Topic: GTA4

[Ron]

Some of the missions in that are so much better than the main game it makes me wonder whether they just ran out ouf time for the main one.

Gay Tony is excellent.

You are so right !
The missions in this are what I love the GTA series for.
Crazy, over the top shit !
The IV and LaD were pretty much just shooters, very easy if you've played lots of those.
This has got some frustratingly difficult, very funny, long and varied missions.

One thing though - could anyone find a way onto the cable cars that you see on one of the bridges? Spent ages but it kept throwing me off however I did it and it wouldn't let you walk on - yet more unfinished content I thought. That could have made a boss mission.

I once tried it with a wanted level on.
I didn't make it.
I'll try to jump on top one, see if that works ...

[stoa]

Some of the missions in that are so much better than the main game it makes me wonder whether they just ran out ouf time for the main one.

I don't really think they ran out of time for GTA IV. I just think they were trying something different. Darker with a less fancy characters and a more serious tone. In my view they failed, as I found TBOGT much better than the original game. As Ron is saying, GTA is known for crazy over the top shit, and GTA IV just didn't feel like it. With TBOGT they got some of the craziness back. Especially with Yusuf Amir and some of the missions. Even the Russians are funny in that game, whereas in GTA IV they were pretty much idiots...

[TYong]

Is tBoGT about half the length of GTAIV?

[frikkibj]

i hope they come up with new kinds of missions i am getting bored with these missions over and over again

pick someone up.
Drive to the other side of town
get a video scene
shoot your way out
lose your wanted level
drop off the guy you picked up

[medley]

They had so much more variation in the older games. Ballad of Gay Tony has some really different missions compared to the original which I enjoy.

[Ron]

Is tBoGT about half the length of GTAIV?

Both episodes are pretty short, although I have not finished the Gay Tony one yet.
I think it's about a 4th of the original game, per episode.

But still well worth getting, there are not that many games around that are good at the moment.
I don't know for the consoles, but for PC they have bundled the 2 "add-ons" and called it Episodes from Liberty City.
They even have a pack that also includes the original IV story, you can search the web for that.

[TYong]

Both episodes are pretty short, although I have not finished the Gay Tony one yet.
I think it's about a 4th of the original game, per episode.

But still well worth getting, there are not that many games around that are good at the moment.
I don't know for the consoles, but for PC they have bundled the 2 "add-ons" and called it Episodes from Liberty City.
They even have a pack that also includes the original IV story, you can search the web for that.

I've got the Episodes from Liberty City pack and am playing my way through BoGT now.  Just finished the mission with the biker gang and the sticky bombs which was fun.

[OsirisMVZ]

Each Episode of Liberty City has half the missions that the Niko Belic story had. So combined, they're equal to it. Maths is boss.

[..Bruiser..]

It's a shame the shops are closed on the two episodes but on TBoGT the clothes are decent.

[medley]

I hope they bring the option to buy houses again. Okay, so it might of been a bit of a novelty but give us something to spend all our money on. Most the time you get guns from the missions you complete anyway off the dead bodies of the gangsters you take down. I just liked having places to park my cars in garages and store them around the islands, but it was also good having the weapon spawns inside the homes too. You can get the weapon spawns back in your house in the add ons if you complete the drug/racing challenges but I can never really be bothered doing 25 missions to reach that point

Liked having the ability to modify the cars too in San Andreas. Gave your cars a bit more personality to them and uniqueness

[JayH93]

I bought the GTA pack on steam the other day and all of them work for me on Windows 7. Proper nostalgic playing through San Andreas again, even with a keyboard, driving through the countryside on a quad, quality!

[Andy @ Allerton!]

If it didn't say it wouldn't work on windows 7 then you could ask for your money back?

I've got GTA IV and Windows 64 Bit ultimate. Works fine.

[JoeH]

I've got GTA IV and Windows 64 Bit ultimate. Works fine.

Same Here.

[TYong]

Yusuf from TBoGT is am amazing character

Completely agree. Just finished TBoGT. Great game.

My favourite bits:

Yusuf is hilarious
A much more fun atmosphere than GTA IV - IV took itself way too seriously and the protagonist just wasn't likeable enough
The crossover on certain missions with GTA IV was good
The variety of the missions was enjoyable - jumping out of helicopters, racing away from cops in convoy
The variety of the weapons - and great that you get to access some of the more interesting ones even after the game has finished

Going to do all the triathlons/drug wars/extras etc now

[medley]

They should let you keep the nitro cars from the triathlons

Bullet and Comet cars with Nitro is insane

[TYong]

I do wish they would update San Andreas for PS3 Would love to play that again.

Also, loved the Vice City radio station

[JoeH]

You can get all the GTA games for £19.99 now on steam.

[Ron]

Gamespy has an article on how to get the best graphics out of the game:

http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/grand-theft-auto-iv/1185388p1.html

Unfortunately you need to go back to patch 1.0.4.0, so you'll probably need to reinstall the game ...

[Red Viper]

Been playing Liberty City Stories all this week. Thought the Lost and the Damned was a bit boring but I agree with the consensus on TBOGT, it was the game GTA 4 should have been. Not that I didn't enjoy the original game but it wasn't as fun as the previous ones and had virtually no replay value.