Grand Theft Auto Megathread

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toggle: Nov 7, 2005

GreatGreen posted:

Does anybody have the links to the YouTube videos of the gang of fat guys in GTA 4 who go around causing chaos like all of them shooting out their car windows and then stumbling into the strip club and shooting their pistols around?

Searching doesn't seem to be helping me.

I think it was a racistman3D classic joint. Find it here I guess? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz4oW7e0OT-nrErPPwa8MrleaAcrdUXq7

# ? Aug 17, 2013 06:30

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# ? May 28, 2024 07:05

crazysim: May 23, 2004; I AM SOOOOO GAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Ri6dhsnoU

# ? Aug 17, 2013 06:31

Sereri: Sep 30, 2008; awwwrigami

^^^^^^^^^^ :argh:

GreatGreen posted:

Does anybody have the links to the YouTube videos of the gang of fat guys in GTA 4 who go around causing chaos like all of them shooting out their car windows and then stumbling into the strip club and shooting their pistols around?

Searching doesn't seem to be helping me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Ri6dhsnoU

# ? Aug 17, 2013 12:17

GreatGreen: Jul 3, 2007; That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.

Hell yes, thanks guys!

# ? Aug 17, 2013 15:18

circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

GreatGreen posted:

Does anybody have the links to the YouTube videos of the gang of fat guys in GTA 4 who go around causing chaos like all of them shooting out their car windows and then stumbling into the strip club and shooting their pistols around?

Searching doesn't seem to be helping me.

I'd prefer if you didn't call Gabe Newell's family a "gang of fat guys". Thanks.

# ? Aug 17, 2013 15:43

Reive: May 21, 2009

I need a little help, I've been looking for some GTA3 mods t help with screenshots and video capture, but I can't seem to find what I'm after, I need a no-clip like mod or at least something to help with getting to certain places, perhaps some sort of flying mod or if all else fails a super jump.
The other is free camera, unlock the camera from the player to position it anywhere at any angle.

Those two seem the most likely to exist somewhere, a freeze time would also be good but I could probably get by with just using the built in slow down time cheats.

Anything out there like these?

# ? Aug 23, 2013 15:31

cis_eraser_420: Mar 1, 2013

Goddamn, I forgot how good Vice City was. Booted it up earlier today and just tore rear end around the city in a Cheetah for like an hour, blaring Kavinsky and Perturbator over the radio (every open world game with a radio function should have a built in custom station that plays your mp3s), searching for packages and doing random rampages. The only problem I've got is that for some reason my game crashes when I try to fire a SPAS-12 and also when I enter an Ammu-Nation? I dunno.

Man, Rockstar should totally do a HD remake on GTA V's engine, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

# ? Aug 24, 2013 03:54

sirbeefalot: Aug 24, 2004; Fast Learner.; Fun Shoe

I'm trying to load a 100% complete save in SA on the PC and something's not working. What do I need to do beyond putting the file in the folder with the other saves? The saves show up in the list when I go to load a game in SA, and they "load", but then every one I've tried starts with the airport cutscene as if I started a new game.

I just wanna gently caress around without playing through the game for the 50th time.

# ? Aug 25, 2013 16:31

Reive: May 21, 2009

sirbeefalot posted:

I'm trying to load a 100% complete save in SA on the PC and something's not working. What do I need to do beyond putting the file in the folder with the other saves? The saves show up in the list when I go to load a game in SA, and they "load", but then every one I've tried starts with the airport cutscene as if I started a new game.

I just wanna gently caress around without playing through the game for the 50th time.

It could be the save isn't for your version, you could try searching for the last SA patch that came out and updating, or try a different save file, there are 100%s all over the net.

# ? Aug 25, 2013 18:33

Dave Mustard: Jan 23, 2007; Let me introduce myself, I'm a social disease.

