JUST ME AND MY LITTLE EDITORIAL…
Seriously folks, I think I have a problem.
So I’m at the bar a couple of days ago and my buddy Jeremy is bartending. As I drink my Captain and Coke, he’s talking about how he loves his roommate’s Xbox 360 and how he would love to get a PS3 when he got some money. As a huge fan, I immediately bring up GTA IV. Much to my chagrin, he doesn’t really dig the game all that much – he thinks there wasn’t enough to do (he prefers GTA: SA and GTA VC). I guess he has a point. But man, do I love GTA IV.
Then it dawns on me. I don’t have GTA: SA anymore. Having foolishly traded it in at the local Gamestop (which I’d rather piss glass than do these days, by the way) when I saved up for my first 360. It’s the only console GTA I don’t own. Admittedly, I wasn’t all that “wowed” by the PSP GTA’s. Fun of course, but a little too “more-of-the-same” for my tastes in the long term.
Anyways, the next day I go to pick up my beloved 360 Elite (my fourth 360 to date) from my buddy’s house (I let him borrow it for his birthday). I get it home and check out what I’ve missed on Live and *POOf*! There’s San Andreas staring me in the face (1,200c is a bit much I think but ehh, fuck it).
Then it dawns on me. Which is my favorite in the series? It’s not an easy answer for a game geek, let me tell you…
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“You know, shame can be such an ugly word. When it’s used describing one’s self that is.”-BJ Schwinghammer
Any of you who have been following my writing so far – though you probably exist in small numbers – know that I consider myself to be a fairly hardcore gamer. Especially when the money is available. Perhaps ‘Video Game Whore’‘ is more appropriate these days.
Anyways.
But these days there are very few people out there that know of my dark, terrible secret that is my relationship with the ever-popular Grand Theft Auto series. All the way back to the beginning…
Hooked yet? I’m pretty good at that yeah?
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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.
If you have never visited Someecards.com, you are missing out. What started as just a few funny e-cards has exploded into hundreds of hysterical, fake greeting cards that make you nearly piss yourself.
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.
Rockstar may have hidden a clue to upcoming expansions on GTA IV on their Social Club website. An astute reader over at GTAForums found the above ticket on the Story Gang portion of the site by dragging a few items around on the screen.
There are three options here. The first is that it means nothing, which is highly unlikely. The second is that we’ll be seeing a new game where Niko travels to San Andreas in the near future. The third is that San Andreas will be part of the DLC for the Xbox 360 version of the game. Since no one knows exactly what the Xbox 360 version of the game is getting, we’ll have to speculate. I personally think this will end up being a new game at retail. Sure, Microsoft floated Rockstar a ton of money, but creating an entire new story and all the textures and graphics for an entire city? You also will have to take file size into account, as this type of expansion would end up needing at least 4GB of space for all the graphics and gameplay elements.
Only time will tell, though, on what this really means. We’ll keep you posted.
GTA IV is still spinning in my console disc trays and already Rockstar is out looking for a location for GTA V. Could it be they want to get the ball rolling before EA comes in and just rehashes GTA IV? Here’s the list of choices going down at Rockstar:
- Beijing, China
- Paris, France
- Havana, Cuba
- Cancun, Mexico
- Venice, Italy
Not sure how I feel about Venice, although you could try and sink the city. I think the best choices would either be Havana, Cuba or Cancun, Mexico. Some decent debauchery already happens there, which could make a pretty good settings. Only time will tell, though.
[via Sarcastic Gamer]
Thanks to EHT for the tip!
April 21st, 2008 – Karori, New Zealand
This is the stuff I enjoy reading and writing about.
A 17-year-old kid named Stacy O’Callhaghan has taken it upon himself to create a NZ mod for the PS2 Classic GTA: San Andreas. Including landmarks, streets and so forth. He is even going so far as to replicate the local police forces cars and uniforms.
I have to admit. That is pretty damn cool. I mean, who wouldn’t want to take the GTA engine and apply it to their hometowns? I certainly would. Hit the jump for more »
A little birdie dropped off a tidbit of information that Grand Theft Auto 1 & 2 as well as Street Fighter Alpha will be coming to the PSN pretty soon. The rumor was published in the most recent issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine.
I think this would definitely be pretty cool, as the first two GTA titles are a bundle of top-down fun. Street Fighter Alpha seems almost a waste as SF2 HD will be coming out this Spring on the PSN and XBLA.
What do you think? Would you buy these games if there added to the PlayStation Store? I’d personally love to see them available for both PS3 and PSP.
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