GTAV

did anyone else buy it @ the ps store? it's 4 am over here and i still can't start the game, and for some reason sony still hasn't charged me for it. arrgh.

I installed it from disc and I'm having a lot of ridiculous pop-in which I assume is due to my default PS3 hard drive which can't keep up with the streaming. Not sure if it's faulty or fragmented but it's pretty bad. If I'm driving fast, the roads and buildings don't get streamed in fast enough and it's really hard to see where to drive. It even hangs for a second here and there which I presume is due to the IO latency. I really can't be arsed to upgrade this drive for one game. It's also terribly aliased in busy outdoor scenes. The art and tech looks great though. If I had patience I would wait for the PS4 or PC release.

The driving has become very easy and arcade. Not sure if I like it. Apart from that the first hours have been good fun.

AAAAAARGHHH it's so close now. This will be the longest day in the history of days. SHIT!!111

INSTALLING GTAV FUCK ALL O YALL

just requested membership of WATM crew (mapspam on XBLIVE)

anyone having problems linking xblive account to rockstar social club? i get some general error message... probably servers just getting hammered

My life isn't compatible with this game

is there a WATMM crew for ps3? or is it the same thing?

uk psstore download is messed up,gotta download again at 4pm,be lucky to play it today!not good

been playing all day.

it's amazing...*u*

non-watmm text i sent a little earlier re: GTA V = "It's like they went back to the originals (ViCe city and San Andreas) and realised what made them so much fun. And pumped that vibe so richly into this game. The mechanics are goofy sometimes. Almost like every decision was made with a "fuck it, it's fun" approach. It feels so good."

  On 9/17/2013 at 12:08 PM, chartnok said:

is there a WATMM crew for ps3? or is it the same thing?

  On 9/17/2013 at 5:08 AM, Ego said:

I installed it from disc and I'm having a lot of ridiculous pop-in which I assume is due to my default PS3 hard drive which can't keep up with the streaming. Not sure if it's faulty or fragmented but it's pretty bad. If I'm driving fast, the roads and buildings don't get streamed in fast enough and it's really hard to see where to drive. It even hangs for a second here and there which I presume is due to the IO latency. I really can't be arsed to upgrade this drive for one game. It's also terribly aliased in busy outdoor scenes. The art and tech looks great though. If I had patience I would wait for the PS4 or PC release.

 

The driving has become very easy and arcade. Not sure if I like it. Apart from that the first hours have been good fun.

If you don't already know, you're supposed to install one disc to the HD, the other should be played from the disc drive. Rockstar says you shouldn't install both discs to hd because of performance issues.

THIS GAME

IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!

  On 9/17/2013 at 1:19 PM, pigster said:

been playing all day.

it's amazing...*u*

 

non-watmm text i sent a little earlier re: GTA V = "It's like they went back to the originals (ViCe city and San Andreas) and realised what made them so much fun. And pumped that vibe so richly into this game. The mechanics are goofy sometimes. Almost like every decision was made with a "fuck it, it's fun" approach. It feels so good."

This

Been playing about an hour. It's pretty dreamy. First song that came on was NWA fuck the police. I changed to the flylo station and windowlicker was playing.

I walked into the store. Woman of the counter takes one look at me and says "Here for the new GTA?"

Was my neckbeard that big?

that westcoast classics channel, oh man.

  On 9/17/2013 at 5:08 AM, Ego said:

I installed it from disc and I'm having a lot of ridiculous pop-in which I assume is due to my default PS3 hard drive which can't keep up with the streaming.

Found a way to fix it: http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Home-Support/Restoring-your-PS3-File-System-amp-Database-Helps-to-Maintain/td-p/37322987

Much better now.

Home from work to find nothing but a credit card bill. Fuck!

Guess I'll have to study then.

Been playing it for three hours now. Here's my review so far:

Best game ever made.

damn, i'm really bummed my Sony PS3 decided to randomly stop reading discs after a required firmware update. Can you 'rent' consoles anywhere these days? I wonder what Best Buy's return policy is on a ps3

  On 9/17/2013 at 10:17 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

damn, i'm really bummed my Sony PS3 decided to randomly stop reading discs after a required firmware update. Can you 'rent' consoles anywhere these days? I wonder what Best Buy's return policy is on a ps3

- wait for playstation 4 like me and weep

- download it from psn store

well, its definitely not as big as san andreas, no idea where that chat came from. initial opinion, exactly like the other GTA's, honed to perfection. played for a few hours last night but got abit bored.

really enjoying the in-car chat on missions though, flows as naturally as a film.

Game looks immense in terms of scale and stuff, however the graphics are rough as fuck. hopefully the gameplay will hold up.

how does it feel when you switch characters? does it feel like it's on some kind of rail based storyline when you do or do they appear to be doing genuinely randomized activities when you 'pop in' on them? I'm curious how that whole thing factors into the game