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I was recently asked by someone if GTA4 MP was still active, are people still playing it? Yes, perhaps more then RDR MP at times, I believe in RDR there are more then one MultiPlayer World maps for all the people playing the game online, it just seems logical given how you can select to move in and out of Freeroam. For GTA4 you wait for the required players and to assign objective attributes if you lead a group from the early stages.
When I started I felt I was cold-turkey with no previous MP experience, but after the full session I deemed it still fun to do. But now I got myself a headset for XBL I think it will come in right handy to urge people to decide to play when others are waiting to get a group going in the waiting room sections!
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Just to update this, I first bought a used PS3, so I have a PSN account even though I sold my PS3 to pay the bills, I had to buy an Xbox to keep gaming and I went through 4 of them thanks to RRoD which I invited at first in attempt to fix the issue myself. Two parted Xboxes initially got me several months of play and a stack of games, and I still hope to be PS3 in the future, if there is one?!?!?
Xbox at the used price is $120 or so USA. And I find that quite better then the $300 for PS3 still.
My idea was to buy the PS3 based on long term use of PS as my own opinion was the PS controller like you, very easy to associate with, however, with GTA's familiar controls, the Xbox360 one adapted easier then I thought and initially felt bigger.
But now feels somewhat small in my hands! I also have to submit my Gamertag so you can see me online as well, I'm SlammanGrande.
Set up the Gamertag after my old one faltered. It is signed up for use but I can't get it working (TheGMmadman)
I would prefer to revamp my new Gamertag to GrandeSlamman, and yeah, the name had some bearing on my fondness for Red Dead Redemption. Tried tying it in loosely
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I bought Episodes for PC, partly for the lower price, the other reason being I am a console user from the outset.
From my Gamertag and online status of other members, I only see GTA4 listings for PC and the console, in Xbox Live. So that is interesting, being new to online myself.
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In my new online entertainment, I find avoiding streaming audio on my PC, the Xbox Live feature Last.FM is available for free and pretty interesting, though I was hoping for more a'la carte music videos on Zume or something, here you at least have Wiki data and photos on an HD viewing set if available on your end. It's pretty nice. Still lacking and some data is off the mark, but for the most part, very effective. This service can certainly use some expansion and more material better fitting the genre and artist particular channels
Have you got this? Use it? Have your membership with Last.FM?
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Even though I bought the game for PC, I only just recently bought a Quad Core and set that up in a nVidia based board with the 7100 chip built in, so it will actually bypass the GeForce 7100 internal graphics to use PCIexpress Palit card I obtained Geforce 8600 model with 512MB DDR3 graphics Ram. Not a bad one for the price, but I hear it can be iffy still for GTA gaming, though it's officially recommended, oddly.
I wonder, was anyone else dismayed by the extra long load time, I seemed to encounter, I was putting together a YouTube clip showing the loading on my Acer Aspire laptop with it's own Core Dual. However, it lacked the right graphics with Intel chipset, but it was basically a test that took seemingly forever. Hence, I am hoping to still get an Xbox360 copy used, but there are none!! hahaha
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Guys, everyone needs to keep in mind, look back at the history reported for RDR.... it was seen in development since 2005 I read. That's a hella long time. To get a game that impressive requires more then the older 2 year wait. It's always hard on the maker's end to pound out some successor if they hit their mark after many years of build up, the games have gotten better, but it also has gotten bigger in scope, bigger in budget, and hit and miss with new hardware, programming for every new thing that comes along, that's tough work, I am always impressed as Hell by what we are seeing, but one should not take this work for granted either, I'd expect it to take a lot longer the better it gets. Sadly, the price to pay, but what speeds things along are two fold, the staff size, and learned techniques that are employed in new guises
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My mate/friend Mike is really rooting for a Vice City successor, the landscape flat, the game grows long in the tooth with Vice City Stories (VC 2!!<-) but I can see the 80s being covered again in some form, just that the locations we have already had served duty in revision already. I want a new location, one proving so detail-dripping-euphoria inducing as Red Dead Redemption's vast new map, and almost thinking we should have Rockstar San Diego doing much of the work, or jointly, perhaps!??
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I haven't been away from Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption in awhile, but I am just getting started online with XboxLive for the first time ever, picked up a headset and have been using a USB keyboard since I got sorted with a new GamerTag. Judging from starting all over again, none of my gaming history is really attributed to the Live Gamertag yet, but I hope to see friends and some enemies perhaps, online in XBL
I will need tips and in-sight as to how Games for Windows on PC works, when I look at Gamertags from my console, I see GTA4 PC listed, for example. Never looked into details when I was dialup, even though I signed on to YouTube before I had broadband and made use of that service with Dialup back in the day!
I am also not sure where we have a topic for this, General Gaming subject, rather then specific to GTA.
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Dudes!! Dudettes...
Carcer City is Where it's at....
Literally
Ok, just a well educated guess-timate, but I think Carcer City just begs to be it's own GTA platform and I seriously would not rule it out!!
