Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24109176

Supposedly some buggers got hold of it on Saturday.

I'm actually seriously contemplating going to the midnight launch at our local Game for this. I haven't pre-ordered, though. After GTA IV, I didn't initially feel too excited about this one, but the more I've read, the more it seems like the next-gen San Andreas I'd been hoping for.

Queue people remarking about me pleading poverty and wasting money on games, but this will be the third game I've bought all year, so fuck you.

Was... that meant to have a smiley on it?

I assume this passive-aggressive comment was directed at me. It's a big difference between buying a highly-anticipated £40 game and a £650 luxury smartphone, and you know it. But your defensiveness belies the fact it obviously hit a nerve.

Also, four:

The Last of Us
Killzone Mercenary
Papers, Please
Hotline Miami

Good place to meet women, that.

No sign of mine yet. On a car forum I use, some of them are talking about going to a midnight launch if the preordered copy doesn't arrive today which seems excessive to me.

I might go after training tomorrow, although I am not going to be aale to play it for 2 weeks

If i'm still up, I might pop half a mile down the road to Tesco at midnight, but I doubt i'll be arsed.

I should've put a smiley on it - I was just having a joke. No WTB-style hysterics from here. You did rather have me bang to rights in that thread... I just had a sudden cash injection and a momentary lapse of reason (note to self: good name for a slightly bollocks new-age rock album there).

I'd also worryingly forgotten about Hotline Miami and Papers, Please. I'm never sure whether or not to be flattered or worried when someone else knows more about facets of my life than I appear to!

Did you get Papers, Please by the way? That was a terrific little game that was! I've seen around 6 or so of the 19 possible endings to it now.

Silentelk has done this to me a couple of times too... and he's been right.

Eurogamer gives this…

Why not 10? It cost 260 million dollars. Man-hating losers.

Way to spoil the spoiler Markg

Crikey, a 10 from Edge.

You should certainly buy it when it's at it's most expensive even though it's useless to you; that's a sound plan.

In all fairness, I can't see this being £20 in a fortnight.

It's a bit odd, because at the end of the review:

I haven't seen any shops doing it for daft prices as a loss leader either.

True, but if you can't play it for two weeks there's surely close to zero argument for picking it up on launch day?

"And at long last, Rockstar has finally slain one of its most persistent demons, mission checkpointing, ensuring that you never have to do a long, tedious drive six times when you repeatedly fail a mission ever again."

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/09/16/g ... o-v-review

Thank fuck for that. There are also reports of the controls being vaguely responsive, which will be nice.

A stealthy acknowledgement that GTA IV was an 8/10 game at best.

While Eurogamer awarded it 10/10.

A different reviewer at Eurogamer. Maybe different people feel different ways about stuff?

Edge isn't people. It's Art.

Oh yeah, I'm sure there is but I just found it funny that both scores were under the Eurogamer name.

Anyway, regardless of that it was obvious that GTA5 was a 9/10 game and like a lot of other people, I don't really listen to review scores anymore. I tend to rely on the forum or Twitter.

Surely it can't be 10/10. It doesn't have a dubstep gun.

You save at bonfires and shoot people with your heels while windmilling, right?

Worse than GTA IV then. Should still be good though.

Have there been any mentions of annoying people phoning you to see Ricky Sodding Gervais and getting stroppy when you decline?

Not reading one review, Dave?

No confirmation or denial of this in the one I read. (And I'm not going to spend ages reading reviews about a game that I'm only going to pick up at some point down the line)

Initial reports are showing that the 360 and PS3 versions are near enough identical.

I'll probably get it on the 360 I expect, due to the controller.

Not everyone is taken with its charms:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/article ... eople-Suck

However the main complaint seems to be that you play 'bad men'.

If you could play as Badman from GTA IV I would be very happy indeed.

8gig install on 360, btw, according to a poster in asda.

Install one disc, play on the other. Don't install the play disc apparently, as it can cause issues.

Installing the play disc causes popup because the game needs all the streaming bandwidth it can get (it splits bandwidth between HDD and DVD). Workaround: install the second disc to a USB drive instead. Works like a charm, apparently.

Two discs?

How quaint.

Then putting a score on something seems pretty worthless.

I've always thought scores on reviews were a waste of time at best.

Letters are better.

No-one got it today, then?

Anyone downloaded that iFruit app yet? I can't get it to work but that might be because I haven't got GTAV. Still, I wanna look at what it does dammit.

Works for me. Unlock stuff for your dog and pimp your rides.

Why'd I struggle with this shit? I still haven't registered for bloody Dark Souls 2 as it won't facking download when I click the button. Bloody email says I've registered and verified my email. Goddamn, internet'll be the death of us.

GTA5 is the best video game GTA5 has ever been?

Surely it's also the worst. And most ok.

Salford Tesco has hour-long queues, and is full of proper shady-looking people from the flats by the precinct. I'm going to wait and get this later today.

You should have gone to Game in Kidderminster. They've just tweeted a picture of their queue and there's nothing but harmless nerds as far as the eye can see.

Just bought a copy from the Asdas. No hassle and we needed milk anyway.