the size of GTAIV. I don't think the results are that bad considering all of that.
My personal beef is with the shadows. They *really* annoy me. The resolution is so low that the edges made everything look like crap. But again, huge game. I can live with it.
I haven't had a chance to play much yet, but I'm delighted that the latest instance of WoW addiction may be excised before it has a chance to really set in!
My favorite thing about it so far is that it gives me an opportunity to shout at my television in a Russian accent.
This is in reply to EQ's post in a way - but I think the game sort of has this 75% quality level that is throughout the game.
Character art is 75% of what it could be.
Level art is 75% of what it could be.
Physics are 75% of what it could be.
Audio is 75% of what it could be.
Car physics are 75% of what they could be.
...and so on.
However, this sort of fidelity really lends itself to the overall experience and to me they all work really well together.
I'd hate to have LESS of a game and see everything @ 100% than have what we have now.
You tappin' the moonshine a little hard, EQ? I don't think the character art is that bad, considering. Everything in the game is pretty much loaded at the start. Insides of buildings, new islands, clothes, minigames, cutscenes - there's no loading once the initial game load has been made. No other game has done that on next gen as of right now and certainly not one the size of GTAIV. I don't think the results are that bad considering all of that.
My personal beef is with the shadows. They *really* annoy me. The resolution is so low that the edges made everything look like crap. But again, huge game. I can live with it.
I dont really see your point here? I'm talking the actual content here, the model, diffuse, normal, could all be better, esp for the cinematic characters. Everything looks like it has painted bump maps etc instead of real normals, theres a real bad mixture of normals, and then completely photosourced assets, etc. How this has anything to do with the loading i dont get, you can replace the same textures with better ones without effecting loading at all. And just the fact that there are closeups of low detail NPCs in the cinematics, which btw, yes you do actually LOAD every cinematic, makes for some REALLY cringe worthy scenes(See the party cinematic at Elizabeth's)
This is in reply to EQ's post in a way - but I think the game sort of has this 75% quality level that is throughout the game.
Character art is 75% of what it could be.
Level art is 75% of what it could be.
Physics are 75% of what it could be.
Audio is 75% of what it could be.
Car physics are 75% of what they could be.
...and so on.
However, this sort of fidelity really lends itself to the overall experience and to me they all work really well together.
I'd hate to have LESS of a game and see everything @ 100% than have what we have now.
Yeah needless to say its a great game even with the minor gripes, tho i do think overall the enviroments look a bit better than the characters, mostly i think because there isnt such a focus on individual aspects of the environment, like there is characters. I mean i can find tons of flaws and such if i really try to look for it with the enviro stuff, but its a lot more apparent to me with the characters.
So i love this game i want to enjoy this game to its fullest but unfortunately if you've heard there are some problems, The game freezes during gameplay and its not limited to the PS3. If theres a thread about this i apologize but i just wanted to know of any news of a patch or fix.
(My problem)
so i picked up gta like the rest of the country for my X-box 360 . I played it online with my friend in his house using two different TV's but the same connection (he has an elite 360 i just have a regular 20 gig halo version x box) for some reason it froze...alot. i wondered if it was too many players, too many things on screen or i had to be the host of the room but it basically came down to, we could not use the same connection because when i played online and he was in the story mode i didn't get kicked for the hours i played online.
So i thought the freezing was limited to just the online, but once i played the story more where niko has to venture into different parts of the city my xbox freezes.
The combat AI of some of the enemies, combined with the combat abilities of the player, make for some of the best shooter missions I've played in a long time (this is including true FPS games in the list).
A random "Most Wanted" mission for the cops had me storming an apartment building. It started out with a gunman on the roof that rained down a hailstorm of bullets, so I had to blind fire at him from behind a tree across the street. Finally did enough damage that I could snipe the bastard. Then, some of his buddies bum rushed me out the front door as I was prepping to go in, resulting in a gun battle around the parked cars. When I actually managed to get inside the building, I was *slowly* clearing floors with the combat shotgun, and the way Niko held the gun combined with the camera made for some intense sweeps and quick gun battles. The final baddy booked it up the stairs to the roof, and I noticed from the mini-map that he was right out side the door waiting for me. I managed to get some speed going up the door, bust it open, and *just* missed getting shot in the head by the baddy. As he spun around, still firing shots at me, I managed to side-step, pull up the shotgun, and get a solid shot to the skull at close range.
Holy crap that was intense.... and that was a freaking side-mission.
