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GTA IV Trailer Released, Slows Sites

Posted by Zonk on from the grand-theft-trailer dept.

Mr_Congeniality writes "The much-anticipated trailer for the next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto series has been released. Rockstar's servers, including the one that hosts Rockstar's homepage, was completely overloaded with traffic last night as a result. Users desperately flocking to other websites like GTANet and GTA4.net, but even these websites were overloaded by the interest level. If these sites are still slow, try GameTrailers or GameVideos as an alternative. For analysis of the video, CVG has ten things you may have missed, while 1up's editors offer their opinions on what they saw."

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  1. Hopefully... by Mizled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hopefully this game will be similar to Vice City and not like San Andreas...being a thug/gangsta riding a bicycle just isn't my style.

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    1. Re:Hopefully... by Floritard · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You ride a bicycle for only about the first hour of a game that is anywhere from 50 to 100+ hours long, depending on how much you can appreciate a game that is larger than any that came before it and manages to blend seemlessly numerous gameplay genres like few companies have ever accomplished. Do you avoid Mario games because you don't appreciate the Italian-american experience? No wait you liked playing Vice City. I had some real tolerant friends that didn't like the "thug" aspects of San Andreas either. Nice that rascists have new terms to hide behind, kinda like "urban" in movies. It's fine to not like a game if it's shit, but to denigrate a technologically and artistically superior game in favor of it's awesome but decidely inferior prequels all for something as petty as the racial background of the player character (always a degenerate criminal in these games anyway) is strange. It's make believe anyway and personally I'd play a Barbie game if the gameplay was solid. And be forewarned, it looks like you have to play a ruskie in GTA IV. Boohoo...

    2. Re:Hopefully... by Mizled · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Your trolling but sure...I'll bite...atleast you didn't do "Anonymous Post"

      Your calling me a racist cause I didn't like being a thug/gangsta in a game? Come on! What race am I being racist against? Mexicans (Latinos), African Americans, Whites? Please tell, as far as I know more than one race can be considered "thug or gangsta".

      My opinion on a game is nothing but that *my opinion*. I can't believe your getting this worked up over this. Jeez dude go outside.

      The hip-hop gangsta style isn't my thing so therefore I didn't enjoy the game. Miami Vice appealed to me more.

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      Bite my shiny metal ass.
    3. Re:Hopefully... by G-funk · · Score: 3, Insightful

      HAHAHAHAHA! Only an American could complain about foul language in a game where the aim is to drive around killing people, and for all intents and purposes, you play eazy e.

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  2. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "25 gig BluRay vs 7.5 gig DVD - Over three times the storage for the PS3."

    So what exactly do you want them to stick on the BluRay disc? I'm sure that they can stick multiple copies of the game on the disc to compensate for the slow loading time (like Bethesda did with Oblivion).

    If you're in the mood for hours of FMV's, then I'm sure FFXIII will satisfy your needs.

    The bottom line is - developers don't know *what* to do with all that disc space. Blaming MS for that is idiotic.

  3. Re:GTA IV - Gimped Thanks To The Xbox 360 by crabbz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what exactly do you want them to stick on the BluRay disc?

    how about radio stations that never repeat? :-)

  4. Re:30 min Spots by cybereal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The hype for the trailer was a bit of a let down. It has given me second thoughts about the game too. Is it really going to be worth the price of a 360?

    No. Of course one game is never actually going to be worth the cost of an entire video game system, and appropriate accessories. However, couple it with some Gears of War, Assassin's Creed, Blue Dragon, etc. and I believe you have a strong argument for the system.

    On one hand you can't justify a system for a single game, but, on the other hand you have so much more to consider with the 360 than just this little rehash.

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    I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire. -Bender
  5. CAMERA FIX!! by Create+an+Account · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please God let them have a better camera system for this one. The one in SA on the PC was terrible. I cannot believe they let that crap out, and people still loved the game.