Finally “won” GTA4 today. Anyway, it’s been a rough ride from the start. In ways I wish I never bought it. Not to say I never want to play it again. But the few videos I’ve seen of GTA4 just wow’d me. How you could fly around in a helicopter. And crash though the windshield of a car and just get right back up.
I guess this was before I saw the world map. I didn’t expect everything to be connected by bridges, and have their own islands, that can only be “unlocked” by doing key missions. IMO the game got boring after that.
How I remember getting across the Algonquin Bridge and getting shot at. I made it all the way to the center of the city before I was killed. Couldn’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to go there. Yet I saw traffic and people over there.
I can only say the trainers I’ve used really helped me. I would’ve never completed it without them. Especially on some of the harry gun fights where I had to kill half a dozen enemies with little to no cover, and react within a moments notice.
The below has endgame spoilers. So don’t read if you haven’t played yet.
At the end, I let Roman live, and killed Dimitri, let Darko live, and killed Pegorini. Still I wonder if I made the right decisions. Helping out the mafia. Having to evade the police.
The ending in ways made no sense. Hell. The entire story made no sense. I tried my best to retrace my steps by using the walkthrough on gta4.net, and see who I killed, spared, and helped. At first I thought Pegorini was pissed, because I (as Niko) killed Dimitri, since he’s one of Dimitri’s men. Yet the same thing happens if you decide to work with Dimitri, except Roman dies and not Kate. So I just don’t know.
Pegorini was supposed to kill me and ends up killing someone I love by accident. I have no idea why there was so much hate. What did I do that pissed him off?
I actually thought the ending was based on some guy coming up to you and threatening to kill your cousin if you don’t kill Kate. Or giving you an option to kill Kate or Roman, much like the option of either killing Dwayne or Playboy X. Even before I got this game I thought this.
Well. What’s done is done. Yet I have the itch to play it again from the start. Even though I haven’t officially reached 100% in the game progress. The story is complete. But I still have to be social with people to keep rising that number.