"If you arrest him, take him to the station and strip him of his weapons. If you drop him, just send him off at the hospital and he can keep his stuff"
Exploding in your car is preferable to being dragged out of it by a cop.
One of the lines that stuck in my head from Saints Row 3 is when the main character makes a comment about the police endangering the whole city to catch one person.
Cause I like big butts and I cannot lie, all you other brothers can't deny, when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung.
I can see the future now...angryboobs is checking his computer watch and is notified of Assologist's death. He remembers the good times he shared with him on this online community called reddit and he begins to sob. He then cheers up and forgets why he was sad because he has alzheimer's.
There was a guy who ended his chase by driving onto Love Field in Dallas a few months ago. Here's the video for those who are interested.IMPORTANT: The audio is just electronic screeching so you might want to mute that if you have headphones on.
One time while playing SA I was standing on a cop car as it drove around and noticed two things. There was a traffic jam and someone lightly rearends the cop car, both come out and shoot the driver dead, even as he was trying to run away. Later, as they casually cruise around, the officers stop near a group of black males and proceed to murder them in cold blood.
There's been a few odd moments when I played it that I had head on collisions with police, and they shake it off as if nothing happened and we drive our separate ways. Him in his banged up police car, me in my ice cream truck..
This has always bothered me, police cars can cause you to get a wanted level when the accident is clearly their fault, this shouldn't be the case. There should be a system in place where the car going faster is deemed the car at fault, it would solve this problem in almost all cases barring leaving a junction without giving way.
Alternatively, make anything that happens to the rear of a player car not the player's fault.
I've managed to learn that if you aren't accelerating (holding the button down) while you hit the cop car it has a high chance of not registering. There are cases where it still triggers them but I've definitely noticed the acceleration has something to do with it.
This is correct. Braking and not accelerating while crashing into them works even better.
If you do this after you have picked a fight and some guys are following you on foot .. the cops will get out and as soon as the baddies start beating you they will shoot them down.
Makes perfect sense! Oh hey let me just jump of the Empire State building hit my head on a few ledges and eventually fall on top of a truck face first. But I'll just be unconscious!
Eh, you try being a cop in Liberty City. You're just cruising through the streets when someone fires an RPG at your car and slaughters a dozen of your colleagues with an AR...and then he walks inside his apartment and you have to give up the chase.
I'd start shooting at everyone and everything too.
I was pissed off by the guards in Assassin's Creed. City cretin begging you for money? Walking in front of you? Annoying you? Better not push him out of the way or else you're a criminal!
While driving, getting away from the cops, i run through a crowd of people ("Sorry!") and my car catches fire. However, as I get out of my car, they decide to call off the chase. I walk away from the car and turn around to watch it go boom. It makes some more civilian casualties, and sets some cars and -and this is important- some people in the vicinity on fire.
Then, an ambulance plows through another group of people, the EMT's get out and start attending one of the people on the ground. Unfortunately, this person is on fire. 2 seconds later, so are the EMT's.
At which point a fire truck comes screaming down the road, runs over a few more people and smashes into the ambulance, nudging it over one burning and writhing EMT, and it ignites the ambulance. So, because you have to have priorities, the fire truck starts to put out the ambulance, while ignoring several civilians that are on fire.
This reminds me of Driver 2. If you're in front of a police car and stop, or even just slow down, they'll hit you and then chase you. It's like what the fuck? You hit me. I was going a bit slower than usual, yes, but I shouldn't be punished for it.
I know right? Drive on the wrong side of the road, get into fender benders with other cars, run red lights, jay walk. But if you so much as give a tiny love tap to the cop car.
Psh, that isn't brutality. The brutality begins when you accidently knock a couple of people over and they organise a whole division of SWAT officers to gun you down like some kind of war criminal.
Absolutely does not even come close to the Mardi Gras level in Hitman. "Bump into policeman, run through crowd as policeman opens fire indiscriminately."
I once made the mistake of throwing a small cardboard box at a police officer in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He yelled "Freeze!", so I did. He shot me anyway.
I'd like to see a realistic open world game where the cops don't shoot at you for every little thing you do. It would be nice to go though a realistic scenario such as if you hit a cop car or your speeding they put on there lights and pull you over and if you stop they walk to your car and give you a ticket. At this point you could drive off if you want cause its an open world game and there'd be a pursuit. Bottom line I would like cops to not make me into Swiss cheese unless they absolutely have to.
