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The Official Grand Theft Auto IV thread: The World Is Yours
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bodyofanamerican
Member
plz god.NinjaFridge said:
from my understanding (having not played it) it depends on your preference. If you like sandbox games, you will enjoy it. If you don't care for the structure of sandbox games, you probably won't as very little has changed.BojTrek said:
for me personally on the GTA series, it was always hard to immerse myself in the stories because of the ridiculously low res of the PS2 (and subsequent XBX ports). This looks to completely fix that, so I will finally be able to "get into" the game. I love other sandbox games. Just the visual quality of previous titles in the series made them difficult for me to enjoy.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
Eric WK said:
damn thats nice. hope it looks good.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
dedhead54 said:
Just wondering if the Wal-MArt near me will be diligent enough to actually start selling at midnight. I will make a call or go by there after work today. I have an Amazon.com order coming on the 30th, according to their site. But I am buying a regular edition for a friend of mine's birthday. So I say buy the regular from Wal-Mart at midnight, play until 1 or 2, and then give it to him after my Amazon order shows up.
Opus Angelorum
Member
The Chef said:
Sacked.
It's funny...
I was the one who always said that I wasn't gonna get it, so I'd just watch any video out there without fear of spoilers because it wouldn't matter in the end...
I was never a huge GTA 3D fan - sampled every one of them, but never felt the need to own them because of things that mattered greatly to me like the controls, graphics, etc....
Then I watched Swiftor's perfect-quality stream with zero lag, and I... I was impressed.
They really did fix the aiming, the controls, the graphics may not have been "the best ever" texture-wise, but I'll be damned if that wasn't the best "real" New York City atmosphere I've seen outside of actually being there ages ago period...
Happened to go to my favourite videogame store today, came in right when it was closed, and got the VIP treatment as always, and now...
...here I am, a day early, GTA IV, in my possession...
Damn Rockstar.
And yes BenjaminBirdie, the raised logo on the boxart IS hot.
Gonna be playing strictly multiplayer tonight with a friend who is the true GTA story fan and wants to check it out at his own leisure, and then I'll hit single player myself after he goes offline...
For now, it's eating time...
Funny thing is that the friend who sold it to me (who also like me didn't want to buy it initially) told me he was playing it since Friday when they first got it in - had I had GTA-fever since then, I might have been playing that early as well!
I was the one who always said that I wasn't gonna get it, so I'd just watch any video out there without fear of spoilers because it wouldn't matter in the end...
I was never a huge GTA 3D fan - sampled every one of them, but never felt the need to own them because of things that mattered greatly to me like the controls, graphics, etc....
Then I watched Swiftor's perfect-quality stream with zero lag, and I... I was impressed.
They really did fix the aiming, the controls, the graphics may not have been "the best ever" texture-wise, but I'll be damned if that wasn't the best "real" New York City atmosphere I've seen outside of actually being there ages ago period...
Happened to go to my favourite videogame store today, came in right when it was closed, and got the VIP treatment as always, and now...
...here I am, a day early, GTA IV, in my possession...
Damn Rockstar.
And yes BenjaminBirdie, the raised logo on the boxart IS hot.
Gonna be playing strictly multiplayer tonight with a friend who is the true GTA story fan and wants to check it out at his own leisure, and then I'll hit single player myself after he goes offline...
For now, it's eating time...
Funny thing is that the friend who sold it to me (who also like me didn't want to buy it initially) told me he was playing it since Friday when they first got it in - had I had GTA-fever since then, I might have been playing that early as well!
To be completely honest, I don't think it deserves a 10. It's not perfect in respect to the other games to which it must be critically compared. Regardless of who's rating system you're using, I think it deserves between a 95%-99%.
After watching nothing but justin.tv for the past few days, It really struck me that this game is missing one of the greatest things to happen this
generation:
The Replay or Saved Video Feature
Now, I understand it could never be as intricate and advanced as Halo 3's (Due to file size and network bandwidth constraints), but I think .skate's system would be perfect.
It is unacceptable that this feature is missing. There is not a more appropriate game to put this feature to use. Missing the ability to rewind 30 seconds to replay/record some of the jumps or just random craziness that defines GTA is insulting.
It boggles my mind that R* was capable of including a 16-player free-roam mode, yet couldn't a feature that found in games of its caliber. I think it has to do entirely with time constraints during development and I hope that it could be added in the future, but it won't. I would assume that it would have take a "re-wiring" of the internal code and would be too much effort; however, this has been done before (HLTV).
I hope this is added to SR2, at the very least...
After watching nothing but justin.tv for the past few days, It really struck me that this game is missing one of the greatest things to happen this
console
The Replay or Saved Video Feature
Now, I understand it could never be as intricate and advanced as Halo 3's (Due to file size and network bandwidth constraints), but I think .skate's system would be perfect.
