First screens of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned DLC

wut?

0.o

You're not seeing the font shift?

oh, I thought that was to indicate a quote from some PR jigger.

I agree though, it could have been implemented better.

The font what now?

No clue bananaboat.

yeah i got no idea what's going on here

sorry, yall' came to late and missed the free cake and stripper giveaway

If they could somehow find a way to get Roman into skitchin' I'd really be on board, a la the old classic Genesis game.

zombie bikers from hell wielding guitars as weapons with a monkey growing out of their shoulder throwing feces.

My guess.

Remember that mission where you had to kill that girl's biker boyfriend, and his friends show up and try to kill you in the park? I wonder if they are connected to them.

I thought the rumor said the DLC was going to have an entirely new city to explore (or at least a new area) instead of the same Liberty City with bikers.

I agree, its going to be the same damn thing again. Drag races, fetch quests, kill x, do y, and more mundane things we already did in GTA.

I don't know, I'm a little bummed it's only available on 360. (I believe I heard the DLC is only for 360...)

I agree with the too late statement. I went from totally pumped about this DLC to not giving a crap and trading in my copy of GTAIV. I had beaten it awhile ago, and it was just collecting dust. The multiplayer was crap IMO. GTA shouldn't have it at all.

It'd make more sense for them to release it on the PC version which is out later this month as well.

I mean, how are you going to sell the PC version to people on one hand while simultaneously offering bonus content only to 360 players..

So I gathered them up, in an old coffee can

giraffe based transport. duh

needs more zoo.

Jetpack.

100% agree, GTA IV was the final thing that pushed me over the edge in finally buying a next gen console (got the PS3) and man I can't believe how much I hated it.

I loved 3, VC, and SA. Although I never got into the story of them much (how could you) I didn't care because the game was so damn fun and wonky at times.

Part of the problem I think with IV was just it was far too wannabe gritty, all the missions were really cookie cutter crap. Really repetitive.. go here kill this guy, face a gang/escape cops, rinse repeat.

Not to mention horrid ones like the one where you help that Italian take out the Russians. You start out at this warehouse or whatever, drive to the truck, drive the slow ass truck all around town, then get there and the AI is absolutely retarded for him and he goes and gets himself killed 3-4 times before I finally manage to do it before he goes rambo.

Plus they removed all the depth features like planes, car customizing, robbing stores/houses in SA, buying safe houses.. etc. I've always felt the depth and extras that the game pushes out after is what separated itself from all the clones.. and they ruined all that in the name of realism and grityness.

Also I hated driving around in GTA IV, not only were the car controls awful but it sucked going around such a highly populated shithole all the time, it made it impossible to really just speed by alot.

@James

You sound exactly like me - GTA IV was the reason I picked up a PS3 too (I have a nice gaming rig, but I didn't want to wait for the PC port). I forced myself to beat GTA IV, but I haven't even put it back in to get the trophy patch...

The one thing I've taken away from GTA IV though - game reviewers don't have a clue what they're talking about. On Game Rankings, right now SA for PS3 is at a 95.2% - GTA IV for PS3 is at 97.4%. Subtract about 15% from GTA IV's and it'll be about right.

im feeling the same way. GTA IV is an after thought for me at the moment. its been month's since i played it. i have a stack of games that im currently playing and then a shelf for games im done with, and GTA IV found it's place on the shelf month's ago.

honestly looking back at it, it just didnt have the same appeal as previous iterations. i applauded it for being so realistic at first, but now i see that that sucked alot of the fun out of it because it was less over the top.

i have it on PS3 but i was gonna buy the 360 version if the DLC seemed worth it but they would have to do something more than skin more story and cars for me to buy in at this point.

Killa Korn Bread -

Says you haven't logged into the PSN in 2 months. What's up?

that would be my guess.

Or at least getting followed by a gang / growing a gang of followers. (you are a biker after all)

Also, because you are part of a group, I'd imagine turf / hood control will also return from GTA:SA

Didn't you hear? Now you can buy any building in the city and marry anyone you want, of either gender. There might be a dog.

agreed. bikes used to my vehicle of choice (i miss the old PCJ...) but they were not fun or practical in this one. they just didnt handle as well.

I miss the PCJ and the NRG. Maybe GTA IV was trying to be too real or something, but the bikes were nowhere near as fun.

I used to ride the PCJ everywhere. On the streets, sidewalks, through the parks, on the train tracks, up and down steps. It was almost never necessary to get off it (since your character couldn't climb ladders anyway). It made it much quicker to get around. That's all gone.

As someone above mentioned, you can't get any speed up on this game. The world is too dense. Part of it is a change in the world, and part of it is playing Burnout:Paradise, where the streets are 3x wider and the blocks 3x longer. After that, GTA feels cramped, IV incredibly so.

Liberty City is cramped because NYC is cramped. I doubt I could get over 60mph on the city streets there with any regularity.

I'm sorry to say it was a disappointment for me, I was extremely hyped for this game but it just didn't live up to my expectations, its still a good game don't get me wrong. This is what made me buy a PS3 for it and after the fucking game broke the PS3, I got a 360 and the 360 copy of it.

Just not as good as San Andreas, they put some nice things in but also took things out and the story was disappointing. For instance the "morality" parts of the game really make little to no impact.

On the PC, I hope it gets the exclusive DLC since its a Games for Windows LIVE title by Microsoft and even if not, there'll be a TON of mods for it, loads of extras character skins and vehicles for starters like the PC versions of the other GTA games.

Nah, I'd still say go out and grab it. It is a good game, but I think you'll know how we feel after you rip through it. I think it's moreso a matter of realizing the game it 'could' have been.

Personally, for all the people that hate Cliffy B for whatever reason, I think Dennis Houser from Rockstar is 10 times the douchebag. Yes, that's quite a tangent.

It is a good game but if you're a fan of all the cool shit that was in san andreas you're going to be disappointed with GTA 4 as well.

GTA IV is rubbish yes. I'm sorry to say. Thankfully I have the collection on Steam and the Stories games on PSP. IMO IV marked the decline, what with this lacklustre sounding DLC, terrible original game and what looks to be a rubbish DS game too (btw the DS is my handheld of choice, just sayin), and that with 4 out now we probably won't see a SA stories.