Wast it worth it?? Your opinion

[JAXBOI 904]

20$ OF PURCHASE, ESTIMATED 9 HOURS OF DOWNLOADING, LATE NIGHT, WAS IT WORTH IT?... HELL YEA CANT GET OFF THE GAME FOR VERY LONG.WAT ABOUT YALL?

[}{oT~dEv1L 666]

I downloaded it for about 2 hours. I wrote a news post, watched the five videos released, and came here within that time.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned was very worth it. Felt totally different from GTA IV, it took the 'gang' formula from San Andreas and refined it to be much better than what Saint's Row 2 did. It was short and sweet - short enough to not feel bland, but sweet enough to make me yearn for more. Every single mission as filled with action and had no filler 'tutorial' missions like GTA IV had.

Also, the added music to The Beat 102.7 was a hell lot, and two of the songs there happened to be my favourites (Love Lockdown and Dangerous). Right now, The Beat 102.7 seems to be the biggest radio station! Also, lots of rock music were added, which were all great. It seems like we're returning to the "Vice City style" of rock, which is great.

Plus, the final scenes of the game (final mission and credits) alone are already worth US$20! The Bike Races in single-player and Multiplayer was hell lot of fun, and the "Get Good Wood" achievement was one of the most fun achievements I've ever completed. The rest of the Multiplayer modes are so good, they're worth spending $20 on each! Chopper vs. Chopper, anyone?

And, lastly, of course, 50 Seagulls and side missions which are Vice City standard. And the return of Random Characters from GTA IV! And, also, I got a discount off my purchase and free 1000 Microsoft Points (Microsoft promotion in my country for first 800 downloaders).

Conclusion: The Lost and Damned is worth more than GTA IV itself!

[devil chevelle]

i liked it but as i have been saying i felt the game was rushed. maybe i was looking into it way to much but i thought the storyline would be deeper more detailed and i wanted to get attached to johnny like i did nikko but it wasnt that way with him and johnny would bring up things in the storyline that happened to him before the lost and the damned but thats all it was a mention it didnt go further into those things. i liked all the loose ends it tied up though that was probably one of my best parts i liked all the ray missions (for some reason i really like ray dont know why) the missions were good but i liked how gta 4 kept it some what realistic i think rockstar didnt keep that approach with this one especially the last mission. now all though the stuff i just put up there sounded like i didnt like the game thats not true i really did enjoy it, it just seemed like i was confused during the story line but other then that i liked all the features they added.i love the radio even more im glad they added the doors on liberty rock radio. the gang wars were cool so were the races and the online is awesome my favorite tthing online right now for tlad is the club multiplayer were you go around with the lost and complete jobs.

as for downloading it took me about an hour the only problem i had was trying to find it. so i beat the game didnt watch the credits for the first play through and something in my gut was telling me to but i didnt anyways, wish i would have and i thought overall it was a good experience i ahve the feeling that the second dlc is going to be like the first jumpy storyline wise and thats only because i have the feeling rockstar planned this all from the start so ill cut them some slack but for the next gta i expect not such a jumpy storyline for its dlc, good dlc must get be dumb not to.

[lillb]

wow that sucks that it took so long to download for you guys mine must have taken 20 minutes or so
i went take a shower and came back and it was done

and overall yes i think its worth the 20 bucks
i love it so far

[Ash_735]

Didn't take very long to download, maybe 20 minutes at most, and I'm not rushing through it, so I'm still doing the storyline and I'm enjoying it a lot, I mainly go off and do gang wars, etc which feels soo much more complete now that you're in a biker gang and having a team actually backing you up on jobs.

[lillb]

yea same here Ash I've been doing atleast a few gang wars and races before continuing to the next story mission. Also started stealing bikes and doing jobs for Stubbs which I"m assuming are unlimited missions which i think is great cause its just something to do.
My friends who have not played it yet think its amazing that i've played over 8 hours and haven't completed it yet which I think is a good indication of the value of it. To compare it to another recent DLC, the Fallout 3 Operation Anchorage DLC, although twice the price I feel it is more than twice as worth it. Stretching out the OA campaign as much as i could and i was still done in about 2 days, this i've been going for about 3 days with still plenty to keep me busy. So as far as DLC goes its well worth it.