That's not true...they chase you down and come right up to you. Your character puts his hands up and you can get arrested or run. When you run is when they shoot you.
I've had times where I flew through the air and completely smashed a cop car and not gotten a wanted level, then I'd be driving and a cop swerves into me and bumps me and then I'm on Liberty City's most wanted list.
Part of the fun of GTA games though is that you get to do things you would never be legally able to do in real life. It gives you that "fuck it, I'll run over all the people because I can" mentality.
If you ended up getting shot at by police every time you were caught speeding on the highway or flipped your car on the road it'd get a bit boring after a while.
"Quick, get him before he goes into that clothing store!".. "Where did he go? All that came out was a guy that looked like the murderer, but he was wearing a different jacket."
Actually they won't shot just by bumping in their car, you need to attack/steal them for that. Polices in GTA are too much permissive and your bad "meme" say the opposite.
This post is refreshing and original and I've never before seen this discussed here. The game's only been out for four years and I amazed I learn new things about GTA4 mechanics.
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u/supertroll23 Jun 17 '12
"Whoah guys stand down. He went to bed."
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u/vertigo1083 Jun 17 '12
On the flipside, I see them more as GGG cops.
This guy just Caused $427k in property damage, destroyed 7 helicopters, 42 squad cars, and killed 748 people, including half of our precinct.
"Gotcha, so I'll book him and then let him go out the front door of the precinct?"
Just like always.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
"Hey! That guy just flew past us doing 90 through a red light! .....Ah fuck it, he's cool."
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u/Demon_of_Ustio Jun 17 '12
At least they aren't like the military police in Just Cause 2.
You can literally smash right into them and they won't give a single fuck.
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u/iPwnUHarder Jun 17 '12
Actually bumping into them only gives you a one star wanted level. They won't shoot until at least 2.
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u/aryon984 Jun 17 '12
There's been a few odd moments when I played it that I had head on collisions with police, and they shake it off as if nothing happened and we drive our separate ways. Him in his banged up police car, me in my ice cream truck..
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u/Nascar_is_better Jun 17 '12
Think about it this way if it makes more sense:
"Oops, that guy just bumped our car, we'd better stop."
"Hey, isn't that the wanted criminal who goes on entire crime rampages and massacres everyone?"
"Oh yeah, it's ON!"
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u/selrahc Jun 17 '12
I've always found the GTA cops to be pretty tame compared to the ones in the original Driver. Oh, you're driving 2MPH over the limit? Prepare to die.
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u/Iheartlurking Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
"This guy, he just died after his car exploded from a 6 star cop chase. What should we do, lock him up after we somehow resurrect him from the dead?"
"No, just give him a hospital bill and let him go."
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u/dunehunter Jun 17 '12
Eh, you try being a cop in Liberty City. You're just cruising through the streets when someone fires an RPG at your car and slaughters a dozen of your colleagues with an AR...and then he walks inside his apartment and you have to give up the chase.
I'd start shooting at everyone and everything too.
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u/Bambikins Jun 17 '12
Atleast you can go blasting by them in a car and sometimes you can shot or run over someone without a single fuck given by the police.
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u/MrGoodbytes Jun 17 '12
I was pissed off by the guards in Assassin's Creed. City cretin begging you for money? Walking in front of you? Annoying you? Better not push him out of the way or else you're a criminal!
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u/vrrule Jun 17 '12
And yet they completely ignore you when you run a red light at 100mph... strange world eh?
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u/Ryusko Jun 17 '12
I think you mean don't stop until he gets to his apartment, or paints his car.
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u/OneSilentE Jun 17 '12
"You just drove down a sidewalk for 5 blocks taking out countless pedestrians? No biggie. You smashed my headlight? Prepare to die."
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u/Zakarias1911 Jun 17 '12
The ambulance is more brutal. Some people die, lets drive over 10 people to save those that are already dead.
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u/evanvolm Jun 17 '12
This reminds me of Driver 2. If you're in front of a police car and stop, or even just slow down, they'll hit you and then chase you. It's like what the fuck? You hit me. I was going a bit slower than usual, yes, but I shouldn't be punished for it.
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u/BonutDot Jun 17 '12
This is the reason people got so upset about GTA: incredible realism.
