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GTA IV DLC Announced
Rockstar Games recently announced upcoming downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled The Lost and Damned. It's due out on February 17th, and it focuses on a member of a Liberty City biker gang, rather than Niko Bellic. Joystiq has some early screenshots. "In the original game, Niko crossed paths with The Lost several times. This time, Niko has only a bit part, [Rockstar's Dan Houser] says. 'The story is not directly impacted by decisions you took in the main game,' he says. But 'tons of details and mysteries from the main story get explained, so it will add a lot of color to the main story.'"
Was all psyched up for a new game in a new city...kind of like Vice City...but set in Washington DC...
Too bad it's Xbox 360 only. :(
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Nice. "playstation" tag + ps controller icon for an Xbox 360 DLC announcement.
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... because I don't have a 360. It's pathedic that they made this DLC ONLY for the 360 and not the PS3.
Who gives a crap about The Lost?
Microsoft paid 50$ million for the exclusive rights to two large DLC packs for GTA, which is fine.
The thing is, I think a lot of people don't realise that for all the open ended gameplay for GTA the series has evolved over the years to being great single player storyline focused games.
Saints Row 1 and 2 are following the old GTA style of crazy gameplay with a loose story, whereas GTA4 was a fairly good story with brilliant presentation and a wonderful world.
I'm a complete and utter GTA fanboy, I loved GTA:SA and GTA4 and I purchased multiple copies (multiple systems) but I have absoloutely no desire for this DLC.
I personally find DLC just cheapens most games and makes them feel like a product rather than an experience, like a book or movie.
Would you pay for an extra 5 minutes of Star Wars (Lucas tried to offer it to us, again most of us hated it)
DLC has it's place but the only DLC for GTA I'd be interested in would be a full, complete expansion pack - ideally a new island and at least 20 or 30 SP missions plus some characters.
Frankyly I'd rather the dev time be spent on a GTA4 - II or a GTA 5 game.
Niko Bellic is only a "bit part" in this up-coming game???
In the words of Niko, "I'll rip your fucking heart out!".
So this expands on the story of GTA? Wait there is a story? I never got past killing hookers and jacking cars I guess.
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I don't see how you're not, acting all childish on Slashdot.
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Ok mod. I get that this is flamebait, but the OP is not a frickin' troll for their "Game consoles are for kids"? Talk about unevened. Both added no content to the topic.
Also, try telling that to my dad who absoluetly f'ing loved a little game called "Desert Strike" back in the day.
Anyways, DLC is a double edged sword. You can farm it out and hope it gets a good job done. You develop inhouse and lose production time on other big titles.
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Jesus, there's nothing sadder than this kind of gaming fanboy.
I think that's our PS3troll again, he didn't use his usual keywords though.
Informative?!? Just because you disagree fundamentally with part of my statement doesn't mean I'm childish. What a ludicrous idea.
I don't think grown people should be spending money on consoles. Truthfully, playing games at all over 30 feels a little like a guilty pleasure, a lack of human ambition, and maybe even yet another opiate of the masses.
You can disagree, but that doesn't make you informative at all. LOL
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GTAIV sucks. I bought it, played it for a few days then counted the days to Saints Row II. I believe the torch has passed in this genre - Saints has it, GTA lost it.
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Hopefully, once the X360 exclusive deal for DLC runs out, Rockstar will make a PS3 exclusive DLC for GTAIV that reinserts lost and missing gameplay aspects from previous games into GTAIV.
e.g.
Summary: Tanks, Parachutes, Planes, Flamethrower, Trains, Hydraulics, Connecting Semi-truck trailers, Replays, usable Fork trucks, Car customisation, Bicycles.
Also pointed out, is that people far away somehow notice you and flee as soon as you scope them with a rifle, despite the fact they probably should have no idea they are being sighted until a shot is fired. (Or hits something nearby anyway)
I personally find DLC just cheapens most games and makes them feel like a product rather than an experience, like a book or movie.
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Fuck you, buddy.
Once you accept everything is a product it makes it all easier. It becomes part of the artistic form, in fact, and seeing how the producers work within the constraints of it being a product becomes part of the charm of whatever work you're looking at.
If you want something different then stick to "high art" in galleries. They have films, music / sounds and I bet it wont be too long before there are games that exist purely as art, that is to say they have no purpose other than their own existence (which is, I think, the only really universal characteristic of art).
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There's nothing more pathetic than an inter-game-system flamewar.
I would even qualify "oh, it's just an opiate of the masses" as a fairly childish statement as well.
Let's hope they will leave the cellphone feature out of this one. In GTA IV, you get girlfriends, friends and "business associates" as the story evolves. They get added to the contact list on your cellphone, which the main character brings with him at all times. Occasionally, friends will call you to hang out, in which case you take them bowling, drinking, playing eight-ball, darts or other minigames.
The problem is that occasionally in Rockstar terms means every goddamn 10 minutes! It's so annoying I've just played GTA IV for four hours and then left it. To make matters worse, you get penalty points if you hang up on them.
Meh, I think you could probably get a scientific research paper to back the claim. This is slashdot after all, or were you just trying to assume I was a Jr. High arm chair sociologist?
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