Comments on: GTA IV Shorts

By: Lampica

Lampica — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:59:42 +0000

Hey, check out the the Machinima I made with the GTA4 replay editor. No I am not the YouTube user “Machinima”. I use that word because the vids I made are in story form. They have a beginning, end, and a plot in between.

Just do a search on YouTube for ‘Niko’s New Clothes’.. Then if you like that vid checkout that user’s other videos (I’ve only uploaded 3). One of them is not really a story though..

I promise you will get a big kick out of ‘Niko’s New Clothes’, and my other story oriented one ‘Manchurian Candidate’ actually won second place in one of Rockstar’s online replay editor video contests (out of thousands of entries). Though I think ‘Niko’s New Clothes’ is the better video.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:46:31 +0000

Check out these shorts I found on Youtube from user Machinima. There are a TON of videos of GTA 4 for the 360, but he has a handful from the PC version and the built in editor. Here’s the filtered link for the GTA PC stuff. They’re all about 2 min long, and pretty entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=machinima&view=videos&query=gta+pc

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:03:15 +0000

Please. Let’s stop.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:00:26 +0000

I wouldn’t scratch the love ruler if I were you. You’ll do yourself an injury.

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:22:37 +0000

Or a love ruler?

…Actually scratch that.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:16:20 +0000

How ’bout a ruler with inches on it? Eh? Eh?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:47:36 +0000

My love for these videos can not be measured with conventional means.

By: Redhawk

Redhawk — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:31:24 +0000

I love the very start of Split Up. The zooming into the faces, combined with the music makes it seem like the start to a trailer of some wacky action-comedy movie.

*does best trailer-narrator voice* Four strangers on the wrong side of the law…

By: Chris R

Chris R — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:36:34 +0000

Grrrr…. *AND….. All these videos AND links are great.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:28:39 +0000

All these videos are links are great, love em. Anyone else got some more cool videos to link? I can’t get enough! :)

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:51:40 +0000

Yeah, so we saw. Nagged Maxis about it some time back, don’t know why it’s not restored.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:09:31 +0000

Apropos of nuffin, the PCG sporecast is down… again. What the cocking buggery, eh?

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:12:04 +0000

Oh and little problem here, the whole deal with copyright etc. on music where your video’s can get muted on youtube, applies on GTA 4 video’s too, since they only licensed it for use on the Rockstar Social Club apparently.

By: J-Man

J-Man — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:42:47 +0000

Positive Mental Attitude is also great.

By: Dave_C

Dave_C — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:12:49 +0000

Ah, Mother was hilarious! That’s just the kind of frenetic shit that can happen in GTA IV-land, you try to set up something awesome, and it just never goes to plan. The world always throws a spanner in the works somehow.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:20:58 +0000

I really like the controls on PC, I had a really hard time with SA due to the controls. The ones on IV felt really natural.

I made my own video, but I haven’t got a youtube account so it’s on rockstar TV, for the link just click on my name (it should link to the video, anyway).

I do think that the video editor does dis-advantage people with a 4:3 screen, since when you’re editing the shot, you forget the game chucks on a large bit at each side, when you export, to make it wide-screen.

By: Formerly Cpt.Muffin

Formerly Cpt.Muffin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:22:30 +0000

*sips port*

Anyone else got some amusing videos to put up that they’ve made? I think Dave’s deserves a place in the main post.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:34:59 +0000

Mother is great, watched it a several times and it cracked me up reliably every time the main rider (probably Tom) bounces off the truck and inexplicably flies miles. Semi-organised team violence ftw.

By: State

State — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:30:04 +0000

I use a 360 pad for PC, so no, it plays great. And you can switch to mouse/keyboard on the fly.

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:38:15 +0000

I found out today that watching people’s videos of GTA IV is on average more fun than actually playing it. This might be due to the fact that I was playing on a console, but I’ve wondered since then; are the controls on PC also complete ass?

By: Jason L

Jason L — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:49:32 +0000

On the other hand, Surprising News made me LOL. I feel it could use a Jaws sting, but I am not one for subtlety.

Post Maker, the Mother music’s some adaptation of the beat from Snoop/Dre’s Next Episode.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:24:50 +0000

I like those 2 new videos

Mother shows some nice (failed) teamwork and Suprising News is lol random

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:45:11 +0000

If necessary I could happily inject some hostility into the proceedings.

…you…arse!

Yeah PostMaker, I love that bit where the car brushes that guy’s head. His expression, seemingly a mixture of surprise and acknowledgement of his luck to still be alive, completes it.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:38:28 +0000

Cheers.

I love how would-be flame wars fizzle out here because everyone’s so polite. I feel like I should decant the port now.

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:45:35 +0000

Forgot to mention that I very much enjoyed Glitch City, particularly the part where the cop car just brushs the top of that player’s head. The slowmotion leading up the ending (the sliding car, the shattering window) was a really nice touch as well.

Although I just finshed watching “Mother…”, and I’m a little embarassed to admit that I can’t remember the name of the song they use in it. Could anybody help me with this?

Video link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BOpe244mQLk

By: State

State — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:23:16 +0000

I think I’m just going to shut up. >_>

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:16:27 +0000

I think he’s trying to say that his video are in a different “genre” of GTA short, rather than a different level of quality. “Clean Getaway” (his newest at time of writing) tells a story of a bank robbery gone wrong, and the ensuing escape from the police. Both Pentadact’s and a State’s videos are great, but they deal in different things; State with story, Pentadact with humour.

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:00:28 +0000

…I’m pretty sure that was another unintended insult =P

Keep digging that hole, buddy!

