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Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



Geop posted:

Still holding out hope for a RDR port which will never happen

this...

Arzachel posted:

I'll get it when someone mods GTA IV vehicle handling in and it goes on sale. The rest of GTA IV was poo poo but the driving physics were amazing and redeemed the whole game for me.

I feel the opposite of this. I mean none of the GTA's ever had that great of physics, but GTA IV made every car control like a cargo tanker.

Jimlit fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jan 21, 2015

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How Rude
Aug 13, 2012


FUCK THIS SHIT
The controls in GTAV are honest to God really good. I never felt like it was the game's fault when I made an absolutely idiotic mistake when driving or shooting. The auto-aim makes the game feel more welcoming to people that aren't hardcore for shooting too, so it's not a very difficult game to get into.

As I said before, I only play online and could give less of a poo poo about the story because I just like playing with my friends online and messing with random pubbies or doing crazy poo poo like driving a piece of poo poo junker up the steep side of the mountain.

It's also fun to get like eight different personal vehicles in your garage and customize them to look and drive however you want.

Gorelab
Dec 26, 2006

Yeah I couldn't stand hwo things handled in GTA IV, everything felt way too hard to maneuver.

msghall1229
Jan 13, 2015

Just Left of Boom!

Fredrik1 posted:

GTA IV multiplayer was amazing, pretty sure I'll get this game to if not just to mess around in it with friends.

The multi player is one of the areas I'm looking forward too. But over all it should be good game.

Ra-amun
Feb 25, 2011

Xander77 posted:

It's 34$ on Nuuvem. Wonder if that's region restricted?

Does Nuuvem have decent downloading speeds? How large is the download for GTA V supposed to be anyways?

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Nuuvem just sends you keys to activate elsewhere i think.

Pirate Jet
May 2, 2010

Ahundredbux posted:

Is the FPS mode good?
Cause it could be cool but it could also be loving dumb

It's okay. Running and driving around the world with it is cool, and you can do some smaller shootouts for it. But bigger action pieces and flying helicopters gets pretty cumbersome and your probably want to switch back to third person for those.

ijii
Mar 17, 2007
I'M APPARENTLY GAY AND MY POSTING SUCKS.
I stopped playing GTAIV because of that stupid cell phone poo poo. Please tell me they toned that crap down.

schmitty9800
Feb 10, 2003

ijii posted:

I stopped playing GTAIV because of that stupid cell phone poo poo. Please tell me they toned that crap down.

It's still present but definitely not as annoying.

I played it on 360 a while ago....if you think you're going to probably like the game, get it. Cool areas, good story, doesn't really do anything new, but fun.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Xander77 posted:

Serious question - is it actually good? Because I'm hearing people going "the developers learned all the wrong lessons from GTAIV and absolutely nothing from Saints Row", and I'm not sure how much of that is just popularity backlash.

Edit - I'm certainly not preordering this. Don't preorder games, peoples. It's bad for you, and bad for the industry.

The problem with GTA games is that the MTV style 'edgy' tone works with comedy but doesn't work with drama, and they keep trying to do drama. IMO Saints Row is too over the top, the gold standard for these games is San Andreas. GTA 5 is better with it than 4 but it still tries for serious and it's terrible

Like the funny parts of GTA are really funny, but when it tries to be serious it's as douchey as douchey gets. They should have more stuff like Big Smoke and CJ chasing a train full of Mexican cartel goons on a bicycle and less stuff like the torture scene in 5 or the philosophizing

SolidSnakesBandana
Jul 1, 2007

Infinite ammo
There are people that legit believe that GTA4 is a bad game. Those people are loving insane.

ijii
Mar 17, 2007
I'M APPARENTLY GAY AND MY POSTING SUCKS.
So I decided to reinstall GTAIV and try to beat the game before GTAV is released, boy was that a waste of time.

Games Live for Windows still manages to loving suck rear end. Since I haven't logged in forever, I got hit up with suspicious activity, and had to spend time getting that taken care of. Once I did, I started up GTAIV, remapped controls, and then START game. Now I'm getting hit up with a connection error, what the gently caress. Solution according to google is to reinstall GFWL, so that's what I did. Restarted the game, logged into GFWL through GTAIV and... I have to restart game so GFWL live can do an update, gently caress. Ok, one more time I started GTAIV and logged into GFWL, oh by the way, I use keypass and GTAIV doesn't allow copy/paste so I had to alt-tab out each time to key in 3 characters at a time of my password each time I logged into GFWL. Finally I get it going and get into Nico's cousin's car and... nothing. The keyboard keys I remapped didn't work, so I did everything again. Escaped out of settings and tried driving again, nothing... One last time I remapped keys, couldn't see any type of way to save my settings, but escaped back into the game and... nothing.

gently caress this poo poo, makes me not want to play GTAV.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
Hey once you get past all that at least you've got bowling with your cousin to look forward to.

Cream-of-Plenty
Apr 21, 2010

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."
The best thing about GTA IV was that I could just "plug in" and zone out. I'd be crouch-walking around the park or between buildings or whatever--you know, doin what I do--and then a friend would call me up and ask to go bowling/drinking/darting/whatever. It's moments like those when you realize that you'd hurt a lot of people if you suddenly decided to kill yourself.

redwalrus
Jul 27, 2013

:stoke:
Totally getting this and can't wait for mods and online and everything.

