GTA IV

[schild]

What I want to know is, why can't I freaking play Pool, Darts, Bowling, etc.. with other players in free mode!?  They didn't even think about that?? What the hell?

Buy a Wii.

[Draegan]

I got this game on Monday, havn't had time, but I played a few hours.  Awesome game.

Draegan Inc.  on 360.

[Valmorian]

Buy a Wii.

I want immersion in my "Free world mode" dammit.  They HAVE those games in GTA 4, they have the player interface too.. How hard could it have been for them to add them to the multiplayer? 

[murdoc]

Buy a Wii.

I want immersion in my "Free world mode" dammit.  They HAVE those games in GTA 4, they have the player interface too.. How hard could it have been for them to add them to the multiplayer? 

I would totally bust in on anyone playing pool/darts/bowling and immerse their ass in bullets.

[Sauced]

That just means that whoever isn't at the table has to guard the door, which sounds like fun to me!

[Mrbloodworth]

Buy a Wii.

I want immersion in my "Free world mode" dammit.  They HAVE those games in GTA 4, they have the player interface too.. How hard could it have been for them to add them to the multiplayer? 

I bet it coming.

[Valmorian]

I would totally bust in on anyone playing pool/darts/bowling and immerse their ass in bullets.

Of course.  Even better is you can shoot the other players if you're losing.

[Mrbloodworth]

[WayAbvPar]

Hahahhaha awesome.

[murdoc]

I just got the 'Lowest Point' achievement and when I checked I had over 100 kills in the game, I bet 90% of those are vehicular homicide as I rush around trying to keep my friends happy.

[rattran]

Pedestrians are much  Driving around in a convertible and trying to catch the unsuspecting motorcycle enthusiasts in the passenger seat is also   

The story is okay, but the mayhem is 

[Sauced]

Hope you have good health insurance!

You are a credit to the American education system!

[Mrbloodworth]

Apparently a patch just went out for PS3.

[schild]

Didn't do any good.

Who knows how R* managed to fuck up Gamespy code.

[Mrbloodworth]

Didn't do any good.

Who knows how R* managed to fuck up Gamespy code.

I don't suppose it came with a patch note did it?

[Miasma]

Well if it's a networking bug you would probably have to wait for everyone else to have their game updated as well before you count it out.

[NiX]

I don't suppose it came with a patch note did it?

Closest thing I could find...

According to developer Rockstar, the update "prevents Gamespy's servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up."

[WayAbvPar]

Why the fuck do people still use Gamespy? Has it ever worked with a shit? I know my experiences with it have been uniformly negative.

[Morfiend]

Why the fuck do people still use Gamespy? Has it ever worked with a shit? I know my experiences with it have been uniformly negative.

Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!

[Mrbloodworth]

Why the fuck do people still use Gamespy? Has it ever worked with a shit? I know my experiences with it have been uniformly negative.

Well, in this case, the user has no say, as far as companies, it must be the price point, i guess. Or they really can handle things better than anyone else.

[Ookii]

Apologies if this is a repost, I'm not reading a fucking 8 page thread about a game I haven't played through yet.

This is fucking hilarious though:

We usually don’t write many personal pieces here on TEB, but I just have to share the story of my wife playing GTA IV for the first time. I want to make a couple things clear before I start this absurd story. 1. I love girl gamers. I think its awesome when girls get really into video games and break stereotypes by whooping ass in COD4 or GTA IV multiplayer. I’m not trying to hate on girl gamers. 2. I love my wife and she is very understanding of my video game obsession.

Ok, now that the disclaimer is over, I can proceed with the story.

As of late, much of my time has been spent in the friendly confines of Liberty City, and my wife has been extremely tolerant of my gaming time. Last weekend we were about to go out to eat, so I began shutting the game down when the thought popped in my head, “After watching me play for hours, I wonder if my wife wants a turn?” She was sitting on the couch next to me, so I extended the controller to her and asked, “You wanna drive around for a bit?” She replied, “Sure, why not.” During her time in Liberty City, my wife somehow manage to suck all of the fun out of GTA IV.

I was in some shitty coupe when she took over the wheel, and she began tooling around the city in a leisurely fashion. I mentioned that she might want a slicker ride, and helped her exit the car and attempt to jack another one. She ran up to a car with two homeboys in it and yanked the door open, but that’s when things went horribly wrong. She walked away from the car, and one of the gentlemen came chasing with a baseball bat. In all the excitement, she clicked the left stick sending Niko into a crouch then yelled “Why does my guy keep ducking??” I yelled “Click the left-stick” repeatedly without realizing she would have no idea what that actually meant. Attempting to flee the scene, she crouch-walked down the street only to get whipped some more with by the guy with the bat. Miraculously, somehow she ended up punching the guy several times, knocking him out, and getting his bat. After walking around in circles a few times, it was finally time to leave the scene. As she was leaving, we saw the guy she just beat up limping away. I suggested she finish him off and she said “Awww, that’s not nice, he learned his lesson.” He learned his lesson indeed.