M.Ciaster posted:

Goddamn, I forgot how good Vice City was. Booted it up earlier today and just tore rear end around the city in a Cheetah for like an hour, blaring Kavinsky and Perturbator over the radio (every open world game with a radio function should have a built in custom station that plays your mp3s), searching for packages and doing random rampages. The only problem I've got is that for some reason my game crashes when I try to fire a SPAS-12 and also when I enter an Ammu-Nation? I dunno.

Man, Rockstar should totally do a HD remake on GTA V's engine, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I'd settle for an HD remake period, I mean, particularly with good controls, but if they did it on the V engine that'd be amazing. I really just want to return to the Miami crime wave era.

# ? Aug 26, 2013 00:39

Bleusilences: Jun 23, 2004; Be careful for what you wish for.

As long it's not in liberty city I am happy.

# ? Aug 26, 2013 01:13

Long Francesco: Jun 3, 2005

I hope someone here knows how the hell I can get my copy of gta4 to work. I bought it in 08 from direct2drive which seems to have been bought out by gamefly. I remember when i got it they just had me download an iso and install and it worked, 2 computers later and none of my old game files I want to play it again. I don't have any way to get the file I downloaded originally, their new site just wants me to buy it on steam. I dug through my old emails and found this:

So how do I get the files I need to install the game, and where do I use this key? I don't think getting the isos from a torrent would work without a bunch of dubious cracks and crap and that wouldn't be a legit install anyway.

# ? Aug 30, 2013 09:36

SEKCobra: Feb 28, 2011; Hi
Don't look at my site

Long Francesco posted:

I hope someone here knows how the hell I can get my copy of gta4 to work. I bought it in 08 from direct2drive which seems to have been bought out by gamefly. I remember when i got it they just had me download an iso and install and it worked, 2 computers later and none of my old game files I want to play it again. I don't have any way to get the file I downloaded originally, their new site just wants me to buy it on steam. I dug through my old emails and found this:

So how do I get the files I need to install the game, and where do I use this key? I don't think getting the isos from a torrent would work without a bunch of dubious cracks and crap and that wouldn't be a legit install anyway.

Download the iso from a nice friend (they are not precracked btw) and then install, jsut activate with your key. Both the activator and GFWL will ask for it.

# ? Aug 30, 2013 10:36

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

I never got why people always went with D2D over steam. It always ended up being a hassle and I could tell that it wasn't going to be around for very long I ended up being right.

# ? Aug 30, 2013 15:03

SplitSoul: Dec 31, 2000

Long Francesco posted:

I hope someone here knows how the hell I can get my copy of gta4 to work. I bought it in 08 from direct2drive which seems to have been bought out by gamefly. I remember when i got it they just had me download an iso and install and it worked, 2 computers later and none of my old game files I want to play it again. I don't have any way to get the file I downloaded originally, their new site just wants me to buy it on steam. I dug through my old emails and found this:

So how do I get the files I need to install the game, and where do I use this key? I don't think getting the isos from a torrent would work without a bunch of dubious cracks and crap and that wouldn't be a legit install anyway.

Is there any reason you can't get it through the Gamefly client with your login? I had bought the game and expansions on D2D as well and recently installed EFLC from Gamefly with no issues. It's not an iso, though, it's ready to play when the download is finished. You can simply uninstall the client when you've downloaded the game.

I guess you could just acquire it elsewhere and enter your key, but then you'll probably have to fiddle with patches.

Cojawfee posted:

I never got why people always went with D2D over steam. It always ended up being a hassle and I could tell that it wasn't going to be around for very long I ended up being right.

I believe you could get both GTA IV and EFLC for $10 back then, the cheapest they'd ever been at that point. They're the only games I've bought there.

SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Aug 30, 2013

# ? Aug 30, 2013 15:09

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

There was a while too where EA games were on D2D and not Steam.

# ? Aug 30, 2013 15:42

Long Francesco: Jun 3, 2005

Ah so I dug around their website and found the client, have it downloading now. Only 43 hours to go!

