The GTAIV Kickass Hype/Discussion Thread (56k) - KEEP IT HERE OR BE SUSPENDED!

i'll post it in this CRAPPY sticky because the mods will go all police oficer on me if i don't.... but there are NO CUTS in GTA4. it's for 18 years and older (cause of masturbation references or something)

Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV has been awarded an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification. According to the classification the game received an 18 rating for "strong violence, very strong language, very strong sex references and drugs use".

seriously mods.. this thread sucks.. you can't put ALLL GTA news in 1 topic. you are ruining the forum.

Always-Honest

dude, bugger off....it's not the thread that's at fault, it's the rule.

If you'd got a sliver to pick, pick it with the moderators or administrators who made the rule you don't like...don't trash this topic.

[QUOTE="Always-Honest"]

i'll post it in this CRAPPY sticky because the mods will go all police oficer on me if i don't.... but there are NO CUTS in GTA4. it's for 18 years and older (cause of masturbation references or something)

Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV has been awarded an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification. According to the classification the game received an 18 rating for "strong violence, very strong language, very strong sex references and drugs use".

seriously mods.. this thread sucks.. you can't put ALLL GTA news in 1 topic. you are ruining the forum.

fuzzysquash

dude, bugger off....it's not the thread that's at fault, it's the rule.

If you'd got a sliver to pick, pick it with the moderators or administrators who made the rule you don't like...don't trash this topic.

True dat, True dat

He could go to the PS3 and 360 board and post it if it was that big of a concern. More people probably go to those anyways.

P.S.. Time to really hype it.

APRIL IS HERE. Time to reserve if I can.

Btw, not to be a downer or anything, but I came across a hands-on that also talked about some of the negatives in an overall positive preview, and none of the other ones really did. Figured it might be worth looking at if some missed it:

Still though, GTA 4 is no Holodeck. During my few hours of hands-on time I experienced plenty "oh yeah, this is still a game" moments that reminded me that, despite Rockstar North's efforts, Liberty City still plays by virtual rules.

Pull a gun on a random bystander, perhaps someone casually walking down a street, or withdrawing money from a cash machine, or sitting on a bench reading a newspaper, and they'll either run away or cower - and that's it. Cause death-filled carnage in an area, drive the cops absolutely crazy, escape their line of sight and search radius (visible in the mini-map in the bottom left hand corner of the screen) and then return to that area, and everything will be returned to normal. Fail a mission and you'll be sent a text message offering you the chance to reset and retry. I'm not criticising the game here. I'm just saying that you shouldn't expect a virtual world simulation. Liberty City is quick to react, but it has a hard time remembering.Videogamer

Indeed, I'm going to make a tentative claim and say it's shaping up to be the best in the series. But I still have some reservations. Liberty City does indeed feel more like a living, breathing place than ever before, but dig deep and you'll find that it's emptier than you might think. You can't enter most of the game's buildings or talk to 90% of the people you see. If you witness a crime you can stop and watch the event unfold, and even follow it through to an arrest - police will push the perpetrator's head down and bundle them into the back of cop car. While there are tonnes of people simply getting on with their lives, doing things like withdrawing money from cash machines and discussing the burning issues affecting the citizens of Liberty City, at the end of the day they act like the soulless automatons they truly are.Videogamer

Right after that, though, he wrote:

Does it matter? As I've said, this is GTA, not the latest JRPG. You can still nick a car, run over 50 pedestrians, climb a drainpipe, jump onto a train platform, slide into cover, blind-fire a rocket launcher, blow everything up and escape from the cops while throwing Molotov cocktails out of a sports car. Who needs levelling up when you've got this?"Videogamer

Most of the stuff he noted is either trivial or stuff you can't really blame the developers for, but it's still helpful to gauge expectations (and the police arresting people in front of you sounds really cool to me, dunno how that's a negative).

The full 6-page hands-on is here.

[QUOTE="Mordred19"]has it been stated how long the main story will be?the-very-best

All they've said is that the game is 100 hours. It does take really, really long to beat the main story and the side quests in GTA SA and the others, so I doubt they're lying.

The main story will probably only take 20-30 hours though, I'm guessing.

SO close TVB only 28 more days to go. Too bad you will be on the PS3 version, so i cant kill you in the online MP.

god i love the topic for info but nobody ends up talking about GTA4 in here. like expected more posts about that exclusive screenshot I posted but most people just what look here anymore. I think because they don't read stickies or the feel like going through this whole topic it is too long. In addition, I cant go to GTA 4 forums because those are a mess with April Fools and the "500" threads.BlizzardBear

Hey man, I appreciated it.

You just gotta link it so people can access it easier:

link

If you go to www.gta4.fr they have all 10 exclusive screenshots Rockstar decided to give to fansites. Sorry i can't link it I don't know how on Safari. The screenshots look low res.BlizzardBear

Here are the fansites' exclusive pics, courtesy of gtagaming.net, and resized through imageshack:

Looks so awesome and fun that it makes me cry. I need this game immediately.

heres gamestops commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0fVl0MDCoo

i promise it is extremly real.

THat link isnt working so I will post this but it isnt as nice as quality.BTW AWESOME COMMERCIAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1043pL438

heres gamestops commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0fVl0MDCoo

i promise it is extremly real.

blitzkid1

pretty funny. they showed the "drunk" footage.

