GTA IV

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Fri May 09, 2008 2:55 pm

I managed an impressive achievement. I parked a helicopter near the house in the "reserved parking" spot. So, now it's mine to use whenever. Kinda crushed the car I had in the spot in the process, but it doesn't matter, since they will get fixed up and realigned once you save the game.

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:55 pm

OK, I can't read through all of this.........I have had the game 2 days now, once you save a game and leave a car at the safehouse how do you have access to it? everytime I come outside there is no vehicle there. Am I missing something?

Sport73 · Post by **Sport73** » Fri May 09, 2008 4:59 pm

SEMINOLE wrote:OK, I can't read through all of this.........I have had the game 2 days now, once you save a game and leave a car at the safehouse how do you have access to it? everytime I come outside there is no vehicle there. Am I missing something?

Park vehicle (car, motorcycle, or helicopter) in the yellow RESERVED PARKING zone outside your current safehouse. End.

Nozzleman_216 · Post by **Nozzleman_216** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:04 pm

so is that vehicle accessible at any time from that point on or just the next time you start the game

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:11 pm

SEMINOLE wrote:so is that vehicle accessible at any time from that point on or just the next time you start the game

It will stay there until you move it. I left a Banshee there at the original safehouse, and even though I don't use that safehouse anymore my Banshee is still sitting there.

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:17 pm

The cool thing is, that even though I tore the blade of the chopper when landing it, affectively turning it into a museum piece, when you load your game up, it gets fixed up and looks as good as new

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:18 pm

Someone needs to get a boat in there somehow and see if it saves it. That would be tight.

LAking · Post by **LAking** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:48 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Someone needs to get a boat in there somehow and see if it saves it. That would be tight.

GTA5= Boat Trailers. Hell yeah!

EDIT: I just thought of something. I have seen those car transporter trucks around the city (although rarely). In theory you could you steal one of those, load up a bunch of cars on it, and park it in your spot and the game would save all the cars in that one spot. Anyone try this?

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Fri May 09, 2008 6:18 pm

LAking wrote: EDIT: I just thought of something. I have seen those car transporter trucks around the city (although rarely). In theory you could you steal one of those, load up a bunch of cars on it, and park it in your spot and the game would save all the cars in that one spot. Anyone try this?

I don't think that would work. When I tried putting 15 bikes in the spot only two of them would survive the loading. It only allows you to put two vehicles, no matter how you stack them up.

I was just thinking about the transport truck myself. If you park it on the coast at the right angle you can probably get a boat on there. Then you can just drive it to your safehouse and unload it on the parking spot. That would quite possibly be the most useless vehicle there. But it would be a cool thing to do

webdanzer · Post by **webdanzer** » Mon May 12, 2008 10:37 am

I think the writing as it pertains to bringing the characters to life in this game is great. Yeah, maybe nothing in the dialogue itself is fantastic (and much is cliche) but it all comes together really well. I like the random side conversations when driving a friend in a car, a phone call made by a friend to bash you, taunt you, apologize, etc. I even found myself making sure I changed clothes before dates so I wouldn't get nagged about it.

I definitely find myself caring about the characters in this game more than in most others.

I'm really taking my time with this one, doing plenty of side missions, hanging out with friends, etc, and just soaking up the world. I'm having a blast.

Mild spoilery stuff, no specifics...

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So in this game, you are betrayed quite a bit, obviously. Sometimes you are also given an opportunity to allow someone to live or die. I really, really, really hope you are given that option for one of your betrayers later on in the game, because at this point I have no idea how I would react for one of them, and I'm very curious to see what I would do....

RallyMonkey · Post by **RallyMonkey** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:39 am

A question to those of you spending a lot of time meandering around and "taking your time". I know there are a lot of little sides missions, hidden weapons, etc to do. My question is i had read somewhere that there are side missions you can do for people who are located in the streets and they open up as you complete other missions. How do you find those people? Someone said they showed up as stick figures on the map but i've never seen that.

I ask this because i've pretty much stayed on the main plot line and while i'm still enjoying it a lot i'd like to shake things up a bit. Thanks.

btmmayor · Post by **btmmayor** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:53 am

RallyMonkey wrote:Someone said they showed up as stick figures on the map but i've never seen that.