I do have the isos but of course when I go to run it I get secrurom bitching a fit and I can't seem to get any nocds to work so whatever.

Do any of you remember playing multi theft auto in San andreas? Doing oj chases with 30 goons, forming gangs and doing drivebys in a nitrous powered hooptie was probably the most fun I've ever had in a game. Does that even exist anymore?

# ? Aug 31, 2013 20:20

The Ass Stooge: Nov 9, 2012; a hunger uncurbed
by nature's calling

Long Francesco posted:

Do any of you remember playing multi theft auto in San andreas? Doing oj chases with 30 goons, forming gangs and doing drivebys in a nitrous powered hooptie was probably the most fun I've ever had in a game. Does that even exist anymore?

It's been six or seven years, probably, but I do indeed remember that. Also probably the most fun I've ever had with a multiplayer game. I wish I knew how to track Brains down so someone could get that server back up.

# ? Aug 31, 2013 22:55

Reive: May 21, 2009

the CIT server is still the most populated, I believe there's a goon run gang on that one.

# ? Aug 31, 2013 23:24

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; by Reene; Fun Shoe

The rear end Stooge posted:

I wish I knew how to track Brains down so someone could get that server back up.

Brains is on deployment from what I recall.

The funny thing about MTA is for the absolute longest time it was by far the better of the two multiplayer clients but was completely and utterly cut off at the knees because it didn't have a server browser. Then SAMP got its head out of its rear end and fixed a lot of the issues.

# ? Sep 1, 2013 00:09

Long Francesco: Jun 3, 2005

From what I remember mta ran with more arcade style modes like the oj chases and mountain top death matches, and samp had the server where you could own property and form gangs. Hard to say which one I liked more but I'd kill to have another oj chase.

# ? Sep 1, 2013 22:43

The Ass Stooge: Nov 9, 2012; a hunger uncurbed
by nature's calling

Long Francesco posted:

From what I remember mta ran with more arcade style modes like the oj chases and mountain top death matches, and samp had the server where you could own property and form gangs. Hard to say which one I liked more but I'd kill to have another oj chase.

The MTA freeroam server started life on SAMP, since it took ages for the San Andreas version of MTA to implement on-foot play. The SAMP roleplay server was a different beast entirely.

# ? Sep 1, 2013 22:47

Cage: Jul 17, 2003; www.revivethedrive.org

I hate MTA and SAMP freeplay. Lock my rear end in a car and let me do cagejump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0wo87k_uY&t=398s

# ? Sep 1, 2013 22:49

Wee Bairns: Feb 10, 2004; Jack Tripper's wingman.

Holy poo poo, CAGEJUMP!

Miss that poo poo so much!

# ? Sep 2, 2013 02:26

DickButt Shitlord: Oct 14, 2012

In preparation for GTA V I decided to go back and play some GTA IV again and record some of my antics. I want to start a lets play channel but just got a computer setup so haven't gotten it all set up perfectly but I wanted to post a couple videos I threw together just for fun. Let me know if it is terrible and I should die in a fire..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzpXMEy2XE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAj3F0gaWQ

DickButt Shitlord fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Sep 3, 2013

# ? Sep 3, 2013 05:38

DarthBlingBling: Apr 19, 2004; These were also dark times for gamers as we were shunned by others for being geeky or nerdy and computer games were seen as Childs play things, during these dark ages the whispers began circulating about a 3D space combat game called Elite

- CMDR Bald Man In A Box

Well you've got the 'camera in front of the TV' thing set up perfectly so you're pretty much ready for YouTube

# ? Sep 3, 2013 15:35

primaltrash: Feb 11, 2008; (Thought-ful Croak)

Does anyone know a good handling mod that makes driving in GTAIV more like driving in GTASA? I don't want to "learn how to drive" in GTAIV, I just want something familiar so I can play it without making myself crazy before V comes out.