[Grimmy]

Took me 6 hours to beat the DLC. Ye it was worth it. It had great characters and a cool story. Plus the new multiplayer modes are awesome!

[swallowed]

Definitely worth every penny. Even though I've finished the storyline, I'm still playing it, doing the gang wars and races. Haven't even tried the new multiplayer modes, either. Might play them soon, though.

Only thing I don't like is Air Hockey, it took me so long to win a game of that :P

[The Shy Child.]

Sounds like I am missing out. I want a 360 so badly now. I just don't want it to RROD on me again. I like the sound of having a biker gang follow you around and take care of whoever trys to mess you. Sounds good.

[Patrucci]

Yeah, I'm missing out too. Microsoft and their money. I currently am owning a Playstation 3, in which I have yet to play TLaD, the only friend I had who has an Xbox 360 is no longer a current friend.

So, can you change your clothes in it?

[Ash_735]

Nope, Johnny remains in his Lost uniform through it all, shops are still in the game, you just can not purchase anything from them. Also, I'm hoping in the near future, someone hacks these files and puts them in the original GTA IV for continuity sake, for example, replace the model of Johnny in IV with his DLC one, etc.

[lillb]

yea i noticed while my brother was playing on his GTA IV save game he did the museum piece mission and johnny was wearing completely different clothes than TLAD

[devil chevelle]

Yeah, I'm missing out too. Microsoft and their money. I currently am owning a Playstation 3, in which I have yet to play TLaD, the only friend I had who has an Xbox 360 is no longer a current friend.

So, can you change your clothes in it?

no you cant i looked everywhere for a closet couldent find one so through the whole campaign johnny must stink like hell, i think he even knows it to because right when you dont move him around for like ten seconds he goes straight for his arm pits and starts to smell them and shakes his head cus they stink

[lillb]

lol he's a grimey biker
they don't shower

[leelee862]

Worth every penny. TLAD was reminiscent of the old ps2 era of GTA. The fun had finally been brought back to GTA. The new weapons, new vehicles, new characters, new game modes, new features, new physics, the story - everything about this game was just completely refreshing.

It was also good to see some of the old faces like Niko, Ray and suprisingly, Elizabeta, make a return. She seemed out of place in IV, like she didn't really belong. It was almost as if she'd just been thrown in last minute to fill in a gap. But in TLAD she fitted right into the gritty underground feel of the game. The old game modes worked well in TLAD too.

Johnny is awesome. TLAD is awesome. Better than GTA IV by miles. Bottom line is - If you don't already have this game or are having doubts then I can tell you first hand, as a complete GTA geek, that you have nothing to worry about and that I seriously suggest you pull your finger out of your arse, get yourself online and purchase it.

[alliooprjb]

Am I the only one who Loves Lost and Damned but VERY VERY VERY disappointed that INTEGRITY 2.0 Channel with Lazlow was taken out?. WHY? Please, someone tell me why? It was the best radio channel. Yet they add music to the rap channel. As if bikers listen to rap?


BS

-JayBee

[devil chevelle]

Worth every penny. TLAD was reminiscent of the old ps2 era of GTA. The fun had finally been brought back to GTA.

soooooooo gta 4 wasnt fun??? your like the fifth guy ive heard say that on this site, but frankly im glad 4 went the way it did i got sick of feeling like im killing half a citys population everytime i did a mission. just because you dont kill everything you look at doesent mean a game isnt fun.

[phreak]

Worth every cent. I haven't played it in a couple of days due to a bad disc. but from what I'm played it's some of the best DLC I've ever seen. I enjoy it a lot and wish THIS was the story we'd played instead of Niko's in the full game.

[}{oT~dEv1L 666]

As if bikers listen to rap?

Yea, they do - Malc and DeSean.

