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Post by kaos » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:03 pm

See that shit is why the whole "journalism" side of the video game industry needs to be shot and killed.

I'm pretty sure the game is at least good, and leaps and bounds better than its predecessors.
but suddenly everybody thinks is the perfect game?

fuck that.
fuck people who regurgitate hype.
fuck people who are afraid to say what they really want to say
fuck scoring systems.

whenever my game comes out, and whatever game that may be...
I'll have much more respect for the bad reviews than any candy coated hype flavored good ones.
at least the bad ones would be worth learning where to improve.
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Post by Melana » Thu May 01, 2008 1:22 am

Toshi got it yesterday. I frowned at him alot. He still got it.

He got it for PS3.

I'll tell you if it's marginally ok.
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Post by EchoPark » Thu May 01, 2008 5:40 am

I got it Tuesday, the special edition cause am a geek XD I havent been impressed with the last couple releases, i mean there alright but nothin to say amazing over. But i thought this time Rockstar had to pull something out there asses this time with Saints Row on there back.

I thing the game is good and i like some of the lil new features but i've only played a few missions and tryin to get into the game. But its far from prefect. The car handling got better but its still just alright i think crackdown had the best car handing roaming world game lol or whatever u want to call it again. Like i said they added some silly features which i think makes it feel more life like, like travelin in a taxi i mean the small things eh but theres nothin that major thats so wow about it. I do agree with u on all the hype i was sick of everyone going on and on about it and how its gonna be one of the best games for a long long time and shit. I will say its probaly been my best game for a while but a while is a couple of months for me lol.
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Post by Mik » Thu May 01, 2008 8:40 am

The called in the 'greatest game ever' on a review on the radio, that's enough to earn my scorn
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Post by Melana » Sat May 03, 2008 12:57 pm

Toshi has been playing it... he's somewhat addicted. But he doesn't think it's perfect. The little touches he loves, like how the glass gets dirty and the imprint of windscreen wipers is on there, the paint job difference on the cars if you get them fixed, the storyline in his opinion is better and the move from mayhem and uncontrolled violence and more choice....and less rampaging.... but then i think he's just channelling Mass Effect with his ranting about that. He say's he plays it as he would an RPG.

The tv channels are pretty funny, the Caberet shows are so so.

The attention to detail is impressive i'll say that.

But then.... he pretty muched ignored me on thursday afternoon whilst he was playing it for a good deal of time.... so that minus's at least 1 star in my rating books.
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Post by H N » Thu May 08, 2008 7:39 pm

kaos wrote:fuck that.
fuck people who regurgitate hype.
fuck people who are afraid to say what they really want to say
fuck scoring systems.
Yeah! And fuck Jews!
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Post by Matt » Fri May 09, 2008 2:39 am

Melana wrote:But then.... he pretty muched ignored me on thursday afternoon whilst he was playing it for a good deal of time.... so that minus's at least 1 star in my rating books.
Pfffft, women.
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Post by kaos » Fri May 09, 2008 6:58 am

I got it today.
hype free.

i only got to play 10 minutes of it.
but all i really saw was better gfx.
oh the story does look better than any previous.....but their previous stories were pretty crap.
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Post by Bogey » Fri May 09, 2008 2:18 pm

Yeah, the stories from the GTA3 series were generally cliche plots represented by cutscenes of characters with flappy arms. Not hard to improve on at all.

The GTA series is one of those games I enjoy most by finding the daft faults in them. In GTA3 my favourite thing was jumping on a car, shooting down once at it and seeing how long I can stay on the roof of a car desperately trying to race away from me. A kind of carsurfing/joyriding hybrid.
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Post by kaos » Sat May 10, 2008 4:59 am

DISK READ ERROR

no big deal. I got a bad disk or somthing, I'll go swap it out.

DISK READ ERROR

yeah......



everyone is quick to point fingers at the 360 for shit like this.
but I just got the system back not too long ago AND.

I bought Lost Oddessey on the same day and it plays just fine.

so its somthing about GTA if its not a bad disc or a bad unit.
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Post by Mik » Sat May 10, 2008 11:04 am

Heard a piece on the news about the game over heating the hardware, dunno how it's not that graphically advanced
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Post by kaos » Sat May 10, 2008 4:04 pm

called rockstar tech support.

its not overheating anything.

get this. the game is fully playable as long as you:

clear your cache
all delete all your save games


which leaves me with the question.

how the FUCK am i supposed to enjoy the game if I cant save?
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Post by Chewi » Sat May 10, 2008 5:22 pm

Want me to pop over to Dundee and kick their asses for you? :P
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Post by EchoPark » Sat May 10, 2008 8:15 pm

there no in dundee any more. Rockstar North is edinburgh lol.

U got the ps3 verison then. Thats shit dude. I know theres been some errors. They did say it was a small few.

I havent had any problems. A couple of glitches but nothin to major to piss me off.
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Post by Chewi » Sat May 10, 2008 8:33 pm

Really? Must have missed that.

I thought he meant he got the 360 version.
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