Grand Theft Auto IV Coming to PC in October?

External Since: Nov 15, 2004 Posts: 1105

Mark Morrison wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:13:52 +0000, Shawk <shawk.TakeThisOut@clara.co.uk.3guesses>
> wrote:
>
>> Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding price, the fact you can get a whole console for the price of
>>> a single graphics card says a lot more about the state of the PC
>>> market than the console market!
>>
>> Or perhaps it says more about me... I'd still buy something for the PC
>> first. I've never been good at breaking habits.
>
> As an incentive. a 360 supports avi's. etc, so if you watch a lot of
> downloaded stuff (TV, movies, etc), it's a great way of watching it on
> a TV. And you can network it to your PC, too.

That's not helping...

External Since: May 18, 2005 Posts: 50

noman wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:59:41 GMT, Sheldon England
> <sheldoenengland DeleteThis @netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> What good is a console if I need to work on a website or multimedia
>> project?
>>
>> What good is a console if I'm working on a tax spreadsheet?
>>
>> Most important of all ... can consoles download Internet pr0n? ;p
>
> You can do all that on PS3, since it allows installation of another OS
> by partitioning the hard-disk. There are Linux distributions already
> that support PS3.
>
> The PS3 firmware itself is quite capable. Being DLNA aware, it can
> stream media over LAN through various media servers including Windows
> Media Player, TVersity etc. It can play divx, xvid, mpeg2, mp4 and wma
> files and it also upscales them to 1080P over HDMI cable.

Is this true? Is that just with vanilla ps3 or with a linux distro
installed or due to the media streaming? I'd read somewhere the ps3
couldn't playback avi files etc.
I am more interested in its media centre abilities than playing games on
it at this point in time.

>
> Ironically, it's the PS3's media/application centric stuff that I have
> been more impressed with. The games, while looking great in 1080P and
> sounding awesome too, are decent. The controller is the biggest
> hindrance to enjoying an FPS. There's no way, I'd try Bioshock, HL2,
> TF2 or STALKER on a console. I downloaded the demo of
> Uncharted:Drake's Fortune over PSN, and found the combat portions
> getting drawn out because of the game-controller. It's not even an
> FPS. And by the way, I do have a dual-analog controller on my PC and
> that's what I used for Psychonauts, BG&E, PoP, Tomb Raider and even
> adventure games like Indigo Prophecy. When it works well, a controller
> is awesome, like a joystick is great for flight-sims and space-sims
> and mouse+keyboard is for FPS.
>
> If GTA4 plays somewhat like the GTA3 games, I am pretty sure I'll get
> it on the PC.
>
> Platformers and driving games though feel and play great on PS3. It'd
> be a tricky decision by the time the next Prince of Persia game comes
> out whether to pick it up on PC or PS3.
> --
> Noman

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