The "Holy Shit, That Was Cool" Thread

[AJ]

I think the grayscale screen you get when you die makes it a lot more gritty than in previous games.

This was both an "oh fuck" and "woah, fuck" moment for me: I pulled my gun out to aim at someone in a car and for some reason some guy on the other side of the street must have took offence to this, cause I just heard this almighty crack of his gunshot and I got blasted straight in the head and dropped instantly.

Normally you get a few warning shots to the body first even from the Police, but being instakilled from a headshot by a pedestrian? Youch.

[Dan]

I agree with the greyscale.

This game appears a lot more serious than the previous GTA's to me.

[apsham]

I think it HAS to be more serious. Since bodies actually act like... well bodies and not cardboard when people get shot/ran over, that just makes it more real from the get go.

[Captain Kirk]

I love how after you shoot your enemies sometimes you'll see them run away holding their injuries. Unlike the usual you have to kill them or they keep shooting back at you.

[therockbox]

'Have a Heart' spoilers, nothing storyline related though

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On the "Have a Heart" mission, I thought it seemed a bit to simple to just be 'take car with bodies to doctor', and it was. I came up to the toll booth on the bridge with a police car behind me, and as I went to break using reverse I backed into the police. Boot springs open, bodies pop out and my wanted level shoots up. Cue me driving around the city with two bodies hanging out the back of my car trying to outrun the police and find somewhere to stop and shut it again.

[JStarr]

During the 20 minutes I've been able to actually mess around online, I played a little freemode and had only one other guy visible. So, we fragged each other around the city for a while, but I got the two best kills.

First, he's on a motorcycle, I'm on foot, and I dash into a construction site. I start climbing the unfinished building, and he chases me, still on the bike. He finally gets to the top, and I'm waiting to pop him with a lovely headshot, which takes him off the speeding bike and plummeting down to the ground three stories below.

Then, I leave the worksite and stumble across a rocket launcher. He's looking around for me, and I happen to find a men's clothing store called Perseus to duck into. He runs right past the store, still not finding me, so he doubles back and stops on the sidewalk...just long enough for me to fire a rocket through the front door of the store and right up his fucking nose.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

Hopefully this'll be vague enough to not need spoilers. I was chasing someone through an alleyway, clubbing their minions, firing off rounds. I chased him to the roof knocked him down with my shotgun, shot him while he was down to finish him off, Niko said the line of dialogue, then Crack-ow! A gunshot goes off somewhere offscreen and everything goes gray. Niko falls as the camera spins around to reveal one of the guy's henchmen at the top of the fire escape.

[Tarheels.]

I just had the explosion at the gas tank happen to me.

God damn it was awesome.

In general car explosions are awesome in this game too. I was doing a police most wanted mission after stealing a cop car and shot the car enough to see the guy jump out of his car on fire and try to run away but got killed by the explosion. It's happened before but this time I just sat and watched, it's all so great.

That and seeing cops civilians through the streets with their guns out and the other guy begins to run away only to be shot at by the cops.

[Evafreak]

I dont think I'll ever get tired of simply tossing grenades around when I'm under fire and watching people fly about

[edcq]

When I went back to the apartment and started watching TV. Kat Williams does a stand up comedy routine. That was top of the line.

[RoyWill Rumble]

I know not many (if any) of you know me (I basically just lurk) but I figured I'd share this.

So, I'm just wandering the beach and decided to fight some homeless guys. I beat them up, pull out my shotgun and swing it around to some fat guy. I realize he has an 'LCPD' jacket on, but figure "Fuck it, I'm on the beach. No one will notice." Well, appartenly someone did notice because within ten seconds I've got three stars on me.

A helicopter pulls up, I get out my sniper rifle and shoot a guy out of the helicopter. He hits the water with a resounding splash. Then, I take out the guy driving the helicopter. I didn't get to see the helicopter crash though, because I got gunned down moments later.

Edited May 2, 2008 by Will Kemp

[Captain Eo]

I know not many (if any) of you know me (I basically just lurk) but I figured I'd share this.

So, I'm just wandering the beach and decided to fight some homeless guys. I beat them up, pull out my shotgun and swing it around to some fat guy. I realize he has an 'LCPD' jacket on, but figure "Fuck it, I'm on the beach. No one will notice." Well, appartenly someone did notice because within ten seconds I've got three stars on me.

A helicopter pulls up, I get out my sniper rifle and shoot a guy out of the helicopter. He hits the water with a resounding splash. Then, I take out the guy driving the helicopter. I didn't get to see the helicopter crash though, because I got gunned down moments later.

Civilians will call the cops as well.

[Clawson]

Yeah it's fucking awesome to snipe the helicopters and watch them go down.

Driving a boat is awesome too, just for the graphics.

[RoyWill Rumble]

Civilians will call the cops as well.

I know.

I just figured I'd killed all the civilians within the surrounding area. Though, I guess a shotgun blast IS pretty loud.

Edit: I just remembered something else. It wasn't a massive explosion or anything else like that, but a "holy shit, that was cool" moment in the sense that Liberty City really lives and breathes no matter what you're doing.

I was just walking down the street when I saw a cop pull a gun. I thought it was on me at first, but then I realized I had no stars and I see some guy in dreads and a white pinstripe suit. The cop's pointing the gun at him and says, "So, where'd you get those stolen credit cards?" and the guy with the dreads says nothing back. The cop threatens to shoot and after a bit of banter, the cop escorts the guy across the street into a waiting cop car. The guy's put in the back seat, the cop gets in the passenger seat and a driver who was waiting all along pulls off.

Edited May 2, 2008 by Will Kemp

[Kaney]

When I went back to the apartment and started watching TV. Kat Williams does a stand up comedy routine. That was top of the line.

Theres a comedy club you can take a date to where he performs on stage, but it's not really all that great. I've never heard of him before, but I assume since he got top billing along side Ricky Gervais that he's a real comedian as well, yeah?

[MalaCloudy Black]

Yes, he is.

[Summers]

Gervais live is kinda cool, despite him being shite.

[Renegade]

I thought Gervais was really funny on the WKTT segment he's on, but I didn't like his stand up act too much.

[buck...]

i love the stand ups, williams is better in my opinion but i like that they do different sets depending on what day it is, at least i think. I went three time and got three different sets.

[tristy]

I was chasing this guy for Brucie in the cop car, I rammed into him twice, and them my car stopped. And wouldn't start back up.

I was so pissed, but now that I think about it, it's pretty cool.