Yup. They do not pop up very often in my experience, but they are there. I've found 5 or 6 and I'm at 47% completion.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:03 pm

Maybe a mild spoiler, but the first time I got a call from McCreary, Niko talks like he's met him before... did I miss something?

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:03 pm

btmmayor wrote:
RallyMonkey wrote:Someone said they showed up as stick figures on the map but i've never seen that.
Yup. They do not pop up very often in my experience, but they are there. I've found 5 or 6 and I'm at 47% completion.

Little green stick figures. Found one last night. And it was connected to the main plot in a cool sort of way.

You have to look hard for them, though-I wasn't sure what it was when I got out of the car to investigate...

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:56 pm

Slumberland wrote:Maybe a mild spoiler, but the first time I got a call from McCreary, Niko talks like he's met him before... did I miss something?

Yeah, he was in the cut scene with Manny when Niko walked in

RallyMonkey · Post by **RallyMonkey** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:50 pm

Little green stick figures. Found one last night. And it was connected to the main plot in a cool sort of way.

You have to look hard for them, though-I wasn't sure what it was when I got out of the car to investigate...

Wait, so they are found on the street map in the lower left corner while playing or are they on the main map? or both?

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:55 pm

RallyMonkey wrote:
Little green stick figures. Found one last night. And it was connected to the main plot in a cool sort of way.

You have to look hard for them, though-I wasn't sure what it was when I got out of the car to investigate...
Wait, so they are found on the street map in the lower left corner while playing or are they on the main map? or both?

I saw it on the street map. I've only seen the one, but I know they're there...just never slowed down enough to see 'em.

LAking · Post by **LAking** » Mon May 12, 2008 2:13 pm

tealboy03 wrote:
RallyMonkey wrote:
Little green stick figures. Found one last night. And it was connected to the main plot in a cool sort of way.

You have to look hard for them, though-I wasn't sure what it was when I got out of the car to investigate...
Wait, so they are found on the street map in the lower left corner while playing or are they on the main map? or both?
I saw it on the street map. I've only seen the one, but I know they're there...just never slowed down enough to see 'em.

They are on the street map and they look blue to me, not green. Who knows, maybe my TV is f***ed up, or worse, my eyes.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:45 pm

I recommend the always bombastic and never boring Tim Rogers' review from actionbutton.net:

http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=362

This line made me smile:

"BioShock, a recent, acclaimed, jiggling pile of protoplasm, initially tells us plenty about its world though no more about its character than that he’s the type of guy to immediately eat a bag of potato chips found in a garbage can even when he’s not hungry."

I also like his thoughts on Super Mario Bros. in relation to GTA.

Leadfoot5 · Post by **Leadfoot5** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:32 pm

Good lord. Was that a game review or a Masters thesis... jeez..

dbdynsty25 · Post by **dbdynsty25** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:55 pm

Yeah, that review is obnoxious. He annoyed me by paragraph 3.

Slumberland · Post by **Slumberland** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:57 pm

His Mario Kart review annoyed me. This one did not. Sorry!

Spooky · Post by **Spooky** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:32 pm

dbdynsty25 wrote:Yeah, that review is obnoxious. He annoyed me by paragraph 3.

Agreed. No offense Slumber, but that was a really tough read and not nearly as cleaver as I think he intended it to be. I was confused and annoyed only a few sentences in.

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:26 pm

The review was alright. When he actually got to it. I could have probably done without his teenage masturbation fantasies, and "stuff I must write down while I am high". Maybe it's just me, though...

Teal · Post by **Teal** » Tue May 13, 2008 1:17 pm

Are any of you getting the ZiT feature to work properly? If you go to the Social Club website, it says that any song you call the # and inquire about will get a text message telling you the name of the song, in game. Then when you log on to the Social Club (in real life), 30 second previews of all the songs you have requested will be there for you to listen to, and then purchase, if you choose.

Problem: I've done this with quite a few songs, and when I log into the Social Club, it says that I have zero songs in the queue. Anyone else run into this?