Grand Theft Auto IV Gone Gold

Cold Storm · Apr 20, 2008

newtekie1 said:
http://www.sonydadc.com/opencms/opencms/sites/am/About_Us/Americas_Facilities/

Yep, one in Terre Haute on North Fruit Ridge. They actually bought another building across the street from it. The current building is being converter to do all Blu-Ray and the second building is going to be their DVD and CD manufacturing facility. I guess they currently can't keep up with the Blu-Ray demand.

wow, that brings back some memories of my home town! I still remember that street! I wouldn't think they could keep up with blu-ray demand ether... up 351% in sales... my god!

jbunch07 · Apr 20, 2008

ive never actually watched a br movie is the IQ really that much better than regular dvd and hd dvd...? all i have seen are the instore demos like at bestbuy and such...they look nice but just thought i would ask before i invest in a br player.

newtekie1 · Apr 20, 2008

jbunch07 said:
ive never actually watched a br movie is the IQ really that much better than regular dvd and hd dvd...? all i have seen are the instore demos like at bestbuy and such...they look nice but just thought i would ask before i invest in a br player.

Yes, the IQ is noticeably better than regular DVDs. Is it good enough to warrant the price of the player? No, not in my opinion. The only reason I went Blu-Ray was because it came with my PS3. Otherwise, regular DVDs are good enough. The IQ isn't any better than HD-DVDs, HD-DVD provides the same HD content as Blu-Ray. However, HD-DVD is dead, so I wouldn't consider buying it at this point.

ShadowFold · Apr 20, 2008

I definantly notice when im watching br vs dvd. Then again I guess I would on a HDTV, huh.

alexp999 · Apr 20, 2008

I can't put into words how much I want this game (sad but true, lol). Can't wait. Checked my order on play the other day. Was interested to see when I had pre-ordered it. Was thinking, yeah it was spring 07 or something.
Turns out I ordered it 18th May 2006 :eek:

.

Can't believe I have waited this long. Have had to make do with:

Crackdown
Saints Row

None are a patch on the GTA series.

Hope we get em early

shoman24v · Apr 21, 2008

Anyone know if this will run native 1080p?

jbunch07 · Apr 21, 2008

shoman24v said:
Anyone know if this will run native 1080p?

very unlikely the gta series have never been very graphical imo

shoman24v · Apr 21, 2008

jbunch07 said:
very unlikely the gta series have never been very graphical imo

If you say it won't be graphically intense then I don't why 1080p isn't possible.

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

According to xbox.com it is 720p. Most games are. There are only a few PS3 and 360 games which run 1080p nativley.
Dont forget, most people sit at a distance which makes the difference between 720p and 1080p negligible.

Its gonna look a damn sight better than san andreas tho.

It actually makes it hard to play original xbox/ps2 games when they look so bad. lol.

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

shoman24v said:
If you say it won't be graphically intense then I don't why 1080p isn't possible.

GTA games still push the hardware. But when you stand there in gta iv. it will be the amount on screen, not the perfection of the graphics that will make your jaw drop.

100's of people all goign about their own thing. Loads of buildings. Zero load times. Much further viewing distance (hopefully no more crappy pop-ins and disapperaing road/scenery at high speed)

It has always been like that. If you compare the graphics of game like DOA and the amount on screen, compared to the size of San andreas... You probably get the idea

jbunch07 · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
GTA games still push the hardware. But when you stand there in gta iv. it will be the amount on screen, not the perfection of the graphics that will make your jaw drop.

100's of people all goign about their own thing. Loads of buildings. Zero load times. Much further viewing distance (hopefully no more crappy pop-ins and disapperaing road/scenery at high speed)

It has always been like that. If you compare the graphics of game like DOA and the amount on screen, compared to the size of San andreas... You probably get the idea

good point...even though it doesn't compare to more graphically intense games such as crysis or cod4 there is always allot of detail and allot going on.

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

The bad thing about MS, and really the thing I hate about their advertising is that they label games like GTA IV as 1080p...The game was made in 720p, and that's its native. I'm actually surprised they haven't been sued yet!

PS3 games don't do this advertising...It's quite OBVIOUS that any game will scale to 1080p, but don't put f'ing 1080p on the box unless it's native...It's just false advertising! Doesn't that remind you of something else, "Vista Certified"... MS is quite good at false advertisement.

