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   Joe
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   Well, I finally finished up the last mission on GTA IV. I actually walked through the mission fairly easy once I got on the motorcycle at a point where I could catch Pegorino.

   And I laid the smackdown on that a-hole for all the trouble his mission caused me by hitting him in the back with an RPG. Made the ending a lot easier as a direct hit with an RPG puts him down real quick.

   It also continues the tradition of a subpar ending for a GTA game. They always seem so anti-climactic. I thought there would be more introspective, maybe even going to Kate's funeral, but no, kill the guy, some banter about Nico's soul and roll credits. It just seems like this was suppose to be a heavy story, but ends rather light.

   Also, why is it that when you were on the boat chasing Dmitri, the f-bomb was in every sentence that Nico dropped. I mean, was that totally necessary. I have been pretty pissed at times in my life, but not to the point of dropping f-bombs every sentenece.

   Overall, a really good game, but nothing that makes me put it above the gold standard for the series, Vice City. That is still my favorite GTA game, and has yet to be challenged. Now, how long till the "exclusive content" goes non-exclusive to the PC and PS3 owners.

   
   
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   Joe
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   One more thing. Still waiting for Packie to call me, upset about his sister dying. You would think he would have rolled with us to kill Pegorino, but he wussed out and made me take Roman instead. That is seriously messed up.

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   Jordan Snyder
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   I halfway agree with the anticlimactic ending, but not because of the reason you stated. I'm okay with the credits rolling right after popping Pegorino. However, it seems like the developers wanted the death of Kate to be way more dramatic than it actually was. When he Pegorino and his baddies capped her, I just shrugged it off. The fact is, they never expanded on the Niko and Kate relationship as much as the Niko and Roman relationship; she was like Niko's ho on the side. I would have been much more upset if Roman had been the victim because he's the one who I was with from the beginning. Plus, it's Grand Theft Auto. There's no way that Rockstar North took that Niko/Kate fling seriously. The gimmick of the game is going around, finding hookers, and killing them for your money back (not that there's anything wrong with that). This rendition of Grand Theft Auto took a turn in the other direction with the storytelling, but they didn't quite nail it. The characters had great voice work and writing, but the actual story left much to be desired.

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   Joe Fourhman
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   You know, I went through the entire game and the only RPGs I ever owned were the few the game gives you as part of a mission.

   JS: Note that if you choose money (rather than revenge on Dmitri), you get a totally different death at the wedding.

   Also, don't confuse the medium with the message. If you went around on hooker-killing sprees, that was YOU, not Niko. That's not the gimmick of the game, that's one of the choices available for you to explore. Nothing in the game's storyline would lead me to believe that Niko is nihilistic and murderous enough to do that. Unless the hooker got in his way, of course.

   
   

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   Joe
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   Yeah, but even Nico admits that he doesn't care about anything or anyone. He might want good, but at the end of the day, he will use all means necessary to get the job done. Does that quantify him as evil? Not necessarily, but he is no saint, and makes no beef about it at any point in the game.

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   Jordan Snyder
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   JS: Note that if you choose money (rather than revenge on Dmitri), you get a totally different death at the wedding.

   That's where Rockstar went wrong with their big "Choose your own fate" decision. I choose one option and Roman dies, or I can choose a different option and Kate dies. However, they exerted little no effort to make me care about Kate, so when I killed Dimitri, the ending was much more anticlimactic than they'd hoped. The game without Kate would be fine (which makes her death so uneventful), but without Roman, Niko's right hand man is gone. The story was leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessors, but it still could use a lot of work.

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