TheMightyEthan
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GTA V. I liked it a lot. One thing I thought it lacked though was a sense of moving up in the (criminal under-) world that previous GTA's have had.
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@Dean: Yeah, I was always getting those two games confused too.
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Driver software checks for its own updates now, just like everything else.
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I know that's super vague, I wish I could articulate better but it's been 10 years. The map definitely is not what I'm talking about though. I guess more than anything it just seemed the vibe just seemed more "fun" to me (and I don't mean the gameplay). GTA 3 and especially 4 are so dreary (though I loved them), and San Andreas and V have their own thing, but Vice City has that frivolous fun aspect to the culture and everything that isn't in the other games. I understand that part of how they accomplished that was through the 80's setting, but I feel that there are other ways you could get that same kind of "fun" feel in a tropical city without having to have it set in the 80's.
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What I meant was that they're not creating a realistic simulation of an actual city, they're satirizing society, which necessarily includes leeway in how you approach the satire. It's not as though society in the 80's is so different from now that it's unrecognizable. I'd have to play Vice City again to be sure, but I'm fairly confident the things I liked about the feel of it (sorry I can't be more specific than that, it's been 10 years) could survive the transition to a modern setting.
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I don't see why they couldn't capture a similar feel in a "modern" time setting. It's not like they're bound by reality.
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By issues with Tomb Raider do you mean the hair? Cause I hardly feel like that counts, you just turn it off, it's not like it's an important aspect of the game.
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For the most part these aren't issues anymore. I can't remember the last time I had to fiddle with a game to get it to work with my hardware, and 99% of the time games you'd want to use a controller for just automatically recognize a controller as soon as it's plugged in.
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$30 on Amazon Gold Box (PC, the console versions are $38).
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I never played GTA London, but Vice City is definitely my favorite GTA game thus far. Like I said, I love the aesthetic. Of course if they want to do something entirely new that's fine too, I was just thinking of the ones they've already done.
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I hope the next one they do is in Vice City. That one had my favorite aesthetic.
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I think it's marketing, and if they wanted to make it work on older series cards they could. Not saying something about the hardware on the 600+ ones doesn't make it easier, but short of getting an nVidia engineer in here to explain it I'm not going to believe it's impossible.
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I've always assumed it's a marketing thing that requires a 650 or higher for Shield. Especially considering that in terms of raw performance my 470 is better than a 650, but for some reason it won't do Shield when the 650 will.
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Whether or not a given GPU can run a given game is an entirely separate issue from whether it's feasible to stream games quickly across a home network. There's no reason that if a PC can play Game X at Settings Y and Resolution Z that it shouldn't be able to send that video output signal to a dumb terminal on the other side of the house at settings at or close to Y and Z with little perceptible latency. It's just a matter of developing the software to actually do it.
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Come on, you know he meant no perceptible lag. It's marketed as being capable of it, that doesn't mean it's designed with it in mind. I'd hazard a guess that Valve probably has a lot more money to throw at the problem than Splashtop or the VNC guys.
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Okay, but what I'm saying is the latency is introduced in the software that converts the screen output to a network signal and back. There is plenty of bandwidth available, and if you can run a game locally with no lag you can obviously generate the pixels you need. It's just a software problem and is solvable. I'm not saying image quality will necessarily be just like having your desktop plugged directly into the TV, but there's definitely room for improvement without requiring better hardware. Current streaming solutions are mostly designed with productivity use in mind, which is much less latency dependent. Again, if my PS3 can do it then my PC definitely has the horsepower to do it.
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Yeah, I'm rolling in money on the scale of upgrading cars and stuff, but I've only bought like 3 businesses total, and they were cheap ones.
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It's not the network and PC that struggles (my home network is 100 Mb/s with <1 ms latency), it's the software side of it. Totally a solvable problem. If the PS3 can do it then a PC can do it too. From what I've heard Shield doesn't have the latency problem, and I know from experience the PS3/Vita streaming doesn't.
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And you were making fun of me for thinking remote play was a nice feature. None of those are really fast enough for anything but slow strategy games, there's too much latency for anything that requires fast responses. Splashtop has been quite nice for streaming XCOM, Civ V, Reus, Godus, etc to my laptop though.
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Yeah, he's obviously a horrible person, he just improves to the point that I no longer dislike him as a character.
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This. Also Jimmy's not voiced by Jonah Hill, but I can see why you said that. He even kind of looks like him.
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Nope, mobile only.
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It's still computer readable, so you can copy the files to a PC to back them up. I think it's FAT32.
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I'm finding I'm enjoying Trevor's psychosis more on some of these later missions (both main and side). I think I just had some of the stuff that bothered me all crammed right together, giving me a negative impression of him (as a character, obviously as a person he's horrible no matter what). I still don't have any desire to play as him when I don't have to, but when I do I don't mind it like I did before.
