Official trailer came out today. After numerous delays it’s looking good for the 4/14 release date. If you want to preorder it, you can save $15 by going to GMG VIP (requires login)
I find myself getting somewhat excited for the game, which is a little odd since I haven’t really cared about a GTA game in 10 years. GTA 4 PC was a half-assed load of crap that showed they didn’t give a shit, although when I recently looked into it, there area lotmore modsthan I thoughtavailable so I’ve started to back to play it a bit.
But apparently they gave the job of porting it over to the team that did Max Payne 3, which people seem to like a lot, so it would appear they might actually intend to make sure that the PC version of GTA 5 is the clearly definitive version of the game rather than an afterthought, so I’m definitely interested.
The sheer amount of interactivity and detail in the world interests me. It seems like such an ambitious project to create a living world that it’s sort of a spectacle within itself.
GTA 4 is not particularly mod friendly, but people will work around a game’s limitations unless they deliberately make their game unmoddable, more or less. People did a whole lot to mod GTA 4 - you can get it to look better than unmodded GTA 5 is likely to be, you can add all sorts of content, and even change the fundamental gameplay. For example one of the GTA 4 mods is playing a career as a cop - you can patrol and arrest people for common crimes like muggings and such but occasionally you will get called in to a crazy situation where a guy is running around shooting people or in a high speed chase - basically, the enemy AI becomes the mayhem-causing agent that the player would normally be in a PC game, only this time you’re playing as one of the cops trying to stop it.
So if it’s ported well, even the vanilla game will be a lot of fun, but if they make the game mod friendly, the community will create an amazing array of content and new ways to play. I really hate that the recent trend in gaming is for games to support less and less modding so they can instead lock down the creation of new content so they can release DLC to force you to pay for it. The community is willing to do a lot of work to make your game great, and yet you lock them out - purely out of misguided greed.
I’m undecided if I’m going to buy it day one or wait. I’m loathe to spend $45 on a single game, but I do from time to time. Anyone else excited about it?
I’ve been waiting for this since last summer. I was excited and ready to drop full price back in November, then it got pushed back, and pushed back again, and pushed back again. At this point I’ve accumulated a pretty large backlog of AAA games to play, so I think I’ll hold off on this one. I figure it will probably feature heavily in year-end sales so I’ll pick it up then.
The game looks good but after the hatchet job that was gta4 I’ll wait for a while to see how good the pc port is. I don’t see how the Max Payne 3 port is a good indicator of the quality of gta5 as they’re pretty different kind of games.
It’s worth mentioning that the version GMG has for sale is NOT a Steam key but a stand-alone key that activates via Rockstar Social Club. The only place to get it on Steam is via Steam itself.
I don’t usually care about using other publisher clients (Origin, Uplay) but I’ve had nothing but headaches with Rockstar Social Club.
I’m definitely interested in this game but not for $45 or $60. Rockstar games tend to drop in price pretty quickly so maybe I’ll buy it this fall when it starts to see real discounts.
Steam lists it as “now available” although it was clearly labelled 4/14 and Tuesday is a typical release day for big publishers. Huh. I’m still on the fence about waiting, I want to see what people say about the effort they took to improve the PC version. Anyone got it? What are your thoughts?
There’s no way I’m paying full price for a game that’s over a year old. There’s also no way I’m paying for a GTA title on PC without knowing whether they’ve botched the port again.
So I broke down and bought the game the other day with the 22% discount from Green Man Gaming. Took all last night to download, and by the time I got up in the morning it was ready to go. Of course I had to go to work so I didn’t get to actually fire it up until this evening.
I updated my Nvidia driver to the latest version, which has apparently been updated specifically for GTA V, and I will report I’ve had no problems with running the game whatsoever. Runs smoothly on my laptop (i7 quad-core 4810MQ, 8GB RAM, GTX 860m 2GB, Windows 8.1) on a mix of medium/high settings. Didn’t even have any trouble with the useless Rockstar Social Club bullshit*.
The city feels like an expansive, active, living place. Graphics are outstanding. Draw distance is excellent; the landscape does not suddenly disappear three blocks down the road, it goes on all the way to the horizon, in detail.
The gameplay itself is quite a bit of fun. In most respects the gameplay is fundamentally unchanged from previous games, though the character switching is an interesting twist. No complaints about the controls, though driving is a bit twitchy with keyboard and mouse, but that’s no different from GTA IV (or III and all its other iterations, for that matter).
