I heard that there were lots of irritating issues. I’d like to buy this game, but not if it’s going to suck due to bugs, etc.
Have they fixed all those issues yet?
Also, if I do buy the buggy version, will patches come out that will eventually fix all the issues?
There’s been 1 update so far, and it has solved most of my issues with the game. I’m still getting crashes 1 out of every 5 times I play, as well as graphics corruption issues at about the same rate.
Still, the other 4 times it plays fine even for long stretches.
DRM might still be an issue though. you need to be singed in to both Windows Live and Rockstar social.
It’s a pain in the ass but I think you can play the game without being signed into rockstar suck-cial. You get asked more than once to sign into it and then warned that if you don’t you won’t be able to save your blah blah blah but you can still ignore this warning and click ‘Play’
But I must say, I think I’ve been spoiled by FO3 and Far Cry 2 as I am finding it hard to get into GTA4 in a big way.
And it’s the first game I’ve had to play on ‘medium to low’ graphics settings on my Geforce 8800 Ultra 768MB graphics card (listed as ‘extreme’ in the gaming category when I bought it - and the absolute top of the graphics cards). The game us just about playable when many gfx settings are turned down.
And finally - Can someone confirm whether this whole thing of being given missions on your mobile, rather than actually going to get them in your own time will continue??? One of the funnest things about previous GTA games was being able to spend hours just driving around and then eventually decide to go and progress the story.
But so far people keep ringing me up to give me things to do. I ignored one once and got an angry phone call to say that I’d missed it.
You make it sound like I’m getting excited about the wrong game. Should I instead go and buy FallOut 3 or Far Cry 2 instead?
I don’t know about the PC version, but in the PS3 version there is a method to turn off your phone so that you can just play around without missing any missions. I’d be very surprised if that hasn’t been carried over to the PC version. I’m not at home right now so I can’t check to see how to do it…
Yeah you can turn your phone off in the PC version too. I haven’t done it, so I don’t know if there are any penalties story wise for doing so.
Well you should buy those anyway. As well as or instead of GTA4.
It’s too early for me to say for sure - but if you can only afford two games then make it FC2 and FO3. And if you can only afford one make it FO3
No penalties that I could see, you go to your cell phone menu and pick “Mute” or “Silent”, something like that. Then it becomes the sandbox it should have been. Otherwise people bother you way too much.
If you do get a call and don’t want to do whatever inane thing the person wants to do, just accept and then call them back and Cancel Plans. That won’t penalize your relationship.
I don’t think I’ll get the PC version, I’m not interested in installing Microsoft Live and all that crap. I might buy it and install a pirate version if someone strips out all the crap.