Grand Theft Auto IV

[Village Idiot]

Re: **The Official Grand Theft Auto 4 Thread**

I'm not very far in the game (with work I haven't had a lot of time to play) but I just did a mission with Little Jacob where you have to gun down the drug dealers in the house, following Jacob in and helping him waste the thugs.

The problem is, Little Jacob died during the mission. I expected there to be a text message allowing me to repeat the mission (because I assumed I failed it), but no text message came.

In fact, the game auto-saved and I was given the money for the mission (I did kill the drug dealers).

So Little Jacob is dead. I've tried calling him and all I get is his voice mail.

My question is, to all those further in the game, is Little Jacob supposed to still be alive? Is he key to future storylines? I don't want to have to start over from scratch, but if Little Jacob is imperative down the line, I may have to.

Jacob probably shouldn't be dead. But that leads right into my question. Very early on we get that mission where we can either let the guy go or kill him; it even says "this will have an effect on the game" or something, right? Now I'm actually to a point where I've had to make decisions like that in back-to-back missions. How much of this story is linear? How much is in fact determined by our actions?

[Village Idiot]

Re: **The Official Grand Theft Auto 4 Thread**

Wow, use spoiler tags dude.

Ya know, actually, those are getting on my nerves. I think when you're reading a thread about the game, it's okay to talk about the game. Spoilers should be implicit.

[ExtremeGamer]

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1) Did you accidentally do that thing with your phone that stops all story-related messages and calls?

2) Are you forgetting about a mission that you have to complete before the story can move forward?

None that I know of, I've looked everywhere. Nothing on the map, nothing for me to do. I call Roman and go to do different things, still stuck at 26% on his mission. I'm not far in the game, only 4.8% done I think as I've played online and just screwed around. I checked, my phone is on, Roman called me to play pool. But I haven't done a mission or anything in quite some time. I think the last one I did was the Blood In one.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Weird, it didn't work the first time around after the install but did the 2nd.

Seems like others are having trouble as well as I see on the PS boards. Might be something with the PSN again.

Starting to really, really piss me off and really making me wonder why I even bothered going PS3 on this game. Online never works, everyone is freezing left and right, and the only response from Sony/R* is to delete and turn off everything. Not a good start.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Looks like my copy is officially DEAD. After having to quit about 1-2 hours ago because of constant freezing, to the point where I had to power-off the Xbox without the controller and with the game still in the tray, now the game won't even load past the copyright screen. Xbox revs up like its reading it, displays the copyright screen, and then revs back down and nothing else happens and it freezes completely. Then to throw salt onto the wound, I checked the back of my disc and there's a perfect circle-line smudge, not a scratch, but a smear/smudge all the way around the disc on the same line. WTF.

Very, very disappointing.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Is either console working for this game? Jeez

[Altimus]

Re: **The Official Grand Theft Auto 4 Thread**

Is either console working for this game? Jeez

Looks like whichever way you go it doesn't matter. What the hell.

Also, fair warning to everyone. Use spoiler tags! If not infractions will be given out for not doing so.

[Altimus]

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I don't know what it is with Rockstar. Lack of QA? I remember Bully had many problems as well on the 360. And the fault was that only old 360s did it.

Here it is the fault of old (60GB) PS3s. With no fix yet for the 360.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Did they ever fix Bully?

[Pared]

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I'm lost on what you just wrote... I've had no problems with Bully and no issues with GTA on the PS3... and I have a 60 gig.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Did they ever fix Bully?

No, Bully never did work for me, I returned it. It froze all the time.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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No, Bully never did work for me, I returned it. It froze all the time.

That sucks.

[CaptainZombie]

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No, Bully never did work for me, I returned it. It froze all the time.

I am glad I held off.

[The Chef]

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I don't know what it is with Rockstar. Lack of QA? I remember Bully had many problems as well on the 360. And the fault was that only old 360s did it.

Here it is the fault of old (60GB) PS3s. With no fix yet for the 360.

Well Ive suffered the freezing as well and Im running a 40GB so I dont have the older models and its still happening.

[Altimus]

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I'm lost on what you just wrote... I've had no problems with Bully and no issues with GTA on the PS3... and I have a 60 gig.

I don't have issues with GTA except until now where my save wouldn't load. It loads now so no big deal.

I did have issues with Bully. When Bully had issues Rockstar said it was the fault of older 360s and they were the ones having issues.

As far as the 60gb thing, Rockstar is saying it is an isolated incident mostly dealing with 60Gb versions.