WTB wrote:
Is anybody else waiting this out for the PC version?
It's going to be painful.
I'm going to see how the console versions perform first, Eurogamer will have a Digital Foundry write-up done pretty sharpish I suspect.
If the 360 version is as good as the PS3 version, and the PS3 version is as good as it seems to look in the trailers, then I'll probably go for that as I've already got a 360.
If however the PS3 version is substantially better, then I could be persuaded to get a PS3 pretty much just for this game (and Pinball Arcade). I can only assume there's a reason why all the footage released thus-far is from the PS3 version.
All that said though, if it performs anything like GTAIV did on the consoles, then I'm definitely going to hang on for the PC version. There's no question that the 360 and PS3 versions of GTAIV were desperate shonky messes from a technical perspective, massively gimped in every regard and they still ran like utter horeshit with framerates often crashing down into the low teens and input lag that could be measured in days - to the extent that it really did impact on the game itself.
I'd like to be amazed by GTAV on the consoles but have they really managed to find that much untapped power in them since GTAIV? It remains to be seen.
TBH I hope they have 'cause for my money GTA is a console game, and I can play it on the big telly with proper 5:1 sound whilst sat on the sofa drinking a beer, but I'm not prepared to accept so many game-affecting technical issues a second time around.