GTA:IV

Finally got my copy of GTA IV the other day (uncensored version). I wasn't game to read this thread until I started playing it.

Fucking loving this game so far! Sex and Violence has never been so much fun!

 

PS3 FTW!

finally got my plate number in the mail, was suppsoed to get it free when u get the game from JB but they had some problem. i have it sitting on my shelf lol
'Liberty City - The Worst place in the world'

Whilst I have no real allegiance to either console I think exclusive content sucks balls!

Where's the love people?

Everyone should be able to enjoy the fruits of the developer's labour. Not just whoever owns a machine made by the company with the deepest pockets or whatever under-the-boardroom-table knob sucking took place to ensure exclusivity.

I'ma tell you like the Wu told me ... Cash Rules Everything Around Me

True, but surely the cash that M$ paid them for the exclusive content would've been made up for with the extra millions of sales generated from including Playstation users you'd think.

it would have to be worth their while, or else they wouldnt have bothered...

does anyone know what was taken out of the aussie version? can you pick up prostitutes?

I think you can, you just can't select what service they provide.

Other than that I'm not sure what was taken out. You could probably buy the un-edited UK version and have it shipped here for cheaper than you'll get it store here.

ahh ok

i got the uk version while i was over there, i can choose the different options.

anything else that was different?

Ballad of Gay Tony DLC Given Release Date

Rockstar Games just announced the release date for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second downloadable episode exclusively for the Xbox 360.

The episode is set to drop on Xbox Live October 29th for the price of 1600 Microsoft points ($19.99).

Following up on Rockstar's first episode, The Lost and Damned, players will this time be put in the shoes of Luis Lopez, a nightclub assistant.

Players can also expect to "struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price," according to the game's details.

 Am going to pick up a HDD for my 360 in the next couple of days ao I can play some of the downloadable content. Looking forward to it!

I really enjoyed the biker one...

So it's worth getting? I now also have a 360, so was thinking about grabbing a cheap copy of GTA4 just for the downloadable content.

Just saw this...

Khem - I dug into this seriously prior to release.  I also nearly asked you to bring me a copy home but I missed that boat. 

I had to have a uncut version to go with my Original GTA3 uncut version (which was recalled).
I luckily hired it from a Video shop after the recall and I never returned - Worth It IMO.

# 4 was censored in Aus for one main reason other then the Prostitute issue, I believe it was to do with a skit that involves a Baseball bat and it being place up someone's arse...

Wanna Swap copies?

no



havent come across the baseball bat thing yet, still doing jobs for phil bell and joey pegorino or whatever his name is

i always feel sorry for dwayne when he calls up cos he has no other friends

 

 He always called at the worst times for me. Seriously never hung out with him.

Should have killed him then innit!

took him out for fried chicken and he loved it

Nice man-date fag!

Yeah I was going to say... Fast food for the girls. Strip clubs for the guys!

Double post ... But check this out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7372117.stm?ls

BBC video from 1996 before the release of the first GTA! I played that game a lot when it came out. Great fun at LAN parties. Pity there are no tanks in it anymore like there were then!

I applied for a job at that studio recently...

They're working on APB, an MMO version of Crackdown

finally got round to downloading TLAD last night. its actually the deal of the week on the marketplace, so you can get it for 1200 MS points instead of 1600. pretty sweet so far. love how you can smash people off their bikes with your baseball bat in the races.

Haha bit of a nod to the classic Road Rash there!

I had forgotten about this game. Fucking classic for sure.

 Yeah I have been playing it, not bad so far. I love cruising round on the Choppers listening to rock and roll.

 You can turn off that grainy video effect it's called Noise in the Vid settings. It was annoying me.

ah nice. will do that for sure.

rockstar has announced that the debut trailer for the ballad of gay tony will be available to download on the xbox live marketplace on tues 1st september.

Big Ups Fiend, I grabbed this over the weekend thanks to your post. 

