Comments on: The Sunday Papers

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:44:16 +0000

Sad to say it, but cyrenic is right.

This is similar to what happened with Crytek and the first Crysis. Crytek expected X number of sales, but when everyone heard about how graphic intensive the game was, they assumed they wouldn’t be able to run it, so they didn’t purchase the game. This lead to Crytek crying about the whole deal and saying PC gaming was dead.

The same will happen with GTA4. Not everyone that has the game for the Xbox is going to buy it for PC. I am kicking myself in the ass for getting a 360 just to play GTA4. I loved the game to bits, but I’m just pissed that I got impatient and bought a 360 to play it. I should have waited for it to come out on the PC. Oh well. But I’ve already played GTA4 and even though I know it’ll be much more awesome on the PC, I’m not going to get it for the PC… too many other games to play.

As a side note… I haven’t turned my 360 on since GTA4 came out… crazy no? What a waste of money that was, lol.

By: cyrenic

cyrenic — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:37:37 +0000

GTA IV will sell ok on the PC, it won’t meet the publishers unrealistically high sales projections, piracy will be blamed, clueless game pundits will claim PC gaming is dead.

You heard it here first. Film at 11.

By: Morph

Morph — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:11:11 +0000

I’m honestly not Kieron pretending to be an anoymous poster, but this seems as good an opportunity as any to say I just read Phonogram: Rue Britania and it was brilliant.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:59:50 +0000

are the bold links in articles gone again? or just my side.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:59:15 +0000

good reads. i agree with mogs on top, GTA4 is yawn to me, whether on a console or the pc. i suspect most pc gamers who cared about it already played through it on one of the consoles they own.

somehow i don’t forsee anyone rushing out to buy a second copy of the game (until its in the bargain bin).

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:26:16 +0000

Wow, you guys went up a whole bunch in my estimation. I remember being switched onto RftC a good 15 years ago or so, after wobbling back in from the local, switching on the TV, and seeing them on TFI Friday doing Born in 69. Grabbed everything I could find of theirs the next day and been a fan ever since, although never got to see them live. Good ol’ days (sniff). Didn’t hurt that I was actually born in 69 either.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:19:07 +0000

Providing my PC meets the requirements, I will get GTA4.

Perfect DRM is having the company send over armed interns to your house to verify. Nobody reads the EULA and that’s how they get you.

I was always interested in Eve Online, but my last comp could not handle it, or anything really, and my interest has heavily waned despite getting a comp 3 or 4x better.

By: drewski

drewski — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:41:02 +0000

GTA4 will sell by the bucketloads on PC, and GFW will still be a useless irrelevance that nobody cares about.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:39 +0000

“everyone truly interested in the series would’ve probably bought it on the consoles by now if we’re honest”

Nah, not really.

By: Darth Benedict

Darth Benedict — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:32:45 +0000

I’ve just come up with the perfect DRM system. You put a spring loaded boxing glove into every game box. That way, everyone who buys your game will get a punch in the face and you won’t accidentally annoy any pirates.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:13:17 +0000

I can only imagine that R* got tied into some GFW PC Exclusivity deal with GTAIV as a clause in the $50 million DLC deal, because there seems to be absolutely no logical reason for them to choose GFW over Steam, esp given how well their back catalog has done on Steam. Personally I’ll be buying it retail for the box & artwork, but I’m hoping that somewhere down the line it ends up on Steam as well (The Witcher was/is GFW).

By: DSX

DSX — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:31:48 +0000

@subedii “…gamepad support, were genuinely good steps towards making a better platform”

Disagree. It forces developers to simplify games in order to minimize the number of commands, menus and available input options. It forces them to trade off the complexity and precision a mouse and keyboard can provide for a brick with a stick.