Be Excellent To Each Other

Had a quick go before work. It all seems pretty excellent so far, the cars seem a teensy bit weird to drive but I'm sure I'll get used to them. Not quite played enough to get all the shooting stuff wired into my brain properly yet but it already seems a lot better than GTA IV. I think I'm going to enjoy wasting all the spare time I currently don't have on this.

Amazon preorder has arrived!

I thought 'preorder' was one of your bug-bears?

Hence I have not bought it

Nope. If you order something then it's already available. Preorder is ok, I think.

Prewarn and preplan do my fucking nut, though.

The missus has borrowed my car today (she's been getting cabin fever pretty bad stuck indoors all this time) - but on the sole condition she drives into town and picks me up a copy. I'm nothing if not caring and generous.

Apparently Chop is thirsty and wants a drink but it still won't let me fecking log in. I wonder whether I'll load it up for the first time and get one star and the RSPCA will send the police around my virtual house once when I'm not in, and then the star will disappear.

Uh-oh.

Ah, that's ok then. I did have an internal debate as to whether to post it or not. I wasn't sure how you'd react. Fair play to you.


It's easy to forget downloadable titles, I do it all the time. Yes, P,P is excellent.

I often miss downloadable titles on my spreadsheet... bane of my life that is.

My shoulder is too sore to train to night, I might get this on the way home....

PS3 version is best.

Phew. I was still undecided as I was going to buy it. I only chose PS3 because it seemed more likely to have more of you plebs on there.

TL:Dr but are they major differences? Or are we talking minor "AE Graphics card" differences?

Some dodgy textures seems to be the main thing, the 360 isn't streaming the assets as quick as the PS3 and so the characters are often walking over the low-res versions of the floor etc.

Not sure how that link got in my post. I just meant because you'll be able to shoot me in the face on it.

Annnnnnd get. Game were asking for a full £5 premium over the Asda price; the Asda that is less than two minutes walk away and I was going to anyway to get stuff for dinner. Madness.

My non-preordered copy still came with an Atomic Blimp code, which I guessed would happen but I'm still not unhappy about.

GTAV: Get.

Plus a copy of Resistance 3 for keeps at a cost of five quid. I'm happy now.

Just had another quick go at lunchtime. It's fucking brilliant. Some excellent tunes too, Radio Soulwax and Lee Scratch Perry radio stations.

Fucking spoilers!

*snaps PS3*

Only joking, it's shit really.

Dimrill likes it on Twitter. *snaps disc*

I've just clocked it.

I've just unlocked Hot Chocolate 2.

I'm surprised the Twitter version's any good.

Apparently there are 140 characters to choose from. PS3 and XB360 versions only have 3. Fucking SOLD.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24127999

Man stabbed !!

Heh!
So probably nothing to do with GTA at all.
Best make some sensationalist comment about watches as well!

I may have picked this up for the PS3 on the way home. Didn't expect that to happen.

I'd be a bit more concerned about the framerate still crashing to about 20FPS when things get busy on both versions, not quite as bad as GTAIV, but still pretty bad.

By all accounts they have done a lot of pretty amazing work with the graphics engine on the whole, and whilst I was never expecting them to top 30FPS, I was at least hopeful they'd be able to maintain it pretty much all the time.

When you're down in the low 20s you're talking about some nasty input lag and a pretty choppy experience overall - I'll wait for the next-gen/PC version I think.

GTA Online is going to be so much fun with so many Bezzies!

Just AE and myself waiting for the PC version then?

WTB said he was, but he just exited out of the revolving BEEX door again

I'd loved to have got this on a console, not least because I'd be playing it right now rather than waiting, but I just can't be doing with 20FPS and thereabouts in the year 2013, with input lag that's going to be measured in hundreds of milliseconds.

That's just not a fun way to play a game for me, you only need to watch the gameplay video at Eurogamer to see how much of the time both versions spend on the wrong side of 25FPS and down towards 20FPS.

I put up with it on GTAIV, but I'm not doing it again.

GTA IV was such a horrible port at first I really wouldn't get your hopes up for a long time. Could take them a year to get it right.

I wouldn't buy any of their games on PC on principal anyway. Proudly parp the trumpet for half-baked LA Noire on PC and yet no glorious cowboy hi-jinks Red Dead Redemption? BASTARDS!

It wasn't a horrible port so much as the PC to run it properly simply didn't exist when it was released.

Once quad-core CPUs became the norm and graphics card technology moved on a generation (1GB of RAM was basically your starting point for the graphics card), running the game at lovely pimped out settings became far easier.

Admittedly it did need a fair bit of patching as well though.

This time around though they're already going to have a next-gen console version in the pipeline, and since both the next-gen consoles are essentially PCs in a little box anyway, I'd expect the PC version to be pretty good straight out of the gate.

I hases its!

Too late! Not much in it according to EG though, thankfully.

Mine be installing now too.

The roof of the convertible came down and NWA's Appetite for Destruction came roaring on.

Can I just say: Fucking Brilliant.

I has the sexbox version! The PS3 betterness wasn't enough to overcome my controller angst.

Mini-map is loads better. Loads.

I have played the first couple of missions.

It's quite good so far.

I only have a 360, so that's the version I got.

Malc

360 represent!

I went for PS3 for online hi jinks (I have no Live Gold.)

Jen is getting it for her birthday when we visit her parents so i'll have it by the weekend on 360.

I have it.

It's shit.

I don't even have a console or PC good enough to play it on

Does anyone else have to change outfits after you've saved at a safe house?

Also, no, no problems on the PS3 here.