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I picked this up on the Steam sale, and was wondering what general opinion was regarding keyboard + mouse versus a 360 controller for GTA 4. I like and am used to the former, but I played this a bit on the 360 when it first came out and really liked the analog triggers and more sensitive joysticks. Edit: I should add that I don't actually own a 360 controller, so I guess my question really is "Does a controller make the game play $40 better?" Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 24, 2012 |
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Install Gentoo posted:Both VC and SA had the luxury of taking all the best music of the general time period they were set in and putting it together. Liberty Rock was loving boss, but it was weird how you had stuff like "Goodbye Horses" and "Mama" on the same station. It was like they had some random poo poo that didn't fit any other station and just stuck it there. I just hope that when V hits we get a really awesome West Coast focused G-Funk/Rap station.
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Jul 24, 2012 23:57
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Simon Draskovic posted:I picked this up on the Steam sale, and was wondering what general opinion was regarding keyboard + mouse versus a 360 controller for GTA 4. I like and am used to the former, but I played this a bit on the 360 when it first came out and really liked the analog triggers and more sensitive joysticks. I bought the game on Xbox day one then got it on a computer a year later. I'd have to say that the mouse and keyboard controls are pretty much perfect.
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Jul 25, 2012 00:04
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Simon Draskovic posted:I picked this up on the Steam sale, and was wondering what general opinion was regarding keyboard + mouse versus a 360 controller for GTA 4. I like and am used to the former, but I played this a bit on the 360 when it first came out and really liked the analog triggers and more sensitive joysticks. No, it's not $40 better. The only thing a gamepad is good for in GTA is those times when you want to relax and cruise around slowly. That said, a gamepad is worth owning in general, there are plenty of games where you'll get SOME use out of it. You also don't have to get a $40 360 controller. If I were buying one now, I'd probably go for one of those $25 PDP PS3 wired controllers and use MotionInJoy.
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Jul 25, 2012 00:15
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Having a PS2 controller for driving in San Andreas then switching to mouse/kb for walking was great, but going from ps3 gta4 to just m/kb on the pc, the only thing I missed was an analog accelerator. Now that you can actually free look in a car the mouse is handy.
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Jul 25, 2012 01:29
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If V has a bunch of countryside then I hope it has a cheesy country music station like SA. I don't even particularly like country music, but when you're in the middle of nowhere on a motorcycle it just feels so right.
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Jul 25, 2012 04:18
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It feels right when you roll through the Las Venturas strip on a Freeway too 
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Jul 25, 2012 04:22
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I play the GTA III games with only a mouse and keyboard, but with GTA IV, i use the 360 pad for driving because I found the keyboard cumbersome for it. I don't even like country, but I'd rock K-Rose on a freeway in the country side and just tool around. Driving around Vice City and listening to the amazing music is one of my favorite gaming memories.
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Jul 25, 2012 04:31
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Mike Tysons CARFAX posted:Is there any hope that actual gameplay could look this good? The answer is no, right? Perhaps if some effort is put into a Wii U port?
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Jul 25, 2012 04:54
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I just finished Donald Love's missions in GTA III for the iPad and I suggest that people complaining about the driving in GTA IV go play some GTA III.
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Jul 25, 2012 07:56
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K-rose is one of the best channels rockstar has made.
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nemoulette posted:I just finished Donald Love's missions in GTA III for the iPad and I suggest that people complaining about the driving in GTA IV go play some GTA III. While I agree GTA IV driving is better than the III-era's driving; judging against the way you have to play the iPhone/iPad/Android version is just plain unfair to III. Driving was a lot better on PS2/Xbox 1 controllers or the PC - although not as good as GTA IV.
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Jul 25, 2012 15:34
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Zedd posted:K-rose is one of the best channels rockstar has made. Yeah I'm not a country fan at all (except for some of the older stuff ala New Vegas' radio). But K- Rose is just a beautiful mix of really good songs. I ended up finding the soundtrack box but really only listen to the Vrock and K-Rose discs.
