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GTA IV Shorts: Cut Off

 
 

Deputy Editor Tim Edwards is the moustachioed bike rider, I’m his pretty if slightly broad-hipped passenger, and Graham Smith is the… well, I think asshole is as good a word as any.

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The people responsible for the tech side of porting GTA IV to the PC should be fired in a kiln, but I must admit the video editor they’ve added is a joy. Directing even the most aimless acts of violence into an obnoxiously slick Michael Bay spasgasm is one of the most rewarding creative projects I’ve taken on in games all year - up there with forging new life in Spore.

This is my loud, buzzing, shoddy first try. That YouTube link is actually good quality - you can add &fmt=22 to the URL of a video that was uploaded high-res to link the HD version now - but if like me you loathe the very principle of streaming video, here’s the full 34MB download.

I honestly thought I’d care about directing, and The Movies certainly never inspired one in me, but GTA IV has turned me around. It’s because the raw footage has such force and impact to it, it’s always tempting me to find a way to better show it off. Suddenly tips I found boring in DVD commentaries are flooding back, and I’m immediately and enthusiastically dissatisfied with everything I make.

I think that’s the litmus test for whether you truly love doing something. Not whether you like what you’ve made - most of us never do - but when you spot the flaws in what you’ve done, are you despirited that you suck, or excited to get on with fixing them? Unfortunately I tend to hit the “record what just happened” key ten times every time I play GTA, and it takes so long to render clips into uploadable .wmv files that at some point during the creative process, you just have to say “Fuck it, that’ll do.”

Update: Steve’s much better one is up now. Cracks me up every time.

‘Supdate: Neither YouTube or CVG are working for me right now, but another great one of Steve’s went up on the new PC Gamer YouTube channel yesterday, and I’ve got a download link to one more of mine that’s not really good enough for official publication. Have a good Christmas.

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J-Man: that was fucking brilliant! GTA is now officially on my must-buy list solely for that.

Akirasfriend: *TWONK!*

Too many times has this happened to me.

Great stuff Tom, more plz.

SenatorPalpatine: Damn, now I really want GTAIV.

LaZodiac: Blasted helicopters. Atlest the flyer is dead.

Really shocked the biker didn't die, but you did.

Roadrunner: I think I'm missing the point here, all that happenend was that a helicopter made someone go flying into a pole?

Redhawk: Someone got clipped by a helicopter blade, went flying across half of Liberty City, hit a pole at terminal velocity, AND THEN STOOD UP.

Like Tom said, not exactly the most impressing video, but it is entertaining to see that even games hip-deep in "gritty realism" choose to ignore basic laws of physics.

Roadrunner: The physics are like in TF2 now when you get hit by projectiles!
But I don't see how thats funny and so awe-inspiring.

Smurfy: I've made a ton of videos in GTA IV. You can see some of them here: http://uk.youtube.com/view_pla.....55652659B8

I haven't uploaded most of them, either because they suck, are tests, or because I can't be bothered rendering them.

I'm about to render Death to the Preacher 2, wherein I kill the preacher in about eight different ways.

Pentadact: It's understandable if you're underwhelmed by my first-timer direction, but if you don't see the point of a helicopter crashing into a motorbike and batting its passenger over two city blocks into a steel railing, you're on the wrong blog.

ZomBuster: With some nice camera angles and music, anything can look cool in Liberty City. I still have some problems finding a decent free video editor tough, WMM makes it all crappy looking.

Here is a nice video of some chopper capers a friend recorded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....amp;fmt=22
(I'm the black guy in the black chopper)

Jazmeister: I think the games you can squeeze out of a game, those running parallel to the official ruleset, are equally valid. This legitamizes something that, for me, started with my brother and the Direct X demo disc, crouched around a computer playing the demo of Monster Truck Madness, crashing around and doing replays.

Funny video!

Graham: "...and Graham Smith is the asshole" could comfortably be said about most situations, I'm betting.

Pod: I think the last scene in the best.
Lovely, tranquil use of no sound bar his own, bloody death.