[Ash_735]

And Integrity 2.0 hasn't been launched yet at the start of the story, you hear the same reports as Niko does on Weazel News with Lazlow talking about his new station, after a certain mission (I'm sure you can guess), the station is available to listen to.

[leelee862]

soooooooo gta 4 wasnt fun??? your like the fifth guy ive heard say that on this site, but frankly im glad 4 went the way it did i got sick of feeling like im killing half a citys population everytime i did a mission. just because you dont kill everything you look at doesent mean a game isnt fun.

Um, have you even played GTA IV? The majority of the characters get/can get killed off. The criminal underworld gets annihilated by Niko. What are you talking about?

Also, no, GTA IV wasn't very fun at all. And before you go off on a rant, I never said I didn't like IV, because I do. I just don't think it was very fun.

[the_sextein]

I think the DLC is worth $20 for sure. I picked up a 360 to play the DLC mainly but I have also picked up some other games as well. Saint's Row 1 and Gears of War 2.

For me, the DLC brings back that feeling of having a crew to gain respect from and also territory to gain control of which is nice. I like the character model of Jhonny and I think the bike apsect of the game was a great idea to give fans a new direction to dig into. I really like the club hangout and how they added a bunch of things you can do. It's nice to have a TV, Computer, pool, and other things all where you save your game.

Game play was tweaked a little and it kept it fresh. I have not finished it completely yet though.

Things I was disappointed with would be the lack of clothes, grain effect which I fixed by simply turning it off, and the metal music station was a bit of a let down, more on that below.

I still get an odd feeling about some of the events that take place in this game world though. It's almost like the world and the character personalities are all realistic but the things that happen just don't make much sense to me. Like in an early mission for Billy I remember him just shooting a rival gang member point blank right in front of the hangout. That place would have cops all over it in seconds and everyone in the gang would get screwed. It almost seems a bit too extreme that he just kills somebody like that. It's grimy and extremely ruthless but it's unrealistic unless the guy planned on going back to jail right there on the spot. It would make sense if they were making a deal and it went bad in some wherehouse but right in the streat in front of their hangout in the middle of New York? In a more cartoon type world like Vice City things like that don't seem to matter to me but it seems almost out of place in the game world of GTA 4 for some reason. And it almost feels like they are trying to push the envelope too far.

It maybe just me but some of the violence is no longer just sarcastic or over the top. It seems almost disgusting which it should be if you are trying to capture a sense of real violence but I don't believe that is a good idea for a game that has people playing a violent character unless you are trying to make them feel bad for playing your game instead of just having some fictional fun. I remember a large portion of GTA 4 players mentioning that the ending was depressing and that they didn't like the way the game ended. Same thing seems to apply to the game world of GTA 4 at times. I think alot of people didn't like Niko simply because they didn't like killing people playing as a character that has a realistic consciousness in a fictional game world.

Having a shoot out in the streets between two gangs and then everybody jets before the cops get there I can handle. Rob a bank, that's cool but some situations like the one I mentioned above just don't make sense to me. It's unreal and it's not trying to be funny or anything either. It just feels weird to me.

Now about the music I mentioned before. I liked what they added to the rock station but it seems to me that a modern day New York should get a MODERN soundtrack. Its seems like all the metal bands were 80's type stuff. I am sure that Max Cavalera would have been more than happy to promote his new Cavalera Conspiricies album and when I think of modern death metal tunes that people are listening to I think of bands like Blood Bath, Devil Driver, Slipknot, Lamb of God, come to mind. I see big name rap artists but not metal artists. Selputura is huge but max left the band in the early 90's. A modern station should have more modern sounds. I can't believe Rockstar has not added bands like Metallica and Slayer or Static X to a story like this one.

Modern Rock stations still play alot of older rock so I guess I don't expect a newer song from Motley Crew but it seems like they left out the modern sound of rock altogether. Most of it is from the 80's and 90's. They could have went with newer songs from bands like the new released Chinese Democracy from Guns N Roses or possibly Nicci Six's side project. If they don't want to play new bands they could at least play newer tracks from some of the older bands, that is all I am saying. The rock and metal stations sound dated in my opinion.

