'Ballad' is the game GTA IV Should Have Been

swingingape - 74 days 16 hours ago

Interested but not enough to buy day 1. I'll wait till they release a GOTY version with all the DLC.

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rjgbyrne - 74 days 12 hours ago

I am an xbox owner but will soon get a PS3 when the time is right, I reckon this eclusive download crap hurts gaming more than anything, why shouldn't PS3 owners play content for a game they have to experience the full game. Its silly but Rockstart should stop sitting on the fence and even offer MS the profits for it too if they paid the 50 Million.

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mrv321 - 74 days 11 hours ago

GTA IV is an example on how to make a game, unfortunatly it wasn't as fun as others in the series.

I say inFAMOUS was better than GTA, and while you may say... that's because it's an exclusive but in all fairness I am only speaking about how fun it is to mess around and not graphics.

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galgor - 74 days 10 hours ago

aha. this article is what i was ranting about the other day. & it's true! all this stuff should've been in IV by default.

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FragMnTagM - 74 days 8 hours ago

It has some top notch visuals, some of the best physics to ever grace a game world, and deep character development. People complain that there were no crappy mini games that were in San Andreas, so what? Does lifting weights or eating at Burger Shot really make San Andreas better? HELL NO! I do miss a few things from San Andreas, like customizing your car and riding bicycles, but that was not a huge loss for me. I have fun every single time I put GTA in my disk drive. I guess I just have an active imagination and can have fun playing the game. Playing with the physics alone is fun for me. Getting a bunch of friends together and hitting them with the chopper blades is quite fun. Parking a Heli at the end of a ramp where the blades stick over and then taking a motorcycle and jumping the ramp to hit the blades and send you flying is a blast.

I was reading a post a day or two ago about a guy who completely wrote this game off because the cars handled realistically. He stated that he could not drive fast through the game like he did in San Andreas and that he was afraid to do anything wrong because the cops would always get him. I would say spend more time with the game, as I can easily drive the cars at full speed and slide around corners and evade the cops fairly easily. If you know how a car works in real life, driving in GTA 4 will come naturally.

The only thing I can say that I truly hated about 4, was that you were always getting bugged by your friends. Other than that small little thing, the game was a masterpiece.

/Rant.

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Cherchez La Ghost - 74 days 8 hours ago

It's called the AA-12. The world's most deadilest automatic shotgun. It was in the G.I. Joe movie.

Take a look.....,

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

If they give me the Frag-12 rounds on this game, This will be "MY" GOTY!!!!

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mmj - 74 days 8 hours ago

So they admit GTA4 was rubbish then.

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Gwizz91 - 74 days 7 hours ago

Overrated
GTA IV Was an overrated game
I was really dissapointed with it because I was expecting it to have the features ,San Andreas, had. Instead it was wack. I own this game and liked it but the game was a big letdown for me because all the things the expansion packs had already should have been in the game especially all the stuff from san andreas. GTA 4 is an OK game but was a LETDOWN for me

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Blacksand1 - 74 days 7 hours ago

I'm happy Microsoft got 50Mill for GT4 and 2 DLC Because Rockstar made a deal with Sony For three game exclusive they have Agent coming and that leave 2 games left. maybe one of them is GT5, now maybe we can see the best Rockstar like the past when they only work with Sony. Great titles like Liberty City, Vice City and the all time best that it couldn't finish San Andreas.

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Johnny_Cojones - 74 days 5 hours ago

One thing that would have greatly improved the GTA 4 experience is a settings slider for the frequency of calls you recieve from friends and girlfriends. Sometimes, I actually enjoyed hanging out with some of the friends, or taking out one of the chicks. But I hated getting calls when I was just trying to drive around and have fun. Being penalized for ignoring a friend's call when you're trying to find all the flying rats, or do the stunt jumps was f***ing irritating. I get that they were trying to increase the immersiveness, but it went overboard. My real life friends aren't nearly as needy. Maybe that's because most of them are quasi-antisocial 30 year old game nerds like me, but holy crap, Dwayne, leave me the f**k alone, you suicidal closet case.

That aside, I LOVED almost everything else about the game. Did it take some getting used to after playing the other games in the series? Yes, but if you have an attention span that exceeds that of a gnat's it wasn't an issue.

Am I surprised that It got the backlash it did? No. I run a video store, & I have met plenty of illiterate retards that prefer The Fast & The Furious to Taxi Driver, or don't have the patience to sit through a masterpiece like The Godfather 2, or Heat.

We live in a time where the average person thinks reading is boring, & that character development is "gey".

Hating on GTA 4 because you don't own a 360 is just ridiculous, too.

I own a PS3 AND a 360, AND I play a lot of PC games. I am a gamer. I don't d**k ride a particular company, because I'd be missing out on something great by excluding ANY current gaming platform completely.

Would GTA 4 have been a better game as a PS3 exclusive? It's definitely a possibility. There is no denying how powerful the system is, & the extra space that blu-ray grants is awesome.

But more content equals more development time.

Look how long the DLC was delayed!

Games that run on the same engine, in the same city, with a handful of new locations, character models, & slightly tweaked gameplay mechanics.

It STILL took Rockstar a year and a half to get both out.

A giant, beautiful, polished open world game like some of you think GTA 4 would have been as a PS3 exclusive would probably STILL be in development right now, & cost 2-3 times as much to develop.

During this time, what budget is Rockstar supposed to operate on?