# ? Sep 4, 2013 02:39

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

armoredgorilla posted:

Does anyone know a good handling mod that makes driving in GTAIV more like driving in GTASA? I don't want to "learn how to drive" in GTAIV, I just want something familiar so I can play it without making myself crazy before V comes out.

What, exactly, are your problems with handling in GTA IV compared to GTA SA?

And your problem is probably that you're stealing lovely cars. Steal better cars.

# ? Sep 4, 2013 02:53

primaltrash: Feb 11, 2008; (Thought-ful Croak)

Basically it seems like every time I get up to speed, if I tap the slightest thing, I go screeching and immediately crash. It feels like there's no weight or friction to the vehicles. And handbraking just sends me into the same sort of tailspins. I don't like having to slow down to 10 mph to make turns. I'm not saying I want to take turns at 100 mph, but some middle ground would be nice. I've read people applauding GTA IV for its driving realism, but maybe the realism just isn't for me. I could do with some cinematic driving.

# ? Sep 4, 2013 03:13

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

I hate to tell you, but GTAV is going to have the same handling as IV just more refined. There's no point in trying to have an arcade style handling as a crutch.

# ? Sep 4, 2013 03:38

Brightman: Feb 24, 2005; I've seen fun you people wouldn't believe.
Tiki torches on fire off the summit of Kilauea.
I watched disco balls glitter in the dark near the Brandenburg Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like crowds in rain.

Time to sleep.

Choda Dog posted:

In preparation for GTA V I decided to go back and play some GTA IV again and record some of my antics. I want to start a lets play channel but just got a computer setup so haven't gotten it all set up perfectly but I wanted to post a couple videos I threw together just for fun. Let me know if it is terrible and I should die in a fire..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzpXMEy2XE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAj3F0gaWQ

You got me to play GTA4 again...while drinking with the HUD off, which made for some interesting mishaps.

# ? Sep 4, 2013 15:53

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

So I played GTAIV multiplayer the other night for the first time in years while waiting for GTAV to come out and...what? In several different Free Modes, there were players that were somehow able to drop in invulnerable expensive supercars with neon lights and poo poo. Not to mention stuff like skate half-pipes appearing out of nowhere, etc. Are these people playing with modded 360s or is this some sort of exploit I've never heard of?

# ? Sep 5, 2013 01:23

101: Oct 15, 2012; Vault Dweller

Pope Corky the IX posted:

So I played GTAIV multiplayer the other night for the first time in years while waiting for GTAV to come out and...what? In several different Free Modes, there were players that were somehow able to drop in invulnerable expensive supercars with neon lights and poo poo. Not to mention stuff like skate half-pipes appearing out of nowhere, etc. Are these people playing with modded 360s or is this some sort of exploit I've never heard of?

I'm not sure but it's been that way for a while. I'm sure it's great fun for them but it sucks for everyone else.

# ? Sep 5, 2013 18:04

Marshmallow Blue: Apr 25, 2010

armoredgorilla posted:

Basically it seems like every time I get up to speed, if I tap the slightest thing, I go screeching and immediately crash. It feels like there's no weight or friction to the vehicles. And handbraking just sends me into the same sort of tailspins.

Every GTA ever has been like this. I find nothing wrong with it :smugbert:

# ? Sep 5, 2013 18:48

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Holy poo poo :lol:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/08/grand-theft-autos-bigfoot-hunters.html

quote:

AUGUST 26, 2013
THE HUNT FOR ONE OF GAMING�S MOST MYTHICAL CREATURES
POSTED BY SIMON PARKIN

Way out in southeastern Flint County, Back o Beyond is the most isolated area in San Andreas. Its trees loom conspiratorially, their branches knitted together, creating a sense of gloom. As night falls, a fog rises, muffling the air. For some, it�s a place of tranquility, far away from the noise and fury of the cities nearby. But for others, this forsaken forest is home to an unknown terror.

