DuffMan

You've uploaded more than 20MB of stuff across all your posts. I've set the limit for gold members to nearer 50MB now. If you hit the limit again you'll need to delete old attachments here: http://www.igta5.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=attachments

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Well you know that's all fine and dandy, but there are only so many scripted events you can squeeze onto a disc/develop in reasonable time when you could instead add more things to the general gameplay. I would rather have the .wav sounds for a grenade launcher than "get 2 dogs to watch your house while you gone and when you just coming home from a mission you can see your dogs attacking someone that was trying to break in your house" because that's something I'd do in the tutorial mission and never again. For every gameplay feature they have to include a tutorial mission. I found RDR enough of a drag and GTA IV wasn't that much better tbh. If they put every single one of your ideas in, there would be no time to work on anything else, no space to put anything else in, and no one would be interested in playing long enough to get into the proper story missions. Some of your ideas might make someone think, "yeah, maybe that would be cool" but there are a lot of better things they could do instead. For instance, they're obviously going to be working hard on the social element of the game in GTA V and try to include the Social Club more. If they're going to do that, I'd rather they do it properly that spend time adding "you can see riots in the city and you can see people running out the stores with tv's and bikes and motorcycles" because that would be completely meaningless unless it was in the context of the story, and in that case it would only work once before it got boring. Remember in GTA SA, when you returned to Los Santos, there was the mass looting and you could see smoke pouring from rooftops? It only needed to happen once and they didn't need to do much to achieve the effect, meaning more time to work on cool shit like the Transfender garages that you could use at any time for a bit of break. If they spent more time on it and made it a more substantial part of the game, it would have taken development away from another area and you would lose a bit of the fun for something pointless. A lot of people found the 'friends' thing in GTA IV irritating, being phoned up every 5 minutes to go bowling. For me, a regular "there is a riot" message with episodes of not being able to go anywhere without being shot would be even more annoying than that.

I miss a lot of the old gang cars. Whatever they do I hope they use some high quality engine/exhaust notes for GTA V. I want muscle cars with the large capacity V8 rumble and supercars with the V12 shriek. Cars like the Diablo Stallion with proper sound would be brilliant.

Yay psychø. Old sig/av too How you doin?

Game Of The Year Oblivion and Fallout 3 both allowed you to install the expansion packs on to the 360 hdd, and you didn't have to put the discs in again. Everyone else is just lazy, it would seem. That was different. They were DLC packs already available on the Marketplace, just pre-loaded onto discs.

It's crazy to think we can routinely get 32GB onto SDHC cards, which are small enough to fit inside cameras. SDXC cardscan/will support up to 2TB as well but we're 'only' up to 128GB atm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SDXC ). I think a return to cartridges may be inevitable eventually, in some form or another.

I think MS is backing downloadable games rather than Blu-ray or another optical format for this gen. Optical discs don't offer the read speeds you need to stream or copy hi-res textures and other data to the cache. By the time the next Xbox comes out they could use some kind of proprietary USB flash drive to run or install games from, or something. The new Thunderbolt port offers something like 10Gbps transfer speeds and USB 3.0 isn't too shabby either, and 64GB USB drives are already getting cheap, so the technology is there.

?? No they haven't. They backed HD-DVD for movies but didn't use it for games. It's a pity they didn't because there would have been no reason to give up on it even after BD won the format war.

Microsoft is going to need to get their finger out and allow content discs to be installed to the hard drive. The motion capture data just takes up too much space (and will leave a 10 disc version for the 360 if they include the full-body motion that's being rumoured). They're releasing a new format in the next dashboard update so they can squeeze another GB or so but that's going to be no where near enough. Also I thought the PS3 supported dual layer BDs? So just have one dual layer BD for 50GB rather than 2 25s...

They're getting better - better than the U.S. governments one anyway. The one you posted? That isn't the US governments. The one I posted matches CNNs description better http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/03/even-more-on-the-photos/?hpt=T1 Not necessarily saying it's real ofc.

Topic can stay here, nothing wrong with it.

I had it preordered since February but cancelled it last week after one of the top brass said the singleplayer would take 6 hours to complete. Not good enough imo and certainly not worth £35. I might buy it when it hits like £20 or I might rent it some time, but I'm not buying it new.

Dubai isn't atmospheric. It's very clinical/stale imo. There isn't much diversity there either and it's such a new city that it has no history to play on. The only two things Dubai has got going for it are 1) nice cars and 2) tall buildings. But when everyone drives a nice car, all you're left with is tall buildings, which don't make a good GTA game. A riches to rags story would be bad too. Maybe from riches to rags to riches, sort of like Vice City in a way, but finishing the game on the bottom step doesn't make sense, nor would I find it enjoyable.

I think IPS hosts the chat, so if they go down you can't connect and we can't do anything about it. I may be completely wrong though.

So do the custom member titles unlock at 100 posts again or something? It's 75 atm, but we have ranks up to 2500 posts so that might go up in the future.

The dots are related to post count. The title under your avatar is also linked to post count. Rep is a different system with different titles.

Yeah it's all working. Cheers.

Need a goldie to confirm. I don't think normal members had the issue in the first place.

Should be fixed now? I think it only affected gold members.

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I saw that too. http://www.igta5.com/gta5-confirmed-by-lead-voice-on-twitter

Do you get FTP access with your hosting? If you do you can use a client like FileZilla to upload an entire folder in one click (drag and drop) and just leave it to work in the background. The built in file managers most hosts use are pathetic and useless for most sites.

I think the fourth could have worked. The one they used was the best out of those but I still don't think it looks quite right.