And when the game released, how would they make a healthy profit after excluding the XBOX 360's user base?

It's not just about a system's capability, it's about resources.

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Blacksand1 - 74 days 5 hours ago

1.Yes but before they was on Xbox, they was on PS2 first. The same way, Microsoft doing Sony the games come out first on one then a year late it come to the other. But when it come to PS3 and 360 you can fit more on Blu-ray (1 disc)then you can on HD (3-9 disc)GT4 was dail down and wasn't long like San Andreas that why I said it. I was just thanking yall for the $50mill for the 3 game deal for Sony.

2.Yes your right but look at the Sony install base now and at $299 all it going to do is grow. Thanks to people like PS2,Wii and even you and 360 people who have both console make up some of Sony install base. That is go for gaming yall not fanboys like single consoles owners if the Xbox didn't have problems I would have one too.

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OutforJustice - 74 days 4 hours ago

GTA 4 and Lost and the Damned were both excellent but Ballad of Gay Tony looks terrible.

First off, out of all the subplots/secondary characters they could have used: Packie and his Brothers, Dwayne, etc. they choose to make the main character some generic mexican thug who sounds like a bad Scarface impersonator. Then, they have you working for a flamboyant, gay nightclub owner. Do these choices completely baffle anybody else or am I the only one?

The new guns may look good, but the story and the characters seem laughable at best. (Just look at the Yusef Amir trailer) Ballad is clearly the least serious, least legitimate story in all of Liberty City.

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hankmoody - 74 days 3 hours ago

I really don't get why people were so let down (according to this article anyway) by this game. It was really well written and had great voice acting. True, it wasn't as big as San Andreas was but I think in scaling it back, they were able to focus on and refine what made the series so good in the first place. And regarding multiplayer, it surprises me that an online GTA game such as GTA4 didn't make the splash that I thought it would. Playing it on XBLive, I saw things happen in the game that just left me in disbelief. Plenty of moments that were of the "once in a lifetime" variety. "Gay Tony" will bring back the multiplayer for a bit but I don't expect people to stay for too long, not with COD:MW2 around the corner.

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TheDesperado - 74 days 2 hours ago

First they play up GTA4 because they "secured" a former Sony exclusive, but when they realise it was an average game, they try to play up their temporary exclusives. Once it's out on PS3, they'll say: "Maybe R* can put the GTA4/Ballad/L&D behind them with GTAV, a former Sony exclusive series, coming to 360 this fall!"

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SuperSaiyaJinX - 74 days 1 hour ago

The only thing i'm upset about gta 4 compared with the other games in the series is it's art direction and it's comic relief. The other games in the series where cartoony looking and didn't have realistic physics it was made like that purposely and those were the elements of a gta game so this is the first time gta actually try's to be more reallistic compared to (gta 3 vice city and san andreas) those games weren't trying to be realistc because if they were every one would be prasing mafia, driv3r, scareface, and true crimes (1-2) compare them to (Grand Theft Auto 3 = True Crimes Steets of New York = mafia) and (Grand Theft Auto 3 Vice City = Scareface) those games had better physics and graphics and yet nobody {not even critics} paid attention to them as much. I think gta 4 has lost it's over the top dark comic realif that were present in the other gta's it would've been a better art direction if they mad it look like (mad world) but with a dark over tone of color something like sin city but with a little more color. It should've been more violent and gory with over top and exaggerated action like the last action hero meets the godfather if you've seen the scene with arnold playing hamlet you'll know what i'm taking about. Grand theft auto 4 could've of been a really good game that diserves a Straight (10) but instead we got true crimes streets of newyork 2.

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Headshot81 - 73 days 23 hours ago

they said the samething about lost and damned dlc. We might get nothing different aside a few tweaks on this game, purchase with caution. I would wait for some gameplay footage because if you already have GTAIV, you pretty much have all of them.

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XAversionX - 73 days 21 hours ago

sorry, no tank = not adding all the fun back into GTA.

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tinman_licks - 74 days 16 hours ago

Does anyone want to play a game called Gay Tony? Didn't think so...

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Saaking - 74 days 15 hours ago

Yes it should, but the 360's limitation meant R* North couldn't see their vision for GTA complete. Fortunately, they'll get a chance to create their masterpiece with PS3 exclusive Agent.

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BO WALEED - 74 days 13 hours ago

I feel sorry for those GTA IV owners who play it on PS3 .. their dying to play those DLCs but they CAN'T ^^ ...
but all what they can say is ... that DLC sux!

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Gwizz91 - 74 days 7 hours ago

GTA IV Was an overrated game
I was really dissapointed with it because I was expecting it to have the features ,San Andreas, had. Instead it was wack. I own this game and liked it but the game was a big letdown for me because all the things the expansion packs had already should have been in the game especially all the stuff from san andreas. GTA 4 is an OK game but was a LETDOWN for me

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XDF - 74 days 7 hours ago

And shut the F**k up. There is a reason why you see the same old people trolling is because they can't afford to play games and just troll and troll and troll.

They should name the OPEN ZONE to SONY Troll Zone.

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pixelsword - 74 days 4 hours ago

Isn't the open zone for fanboy comments?

Confusing.

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AliTheBrit19 - 74 days 2 hours ago

BOGT Has loads of new features added :D

Cannot wait to pick up GTA: Episodes From Liberty City, an AAA Exclusive for the 360 :) go cry some more droids.

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foreverflame - 73 days 18 hours ago

The game that droids will never experience on there worthless console

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