For some reason, probably because of the promotional posters, i thought one of the playable characters was a woman.

Not likely; there's be a massive outcry from mouth-breathing teenagers and basement dwelling man-children all over the globe. God forbid one of the biggest game developers in the world attempt to drag the community into the 21st century or anything.

Think about what she'd be doing, man.

Also, I think Rockstar are pretty good in this regard - I mean, they made an Eastern European the main character of GTA4.

I didn't mean Ruy's specific idea of "spoiled and drug addicted young girl" because yes, that would be weird and counter-productive (which is why I didn't quote that part of his post); simply the idea of a playable female character.

Why would it? Isn't gta used to portray highly flawed characters?

And why the need too use the "counter productive" words.

Surely it should be readable to tell a story about a women without the need to make a political statement.

I can't see many useful application of spoiled drug addict to a game mission structure is all. Scoring drugs and, what, leeching money from rich parents as side missions or something? I dunno, the character as described by you just sounded like a very weird fit as a playable character. A side character used in the plot I can absolutely see; but anything else would make that an odd choice.



I'm coming from the point of view of more representation of women in games as playable characters, and for a high profile game to actually introduce a woman just to make the character a spoiled drug addict wouldn't be very productive in my view. The character as described by you doesn't sound just flawed but entirely defined by flaws; there's a difference.



I don't really know what this sentence means.

I meant "feasible". Damn autocorrection!

Well, why not a kind of "Lindsay Lohan" simulator? You play as a well known actress who has to try to keep her image while trying to avoid the police and papparazzi. Could make for some cool vehicle chases set pieces.

I didn't come here for a lecture in feminism.

Well I'm all out of 'your mum' jokes.

Rockstar giving every GTA Online player $500,000

The GTA$ payment will be made in two $250, 000 instalments to, “keep the current worldwide in-game economy balanced” and Rockstar are hoping to make the first payment as soon as the end of next week. That depends on if they can locate and fix the issue causing, “causing game progress loss”. You’ll also need an upcoming GTA Online 1.04 update that’s, “expected to fix the remaining instances of issues that have caused vehicle purchase loss and will also enable the functionality through which we’ll be providing this GTA$ stimulus cash to players”.

The message from the studio is that, “We hope this GTA$ helps to facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued life in Los Santos and Blaine County extra sweet”.

Here are more details on how to claim it:

You must play or have played Grand Theft Auto Online at any time during the month of October 2013 in order to qualify for the GTA$500,000 deposit in your in-game bank account.
Players will first have to install a forthcoming GTAV title update which we expect to happen next week. That title update (1.04) is expected to fix the remaining instances of issues that have caused vehicle purchase loss and will also enable the functionality through which we’ll be providing this GTA$ stimulus cash to players.
We will announce at the Rockstar Newswire when each deposit is made.
Each of the two GTA$250,000 deposits will be made by Rockstar and should automatically appear in the in-game GTA Online bank accounts of eligible players. Beyond downloading the forthcoming title update mentioned above, there should not be any additional special action required by eligible players to redeem.

Is it taxing the ability of the consoles to the limit? Yes
Does the frame rate drop through the floor on occasions? Yes
Is it full of jaggies? Yes
Is it unplayable? Of course not, it is perfectly playable. Sure it would be better on stronger hardware, and I expect it will be in a year when it is released on PC or next gen or whatever, but I'm happy to put GTAV in my top ten games ever, even with the graphical and frame rate issues.

Congratulations on ruining games for yourself.

I thought the eye could only see 40fps?

What is a "jaggy"? Is that, like, the same as pop up? Or pop down? Or pop pop you can't stop?

I love that you explained that, Bamba.

Well I guess everyone's threshold for what they're prepared to put up with in terms of technical issues before they render a game unplayable for them personally is going to be different.

I put up with it in GTAIV but my expectations have changed since then, I'm used to super-smooth, pin-sharp and consistent 2560x1440@60FPS gameplay, I'm used to a reload or restart of a mission being basically instantaneous, I'm used to totally lag-free controls, that's pretty much my baseline now, and GTAV simply doesn't stack up. I was doing one of the early driving missions and I'm just like 'why is my screen full of horrible low resolution jaggies lurching around at 20FPS and why are the controls like wading through treacle?' - it broke it for me, it wasn't fun. It probably didn't help that I was playing it on the big 40 inch telly which is very unforgiving on that sort of thing.

I'm almost certainly going to get a PS4 not too long after it's released, and I'll play GTAV on that, and I'm sure I'll enjoy it just fine

By all accounts most folks don't care about how GTAV runs, the mate I borrowed it off is primarily a PC gamer and he had a raft of problems with the game on a technical level, but for him the game itself transcended those problems and he all but 100% completed it. For me it tipped the other way and I couldn't tolerate it - but that's just a personal choice, surely?

I couldnt help read this and think of someone jacking it to nice porn then finding out (most) real women arent like that.
"yeah but im used to multiple angle POV insertions, high resolution and volume cumshots, and a size 6, 32DD 18yr old nymphomaniac who loves deepthroat".

Except that PCs actually exist in real life and AE owns one so, in your metaphor, surely he's already got a real woman who does everything you mention there? The lesson he needs to learn is to stop 'slumming it' (by his standards) as he's destined always to be disappointed.

The lesson he needs to learn is to stop 'slumming it' (by his standards) as he's destined always to be disappointed.

I thought the eye could only see 40fps?