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I measure the quality of a game by how much fun I have and my reluctance to turn off the console at the end of each gaming session.GTA4 currently has me swearing a lot, wringing the controller in frustration and kicking said console until the power cuts out.
I can’t even abandon the main missions to explore the (inarguably pretty) game-world in peace, which would have been its saving grace; I keep getting phone-calls asking why I’ve not taken a particular character out to play a dull and repetitive mini-game!! I know I don’t have to, but I also know that if I don’t it’s going to take me longer to access hidden missions. In effect, I’m being punished for wanting to do what a sandbox game is meant to let you do: What you want, when you want, how you want.
I’ve had the game for 2 weeks. The first few days were great, but now the only reason I go back to it is to justify the stupid amount of money I spent on it.
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ahhhh i sold mine in a garage sale for like 4 dollars. it was realy scratched.... faillll
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My boss has a CD cleaner for the library that took like every scratch off my SA game after I let a "friend" borrow it. Yeah, it looked like he took sandpaper to it >.<
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This proves what I've said about you; you're deffinatly more then what you appear at first glance. Only someone with pureobbjective opinion is ready to stand in front of people who are all calling something a masterpiece/pure garbage, and say in the loudest voice posible "You're f&£^ing wrong!" and it takes a neaar genius to convice them that you're right.
Thank god I'm too young to play this, because I didn't want to play it anyway... still, we're all going to get our hands on subject matter that is deamed bad for us in one way or another. The produsers probably rated it 18 because they knew that anyone younger would kill due to the frustration. At least, according to what you've stated.
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Quite frankly, I completely abandoned singleplayer for online Free-Mode. 'S a barrel of monkeys.
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Loding... Loding... Loding?
... Wait... GTA4's multiplayer is like Sonic The Heaghog for X-Box 360 + PS3?
... Damn.
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read the manual (i think) it tells yon how to switch your phone off from receiving missions in-game. that way you can explore until you feel like doing missions without being hassled.
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I like GTA4 
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This... is so very very true. GTA4 was one of the worst GTA games ever IMO, and I agree on every point you made, *jollyjack.
Very good comic strip! Love the "Cousin'? How you doin'? *ZOT*" XD
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I just found this comic in the newest issue of Play magazine!
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ive always liked the gta series, but this one lacked something i couldnt put my finger on.
needless to say, i traded it in for lego indianna jones, which was far more entertaining
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I actually love the online play. I don't know, maybe I'm violent.
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Oh man.......I definatly feel you...
I've been a victim of the phone ring of death when in a fire fight (You ever heard a machine gun shoot at you at point blank range EVEN with body armor on? It totally screwed me over)
Overall...its kind of a good game (Bought it on saturday) but like all games, it has its flaws (Driving...skills....agh...)
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I am reading this as the very events depicted here are happening to me. In that very order. You're comic has expressed my views in a way I couldn only hope to. I will forward this to everybody I know and make it a part of all my forum signatures. This game a 10/10? Not a chance.
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Hmm, and I always took the screaming/wailing/crying/beating on things for me being short tempered.
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they were forced to release early so that's why it's less than it should be.
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mercinaries is awsome and maybe a little better than some GTA games, but what do you think of destroy all humans?
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When the hell is Mercs 2 coming out, anyway? >_> At least GTA IV is better crafted than Saint's Row...
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You know, you can set your phone to silent mode and halt all missions, thus initiating Sandbox mode. I saw that at a friends house. I don't have the game though.
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hehe, so much for 10 out of 10 across the board eh?? i was quite impressed when the critic reviews came out as 10 out of 10, personally since the realese of FF7 i havent seen a 10 out of 10 (to be fair, i havent really looked at ratings much), so heck im gonna try it out. like u said its damn pretty looking. lets see if i can tackle it. lol, this should be a laugh
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I haven't read anyone else's comments, but open the phone, go down to options, find something like "turn phone to silent" that'll shut off all incoming calls. You have to turn it back on when your done wandering around, but it does help.
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I've never been a fan of the GTA games, myself. Mostly I just put in the button combination to get a rocket launcher and start blowing stuff up and then see how long it takes for the cops to gun me down. I prefer a high level of fantasy in my games (though, noteworthy, is that they don't have to take place in clichéd fantasy elves/dwarves/humans/dragons environments, just that they be fantastically rooted in non-reality, for the most part) that the gritty caliber of simulated realism games like this present. That could, however, be part of my personality that still has a vivid imagination where I imagine a complicated choreography of "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" throughout the Wal-Mart where I work.
This is a longer comment than I meant to make...
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Damn was is that bad, thanks for the heads up.
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I'd play it, but rent before you buy.
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Alright we get it you don\'t like video games, enough is enough, Jesus fucking Christ.
Alternatively, why don\'t you do one about Smash Bros. Brawl and complete the circle of video games that everyone loves voicing their irrelevant, loudmouthed and biased opinions on with crappy webcomics?
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You're clearly just looking at the pretty pictures rather than reading the strips. If you had, you'd see that most of the HTP strips are on games that I enjoyed.
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the best crticism anyone has given to "the most hotly anticipated game of all time". exciement hype and anticipation truly kills the sequels to games
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looks like i'm saveing my money for Saints Row 2 XD
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I've played Mercenaries, now that was fun! ONly stats to mess with where wether the factions liked you or not.
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THANK YOU!!! All the brain-dead morons at my school LOVE this game but I find the series a complete waste of braincells and effort!
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I've found out that if you accept any plans when someone phones and then immediately phone to cancel you don't lose any standing with them, so really you don't have to take anybody out until you want to
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Hint: you can turn off the mobile, and that pauses the storyline. Bam! instant sandbox mode
Love these comics by the way
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There's an option that disallows calls from getting to your phone, so that nothing happens, just just do whatever you want. Plus, cheats if you ever want to mess around. 360 port allows you to keep the cheats you dialled into speed dial, so you can keep getting more weapons or vehicles in seconds. Just don't save. :0
I have to admit, it was a bitch always having to take someone out, else they would hate me. I really did hate that. And the missions were really fucking terrible when it came to dying, right at the end, because of some weird fuck up. The last mission, is the biggest bitch of them all. HOW THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHEN TO JUMP OFF THAT RAMP!? Ya know?
I've never tried playing it online yet. Well, cause I don't have live. I heard it was fun. But lets see how much it needs to load...
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Very pretty game to look at though! But yes... the chores... goodness.
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GTA4 is not bad...
But I am still waiting for Mercs. 2.
I mean, it has been more or less forever man!
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You can turn the phone-missions off and do free roam. IIRC, the option for this should be in the phone options menu or pause menu
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My top tip for GTA:IV.
Turn off the mobile. Dear lordy the silence that ensues is awesome.
~They did screw allot of the fun of GTA up though.
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Thats was gloriously wonderful and full of game criticizing humor. I was waiting for someone to down GTA for once, everyone is up its ass cause of the money it can make for them on the company side.
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I never really liked GTA, I was always a fan of the Driver series until they pushed shooting and crap into their games.
But I have to agree with you, Mercenaries was one of the funnest fucken games I've ever played. I can't wait for it's sequel to come out. >.>
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dude ._. u had to didn't u ......... if u do halo 3 i will kill u ¬¬ but anyway funny ^^
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You can turn off messages on your phone, which will pause the story and get NPCs to leave you alone until you turn it back on.
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1-3) Lol.
4) Okay, so what I'm hearing is that you can turn the cell phone off to stop people from calling you and to stay out of story mode. Here's the problem: what if you would like to play story missions without being interrupted? Sure, I suppose it's "realistic" to have to turn the cell phone off before and on after each mission, but it's not very fun. Why can't there just be a "pick up the phone" button (say, Select or Back) so that you can choose on the fly whether to be interrupted? And if you don't hit the button, they go to voicemail. "I sneak into Yakuza hideout right now. Please leave message, and I get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks to you, and goodbye!"
5) I'll be honest: I liked SA's stat system. There's something about leveling up that I find satisfying, even if it is a bit MMORPG-grindy. What I didn't like was the girlfriend system, and if IV's networking is anything like that, I may have to rage. Note to game designers: just because a mini-game is optional doesn't mean it doesn't have to be fun. The only GTA to do networking right was GTA2, where you earn respect by doing what you do anyway. Coincidentally (or not), this system was also implemented by Mercenaries, a game which is fun.
6) No checkpoints? No... checkpoints? RAAAGE!
7) I don't do multiplayer, so no loss there.
8) Lol.
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