After making it through our first big fight, my wife ran up to a trash dumpster and began repeatedly hitting it with her new baseball bat (because she wanted to swing the bat but hitting people is mean she said). This went on for around 2 minutes before I suggested that she moved on to a different, perhaps more entertaining, activity. She ran over to a huge semi truck and jacked it. I thought to myself “This should be fun, there is no way she is going to be able to drive that around and not get in trouble.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. As the semi began to lumber out of its parking spot my wife exclaimed, “Oooh, you know what will be fun, driving around and obeying all of the traffic rules.” Yeah, because THAT’S what makes GTA IV a great game, obeying all the rules! What the holy hell is wrong here!?!?

My wife played this mind-numbingly boring game of obeying traffic lights for around 5 minutes before accidentally hitting an elderly pedestrian while traveling about 2 miles an hour. My wife gasped and lept from her truck to “check and see if she is ok.” I’m not making this shit up. I asked my wife, “What are you going to do if she is injured…throw her in your semi and take her to the hospital?” to which she replied, “Can you do that in this game?” Sadly…no. (unfortunately, the poor old woman did not make it through the accident.)

After the tragedy of mowing down the old woman, my wife decided driving a semi was a little to much vehicle for her to handle in a safe manner. She jacked a parked car and immediately was pursued by Liberty City’s finest. Amazingly, she was able to escape the grasp of the long arm of the law (I believe she ran some stoplights during the chase.) That may have been a little too much excitement because after fleeing to safety she decided her time in Liberty City was over. She handed the controller back to me, and I immediately began plugging pedestrians with my shotgun because I was full of pent up GTA rage from watching that lame-ass traffic law game. Seeing my murderous rampage, my wife yelled “Stop! Stop! You’re being like that kid from Virginia Tech!” Seriously, I’m not making this shit up. Chalk one up for Jack-fucking-Thompson.

[Azazel]

Marge Simpson! We Love you!

[Nerf]

I'm joining the Republican Space Rangers, those guys are my kind of people.

[Velorath]

They both suck equally.

This doesn't seem to be the case.

[Morfiend]

They both suck equally.

This doesn't seem to be the case.

Pick your battles. Is this one really worth it?

[Velorath]

They both suck equally.

This doesn't seem to be the case.

Pick your battles. Is this one really worth it?

It ranks somewhere between Iron Man and irrational Nintendo hate on the "no schild, you're wrong" scale.  Given his recent praise of GT5P's multiplayer, and MGSO, I guess I should just be glad that he didn't outright declare the PS3 to have the best GTA IV multiplayer.

Edit: So it doesn't sound completely negative, let me just say that I respect schild's opinion a lot in most cases which is why it bothers me on the occasions where he lets his biases win out over his judgement.

[schild]

oh oh oh

can you pick the game you want to join on the 360 one?

I'll go out and buy it right now if I can.

When I said they both suck, I meant literally, the multiplayer design should've had SIMPLE, ESTABLISHED THINGS that neither has.

[stray]

This seems like a pretty minor problem (network code/servers). No reason to argue about what "version" is better. People probably won't even remember this in a month.

That's pretty lame about the new patch though (haven't downloaded it yet, but I'll take your word for it).

[MisterNoisy]

Well - I was able to play without the freezing for an hour or so, so so far it's aces in my book. :P

[Fabricated]

Just an FYI but whoever StrayKat is, that's not me you're playing with. It's my brother, who has commandeered my PS3 every day, every hour he is home since I picked up GTA4.

[schild]

StrayKat is... Stray, dude.

[Fabricated]

StrayKat is... Stray, dude.

Well, whatever. The guy you're playing with is my brother. He sucks.

[stray]

Ah I see.

..

I suck too (especially at racing), so it's all good.

[Riggswolfe]

Ok, I played about an hour last night to make sure I don't have a freezing issue. I'll be finishing up part 2 of Persona 3 FES before I resume but I wanted to mention a couple of things.

How did this game get such high scores?

The graphics are straight out of the XBOX or PS2 era. The art direction is nice but the rest of it, not current gen at all. I suspect this game started life as a last gen effort and got "upgraded" along the way.

The camera, in and out of the car is total shit. I like to pan my camera around when moving in games. Apparently this one wants to auto-correct back to straight ahead if you're walking or driving. Stop that shit! I got tired of fighting the camera before I even drove Roman home after he picked me up at the docks. Also, why the fuck does it zoom in on my license plate when I accelerate hard from a stop? It's so much fun not being able to see until I manually move the camera back into position. WTF?

So, I'd give the game an 8 or so. It's fun but the camera thing made me stop playing it 30 minutes earlier than I might have otherwise. I took Michelle out on a date and damn Roman called me on the way there. (Glad to hear about the turning sleep mode thing on, I was beginning to worry about the sandbox being gone for micromanaging friends.)

The game has a more cinematic flair than past games, and an attempt at a story but so far...I'm not nearly as impressed as I thought I would be. I'll come back to it after I finish the Answer in FES.

[Mrbloodworth]

The camera, pressing forward on the steering stick will move the camera down, also pulling back will bring it up (switch that if you play inverted). I didn't realize it at first, but it was me that was was creating the fucked camera angles (license plat cam!) especially in heated moments when i wanted to go forward. It does auto correct, but not that much. I do agree however, the camera is not the best, but it never was in this series..not even sure how they could do it better honestly for this game/game play.