Chris

Yes. It's definitely building hype. The tagline they've come up with is incredibly vague, which makes it sound even more ominous. This is the shit that gets people talking about it, thinking about what could be different. People will probably use this topic to air their ideas, getting more of us hyped. We all know its going to be a great game, but now we know that R* are taking the series to a new level... my thoughts: this is going to be nothing like GTA3, Vice City, San Andreas, or either of the "stories" renditions, this is going to be something better that, this is going to be a whole new experience...

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So? What's your point. I'm here posting it as news on my website. I'm doing my job, people appreciate it. I haven't been in all night to have posted it earlier, I've posted as soon as I can.

"Things Will Be Different" - Another ominous piece of marketing coming from Rockstar, if you're a subscriber to the Rockstar Games mailing list you will have seen this earlier today. This is bound to spark off an almighty amount of discussion regarding what exactly is going to be different, are Rockstar taking the game in a whole new direction? Have your say in the forums. A screenshot of the email

I've updated the news post with a link to a video someone uploaded to YouTube.

I've updated the news post with a link to a video someone uploaded to YouTube, if you haven't seen it yet, here it is below. The sound effect is EXACTLY how I imagined it to be, quite ominous indeed.

I just read this over at Kotaku and just laughed. It's amazing just how badly Sony are failing, and also kind of sad too. What are your thoughts on Sony's truly abysmal performance in comparison to the Xbox 360's and Wii's massive success. Looks like an unmitigated disaster to me... it's a great shame too. I just really hope things improve for them in the future.

£125 anyone?

No it's not bullshit, nor is it confusing. I don't understand what's so hard to grasp about different countries having different ratings. USA uses ESRB - They haven't rated the game yet, hence the RP (Rating Pending) EU uses PEGI - They don't have a higher rating than 18+, and R* know the game will receive this, so they might as well stick that logo on now, plus there is no "rating pending" logo to use either. Now Germany are an exception because they have incredibly strict laws on violent games, which is strange in comparison to other countries who you'd think would be stricter, but that's probably why they haven't put a logo on that mirror yet. As long as R* don't go putting sex into the game we can pretty much rest assured that in the USA it will receive an M rating. Now Gycu, tell me, why are you so concerned over the US rating when you live in Romania, no offence intended, but not only is your country renowned for pirating games and movies, it's in Europe, you guys use the PEGI rating... If you're going to buy the game you'll need to be 18 unless you buy online.

No it doesn't mean AO anyway. 18 is the highest rating in the UK and Europe, that's what all the violent games get. In the USA, they have M which is 17, and AO which is 18. Quite what different 12 months age difference makes is beyond me, but you can't really compare EU ratings with US ones is the point I'm making. Morons did what? Since when did R* Webmasters localising sites become moronic? Explain wtf you're point is. You DO realise there are different languages spoken in other countries right... and that they have different rating systems...

Ah I see you edited your post Jace, I saw that at about the same time and added the link into the main post in case people haven't seen it.

Yeah there's a few people here who do actually. You should have used the search feature, you would have found their topics and videos they've made. Do it now. I like watching it though, it pretty awesome.

This is by far the shittiest topic I have ever seen, also I'm gonna warn you because you clearly cannot read descriptions what with your youtube mishap and now posting this spam in a normal forum. Also the concept of this topic is shit because it shows you what the time is where the user lives in their profile. There's plenty of other spam topics which actually have some sort of point to them than this.

Yeah that's a good point actually. Though I saw his post in question and he had put the full URL rather than the code, so my comment still applies.

You're an ignorant tool, you should have actually read the topic, and even Tommy Montana was kind enough to explain it in his post above, again. You just made a complete ass of yourself - I was waiting for someone to do that. Idiot.

Yeah you'd think so, but this was at a time when not many people are watching, and when normally infomercials are shown, so apparently, people are saying it wouldn't be too expensive to advertise there.

Yeah, one awesome site for said tutorials is the aptly named http://www.good-tutorials.com/ I learned a few things from there.

Many people are reporting on various forums, namely NeoGAF, that they have seen the countdown to the GTA IV trailer on FX in the early hours of this morning. The "advert" lasted for a whole 30 minutes from 2:00-2:30AM and appeared to mirror the countdown which we have been staring at on the official site for the past few weeks, with the only difference being a sound playing for each second counted down. This begs the question of whether or not we'll see a simultaneous web and TV release of the trailer, or if it was simply to increase awareness and give more exposure to both the game and the website. Thanks to Jordan over at PlanetGTA for this interesting piece of news. We now have a short excerpt of the advert for those of you who didn't get to see it: Thanks to gta-xtreme.de for the video.

I've only seen the first 20 mins or so of Saw 3, I'll watch the rest of it another time. TBH, none of them are particularly great movies, but one thing I do like is how they all follow on pretty nicely, at least 1 to 2 to 3 do anyway. Saw 4 is dragging out the franchise a bit, I can't see it being that great, a nice halloween flick maybe but nothing more. It's just good for people who love gore I guess.

Where did you get that map from? It's not very accurate when it's missing out the UK, Republic of Ireland, and the vast majority of Scandinavia, all of which are in Europe, hell, most of them are in the EU. Also looks like a few notable Asian countries left out. I don't think there's a point to merging the two, and only when talking about the land as a whole is it suitable to refer to it as Eurasia IMO. I think the main differences lie in the cultures. East and West, though the East is taking a lot from the West now, they're still radically different. Europe has a mix of good and bad - Western Europe, compared to the (old) Eastern section of Europe, though that part is mainly heading in a much better direction now, so that's all good. Asia on the other hand, has two notable communist countries, China and North Korea, and some of the countries (Viet Nam, Singapore) while incredibly awesome countries (especially the landscapes and buildings), also have very poor parts rife with poverty and even in the richer parts, piracy and other forms of theft are big. I wonder if smartboy4 will ever return here, he was a Singaporean, he was a pretty cool member too.

Managed to get tickets before they sold out last night, and so did a bunch of my mates. Is anyone here going there this year, the line up is pretty awesome already. http://www.readingfestival.com Post here if you're going. Even though I'm going with my own mates we can have a mini GTA meet up and if you're going early (on the Wednesday) like we might be, apparently theres always a huge pillow fight at midnight, we can all batter the shit out of each other in that. It's going to be awesome though.

Weirdly I was looking at some other elements myself but then I thought they either don't sound good, or people will think I'm some science nerd. I'm also thinking I might lose the "pyro" names now, rather have two cool words put together.

Or not, this was the intention of this topic.

Jesus these all fail so damn hard. Just put two cool words together. These names are shit do you honestly think I'd have a name with 4 underscores in it. And also I'm not retarded enough to use a GTA characters name as mine.

None of those are suitable, keep 'em coming though.