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Now that I finally have a PC which can handle today's PC games (besides the broken Corsair Force 3 SSD which I'll have to send back for a refund), I thought that checking out Grand Theft Auto IV might be a good idea.

Guess what. I was wrong. Hell, this game has bugs that really piss you off.

Mission:

Follow a drug dealer's car.

Problem:

That "artificial dumbness"-driven idiot kills a biker on the way and get's stuck on the street. Great. Neither ambulance nor police show up and I'm stuck in a mission. The only way to end it is to get too near to the dealer's car so the mission fails and he escapes. Of course, the little dumbass doesn't care for the dead biker and his vehicle on the street anymore and just drives right over it. Too late.

This is just one of many examples how bad the traffic system is.

Another example:

AI drivers wait about 5 seconds when something like a red traffic light is blocking traffic, then they just open a second lane, no matter what's in the way, causing deadly accidents and traffic jams across 8 blocks.

I guess the dumbness of the AI in GTA IV can be measured in "deadly accidents per second".

How am I supposed to finish missions and progress in the games storyline as long as every third mission fails due to horrible glitches and artificial dumbness?

I'm giving up for now. Computer games should be fun. This one is annoying.

I am thinking about pre-ordering a copy of Mass Effect 2. Besides the few annoying bugs that Mass Effect has, it's a really nice game and I had a lot of fun playing it. As Mass Effect 2 continues the story of Mass Effect, it is certainly worth the money.

So what will I get when I pre-order? This is a really interesting question which is easy to answer if you live in the US and order your copy at GameStop. Unfortunately, I'm living in Europe and this is the point were it's getting complicated.

If you order your game at GameStop, you'll get the following bonus items:

1. Terminus Assault Armor
   • Increases sprint speed by 10%
   • All weapons have +1 magazines of reserve ammo
   • Increase shields + 15%
2. Blackstorm Projector
   • Fires a singularity projectile that draws in nearby enemies, and then explosively hurls them away.

If you order your game at Amazon, you'll get the following bonus items:

1. Inferno Armor
   • negotiation bonus 10%
   • all power damage 10%
   • increases storm speed by 10%

Let me summarize this a bit:

People who pre-order at GameStop (which is not that easy if you live outside the US) get the awesome looking, heavily shielded, high tech assault armor and a portable "black hole" launcher.

People who pre-order at Amazon get a "negotiation bonus" so they can better cry for mercy and "increased storm speed" so they can run away faster.

Something is telling me that someone wants us to order our games from GameStop. Unfortunately, I can't.

Thanks Bioware.

Update: I just realized that my Anti Virus software is going to expire soon, so I won't be able to afford any new computer games anyway.

This is a message to all trolls and wannabe tech experts out there who think that "reinstall Windows" and "buy a new computer" is a problem solution:

Please shut up!

I'm going trough 39 pages filled with crap, posted by brain-dead monkey zombies to find a fix for another common problem in Mass Effect that the folks over at Bioware are either unable or not willing to fix.

General protection fault!
History: GMatrix2D::Swap() Address = 0x114de3dc (filename not found)
Address = 0xc62feb3b (filename not found)

It seems that every single person who somehow managed to find the power button on his computer has his own opinion that he has to share with the rest of the world, no matter how incredibly stupid it is.

Do you guys have any idea how annoying it is to read through a post with about 2375 bullet items of things you tried just to find out that the last line is something along the lines of but it didn't help!!!!11 XD lol rofl haxx?

And please keep your works for me posts to yourself or I'll take this as an invitation, come to your place, take your PC and carry it back to me so I can finally play the game.

I would also like to mention that Uninstall your Antivirus. XD lol rofl haxx is a stupid idea, especially when you spent a lot of money for professional Antivirus software and license updates. If the problem is caused by Antivirus software, I expect the software developers to get in contact with each other to find a fix.

If someone who comes across this blog post has any serious and meaningful suggestions to fix the problem described above, although I think that this is just another example of Bioware's poor coding, please don't keep it to yourself and write a comment.

Thanks.