By: State

State — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:56:40 +0000

I realize that now. Pentadact’s videos are always good for a laugh. I meant that my videos are a bit more coherent than the usual slow-motion infested GTA replays. Sorry for the unintended insult…

By: Chijts

Chijts — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:11:43 +0000

That’s some great work State, although it does sound like you are saying Pentadact’s work isn’t as good as yours because he didn’t put as much effort in.

By: State

State — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:47:42 +0000

If you’re looking for GTA IV videos that have a bit more effort put in, look no further: http://www.youtube.com/user/State209

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:58:51 +0000

I’ve always loved movie makers in games; GTA games are a bargain bin priority for me. This may have bumped it.

Anyone ever wanted to go back and just watch a movie of them playing Mass Effect or Fallout 3, with all the loading screens and tedious bits cut? Just the cool dialogue and cinematic camera of combat? You can make a few really diverse characters with them games, although when your character is silent it doesn’t help.

Can you subscribe to the pcg blog RSS without getting all the other CVG stuff?

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:23:41 +0000

Click on my name to see my YouTube page. I think it must be half GTA 4 vids now. The things are just so easy to make that I churn them out all the time.

My latest vid is the start of a series, Myth Trackers, which parodies all those “GTA 4 MYTH HUNTER EXTREME PRO GHOST FINDER” videos. The first episode is kinda bad, but everyone seems to like it >.>

All of them are in HD except for Myth Trackers Episode One, because of codec problems. It’s uploaded in HD but YouTube said “no”.

Also, in future, use the no watermarks mod to remove those pesky Rockstar logos from the video.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:50:12 +0000

Indeed, that was a game with a perfect understanding of both cinematic driving and driving cinematics, and a thousand class-action lawsuits against hubcap manufacturers. Shame about the collision physics.

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:06:01 +0000

Oh yeah, and all these GTA movies reminds me of the original Driver on PC. I had so much fun with the movie maker on that game.

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:04:50 +0000

Yeah Jason, that joke went straight over my head =P

I’m not too fond of IGN myself, but when games come out that I’m interested in I read alot of advanced reviews to make up for the fact I can’t play the game til release.

In regards to the 10/10, to me it implies not that a game is perfect, but just that it achieves everything that it sets out to do and is immersive and (above all) fun to play. GTA IV probably deserves a 9 in that regard. The story was just too boring and repetitive to warrant 100%.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:38:25 +0000

ERROR JOKE FAILURE. I was trying for ‘But why were you looking at IGN? Why would anyone ever look at IGN?’. Knew it was a stretch, dang it.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:16:17 +0000

Nice, but I still prefer Dave’s. The dude who hits the lamppost is the highlight – maybe that’s a thing with me.

Jason – he’s probably looking at IGN because they gave it 10.0/10.0, effectively 100%.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p7.html

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:06:02 +0000

Can’t expect less from a professional machinima maker Dagda

By: Dagda

Dagda — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:49:06 +0000

Tom, I strongly suggest checking out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVP4cVLPzV4&feature=channel_page. Tis’ a thing of beauty.

By: Timmargh

Timmargh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:39:59 +0000

You’re on Twitter? Super.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:10:15 +0000

I’m looking at you IGN

But why?

I don’t understand the rationale behind this video either. Getting swatted into a guardrail by helicopter blades – I don’t care who y’are, that’s funny right there. By contrast the car-skimming-head thing is cool here, but the ‘best beginning’ and ‘best ending’ look like completely normal one-button events. Diff’rent strokes, I suppose.

The game is incredibly sizable, but we’re down to like ten cents a gig nowadays…

By: Palmsy

Palmsy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:37:04 +0000

I had a similar experience with GTA on Xbox. I didn’t know what all the reviews were talking about, calling it the perfect game with 10/10s and 100%s being thrown about (I’m looking at you IGN).

It is a very good game; fucking about online with mates is amazing (even on single player it’s pretty fun, try playing helicopter destruction derby between skyscrapers with pursuing cops) but the single player just bored me a little. The story just wasn’t anywhere near as immersive or enjoyable as San Andreas and was it just me or did it seem a little short?

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:11:37 +0000

To be honest I didn’t like the video :(

By: KaffN8ed

KaffN8ed — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:46:57 +0000

Wow, these clips are making me really want to buy GTAIV, just to play around with the video editor. The one problem I have with that is that I am severely lacking hard drive space, since I hear the game is quite large. Not to mention the gigs and gigs I would take up with videos. By the way, that ending was pretty damn cool.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:46:35 +0000

Cheating huh? You can’t cheat right without mods!
And since this was about videos might as well put this here

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AeA7IuSKuik

functional videos are the best!

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:40:25 +0000

Cool. Which song was that playing in the first part anyway?
Single player is fun, but the cutscenes just drag on for too long, and the characters are terrible. Voice acting works for them though. I would estimate I’m about 75% through it all.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:27:26 +0000

Oh! That is hilariously brutal, Dave.

Agreed on all counts about the singleplayer – didn’t complete it on 360, probably won’t here. I am idly replaying the missions, just for more editing fodder, but skipping all cut-scenes and cheating my ass off.

By: ImperialCreed

ImperialCreed — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:30:51 +0000

Thanks for the pointers. I now have the urge to try and re-create the bank heist shoot out from Heat.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:48:12 +0000

5-12s = ultimate win.

Rest of video = agreeable win. I haven’t gotten around to GTAIV yet due to many other games and the mass of bugs, but that video, that one video, has made me want to jump online like crazy. >=D