GTA 4 worth it?

craig3000 · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:07

I loved GTAIV and the MP on console, it could have been slightly smoother but generally fps was stable enough.

On PC different story, I mean it was still good an all including the MP but it was a shame there were no servers, anti aliasing and general **** poor performance

silversurfer · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:26

FoxEye said:
Gay Tony is much, much better. 100x better

gay = win

oweneades · 3 Jan 2011 at 01:47

Having got GTA4 for £4.99 in last years Steam sale I wasn't too worried if I didn't enjoy it but tbh I found it pretty good and kept me interested long enough to warrant the purchase.

The only annoyance I have is that my little M11x can't run it very well. Yes I know it only has a Core 2 Duo clocked at 1.73Ghz but still it can play Crysis....

Oh well my i7 based gaming PC chews through it no problem.

This thread is actually making me want to install it again and get it running on the M11x. I have spent hours tweaking BFBC2 and got that working so this should be a doddle.... (yeah right).

whitecrook · 3 Jan 2011 at 02:01

I played it but got stuck I think before even the second 'chapter' (what ever a chapter is).

I ran out of money and guns and couldn't do the missions. Got bored. I guess I must just be crap. I found the shooting and general control to be really quite difficult, and the control scheme is a bit messed up with no way to adjust it. (360)

I used to just fire it up drive about for a bit, get the cops chasing me and then either get caught or out run them. Pretty boring after a while.

jayextreme · 3 Jan 2011 at 06:16

wow never have seen anyone doubt whether GTA4 is worth playing. Try it with car mod and you will enjoy it for at least 100 hours

Tombo · 3 Jan 2011 at 11:27

oweneades said:
Having got GTA4 for £4.99 in last years Steam sale I wasn't too worried if I didn't enjoy it but tbh I found it pretty good and kept me interested long enough to warrant the purchase.

Do you own the episodes? The GTAIV complete is on sale now for £6.25, a bit more than you paid for GTA but worth it if you don't have them. Assuming you can bear to play it any more

joey1211 · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:53

Does anyone have a link to a 100% walkthrough for the game? The ones I've found have "only available if you did not kill so and so" on some of the sub-missions.

TheCenturion · 17 Jan 2011 at 16:57

joey1211 said:
Does anyone have a link to a 100% walkthrough for the game? The ones I've found have "only available if you did not kill so and so" on some of the sub-missions.

Are you looking for a walkthrough for the missions? Usually I just google the mission name + walkthrough, and find it like that.

FoxEye · 17 Jan 2011 at 17:22

Do you need a walkthrough?

Dark_Angel · 17 Jan 2011 at 17:46

If you can get it cheap, then yes... if only to have a bit of destroy it all fun.

It runs really smoothly for me at max. 1920x1080.

GTX 480 with 2500K.

Max3 · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:29

It runs so bad with my 2500k + 5850. The framerate looks awesome if it weren't for the constant stuttering.

Guest2 · 17 Jan 2011 at 19:33

Definately worth it. Average settings on my 5770 & [email protected] gets some nice gameplay and visuals.

Playing online turf war is great fun. Driving a hummer around with 3 other people is so much fun

joey1211 · 17 Jan 2011 at 20:01

TheCenturion said:
Are you looking for a walkthrough for the missions? Usually I just google the mission name + walkthrough, and find it like that.

Nah, the old GTAs had a 100% walkthrough which gave you 100% sprint etc which was usefull in the game. Maybe the game is structured differnetly. Doing the ambulance, fire and police sub-missions meant gaining a lot of bonus skills.

TheCenturion · 17 Jan 2011 at 20:31

Max3 said:
It runs so bad with my 2500k + 5850. The framerate looks awesome if it weren't for the constant stuttering.

The game is known for struggling on latest catalyst drivers. Try going into ccc and resetting everything to default, and see if that helps

hdpcgamer · 22 Jan 2011 at 22:17

Tombo said:
Do you own the episodes? The GTAIV complete is on sale now for £6.25, a bit more than you paid for GTA but worth it if you don't have them. Assuming you can bear to play it any more

I managed to pick up the GTA IV Complete Bundle on Steam for £6.25 and imo that has to be one of Steam's best deals, evening besting their previous GTA 4 deal of £5.

GTA 4 & Episodes from Liberty City has got to be some of the best sandbox games ever IMO. And Bully lol.

MoodyB · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:08

Anyone bought it recently from one of the game download websites like direct 2 drive, etc...?

If so, was the version 1.0, or was it fully patched up after install ?

Have an urge to play again but the latest version - 1.0.7.0 - has apparently hurt performance with the new shadow algo, and rolling back a few versions to 1.0.4.0 improves fps ( and works better with the enb dll's ) at the expense of poorer shadows.

Can't do this with the Steam version I already have, so it'll need to be another download or discs.

d_brennen · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:17

I enjoyed GTA4 but didn't finish it. Not sure why, maybe ran out of time. BOGT was awesome, superbly written and had be gripped. It is what GTA4 should have been, with added queens

Haven't played more than half an hour of the Lost and the Damned...

The game needs a quad, a decent card and some tweaking

MoodyB · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:33

d_brennen said:
The game needs a quad, a decent card and some tweaking

It needs a bit more than that, according to R* :

" We tested similar settings on a fast core I7 with 2 GTX 480's in SLI and seeing a pretty consistant 30fps. The hardware to run this game at FULL MAX settings at 60 fps does not yet exist but the game is coded such that when it does it will take full advantage. "

Was just reading a thread on the GTA forum & came across that. Made me laugh.

Psymonkee · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:48

joey1211 said:
Nah, the old GTAs had a 100% walk through which gave you 100% sprint etc which was useful in the game. Maybe the game is structured differently. Doing the ambulance, fire and police sub-missions meant gaining a lot of bonus skills.

You don't get any awesome bonuses like that.

Best bet if you want 100% is to nail all the story missions and ignore ALL random characters. Then come back and do the police/most wanted/friends to 90%/jumps/races/assassinations - easier with good weapons/cars.

Finally get a map of all 200 pigeons and work through it in numbered order only. Mark each one as you kill it.

FoxEye · 23 Jan 2011 at 00:57

MoodyB said:
Anyone bought it recently from one of the game download websites like direct 2 drive, etc...?

If so, was the version 1.0, or was it fully patched up after install ?

Have an urge to play again but the latest version - 1.0.7.0 - has apparently hurt performance with the new shadow algo, and rolling back a few versions to 1.0.4.0 improves fps ( and works better with the enb dll's ) at the expense of poorer shadows.

Can't do this with the Steam version I already have, so it'll need to be another download or discs.

I bought it from D2D and I can tell you it is not patched. Your best bet is to download G4WL from MS first. Make sure G4WL is updated fully.

Then install GTA4. Then exit GTA4, at which point G4WL should attempt to patch it.