GTA IV Gameplay Thread (Funny stuff or Mission Questions)

Willow

Drove a dump truck, a delivery truck as well. Have you picked up a hooker yet? pull up to one honk your horn. Then you take her somewhere and choose your service, use the select button for views of whats going on.

So I go to play this morning and it's stuck at the loading-do you have protection screen.......this game sucks big donkey **** for these issues.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Willow

I can't play this game anymore, it either won't load or I can't start a mission without it freezing. I think rock* dropped the ball. How could it have been tested and they not found issues. It seems as though a big majority of people are having issues. And there are some really dumb A$$ people out there with suggestions and reasons, ie put your PS in the freezer to cool it down, it's because of the DS controler, it's because of internet connection everything I read sounds rediculous. I hope they come out with a fix soon cause I love this game and can't get enough of it. I'm just very dissapointed that it's not working as it should and that Rock* has nothing about it on their website. Off to play COD.......

BeRad

Suggested fix for ps3 problems
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6190279.html

And a good link for all ps3-related news
http://www.ps3fanboy.com

wingnut4772

Somehow after loading it yesterday my wireless internet is all messed up. Initially I lost connection with the PS3. I restored it and now I have connection with PS3 but when the PS3 is on my laptop connection is down?

avelanchefan

Wingnut,

I am with you on the connection issue. Ever since I started this game my hard-wired ps3 will now lose connection to the psn network and I will have to restart my router again. This has now happened at least 4 times. Now my son says his computer has lost internet connection...so it is off to reset the router AGAIN.

Not sure what the disk is trying to do to mess it all up, but these disks have some real problems with them.

On to the game, I did the truck mission too, that was a lot of fun. The next three missions after that were just crazy. Will not spoil it for anyone, but they are very intense.

Funny story...well funny to me. I started doing Brucies car missions. Which are just fantastic BTW. Any hoo, I grabbed his first car the PMP 600 (Which I feel is one of the better handling cars) So I ditched the police real fast and just started cruising with this car. Loved the physics of it, and for some reason I had Beat 102.7 on and there was a pretty jammin Rap tune going down.

So I get back on the bridge highway at a fairly high rate of speed, not realizing what I am doing I blow through the toll booth setting off a 5 star criminal beat down. Immediately the helo is right above me, and the cops are thick. I get off the highway and start doing my thing. Everywhere I turn there are more cops waiting. Well I get on the long straight away that leads to the "champs de elysees" looking thing. Now you of coarse can go around like a good citizen should and would, or you can blow through the middle like Niko always does. So I hit some more gas and hit the lip in front of the "champs" and got massive air. Now I have never noticed the cement barrier poles in front of this display, but I proceeded to land, (perfectly btw) hit the cement pole head on, of coarse Niko flies through the windshield screaming like a **** on nickel night. I stand up only to be hit by the cop car that was right behind me. Needless to say the cop car had no idea I was ejected, he never slowed down, and I was immediately launched about 100 feet in the air, and was rudely met by an unsuspecting group of people who I took out like bowling pins. Needless to say I died. But one of the best deaths I have ever had in GTA.

wingnut4772

avelanchefan wrote: »

Wingnut,

I am with you on the connection issue. Ever since I started this game my hard-wired ps3 will now lose connection to the psn network and I will have to restart my router again. This has now happened at least 4 times. Now my son says his computer has lost internet connection...so it is off to reset the router AGAIN.

Not sure what the disk is trying to do to mess it all up, but these disks have some real problems with them.

On to the game, I did the truck mission too, that was a lot of fun. The next three missions after that were just crazy. Will not spoil it for anyone, but they are very intense.

Funny story...well funny to me. I started doing Brucies car missions. Which are just fantastic BTW. Any hoo, I grabbed his first car the PMP 600 (Which I feel is one of the better handling cars) So I ditched the police real fast and just started cruising with this car. Loved the physics of it, and for some reason I had Beat 102.7 on and there was a pretty jammin Rap tune going down.

So I get back on the bridge highway at a fairly high rate of speed, not realizing what I am doing I blow through the toll booth setting off a 5 star criminal beat down. Immediately the helo is right above me, and the cops are thick. I get off the highway and start doing my thing. Everywhere I turn there are more cops waiting. Well I get on the long straight away that leads to the "champs de elysees" looking thing. Now you of coarse can go around like a good citizen should and would, or you can blow through the middle like Niko always does. So I hit some more gas and hit the lip in front of the "champs" and got massive air. Now I have never noticed the cement barrier poles in front of this display, but I proceeded to land, (perfectly btw) hit the cement pole head on, of coarse Niko flies through the windshield screaming like a **** on nickel night. I stand up only to be hit by the cop car that was right behind me. Needless to say the cop car had no idea I was ejected, he never slowed down, and I was immediately launched about 100 feet in the air, and was rudely met by an unsuspecting group of people who I took out like bowling pins. Needless to say I died. But one of the best deaths I have ever had in GTA.

Yes. That's what happened to me. My laptop stopped and the PS3 would work. Now I can't get the PS3 to work wirelessly even though all my settings are correct. Not too happy here.

Demiurge

Willow wrote: »

I can't play this game anymore, it either won't load or I can't start a mission without it freezing. I think rock* dropped the ball. How could it have been tested and they not found issues. It seems as though a big majority of people are having issues. And there are some really dumb A$$ people out there with suggestions and reasons, ie put your PS in the freezer to cool it down, it's because of the DS controler, it's because of internet connection everything I read sounds rediculous. I hope they come out with a fix soon cause I love this game and can't get enough of it. I'm just very dissapointed that it's not working as it should and that Rock* has nothing about it on their website. Off to play COD.......

