The "kick" button and the "jump/vault" button are the same. Locking on to a target activates kicking; if you're not locked on, you jump. It's a reasonable design choice, but of course the control scheme can only be as good as the person using it.
After a couple hours of eschewing random acts of violence, I overheard an obnoxious cell phone conversation and decided the chump needed to be taken down a peg. Imagine his surprise when, in the middle of a pleasant stroll through a little park, Niko Bellic came up behind him and favored him with a barrage of punches and kicks.
But imagine his far greater surprise when Niko suddenly turned away from his prostrate body to the park railing next to them both, vaulted over it, and plummeted to his death on the street 30 feet below. (I'd forgotten about the need to lock on for kicking.) It was absurd and hilarious. So my first death in GTA IV is also my favorite moment so far.
Second favorite moment: taking my first taxi ride and rubbernecking all the way to the destination.
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 Apr 30 2008, 7:02 am
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Apr 30 2008, 8:17 am
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My favorite moment so far: When driving at high speeds, I wasn't able to turn, slammed into a wall, and thought "Huh, I didn't see that guy penned against the wall on the sidewalk when I went plowing through it", then I realized it was Niko, and he was getting up after being thrown through the front windshield for not buckling up.
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Danial.Beta wrote:
My favorite moment so far: When driving at high speeds, I wasn't able to turn, slammed into a wall, and thought "Huh, I didn't see that guy penned against the wall on the sidewalk when I went plowing through it", then I realized it was Niko, and he was getting up after being thrown through the front windshield for not buckling up. When you're driving at high speeds just pull the e-break to turn. Sure, you might do a 360 but it's better than being thrown through the window shield. :) Also, my best moment was when I decided to go on a rampage. I started killing people, and I caught the cops attention so I ran into the hospital, murdered everyone inside, then ran into the back of the injury care room. I held cover behind a wall while the cops tried to take me down, but I kept blind-firing them and killing them all. Once I got 4 stars and the S.W.A.T. got involved, it got nasty. They started firing assault rifles at me and I kept getting caught every few times by a bullet. I took a lot of them down, but they finally got up to me and blew my head off. =( | |
Another time I was running from the cops, and one cop decided to try to cut me off... but he was oncoming traffic. So we slammed into each other, and he landed on my windshield, and I got to drive away. It was great.
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My best time was right after the first mission. As soon as I walked outside I saw a nice cherry red banshee parked nearby. I walked over, attempted to bust open the window. Unfortunately it seems that the entire LCPD was having a meeting right off camera. Good times.
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My best moment? Figuring out that you can dial 911 and call the cops/paramedics/fire dep.
I would start shooting at gang members, take cover behind a car and call the cops. Nice battles occurs after I do that. That, or diving out of a car and proceeding to roll down a hill until I died from constantly banging against the ground. | |
I hate you all and your fancy new game consoles...=D
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Coolest thing ive done so far is I went online with a buddy of mine, got in a helicopter with him, and did attack runs on the other players. good times.
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Ugh... I don't know!
Maybe it is all the really crappy driving missions or the DISCONNECTED FROM MULTIPLAYER message I get everytime I try to pay a multiplayer game... Hard choice if you ask me! I really, really hope missions will improve later on in the game and multiplayer will be playable before long (and not be another Team Fortress 2 "I am a multiplayer online game... But you cannot play me online, hahaha"). Anyway, best thing so far was hearing Badman talk... Hahaha, I had no idea what he was saying, even with subtitles on, but I laughed anyway! | |
Setting people alight with molotov cocktails is a little too entertaining. Especially if they're on a set of stairs.
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Once, I was driving down the road as fast as possible without damaging my vehicle, right? So I stop at the end of the road and GTA minimizes itself to the taskbar thanks to an anti-virus update.
Shortly after I maximize the game, this retarded cab slams into me. The cab driver gets out of the car, and my "homies" start filling him full of bullets. So I make CJ get out and pop the cabbie's corpse in the mouth a few times just before I take his cash with a witty "I'm sorry! I had a bad chail-hoo'". After a quick trip to the mod-shop, the "Grove Machine" was back in commission and driving around the city with full nitrous flaring out of the exhaust, baby. | |
Lol wrong game.
My favorite moment so far was in multiplayer with some of my friends. We were having SUPER EPIC COPTER battle over the Empire State Building look-a-like and I jumped out of my friend's helicopter right before a rocket it it, only to fall into the propeller of another helicopter that was below us. Edit: Also anyone else find this song strangely addicted? http://youtube.com/watch?v=8txk6EhYZKA It pops up all the time all the time when I get in cars (it's the Russian Radio station). | |
Maggeh wrote:
Edit: Also anyone else find this song strangely addicted? http://youtube.com/watch?v=8txk6EhYZKA I do. Normally I can't listen to songs in foreign languages, but there's something about this one that makes it possible. Also, that video clip is awesome. | |
Gug, one good thing to remember (that's not documented anywhere) is that if you half-hold the targetting trigger, you get melee mode functionality without getting the lock-on functionality.
My favourite moment was trying to make one of the unique jumps across a recessed railway on the Bohan island. I made it across. The car didn't. The engine block smashed directly into the top of the wall, with the windshield at ground level -- so I went through the windscreen and rolled out of the car nearly unharmed as the car plummeted down. I laughed for two minutes. Another favourite of mine was jumping my car off the edge of a cliff, sailing through the air through trees, landing the middle of the car's suspension on a concrete wall, bouncing off, then landing at a dead stop next to a pedestrian. The pedestrian's reaction was just a canned response, but it captured the moment perfectly: "Holy $**%!" | |
On GTA 4, I'm a fucking master stealthman, maps aren't always used for missions, make your clothes green and stand on the grassland. The only give away is the name tag.
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