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Lifer
- Oct 19, 2000
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If it's like GTA3 or Vice City, don't expect a port to the PC until atleast next summer. And if I were a betting man, I'd say that if there even is a port of San Andreas to another console like XBOX, that console would have a 2 on the end of it before you saw it.Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: screw3d
^^^
Damnit release the PC version already!:frown:
I heard a rumor (take it with a grain of salt), that no other port, including the PC version is about a year off. I dont know how much truth there is to that, though.
I'm sure M$ would pay Rockstar tons of money to update the graphics and throw it up as a Xenon launch title. If they got the double pack brought to the XBOX, I see why it couldn't happen again.$50 says its here in April/May. If I ain't mistaken GTA3 and Vice City was both released around this time after they was released on PS2. So chances are expect it in 6-8 months.
I sure have!!! And drag's girlfriend loved it and was happy I didn't break down in hysterical sobs after busting a nut.
(OK, just kidding......drag doesn't have a girlfriend.)
The fundamental problem I had with drag was his snotty attitude and sheer pride at his thievery. There was no reason at all for him to post what he did other than for him to get is faux rebel rocks off. (You could almost see the Hot Topic "punk" clothes he was wearing.) You don't know if I've paid for all the software on my computer or whether I drove the speed limit today because I don't go online to brag about what laws I don't consider valid upon my selfish desires.
Those who pointed out the costs of porting games from platform to platform are spot on because if everyone just steals what's easiest to swipe - usually PC games, cuz modded HW isn't needed - then it's likely that developers and publishers will stop porting games in the future because all they'll be doing is wasting time and money for the drags of the world. Why bother?
Of course, it's a fools errand to discuss with macho twerps - why do I know this guy is only 5'6" or shorter? All the big "shoot them in the head" talk is a hint - especially when they think is logical discourse
Yeah, right. What if the roads were different widths and you needed a right-hand drive car for Cali? These are just academic arguments, but it doesn't change the central point: Though you can do what you want, you can't claim it's RIGHT just because it suits your purpose.
I can always tell when someone has no creative ability of their own cuz they openly show contempt, heck, they're PROUD of the contempt they have for those they rely on to provide them with their entertainment. Games, music, movies, whatever they want, they're entitled to it for free because....well, just because!!!
Bottom line: If you're gonna be a thief, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF and stop expecting an approving pat on your pointy head when you brag about what a Jeff K. you are.
Nuff said!
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Lifer
- Oct 19, 2000
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Back quickly to the game, I played a little more tonight. Some more observations:
- You can use the spray paint can to spray paint into someone's eyes, and it's a great tactic to get away.
- The targeting still SUCKS!
- The view behind while driving a car is too low, no matter which camera angle you choose. You can raise the camera up with the left analog stick while driving, but it doesn't stay, just works it's way back down after a second.
- Convertible cars do not automatically put their top on when it rains. I think in Vice City it worked right, but I could be wrong.
- Prostitutes WILL NOT get in your car with a low sex appeal rating! Trust me, I've tried.
- Girls on the beach will also makes cracks at your haircut or clothing if your sex appeal is low.
- Doing doughnuts in the sand is fun.
- Doing burnouts in the street, then letting go and pinning a guy on a bicycle up against a wall is fun.
- If you blow up a car, wait for the fire truck.
- Sometimes, if you block people in the road, they'll get out with a bat to try and get you out of the way.
- You can run over a ton of people now and not get a star.
- A 2 star rating is now no worse than a 1 star rating in any game of the series. It's pointless.
- Driving through the country side is awesome, and a very welcome change of scenery for the series.
- If you drive slow down the street and honk your horn, people walking by will stop and wave.
- When jacking a car, now CJ will punch them in the head first, then jerk them out.
And the worst thing so far in the game? The radar SUCKS. I can't seem to make out anything, and I never had a problem with it in previous GTA games.
- You can use the spray paint can to spray paint into someone's eyes, and it's a great tactic to get away.
- The targeting still SUCKS!
- The view behind while driving a car is too low, no matter which camera angle you choose. You can raise the camera up with the left analog stick while driving, but it doesn't stay, just works it's way back down after a second.