Something else worth mentioning... the 'after death shot' you get with the weapons has made for some amusing incidents in MP and SP, particularly with the RPG. On a SP mission, I got blown away at the top of a flight of stairs, and as I was dieing I fired off my shotgun one last time; it was bouncing down the stairs beside me and managed to hit the guy who shot me square in the head.
My neighbor had an interesting experience when doing a mission for the first Jamacian dude. When you go with him to bust up the house. My neighbor and the dude finished clearing the first floor then went upstairs to see if anyone was up there. All clear, so he starts heading back down. He gets down the stairs and the Jamacian guy follows... trips and falls down the stairs and dies. MISSION FAILED. My neighbor was not happy.
Despite a few hiccups with the cover system (come on Niko, get off the corner of that sedan ! For cripes sake Niko, their shooting at us, try to move a wee bit faster pleez !), what totally makes it, IMHO, is the frakkin badass, John Woo, baseball slide into cover when you're a decent distance away from a cover spot. Popping up from that into cover, and than blind firing an RPG makes for one of the best "moves" I've experienced in an action game in awhile
Finished the main story, pretty great game. Surprised I got a "finished under 30 hours" achievement as I didn't check the achievements till I finished the story.
Some frustrating moments with the slow controls, but I just hafta think ahead more.
Not much glitches I found in the game. Although It did freeze in a middle of a mission.
And the RPG not working on a certain mission. (just disappears when it hits the car)
Something I'm a little disappointed with regarding the RPG and hitting vehicles is the helis. The armed helis have that open section in the middle, and I was kinda hoping that you could fire the RPG through that space and out the other side.... kinda pissed off someone I was playing with when I tried that idea out in Free Mode MP and blew them out of the sky.
yeah great job! Does anyone see the actual number of copies sold plz post, fun to know. Having fun being chased by the cops while being in a super car! yay
If you beat the game, does that mean you have finished all the missions for everybody(the missions that get a letter on the map)? Also, can you continue playing after finishing the game or would you have to start over?
Yah I have beaten all story missions. Like I said, I'm only 65% through the WHOLE game.. the other 35% is side missions and such. You can continue playing when you're finished.
The only bug I had was when Little Jacob and I went to a strip club, and when we went to a private room the stripper just stood in the door and wouldn't move. Eventually we had to kill her to get out and then we had 5 cops waiting for us, which we had to kill and escape from. It ruined our good time
Replies
** Hit Left Bumper (360) while in cop car to enter the police system.
yeah i was like what the hell i'm just shooting then i stopped and it came up. Kinda made sense too. Going 100 while checking your email doesn't seem all that safe to me. lol
They actually do check their computers while driving in real life, though not at 100. Atleast I've seen them do that on cops, not even watching the road. Maybe Niko's just not a fucking idiot.
Wow, I thought the same exact thing. Replace pecs, muscles, etc with headshots, boom, etc and it is spot on.
I also noticed that hitting the horn when behind some dude who's parked and looking in his car's trunk will scare him (like any other dude), but he will often hit his head on the trunks door when standing up. no idea if that's on purpose but that's how it looked.
I like the boats physics a lot too
Actually Im going to add that I think the Kleinman Magition at the caberet is friking genius!
Who ever came up with their duo perfomance needs a bloody good slap ;p
I played ALL weekend. I seriously did nothing else but play GTA. Tried to play some Multi on Saturday, but couldn't connect to anyone (thanks for the invites though Vassago and Vahl), but I looked up which ports I needed to have open for better connection for my xbox and that seemed to have fixed it. Had a short game with Flaagan (who is awesome with the rocket launcher by the way :poly104:) and a few random online matches on Sunday.
Also, I have yet to find a second pigeon in the game! I've been casually looking around for them, but no dice.
Brucie... What can be said about Brucie. HAHA! Champion!
Another thing, I've had some reservations about Michelle as soon as I got some clothes from Modo/Perseus and she hated them. I even stopped trying to get lucky with her, because its much funnier hearing her disappointment than her "Tell me things, Niko". I too think she may be affiliated with the authorities, mainly from the eye-find website there's a filtered face in there which kinda looks like Michelle (Undercover Lover). Because of that, I went in search for a new chick. I've gotten 2 positive replies so far.
-caseyjones
Not like i expect much from characters in gta, but theres really no excuse in terms of hardware power anymore like there was on the ps2.