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... I don't know any people who bought it personally, I did contribute some ideas before it was even released to DS, and as far as PSP apps go, the Killer App was something I suggested with the GTA Stories series, and I still feel they are must owns for fans of the series, so no doubt I will get it at some point...just a question of when!
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I just, and I mean JUST bought the recommended Quad core recommended, I think it was 2.3Ghz, the 9300? Anyway, it was $120 for that CPU locally. I have 2 GB ram, two 775 motherboards, and those were about $40 each.
I have a palit 8600 nVidia I believe is 512MB and haven't employed it just yet, either, glad to see I got the right group of hardware, but it's over $200 in all.
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I've no idea but this was probably a top of the range machine back in late 08 / early 09... and I would imagine it was an nVidia... so whatever their best GPU was back then. The computers were running Windows 7.
As for your friend I doubt he would get an invite to any future events. Those of us who are lucky enough to get invited have been on the scene for at least 7 years or so. We still run our sites today and of course they are among the biggest out there. It's almost like a reward for our continued dedication to supporting both R* and the GTA series. It's for that reason alone really, no matter how hard your friend works on his site. There's also plenty of other great sites out there, especially European ones, who don't get invited. Of course they can't invite everyone. I'm just fortunate to be one that is
We've both been into GTA since circa 2003. Both members of GTA net's GTA Forums, but there's problems there that caused the germ of having this new site formulated. It will take time to really find an audience, but we have a good start it seems. We're both staying committed to what type of game GTA is, the benchmark for Freeroam mission based adventure. The 3D reality in small scale with it's AI. that's what makes RDR so interesting as well!
As far as their computers, do you know what brand they were? Or only via the desktop?
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Hey all,
Just want to relate I recently bought another used Xbox360, as I had enough from some money coming in to do so, and I started playing GTA4 for hours on end. All of a sudden the 360 dashboard pops up and the game reboots, I basically was trying to re-enter the game undisturbed. When this happened again about twice IIRC, I noticed in my haste I bypassed the first Dashboard error message.
The disc was rejected for read errors and would not commence further game play, so it reboots and loads from the creditscreen.
Needless to add, I was screwed, blued, and (not) tattooed.
At this point, after realizing I needed time to test the performance, I took out the disc to notice small scratches and buff marks. I feared the laser was scratching my priceless GTA4 disc!! I can't tell you the anxiety level for that! BUT, using paper towel and some Windex, got it nice and shiny again.
Now, Windex is not recommended for most surfaces that could be susceptible to harsh chemicals, but for my uses, it does do a great job on the PSP shell, as well as some CRT or LCD, but it is not advised, Due to it taking off protective layers. You need something that can work in place of glass cleaner so look for something similar I'd say.
Most important, back up that game data!!! I regret it and you will too once the crash occurs
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I saw the PSP version, It's $30 USD here only not used, just new copies for sale. I am on the fence but it looked good from the demo I was watching online, the less then 3D graphics have me less enthused about it, but Rockstar still make interesting games and hearing that RDR will be like GTA as we know it, there's more to look forward to. I want more PSP games like The Warriors, bottom line. That one is ACE
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I'd like to submit that a good friend of mine online just started his own GTA dedicated site, GTAHole, I would refer to him as the Webmaster, and he already lives in New York... Queens. So I hope Rockstar North might give him an invite at some point. He's not too young of a character, and he's getting his feet wet with an actual web site build, so let's wish him luck. The idea of too many GTA based sites doesn't present a problem to me, and you gotta luv the name as well!
I read that report, and am still curious, what GPU they got running GTA4? Did they ramp those machines up since GTA4 and GTA Episodes? I imagine the 6GB Ram. I found with my laptop card reader and a flash card, I can use that card to speed up the Vista OS, and that could work for gaming if possible at all.
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OK, I need a more layman newbie answer, I gamed the previous GTAs on PC, but the magnitude of the GTA4 series is such that I only used the two consoles. You can download the games and other things with LIVE, or you can stay offline and buy the DVDs. I bought them and I normally play them offline, so what do I need to know this being my case? Are the patches added already to the store released discs??
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I bought mine on the release day and filmed the initial install process for YT, it was on a Dell Latitude laptop, where, you can imagine, the likelyhood of running the game is slim to none. Only a 4200 64MB nVidia card on it! a Centrino 1.73Ghz...which if running around 1.8Ghz and a dual core...would be up to par I think. the most video Ram for this one is 128MB, and I had a Quadro card I wound up misplacing sadly. Still hoping to test that when I find it.
If you put up YouTube clips, as I plan to do, offer us a link or a thread for that perhaps?
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I bought my copy of Episodes for PC, Games for Windows LIVE...
All that jive.
Noticed a few hoops you have to go thru installing the PC version which is on two DVD ROMs. One such event is an online varification that you got your copy in complience with the release day Rockstar officially set. Not a whole lotta fun is had doing this, which requires the Internet. You also need Windows LIVE for games, I got regular LIVE for Vista when I bought it, though I doubt it will help me run the game ...