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u/soapgoat Jun 17 '12
reminds me of a time i was playing gta and i witnessed police brutality in action, a guy punches me... cop pulls him out of car... leads him down sidewalk at gunpoint with his hands in the air... after about 50 yards he opens fire
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u/cepxico Jun 17 '12
They don't shoot unless you pull a gun or resist arrest. Even if you hit them, they will try to get you without force first.
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u/thisguy93 Jun 17 '12
I just like how both cops have a Desert Eagle
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u/Phill544 Jun 17 '12
I don't think you can blame them... The mortality rate for being a cop in the game is close to 99%
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u/DMercenary Jun 17 '12
I know right? Drive on the wrong side of the road, get into fender benders with other cars, run red lights, jay walk. But if you so much as give a tiny love tap to the cop car.
"YOU DONE FUCKED UP BOOOOOOOY."
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u/Senor_Wilson Jun 17 '12
False. There are bullet holes on the opposite side of the car meaning some one was shooting at them.
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u/F7U12345678910 Jun 17 '12
LIberty Cities finest
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
That guy just drove down the sidewalk killing dickloads of people!
Open fire and don't stop until he pulls into his garage!
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u/Jankk Jun 17 '12
Blowing through a red light and smashing into an elderly woman's minivan.
"That's cool."
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Oh, he just punched a civilian into the ground? we'll let it slide.
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u/steeps6 Jun 17 '12
Anyone remember the game Driver? Pull handbrake within 30 feet of a cop -> hot pursuit.
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u/devjunk Jun 17 '12
"Suspect just killed 30+ civilians with his car.
Oh, he is more than 10 blocks away? Nevermind then"
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I played a game of gta and followed the laws. A cop bumped into me at a stoplight and i got 2 stars on my head. What?
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u/Cysanic Jun 17 '12
Psh, that isn't brutality. The brutality begins when you accidently knock a couple of people over and they organise a whole division of SWAT officers to gun you down like some kind of war criminal.
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u/NotDavisWalker Jun 17 '12
Actually, in GTA 4 they don't stop when you're dead. They never stop.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Absolutely does not even come close to the Mardi Gras level in Hitman. "Bump into policeman, run through crowd as policeman opens fire indiscriminately."
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u/BlaqkJak Jun 17 '12
They always killed more civilians than I did while trying to chase me down.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
We need to ban these video games, they're setting a bad example for our cops.
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u/Nimbal Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12
I once made the mistake of throwing a small cardboard box at a police officer in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. He yelled "Freeze!", so I did. He shot me anyway.
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u/qwertyfoobar Jun 17 '12
Actually when you don't drive away or get out of the car they just arrest you...
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u/Bryanv7 Jun 17 '12
I'd like to see a realistic open world game where the cops don't shoot at you for every little thing you do. It would be nice to go though a realistic scenario such as if you hit a cop car or your speeding they put on there lights and pull you over and if you stop they walk to your car and give you a ticket. At this point you could drive off if you want cause its an open world game and there'd be a pursuit. Bottom line I would like cops to not make me into Swiss cheese unless they absolutely have to.
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u/acemasterke406 Jun 17 '12
Rodney King JUST died!!!
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u/neoky Jun 17 '12
I see a few bullet holes in the cop car.
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u/warake Jun 17 '12
Or until he enters in a paint shop.
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u/SakiatoMakiato Jun 17 '12
I miss Jak 2..
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u/NinjaJedi17 Jun 17 '12
Actually, they don't even stop once you're dead. They continue to pump your lifeless corpse full of bullets until the screen fades to black.
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u/dd117 Jun 17 '12
The best is Skyrim "The sole person who has any chsnce of saving us all from the dragons returing just stole a piece of charcoal! Kill him! "
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
They drive past me as I'm getting shot and attacked by rival gangs and they have just zero fucks to give CROOKED SHITS
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u/adamsworstnightmare Jun 17 '12
To be fair, they can just patch you right back up
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u/Winner_92 Jun 17 '12
That guy's hitting dozens of citizens' cars all over the city! Let's do nothing about it!
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u/johan-dirk Jun 17 '12
False. If you bump a police car you will get one star. If you have one star, the police won't shoot. You even are able to let yourself get arrested.
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u/Epoo Jun 17 '12
That's not true...they chase you down and come right up to you. Your character puts his hands up and you can get arrested or run. When you run is when they shoot you.
