Grand Theft Auto 4

MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:21

You will always here the bad stories. Its becuase the guys who are having a good time are to busy to moan. I took michelle for a second date last got ****ed at the irish pub, drove home drunk and tried my luck and got laid

Best drunk mode in a game ever

Went to a strip club with roman had a private dance, pad kept vibrating while she was girating

You guys realise you can flick between mouse and pad whenever you want? I use mouse keyboard on foot and pad in car. The onscreen control indicators even change to what ever controller you last used.

GJ02 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:24

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
You will always here the bad stories. Its becuase the guys who are having a good time are to busy to moan. I took michelle for a second date last got ****ed at the irish pub, drove home drunk and tried my luck and got laid Best drunk mode in a game ever

i went on first dat, scared her off with my fighting moves
took her on second date, and i jumped out the card at 100mph + leaving her in to crash and burn

didnt like her, not my type

Neil79 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:25

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
You will always here the bad stories. Its becuase the guys who are having a good time are to busy to moan. I took michelle for a second date last got ****ed at the irish pub, drove home drunk and tried my luck and got laid Best drunk mode in a game ever

a lot of bad stories on so many forums

Anyway the shadow crap

Look at the Bin for example , it looks like a wire fence

MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:29

If they sell 1 million units and there are probably about 10,000 people moaning, thats still pretty good odds. Besides theres nothing wrong with the game at all. Its the same as any other GTA with a few changes. Some of which I think are for the good.

Everyone is getting that it seems. Mines not quite so bad so i'm guessing it has some thing to do with graphics options. And it's dependant on in game time of day. At night time shadows looked alright.

rhymin · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:31

once you're moving you dont notice the weird shadows as much

Kalpsn2000 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:32

Yeh the shadows are very poor but i dont really notice them when i'm engrossed in the game.

Have to say i am liking the game. Car control is something to get used to but this is the first gta in which i am actually using the brakes!

willhub · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:34

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
If they sell 1 million units and there are probably about 10,000 people moaning, thats still pretty good odds. Besides there nothing wrong with the game at all. Its the same as any other GTA with a few changes. Some of which I think are for the good.

Everyone is getting that it seems. Mines not quite so baqd so i'm guessing it has some thing to do with graphics options.

The graphics are a mess at the moment, shadows are messed up... FACT... To many people are getting it for it not to be a problem that can be addressed via patch or drive update..

Performance is crap no matter what way you look at it... FACT... Just because someone says they are getting pretty good performance does not mean that performance actually is good..

[TW]Fox · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:38

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
If they sell 1 million units and there are probably about 10,000 people moaning, thats still pretty good odds

They are also unrealistic odds. Virtually everybody here has issues running the game in an acceptable fashion. I have a computer which its fair to say is above the average casual gamer in terms of performance, yet it won't run the game properly. There is no way that only 10% of people have issues, no way at all.

willhub · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:39

10,000 would actually only be 1% no?

MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:39

Damn willhub I think you've managed a negative comment on every page

Stop moaning about the graphics and play the bloddy thing and enjoy yourself. My game runs perfectly fine for me to play. Just the same as crysys/warhead ran just well enough. The only graphics problem i have is lack of AA and rubbish shadows. Lack of AA is not a graphical problem as there have been lots of games that don't have it. When all these things are fixed it will be awesome right now its still great.

willhub · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:41

But I'm happier with Crysis performance than I am with GTA IV, Crysis looks AMAZING and plays smoothly too!

This is neither and the game play ain't too hot either, you need good graphics to enhance the environment!

snowdog · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:43

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Lack of AA is not a graphical problem as there have been lots of games that don't have it.

Name 1 3d game next to gta iv that can't have aa forced on it.

Games like BIA, bioshock and Mass Effect can have AA forced through nvidia panel without problems in the profile for that game.

Even trying just 2x AA in GTA does nothing, even adding AA to vice city is working but there is no way you can force AA for GTA IV, or at least I haven't been successful yet but forcing it works in any other game without issues.

Darkwave · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:43

I'm not sure why people have such a problem with "moaning". If I spend $40 + tax (just going off Steam price) on a game I expect it to work right and, as far as I'm concerned, I've ripped myself off by buying this game without "trying" it first. Low settings to get ~35fps in multiplayer is simply unacceptable to me.

I don't mind waiting for a patch, but it's going to have to work miracles.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:44

[TW]Fox;13031548 said:
They are also unrealistic odds. Virtually everybody here has issues running the game in an acceptable fashion. I have a computer which its fair to say is above the average casual gamer in terms of performance, yet it won't run the game properly. There is no way that only 10% of people have issues, no way at all.

Thats a lack of hardware thats upto the task. Not really R*'s problem. Ok they said it would run on 3 years old hardware, thats was a bit optimistic really seeing as ps3 and 360 can't run it. This game has soo much going on at one time plus it has pretty good graphics and physics. Its no surprise to me that its power hungry. And as already said most of us are trying to run it at even higher res then the consoles with what R* claim are higher graphics levels.

MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:45

snowdog said:
Name 1 3d game next to gta iv that can't have aa forced on it.

Games like BIA, bioshock and Mass Effect can have AA forced through nvidia panel without problems in the profile for that game.

Even trying just 2x AA in GTA does nothing, even adding AA to vice city is working but there is no way you can force AA for GTA IV, or at least I haven't been successful yet but forcing it works in any other game without issues.

rainbow six vegas?! GRAW?! crazy machines 2. I'm sure theres plenty others.

shauncr91 · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:47

Has anybody managed to work out how to setup a custom radio station yet? I've looked everywhere and can't find anything

Margaret · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:47

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Thats a lack of hardware thats upto the task.

Cite your source.

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
plus it has pretty good graphics

No it doesn't.

snowdog · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:48

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
rainbow six vegas?! GRAW?! crazy machines 2. I'm sure theres plenty others.

Those are UE3 games aren't they (r6v/graw)?

ALL UE3 games can have AA forced on & default AA settings overridden with nvidia profiles.

Don't know about crazy machines, you sure it's impossible to force AA on ?

Margaret said:
No it doesn't.

Yes it does, apart from the jaggies on the models and the messed up shadows the game looks superb... I haven't seen any 1 game except Grid where cars look that good as in gta iv. If the jaggies wouldn't be there the game would be very nice. Unfortunately jaggies are raging

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MoNkEyMiKeY · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:49

Didn't used to. Im sure vegas and graw still doesn't and just has edge smoothing.

spiki · 5 Dec 2008 at 17:53

A few images after the tedious install and disabled film capture to stop the choppiness; pix taken with fraps altho counter isnt captured but ranging from 35-55; some details like blood on the bonnet but shadows look terrible: