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In that mission where you're driving the guy to give a speech, why does everyone get out of the cars at the roadblock? Why not just loving drive away?
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 Episode 36: Pest Control We're well and truly in the home stretch here, with only three more story videos and a stranger mission roundup episode coming up.
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Jan 21, 2017 22:06
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Doc Morbid posted:Episode 35: To Live and Die in Alderney[/url] Okay, the bus creaming the cop car out of nowhere made me laugh.
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The next update is almost done, I'm just having serious difficulties deciding on a music track for another sped-up manshoot section. 
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Doc Morbid posted:The next update is almost done, I'm just having serious difficulties deciding on a music track for another sped-up manshoot section. Mick Gordon - BFG Division
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That is a great track, but frankly this section is not intense enough for anything from Doom 2016. 
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Doc Morbid posted:That is a great track, but frankly this section is not intense enough for anything from Doom 2016. Just try Worst case - we'll listen to the music without watching the visual part
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How about the visual part without the music? WMG decided to mute the video because it had a bit of Philip Glass' Pruit Igoe playing on the car radio.  BFG Division was fine, at least.Welp, let's render and upload that poo poo again. I guess we'll put some more Deadly Premonition music (not Life is Beautiful or even FBI Special Agent this time) on top of Philip Glass. Or just cut that whole section, it's not like there was anything relevant there and I only wanted to keep it in because Pruit Igoe kicked in with such perfect timing again. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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 Episode 37: That Special Someone We finally come face to face with the man whose actions got the whole 15-man squad killed except for Niko, Florian and himself. Spoilers for video: Choosing to kill or spare Darko doesn't actually affect anything in the rest of the game, you just get a different cutscene and dialog. If you choose to kill him, Niko shoots him twelve times - one bullet for each man who died because of him (as I mention in the video), for which Darko thanks him with his final breath. I chose to spare him because I feel that is the right thing to do storyline-wise and gives Niko something resembling a character arc as he manages to finally let go of the past. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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So here's a thing. On my first playthrough, I killed Darko but on my second I decided to spare him... kind of. While driving away with Roman he started his little speech about how Niko should be proud that he was able to let go and all that jazz. I then ran over Darko which cut the dialogue mid-sentence and prompted Niko and Roman to immediately switch over to their "execute Darko" dialogue.
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You got a laugh out of me for the Snake Eater. Well. I knew there were two endings going in to the LP, (or at least the outcomes here) but not the specifics. Before the update I'd assumed the Darko decision would be the big trigger. (Though now I just go back to get his names from the spoiler tags, you said it wasn't, welp!) And then during the mission, I got the impression you'd chosen the other result... but then again this fits right in with Niko getting screwed.
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Niko gets screwed no matter which ending path you choose, this is GTA IV after all.
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I wish they would have put more time between everything that happened there. As it is, it feels just like checkboxes being checked off! "Okay you chose that, so you get this, this and this." Just a small mission or two between everything happening would have gone a long way towards making it feel more integrated into the world instead of being the game telling you, "Make better choices next time, dumbass!" Thanks a ton for this LP, Doc. I used to feel so guilty for not having finished this game due to getting frustrated with just about everything in it. Now I know it wasn't going to turn into my cup of tea later on!
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Ah dang, I was hoping you'd go the other way. Doing the deal makes more sense from a plot standpoint since Dimitri has been the primary antagonist the whole game. Logically, he should be the final boss. However, I find the revenge ending more satisfying. Everything plays out the exact same with the exception of Dimitri being swapped out for Jimmy Pegorino, plus you get to hunt the bastard down on his own boat like an animal. Also Kate dies instead, so no major loss there. Johnny Amadeus posted:Thanks a ton for this LP, Doc. I used to feel so guilty for not having finished this game due to getting frustrated with just about everything in it. Now I know it wasn't going to turn into my cup of tea later on! It's not over yet, man!
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I kind of like Kate, though I'll admit I dislike the setup there. Niko really does make it out to sound like he's only dealing with Dimitri for the money, but my personal reading of the situation makes me feel like the primary motivation is minimizing trouble and easing his passage 'out'.
