Chris

I would've done but I didn't know the exact member count at the time, I grabbed 30-40 and hoped it would be enough. Turns out I needed over 21000! So yeah, not gonna be enough for everyone, then again, not everyone is active. In fact, not many people at all! :/

Yeah I mentioned that in the article. The bikes handling is a lot better. It's more responsive and you don't fall off as easily as before, so they're more fun to drive. When handbraking, the camera now stays behind your vehicle, so you no longer have to manually correct it with the analogue stick which is nice... except you still find yourself doing it Take a while to get used to I suppose. As for the stickers. I dunno. You want some?

Yeah I've been noticing the only people that have been posting in TLAD threads have been me usually and some other members. As for questions.... I remember in a preview from IGN or something they mentioned the game had a grain filter on and they thought it was a good idea but I'm wondering if it's still present in the game and if you can toggle it on or off. And how about the voice acting in game, (most GTAs don't have a problem with it) but does it feel a lot like your actually in a biker gang, etc? Also, how do you like Johnny, Chris? I know a lot of people loved Niko but is Johnny as likeable seeing as he's a totally different character. How are the missions, because in IV they began to feel really similar towards the end of the game but TLAD looks like it has a lot of different styled and more epic missions with bike chases and the like. Oh and out of the new weapons which one is your favourite? I guess that's enough for questions Edit: One last thing, I'm not sure if you'll know the answer to this but for those that do get TLAD will you be able to play in Free Mode with friends using all the features included in the DLC? Such as new weapons, vehicles and all the other stuff, I'm curious how R* would configure this. Yeah noise filter. I personally don't think it makes too much of a difference, though if you're used to watching HD films/TV it's kinda like that, so I had no problem with it. Some of the guys preferred it off though, and you can do that in the options. The voice acting is superb once again. Yeah it does feel like you're very much a part of the gang. Yeah you're often riding around with other members in a pack kind of thing. Looks great on screen, and it's definitely something new and fresh for the series. There's also a lot of action going on, especially in the first few missions. Different from all the other GTA games which of course start out with tutorial type missions to get new players into the flow of the game, obviously no need with this since everyone will have already played IV. The auto pistol. Yeah the new shotguns are great, but I really like the automatic pistol, it feels great. The grenade launcher is pretty cool as well, but it would be better if the grenades exploded on impact. There's nothing I'd say that was shit about the game, the only reason you'd be disappointed is if they didn't add a feature that you particularly wanted. Yeah I know, I'll get round to them whenever I get time. Thanks.

Too many blink haters here. Love how everyone's avoided personally insulting me though when I'm a huge fan of them and that sort of music

Thanks for pointing that out, fixed now

A comedian is in da house!

steveplayer's quote was the only saving grace for this topic. I did lol.

Yeah a lot of fun was had. Not just with TLAD either. I can't believe no one has any questions for me though, I played the game for four hours. Shitty Xbox community here or what? Is anybody apart from you two actually getting the game? I thought most of our members here had 360's, seems the opposite way round now. What's going on!?

Yeah I know but you're waiting to change it back aren't you...

Ice, Connor, and anyone else who changes your name near or during awards, you people are an epic pain in the ass!!

The topic you've all been waiting for - the winners of the 2008 forum awards here at TGTAP. Unfortunately I don't have the PSD for the award badges here, so they haven't been added to your awards pages yet. However I'll probably be able to do that tomorrow or Monday. Thanks to Gerard for compiling all the winners and hottest members, also this year I went ahead and put the results for 2nd and 3rd place people as well. So without further ado, here are the results: GTA Most Knowledgeable (GTA3) 1st: Earthbound 2nd: TNF 3rd: Harwood Butcher, Husky Most Knowledgeable (GTAVC) 1st: TNF 2nd: Urbanoutlaw 3rd: WRX22B1998, SpiderVice Most Knowledgeable (GTASA) 1st: Urbanoutlaw 2nd: SpiderVice, JAB Hacksoul Most Knowledgeable (GTALCS) 1st: Rashon 2nd: TNF 3rd: SpiderVice Most Knowledgeable (GTAVCS) 1st: TNF 2nd: Flesh-n-bone 3rd: Rashon, SpiderVice Most Knowledgeable (GTAIV) 1st: Urbanoutlaw 2nd: Chris, chris82 Member Most Respected Member 1st: Urbanoutlaw 2nd: TM 3rd: draftermatt Most Respected Moderator 1st: Gerard 2nd: MrLlamaLlama 3rd: Spaz Most Helpful Member 1st: Urbanoutlaw 2nd: Earthbound 3rd: Sherman, Gerard Most Improved Member 1st: Spider-Vice 2nd: Nate10 3rd: Mpilk901 Most Intelligent Member 1st: Gerard 2nd: YellowJacket 3rd: Urbanoutlaw Best New Member 1st: Earthbound 2nd: guilty.by.association, TNF, Butters! (3 way tie) Funniest Member 1st: L-RiC 2nd: rockstarrem, Unnamed Noodle, osiris Most Original Username 1st: MrLlamaLlama 2nd: Unnamed Noodle 3rd: Dirty ol' bastard, Rainbow Bear Biggest Geek 1st: chris82 2nd: Chris 3rd: Little_Chestnut Most Random Member 1st: Connor 2nd: Angry Gorilla 3rd: Huckleberry Pie Best Personality 1st: Sherman 2nd: Nate10 3rd: Chris, Dirty Harry, L-RiC, Huckleberry Pie Graphics, Creativity, Skills etc. Best Avatar 1st: Nate10 2nd: EvoLuTioN, Chris Best Signature 1st: MrLlamaLlama 2nd: Nate10, TM (2 way tie) Best Graphics Maker 1st: MrLlamaLlama 2nd: EvoLuTioN 3rd: TM Best Animator 1st: MK47 2nd: EvoLuTioN 3rd: Connor Best Writing/Story 1st: L-RiC 2nd: Samil 3rd: Dazza, Vercetti Thug Best Quality Posts 1st: Gerard 2nd: Thomas 3rd: TM, Urbanoutlaw (2 way tie) Best Written English 1st: Gerard 2nd: Everyone other nominee Best "About Me" Page 1st: L-RiC 2nd: Angry Gorilla 3rd: EvoLuTioN Best Debater 1st: Gerard 2nd: Spaz 3rd: Harwood Butcher Prestige Topic of the Year 1st: Man has sex with Picnic Table 2nd: Hot Babe Thread 3rd: George Bush has shoes thrown at him Member of the Year 1st: Urbanoutlaw 2nd: Thomas 3rd: SpiderVice, TM, Nate10 Hottest Male 1st: Sherman (49 pts) 2nd: Earthbound (27 pts) 3rd: Gerard (23 pts) Hottest Female 1st: guilty.by.association (58 pts) 2nd: YellowJacket (56 pts) 3rd: Bear (34 pts) Lolz Best Breasts 1st: guilty.by.association 2nd: kokane 3rd: Little_Chestnut Person Least Like to Get Laid 1st: I©e (Kel-F) 2nd: Chris 3rd: Husky Congratulations everyone!

