I thought of something else to write about (moan about), GTA IV. Easily the most anticipated game to come out in the last few years, it smashed all sales records. Now I don’t have a problem with the game, its great, I completed it in a couple of days, but I have had a few problems with the disk.
After shopping around when it came out (didn’t pre order) I luckily found it as someone hadn’t collected their copy. Now I’m not a massive supporter of piracy but I feel were getting a bit of a ruff deal. If you preorder you would pay extra, I’m sorry are you not guaranteeing the shop your money. They talk about how they can only produce so many disks for release day (just enough for the preorders though), now i’m not going to claim to be an expert but i’m sure thats bull all they need to do is press some CD’s. Nintendo are well known for keeping demand high by releasing small quantities of their products at a time, but they do it with the hardware (wii board and the console itself) and some how that just seems a little bit less raw.
This is all standard economic way of making the most out of the product and why not they have slaved over it for the last three years and produced something great. But this time they want the money too much, if they were a music artist then they would have well and truely sold out. The first thing which annoyed me was that leaving my disk paused for 2 hours, 2 days after I bought it rendered the disk unreadable, at this point I hadnt even removed it from my X-box since I got it home. The disk was scratched to shit so I can only guess that the laser caused the scratch, this doesn’t happen with any of my other games so I reckon they’ve been cutting CD costs. I got the disk skimmed and it worked again but its started happening again, so there will be another trip down Game shortly.
They have also removed a lot of the violence: People never seem to die properly, they get up after a period of time and try and stagger off. You can’t really lock on to them in this state ( but you can bring them down with a free aimed shot). They have also removed planes, I am assuming that is in relation to the world trade center attacks but San Andreas had them in and that was after 9/11, so this is a bit of an excuse. There are loads more examples which I wont list here.
Now I have been a massive fan of GTA since getting the Demo of GTA 1 of the front of a magazine all those years ago. Now don’t get me wrong you couldn’t stop me from getting the next one (another 4 years) and I am sure it will be great but I hope now Rockstar have become one of the big boys in the game industry they don’t follow EA down the corporate route and ruin the experience, especially since EA made an offer for them earlier in the year.
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GTA IV June 5, 2008
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I thought of something else to write about (moan about), GTA IV. Easily the most anticipated game to come out in the last few years, it smashed all sales records. Now I don’t have a problem with the game, its great, I completed it in a couple of days, but I have had a few problems with the disk.
After shopping around when it came out (didn’t pre order) I luckily found it as someone hadn’t collected their copy. Now I’m not a massive supporter of piracy but I feel were getting a bit of a ruff deal. If you preorder you would pay extra, I’m sorry are you not guaranteeing the shop your money. They talk about how they can only produce so many disks for release day (just enough for the preorders though), now i’m not going to claim to be an expert but i’m sure thats bull all they need to do is press some CD’s. Nintendo are well known for keeping demand high by releasing small quantities of their products at a time, but they do it with the hardware (wii board and the console itself) and some how that just seems a little bit less raw.
This is all standard economic way of making the most out of the product and why not they have slaved over it for the last three years and produced something great. But this time they want the money too much, if they were a music artist then they would have well and truely sold out. The first thing which annoyed me was that leaving my disk paused for 2 hours, 2 days after I bought it rendered the disk unreadable, at this point I hadnt even removed it from my X-box since I got it home. The disk was scratched to shit so I can only guess that the laser caused the scratch, this doesn’t happen with any of my other games so I reckon they’ve been cutting CD costs. I got the disk skimmed and it worked again but its started happening again, so there will be another trip down Game shortly.
They have also removed a lot of the violence: People never seem to die properly, they get up after a period of time and try and stagger off. You can’t really lock on to them in this state ( but you can bring them down with a free aimed shot). They have also removed planes, I am assuming that is in relation to the world trade center attacks but San Andreas had them in and that was after 9/11, so this is a bit of an excuse. There are loads more examples which I wont list here.
Now I have been a massive fan of GTA since getting the Demo of GTA 1 of the front of a magazine all those years ago. Now don’t get me wrong you couldn’t stop me from getting the next one (another 4 years) and I am sure it will be great but I hope now Rockstar have become one of the big boys in the game industry they don’t follow EA down the corporate route and ruin the experience, especially since EA made an offer for them earlier in the year.
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