GTA4 and Video Hypertransference

When Driver came out (a predecessor to GTA?), it was set in SF... so afer playing I'd be driving up some steep mama hill and possess the desire to drive up the wrong side, sidewalks, etc. also, I panicked when a police cruiser would appear in my line of sight.

I've suffered from Hypertransference as a result of playing GTA3. Driving my car within an hour or so of a large gaming session will have me feeling the impulse to sideswipe other cars, run red lights, and even mow down pedestrians! This is a bad thing. I think there should be warning labels.

Last time I played Grand Theft Auto: Vice City I had the sudden urge to listen to Human League.

"There is a game on PSX called Driver, which was made by Reflections, and it was about an undercover cop who was also named Tanner, only it took place in the '70's. This Tanner dresses A LOT like the Tanner in this game, plus, he's driving an old, '70's looking car in this mission, that looks A LOT like the car he uses in some of the cutscenes in Driver 2.

Asuka describes him as "strangely animated," and "more or less useless
without a car." In Driver 2, when Tanner got out of the car, he looked *strangely animated* when he ran on foot, and the controls were also *more or less useless without a car*. I spent about 30 seconds just trying to press this one switch in a mission, and that caused me to fail it because I ran out of time."

I don't want to tell you what Civ 3 does to me.

i've been hurted many times by extending my ability via hypertransference wrt: thps. when i was younger, this was fueled via watching videos... but you have to aim high right? visualize!

"hey!!!

leeeesten!!!"

(bloody z-targeting and I am BORED with lord jabu-jabu's belly and stupid princess rubato).

Rez makes me want to HACK INTO MY COMPUTER AND LOCK ON TO ALL THE BAD CODE!!!!

The helicopter's a tricky bugger to fly, isn't it? Is it like a real helicopter's controls?

When I left their flat yesterday evening (I had to drive home on my scooter. In the rain. I'm certainly glad it *doesn't* have a handbrake...

More! More! Talk about it more!

The least he coulda done was blamed that "Gone in 60 Seconds" remake. I won't be upset if the morality cops get that piece of shit banned.

Thank you Wisconsin!

i reckon northstar prolly sent those kids out to get some more publicity ;)

Would I like GTAVC? By which I mean - how difficult is it? I dont want to spend 40 squid and then find I'm too malco to play it.

...and also listening to top 80s music at the same time, "you are gold GOLD, always believing you're sooooooo-ooold, you've got the power to KNOW, you're indistructab-uuuuuullllul" etc...

come and have a go on mine before buying it would be my recommendation tom :)

i saw N. on archway station last saturday as they were leaving and he said they were going for a fortnight, so i'd get over there with a jemmy quick sharp.

haven't got to the real actual helicoptor yet, but the ickle remote control one is a booger to steer.

there are many many good things about this game, not least that the main character is voiced by ray liotta and that vice city is cool as a very large can of beans. also with the BIG GUN you can take ppls heads RIGHT OFF and blood comes spurting out of their necks, which is nice.

This is worth 40 quid for the soundtrack alone, I have very often sat parked at my destination waiting for a song to finish. Wave and Wildstyle are obviously the best radio stations, but Espantoso, the latin one, is also brilliant, I might even buy the CD.

Tom, I'm rubbish at games and am not finding this one too hard, though I'm struggling with the radio-controlled helicopter mission - I'm going to see if I can kill everyone in the building before flying the chopper in. Most of the fun is working out how to do something if the obvious way is too tricky.

The story sections are absolutely spot on, your first boss is the Sean Penn lawyer from Carlito's Way and the Burt Reynolds character is ace. I see from the cast list that Dennis Hopper makes an appearance, I can't wait for that one.

Not just a porn producer, but a shameless Spielberg wannabe porn producer! His first line of dialogue at the big party on the Colonel's yacht had me rolling.

Tom - you must get this game. You can quit 'the life' and become an ice-cream salesman. Or a Robbie-Williams style race driver. But you can't swim, so don't try.

You can even become a Batman-like superhero as you stop crims in your secret karate-kid style identity. Or maybe turning into a Patrick Bateman-style psychopath and going on an immaculate chainsaw spree is more your thang? This has it all.

Go on. Buy it.

I find it amusing that a lot of the bloodthirsty Haitian gangsters run around in "RELAX" t-shirts.

I finally beat "Juju Scramble" thanks to a bit of luck, a quick Greenwood and a short layover in the Pay 'n' Spray. I've never felt as relieved and triumphant playing any video game as I several different have playing this.

Oh, and Debbie Harry does a voiceover, too. And it rules. Her character looks really un-Blondie-esque, though.

Seconded, just buy it. Al and Nate are ahead of me, but I've finished the radio-controlled helicopter mission and that was a fist-pumping moment.

You can quit 'the life' [...]

If James Ellroy made videogames...

Me are English writer good!

The whole video hypertransference thing scares me in a kind of "is this making me a bad person kind of way". Replaying a section of hitman or deus ex in an attempt to get the "perfect kill" really can't be helping my character much and after playing something like GTA or State of emergency i'm sometimes left with a slight feeling of disorientation or detatchment, not of mentalist proportions or anything but it's still kind of worrying.

I guess it links to the whole interactivity of video games and how you really are puttin' yrself in the characters shoes along with the fact that in a lot of games you play a "baddie" without any sort of moralisation involved in the game or anything.