Roadrunner: Alrighty then, Whose the alternative blog I can read?
I still remember that cheesy scarface moment at the end of Vice City, where you're friends betray you and you have to run up to the helicopter pad. I died so many times in that.
..wait, Why was I playing 18 rated games when I was 10 or so? O.o

Little Green Man: How old are you now Roadrunner?
0.o

Little Green Man: Well that O.o failed. Also, sorry for rubbish double post, bu I really like that you've changed the comments thingy Tom. I remember you saying that you were annoyed about not changing it.

Rei Onryou: I think what I loved more than anything else in that video is how the helicopter only hit the passenger and driver escaped more or less intact. That's a good collision detection.

J-Man: Completely unrelated, but listened to Architecture in Helsinki for the first time - Like it or not. Now on my wanted christmas gift list.

Roadrunner: 15 - Even though many things are stamped with a BBFC rating of 18, somehow, and don't ask how, it's easy to acquire them even if you're young. In my case, my older brother got ahold of it.
..Who also happened to be underage. Who knows how he got it O.o

Alexander: That's the great thing about piracy - the ERSB can't regulate it.

Roadrunner: It was on PS2, and it wasn't piracy because he had the box and manual and everything :|
Which really makes you wonder, how DID he get it?!

Dorian Cornelius Jasper: Guys, I don't think it counts as a death if you don't actually die.

LaZodiac: Yha, Dorian is right. I apologize on my part, at any rate.

@Roadrunner: "Oh look, the kid wants to buy a video game. How adorable. You want that one? Ok, I won't even look at it as I put it into your bag, because video games are for kids"

J-Man: It's sick how the mainstream media patronise gaming to such a level. And then make unwavering, unbased statements that are completely false (Trust Fox, eh?).

Pixel Knight: I remember being screwed out of The Orange Box because the cashier at Best Buy asked for ID. I spent the rest of the day begging my sister to take me back up there to buy it for me. How was I supposed to know that shooting zombies and blowing up cartoony Russian men with pipe bombs was rated M?

CloakRaider: Okay, you take a helicopter to the chops, fly off and hit a guardrail at great speed and survive, and in Steve's one, a man gets hit in the face by a speeding motorcycle tire, and barely notices.

Are their skeletons made out of iron or something?

Pixel Knight: You think thats bad, in GTA 3 they were made of depleted uranium. How else do you explain not being able to swim?

TheLionsInnards: I never realised how harshly regulated age restrictions were in other countries. In South Africa (where I live), I have been buying age restricted 18 games over the counter since I was 12.

Pentadact: Updated the main post with a couple more.

Dave_C: Pentadact, I must commend you for your creation of that extra downloadable video. How it isn't good enough for public release is beyond me!

The music suited the random acts of violence perfectly, the slow-mo was spot on, and that's the best damn buildup to a fantastic ending I've seen in a while.

Roadrunner: These videos are just far too surreal O.o

Lack_26: Okay, I've got GTA IV today, now, if only it would recognise the disk.

Roadrunner: My problem with GTA IV is that everything is transparent, so I cant actually play it I've even googled the problem to no avail :(

Fez: I really want someone to make a coherent action movie with this. Is there a decent facial animation system?

Alexander: Curses! You have made me buy GTA! I bet you're going to run me out of all of my money some day

Lack_26: I've given up on GTA IV as it flat out refused to start once I finally managed to get it to install, I could get the social club up and running but when I clicked play a black dos box would come up and then a windows error box and it would stop. I've had to install all my games I got on my brothers computer since none of the discs are recognised down here because I have alcohol on this computer, which I use for entirely legitimate purposes and I have only limited access to his computer, half hour a day tops usually. I think I might have to pirate games I actually own, even though I've never pirated a game before.

Anyway, since technology no longer works, our family did a jigsaw instead, which was far more fun. I now renounce gaming and am starting a jigsaw club.

Pentadact: Do you have XP Service Pack 3 and .NET 3.0 installed? If not, GTA IV gives up with a meaningless error message on startup.

In a kiln.

Alextazy: What ever happend to Fallout Girl?

Pentadact: Yeah, bring back Fallout Girl! Bring back Fallout Girl!

J-Man: I would go out and purchase GTA IV, but I'm going to Bruges tomorrow, where I shall probably waste all my money on things.