Did anyone verify if that "leaked" achievement list was real or not?JiveT

See how I am saying noone discusses that video. That video is huge and shows a lot just noone looks hereBlizzardBear

yeah, it's great. but people don't want to spend much time in a sticky . even a good sticky

Pop quiz: what does his tattoo say?

Great job on this thread theverybest :)

GTA4 will be huge.

This helicopter pic gives a great sense of the scale of GTA4:

To the left is Alderney (New Jersey) and the big borough to the middle and right is Algonquin (Manhattan), with what also looks to be the Times Square GTA4 equivalent down there towards the bottom right of the pic. And I'm guessing those individual lights down there are cars and streetlamps. So damn cool.

Compare it to the street map:

You can clearly see the Alderney and Algonquin ports both in the map and in the pic. Looks like the map area is both big and dense, when you consider how high up the helicopter is. And the draw distance is just phenomenal.

@fuzzysquash- That Chinese character is "wo", which means "I" or me.plainoldsam

Winner!

You win:

*eats cookie*

Too slow :twisted:

*eats cookie*

Too slow :twisted:

EliteKitteh

The main game better be longer than 8 hours. :x

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6188612.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;6

From the article...."The BBFC also listed GTAIV's running time as around seven and three-quarter hours (463 minutes), a figure presumably derived from playing through solely the main section of the game. The final time is bound to be much longer, given the fact its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, ran nearly 100 hours. However, according to a recent note from Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey, even a game of that length would likely suck up over 2.68 billion man-hours this year."

I'm gonna be pissed if the main section is less than 8 hours long. However, strangely enough, I feel this might be true. Many games this generation have been on the short side. GameSpot quickly dismisses this 7 3/4 hour running time. However, with the limits of DVD9, and the pressures with RockStar having to develop this title for 2 platforms, I'm concerned that this game will indeed be super-short. Yes...I know the main quest in GTA games aren't all there is to it. But Vice City and San Andreas definitely had main quests much longer than 8 hours.

Since this story went live, Rockstar Games contacted GameSpot to say that the running time associated with GTAIV's BBFC rating was for the length of footage given to the ratings board, not the game itself. It did not provide a final running time for the game, but did say that its cutscenes alone approach eight hours in combined length.Gamespot

I'll probably play for like 8 hours straight when I first get the game. :P And at the end of that, I'll probably have done only one or two of the main story missions. It's gonna be a long, long game, no doubt about that.

I'm not so interested in the single player as I am the "Free Mode" multiplayer. Do want mayhem with friends :Dmusicalmac

See, I am the exact opposite. Multiplayer is interesting, but for me GTA has always been about the story, the atmosphere, and the characters. For that reason I feel Vice City is the best.

Just a quick notice in the last trailer Sorry if old but

Al Freakin' Pacino as a voice actor just made the entertanment factor go waaaay up for me!!!!

Just a quick notice in the last trailer Sorry if old but

Al Freakin' Pacino as a voice actor just made the entertanment factor go waaaay up for me!!!!

Shattered007

What? No way. I don't believe you.

Do you have a link? What is this trailer you're talking about?

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]I'm not so interested in the single player as I am the "Free Mode" multiplayer. Do want mayhem with friends :Dfuzzysquash

See, I am the exact opposite. Multiplayer is interesting, but for me GTA has always been about the story, the atmosphere, and the characters. For that reason I feel Vice City is the best.

Im looking forward to all the mayham i can do on my own, and all the mayham i can do online. You guys need to learn to enjoy the entire product. :)jg4xchamp

That said, I liked SA better than VC, but I played it first, so that probably has a hand.

I'm not so interested in the single player as I am the "Free Mode" multiplayer. Do want mayhem with friends :Dmusicalmac

that was what was so great about Crackdown. Free mode wll be the best thing.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]I'm not so interested in the single player as I am the "Free Mode" multiplayer. Do want mayhem with friends :DAlways-Honest

that was what was so great about Crackdown. Free mode wll be the best thing.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]I'm not so interested in the single player as I am the "Free Mode" multiplayer. Do want mayhem with friends :DAlways-Honest

that was what was so great about Crackdown. Free mode wll be the best thing.

Instead of: jump on building, kill bad guys with rocket launcher. Kill boss. Rinse, repeat.

I admit, though, I enjoyed Crackdown's single player much more than any of the GTAs.musicalmac

That's ridiculous.

The driving in Crackdown was such crap. And it lacked, you know, even an attempt at a story, or motivation, other than: Get moar orbs so you can jump higher.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]I admit, though, I enjoyed Crackdown's single player much more than any of the GTAs.Jandurin

That's ridiculous.

The driving in Crackdown was such crap. And it lacked, you know, even an attempt at a story, or motivation, other than: Get moar orbs so you can jump higher.

Just a quick notice in the last trailer Sorry if old but

Al Freakin' Pacino as a voice actor just made the entertanment factor go waaaay up for me!!!!

Shattered007

You're gunna have to back this up, because i don't believe you.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for jumping (really, really high!!) into a crowded street full of thugs, with guns blazing! No, it wasn't perfect, but for what I wanted to do, it doesn't get much better.musicalmac

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]What can I say, I'm a sucker for jumping (really, really high!!) into a crowded street full of thugs, with guns blazing! No, it wasn't perfect, but for what I wanted to do, it doesn't get much better.Jandurin

Hulk SMASH?Jandurin

[QUOTE="Jandurin"]Hulk SMASH?musicalmac