Who's Excited about Episodes From Liberty City?

[iPetrovic]

More money for Rockstar, because fans will buy both. They will purchase the card and download to get it on release day, and then purchase the disc version for achievements and to collect.

[El Zilcho]

I don't see the point (for me at least) to pay more to get something I will have already downloaded. Sure the box art would be cool, but since I've already got it on my hardrive and can download it again should a problem ever occur, why pay for another copy? Well, that's just me, I can understand the other points as to why you would want the box, but it's not on my alley.

[PaddMadd]

I think the disc is a good idea, not only does it free up space on the HDD, it can most likely be traded in at EB games or GameStop.

I also think it's rather funny that the people that ridiculed the people that thought of the idea of 2 DLC's on disc ae now eating a huge slice of humble pie.

[Bad Obsession]

I bought a hard drive specially for TLAD nad i have a slow internet (took me a day to download) so i dont wanna spend all that time for the new one to download so i'll just buy the discs but i'd never have to use the lost and damned disc

[El Zilcho]

Rockstar are very clever business people (well duh). First of all, they make the innovative story expanding idea of intertwining the main game tightly into the DLCs. Then they sign a huge exclusivity deal, and make two of the episodes. And finally, they sell what most of us will already buy, but in disk form! Clever, clever people.

[JOSEPH X]

Rockstar are very clever business people (well duh). First of all, they make the innovative story expanding idea of intertwining the main game tightly into the DLCs. Then they sign a huge exclusivity deal, and make two of the episodes. And finally, they sell what most of us will already buy, but in disk form! Clever, clever people.

Sick more like, "heehee we can make `em buy it twice"

 

Not me baby, this is a marketplace only for me. I can toggle between multiplayer episodes without changing disks that way

[The Notorious MOB]

I think its part marketting scheme and part actually doing something good for the fans. I have 3 friends that cant get a connection for live and even more that sold GTA IV due to a lack of funds. So for people like them this is great because the get to play both episode for less than the price of an actual full lenght game.

[packardcaribien]

I myself am going to get the The Episodes From Liberty City disc - I don't have Xbox Live.

I have a Question: Tell me, do the vehicles from TLAD (and likely TBOGT) pass over into GTA IV unlike weapons? For example, would you find a Rhapsody in GTA IV traffic after installing TLAD, but playing GTA IV like how you still have the music updates (even though unidentifyable)?

 

zeppelincheetah: Har - I have only 2 saves in GTA IV (excluding autosave) so I'll have 6 spaces left even after I'll have both DLC's finished Twice (One W/ cheats, one W/o).

 

For discussion - as this is likely the end of episodic packs - will we get more, non- episodic packs that just add cars and weapongs and music, ect. ? That might be nice, maybe we could get 2 and have another disc eventually - hold us off until GTA: V

Edited June 30, 2009 by packardcaribien

[ScotchMouth]

I know that not everyone out there has live. So i am very happy that R* will put this out which will in turn reach those consumers.

 

I already download TLAD so i will probably just download TBoGT

[Magic_Al]

 

I myself am going to get the The Episodes From Liberty City disc - I don't have Xbox Live.

I have a Question: Tell me, do the vehicles from TLAD (and likely TBOGT) pass over into GTA IV unlike weapons? For example, would you find a Rhapsody in GTA IV traffic after installing TLAD, but playing GTA IV like how you still have the music updates (even though unidentifyable)?

 

zeppelincheetah: Har - I have only 2 saves in GTA IV (excluding autosave) so I'll have 6 spaces left even after I'll have both DLC's finished Twice (One W/ cheats, one W/o).

 

For discussion - as this is likely the end of episodic packs - will we get more, non- episodic packs that just add cars and weapongs and music, ect. ? That might be nice, maybe we could get 2 and have another disc eventually - hold us off until GTA: V

The experience of having the Episodes on disc could be significantly different than having the downloads. If you do not install either IV or TLAD on the HDD then obviously the music from the episodes would not be added when you play IV because each game is played from separate discs. Being designed to run standalone even if you don't have IV, it's possible the disc-based Episodes do not interact with IV in any way, even if both games are copied to the the HDD. This would mean no Episodes music added to IV, and also the three games' saves would not be listed in the same menu as they are when IV is patched with DLC.

 

The worst-case scenario is that the licensed music in IV does not appear in the standalone Episodes, meaning TLAD and TBOGT could share their specific radio content with each other, but some or all of the songs released with IV last year might not appear in Episodes. This sort of thing has happened before with music licensing, notably the Lionel Richie song "Running With the Night" appeared only in the PS2 version of Vice City and not in the PC or Xbox versions. Rockstar has never released a product exactly like Episodes before, so how the music licensing works is a big question. Legally Episodes would be considered a separate game so unless the original music deal covered it, Rockstar would have to license all of IV's music again, and that would be extraordinarily expensive for a repackaged add-on that can't be expected to sell anything like IV originally.

 

The only way the Episodes user experience could be the same as DLC users' is if the Episodes disc detects a IV installation on the HDD, and patches IV and installs itself on the HDD to end up identically installed as DLC. This would be a second install mode since Episodes is designed to run stand-alone, so it's a big question of whether Rockstar includes this feature or not.