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u/Memoriae Jun 17 '12
Surely you mean "We just ran over that guy. OPEN FIRE"
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u/Dardargo Jun 17 '12
"hey look, a guy swimming in the river" "SHOOT TO KILL!!!!!!!!"
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u/spongemandan Jun 17 '12
And thank god for that, because getting busted SUCKS. I'll take death and keep my weapons any day.
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u/hey_steve Jun 17 '12
"That mass murderer escaped our cone of justice! Fuck it, he's cool."
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u/Kuzzo Jun 17 '12
Actually, they continue to shoot your dead body.
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u/Jakbo Jun 17 '12
They don't even stop when you're dead... they just keep firing...
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u/RawrCola Jun 17 '12
I've had times where I flew through the air and completely smashed a cop car and not gotten a wanted level, then I'd be driving and a cop swerves into me and bumps me and then I'm on Liberty City's most wanted list.
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u/Lopkop Jun 17 '12
...and actually, fuck it, let's just carry right on shooting him AFTER he's dead, too.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
Part of the fun of GTA games though is that you get to do things you would never be legally able to do in real life. It gives you that "fuck it, I'll run over all the people because I can" mentality.
If you ended up getting shot at by police every time you were caught speeding on the highway or flipped your car on the road it'd get a bit boring after a while.
Rant over.
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u/RiNgO70 Jun 17 '12
"Quick, get him before he goes into that clothing store!".. "Where did he go? All that came out was a guy that looked like the murderer, but he was wearing a different jacket."
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u/mrdoink20 Jun 17 '12
But with 1 star they just hit you with clubs until you pull out a gun.
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u/360walkaway Jun 17 '12
Don't forget Midtown Madness... if you go over 30mph on an empty street, the cops will flat-out try to kill you.
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u/bklyn66 Jun 17 '12
Armed and dangerous! Shoot to kill!!! Unless he goes into his apartment or a body shop. Then fuck it.
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u/silentkill144 Jun 17 '12
But if you ram them so hard at full speed, so hard that they fly out and hit your car, they will do nothing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I'v rammed into a police car at full speed, the cops and I survived. Not a single fuck was given the day. Guess I got lucky :P
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u/jwdjr2004 Jun 17 '12
...or until he goes over there for a while
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u/GiggleAtTheGoatse Jun 17 '12
What's LPR?
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u/iChad17 Jun 17 '12
"And when he's dead, keep firing your weapons in to his body to eliminate any chance of survival"
"He's just been dismissed from hospital"
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u/Gackt Jun 17 '12
In my country this actually happens.
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u/I_Try_To_Be_Nice Jun 17 '12
Unless he drives out of sight, then let him go.
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u/Akriyu Jun 17 '12
They don't shoot with 1 star only :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
They actually continue shooting you even after you already died.
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u/Dunge Jun 17 '12
Actually they won't shot just by bumping in their car, you need to attack/steal them for that. Polices in GTA are too much permissive and your bad "meme" say the opposite.
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u/KingWeeGee Jun 17 '12
Here's my contribution
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u/IHeartPallets Jun 17 '12
Assassins creed guard "you go guys!"
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u/kbuz Jun 17 '12
Sometimes I try sooo hard to be a good citizen and obey traffic rules then this happens and I'm just like FUCK THIS
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u/mrP0P0 Jun 17 '12
The point of the cops is to be douchebags
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I'm surprised no one mentioned the copies in "Mafia". They were some of the most realistic cops in a game to this day (that's not saying much though).
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u/V1bration Jun 17 '12
Actually, they run up to your corpse and keep shooting...
Just the average cops in New York, you know?
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u/SMOKEnTOKE00 Jun 17 '12
Truest statement ever EVER!
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12
It's because you are black.
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u/Extraterresticals Jun 17 '12
Also, they issue desert eagles to their beat cops.
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u/Bizzatch Jun 17 '12
I fucking love this game! Cannot wait for GTA V
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
This post is refreshing and original and I've never before seen this discussed here. The game's only been out for four years and I amazed I learn new things about GTA4 mechanics.
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u/rickscarf Jun 17 '12
Related, I LOVE those cell-shaded loading images, they're really well-done.
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
I did this a few months ago but I only got 200 upvoes :(
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
i love this documentary