K8.0
Feb 26, 2004

Her Majesty's 56th Regiment of Foot

Jimlit posted:

none of the GTA's ever had that great of physics

What games would you say are better? Most of the genre has absolutely awful car mechanics. Only Sleeping Dogs and SR2 managed to have cars that were fun, but they're still not quite as good as the 3-era GTAs. GTA IV's "supercars drive like something out of the 1930s" car mechanics are awful, but there's still more fun there than the rest of the genre outside of those games.

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

There are people that legit believe that GTA4 is a bad game. Those people are loving insane.

It's not a bad game, but it is a terrible GTA. It's a huge step backward from the games that preceded it in most major areas, and the niceties of the pedestrian physics and vehicle damage don't make up for the lovely... everything else. Rockstar is capable of so much better, but they keep wanting to be original when their strengths are all in being derivative.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
GTAIV kept promising big American tittays and disappointed sorely. If they spent as much time on the tittays that they did on the city it would have justified all the GOTY awards.

SolidSnakesBandana
Jul 1, 2007

Infinite ammo
I guess GTA4 is a love it or hate it thing. I fuckin loved it, thought it was a great AAA game. I actually liked the car physics a lot. I wasn't a big fan of the cell phone side missions but I still thought they were fun. It's really weird to me to see people talk about how it sucks. The engine is just really solid. You can fire it up and just start shooting a couple cops in the face and see if you can get away on foot. The missions weren't anything special but the DLC made up for that.

Fewd
Mar 22, 2007

#vmp #opsec #kolmiloikka #happoo

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

There are people that legit believe that GTA4 is a bad game. Those people are loving insane.

GTA4 itself isn't a bad game, it's just that...

ijii posted:

Games Live for Windows still manages to loving suck rear end. Since I haven't logged in forever, I got hit up with suspicious activity, and had to spend time getting that taken care of. Once I did, I started up GTAIV, remapped controls, and then START game. Now I'm getting hit up with a connection error, what the gently caress. Solution according to google is to reinstall GFWL, so that's what I did. Restarted the game, logged into GFWL through GTAIV and... I have to restart game so GFWL live can do an update, gently caress. Ok, one more time I started GTAIV and logged into GFWL, oh by the way, I use keypass and GTAIV doesn't allow copy/paste so I had to alt-tab out each time to key in 3 characters at a time of my password each time I logged into GFWL. Finally I get it going and get into Nico's cousin's car and... nothing. The keyboard keys I remapped didn't work, so I did everything again. Escaped out of settings and tried driving again, nothing... One last time I remapped keys, couldn't see any type of way to save my settings, but escaped back into the game and... nothing.

...it's hiding deep behind a massive wall of bullshit. Rockstar has always been completely retarded when it comes to DRM.

msghall1229
Jan 13, 2015

Just Left of Boom!

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

There are people that legit believe that GTA4 is a bad game. Those people are loving insane.

I just got a copy of 4 so I'm looking forward to kill poo poo.

FreelanceSocialist
Nov 19, 2002
At least they ditched that garbage in 5. Looks like retail CDs will use Social Club and Steam will use... Steam.

edit: Actually I think Social Club is used for both retail and digital copies.

beer_war
Mar 10, 2005

I took a week off when V came out on PS3, 100%ed it and don't regret a single second; so yeah, I'll probably get it on PC as well - provided R* doesn't gently caress up the port like they did with IV.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
yea im getting it, op

virtualboyCOLOR
Dec 22, 2004

Xander77 posted:

It's 34$ on Nuuvem. Wonder if that's region restricted?

$34 for literal garbage

metallicaeg
Nov 28, 2005

Evil Red Wings Owner Wario Lemieux Steals Stanley Cup
Played it a bunch on the 360, and after I got this computer put together and heard about a PC port I didn't re-up the Live service for that one game.

I'm just about spot on for the recommended requirements, which I hope is a good experience at 1920x1080

Orv
May 4, 2011

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

There are people that legit believe that GTA4 is a bad game. Those people are loving insane.

It is. The story is trash, the cars handle like greased icebergs and the characters are less likeable than VD. Not in the love-to-hate way of V either.

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

How Rude posted:

The controls in GTAV are honest to God really good. I never felt like it was the game's fault when I made an absolutely idiotic mistake when driving or shooting. The auto-aim makes the game feel more welcoming to people that aren't hardcore for shooting too, so it's not a very difficult game to get into.

This is lies, your character still moves like a tricycle and will jump to their death if you try to take a ladder down onto a small platform. And you will get stuck to the wrong side of cover a lot. Also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vxRi-ukq4
I have a great time in gta online but controls have always been rockstar's weak point.

Rhymenoserous
May 23, 2008
Honestly the game is worth buying just to switch to trevor every hour or so and see what completely loving ridiculous situation he is in at the moment.

Pirate Jet
May 2, 2010

icantfindaname posted:

The problem with GTA games is that the MTV style 'edgy' tone works with comedy but doesn't work with drama, and they keep trying to do drama. IMO Saints Row is too over the top, the gold standard for these games is San Andreas. GTA 5 is better with it than 4 but it still tries for serious and it's terrible

I can think of like zero situations where GTAV goes for serious (unless you count "trying to be badass") aside from the conflict between Michael and Trevor and Michael selling out the rest of his gang and lying to Trevor about it and even then it's an interesting conflict, albeit with an unsatisfying conclusion.

Heran Bago
Aug 18, 2006



Low effort OP. I think you missed the Imp Zone.

I'm not getting it but I really want them to solve the goddamn UFO and Jetpack mystery.

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tastychicken
Jul 17, 2007
Title text goes here
I'm not even surprised anymore.
GTA5EVER

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