[Sylar]

I think Niko is his full name, doubt it will be something longer, from what I have seen on the trailers and all that he will definetly be called Niko.

[MishoM]

Chris, on Dec 7 2007, 10:14 AM, said:

d0gz1lla, on Dec 7 2007, 01:35 PM, said:

Well yes, i am Slovenian. But my father and mother are from Bosnia & part Serbian, so i know the language, can speak, read and write it. Yes i tought it could be Serbian, becouse Serbian use the word "Zdravo" but they dont use word "bracaru" well it is possible, but then again Russia has some words very similar to Slovenian and Serbo-croatian language. They are both ortodox religions, so it could be connection. I think Niko is still Russian, but luckly i understood the words and made an asumption.

Bracaru is in serbian often used as braco or brate. (bracaru could be an word that is used like, for example: Gradnfather - grandpa, to make word more lovely)


well cya around

Thanks for the insight. I understand the languages are similar which is why I asked in the first place, but basically Niko is most likely a Serb (which was my guess once we found he wasn't Russian ) based on the fact that we believe 'Zdravo bracaru' is a Serbian phrase...

hmm... still, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever, it's just nice to know a little more about the protagonist. So maybe he is Serb, well he's probably Serb... but there's still a chance he's not... maybe mixed heritage like yourself and knows a couple of languages and decided to use that one... I digress...

Yep. "Zravo" means "Hello", "bracaru" means "brother". I honestly didn't even notice that he was speaking Serbian until I read that comment! And as d0gz1lla said, the Serbian and the Russian language is extremely similar. The alphabet is only about 5 or so letters different, but the reason I believe Niko is Serbian is because of his last name, "Belic". That is a Serbian name, I'm almost 100% sure of it. Russian names often end in "ov". Where as just about every Serbian name ends with "ic" (pronounced "E-CH").

Red Devil, on Dec 7 2007, 10:32 AM, said:

I think Niko is his full name, doubt it will be something longer, from what I have seen on the trailers and all that he will definetly be called Niko.

"Niko" is basically the Serbian equivalent to "Nick" I believe. The full name is "Nikola", as in the Serbian inventor, "Nikola Tesla".

This post has been edited by MishoM: 07 December 2007 - 10:11 PM

[fire boy]

man this trailer is so awesome. all i need to do now is buy a new next gen console and wait for R* to release the game!! i cant wait!!!

[niko bellend]

anybody have the song in the trailer, i can only seem to find the original, as its meant to be a remix

[rockstarrem]

MrLlamaLlama, on Dec 6 2007, 10:17 PM, said:

It's absolutely fine if you download the video.. if it still does it then, buy a new PC....

Highlight: The 3 fight scenes... "We need to fight these people"

I don't think you understand man, I have a great computer (2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, etc) and the game itself seems like it lags on a 360 for some reason. Watch when people are talking, maybe it's just me I don't know.

[El Patron]

Hi,

I watched this trailer. It's awsome !
But I'd like to know some things.

Roman says to Niko "I told you to be calm, you hotheaded chump".
What does "Hotheaded chump" mean please ?

Thx !

[Harwood Butcher]

Did anyone notice at 52 seconds into the trailer when Niko says "You're being ridiculous", he sort of sounds like Ray Liotta (Tommy Vercetti)? I think he does. I'm not saying Ray Liotta is voicing Niko, because that'd be ridiculous, but I just thought who ever is voicing Niko sounded like Tommy there for a second.

[Spaz The Great]

rockstarrem, on Dec 7 2007, 08:07 PM, said:

MrLlamaLlama, on Dec 6 2007, 10:17 PM, said:

It's absolutely fine if you download the video.. if it still does it then, buy a new PC....

Highlight: The 3 fight scenes... "We need to fight these people"

I don't think you understand man, I have a great computer (2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, etc) and the game itself seems like it lags on a 360 for some reason. Watch when people are talking, maybe it's just me I don't know.

Didn't look laggy to me. Could, y'know, just be the video.

El Patron, on Dec 9 2007, 10:33 AM, said:

Hi,

I watched this trailer. It's awsome !
But I'd like to know some things.

Roman says to Niko "I told you to be calm, you hotheaded chump".
What does "Hotheaded chump" mean please ?

Thx !

Well, around here a "hot head" is usually someone who gets angered easily or a lot. Very temperamental. A chump is a gullible person. Usually lacking common sense. Falls for anything.

[El Patron]

Ok, thank you so much !

[d0gz1lla]

Spaz, actualy, i didnt know his last name, belic?

Well it does end whit IC ( but becouse english aphabeth do not have Č and Š letter, it should end like Belič, mine ends Šabič)

if those letters you see are (!"#$%&/&) tell me and ill find another way to show them to you)

cya around

[K9 Krew]

I love the amount of detail of the boat going over the waves, it looks so awesome.

