GTA 4: What I Did - Part 2

At this point, I'm pretty focused on completing the core missions of the game and I've come across a really interesting pattern in the game: your character never drinks, smokes week (or cigarettes) or does any drugs, even when asked multiple times by the same person. Also, Niko (your character) always points out the flaws of everyone's plans. He's not disillusioned by schemes or tempted by anything really. He knows he needs money to survive and that's his only weakness. I made that sound sadder than it really is. I have to admit, he didn't really fight staging a gay date in order to make a little cash.

But I've managed to play the game as straight as I could and would have liked. The first opportunity I was given to let a guy go instead of killing him, I did. The game has forced me to kill off everyone else in order to get paid for the jobs I was given by my "friends". And besides the one time I was showing a friend GTA 4, I haven't purposefully gone out and shot civilians or police officers. I run when I can and drive hard. I've been in the hospital quite a few times in order to not kill police. It's the least I can do.

I've played pool and gone bowling with a couple of characters. I also got the high score on the arcade game Cub3d, a really neat falling-block style puzzle game.

I haven't surfed the internet or watched too much television though. Not that the idea of watching hours of tv on a game on my tv or surfing a canned internet eludes me. I'm just really interested to see where story lines branch out to. I feel more emotionally attached to Niko for some reason. An ex-military immigrant who had done some bad things is now trying to make a life in America. He's knows there's not thing as a "fresh start", but he's trying to do what he can. Apparently he's just done worse things than shoot a few guys in the face, because there are no internal issues there!

And I'd probably be a few more hours into the game if friends wouldn't keep inviting me into online Blackhawk helicopter/high speed boat shenanigans and a round or two of jump-the-moped-into-the-helicopter-blades. Seriously. I'm pretty sure that the latter wasn't my idea. Pretty sure.