In 2004, Rob Silver was driving his truck through Back o Beyond when he caught sight of something in the thicket. �Out of the corner of the television screen I saw a large, tall, dark figure,� he said. �It happened twice, both times during that first year. To this day, I�ve not come across the creature again.� Earlier this year, Kaleb Krimmel, a teen-ager from Michigan, had a similar experience. �I have seen strange figures in the fog before, but pedestrians can sometimes appear in weird places,� he said. �While this sort of computer error describes most of my encounters, this time was different. I was in Back o Beyond, walking up a hill. It was foggy out, but behind some plants I clearly saw a giant black figure. I aimed my camera to take a picture, but by the time I steadied the viewfinder it was gone.�

Silver and Krimmel are not the only players who claim to have seen Bigfoot in the virtual forests of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a video game released in 2004 in which players assume the role of a young gang member, Carl Johnson, in a story that draws upon various real-life events in Los Angeles, most centrally the rivalry between the Bloods and Crips street gangs. The game, set in 1992 within the fictional state of San Andreas, a geographical amalgam of California and Nevada, sold more than twenty-seven million copies worldwide. If the game�s developers had included a rare occurrence of a Bigfoot character in the Back o Beyond, occasional sightings from the masses of scouring players would be inevitable. Within months of the game�s release, videos allegedly showing sightings of Bigfoot appeared on YouTube, while viewers debated their authenticity in the comments.

These discussions were muddied when some enterprising fans created a �mod,� or an alternative code that can be downloaded and installed, to insert a fabricated Bigfoot into the game, complicating the hunt for the �real� virtual Bigfoot. Nevertheless, nearly a decade after the game�s release, a number of communities continue to work to prove the authenticity of Bigfoot�s existence in the original game, and devoted users still upload photographs of unusual footprints and other pieces of circumstantial evidence to their Web sites. Silver runs one such site. �Many Web sites make the Bigfoot myth out to be some fan-made story that�s simply gotten out of hand,� he said. �In fact, the staff at the Grand Theft Auto Web site I contributed to at the time didn�t want anything to do with myths, and refused to have them catalogued. Last November, I set out to make the most comprehensive, informative Grand Theft Auto myth site on the Web.�

The Bigfoot debate of the game closely mirrors that of the real world, in which believers often clash with skeptics. Silver�s certainty in the creature�s existence is absolute. �I one-hundred-per-cent believe Bigfoot exists within San Andreas,� he said. Krimmel agrees: �I do believe the creature exists. I have encountered him more than once. I would say he is proven.� But critics say the myth�s disciples are fooling themselves. �Either they�re mistaken, or they�re lying,� said a skeptical forum user. �Myth hunters are determined to believe in myths despite all evidence to the contrary. Perhaps they want the myths to be true so badly that they�ve managed to trick themselves into seeing things that aren�t there, or they�ve made connections between things that aren�t connected. Maybe they�re just lying or stupid, or both.�

One crucial advantage the Bigfoot hunters in the game have over their real-world counterparts is that they�re able to communicate with the game�s creators. Grand Theft Auto�s developer, Rockstar North, has not been silent on the issue. Speaking to an American video-game magazine shortly after the game�s release, the lead level designer Craig Filshie said that there was �not a bit of truth� to the Bigfoot rumors. �If you look closely, you�ll notice that all of the screenshots are typically retouched versions of screenshots we created for magazines and Web sites before the game was released,� he said.

Filshie even went so far as to offer his own explanation for what Bigfoot-sighters might be seeing in the game: �San Andreas is an extremely complex game, with millions of lines of code. It�s entirely possible for strange things to happen, but none of them are intentional.� Terry Donovan, the C.E.O. of Rockstar, said, �There is no Bigfoot, just like in real life.� This straightforward denial from the game�s makers should have been enough to quash the rumors�as if God himself had told the world that there were no hirsute monsters roaming America�s tangled forests.