However, after the D/L I went to play GTA 4 and it asked if I wanted to play the expansion. I stupidly said No... Which then was fine. However now I can work out how to actually load the expansion.


Any help to my retarded actions would be muchly appreciated...   

shit i dunno... cant you just load it off the pause menu?

what about in the xbox start up screen, go to the game tab, like as if you were loading a game disc off the hard drive

yeah i think that will just load up GTA4 not TLAD.

ahh ok, i thought it might have had an extra option for the expansion pack, either under gta or possibly under its own little section...

I tried the Game Library - Not there...

Looked in the 'Start' button menu too.  Nothing there either.

I know that playing multiplayer on the game is via your phone but I can't for the life on me find how to switch between normal GTA4 & the Expansion... 

Fiend or Stryke - When you load the game does it instantly go to TLAD???

yep

 Same as me.

 There must be a way, can you go into where the pack is saved and load it from there?

 Otherwise google is your friend.

1. Pause your game.
2. Go all the way to the right.
3. Click on "New Game."
4. Click on "The Lost and Damned."

Interesting... Very Interesting.

Big Ups Khem... I didn't even get a chance to load Google.

Cheers Guys. Much Appreciated.

trailer is up for gay tony:

http://www.rockstargames.com/

Apparently Gay Tony is pretty damn cool. Read something about in a magazine at work and yeah there's a few things that i think sound wicked;

-New weapons like the P90 and action shotgun
-Parachutes like the one in San Andreas so you can basejump
-A fighter helicopter kind of like the sparrow in Vice City
-Plus you can also get a tank!

Sounds a lot more like the arcadey/old school gta

 

Princess Robot Bubblegum TV show coming to Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, the standalone compilation of The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and Damned downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV

http://blip.tv/play/gpk2garJSQI

Hahaha

So what's the deal with this Episodes from Liberty City? Is there anything in it that isn't in the DLC versions?

nah i dont think so. just an opportunity for those who arent on xbox live to get a hold of the content.

I really want to have a play today but can't find the fucking disk. I finally fucking pay for a game and I can't even play it! 

I'll probably get it anyway, as I only have GTA:IV on the PS3. This release works without the original game, so that's a plus.

its not coming out on ps3 at all. xbox exclusive!

Which is why I'll be getting it for the Xbox 360.

Shame though, the game looks and plays better on the PS3 IMO.

Ballad of Gay Tony is on PS3... It's on the Stories from Liberty city disc.

And Kotaku seem to like it:

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/10/gta-iv-the-ballad-of-gay-tony-review-out-with-a-bang/

sounds pretty decent

pretty sure its a 360 exclusive. where did you read its coming to ps3?

Ah sorry, you're right... it is only Xbox for the time being... got confused with something written in the Kotaku review (They said: It follows the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC GTA IV but they meant story wise)

AND GOD DAMN IT!

Now I've been looking for "ballad of Gay Tony" all the adverts on the websites that track this shit are offering gay dating sites! 

Gay Tony is fucking wicked...

Awesome guns - explosive shotgun that takes down cars in 2 shots, the P90, explosive sniper rifle, gold uzi.
Awesome cars - GT40, Buffalo, APC Tank.
Not to mention the attack helicopter and parachuting features, and yeah the missions are definitely a lot more arcade style than the previous update and GTA IV...

Worth getting IMO

It's funny, it's got all that, but I love it for it's story the most.

Definitely worth the points

Yeah the story is wicked too... the mission bosses are funny as, especially Yusuf and Mori

lost and damned was ok, but i got bored of it and side tracked by gears of war... got the weekend to myself so i reckon im gonna head back to liberty city and get stuck into the ballad of gay tony... looking forward to it!

Ballad Of Gay Tony is definitely better IMO.

The greatest moment of that game is going into the packed clubs and cutting loose AK47 style

Shit yeah...

someone turned off the friction in gta, so cars cant stop even if they bounce off walls

[video: www.youtube.com]

 

loved the one where he jumped on the car, the car hit the wall and came back and hit him.