Worst Time To Release GTA IV

Ross_Mahon

There are loads of people that have exams in the next few weeks, including myself. If i bought GTA i would be afraid i would get addicted and fail my exams! So im going cold turkey for a month! Anyone else have studying to be doing?

slinky2000

basically tough mate

Ross_Mahon

slinky2000 wrote: »

basically tough mate

Its torture! I'll probably end up buying it anyway...

AnonoBoy

Nope. We're grown ups. With jobs.

And we can stay up all night playing it if we want to!

Hhhmmmmm.... now if only I had a copy.

Insanesomeone

Yup, I'm in exactly the same boat. Have the leaving cert to get out of he way, then I'll get it.


Bloody leaving cert...

Ross_Mahon

Insanesomeone wrote: »

Yup, I'm in exactly the same boat. Have the leaving cert to get out of he way, then I'll get it.


Bloody leaving cert...

A lot of my friends have the leaving cert too, and they aren't even allowed play the xbox 360! Then there's a mate that has chemistry exams coming up.

NotorietyH

AnonoBoy wrote: »

And we can stay up all night playing it if we want to!

And we can ruin our appetites by eating biscuits at 5pm without fear of reprisal!

AdMMM

College projects all due in tomorrow. Mountain of work!

Can't. Stop. Playing!

jayteecork

Yeah I'm leaving it out.
I have exams from May 6th to 19th so I'll wait until after.

Ross_Mahon

jayteecork wrote: »

Yeah I'm leaving it out.
I have exams from May 6th to 19th so I'll wait until after.

As much as i love the GTA games, i think its better to just pass the exams then play GTA as much as i want after.

DarkJager

Well there is an "Addiction" title in the stats menu, maybe you could play just a little bit??

NotorietyH

DarkJager wrote: »

Well there is an "Addiction" title in the stats menu, maybe you could play just a little bit??

I tried that with heroin...doesn't work.

papajimsmooth

i had to leave my xbox at a friends house to prevent me from playing this game while exams are on

Creamy Goodness

ahh the joys of doing college work placement.

you still feel like you're in college but you get paid and have your nights free to play GTA

/me ducks incoming objects.

Ross_Mahon

papajimsmooth wrote: »

i had to leave my xbox at a friends house to prevent me from playing this game while exams are on

I bet you are going to break into your friends house to retrieve your xbox some time this week!

genericgoon

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

I bet you are going to break into your friends house to retrieve your xbox some time this week!

Showing how lack of GTA is the cause of crime not the game itself

Mimikyu

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NotorietyH

Solitaryman666 wrote: »

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Ah you'll learn more about life from GTA than you will from a secondary school education. It's a tough world out there.

garbar

the worst thing they did was relesase it on a monday nite sure if be a fri or sat

seamus

I get paid tomorrow. I'm strongly considering going out and buying a 360 with GTA IV. Then I may stay up all night drinking expensive imported beer and eating expensive pizza. Cos that's what you can do when you have a job.

MarkR

I suppose just after the exams are finished, when you are free to lounge about all summer long would be a good time for you?

Stephen

sucks to be you :pac:

MrVestek

seamus wrote: »

I get paid tomorrow. I'm strongly considering going out and buying a 360 with GTA IV. Then I may stay up all night drinking expensive imported beer and eating expensive pizza. Cos that's what you can do when you have a job.

Amen brother! Still though... work is pretty much getting in the way of me being able to actually pick up said pre-order. Tis a double edged sword!

Boots09

Im on placement from college so have money but the only copy of the game i could get is at home in Galway and Im in Leixlip role on Friday!!

thebman

Its a conspiracy to make you fail your exams so you stay immature and remain in the target audience for the game

Clearly! Several newspapers will be running with this story and are interested in your comments, PM me for details

cian1500ww

I have the damn leaving as well but I'm still getting the game. You can't spend all your time studying !!

Ross_Mahon

cian1500ww wrote: »

I have the damn leaving as well but I'm still getting the game. You can't spend all your time studying !!

Failure is not an option...

Ciaran500

Got the game and have exams in two weeks. Was orignially planning not to but I feel I can manage it, I just stopped playing a few minutes ago to study (hence why I'm reading boards)

Holsten

I had it in my hand and didn't buy it.

Same as others, exams in two weeks!

Unearthly

I'm in the middle of exams right now, so annoying

titan18

I'm doing my Leaving aswell this year,but I still bought the game.You have to have fun.Cant be studying all the time

Ross_Mahon

Holsten wrote: »

I had it in my hand and didn't buy it.

Same as others, exams in two weeks!

You got to touch it?? :eek: its like gold now, so hard to get

krudler

It was highly inconsiderate of Rockstar, one of the biggest game developers in the world, with the most popular game franchise in history to arrange a worldwide launch date that conflicted with ....the leaving cert

Ciaran500

krudler wrote: »

It was highly inconsiderate of Rockstar, one of the biggest game developers in the world, with the most popular game franchise in history to arrange a worldwide launch date that conflicted with ....the leaving cert

It conflicts with pretty much every college/school in the world exams.

Holsten

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

You got to touch it?? :eek: its like gold now, so hard to get

LOLWUT?!?!

There are copys everywhere.

cian1500ww

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Failure is not an option...

I know failure isn't an option but why don't you just use the spare time that you have when you're not studying like when you're posting here to play GTA.

Ciaran500

cian1500ww wrote: »

I know failure isn't an option but why don't you just use the spare time that you have when you're not studying like when you're posting here to play GTA.

Cause time spent on boards with books open infront of you is counted as time spent studying, for example I'm sitting hear reading boards with all my maths infront of me happy in the knowledge I've just done an hours study. Turn on a game and you're going too far.

cian1500ww

Lol, studying while on the computer won't help.
Don't worry so much, just do about 2 hours study every day and you'll do grand. When did you start studying because I began last January.

seamus

Ciaran500 wrote: »

It conflicts with pretty much every college/school
in the world exams.

The average age of gamers is now in the late 20's / early 30's. So college.....not so much a concern.

Yakult

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

There are loads of people that have exams in the next few weeks, including myself. If i bought GTA i would be afraid i would get addicted and fail my exams! So im going cold turkey for a month! Anyone else have studying to be doing?

Sucks to be you my friend

shortys94

I bought it, plan on playing this weekend with a friend and then locking it up until next month, or maybe give my xbox to a friend for awhile. Played for 10 minutews there, I can see how it could get addicting.

Ross_Mahon

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Cause time spent on boards with books open infront of you is counted as time spent studying, for example I'm sitting hear reading boards with all my maths infront of me happy in the knowledge I've just done an hours study. Turn on a game and you're going too far.

Yeah, six hours on an xbox only seems like 10 mins...:D