Check out the back of one of your Xbox 360 games sometime! Lawsuit coming soon!

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Apr 21, 2008

newtekie1 said:
My Girlfriend's Mother works at the Sony plant in Terre Haute, they started running it Thursday.

Depending on pay and what's open, I should ask you to hook me up and get me away form that nazi concentration camp i call work.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Apr 21, 2008

I cant wait to play this game.

And store stuff in my safety deposit box. XD

paybackdaman · Apr 21, 2008

Lol. Take a look at this. Don't know if it is true or not, but it would be freakin' hilarious if it was. *regards the prostitutes in the game*
http://seriouslynews.com/gta-iv-prostitute-to-look-like-hilary-clinton

Dangle · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
The bad thing about MS, and really the thing I hate about their advertising is that they label games like GTA IV as 1080p...The game was made in 720p, and that's its native. I'm actually surprised they haven't been sued yet!

PS3 games don't do this advertising...It's quite OBVIOUS that any game will scale to 1080p, but don't put f'ing 1080p on the box unless it's native...It's just false advertising! Doesn't that remind you of something else, "Vista Certified"... MS is quite good at false advertisement.

Check out the back of one of your Xbox 360 games sometime! Lawsuit coming soon!

MOS DEF!!! I can't tell you how often I hear noobs telling me CoD4 or GoW can output 1080P. /slap

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
The bad thing about MS, and really the thing I hate about their advertising is that they label games like GTA IV as 1080p...The game was made in 720p, and that's its native. I'm actually surprised they haven't been sued yet!

PS3 games don't do this advertising...It's quite OBVIOUS that any game will scale to 1080p, but don't put f'ing 1080p on the box unless it's native...It's just false advertising! Doesn't that remind you of something else, "Vista Certified"... MS is quite good at false advertisement.

Check out the back of one of your Xbox 360 games sometime! Lawsuit coming soon!

Where did you see this. All I can see on the xbox website is 720p?

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Just read the Official UK xbox magazine review.... OMFG!

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
Where did you see this. All I can see on the xbox website is 720p?

I'm talking on the back of the game box, not a website.

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
I'm talking on the back of the game box, not a website.

Where have you seen the back of the game box?

mandelore · Apr 21, 2008

lol, all the games should be for the pc, then just stripped down a bit and ported to consoles, that way us pc guys dont get shite crappy games that are designed to run on consoles, rather than the awesomeness that is the pc (well some of our pc's anyways)

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
Where have you seen the back of the game box?

I said games LIKE GTA IV, not GTA IV...THere are tons of games that advertise this, and aren't truly native.

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

For example:

Halo 3 doesn't run native HD (by Bungie!)

The latest Bungie Weekly Update has Luke Smith confessing that in fact, Halo 3 doesn't run natively at 720p like all other Xbox 360 games.

The above is blatant false advertisement.

alexp999 · Apr 21, 2008

Ravenas said:
For example:

Halo 3 doesn't run native HD (by Bungie!)

The above is blatant false advertisement.

Oh ok fair enough. Thought you meant GTA in particular.

Don't forget though its doesn't say native resolution. They are supposed to be the supported outputs. Which are true. You will probably be able to output GTA at 1080p, like it will probably say on the box. It just wasnt designed at that resolution.

We never get told the native resolution for PC games and you got people running games at 1920x1200 when the designers may have only designed the game at 1280x800 resolution.

Ravenas · Apr 21, 2008

alexp999 said:
Oh ok fair enough. Thought you meant GTA in particular.

Don't forget though its doesn't say native resolution. They are supposed to be the supported outputs. Which are true. You will probably be able to output GTA at 1080p, like it will probably say on the box. It just wasnt designed at that resolution.

We never get told the native resolution for PC games and you got people running games at 1920x1200 when the designers may have only designed the game at 1280x800 resolution.

Lol every PS3 game lists the native resolution...It's blatant false advertising. Of course every game will scale to 1080p...

Put it this way, if you have a 1080p TV and you go out and buy a game that says 1080p and you can obviously see it's not...That's a no no...I've been very pissed over the situation...

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