Grand Theft Auto 4

Stonedofmoo · 12 Dec 2008 at 10:38

dirtydog said:
I haven't tried that yet, but every GTA has a few missions with an excessive difficulty level I don't know why they have to make them like that. Most of us play games for fun and relaxation, not to perform the task perfectly but still come up short. That isn't fun, it is just frustrating.

Reminds me of the race in Mafia before they patched the game to make it easy. It's the only game I ever got angry with :eek:

npjnpj · 12 Dec 2008 at 11:07

Haven't got very far yet, but I'm enjyoing it immensely.

As I haven't explored very much though, can someone give me a tip where there might be a TV set with more programs to watch than the few on the one in the rat hole?

The parts I've seen are hilareous, and I could spend more than an hour or two just watching some more. Any tips?

paradigm · 12 Dec 2008 at 11:10

Stonedofmoo said:
Reminds me of the race in Mafia before they patched the game to make it easy. It's the only game I ever got angry with

I never found that "too" difficult. Even the pre-patched version was beatable.

Stonedofmoo · 12 Dec 2008 at 11:13

lol you did well then. Did you do it on the keyboard where every turn could send the car into a spin?

My friend used a joypad and found it much easier on one of those.

Against my better judgement I've ordered GTAIV, but I shall delay installing it until after xmas when a patch or two should be out

dirtydog · 12 Dec 2008 at 11:16

As I play through the game more, I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by the very sluggish movement and fighting the camera all the time.

It didn't matter so much when the missions were easy, but for the tougher ones it's infuriating to die because Nico won't move where you want, or go faster. The cops are after him and he needs to get to a car quick but he walks in slow motion despite you frantically tapping the space bar. Pfft.

Infam0us · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:03

Stonedofmoo said:
So what happened to the patch then?

Sh3rlock · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:08

Patch plz ?

spoonjaffa · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:20

16% into the game (5 hours straight!!) and no crashes. Running on a q6600 @ 3.4, 8800gtx bfg oc2, vista 64, 4gig ram. Main settings are render at high, textures at medium, draw distance and detail at 50. detail and distance at anything more than 50 is not noticable and less and you can see buildings 100m away turn into blocks. Could up my rendering but i just notice more jaggies and less fps. It a real fun game and a must for all PC gamers. Thinking of getting the latest gfx drivers to see if I get a performance upgrade (not that its needed for me).

Questions:
Anyone know how to hale a taxi down?
Anyone noticed the weird bouncy water effect?
Worth overclocking from 3.4ghz to 3.6ghz?

Keyser Soze · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:26

press e to hail taxi then hold f down to get in the back

i've had 3 crashes in 9 hours of gameplay

keyser · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:30

Play Midnight Club Los Angeles and Grand Theft Auto IV online all weekend to challenge Rockstar at their own games and then go to Rockstar Games Social Club for chances to compete for limited-edition Rockstar gear and prizes.

They don't have time to play it!

Yeah that would rock actually - some guy from Rockstar playing.. then pop-in-out-in textures, slow down, crash

Even though I've had zero crashes while playing - it sometimes fails to load to menu and forgets my graphics settings every time it loads.

Liquidfox · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:32

I upgraded to the Beta drivers for a performance boost, only to have my machine now crash on start-up. \o/ WIN!

Never had a single crash on GTA4 apart from the inital teething problems with RSC...

dirtydog · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:35

spoonjaffa said:
Worth overclocking from 3.4ghz to 3.6ghz?

Doubtful it would make any difference I think.

Keyser Soze · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:40

Liquidfox said:
I upgraded to the Beta drivers for a performance boost, only to have my machine now crash on start-up. \o/ WIN!

Never had a single crash on GTA4 apart from the inital teething problems with RSC...

I had the same issue so i'm back on the old ones

willhub · 12 Dec 2008 at 12:41

GTA IV Multiplayer is AWESOME

, I had a right blast on it last night

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izzy eckerslike · 12 Dec 2008 at 13:22

dirtydog said:
As I play through the game more, I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated by the very sluggish movement and fighting the camera all the time.

The cops are after him and he needs to get to a car quick but he walks in slow motion despite you frantically tapping the space bar. Pfft.

Why don't you enable 'always sprint ' toggle ?

dirtydog · 12 Dec 2008 at 13:52

izzy eckerslike said:
Why don't you enable 'always sprint ' toggle ?

Does that have the same effect as holding space, or of tapping space?

Sho · 12 Dec 2008 at 14:01

The mission that i am struggling at the moment is when you go to Manny and hands out a mission to you, which is you go to a traint station and you gotta drive and shoot the damn train/idiot down like how the **** do you that? I'v tried itso many times can't seem to do it.

Any tips please?

Keyser Soze · 12 Dec 2008 at 14:03

Isn't space jump?

paradigm · 12 Dec 2008 at 14:04

Keyser Soze said:
Isn't space jump?

Only if you use the retarded standard keymap.

Jump for me is mouse2.

Sho said:
The mission that i am struggling at the moment is when you go to Manny and hands out a mission to you, which is you go to a traint station and you gotta drive and shoot the damn train/idiot down like how the **** do you that? I'v tried itso many times can't seem to do it.

Any tips please?

Is that not just the mission that you follow the train until the guy gets off. Then kill him.

dirtydog · 12 Dec 2008 at 14:09

Keyser Soze said:
Isn't space jump?

I forgot to say, I changed the controls back to what they were in San Andreas.