[rockstarrem]

Spaz The Great, on Dec 9 2007, 12:15 PM, said:

rockstarrem, on Dec 7 2007, 08:07 PM, said:

MrLlamaLlama, on Dec 6 2007, 10:17 PM, said:

It's absolutely fine if you download the video.. if it still does it then, buy a new PC....

Highlight: The 3 fight scenes... "We need to fight these people"

I don't think you understand man, I have a great computer (2 GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, etc) and the game itself seems like it lags on a 360 for some reason. Watch when people are talking, maybe it's just me I don't know.

Didn't look laggy to me. Could, y'know, just be the video.

Nah, I think I'm just seeing shit. I re watched it and it looked fine . Whenever I see shiny shit it looks laggy for some reason.

[Noru]

Well I got to say that was the best one yet but I'm not in a hurry to get this game because as soon as it comes up, it will be sold out within a few hours (Maybe) anyways.

[rockstarrem]

Pre-order it. That's what I did.

[MishoM]

LOL, games are never sold out. There has never been one occasion where I haven't been able to find a game on day-one. I remember everyone going nuts saying I wouldn't be able to find Halo 3 on September 25th anywhere. I walked into Best Buy, and they had at least 50 of the regular, 10 of the super-special, and probably around 50 of the special edition one.

You'll be able to find this game without much effort as well. However, some places do offer things if you pre-order. I remember I pre-ordered San Andreas and got it slightly early (could have been a fuck up on GameStop's part though).

[mark123]

MishoM, on Dec 11 2007, 12:10 AM, said:

You'll be able to find this game without much effort as well. However, some places do offer things if you pre-order. I remember I pre-ordered San Andreas and got it slightly early (could have been a fuck up on GameStop's part though).

yeah i know what you mean, i pre-ordered mine on amazon. and back in the day when it was on october 18th ( for uk) i think anyway.. it was showing expected delivery date as the 17th. so yeah i think you do get it earlier.. or they deliver to make it bang on the delivery date but depending on how speedy/slow the postman is.. ( we have royal mail and they are bloody useless) you might get it before/on/after release date.

oh and another thing, you sometimes get it cheaper. because amazon have like 10% off i saw it at 20% one day but its back to 10% now. ( you get the price that it stated when you ordered it so if it suddenly jumped back to the original price you'd still get the 10% one) where as if you got it in a store you'd be charged like £49.99($100) and the special edition will be like 100($200) or something. im getting mine for £39.95($80). it sucks though cause thats like the same price ($80) as you americans are paying for the special edition. we get ripped off

This post has been edited by mark123: 11 December 2007 - 12:16 PM

[STL67]

mark123, on Dec 11 2007, 12:11 PM, said:

MishoM, on Dec 11 2007, 12:10 AM, said:

You'll be able to find this game without much effort as well. However, some places do offer things if you pre-order. I remember I pre-ordered San Andreas and got it slightly early (could have been a fuck up on GameStop's part though).

yeah i know what you mean, i pre-ordered mine on amazon. and back in the day when it was on october 18th ( for uk) i think anyway.. it was showing expected delivery date as the 17th. so yeah i think you do get it earlier.. or they deliver to make it bang on the delivery date but depending on how speedy/slow the postman is.. ( we have royal mail and they are bloody useless) you might get it before/on/after release date.

oh and another thing, you sometimes get it cheaper. because amazon have like 10% off i saw it at 20% one day but its back to 10% now. ( you get the price that it stated when you ordered it so if it suddenly jumped back to the original price you'd still get the 10% one) where as if you got it in a store you'd be charged like £49.99($100) and the special edition will be like 100($200) or something. im getting mine for £39.95($80). it sucks though cause thats like the same price ($80) as you americans are paying for the special edition. we get ripped off

yea, most places get them like the day or night before and are told not to sell them but they still do
and i find like when i bought halo 3 i had preordered it and the pre order line was moving slower than just regular people lol
also sucks that you guys get ripped off

[ZEI]

Did anyone catch the major bugs in texture in the graffiti skins on all the dumsters? after a carefull analysis i found a 3 seperate occasions were the skins were copied onto other dumpsters. Its small things like this that could catch peoples' eyes'. It would have been better without any special tag textures if R* is just going to copy the skins because when you start seing these patterns on every trash can no matter how fast your going the game starts to look less appealing and unreal. 1st img has the original img. the seccond has two of them next to each other. going back i also discover that that one too had a similar dumpster next to it. by the way the 1st tag says "RENA!" the seccond one doesn't have a good enough to identify full but my guess is "AM[followd by one more letter that appears to be a B in another shot]"