 

I don't see Rockstar releasing further "content packs" because that's the kind of lame DLC they were trying to be better than by doing the two episodes. They could possibly do more episodes if that makes business sense between TBOGT and the next full GTA.

Edited July 1, 2009 by Magic_Al

[The Notorious MOB]

I'm gonna bump this to see if I can generate any more support for the Episodes Disc.

Edited September 13, 2009 by Money Over Bullshit

[shinsta312]

So somebody finally brought this age-old topic back to the top.

[The Notorious MOB]

So somebody finally brought this age-old topic back to the top.

It had to be done man.

[Cilogy]

I'm gonna bump this to see if I can generate any for support for the Episodes Disc.

Congrats it worked.

 

I'm getting EFLC because I only got my Xbox after hearing about it, so I decided to hold off on buying TLAD until Ootober.

[The Notorious MOB]

 

I'm gonna bump this to see if I can generate any for support for the Episodes Disc.

Congrats it worked.

 

I'm getting EFLC because I only got my Xbox after hearing about it, so I decided to hold off on buying TLAD until Ootober.

I think that's a good choice man. That's what I'd do if I hadnt yet played TLAD I think playing the two episodes together for the first time will make the stories even more incredible.

[Insom]

I'm getting it. I want to have all GTA games on disc. It has nice boxart too.

[Cilogy]

I think that's a good choice man. That's what I'd do if I hadnt yet played TLAD I think playing the two episodes together for the first time will make the stories even more incredible.

Yeah that's exactly what I thought too. It'll make me feel like I'm getting a completely new GTA.

[The Notorious MOB]

I'm getting it. I want to have all GTA games on disc. It has nice boxart too.

I'm with you on that. What I'm curious to know though is will there be any advantages or disadvantages for those who get both episodes in one particular format? The only real disadvantage I can think of for those downloading both episodes is the download time.. and of course using up 4 GB on their HD. Maybe they'll include a nice little poster or something with the episodes disc

[Cilogy]

I'm getting it. I want to have all GTA games on disc. It has nice boxart too.

I'm with you on that. What I'm curious to know though is will there be any advantages or disadvantages for those who get both episodes in one particular format? The only real disadvantage I can think of for those downloading both episodes is the download time.. and of course using up 4 GB on their HD. Maybe they'll include a nice little poster or something with the episodes disc

Well, since its a separate game, and since people who have never played GTA IV will be able to buy it, there will probably be a different map, and games that come with maps usually have a poster on the back.

[Insom]

I'm with you on that. What I'm curious to know though is will there be any advantages or disadvantages for those who get both episodes in one particular format? The only real disadvantage I can think of for those downloading both episodes is the download time.. and of course using up 4 GB on their HD. Maybe they'll include a nice little poster or something with the episodes disc

I'm really hoping all the music from IV is in it. It wouldn't be too far fetched to think that they'll only put the new music on the episodes disc.

[The Notorious MOB]

I'm with you on that. What I'm curious to know though is will there be any advantages or disadvantages for those who get both episodes in one particular format? The only real disadvantage I can think of for those downloading both episodes is the download time.. and of course using up 4 GB on their HD. Maybe they'll include a nice little poster or something with the episodes disc 

I'm really hoping all the music from IV is in it. It wouldn't be too far fetched to think that they'll only put the new music on the episodes disc.

Yeah thats a good point. Maybe people who download both episodes will get all the music from TLAD and TBOGT added to the tradio stations whereas people that buy The Episodes disc will only get the New Tracks.

[shinsta312]

 

I'm with you on that. What I'm curious to know though is will there be any advantages or disadvantages for those who get both episodes in one particular format? The only real disadvantage I can think of for those downloading both episodes is the download time.. and of course using up 4 GB on their HD. Maybe they'll include a nice little poster or something with the episodes disc 

I'm really hoping all the music from IV is in it. It wouldn't be too far fetched to think that they'll only put the new music on the episodes disc.

Yeah thats a good point. Maybe people who download both episodes will get all the music from TLAD and TBOGT added to the tradio stations whereas people that buy The Episodes disc will only get the New Tracks.

I seriously doubt that R* won't put the music from IV into "Episodes". We've only got updates for four stations in TLAD, and chances are some of the stations, like Vladivostok, Tuff Gong, and Massive B might not even be updated for TBOGT.

 

And If your theory ends up true, we'll end up with less stations with the remaining ones having less music tracks.

Edited September 14, 2009 by shinsta312

[Capricornus]

I am primarily excited for BOGT, but I will be getting EFLC because I haven't played TLAD. Even though BOGT looks like it's going to make TLAD look like crap, I'll play-through it anyway before I get to the better BOGT.

[The Notorious MOB]

I am primarily excited for BOGT, but I will be getting EFLC because I haven't played TLAD. Even though BOGT looks like it's going to make TLAD look like crap, I'll play-through it anyway before I get to the better BOGT.

I dont know about that.. I have a feeling I'm gonna like TLAD's vibe a lot more than The Ballad's. I wont even hardly use most of the new features so the awesomness that most are anticipating will be lost on me (no pun intended).