Oh yeah that's a point, when YJ was active again, GBA wasn't, etc. Oh well, I'll be announcing the winners at some point today so look out for them then.

The forum sucking bit was obviously, but it was actually quite harsh to exclude gba like that so blatantly, she being the only other girl in the contest, and considering she's still pretty active here and obviously going to see it. Would be a little different if it was directed to kokane since she doesn't come here anymore and wouldn't see it... but yeah.

Lol. Jealous GTADon? Sorry I can't help being awesome etc. In all honestly we've no idea if they'll invite us out for ep2. Of course it's a possibility though and it would be awesome if they did. Yeah it was cool to be able to play TLAD early, but just like IV there's a period of a few days when we get back where we have to wait until the actual release which is a bit annoying. Still, it's a great game and I recommend all you 360 owners download it when it comes out on Tuesday. Definitely worth the money.

As you may know, earlier this week Rockstar Games flew myself and several other webmasters from the large GTA fansites out to New York City to preview The Lost and Damned. I've now written up my diary/preview of the event which you can read on The Lost and Damned fansite event page. The event was hosted by Rockstar Games and Microsoft, and the preview itself was from 2pm-6pm on the Tuesday. The rest of our time there has been detailed in my preview, with some photos I took alongside (unfortunately none from the event itself as no cameras were allowed). The other webmasters that attended were Psy from GTA4.tv, Adam, Jevon and illspirit from GTANet, G-WizZ from GTAWH.com, and finally, Zidane and Kodo from GTAGaming. I'd like to personally give a massive thanks to Rockstar for inviting us all out again to this event. I had a great time both playing the game, as well as meeting various Rockstars and the other webmasters again. Link: The Lost and Damned Fansite Event P.S. If you have any questions about The Lost and Damned, or anything to do with the event itself, just ask them in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them for you.

So what you're saying is that ALL straight men are in fact females? Lol at what you actually said there

Well we have very few members here that are female. And I'm not sure if any still play GTA that much...

You got AIDS? How is this good news? Oh wait, do people hate you? But now you have AIDS, so you'll die, and so this is therefore good news as it will make people happy? I think I figured it out guys

It's worth it

Trailer #2 for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned has just officially gone live, and Rockstar have also made some additional updates to the official site. Check them out at: www.rockstargames.com/IV www.rockstargames.com/thelostanddamned In addition to the new trailer above, there's also pages detailing all the new weapons and vehicles. IGN have also published a multiplayer modes preview, which talks about all the new multiplayer modes they got to play. We've added 16 new multiplayer screenshots to our gallery too. Stay tuned to TGTAP over the next week because there's going to be a lot of GTA news being posted, and we and the other fansites will also be posting about our experiences at the recent fansite event for The Lost and Damned. We'll keep you updated.

Safari. Also, fuck Mozilla, it's not developed anymore, just use Firefox. As for fastest it depends what they're doing. IE is widely known to be far slower than any of the others, but Firefox, Opera and Safari and Chrome and all fairly close to each other. It more or less comes down to personal preference with them. Firefox can be slower if you have a lot of extensions though, and it typically has the highest memory usage (along with IE).

Thanks for confirmation. We were going to investigate that, we haven't approved any more files he's uploaded since 2 weeks ago. I'll get round to crediting the proper authors when I'm back from NY.