Overall though the game is certainly worth the price for $20 and I consider all of my complaints to be minor preferences that I personally have a problem with. Since it's not my game meaning I didn't make it I am not going to bash Rockstar because truly they did an amazing job with this DLC as a whole.

[}{oT~dEv1L 666]

I think the DLC is worth $20 for sure. I picked up a 360 to play the DLC mainly but I have also picked up some other games as well. Saint's Row 1 and Gears of War 2.

For me, the DLC brings back that feeling of having a crew to gain respect from and also territory to gain control of which is nice. I like the character model of Jhonny and I think the bike apsect of the game was a great idea to give fans a new direction to dig into. I really like the club hangout and how they added a bunch of things you can do. It's nice to have a TV, Computer, pool, and other things all where you save your game.

Gameplay was tweaked a little and it kept it fresh. I have not finished it compleatly yet though.

Things I was dissapointed with would be the lack of clothes, grain effect which I fixed by simply turning it off, and the metal music station was a bit of a let down, more on that below.

I still get an odd feeling about some of the events that take place in this gameworld though. It's almost like the world and the character personalities are all realistic but the things that happen just don't make much sense to me. Like in an early mission for billy I remember him just shooting a rival gang member point blank right in front of the hangout. That place would have cops all over it in seconds and everyone in the gang would get screwed. It almost seems a bit too extream that he just kills somebody like that. It's grimy and extreamly ruthless but it's unrealistic unless the guy planned on going back to jail right there on the spot. It would make sense if they were making a deal and it went bad in some wherehouse but right in the streat in front of their hangout in the middle of New York? In a more cartoon type world like Vice City things like that don't seem to matter to me but it seems almost out of place in the game world of GTA 4 for some reason. And it almost feels like they are trying to push the envolope too far. It maybe just me but some of the violence is no longer just sarcastic or over the top. It seems almost discusting which it should be if you are trying to capture a sense of real violence but I don't believe that is a good idea for a game that has people playing a violent character unless you are trying to make them feel bad for playing your game instead of just haveing some fictional fun.

Now about the music I mentioned before. I liked what they added to the rock station but it seems to me that a modern day New York should get a MODERN soundtrack. Its seems like all the metal bands were 80's type stuff. I am sure that Max Cavalera would have been more than happy to promote his new Cavalera Conspiricies album and when I think of modern death metal tunes that people are listining to I think of bands like Blood Bath, Devil Driver, Slipknot, Lamb of God, come to mind. I see big name rap artists but not metal artists. Selputura is huge but max left the band in the early 90's. A modern station should have more modern sounds. I can't believe Rockstar has not added bands like Metallica and Slayer or Static X to a story like this one.

Modern Rock stations still play alot of older rock so I guess I don't expect a newer song from Motly Crew but it seems like they left out the modern sound of rock altogether. Most of it is from the 80's and 90's. They could have went with newer songs from bands like the new released Chinese Democracy from Guns N Roses or possibly Nicci Six's side project. If they don't want to play new bands they could at least play newer tracks from some of the older bands, that is all I am saying. The rock and metal stations sound dated in my opinion.

Overall though the game is certainly worth the price for $20.

That's because most Rock and Metal nowadays don't sound as good as the classics! It's more like a nod from R* to us die-hard fans of GTA - a reminiscence of Vice City's V-Rock, though, the way I see it.

As for Rap, they've already used so much in San Andreas and LCS, and Vice City. Plus, Classics already as lots of Classic Rock tracks, it would only make sense to throw some modern hits in there.

[the_sextein]

I don't think so. They included bands like slayer and megadeth, danzig, guns n roses in the past. None of the music on the metal station in GTA 4 is classic metal at all. I don't mind exploring new bands but they don't have any modern figurehead bands that really represent the music scene at all and while they did include some classic rock from bands that were around in the 80's those bands are still making music now so why not play them since most modern rock stations play modern rock. Motley crew has some new songs out. Sepultura has a new singer and if they want something new from max I am sure he would have been cool with it. None of the songs inlcuded on the metal station are classic or new. They are all old obscure bands like Cannable Corpse. At least Cannable Corpse has made a name for itself but it is an old band and they are in no way a classic metal band.

