Comments on: GTA IV Shorts: Cut Off

By: Palker4

Palker4 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:13:41 +0000

I did not found oasis actually some wastlanders told me where it is. I stumbled upon them while searching for yao ghuai caves i asked them what are they doing there and they were all like we are searching for oasis that is here (pointed on location on the other end of map) and then they told me but you are not supposed to know this so now we have to kill you turned out that it was ne who killed them after all

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:13:27 +0000

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

By: à² _à²

à² _à² — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:45:38 +0000

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?

By: J-Man

J-Man — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:53:49 +0000

@Zombuster:

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

By: Dave_C

Dave_C — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:24:59 +0000

Also having technical problems with my 320MB card, the game simply refuses to let me push it further. Oh well, that hasn’t stopped me spending more time with the movie editor than playing the actual missions! It really is fantastic fun… here’s an attempt of mine, shot during a multiplayer game (I’d suggest watching HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foUEi_DZEcg&feature=channel_page

Can’t get enough of that slow-mo button…

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:23:32 +0000

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.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:54:03 +0000

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 1024×768 on near-minimum detail, and forcibly disables all higher settings.

A kiln. Slathered in glaze.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:11:17 +0000

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.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:41:16 +0000

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.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:19:47 +0000

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.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:54:14 +0000

^ Waffles

By: J-Man

J-Man — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:43:37 +0000

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.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:12:38 +0000

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

By: Alextazy

Alextazy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:23:17 +0000

What ever happend to Fallout Girl?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:13:29 +0000

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.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:22:19 +0000

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.

By: State

State — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:11:04 +0000

Ooh, ooh! I do coherence! http://www.youtube.com/user/State209

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:34:57 +0000

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

By: Fez

Fez — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:14:34 +0000

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

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:14:13 +0000

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 :(

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:33:00 +0000

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

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:41:11 +0000

These videos are just far too surreal O.o

By: Dave_C

Dave_C — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:06:21 +0000

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.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:55:17 +0000

Updated the main post with a couple more.

By: TheLionsInnards

TheLionsInnards — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:14:19 +0000

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.

By: Pixel Knight

Pixel Knight — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:27:57 +0000

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

By: CloakRaider

CloakRaider — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:03:37 +0000

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?

By: Pixel Knight

Pixel Knight — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:36:10 +0000

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?

By: J-Man

J-Man — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:23:01 +0000

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?).

By: radomaj

radomaj — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:19:32 +0000

I think I found one of the best GTAIV accident-o-stunts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeQu_w6gOs

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:33:22 +0000

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”

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:46:41 +0000

Guys, I don’t think it counts as a death if you don’t actually die.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:07:29 +0000

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?!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:31:36 +0000

That’s the great thing about piracy – the ERSB can’t regulate it.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:12:10 +0000

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

By: J-Man

J-Man — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:01:30 +0000

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

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:36:30 +0000

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.

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:18:02 +0000

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.

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:16:28 +0000

How old are you now Roadrunner?
0.o

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:07:19 +0000

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

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:27:25 +0000

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

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:32:08 +0000

“…and Graham Smith is the asshole” could comfortably be said about most situations, I’m betting.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:57:32 +0000

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!

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:19:22 +0000

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=RioipDIsCRk&fmt=22
(I’m the black guy in the black chopper)

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:30:21 +0000

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.

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:28:51 +0000

I’ve made a ton of videos in GTA IV. You can see some of them here: http://uk.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C9D3A555652659B8

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.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:04:39 +0000

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.

By: Redhawk

Redhawk — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:58:56 +0000

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.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:35:02 +0000

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

By: LaZodiac

LaZodiac — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:03:54 +0000

Blasted helicopters. Atlest the flyer is dead.

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