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Three Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto IV (with Jeremy Peel)

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you can probably get more exciting missions, you know, a little faster or speed that up and and still hit those story beats. I was actually going to say as a something that doesn't hold up well on the flip side, at the end of the game, I find the third act of the story a bit of a mess because it becomes like the mafia, you know, as so many of these things do, it's when all the mafia turns up and then you've got to remember like five families and all their, you know, who hates who and who you're working with. And I just, I just don't really, I couldn't really tell you what happens for like the last, you know, five hours of this game outside of the, you know, the returning to the setup that, you know, Niko is here to find this guy and, you know, all that stuff I understand, but the politics and the inter-family politics of the gangsters, you know, I remember it losing me the first time and this time I was really concentrating

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... but more we're laying the foundation for like Niko and Roman and their relationship and then the first friends he makes and, you know, the first foothold he gets in the city. And so it's you can probably get more exciting missions, you know, a little faster or speed that up and and still hit those story beats. I was actually going to say as a something that doesn't hold up well on the flip side, at the end of the game, I find the third act of the story a bit of a mess because it becomes like the mafia, you know, as so many of these things do, it's when all the mafia turns up and then you've got to remember like five families and all their, you know, who hates who and who you're working with. And I just, I just don't really, I couldn't really tell you what happens for like the last, you know, five hours of this game outside of the, you know, the returning to the setup that, you know, Niko is here to find this guy and, you know, all that stuff I understand, but the politics and the inter-family politics of the gangsters, you know, I remember it losing me the first time and this time I was really concentrating between less than perfect beginning and ending. I might agree with you. What do you think of that, Jeremy? Do you think that's, that's true that in the last act it loses something? I will say that ...

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