- Convertible cars do not automatically put their top on when it rains. I think in Vice City it worked right, but I could be wrong.
- Prostitutes WILL NOT get in your car with a low sex appeal rating! Trust me, I've tried
.- Girls on the beach will also makes cracks at your haircut or clothing if your sex appeal is low
.- Doing doughnuts in the sand is fun.
- Doing burnouts in the street, then letting go and pinning a guy on a bicycle up against a wall is fun.
- If you blow up a car, wait for the fire truck
.- Sometimes, if you block people in the road, they'll get out with a bat to try and get you out of the way
.- You can run over a ton of people now and not get a star.
- A 2 star rating is now no worse than a 1 star rating in any game of the series. It's pointless.
- Driving through the country side is awesome, and a very welcome change of scenery for the series.
- If you drive slow down the street and honk your horn, people walking by will stop and wave.
- When jacking a car, now CJ will punch them in the head first, then jerk them out.
And the worst thing so far in the game? The radar SUCKS. I can't seem to make out anything, and I never had a problem with it in previous GTA games.
- Jan 12, 2004
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Originally posted by: blurredvision
Back quickly to the game, I played a little more tonight. Some more observations:
- You can use the spray paint can to spray paint into someone's eyes, and it's a great tactic to get away.
- The targeting still SUCKS!
- The view behind while driving a car is too low, no matter which camera angle you choose. You can raise the camera up with the left analog stick while driving, but it doesn't stay, just works it's way back down after a second.
- Convertible cars do not automatically put their top on when it rains. I think in Vice City it worked right, but I could be wrong.
- Prostitutes WILL NOT get in your car with a low sex appeal rating! Trust me, I've tried
- Girls on the beach will also makes cracks at your haircut or clothing if your sex appeal is low
- Doing doughnuts in the sand is fun.
- Doing burnouts in the street, then letting go and pinning a guy on a bicycle up against a wall is fun.
- If you blow up a car, wait for the fire truck
- Sometimes, if you block people in the road, they'll get out with a bat to try and get you out of the way
- You can run over a ton of people now and not get a star.
- A 2 star rating is now no worse than a 1 star rating in any game of the series. It's pointless.
- Driving through the country side is awesome, and a very welcome change of scenery for the series.
- If you drive slow down the street and honk your horn, people walking by will stop and wave.
- When jacking a car, now CJ will punch them in the head first, then jerk them out.
And the worst thing so far in the game? The radar SUCKS. I can't seem to make out anything, and I never had a problem with it in previous GTA games.
two things:
- Agreed on the radar. I cannot tell a F-thing, its too blurry!
- With the targeting, I thought it was much improved (I forgot to mention this in my last post) from the previous versions. In the old versions, you could z-target someone and shoot, but cycleing through the guys (it would include the dead bodies as well, which was a pain). They fixed that, now it just targets the people who're alive *and* who's the biggest threat. You can now tell their health b/via the redical which will change color to reflect it (green = healthy, yellow = wounded, red = almost dead).
Word. Dig the soundtrack details - I can't wait to convert these to MP3s to listen to on my iPod like I did with Vice City's stations.
Just getting into this game after getting it tonight. The soundtrack absolutely rules in this game. I can't believe the amount of great music in this game. Something for everyone too, no matter what you like, you WILL find a station you enjoy.
What are you guys? A bunch of morons or something? Did you not actually read what I said, or do you just see what you want to see and automaticly think everybody is trying to be a poser?
People who look forward to violence or think that its cool to be a bad-ass are usually jack-offs. That's one of the reasons that I think things like gansta rap music is so pathetic (edit: Well most.
Eazy-E rocks.). i've met and been around people who are geniunely dangerous and like hurting people because they are usually meaner and bigger then other people. They scare me, and I didn't like running into them, but it was something that happens when you hung around people like I ran around with. It's a side effect. I've learned my lessons and moved on and try to be a upstanding and polite person in society. Moved on and grew up. If somebody were to break into my house I would take steps to stop them. Not because I wouldn't be scared, but because I AM scared. I don't like being vunerable and it takes the police a good 20 minutes to respond effectively to anything that happens, including a breakin. So I take steps to protect myself, as should everybody else here. It's just one of those facts of life.
