Anyone got it yet?
I'm thinking of working overtime so I can justify purchase
Anyone got it yet?
I'm thinking of working overtime so I can justify purchase
i thought you said purchase it
I heard on the news this morning that almost unbelievably all the 'experts' agreed......
that this was probably the best game ever to date, in all aspects.
It's expected to gross over £500 million in it's first week.........more than most movies.
As for me, well, I've never seen it let alone played it.
I did buy a new fishing pole today though.......the intention is to spend more time fishing and contemplating......
Yes unfortunatly its not on pc otherwiseOriginally Posted by joebloggs
We've got Grand Theft Auto something or other (can't remember which one).
Disgraceful game....played by hooligans and Psychopaths !
I'm still online car racing with Need For Speed Shift, Shift2 Unleashed, and Forza4.
Just taking a break from fixing my steering wheel at this very moment.
Here's my win/lose rate (but lose could still mean you were podium).
Not bad for an old codger...racing people from all over the world.
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Disgraceful game....played by hooligans and Psychopaths !
Yes....
But what a hassle to get it..
Will explain tomorrow after my late night playing it
looking forward to your review
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I think there probably is a link but no different from watching violent films etc,watching the news ,an obsessive interest in guns etc,the world is full of excuses for some.
Unfortunately and I sound cruel here,the world has plenty more nutters like him lined up-it's just life.
true, i think its just made his 'problems' a bit worse, but then he's one out of many millions who don't go
This is what happened to me..... I have cut and pasted from another forum I wrote this on.looking forward to your review
I preordered mine from Amazon....
Checked the tracking number this morning and it shows it was delivered at 7.30 this morning.
ERM, NO IT WASN'T!
Just been to the sorting office and the postman that delivered it swore blind he posted it in my letterbox (I live in a flat and our letterboxes are on the wall outside) I told him he must have delivered it to the wrong letterbox or address, he swears he never.... I'm hoping a neighbour knocks on my door after work later and hands it to me. or if it's gone to the flats before mine then I have no chance as it wouldn't be the first time they have kept something of mine delivered wrongly!
Looks like a claim coming up with Amazon if I don't get it by the end of the day. Already sent an email to Royal mail customer service.Sent an email to Amazon and got a speedy reply.
They are refunding me but as they have no stocks left they are not going to send me a replacement.
I have to say none of this is the fault of Amazon but their customer service gets 5 stars from me.
If the game does turn up then I will contact them and let them though, but I dont think it will. Once the money is back in my account I will get it from Tesco I guessYou wouldn't believe that I actually don't really play my x box that much.... Last night was probably the first time it's been on in 3 or 4 months.....But sitting here bored, no neighbour has found my game and knocked at my door, so I shot off to the 24 hour tesco a couple of miles away (why I didn't do this before I don't know!) and purchased it. So I now have a copy.
Although I almost lost my temper in Tesco and on another day quite possibly would have done and been kicked out.
Picked up the game from the display as you walk in the door, to it to the cigarette counter and asked if I could purchase there (as I knew the display case was empty) She told me I'd have to go to the customer service counter, I told her I could see there was nobody on that counter could she do it. She said she couldnt move from her counter..... I said fair enough, pick up your phone and call someone over... She said she couldn't, I asked why and she just shrugged her shoulders and said because she had customers waiting to be served behind me.... So in no uncertain terms I called her a useless waste of space and walked off to find another staff member. Lucky for me I found the manager who opened up the customer service till and got the game for me out of the draw. I told her about the lady on the cigarette counter refusing to help and with that she called her over and gave her a stern telling off. I must admit to laughing at her on my way out.
Just I've always enjoyed playing these types of games, not really a fan of the call of duty ones and all those other must haves.
So spent a few hours last night playing this and probably a few hours tonight, but unlike many people I dont spend a whole day playing only moving for a pee break!
Just about to fix (superglue at the ready) my microsoft wireless wheel...fingers crossed. Fully-functioning ones are quite sought after now, and command higher prices than new. I've so far managed to keep mine alive. . Can't afford a 3 or 400 quid Fanatec one yet.
I just checked and they got plenty in ASDA so might get it tmrw
I remember the first ever Grand Theft Auto on the playstation with the ariel view. Graphics were pants but the actual gameplay was pretty good. When the game evolved to 3D I couldn't be bothered with the missions and just went whizzing round knocking down prostitutes.
Which consoles can you play the new GTA on? I might be tempted to get one.
Better read this first ..... maybe
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Sorry the link didn't work Jamie .....I have no idea why. I just re-entered the url and it seems to be OK now......anyway, here's the 'long-hand' version...just for interest......
Grand Theft Auto V Is the Most Expensive Game Ever—and It’s Almost Obsolete
The release of Grand Theft Auto V yesterday brought to the forefront an apocalyptic scenario. The end-times theme isn’t part of the blockbuster video game’s setting, a fictionalized Los Angeles that’s havoc-filled but otherwise enduring. The apocalypse is part of the non-pixelated reality for gamers living through the final weeks in the eight-year reign of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Later this year, next-generation technology from the two major gaming powers will hit the market and render obsolete the current console, which will be banished en masse to dusty closets and the cluttered shelves of GameStop (GME) outlets. Grand Theft Auto V will likewise become an outmoded relic: Neither the Xbox One nor the PlayStation 4 will be able to run games made for older consoles (at first, anyway).
Rockstar Games (TTWO) reportedly spent $115 million developing Grand Theft Auto V and $150 million on marketing—and the game is expected to make almost six times that much in sales over the course of the first year. So maybe a relatively short shelf life doesn’t matter much. Still, it seems strange to develop the most expensive video game ever for machines that will soon take a major step toward irrelevance.
In part, the decision to build for the old consoles is driven by the fact that game developers have gotten really good at it. Aaron Garbut, the art director at Rockstar North, told BuzzFeed that the studio is just hitting its stride when it comes to using the capabilities of the current consoles to do things like replicate convincing-looking daylight. Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, told Famitsu magazine that the best games for a console always come out at the moment before it’s overtaken by newer machines:
The fact that hardware’s so mature right now is exactly why we’re able to go on to the next level. GTA 4 was our first attempt at a new platform and HD visuals, so the first part of development was seriously difficult. Now we know what the hardware’s capable of, so it’s become a lot easier to move things along and a lot more fun, too.
This seems especially plausible given that Grand Theft Auto V has a rating of 98 out of 100 on the game-rating site Metacritic. While the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will be more powerful and include features unavailable on their predecessors, there will also be a learning curve that could go on for several years.
The market for gaming consoles is also relatively friendly to developers who don’t immediately move to the hot new thing. About 150 million current versions of the Xbox and PlayStations have been sold worldwide, and even the most optimistic sales forecasts for the upcoming consoles put them nowhere near those numbers for quite some time. Nor will Microsoft (MSFT) or Sony (SNE) stop selling their old gear. It could be as late as 2015 before annual sales of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 surpass sales of their lower-priced predecessors, according to
Gartner (IT) analyst Brian Blau
For the next several years, developers will continue to serve two sets of gamers. “I would expect that we would get one more year out of parallel development, where you will see parallel titles, but after a while the developers will start to see diminishing returns,” Blau says. “I think it’s going to take some time.”
It will take three to four years before the current consoles really become obsolete if the patterns of past cycles continue, and by then sales of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will likely be slowing down as consumers anticipate the next generation of consoles down the line. That will be just about the time when developers finally start cranking out games that take advantage of the aging technology.
Source:-
http://www.businessweek.com/articles...lmost-obsolete
Thanks for that Peter.
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