Vice city was a great way to play classics, GTA 4 is a great way to play modern music. If they want a classic rock station in a modern game then that is fine but the bands are neither classic or modern. They are older obscure bands. Now I can see that a biker gang may be in to more obscure metal bands and it's cool but I just feel like they failed to deliver when they could have included an amazing metal soundtrack that would have fit the game perfectly. Instead they went in a differant direction but it's all good. It was nice to hear old school Sepultura though for sure but I was hoping the Lost and Damned was going to be the first video game that had a super strong metal soundtrack as it's main music influence. I was much more impressed with Vice City and San Andrea's when it comes to music. I gotta admit that I never thought I would hear a band like Cannable Corpse on a video game soundtrack. That shit is crazy for sure and the rock station really is solid with bands like Iron Maiden, Motley Crew and Alice Cooper. I just wish a couple of new bands were included that's all. Especially on the metal station. I would love to be knocking people of bikes with baseball bats while hearing "people equal shit" ripping out of the speakers.

[devil chevelle]

Um, have you even played GTA IV? The majority of the characters get/can get killed off. The criminal underworld gets annihilated by Niko. What are you talking about?

Also, no, GTA IV wasn't very fun at all. And before you go off on a rant, I never said I didn't like IV, because I do. I just don't think it was very fun.

so if it wasnt very fun. why do you like it?

also for the metal station topic i thought it was ok im very glad they put sepultura in there, but they put cannibal corpse huh god that band is annoying i cant stand the metal where i feel like the guy is singing and taking a shit at the same time and probably has dark lit candels in there and a satan symbol on the toilet.wow my imagination went wild on that one lol.

[the_sextein]

Here are a few examples of bands that I think would have fit in with the style of the game but would have done a much better job of representing a modern version of the music rather than a 1980's version for the metal station. Since the game does take place in the present. I can't say I am a huge fan of some of them but they are current bands that represent the death metal / heavy metal scene and are pretty popular considering that death metal isn't really popular in itself.

Don't click on these if you don't like curse words or you are at work.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mj1U_3gJHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGnhyWN4Yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJQtdIXoKY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nup-yuJUuLE

[Comeback209]

Here are a few examples of bands that I think would have fit in with the style of the game but would have done a much better job of representing a modern version of the music rather than a 1980's version for the metal station. Since the game does take place in the present. I can't say I am a huge fan of some of them but they are current bands that represent the death metal / heavy metal scene and are pretty popular considering that death metal isn't really popular in itself.

Don't click on these if you don't like curse words or you are at work.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mj1U_3gJHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGnhyWN4Yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXJQtdIXoKY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nup-yuJUuLE

Max being a DJ alone beats all those middle school nu-metal songs. :3

Has anyone noticed that they removed blind melee weapon attacking? it seems like I can no longer run around swinging or just simply melee without having to hold down down the Left Trigger. Also, you can't counter attack with the pool cue. I also wish that hammer was a usable melee weapon. :<

[the_sextein]

True but Max could have had some of his newer stuff on here as well. If the rock station is going to be classical then why can't the metal station be new? I just don't see why a story that takes place in modern times can't have modern songs. I like the music on Max's show I just hoped for music that is more representative of newer bands and a little more my style being a big fan of heavy music and all. Myself, getting older I need to be introduced to some new stuff and I think a game would be the perfect way to do it.

BTW, I think most metal music that is on this soundtrack including Sepultura could be and would be classified as middle school new metal if they came on to the scene now rather than back in the late 80's simply because older metal heads seem to think that anything that comes out without Megadeath style lead solos is nu metal and since teens like it is is just for kids. Well, back in the day when Sepultura came onto the scene it was middle school kids like myself and many other middle school kids who latched on to them and made them as popular as they are now and they were not as flashy on the guitar as their predecessors either. Metal when I was in middle school wasn't looked down on as high school kids music it was looked down on as noise rather than music at all. Now they are old school death metal or whatever name out of the hundred descriptions kids put on them these days, but whatever. The new metal that middle school kids are listening to now which everyone calls nu metal ( lol) should be represented in modern stories at least a little I think.