Er...

I'm not quite sure what those things are, but I presume that by the time I get back I shall have much less money.

ZomBuster: ^ Waffles

Roadrunner: The IT crowd!
Does anyone else like the IT Crowd? I bring this up, because it's christmas time meaning there's a great drought of updates on blogs worldwide, and i'm making do with conversation in the comments.

Lack_26: I have service pack 3 installed and .NET 1, 1.1(hotfix), 2, 3 and 3.5 on my computer. I did wonder if it was my substandard graphics card, 6600GT, but in the read-me found references to graphical problems on that card series, so they can probably be used, albeit with poor performance.

Roadrunner: My newest problem- I'm literally missing textures.
And because patching it will give me the problem I described earlier, I'm unable to play multiplayer because Games for Windows Live are like the Cheka.

Pentadact: Take solace in the fact that it would look and move like John Sergeant, then. That's probably got 256MB video RAM, right? With my 512 at work it struggles at 1024x768 on near-minimum detail, and forcibly disables all higher settings.

A kiln. Slathered in glaze.

Roadrunner: Oh, I was hoping "the public could save me"
See what I did there-ahahaha- Double Eeeeeennteeendre.

I like to pride myself on how unsubtle and un-smooth I can be.

J-Man: @Zombuster:

Actually, only had waffles once, and they were way sweet.

ಠ_ಠ: IDK why but one day Nico's textures disappeared and he went wireframe, and ever since then it's been the same. Should I reinstall?

Alexander: It would be a whole lot better if they didn't bundle like 10 different graphics settings into the screen resolution.

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The American Public Announce That Tom Francis Is Right

 
 

And Elect Yet Another White President

If we’re going to keep calling him the first black president, at least a few of us should be acknowledging that he’s exactly as white.

Update: found the Gore Vidal interview clip:


Original post:

So this guy is now the most powerful person in the world:

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BBC Interviewer: Doesn’t he have a problem, though, in that expecations will be stratospheric, that people will expect him to walk on water, and no politician can do that?
Supporter: He’s black, he’s white, he’s old, he’s young… he can walk a little bit on something.

I said he’d win by at least 10%. There are still some big states to go, but at time of writing the very least he can possibly win by is 25%. It’s going to be a lot more than that.

The BBC coverage was a hilarious fiasco, riddled with awkward pauses, confusion, and an eternal quest for some footage of disappointed Republicans. It was capped off by an utterly extraordinary interview with Gore Vidal, whose answer at one point was simply, “I don’t know who you are.”

Anyway, for me the election was effectively over when this happened:


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Akirasfriend: Personally, I loved watching David Dimbelby ramble his way through the whole thing. I didn't even care that much, other than passively supoorting Obama, before I watched the BBC coverage. By the time they'd gotten to 4AM I was anticipating California and Washington for Obama and getting all giddy.

That 3-pointer, though... Wow. Who needs an electoral college after that?

Itrade: Dang, I was eating lunch when it happened, so I just missed it. I hope they show a repeat of his acceptance speech.

spuzman00: Eating lunch? I'm about to go to bed!

Still, this makes me happy. I wish I had placed a bet similar to yours, Tom. As it is, I'll just have to deal with my new president being exactly the guy I've wanted since before the primaries.

Tux: I really don't know what the BBC were up to, their coverage was shambling and hilariously unprofessional. Thank god for CNN! Also: Obama=Win

Niteowl: Honestly, the BBC has crappier coverage than CNN, America elects a not-entirely crooked president? What gives?

Lack_26: I couldn't keep awake, I was listening on radio 4, so I was lying on my bed. Bad move, spent most of the next 3 hours after 2 am, drifting in and out of sleep, I woke for a couple of minutes at 5:25am, but had missed the speech. But still, I caught a fair bit. When I last woke up a 7:15 and heard that Obama had defiantly won, it was like Christmas.

Lack_26: Oh yeah, the BBC radio 4 coverage (well, what I remember) was excellent, can't comment on the TV coverage.

Justice: This is a good day indeed. Go Obama!

