{"id":4977,"date":"2009-10-16T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benie.beniesbuilds.com\/personal\/?p=680"},"modified":"2009-10-16T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T07:08:07","slug":"gta4-completed-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2009\/10\/16\/gta4-completed-my-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA4 completed. My thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally &#8220;won&#8221; GTA4 today. Anyway, it&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen of GTA4 just wow&#8217;d me. How you could fly around in a helicopter. And crash though the windshield of a car and just get right back up.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this was before I saw the world map. I didn&#8217;t expect everything to be connected by bridges, and have their own islands, that can only be &#8220;unlocked&#8221; by doing key missions. IMO the game got boring after that.<br \/>\nHow 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&#8217;t understand why I wasn&#8217;t allowed to go there. Yet I saw traffic and people over there.<\/p>\n<p>I can only say the trainers I&#8217;ve used really helped me. I would&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The below has endgame spoilers. So don&#8217;t read if you haven&#8217;t played yet.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s one of Dimitri&#8217;s men. Yet the same thing happens if you decide to work with Dimitri, except Roman dies and not Kate. So I just don&#8217;t know.<br \/>\nPegorini 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?<\/p>\n<p>I actually thought the ending was based on some guy coming up to you and threatening to kill your cousin if you don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Well. What&#8217;s done is done. Yet I have the itch to play it again from the start. Even though I haven&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally &#8220;won&#8221; GTA4 today. Anyway, it&#8217;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&#8217;ve seen of GTA4 just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2009\/10\/16\/gta4-completed-my-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}