I forgot about that, that’s a great idea. I try to cruise around but people are bugging me all the time to do things. By the way, you can say yes and then call them and cancel, and you don’t lose points with the person. Still a hassle though.
The cell phone is very well done, as is the GPS. Just the GPS function must have taken many hundreds of hours to develop.
I haven’t gotten to this level yet, but when you say the car doesn’t appear on your radar - have you tried going to the map and looking for the car in the specified area? I did that with Brucie’s missions, and every car was represented by a little tiny grey destination indicator. Really hard to see on first glance, but if you throw a waypoint down, your GPS will point you there (or the last known whereabaouts for roving targets).
Also, a question - I see a metric in the Stats area for “Girlfriends Dumped”. How do you do this? I am getting really tired of Michelle’s needy, whiny, straightedge ass.
Yeah, you don’t even have to do the delivery missions - or at least I didn’t. Just take him out a couple of times and he’ll sell you guns. I did all of his regular missions but none of the delivery missions. With so much other stuff going on, I actually kind of forgot about them.
Just to let you know, since I finally got to that point today, you can’t buy the first assault rifle until you get to Playboy X’s “Deconstruction for Beginners” mission. The ammo shops and LJ get it at the same time. 30 rounds cost $80 at the ammo shop and $55 from LJ.
I don’t know if Michelle gets treated like the other girlfriends since she makes her way into the main story later. ^^ Semi-spoiler ^^ (Well, I wouldn’t be bothered by it if I hadn’t gotten very far in the game, anyway, and I really don’t like it when things get spoiled; I’m just playing it safe here).
When Jamaicans talk to us North Americans here in the US, they frequently tone down their accent so we can understand them. In Jamaica, speaking to each other, their accent does a Badman and there’s no way most of us would understand them.
A friend of mine used to work with Inner Circle (Bad Boys, whatcha gonna do…). They live and record in Miami, and we’d talk to them no problem. But when my friend went with them on tour, their accents reverted to non-US mode and he wasn’t able to understand them at all unless they directed their words at him specifically and toned it down.
I’ve seen similar things in films shot in Jamaica for Jamaican audiences. Like Third World Cop . Not sure who it was meant for, but I couldn’t understand a word of dialogue in that movie.
Also, Brucie sends me e-mails, so it might be worth going to the Internet cafe to see if he sent you an e-mail (with an attachment icon next to it.) You can click on the picture in the e-mail to see a bigger picture. I did a car run last night and jacked a car from a car wash while guys were drying it off.
What if. . . she. . . um. . . dies in a horribly tragic, fiery crash before that point in the story? I think that could be arranged, if it would make any difference at all.
I think she comes back, unfortunately, as I’m pretty sure I’ve read accounts of irritated players killing her on dates. She’ll stop calling you for dates once she gets into the main story around the time you get to the second island, though. That’s after you’ve completed about 25-30 missions (see the Missions Passed statistic in the Stats menu of the Pause screen), if I’m not mistaken.
You can buy all that crap at various stores.
Also, you can set up internet dates with other girls (or guys) if you like.
One thing I think would have been nice would be to actually see you and your pals eating and drinking in the venues (with an option to skip obviously). Also, it would be a nice mini-game to actually decide what and how much you want to drink so it’s not like BAM…shitfaced.
You can get sunglasses at the store next to the safehouse. And I’ve had zero luck with internet dating in the game so far. Rejected twice. But very funny rejections!
I already finished all of the Brucie missions, but then a friend of his will start texting you with pictures of cars and general locations where this car is located.
It is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but I did find a map somewhere online so I will try and see if that helps.
I’ve been on a few dates with this one girl. I think things might be getting serious.
The one problem I have with the GTA games is that sometimes the game itself starts to feel like I’m running a bunch of errands. It’'s like “ugh, now I have to drive back to Broker to pick up my cousin…then back to Algonquin to for that date…and now I have to head back uptown to get changed!”
Yep it leaves you a bit frazzled, especially when your phone rings when you’re in the middle of something else. A little too realistic maybe.
You can take a taxi and skip the trip, costs you a little money but you should have $15,000 or so not too far into the game. Riding in a taxi is also a handy time to go to the bathroom or get a drink.
Sigh. Maybe I’m just not the target audience. I find GTAIV extremely uninteresting and tedious. It looks pretty, no doubt, but the gameplay…ugh. I was pretty excited about getting it after hearing what you all were saying (although I’m really not into these type of games), and I’m already bored with it.
I’m glad everyone is enjoying it…it’s an impressive achievement…but I just don’t get it.
Back to Rock Band and Mario Kart for me. When does Force Unleashed come out again?
I’m most of the way through. Things seem to be ramping up and I’ve looked at the mission list (the names not the details) and it seems I’ve about 5-6 of the main story left.
I’ve done a bit of socialising but not a huge amount and have done no internet dating etc. I’ve started doing races as you get a great car later on so I’m just keeping that at a safehouse and only using it for racing.
I love it. I’ve loved all the GTA games though so I’m their target audience. The little things are what makes it for me. It looks great and has a lot of game to play. When I finish the main plot I’ll mess around doing the jumps/pigeons etc.
Looking forward to what the DLC will be.
I’ve only dipped my toe into multiplayer so far, basically just one or two games after a single player session and I’ve found the lobby/game finding part rather annoying(it really makes you appreciate the nice looby mechanics of Halo 3) but have had some fantastic games of Team Deathmatch.
All in all I’d give it a doubleplus good 
Yeah…well she started getting a little bitchy and possessive. So I took her out on a date, we got a little drunk, there was some police involvement, the car caught on fire and yada yada yada, she died in a massive fireball along with some of Liberty City’s finest.
Tale as old as time.
By the way, if you happen to take a helicopter up to about 1000 feet and step out, it’s really pretty freaky!
I haven’t found a helicopter yet, but I did find the Empire State Building and jumped off, unfortunately I hit a ledge a little ways down so my many-thousand-feet death fall was aborted by the fade to grey death animation. 
So kids, if you’re gonna jump off a building it’s all about clearance. Get a running start!
I’ve noticed two weird things. Has anyone bumped a car and the person jumps out of it ON FIRE and proceeds to burn to death?
Also, why is it so hard to actually kill someone? They keep twitching until I get bored of shooting them, I don’t know if they ever stop twitching. 