Sorry, but I get excited sometimes and forget that most people don't talk about crap like this.
Personally I don't give a crap about what people think about me, I have nothing to prove to anybody. Especially to a bunch of anonymous strangers on the internet.
The only thing I wanted to point out was how ludicrious it is to compare somebody stealing a car to me downloading a game I already own. So get off of it already.
If I am wrong, i am wrong. It doesn't mean that it gives you liscence to act like a jack-@ss. Just forget I said anything and talk about the video game. That is what this thread is about,
It rocks and I am planning on buying it, just like I've bought every other GTA video game. AND the Redhand Revolver, and Manhunter. (not as fun as GTA though.)
edit:
Actually I just bought it. Ran down to Walmart(only place that's open), $53.37 with taxes. Good stuff. Can't wait to get home. of course that's not until 4 hours from now.
drag made some very good points and only one person bothered to actually address them instead of spouting mindless rhetorical bullshít or making personal attacks. You may have taken the moral highground but you lost that one convincingly, DefRef et al
Originally posted by: Allio
drag made some very good points and only one person bothered to actually address them instead of spouting mindless rhetorical bullshít or making personal attacks. You may have taken the moral highground but you lost that one convincingly, DefRef et al
I think... you talking about I lost the justification for the warez thing. Which I did, stnicralisk pm'd me and convinced me that I was wrong.
I was coming from the idea that when you buy the game your purchasing the actual gaming content, and not so much the software itself.
I am used to dealing with open source software stuff and with that the software is generally free, but you pay for other stuff in order to finance the developement of the software. Like Redhat for instance, you don't buy the programs when you by the OS you enter into a one year service contract were they'll support you in online-forums and phone calls for no extra charge for up to a year. (depending on what level you buy the OS)
Other game makers do it like that. For instance Id software, you could always go to ftp.idsoftware.com and download the game engine itself for free of charge. For instance I bought the Doom3 game at a store, but went to ftp.idsoftware.com and downloaded the linux version of the the game in the form of a executable compressed file they call a pointrelease. Once I installed that then I copied the game packs over and played it.
Also you can go there and download the source code for various doom games such as wolf, quake1/2/3, doom (not doom3 yet. Id generally only releases source code after the commercial interest in the game engine is gone) and others. For the older games you can even get the code under the GPL liscence (liscence that linux kernel uses) which allows even commercial use without paying Id a dime. But the artistic game content is still only obtainable thru retail channels legally.
So that's what I was thinking, but I was wrong because it's a good chance that Rockstar games considures the game as a complete package, and I have to respect their wishes if that's the case.
So I'll warez it, but I'll ask their permission first. If I get no reply or a negative reply (which I assume i'll get, but I think the response may be interesting) then I won't do it.
And hell, it may get them thinking. It would be great if game makers would sell you the game for Xbox or PS2, but for a slight extra charge allow you to get the same game for a different platform over the internet.
edit:
Oh and DefRef, I think Hot Topic is for retards, and slavish fasion as a substitute for real personality in general is for lemmings. I have nothing to prove for my "macho-ness", and don't pretend to be rambo or anything. Plus I am 6' 2" and do, on occasion, actually get laid. So bite me.
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Lifer
- Oct 19, 2000
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Well, I hate to join the arguement, but I believe it all started over drag saying he would buy the PS2 version, but pirate the PC version? If that's right, who cares? I see his point, he gave Rockstar his money already, so let him pirate the PC version. No sense in him paying twice for techincally the same game just because he prefers better graphics and such. He's just upgrading down the road. BUT, you are technically stealing. So? Do what you want, no one here really cares, and no one here will know.
BUT, you are technically stealing. So? Do what you want, no one here really cares, and no one here will know.......
....If I were a republican, I'd call you a flip flopper.
Ok, I will say this just one more time, and then I'm out.
Dear Drag.
