GTA V on PC

[Mr Whippy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oFmRN0oadI

This looks very exciting!

Anyone else on the PC thinking they'll be spending an inappropriate amount of time on this?


I'm hoping for wheel support when I get in the cars too.

Mouse for shooting, wheel for driving, perfect!


Dave

[TurboHatchback]

Yep, I'll be buying this and wasting much time playing it. Think of all the car mods that will be around in a few months!

[weyland yutani]

First person mode looks brilliant.

[petrolsniffer]

hopefully the DRM won't kill the experience like it did with IV

[Mr Whippy]

Yeah it'd better be pretty seamless and smooth and not NEED the internet to work. The irony is that if my internet went down one day, that'd be the day I'd probably call a day off to play a game like this any way

I'd be tempted to buy through Steam but I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of resale ability, lend ability, or whatever other ability I used to have with an actual material copy of a game.


So a boxed copy is on the cards for this one

Dave

[Oakey]

petrolsniffer said:

hopefully the DRM won't kill the experience like it did with IV

Well you're in luck, because GTAV is part of a new DRM scheme!

[Mr Whippy]

Oakey said:

petrolsniffer said:

hopefully the DRM won't kill the experience like it did with IV

Well you're in luck, because GTAV is part of a new DRM scheme!

Ah, looks like something that will plague people who bother to pay, and then those who do pirate it will enjoy trouble free gaming

Well thanks for pointing that out.

Certainly one to wait a few months on after release and if it turns out terrible I can avoid it and wait for the DRM free versions

It'll be on GoG eventually

Dave

[8bit]

petrolsniffer said:

hopefully the DRM won't kill the experience like it did with IV

The DRM didn't kill the experience, the fact that it would barely run even on the most powerful PCs available not just at the time but for a couple of years after did. It didn't look any better than the console versions really yet ran fine on a £300 console but like crap on a couple of grand's worth of PC.

[Mr Whippy]

Crappy port == crappy performance I suppose.

This is the only thing with Steam, no refunds, very few demos at all anywhere now.

No way to know if a game is any good.


Steam really should make a stand for gamers by allowing a 3hr trial or something... it should all be easily do-able through such a platform without any major issues I'd think!?

I'd probably certainly buy lots more games if I could try them out risk free like that. In-fact nearly all the games I've ever bought were bought off the back off a demo looking back at my 90's and early 00's game buying.

Dave

[petrolsniffer]

8bit said:

The DRM didn't kill the experience, the fact that it would barely run even on the most powerful PCs available not just at the time but for a couple of years after did. It didn't look any better than the console versions really yet ran fine on a £300 console but like crap on a couple of grand's worth of PC.

Ok maybe kill is over the top but yes the performance was terrible

Don't know why they can't just release it on steam/require steam to run it than bundle it with their own crap.

Its the reason I've never bought any of ubisoft's titles

[8bit]

petrolsniffer said:

Ok maybe kill is over the top but yes the performance was terrible

Don't know why they can't just release it on steam/require steam to run it than bundle it with their own crap.

Its the reason I've never bought any of ubisoft's titles

It was an utter clusterfk. I was amazed, because the PC port of San Andreas was better than the console versions in many ways, dumbfounded how they managed to make such a complete cock up of IV on PC.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no hater I'm a big fan of the GTA games but the PC port of IV was dreadful.

[Mr Whippy]

The last one I played was SA on the PC.

The best one imo was GTA1

A bunch of friends in multiplayer LAN was amazing!