Grand Theft Auto IV

[eDotd]

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Yeah, I found all the pigeons the other day, its more of a pain then it is difficult, but I know exactly what you are saying about the cops always coming after you when you shoot one. Im currently doing the "I'll Take Her..." mission and I have a question for anyone who has passed it....

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How in the hell do you get her to stop screwing with the steering wheel? I dont get how a hired killer cant control a damn woman in the car, hell, punch her in the face and put her to sleep already. Twice I have tried this one and twice she has figured out a way to flip the damn car on the bridge, which ends it for me and there isnt anything I can do about it. This is becoming the most irritating mission so far by a long shot.

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LOL man I feel your pain that mission took me about 6-7 tries I was so pissed. Make sure stay in the middle of the road and not close to the edges and drive very slow. Also, make sure you hit the brakes as soon as you see the car start to turn out of control. After a while Niko will hit her in the head with something (I think he hits her with the gun) and knock her out. Then it's smooth sailing from there. Of course there is probably a much faster way to pass this but this is how I did it.

[Brian_OS]

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"Is there a place that has a list of which songs play on certain radio stations? When do I get weapons?"

1. The manual (WTFM!)
2. When you nut up!

[eDotd]

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so I just got the game and just started it, won't have much time to sit down and it play it until maybe Tues. or Wed. but I have some questions.

Is there a place that has a list of which songs play on certain radio stations?

When do I get weapons?

Is it like other GTAs where the more I run with the character, the more running stamina he accumulates?

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Jacob gives you a pistol during one of the earliest missions. Or you can just kill somebody who has one and take it, preferably a cop.

No you don't gain or lose stamina in this game.

[AuburnAlumni]

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man, i LOVE F****** carmen. "me gusta, me gusta!" lol

who do u guys think sound the best in bed?

Who the hell is Carmen? I have pretty much beaten the game and I've never met a girl named Carmen.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Who the hell is Carmen? I have pretty much beaten the game and I've never met a girl named Carmen.

A girl you can date on LoveMeet or whatever its called on the GTA internet.

[Rawdeal28]

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Who the hell is Carmen? I have pretty much beaten the game and I've never met a girl named Carmen.

A girl you can date on LoveMeet or whatever its called on the GTA internet.

yeah what tendrils said. she goes by he name SOBOHOE.

[Rawdeal28]

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It should be parked on the street in front of the Car Wash in Willis. Willis is in the northern half of the first island (in the district of Dukes, i think). The car wash itself is on a T-intersection within that suburb, but i don't remember the street names.

Once you press Y to hop on, a message reading "This is the vehicle Stevie is after" will appear on the screen (if it doesn't appear, you've stolen the wrong vehicle). You then take the vehicle back into his garage on Bohan (again the waypoint doesn't appear, but it is marked on the map when you pause the game, so you can manually set a waypoint back).

thanks alot man. i appreciate it. i found it finally

[bkfount]

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Yeah, I found all the pigeons the other day, its more of a pain then it is difficult, but I know exactly what you are saying about the cops always coming after you when you shoot one.

It's just damn annoying. I wouldn't even do it if it wasn't for the 100%. I've died more doing this than during the whole single player combined. I'll shoot a bird, then the cops come. Even when there are zero cops around, a pedestrian calls them on their phone. I even call kiki to get her to take the stars away, but now she always says she can't help. **** her then, I get annoyed, and it gets up to 3 stars. By then I figure it's easier to die than shake them. Suicide by cop. Rinse and repeat EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!!

The map online and descriptions are spot on, so finding them is easy. I suppose they wanted to make it somewhat hard or at least annoying. I still have 100 birds to get too.

[The Chef]

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It's just damn annoying. I wouldn't even do it if it wasn't for the 100%. I've died more doing this than during the whole single player combined. I'll shoot a bird, then the cops come. Even when there are zero cops around, a pedestrian calls them on their phone. I even call kiki to get her to take the stars away, but now she always says she can't help. **** her then, I get annoyed, and it gets up to 3 stars. By then I figure it's easier to die than shake them. Suicide by cop. Rinse and repeat EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!!

The map online and descriptions are spot on, so finding them is easy. I suppose they wanted to make it somewhat hard or at least annoying. I still have 100 birds to get too.