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Also, Niko conveniently forgets to tell Kate that the alternative to not working with the guy is shooting him in the face multiple times. She probably wouldn't be so keen on that whole angle...
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Doc Morbid posted:Episode 38: Mr. & Mrs. Bellic I pretty much had to take the chance to kill Dimitri, so this is new and interesting.
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It's pretty funny to see JPegs trying to play the "big scary mobster" card after the game made clear he barely counts. Unless I'm mixing him up.
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Xander77 posted:The same song shows up over and over again over in the last few videos. Wonder what it's called? ) and a brief snippet will also play before the end credits.Oxygene part 4 by Jean Michel Jarre shows up a couple of times in the latest video. Both of these tracks play on The Journey, which has one of the smallest playlists of any radio station in this game so they end up being in frequent rotation and also have a good chance to pop up just in time for dramatic moments. rchandra posted:It's pretty funny to see JPegs trying to play the "big scary mobster" card after the game made clear he barely counts. Unless I'm mixing him up. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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So, you are not going to show off the other ending? It seems kind of easy to do... If you are just sick and tired of the whole LP I get it, but I would appreciate to see you do the ending instead of having to go look for a version on youtube, which may or may not have a person babbling all over it.
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The original plan was to just show this ending, but if there is interest I can show off the other one as well. To be perfectly honest, I've never actually seen the other ending myself because I never pick the Revenge option. I hear they finally patched out the game-breaking glitch from that final mission, too! With... the patch... that re-enabled GFWL and made my saves incompatible (I had used a third-party patch to remove GFWL in order to downgrade my game to a version that works).  Welp, let's see if I still have an Xbox save from that part of the game, then!edit: Okay good, I do in fact have an Xbox save right before the big choice. Might as well get this done so I never have to play GTA IV again (until I decide to LP the Episodes, I guess) DMorbid fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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What game breaking glitch? Man, you're not doing the episodes right away? I was far too sick and tired of GTA4 to bother completing them. Was hoping to watch that here.
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Xander77 posted:What game breaking glitch? quote:Man, you're not doing the episodes right away? I was far too sick and tired of GTA4 to bother completing them. Was hoping to watch that here. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Doc Morbid posted:Episode 38: Mr. & Mrs. Bellic[/url] At the end there, when Niko is shooting the assassin, really sells that scene for me. Niko doesn't look angry or anything, he just looks dead inside. I'm not sure if that was intentional or just a quirk of the engine, but I really liked that detail.
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I've recorded and edited the Revenge endgame path, which made for two more videos.  I also managed to squeeze in the Vigilante and Most Wanted side missions, which I never got around to showing off in the main run.Next update will consist of those two bonus episodes, and at some point after that I'll post the third bonus video which is the stranger mission roundup. The Deal ending will be the final video of the LP, as I always intended.
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Tofu Survivor posted:Ah dang, I was hoping you'd go the other way. Doing the deal makes more sense from a plot standpoint since Dimitri has been the primary antagonist the whole game. Logically, he should be the final boss. Maybe it makes more sense the way it plays out? But as far as the choice goes, I can't see any reason why you'd choose not to kill Dmitri at that point. Like you say, Dmitri's been an antagonist since near the beginning, so why would Niko work with him now? gently caress that guy. Really he should just not agree to help Pegorino, but since he already did that in a cutscene the only reasonable choice is to go kill Dmitri. And yes, he should be the final boss. The
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Tiggum posted:Maybe it makes more sense the way it plays out? But as far as the choice goes, I can't see any reason why you'd choose not to kill Dmitri at that point. Like you say, Dmitri's been an antagonist since near the beginning, so why would Niko work with him now? gently caress that guy. Really he should just not agree to help Pegorino, but since he already did that in a cutscene the only reasonable choice is to go kill Dmitri. The whole game's just kind of a mess like that. It was developed in a time where player agency was the Next Big Thing (Mass Effect, et cetera), but the choices were kind of hamfisted into the game, almost like they were afterthoughts. For all we know, they were afterthoughts and instead of being linear mission progression they just tweaked them to work in a forked path fashion. Considering how many of the choices affect so little of the game (only the Deal/Revenge choice affects the plot in any way shape or form), it's entirely possible choices were added later on in development.