Overall I am pleased with it; nothing to complain about at all so far.
ETA: unfortunately Rockstar Social Club is unavoidable. Even if you buy it through Steam, you still have to activate and launch through RSC.
Early reports are good. There were 300,000 people playing simultaneously on steam earlier, and that’s considering that a lot of people probably haven’t completed the huge download, and a whole lot of people didn’t buy it on steam. That’s a pretty huge success - that means several million copies on day one.
Heard mostly good stuff about it, except in first person the FOV ranges from roughly 65 to 75. Not sure on that, since there’s no numbers on the slider, just a slider. That’s very uncomfortable to play like that. I’m sure it’ll be fixed by someone, but that’s an obvious oversight that I’m surprised no one saw.
Anyone know how to get the preorder money? I go to the online store but there is no option for it like in the ps4 version. I entered my code but it says it is in use.
Incidentally, I’ve been kind of amused and perplexed by all of the advertising this game has been doing. “GTA 5 in 60 FPS!” Oh wow, oh my god! They’ve mentioned it in like 400 different places.
1080p/60 has been the standard for decent systems for like 8 years now, it’s not some new fangled invention or something amazingly high tech that technology has only recently allowed. 1080p/60 is a fine starting point, but it’s treated as the holy grail.
I can only guess this is capitalizing on the backlash towards Ubisoft’s “30 fps is more cinematic” bullshit. It got 60 vs 30 in the public conciousness, and the marketing team is capitalizing on it.
It’s sad that it’s notable at all. It’s only really originally in the public consciousness because of how disappointing it is that “next gen” consoles can’t even meet that minimum standard in most cases. We’ll be in 2023 limited by what was the standard in PC gaming in 2008.
Fuck it, I’m in. I almost never buy full price games but with as well as this is selling, I suspect it’s going to be a long time until it’s at a significant discount, so I’m just diving in.
Since it’s not a steamworks game, I assume you have to make friends within the game itself rather than using your steam friends list. Still, I will try to organize people who want to play missions together online, so if you’re interested, post here and add me on steam. Apparently playing with pubs sucks because one guy doing something stupid ruins the whole mission, but it can be really good in co-op with people you know.
My understanding is that they’re pimping 4K/60fps because this is essentially a 2-year-old game. Lots of die-hard GTA fans broke down and bought a console version so they could play it at some point, and here comes Rockstar asking for more money for an old game. It’s not that they’re pimping the spec as awesome, just that it’s, you know, better than the version everyone’s already paid for.
FWIW, just keep in mind that “next gen” consoles are built to a price point. I picked up GTAV for my Xbox One a few weeks ago and have been thoroughly enjoying it.
They sold over a million PC copies in a single day.
There’s no stopping the Rockstar money train.
Bought a copy too, but I’m aiming to finish up Pillars of Eternity before getting into the single player at least.
The game looks beautiful, and runs pretty well. I’m getting mostly 60 FPS at 1440p everything except post effects (and some of the advanced settings) at max.
I had pre-loaded it on Steam over the weekend and was able to start playing on the 13th. I’m on the East Coast, if that makes any difference.
So far, I’m pretty lost. I haven’t played any GTAs since III (where I got stuck on a toy helicopter mission and just gave up). I changed the controls so that the mouse controls the direction of the car, and then turned the sensitivity all the way down, and it’s still twitchy to me. I sometimes use a controller when driving – that seems better. I like that I can just pick up a controller for driving and then switch to keyboard/mouse for everything else. I also get my son to do the driving for me sometimes. If I’m steering with the mouse, how will I be able to shoot while driving? It’s a mystery, but I haven’t had to do it yet.
Most of the time, I can’t figure out what to do, but I’m sure I’ll get there. There are tons of instructions that show up and disappear in the upper left corner, and I can’t keep them all straight. I think I’ve never felt this baffled playing a game before.
Every time I switch characters, the game switches to windowed mode. I followed Kinthalis’s advice in my other thread about graphics cards and turned off warnings about using too much card memory – maybe that’s what’s causing it. I haven’t searched for this anywhere yet.
The game seems to be super open, much more than any other game I’ve played (the Mass Effect series, Borderlands, the Half-Life series, Pac-man :)). I imagine some sort of narrative will develop at some point.
My son and I have agreed to only make actual game progress together, so when we’re not together, I’ll work on my driving and melee.
Man, do I feel out of it, though. I’m hoping I figure it all out.