Are you going to get GTA4?

does dot50cal have made a video like he did with DMC4, cause itwas probably the only vid worse it.

 

No, but at least the much better graphics quality (that is the norm when it comes to the PC GTA versions) would further offset my reservations.

 

I'm getting it tonight. For anyone that lives in new york you can get it tonight at 10PM from a comic book store called "bullet proof" in brooklyn.

 

i think maybe the PC is prolly the best version if the popin is as bad as this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Shadowheart/toonw.gif
wont be so bad when youre on foot, but driving, i expect to see a lot of ppl complain about this over the upcoming weeks

 

rez, AA, no pop-in, aka gaming done right but whem you don't have to worry about optical access rates and have 8x+ the memory....

 

All the resolution talk has made me more curious about the game, more so than IGN's perfect 10 score. Damn it, I should have stayed away from B3D this afternoon. >_<

 

You would thought that, but GTA3 ran very poorly on PC, Vice City was better, but still bad. I guess your milage will vary on how much technical issues you put up with for a game. But lousy port is what I'm expecting when it comes to PC. If they do a good job on the port and eliminate all the short coming of the console version, I would bite and get it for the PC. If there is a PC version at all that is.

 

Well folks only a few more hours hopefully the Walmart by my job will have it

 

Yeah, just for technical reasons alone I'd like to have both versions and be able to compare them. Or just watch the PS3 version of the game and see how impressive the game is in terms of art and technology. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of gameplay videos of this game and those really degrade my anticipation and bring me back to a 'do-I-really-need-this?' 'wanted-level'. Here we see Niko shooting up half a dancing bar, and here we see Niko 'stealth kill' a.k.a. slit the neck of an innocent female bystander. Here we see Niko having it with some skanky hoe in a car, and then beating her up and kicking her to death. Here we see Niko doing the same, but now finishing her off by shooting a bullet in her head, and then driving over her with a car. All in all it gives an impression of the game that's not all that favorable. I think it'll be the story that would have to capture me to get through the game if anything. Overall, this game is genuinely depressing to me so far. Still, I will probably give it a shot.

 

Too bad there is no PC version!

Always nice to throw more silicon at a problem though if you got the cash.

 

I swear some people must have broken copies of this game or broken consoles (or more likely they've got dodgy downloaded versions). I've been playing the game for a few days now (not constantly obviously ). I've never seen a tree, or any other item, apear in front of me. In fact I haven't really noticed much pop in at all, at worst some in the distance, but only occasionally.

Maybe I just don't take as much notice as some people, but I'd definitely notice if something apeared right in front of my car..

 

several people elsewhere (and now here, thanks Teasy) have confirmed that nothing of the sort happens in the retail version on 360.

 

Can't discount the former. Some one's PS3 or 360 being damaged, or not optimal, isn't out of the realm of possibility. My launch PS3 has displayed some strange graphical glitches, outside of the norm, akin to an overheated GPU. And my original 360 would choke, hard, on optical load heavy games. Situations like that may result in the problems some are describing. This obviously wouldn't be the norm, of course.

On a side note, if possible, have someone play the game while you watch. This is often the only way I can see (notice) some of the visual flaws (slowdown, tearing, etc) that others point out.

 

Gotta couter the resolution fiasco with something man. Get with the program!

 

Post longer impressions in the other GTA4 thread man

That would be an inconsequential counter. It's better for Sony to take the hit and do better next time, and for gamers to learn to admire graphics "as is".

 

Vice City ran amazingly well on my PC. And relative to the consoles the experience was a MASSIVE improvement. And I've never owned a top of the line PC and got Vice City right when it came out.

If there is a GTA4 for the PC, it'll undoubtedly run much better than the console versions. I just think this time around the console versions look good enough that it won't be worth waiting if you already own a PS3 or 360.

 

I do question why they push things so far sometimes. I've stopped watching a lot of the torture-porn horror movies that are out, because I feel dirty having watched them. GTA skirts that line, but I can avoid doing anything that I find really offensive.

 

The game provides you the freedom to engage in acts like these, but whether you actually do is your decision. I find the fact that the various media outlets seem to think we are all wannabe psychopaths and misogynists insulting. Amazingly enough, I am not eagerly anticipating receiving this game so that I can finally kill me some hookers. And, in fact, the repeated emphasis on the availability of this "gameplay choice" I actually find repugnant. This is the same games media that complains about how politicians and figures like Jack Thompson who "just don't get it" only focus on these aspects of games and yet here they are themselves doing the same thing.

 

Like I said your milage will vary with technical issues. Still Vice City was better compare to PC GTA3 though, which borderline unplayable most of the time.

It'll probably run better and I hope it does, but I doubt it'll run glitch free. To be honest I can't play the 360 version of GTA4, the low frame rate gave me motion sickness. And I doubt the PS3 version fared better in frame rate since 360 was the lead platform.

 

I agree, I played GTA3 very smoothly (better than consoles at time) at 800*600 2xQuincunx and 4xAF vsynced on a Athlon 1200MHz and a Geforce3 ti200. Later I had a Geforce4 ti4200 that ran very good (again noticably better than other versions) with Vice City at 1024*768 2xQuincunx and 4xAF. Not to mention it looked much better.

Even unoptimized it is given it will run better on a high-end PC and if optimized certainly on a low-med PC.


BTW I chose 'I'm hoping for a PC version'.