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Tiggum posted:Maybe it makes more sense the way it plays out? But as far as the choice goes, I can't see any reason why you'd choose not to kill Dmitri at that point. Like you say, Dmitri's been an antagonist since near the beginning, so why would Niko work with him now? gently caress that guy. Really he should just not agree to help Pegorino, but since he already did that in a cutscene the only reasonable choice is to go kill Dmitri. The only interaction with Dimitri was the phone call; if he hadn't decided to go rogue Niko would've collected $250k for nothing more than driving into a parking lot with absolutely no connection whatsoever with Dimitri (as was promised, to be somewhat fair to Pegorino). It would've been a more compelling choice if money were more of a useful object in the game. It'd be one thing if you'd been scraping by with a few hundred here, a thousand there, trying to balance between buying better weapons or body armor or whatever and then suddenly the opportunity for a huge windfall like this came into your lap, but as we can see in Doc's video he's sitting on half a million in cash as it is.
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 Episode 39: A Dish Served Cold (Revenge Ending 01) We go back to the Xbox 360 version to look at the other ending path and wrap up a couple of loose ends. Here's a transcript of the post-mission phone call I missed because of lovely controls: quote:Niko: I killed Dimitri. It's over. He was on the Platypus, the boat I arrived to Liberty City on, so it seems it ends where it began.  Episode 40: Out of Commission (Revenge Ending 02) I don't know, J-Peg just feels like such a weak antagonist for the final mission of the game. I think the Deal equivalent of this mission is a lot more dramatic anyway, but we'll be seeing that soon enough. Also, I do apologize for my terrible driving (and general poor gameplay performance) in this video. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Looking back I like the Deal ending better as well. Roman dying....eh, if somebody has to die I'd rather it be the lying, gambling one than the one who actively did nothing.
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Yes, he did, in fact, call you Baltic, instead of Balkan. Also, Dimitri's Russian is very, very bad. Also, "Dimitri" is not a real name, it's "Dmitry". gently caress Dimitri. And, finally, the poo poo written in Russian on the crates has to be a joke, because no machine translator will ever translate anything from English into the words that are there.
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You'd think that Rockstar could've afforded to hire some people who actually speak Russian to proofread their poo poo, what with the 100 bazillion dollar budget and everything.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Also, "Dimitri" is not a real name, it's "Dmitry".
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Xander77 posted:It used to be a real name back in the day, and apparently plenty of Well, it's technically a name, but it's no more real these days than the names that are acronyms of socialist slogans/names (Vilen, Vladlen, Arlen, Zhores etc.). It would be like calling someone Alexander instead of Alexander. There's a one in a million chance of encountering someone like that
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Alexeythegreat posted:Well, it's technically a name, but it's no more real these days than the names that are acronyms of socialist slogans/names (Vilen, Vladlen, Arlen, Zhores etc.). It would be like calling someone Alexander instead of Alexander. There's a one in a million chance of encountering someone like that  I have no idea what you're trying to say in the second sentence. Write in Russian, use the IPA, or just go "E like in SomEword". I have no idea why people would ever try to express phonetics in English without resorting to one of the above.
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Xander77 posted:According to facebook, there's at least one Oyushminald still around Because I'm dumb and was in a hurry Basically, Alexander normally stands for Russian Александр, the bold part stands for "dr", a consonant cluster. If you were to put an "e" there, like in Alexander, it would look and sound extremely weird. Which is exactly the case with "Dimitri"
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I really hated how the resolution of the whole Darko thing was HE SOLD US OUT FOR $1000?!?!?!? when this a series where you kill people for free. I respect their desire to try and go for a serious story, but boy was this the wrong series to try it with. It wasn't impossible to put the genie back in the bottle after San Andreas' circus, but they still didn't do it. Congrats on a great LP, Doc.
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