It's all just metal. I don't understand why we need all of these categories like grind core, emo, nu metal ect.. I think it's cool that bands like Slayer and Cannibal corpse are still being represented and listened to by kids even now but it's sad that the old school metal crowd looks down on every new idea coming out. I think some of the stuff coming out now is really creative with the mixture of electronic technology changing the music a bit. Natural evolution of sound.

[leelee862]

so if it wasnt very fun. why do you like it?

Because I'm a complete GTA geek. I'd still play it even if it was worse than it is now. The reason why I didn't find it very fun was because the missions were bland an repetitive. The main reason I play it is for the story and the characters.

[Ash_735]

I don't know much about Metal, but you do know the Liberty Rock Radio is meant to be a CLASSIC ROCK station so in that sense, it does its job perfectly well, even better in TLAD with some harder hits, so complaining that a classic rock station is playing classic rock music seems rather redundant.

[the_sextein]

Yeah I realize, I'm just saying that bands like crew have newer songs they could use if they felt like making the soundtrack fit the time frame. It's ok to have a classical station though, no problems I just felt the metal station should have went all out modern as a result of that. No biggie though just a disspointment for me personally. Especially since Vice City had some huge metal bands from the 80's and San Andreas had some huge metal bands from the 90's. Kinda dissapointing that GTA 4 which is set in the late 2000's is playing 80's music again and very obscure bands at that.

[Ash_735]

Yes but still, wouldn't it seem odd that a CLASSIC ROCK station just turns around and goes "Oh and here's a song from 2008" it wouldn't really fit in with the rest of the playlist, you know, with it being a CLASSIC ROCK station. And as already stated, The Beat, etc, have modern songs, so it's quite a fair split really, some of us prefer the Classics over modern day crap, given the choice between The Who, The Doors, Aerosmith and Iggy Pop or Modern day "Rock" bands like Fallout Boy, My Chemical Romance and Panic! At The Disco, hell, I'd know what I'd prefer Rockstar to use. Don't forget, it's somewhat realistic, and modern rock station do play that kind of stuff instead whilst Classic Rock stations stick to what they know.

[the_sextein]

Yeah it's cool like I said I know it's a classic rock station I'm am simply saying it could have been a normal rock station like the ones in my area that play both old a new songs or it could have stayed stricly classic and then added some modern metal to the heavy metal station since there is no such thing as a classic death metal radio station. Again I'm cool with them having a classic radio station in a modern themed game I just think they should include modern music to go along with the theme in some form or another. They have not had a problem with it in the past 2 games and I was a tad dissapointed to see them break away from that trend when they finally reached our time that we live in.

[Grimmy]

They had some death Metal on LCHC which was pretty awesome-

[Jamezchidori]

no, because it wont goddamn let me do the last mission

[devil chevelle]

Because I'm a complete GTA geek. I'd still play it even if it was worse than it is now. The reason why I didn't find it very fun was because the missions were bland an repetitive. The main reason I play it is for the story and the characters.

well most gta missions are pretty much the same things go and kill this. the lost and the damned wasnt any diffrent except you played as a biker and now it was way out of the realisim that it had established in gta 4 hopefully the gta franchise doesent start to slip back to the old way of gta's. the older gta's were good but none of my favorite. once gta 4 came out it was the first gta game to be one of my top five favorite games thats how good i found it. the dlc i found good it was just the storyline and some stupid things that happened (kind of like billy shooting the guy in the back and going on a bike with malc and taking out helicopters) but other then that really good. looking forward to playing as luis.

[Ash_735]

I don't see how TLAD is now unrealistic just because Billy shot a guy, everyone made it clear Billy was out of line for what he just did right there. As for "that" mission, The Streetsweeper is a pretty powerful gun and those Helicopters did come down low enough to be in range.