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Man, GTA2 is more brutal than I remembered. $50,000 to save your game? $5,000 to get your car resprayed? Limited lives? No in-game map?  (I wandered aimlessly for like half an hour looking for the save point until I pulled up an online map on my phone, really would have appreciated an arrow pointing at the church at all times)Even if I'm completely spoiled by modern games, it's still a lot of fun to play this and cause all kinds of mayhem while listening to the excellent radio stations. My favorite is probably Heavenly Radio with its completely ridiculous Christian pop. (  : "JE-SUS MY SAVIOR, MY FAVORITE FLAVOR!")
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Jul 27, 2012 23:36
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:Man, GTA2 is more brutal than I remembered. $50,000 to save your game? $5,000 to get your car resprayed? Limited lives? No in-game map? Hey, GTA 1 didn't even have save points while in the levels! GTA 2 is considerably less brutal since saving exists at all.
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Jul 27, 2012 23:49
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Install Gentoo posted:Hey, GTA 1 didn't even have save points while in the levels! GTA 2 is considerably less brutal since saving exists at all.
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Jul 27, 2012 23:58
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:really would have appreciated an arrow pointing at the church at all times) The TV truck antenna always points to the church.
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Jul 28, 2012 00:20
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Ron Burgundy posted:The TV truck antenna always points to the church.
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Jul 28, 2012 01:01
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The worst thing about the San Andreas boxset is that it completely misses out SFUR, which is a shame because I always thought that DJ was hilarious.
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Jul 28, 2012 01:07
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DrVenkman posted:The worst thing about the San Andreas boxset is that it completely misses out SFUR, which is a shame because I always thought that DJ was hilarious. Hahaha, yeah thats the radio with that crazy german dj. I hope it makes a return in GTA 5.
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Jul 28, 2012 01:38
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Knightmare posted:For the other dude playing with the FPS mod, did you ever find a decent car interiors texture pack that works? I honestly haven't looked for one yet. Haven't had much time for the game in the past week or so.
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Jul 28, 2012 02:30
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Mice Everywhere posted:If V has a bunch of countryside then I hope it has a cheesy country music station like SA. I don't even particularly like country music, but when you're in the middle of nowhere on a motorcycle it just feels so right. There's nothing like cruising around the countryside in a ute listening to 'Horse With No Name'. 
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Jul 28, 2012 04:57
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Welp, I'm glad I actually decided to look up the San Andreas sidequest rewards before going off to spray over all the gang tags in Los Santos. I thought the reward for that was infinite sprint, but apparently that's in Saints Row 1 instead and in SA you get the infinite sprint from doing burglary missions. Also, I finally got to experience the sheer joy that is flipping your fire truck ten levels into the firefighter side mission, with ten minutes on the clock and no hurry whatsoever. "Eh, I'll just cut through here, I'll save a couple of secOH gently caress PLEASE DON'T FLIP OH poo poo NOOOO  " Paramedic missions were fun too, especially as CJ began to starve to death around level 9 (fortunately so slowly that I had at least 75-80% health left at the end) and my ambulance got rear-ended by a truck as one of the patients on level 12 was entering it. He got stuck under the truck for a couple of seconds but eventually made it somehow. I probably would have ended up hurling my laptop out of the window if that dude had died.
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I thought I'd be smart and do the firefighting in Angel Pine. Don't make that mistake. Burning people run from the cars and stop right on the steepest part of a rocky incline where you can't spray them from above or below and the firetruck doesn't have anywhere near the sort of grip required to stop next to them.
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Jul 29, 2012 20:15
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It's amazing even hearing about stories from a 2004 game, how babysitted we are with games these days. I will never do those ambulance missions ever again unless a HD REMAKE is made with some form of auto save. Or if they re introduce them in 5, a level saving option 
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Jul 29, 2012 22:29
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Vice City Stories had a thing where it saved completion every 5 levels, but bumped up the reward requirement to 15. Beats getting to level 11 or 12 and then failing because of bullshit.