Rockstar didn't drop the ball, Sony made it completely complicated for the developers. PS3 has been a great system for movies, but that's all it gets used for right now. Perhaps they shouldn't have released the game on that platform, but I guess they'd have been chewed out no matter what they did. Might as well just make money and take the whining.

avelanchefan

Okay So after all of this my son said his game would not load. No loading at all. I tried my game...same thing. Turned off the ps3, unhooked the wired ethernet, rebooted ps3, all games will load now. Not sure if it will work for everyone but it worked for me.

Wingnut, try disabling your wireless connection through the ps3 while playing GTA, then re-enable it when you want to lay COD.

Willow

Demiurge wrote: »

Rockstar didn't drop the ball, Sony made it completely complicated for the developers. PS3 has been a great system for movies, but that's all it gets used for right now. Perhaps they shouldn't have released the game on that platform, but I guess they'd have been chewed out no matter what they did. Might as well just make money and take the whining.

why is it everyone else can make games without issues, yes I know there are other games with some. No excuse as far as I'm concerned.

wingnut4772

Ricky Gervais!!:D

avelanchefan

wingnut4772 wrote: »

Ricky Gervais!!:D

Okay I like Ricky, the new material was just "OKay", but he had me going pretty good with the Falklands bit.

wingnut4772

He's on the radio too. I can't stop watching tv.:D

MightyHalo

Well....for me......I have a 60gig non launch...using wifi connection...no issues for me so far (knocking on wood)

Last night I have reached the 2nd safe house area..did the warehouse mission where you drop in through the roof....found a nice gun on the roof there...new area is a slum though ....lol

wingnut4772

Ha ! I just went on a crazy driving rampage at the airport.

venomclan

No PS3 here, San Andreas! ****

avelanchefan

wingnut4772 wrote: »

Ha ! I just went on a crazy driving rampage at the airport.

So Wingnut, from what I gather this is all a little new to you. If so, what is your take on the newer generation gaming console?

wingnut4772

avelanchefan wrote: »

So Wingnut, from what I gather this is all a little new to you. If so, what is your take on the newer generation gaming console?

Yes it is. It would be great if it didn't mess up my wireless.:mad: I am still trying to figure out how to get a hooker.:D

Willow

wingnut4772 wrote: »

Yes it is. It would be great if it didn't mess up my wireless.:mad: I am still trying to figure out how to get a hooker.:D

Drive up to one, stop then honk a couple times, she will walk up to your car then you drive away....and watch.....

wingnut4772

I have done that. They just ignore me. Maybe I am not far enough along in the game.

MightyHalo

me too...I honk at what I think are ladies of the night.....honk and they run away.....

Imperitor

If they run away they're not hookers. Keep looking.

avelanchefan

Okay so all of you know, and I confirmed three times with my 20gb PS3, it will not load any game save with the Ethernet connected, at all. It goes through the pictures and starts to load your last game save and just hangs up at the black screen. I disconnect the cable from the ps3 and it loads every time. So if any of you have this issue unhooking your hard wired ps3, or disabling you wireless internet through the ps3 should do the trick.

They need to get a patch for this. I have no idea how I will get the patch to work if I cannot get on the internet during the game.

wingnut4772

I can't get on the internet at all now with the PS3.

SolidSqual

Xbox360 version is better in my opinion. This loading crap on the PS3 is dumb. Just returned my PS3 console and bought the 360 version.

SolidSqual

wingnut4772 wrote: »

I can't get on the internet at all now with the PS3.

By the way, I couldn't get online with the PS3 either. Was up in seconds on Xbox Live.

avelanchefan

I have both versions solid squal, except my 360's are being fixed now. So I cannot play the 360 version until later this week at the earliest. Here is something interesting that was released in an interview from Take 2 yesterday....

'' GTA IV has been having a few technical issued at the moment from frame rate to crashing while loading. The frame rate issues is a bug that is known to affect PS3 systems that have ps2 smoothing enabled, the problem your having (loading my last game) is not a GLTICH, but a problem with our servers, You see when you play GTA IV it constantly send back your Statics DATA to Rockstar and
the Social Club, So when you start up your previous game, its attempting to connect, but failing to do so, yet the game should just load regardless whether the server can or can not be connected to, but the problem here is that the game, is not disconnecting from the server after failing, it carries on trying to connect which results in a crash, the way to over come this issue is to disconnect from the PSN network and start GTA IV again, We have heard of a
MASSIVE success rate buy doing this, and this problem is being dealt with''

MightyHalo

Got some hooker action finally last night.....two good honks at the right ladies..and its done...

I got to the construction site last night....didn't know how to throw the grenade and so it dropped next to my feet..and I went sky high !!!! it was 3am, so I only tried that mission out once....watch some TV and that show with the Repulican rangers...is funny stuff !! even the sponsers for shows... Biglogs cereal "everyone loves biglogs in the morning"

also was finnaly to buy some nice cloths..got a few suits from the pegusus store...

avelanchefan

I loved the parody of 24 Hour ripoff, with the show 72. It was so wrong in so many ways. When they started showing the "suspects", man it was just to funny.

wingnut4772

I got my wireless working again but when I try to play multiplayer in GTA4 it keeps saying it can't connect to Playstation online and reverts to the single player version again. My COD4 is fine and I have been playing that online still.

noimposse

For the net connection thing, I think I might know what the issue is.

When I updated to the newest firmware a few weeks back I was having the same issue; whenever I powered up the ps3 and it connected to the router all the connected pc's would drop. I googled it and came up with the issue. It seems to be some problem with the ps3's media sharing that screws everything up. I just disabled that and its been fine ever since.

That might not be a good enough fix for those that actually use the media streaming, but it didnt bother me.