Anyone else playing it? I'm quite enjoying it so far, even if I'm having trouble getting used to the new controls (and add getting used to an XBox/XBox 360 controller still on top of that).
The fact that MADD is pissed off about the game just makes it that much better. :-)
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Not I, but I was watching a lot of video clips of it and thinking it looked damned impressive. Probably still not enough to make me buy a PS3, though. (And don't even mention a 360, Microsoft fanboys!)
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i played some at my friend's house today. it is impressive how they blended so many neighborhoods together but it's still recognizable. brooklyn public library is creepy good.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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the victimhood mentality in his intro is fascinating!
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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Hey, that was an awesome Frank Black reference he made at the end of his commentary! ("Whatever happened to pong?")
Glenn Beck accidentally said "electronic stimulation" instead of "electronic simulation"...coincidence? Or insight into his sick, sick mind?
Also, I like how he assumes that only males would play this video game. Maybe some females would like to have simulated sex with a prostitute, and then beat her to death with a baseball bat...maybe...
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I'd love to play GTA, except that the last time I tried (having never used a console controller in my life) I mostly just ran into walls and got beat up by pedestrians.
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I played GTA once and liked it (it was either GTA II or III...whichever one had the "Hot Coffee" option, I think). Except I think the most you could do in that particular game was catcall hookers and maybe smack them around a little bit. I'd probably play GTA 4, but I don't own a system. I probably wouldn't kill a digital prostitute avatar with a baseball bat, though I guess I'll never know if I don't own a system.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having. - V
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I long for the day that a chimp will ghost-ride someone's boomcar into a lake. - tymac
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The best rage abatement strategy I've found is the following:
1) Boot up GTA
2) Steal rad car
3) Run over a host of pedestrians
4) Find some hookers
5) Get their services
6) Beath them to death to get your money back
7) Go to 2
Whenever I catch so much as a glimpse of pr0n, I suddenly turn into a sex-crazed barbarian, slashing and clawing my way through whatever and whomever until I find something to put my weiner into. -- Taktix
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no, the best was tooling around their version of queens on a motorcycle, stopping by the astoria beer garden and shooting cops at close range with a shotgun. and then running for it, stealing another car and so on and so forth and so on until i fell off an overpass.
i seriously considered buying a 360 just for that. i really did.
"Yeah, but my character would be all swav and deboner." - Warren
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It'd be GTA3 - GTA2 was a cartoony, overhead view game from the late '90s. And a quick google search shows that you can download an XP/Vista compatible version, free from Rockstar. Cool.
Using the flamethrower to wipe out an entire line of Elvis impersonators is hard, but rewarding.
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I had GTA2 on Playstation, it was a lot of fun! While friends were playing 3 at the time, I found that the performing of violent acts was more important than the realism of the visuals. Whether stealing a police car, setting people on fire with a flamethrower, or simply going on a murder spree, everything was just as fun even if it wasn't realistic graphics.
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That's how I felt about the original Postal.
This is a personal problem. There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable use of high explosives. This is not one of those exceptions.
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I have a copy of GTA3, and agree that it's great for rage abatement. I understand that the game is supposed to involve "goals" and "missions" but those don't interest me. I just enjoy random murder, mayhem, and hooker-killing.
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I got GTA4 over the weekend and I'm having a blast. It's creepily in depth. I think the fact that the environment is recognizable to me makes it run into my life even more. Now if I'm too lazy to take the subway, I wanna bust out the window of a parked car, hotwire it and drive.
It was kinda fun stealing a police car straight from the station. The one thing they've got down is the sheer incompetence of the police.
By the way, they totally poke fun at the nannies. After I ended up with a successful date with one of my girlfriends, she invited me up for some "Hot Coffee" and then they had an external view of her apartment with the sounds of a woman in the throes of passion say, "Yes! Yes! Tell me more about you! You're so interesting!" and the character the next morning says, "That was some good coffee." I gotta say, the parody on society is pretty good. Plus, Iggy Pop hosts the classic rock station.
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The Ricky Gervais standup show is awesome.
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The only thing I miss about the original top-down GTA was the line of Hari-Christnas. For those who don't know, you got bonus points for hitting them all in a line with your vehicle.
P.S. Does everyone know how to make the tank fly?
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GURANGA!
If you don't want to be arrested by the Park Police, don't go to the Jefferson Memorial.