Yeah I ran into that a bunch of times, I just tried to do my best to survey the cars around me and then quickly shoot the bird when there were no cops to be seen, it slowed the process down but I didnt have too many problems with the cops. Secondly, I did them in 3 different batches so it was more spread out, so it might have even happened more then I remember, so that helped as well. Now Im working on the cars for Stevie, Ive completed 82/90 missions, 200 pigeons, 16/30 cars for Stevie, 9 out of the 14 random characters are done, won at all activities (ie. bowling, darts, pool) not sure if that QUB3D game counts towards this though so I will probably play that at some point. Killed all 30 of the Most Wanted and 6 stunts completed. It feels like I still have a ton to do but I know once the missions are done then the rest will probably go by quickly.

Almost forgot, I still have to unlock both Dwaynes and Packies special abilities, although I am at 70-75% on both of them right now.

[AuburnAlumni]

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Good God Almighty!

20 MINUTES of credits after you beat the game. I dont think I've ever seen that many people involved with ANYTHING before, movie, video game, whatever.

[Altimus]

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Who the hell is Carmen? I have pretty much beaten the game and I've never met a girl named Carmen.

She has a nice perk. Although it only works 20% of the time or less.

[calcutta]

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Calcutta, does the parking spot look like your normal one with the yellow outline? I was just thinking today that the game needed more parking for your cars because 8 spots just isn't enough. Does it still save your cars at your first safehouse?

Yep, the one in Northwood is in front of a tall apartment complex (possibly Dwayne's or Playboy's...i can't recall exactly where those two lived), and its the usual yellow marking with the words "Resident Parking Only" too. I think i have 2 Inferni parked there, mainly for show

As for the other question, i've never tried parking cars at the Broker apartment since i lost it...it totally slipped my mind lol. So its good to know i've got two more spots (10 total now)...Thanks

Dwayne is definitely depressing, but I like to keep him above 80% so he doesn't bother me.

Dwayne issue...

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I chose to kill Dwayne when given the chance, but in my stats screen, it still show categories for "Dwayne Like" and "Dwayne Respect"...? Both are these are well below 90%, which is worrying me as it leads me to believe i may not be able to get the "Liberty City 5" achievement (keep all living friends "like" level above 90%), despite the fact he's dead.

[Rawdeal28]

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Yep, the one in Northwood is in front of a tall apartment complex (possibly Dwayne's or Playboy's...i can't recall exactly where those two lived), and its the usual yellow marking with the words "Resident Parking Only" too. I think i have 2 Inferni parked there, mainly for show

As for the other question, i've never tried parking cars at the Broker apartment since i lost it...it totally slipped my mind lol. So its good to know i've got two more spots (10 total now)...Thanks




Dwayne issue...

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I chose to kill Dwayne when given the chance, but in my stats screen, it still show categories for "Dwayne Like" and "Dwayne Respect"...? Both are these are well below 90%, which is worrying me as it leads me to believe i may not be able to get the "Liberty City 5" achievement (keep all living friends "like" level above 90%), despite the fact he's dead.

the place u are talking about is playboys spot.....

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i got it after i chose to kill him. **** playboy! lol

[calcutta]

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Wow, this is a deep game when you are trying to do everything, where is everyone sitting in terms of percentage completed so far, and how many hours played? Im currently at 69.83% done, having played for 62:45:47

I'm at 71.16% in just under 53 hours. 88 missions completed i think, so almost finished the story.

Completed the following:
- all 30 of Stevie's vehicle deliveries
- all 10 of Brucie's vehicle deliveries
- all 9 assassination missions
- all 10 Little Jacob package deliveries
- played and won each activity at least once

To do List:
- pigeons (only shot 6 lol)
- Unique jumps (only found 14 and only completed 10)
- Most Wanted list (haven't started)
- Brucie's races (just done 1)
- Random character tasks (found and completed 7)

In the stats screen, under the SCORE menu, it shows "Vigilante" missions or something...what is that referring to? (It's not the Most Wanted list as there is a separate stat for that)...if it's related to 100% completion then i still have to do all the Vigilante stuff too then.

[P2K]

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Why haven't I run into Stevie??


Anyways, so far...my OMFG moments are:

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-Definitely when riding with Roman back to the original safehouse. You here him say "what's going on??" And you see the place on fire!!! Then you go to the taxi service place and that joint is lit up, too!!! The visuals, mixed with the dialogue in the car made that very stunning and imo, very creepy.

- Elizabeta hammering both Manny and the director, splitting their wigs.

- Michelle. 'Nuff said.

- See that camera pic of Roman dead while on your way to rescuing him. Even though it turns out to b fake, even I said "Aw ****!!!"