I can sum up the Nintendo press conference in one word… BORING! Nothing was said that was even remotely close to interesting.
The conference opens up with Shaun White and his new snow boarding game, which is confirmed will use the balance board. Then Satoru Iwata babbles on and on about a paradigm shift in gaming and never makes it to a valid point. Iwata’s babble went on for about 10 minutes, which seemed like forever.
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Nintendo just announced that the DS will be getting their own version of GTA, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Not too many details divulged at all, but a custom game engine for the DS is confirmed and it will be set in Liberty City as well. Look for this title this winter season. We will keep our eyes on this one for sure.
Write this down people: robbing a store in real life puts you in jail. You don’t get to do run around the city like in a video game. Apparently, these six kids of Garden City, New York didn’t get that message. I used to live right around there, so this is a good one. The six kids all dressed up like Niko and tried to rob a couple supermarkets late Wednesday night. During the melee, they were walking down the streets with crowbars and bats while robbing one motorist and smashing up at least one car with baseball bats. Yeah.
Thank God JT is in hot water, or you could imagine the fire-storm he’s cause over this one. Don’t replicate this stuff in real life, people.
GTA: San Andreas has sold somewhere near 10 million copies. The locked extra content of the “Hot Coffee” mission where a cheat code could unlock a mission where you banged your virtual girlfriend was the focal point of a class action suit against Take Two. They wanted to claim damages that this content should have been disclosed. Here is a shocker, no one gives a shit. Less than 2700 gamers filed with the suit.
“Am I disappointed? Sure,” said Seth Lesser, lead lawyer for the plaintiffs, reports the New York Times. “We can’t guess as to why now, several years later, people care or don’t care. The merits of the case were clear.”
Take Two will have to shell out about 30k to gamers and will make a 800k donation to charity. They made that in about 3 minutes when GTA IV came out. This is another case of overzealous lawyers trying to capitalize on a growing medium that may have had a hiccup. The problem here? Gamers tend to side with gaming companies when content is involved. Its only a matter of time before everyone who bought Haze is going to sue for a full refund.
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So you think it is safe to sit on the swing in the playground and swing yourself back and forth trying to go over the bar, well think again my friend. It is dangerous and GTA will prove it to you! Just drive a fancy car up to one and watch it get launched and kill an innocent pedestrian. For the love of everything safe, never mix your sports cars with your kids playgrounds, the life you save just might be your own.
GTA is the big kid in the sandox and Saints Row is throwing some dirt in their eyes. GTA IV’s unparalled success has made Saints Row 2 seem like an afterthought, so much so that the game was “delayed” for tech reasons. Is this a friendly shot over the bow or a little brother spitting in his older brothers Count Chocula? Frankenberry FTW.
Quick get the folks form Roswell here to look at this, there may be aliens in my video game! LOL. OK maybe not, I am thinking it was a glitch of a plane flying by at night in the game. Pretty funny how gamers find these things, maybe Rockstar has hidden aliens in the game once you get all 100% finished.
Everyone by now is familiar with the voice of Niko Belic, GTA IV’s main character. What you may not be aware of is that the voice actor that is provided the voice for Niko, which is almost iconic now, only got paid $100,000 for the job and does not see a residual penny after that.
In a New York Times article, Hollick revealed that he earned about $100,000 for 15 months of work recording dialogue for his role as GTA IV’s protagonist. The game, however, has gone on to rake in over $600 million in a mere two weeks.
Hollick does not hold a grudge against Rockstar, but instead says the following:
I don’t blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games.
A weak union is to blame for this voice actor and possibly many others getting left out in the cold while the GTA IV money train and others like it roll on by. Some are speculating that this could lead to a possible strike of voice actors against Hollywood, if you think about it the voices in a video game are pivotal to it’s success, just imagine GTA IV without Roman or Niko.
There are always glitch sin games and GTA IV is no different folks, the previous titles also had them. her is a pretty simple one if you want to get rid of your wanted level or if you have the Xbox 360 version, get the ‘One Man Army’ achievement without breaking a sweat.
Before I end a lengthy GTA IV session I make it a point to make a hard save at a safe house and since I was in the vicinity I landed up at the safe house in Middle Park East (as shown in the image below). Now I got into a scuffle with one of the pedestrians and since I was in no mood to indulge in a fist fight with him, I just shot him. Luckily there were cops nearby and they turned their attention toward me. Since I had already hard saved a minute back I decided to dick around a bit. One thing led to another and I ended up killed tons of cops as a result of which I was stuck with a nice four star rating.
And that’s when I decided to run into the lobby of the safe house where I killed even more cops and members of the swat team that kept pouring in. Pretty soon I had a five star rating and just as I was about to die I made it to the lift marker that transported me to the safe house where I waited for nearly 10 minutes with a five star rating without worrying about the cops chasing me down.
It is pretty cheesy, but may come in handy every once in a while. What do you guys think, to glitch or not to glitch, that is the question?
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