Iain "DDude" Dawson: Any time so many people are happy at an election result I get suspicious, but nonetheless, good luck to Obama.

Rei Onryou: A competent president? How did that happen? I'm glad Obama won. I was rooting for him once since he became a presidential candidate. Plus, who wouldn't want a President that gets nothin' but net?

"I think that's all I should do."

Yes. Yes it is. All presidential decisions should be based on basketball. Next up: the slam dunk decider for the credit crunch!

Waste_Manager: Hooray and general elation!

Lack_26: Everyone at school was really happy to day, there was just a feeling of general relief and elation (well, in post-16 anyway, we don't much mix with the lower uniformed years).

Newt Pulsifer: Amazing interview!!
Thanks, Tom!

Sheepye: Personally, the decision was moot for me. I am English but with an American girlfriend, which I guess means I have a bit of an insight? Despite McCain been severly misrepresented in Europe, he wasn't that bad a choice. Him and Obama are as bad really, just a case of deciding the lesser of two evils (I do like Obama, but general shadiness and his inexperience put me off him somewhat).

Basically, it worries me that America voted for Obama on the basis of idealism and the wish to change it's image to the rest of the world, rather than on his presidential values and capabilities. It might just be useful that idealism though for helping him initially, just have to see if he does good with it.

However, time will tell, and I can't be bothered to start serious political debate where I'm going to have to go into the murky waters of indepth detail and opinion. Instead, a rather more humorous view is summed up for me at the daily mash -

"http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/america-buys-all-that-change-bullshit-200811051377/"

The last quote in particular from that article is something to warm the cynical comedic threads of anyone's heart : "If your life is such that you're placing all your hopes in a politician, then may I humbly suggest you get yourself a crate of superlager and a cardboard box and stop wasting everyone's time".

Always enjoying the website as usual, thanks Tom.

Jason L: I usually don't like Cracked.com, but my favourite comedy about USE2K8 was Cracked's time-travelling interviews with McCain and Obama: http://www.cracked.com/blog/an.....year-2012/

peterd102: Politics is Bunk. If the government was scaled down, a group of 12 rational people to decide everything. The world would still work. Stop worrying about it and enjoy life.

Alex Holland: Sheepeye - I sort of agree that McCain wasn't that bad, and that indeed both candidates were an improvement on the last run. However, Sarah Palin really -is- that bad, it's not a good idea to elect the oldest non-incumbent candidate for the US Presidency when, if he should cark it, an anti-enlightenment, willfully-ignorant fundie would get the nuclear button.

No idea how much this will effect me, but even if Obama's foreign/economic policy is as bad as Bush's, at least he'll sound eloquent and intelligent when discussing it, rather than like some retarded cowboy.

On a tangent, Bush was widely rumoured to enjoy the odd white line in his wayward youth, and Obama has also admitted trying cocaine at University. No wonder they call it Washington District of Columbia.

peterd102: I heard this great comment about Obama, he was asked if he tried 'weed' and he said yes, they asked did he inhale? and he said "That was the point".

DoctorDisaster: I also agree that McCain wasn't as bad as he looked, although it's his own damn campaign's fault for suppressing everything likable about him. However, I'm afraid Sheepye's "insight" falters when he suggests that I voted for Obama based on idealism and image. I think it's great that the rest of the world will hate us a bit less based on our choice, and it's nice to have a president who can inspire you, but those aren't the factors that drove me or the other Obama supporters I know to vote for him. These are the Obama virtues that meant the most to me:

-Community organization (confers practical leadership skills by forcing you to work with loose coalitions of self-interested parties whose goals may or may not overlap all that much)
-History of consulting experts with practical experience and insight into problems he faces as a leader
-Rejects polarized politics at a fundamental level
-Transparency exemplified in the two memoirs he authored
-Signifies a fundamental shift in race politics
-Perfect temperament for a national leader (and a genuine sense of humor!)

"Yes we can" is great, don't get me wrong, but I like a leader who actually knows HOW we can.

Ninja: Looks like from that video of the basketball, he shoulda skipped the electoral college and went straight to the electoral NBA.


Lame I know.

Dan: Ninja, that is the greatest thing I've ever heard.

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