But a video game with a scope like Grand Theft Auto is a vast and multifaceted construction, built by teams of hundreds of people. It�s entirely possible that one artist or designer could have inserted an Easter egg like Bigfoot without the rest of the team�s knowledge. Indeed, some coders concealed a sex-based mini-game�which became known as �hot coffee��that led to the company�s being brought in front of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2006. It was a scandal that cost the game�s publisher, Take Two, more than twenty million dollars in lawsuit payments. If a fully developed mini-game, which allowed the game�s lead character to have graphic sex with women, could be surreptitiously included in the game, it�s no great stretch to believe that a single rogue programmer or artist could have quietly inserted a mythical beast.

Virtual Bigfoot skeptics have another advantage over their real-life counterparts: they are able to scour the game�s code in search of evidence. If there were no Bigfoot assets, like a graphic rendering, it would prove that virtual Bigfoot was a myth. Some motivated skeptics have spent countless hours scanning the code; they claim that, in the thousands upon thousands of lines of programming, there is nothing referring to Bigfoot. But some people are dubious of these claims; after all, how meticulous will an amateur, unpaid hacker be?

Despite its early denials, Rockstar has only added to the sense of doubt in recent years. When asked to comment on the rumors, a Rockstar spokesperson told me, �We�d prefer to keep an air of mystery surrounding the topic. Let the myth remain a myth.� Christian Cantamessa, a former Rockstar employee who worked as a level designer on the game, took a similar stance when I approached him. �It is a little like asking the U.S. government to discuss Area 51, isn�t it?� he said. �The only appropriate comment is �No comment.� �

For myth-hunters, the search for Bigfoot has provided an ongoing and compelling reason to continue playing the game long after the main storyline has been exhausted. Krimmel visits San Andreas twice a week in search of Bigfoot, taking an in-game camera with him on his excursions in the hope of photographing the creature. �I�ve beaten the game twice, and maxed out my stats, so myth-hunting is the only thing left to do,� he said. For Silver, the ongoing allure is in the chance to catch sight of something rare and wonderful. �There�s a one-in-a-hundred shot at finding him, in my opinion,� he said. �That possibility is why I return.�

Whether or not people are disposed to believing in or disregarding legends, the San Andreas Bigfoot myth appears to be self-perpetuating. As newer and younger players gain access to the game and read the online rumors, some are inexorably drawn into the story, and become active participants in its extension. It�s a worldwide phenomenon. Rhem Alhatimy, a fourteen-year-old resident of Kufa, Iraq, bought a pirated copy of the game a few months ago, on a DVD containing each of the PC titles in the long-running Grand Theft Auto series.

�I�d read the rumors, and decided to visit Back o Beyond myself,� he said. �It was about three o�clock in the morning. That�s when I saw it: a dark, creepy thing standing in the woods. I�m not one-hundred-per-cent certain, but I think that was him.�

�I will keep looking,� Alhatimy continued. �There is something in those woods.�

# ? Sep 7, 2013 19:16

GreatGreen: Jul 3, 2007; That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.

I hope GTA V has some kind of bigfoot in it, even if it only appears somewhere in the backwoods for like 2 in-game hours per in-game year.

# ? Sep 7, 2013 19:27

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

Trevor should just have a stuffed Bigfoot head on his wall and it should just never be addressed or explained.

# ? Sep 7, 2013 22:23

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

That would be unbelievably wonderful

# ? Sep 8, 2013 01:41

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

GreatGreen posted:

I hope GTA V has some kind of bigfoot in it, even if it only appears somewhere in the backwoods for like 2 in-game hours per in-game year.

Reminds me of posting over at GameFAQs about the Maibatsu Monstrosity in 3.

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# ? May 28, 2024 07:05

Cliff Racer: Mar 24, 2007; by Lowtax

Ehh they could reference bigfoot somehow, they had a crazy man talking about heavens and hells in the sky on one of the GTA IV radio stations. Or was it Lazlo talking about a crazy man? Anyways those bigfoot hunters are fools, if they really wanted to find it they should be looking through the game's files instead of wandering around Back O Beyond.

# ? Sep 8, 2013 07:02

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