The old and unwieldy GTA4 thread*

Aparently this started as a "what if" and a guy made some fun stuff for a .nl forum.

Then the internet took over and made him famous and a "loser". He didn´t try to actually fake this for any purpose. It´s all in the minds of those that read the letters.

Of course it could all be wrong and an actually Rockstar letter, this is the web.. nothing is true.

 

Why would you expect higher texture resolution? Whats ever packed on bluray still has to fit within the RAM of the PS3 and the 360 has a smidgen more of RAM to play with.

 

In this case it could be a question of getting the texture to fit on 7GB vs 25GB that made a difference.

 

That's what I was thinking. It's not so much that the 360 couldn't handle the textures as well, it's fitting them on the disc. Space will be a factor with the huge amount of audio in t he game. From all the spoken dialogue, random sounds, pedestrian dialogue and music for the car stereo, space on a 7GB disc could be very limited. Rockstar already complained. The most obvious things to me to save space are texture/audio compression.

I've got a 360, so I hope that's not the case, and it's really just a guess at what differences MIGHT be IF there are any differences at all. But it looks like future titles from Rockstar will probably be multi-disc on the 360

 

IGN Liked it

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p1.html

 

I just wanted to say this ad is brilliant (and the GTA4 advertising I've seen so far seems to be flawlessly executed, starting with the original teaser and its music). No way they could've gone with Bittersweet Symphony! It's springtime, the song has to be upbeat, and it even has an 80s vibe that reminds me of Vice City (not a bad trigger). And I'm not sure they could've shown off the improvement in the visuals and animation, highlight the locations, and summarize GTA's main themes any better in less time.

Funny to see the price shed 40 pounds b/w the short and long versions of the commercial.

 

Wow, no kidding.

 

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/869/869381p5.html

Look like the PS3 version is the version to get!!

 

Why is it that installation to a HDD was always a bad thing until a console could do it?

 

Strange isn't it? Especially considering how many installs you can make while you wait for the single console game install to finish.. hehe!

 

There is abit of a difference between a console HDD install and a PC one

 

First 10 from IGN...for about 10 years. No joke.

 

Yes the PC one is 3-5 times faster to install... ohh /but offtopic!

 

Huh 10 across all categories?

Must be really good then if they are to be believed (lol)!

 

I am counting on you guys to give me your impressions

 

Some opinions about the two versions in a forum



- more poping in the PS3


- framerate and jaggies , horrible in the two consoles

And the game looks very well in the video in HD of IGN, but the mayority of the scenes are dark , and maybe the video has a sharpen filter . But looks better than in the screens

 

IGN video review

 

Why IGN dont retrieve or retired 0.50 in version x360 in graphics (pop up,frame rate problens,less AA etc) as the same way they do it with version ps3 in many multiplatform games?

(if does it happen with ps3 :its 9.50 certainly)

 

its usually Hilary (IGN Xbox team) that does it, too, when he reviews multiplatform games. theres probably a little bias there because of this.

 

Yes, towards PS3.

Hilary doesn't like 360, he has gone off on IGN 360 podcast with long rants about why PS3 is superior.