My personal beef is with the shadows. They *really* annoy me. The resolution is so low that the edges made everything look like crap. But again, huge game. I can live with it.
My favorite thing about it so far is that it gives me an opportunity to shout at my television in a Russian accent.
Character art is 75% of what it could be.
Level art is 75% of what it could be.
Physics are 75% of what it could be.
Audio is 75% of what it could be.
Car physics are 75% of what they could be.
...and so on.
However, this sort of fidelity really lends itself to the overall experience and to me they all work really well together.
I'd hate to have LESS of a game and see everything @ 100% than have what we have now.
I dont really see your point here? I'm talking the actual content here, the model, diffuse, normal, could all be better, esp for the cinematic characters. Everything looks like it has painted bump maps etc instead of real normals, theres a real bad mixture of normals, and then completely photosourced assets, etc. How this has anything to do with the loading i dont get, you can replace the same textures with better ones without effecting loading at all. And just the fact that there are closeups of low detail NPCs in the cinematics, which btw, yes you do actually LOAD every cinematic, makes for some REALLY cringe worthy scenes(See the party cinematic at Elizabeth's)
Yeah needless to say its a great game even with the minor gripes, tho i do think overall the enviroments look a bit better than the characters, mostly i think because there isnt such a focus on individual aspects of the environment, like there is characters. I mean i can find tons of flaws and such if i really try to look for it with the enviro stuff, but its a lot more apparent to me with the characters.
(My problem)
so i picked up gta like the rest of the country for my X-box 360 . I played it online with my friend in his house using two different TV's but the same connection (he has an elite 360 i just have a regular 20 gig halo version x box) for some reason it froze...alot. i wondered if it was too many players, too many things on screen or i had to be the host of the room but it basically came down to, we could not use the same connection because when i played online and he was in the story mode i didn't get kicked for the hours i played online.
So i thought the freezing was limited to just the online, but once i played the story more where niko has to venture into different parts of the city my xbox freezes.
Try and keep your threads of similar topic to one post everyone, thanks
if so.. omg that was awesome, it felt like its own game, was good enough to be it anyway.
A random "Most Wanted" mission for the cops had me storming an apartment building. It started out with a gunman on the roof that rained down a hailstorm of bullets, so I had to blind fire at him from behind a tree across the street. Finally did enough damage that I could snipe the bastard. Then, some of his buddies bum rushed me out the front door as I was prepping to go in, resulting in a gun battle around the parked cars. When I actually managed to get inside the building, I was *slowly* clearing floors with the combat shotgun, and the way Niko held the gun combined with the camera made for some intense sweeps and quick gun battles. The final baddy booked it up the stairs to the roof, and I noticed from the mini-map that he was right out side the door waiting for me. I managed to get some speed going up the door, bust it open, and *just* missed getting shot in the head by the baddy. As he spun around, still firing shots at me, I managed to side-step, pull up the shotgun, and get a solid shot to the skull at close range.
Holy crap that was intense.... and that was a freaking side-mission.
Something else worth mentioning... the 'after death shot' you get with the weapons has made for some amusing incidents in MP and SP, particularly with the RPG. On a SP mission, I got blown away at the top of a flight of stairs, and as I was dieing I fired off my shotgun one last time; it was bouncing down the stairs beside me and managed to hit the guy who shot me square in the head.
Some frustrating moments with the slow controls, but I just hafta think ahead more.
Not much glitches I found in the game. Although It did freeze in a middle of a mission.
And the RPG not working on a certain mission. (just disappears when it hits the car)
> $500million week 1 sales
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hVLnDu3OLPfL9gVGgA4ybW_EuIsQD90GT84G0
You guys POUNCED Halo3's records. Good freakin' job!
Trounced, pounced, they both mean the same thing. SHOOSH
They kicked Halo3's ass. Better? :polytwitch:
Bah... I saw one of those beggars driving in a Ferrari!
http://kotaku.com/388835/niko-bellic-going-to-san-andreas
www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com <- lists all the locations for pidgeons, jumps, weapons, health, cars, perverts(?) and other stuff.
www.littlelacysurprisepageant.com
Anyhoo.. 32hours @ 65.3%
used the 1 month free gold so i'm game for some online action now.
You know, I always thought all xboxs come with 1 free gold month? or is that just premiums/elites?
I've had my 360 for almost 2 years now. And I havn't felt a reason to get live since when I had the 1 month originally I didn't use it.
Then why even bother giving you a card with a special Redeem Code
[ame]