My main intent for your response is about how your computer is handling the game for PC, exclusively. I read about some new patches [i'd like a link to get the ones I need!] that the PC version is said to suffer, and that alone really worried me, do I need an Xbox360 copy as well? If not, I dunno, I still feel the need to cover my as* if it presents too many issues. My top end machine is running GTA SA nicely at least, and it's taken some time to get that hardware, since the game came out!
Rockstar are using 6GB machines to run this sucker?!? That's more then I can manage, that's for sure
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I'm not a modder, nor online player, so this thread should help people like me who are playing SanAndreas as single player on console or PC. I don't see a current thread off the top. In my case, I bought the PC version and finally got enough horse power to get it running at some good speed. The PS2 console in the past has never let me down and that's how I've played the previous GTA games. I took my PS2 controller over to the PC and laptops I use, so I could game with comfort in mind.
The keyboard and mouse are totally alien to me. I use keyboard gaming for MAME and Apple software from the 1980s though.
I would like to know how you cope with PC and console differences for one, I find it harder to game on the PC for a few reasons. One is certainly aiming in the direction you need or want to be facing! Auto and manually aim via the USB adapted PS2 controller gave me a different experience then using it natively on the PS2. I don't know why that is exactly, One might think the analog might actually be stepped up!
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Yeah, the title was harmlessly chosen. I couldn't hit on something at the time, so now it's Fanclub
I agree that the one analog feels strange. Controllers have always been an issue to efficient gaming?
I like the multiple colors...if only, Sony!?
I don't know as well the selections of games Worldwide, the ones I see sold locally, used and new.
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I used my laptop webcam to cap some screen shots and I'd intended to upload them to PB but let's see if I can get it working directly;
Attaching the image and it doesnt appear here?!?
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Just being present for another Rockstar Opus some years back, there were many who argued at length about the validity of having a number then followed by names for the games in a series on a console. It seemed Rockstar had a plan to break down the GTAs into a more in-depth series, VC, SA, LC, which while LC one might think of GTA3, which most people call GTA 3 when referring to. One could just associate Liberty City with any one of THREE games released, hell, even 4! (GTA4?!?!) That being, the original GTA3, Nintendo DS and PSP's ChinaTown Wars LC, and LC Stories as well as GTA4.
Well, it should be known the re-visioned Liberty City is out of a fondness to properly represent New York for Rockstar North, much to the city leader's chagrin of course! haha
Taking that map and using it for CTW and using the old Liberty City revamped for PSP Stories.
one can tell how someone new to the franchise would have trouble just placing a number after GTA as a game to announce what was their favorite, or game they were referring to in general
As GTA 5, we are pretty much agreeing that is a good name to follow up 4 with, since there were no plans stated as to a location as late as last year when Dan Houser was interviewed and asked about the status.
My own opin is that GTA5 or GTA6 be placed around Carcer City.
Even if Carcer City were to be removed as a fictional city represented, I think, perhaps Detroit in particular comes to mind when I think about it, but the ads in GTA San Andreas promoting tourism to Carser crack me up to this day. Still very amusing to think of what they could actually do with a vivid Carcer 3D map.
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I don't, however, when you can get a nice spot, some steady Broadband, it's often search, search, search for new vids you might have missed. I got "turned on" to the free porn sites, I didn't actually go looking, but I've given up magazines, though I collected still pics off the Net, vids are the only way to go nowadays!
But enough chit-chat.. Let's talk about SEX, baby, Let's talk about You and Me... (Salt N Pepper)
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Hi guys/gals
Want to do a more specific thread about PSP, at this point in the handheld's time on the market, what would be the ultimate MUST own games or UMD discs released so far? What's the best accessory? Model?
What have you used? I myself am on the third PSP original "fatty"
Got the firmware updated with a download from the Sony Site and then moved to Duo card, was the easiest method.
I like the options associated though with Homebrew options, one must watch the Firmware versions and that's another story. Mine was always updated too far to reverse the version installed.
I bought one UMD movie and have a hard time deciding on any others to get, almost voting for LOST and Dave Chappelle shows.
The racing games I started with out of a long standing fondness, but I think having the licensed radio of Liberty and Vice City Stories on the PSP, via headphones where the volume sounds better, makes those two games a lot of fun, though like others, I have a hard time without two analog sticks. I think the re-design Must add two analog controls if at all possible. Making it thinner was nice, but it perhaps needs to put on some weight to accommodate better ergonomics
Lord Save Us From Your Followers
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I'm raised a Lutheran Christian, better then Catholic. The problem with Man's Religious stance is that he is only Man, you have to still have Ultimate Faith in a Higher Power then Mortal man. Some people who don't wish to die and go to Hell just believe you die and never wake up or perhaps, are born again, not as human but re-incarnated as a butterfly or horse? What I'm saying is why should your stance that there is no God be correct all of a sudden, if you're a mere mortal taking guesses about such things.
Your proof perhaps not more valid then our own, however, Man surely did not create life or the Universe