Nobody thinks you are cool, nobody think you are bad, no one is impressed with your stories. Please put your head between your legs, and breathe (I know you get excited, honey
) and stop posting... p l e a s e just stop posting.You live in a fcking nebraska. its funny that you think your experiences are enough to share with us, as if the people you have come into contact with are the baddest on the planet, or that you are deserving of resident "OG" status at anandtech, breaking us off with your street knowledge and wisdom.
There is no need to describe whether a stab or gunshot wound would be more efficient with a potential home invader trying to steal your precious computer. No one cares about your friends that you dont hang out with anymore. No one cares for your attempted "rebel-chic" idealogoy.
Please, just stop posting
no, do not post a 1/2 page response trying to tell me about the facts of "life".
just...stop...posting
when in doubt, read my sig.
Cliff's Notes: STFU KTHX!!!!11
Originally posted by: gUEv
......
....If I were a republican, I'd call you a flip flopper.
Ok, I will say this just one more time, and then I'm out.
Dear Drag.
Nobody thinks you are cool, nobody think you are bad, no one is impressed with your stories. Please put your head between your legs, and breathe (I know you get excited, honey
You live in a fcking nebraska. its funny that you think your experiences are enough to share with us, as if the people you have come into contact with are the baddest on the planet, or that you are deserving of resident "OG" status at anandtech, breaking us off with your street knowledge and wisdom.
There is no need to describe whether a stab or gunshot wound would be more efficient with a potential home invader trying to steal your precious computer. No one cares about your friends that you dont hang out with anymore. No one cares for your attempted "rebel-chic" idealogoy.
Please, just stop posting
no, do not post a 1/2 page response trying to tell me about the facts of "life".
just...stop...posting
when in doubt, read my sig.
Cliff's Notes: STFU KTHX!!!!11
No, lamer. (plus I am not a OG, or a gang banger. Or even ever pretended I was in a gang. Living in nebraska has no bearing on anything.)
I am sure that a lot of people other then me, here, have been in lot worse situations.
[/quote]Go for body shots, if you get a head shot kill it generally gives the jury the impression that you were out to kill in offense rather than defense. Its too bad these video games you pirate don't teach you this otherwise you are fairly clever and could probably convince the jury of your innocence.[/quote]
I just wanted this guy to understand that I understood the seriousness of the situation. Not that I want to think that I am a bad-ass.
If anybody is impressed by what I mentioned, they are morons. It's not something to think is cool, it's not something that I want people to think is cool. It's just crap that happens when your in the wrong spot at the wrong time because your a idiot doing things that you shouldn't be doing in places were you should be.
And I definately going to respond to personal attacks, I repeated say I was sorry for even mentioning that stuff and tried to direct the topic back on subject.
But stupid is as stupid does and you guys won't let it rest. So you STFU about it and I will, agree?
Modeps
Lifer
- Oct 24, 2000
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my house shoes get wet from the dew on the grass
up early in the morning takin' out the trash
feelin' like a loser alcohol abuser
two youngsters roll up on a beach cruiser
one on the peddles the other on the handle bars (what)
tryin' be ghetto stars they said:
Are you from the westside is it so?
i said hell yea and who wanta to know (me)
in slow mo fo' fo' slugs face down in the mud
puddle full of blood left for dead
the pain starts to spread now I can't feel my legs
I meet doctor who at King Drew medical center
as I enter I.C.U.
he said the bullet hit a nerve that was vital
I said I can't move my legs he said don't try to
up early in the morning takin' out the trash
feelin' like a loser alcohol abuser
two youngsters roll up on a beach cruiser
one on the peddles the other on the handle bars (what)
tryin' be ghetto stars they said:
Are you from the westside is it so?
i said hell yea and who wanta to know (me)
in slow mo fo' fo' slugs face down in the mud
puddle full of blood left for dead
the pain starts to spread now I can't feel my legs
I meet doctor who at King Drew medical center
as I enter I.C.U.
he said the bullet hit a nerve that was vital
I said I can't move my legs he said don't try to
No, but Will Wheaton is suppose to be one of the anchors.
his blog
Richard Burns (Dick Burns), which I think is hilarious.
Also here are some reviews:
http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/gta4/review.html
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/559/559560p1.html
http://ps2.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3135875&did=3
Thanks to slashot, of course.
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