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Jul 29, 2012 23:12
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I tried to install the latest version of the Xbox textures mod for my Steam version of GTA3, but for some reason I can't get the thing to work even though I followed the instructions (it's missing a DLL file that should have been included in the automatic installer)  Now the game looks like this: Oh well, let's see if I can fix this without reinstalling the game. edit: All right, it seems the installer put the important DLLs in the completely wrong folder. Now the mod works as it should. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jul 29, 2012 |
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:I tried to install the latest version of the Xbox textures mod for my Steam version of GTA3, but for some reason I can't get the thing to work even though I followed the instructions (it's missing a DLL file that should have been included in the automatic installer) I literally just did this and had that problem yesterday. The problem is that the mod installer looks for /GTA3/ and the steam directory is /grand theft auto 3/, so it creates /GTA3/ within that folder. You need to go into that folder and copy all of the files to the correct location.
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Yeah, I just noticed that like a minute after I posted. Thanks for the quick reply anyways. There's also this update for the 1.0 version of the mod, let's see if I can install it without loving up horribly. Apparently it isn't fully compatible with the Steam version (as in some of the improvements don't work), but it should work fine for the most part. edit: yeah, the update seems to work okay, even though it moves the two DLLs back into the /GTA3/ folder and you need to put them back in the main directory. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Jul 29, 2012 23:43
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I finished BoGT the other day, ahead of vanilaa IV, and thought it was a great story, the other characters are hilarious and rather in-depth. I was hoping that Lost and Damned would be the same way, thus far though, I just hate it. I've probably done four missions, and just disliked every person in it, and the way you have to do everything (convoy on a motorbike  ). I don't think I'll be playing much more of L&D.
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Jul 30, 2012 14:57
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TLAD gets better as it goes. It's not as good as Gay Tony, but it's worth playing. It's also not all that long, and like Gay Tony it ties into the vanilla storyline.
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Jul 30, 2012 15:22
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I liked TLAD because I always had a bike to ride on. No more dealing with traffic, I just have to ride on the center line to get through congested traffic.
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What? I thought TLAD was way better than TBOGT myself. Even if for the sawn off shotgun alone. I don't know, I think Johnny looks way more badass than any of the other protagonists in the IV series, too. Plus, I just like riding bikes...
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Jul 30, 2012 21:19
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If you're at all into even the idea of biker culture, TLatD is the best thing out of GTA IV. It's like playing an episode of Sons Of Anarchy.
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Jul 30, 2012 21:27
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I liked the clubs missions and characters in TBOGT better. I actually like Luis as a protagonist more than any other GTA character
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Jul 30, 2012 22:49
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Luis and what's his face from TLaD were very good characters. Not as good as Vercetti, but right after Claude. Carl was stupid and annoying and Nico was a whiny crybaby.
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TheJoker138 posted:If you're at all into even the idea of biker culture, TLatD is the best thing out of GTA IV. It's like playing an episode of Sons Of Anarchy. Only entertaining and with 100% less Browalk.
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What appealed to you guys about Luis? It's been awhile since I played, but I remember feeling like he had no personality or charisma at all.
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Jul 31, 2012 01:21
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Yeah, he was just like Claude. He was whoever you wanted him to be. Claude and Luis work because they are a blank slate and become whatever you want. Tommy works because he is a psychopath and you usually play GTA as a psychopath. CJ doesn't work because he's a little bitch and won't realize that all of his success is being jeopardized by trying to rep the hood. Nico doesn't work because he's a little bitch and keeps crying about "I was monster in home country, I am monster here." He has several opportunities to be something besides a gangster and leave his past behind but he ignores them and keeps crying about the situations he puts himself in.
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Capn Beeb posted:Only entertaining and with 100% less Browalk. I don't know what Browalk is, but Sons Of Anarchy is one of the best shows on TV right now, along with Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Game Of Thrones. Sorry about your bad taste 
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