It is unacceptable that this feature is missing. There is not a more appropriate game to put this feature to use. Missing the ability to rewind 30 seconds to replay/record some of the jumps or just random craziness that defines GTA is insulting.
It boggles my mind that R* was capable of including a 16-player free-roam mode, yet couldn't a feature that found in games of its caliber. I think it has to do entirely with time constraints during development and I hope that it could be added in the future, but it won't. I would assume that it would have take a "re-wiring" of the internal code and would be too much effort; however, this has been done before (HLTV).
I hope this is added to SR2, at the very least...
:lol WTF. You typed this:
But when I hit quote your paragraph it gives me this:
Anyway, I don't believe in any way that this is a necessity. It might be something nice from Halo 3, but give me a break. To take away points because it doesn't have record? Please... Get a good capture card for $120 that will wireless encode the video for you from HD from any platform. So then you get to record EVERYTHING
.
However if this shit happens to me 1 time:
Then this game get a fucking 40%.
But when I hit quote your paragraph it gives me this:
:lol :lolderder said:
Anyway, I don't believe in any way that this is a necessity. It might be something nice from Halo 3, but give me a break. To take away points because it doesn't have record? Please... Get a good capture card for $120 that will wireless encode the video for you from HD from any platform. So then you get to record EVERYTHING
. However if this shit happens to me 1 time:
APZonerunner said:They've been working towards this, and in the name of realism there's now scary trees in games too:
Then this game get a fucking 40%.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
derder said:
I don't see why the lack of a replay system should keep the game from scoring a 10. The game is going to deliver on every other conceivable front.
Captain Pants said:
Thus giving it a near perfect score which it wholly deserves.
I wrote this to hopefully get everyone here to realize that Gamespot usually is right when it comes to its grading system.
If you remove all the hype surrounding the second coming of Christ (Wii) and Zelda franchise, you're left with a pretty good game that didn't take advantage of the Wii hardware in anyway, thus earning an 8.8.
I have a feeling that this is going to earn almost a perfect 10, as it uses the hardware to the fullest and isn't like anything we've had before this point. Hopefully they can remove this same hype and give it a score that they could agree with in 2 years, thus earning back their credibility again.
Not a Jellyfish
but I am a sheep
ummm pretty sure they said that was running off hard drive and not disc. so hopefully that won't happen when you pick it up.
GodfatherX
Member
wow i just wondered over to the "comparison thread"
pure entertainment gold lol
anyone currently posting that has the 360 version? oxymoronic?
pure entertainment gold lol
anyone currently posting that has the 360 version? oxymoronic?
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
derder said:
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. It would be a nice feature to have, but when you take into account all the content in the game, I couldn't realistically ask for more.
the problem with your critical analysis is that it disregards one thing. while it may be missing some elements that exist in other games, and is missing a replay save, the sum of its parts that is does have is so far beyond everything else we've had this gen so far that it still merits the 10.derder said:
I think the real problem is that gamers expect reviews to work their way down, not work their way up. The problem with this is that not only will no game ever be perfect under this scale, but every game would end up simply ok at best. To start ripping apart something for everything wrong with it starts missing what's right with it.
I like how reviews generally are. Start at 0.0 and look at what the game does right. If it's enough to take it to a 10, so be it. It doesn't mean the game's perfect, it just means it's good enough for a 10. We need to get this conception out of our mind that the highest score is somehow perfect. It's not, it's simply the highest score on the rating scale.
Again, 10 isn't a perfect score, just the highest score on the scale. If any game deserves the highest score a scale has, it's this. It would be like saying it doesn't deserve 5/5 from gamespy.derder said:
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Himuro said:
There are two piping hot, fresh gifs in the comparison thread of that same tree, same corner, no pop in.
And what, pray tell, is the difference between a fucking 96/100 and a 97/100.
Seriously.
Who really cares what the score is! I'm getting the game because it looks fun. Do you really need more than that? I'm sure I'll have my fair share of complaints come the time I actually get it, but what do I care if some reviewer didn't give it one less point out of a hundred?
Yahoo GTA IV Review - 5 out of 5
http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/109/
PSW UK: Grand Theft Auto IV Review 10/10
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=187818
UGO: Grand Theft Auto 4 Review A+
http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18502&sectionId=44
http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/blog/article/109/
PSW UK: Grand Theft Auto IV Review 10/10
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=187818
UGO: Grand Theft Auto 4 Review A+
http://www.ugo.com/ugo/html/article/?id=18502&sectionId=44
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
BojTrek said:
There is now video evidence that it doesn't happen on the 360 retail copy at least. No news about the PS3 version, but one would imagine it's not a problem there.
GodfatherX
Member
true...but i dont trust review copies either, changes are made after review copies are pressedHimuro said: