I bought GTA4 for PC, I already own it on PS3 but I thought since it is rendered in 1x1px on the PS3 I would give it a go on my computer.

My computer is not very good at playing GTA4.

Oh well.

*sob*

I played APB for like 2-3 hours the other night. APB blows, very dissapointing! Missions were all pretty samey, everyone who played was bad or something. It was funny listening to manchildren scream at me when I crash into them as I'm SUPPOSED to be trying to help them escape :-) I guess that's a redeeming factor: Manchildren will scream at you.
I assume this is true for every online game with voicechat, though.

I logged onto APB this morning to try and form an opinion of the game a bit better. I didn't get to do much since I was still fairly tired, but I was a little surprised at how shitty the community already seems to be. I was watching my chat window and people were being really malicious with one another, throwing racist insults and just being huge dicks.

So the community is pretty iffy so far. I only took part in one mission before I was able to really familiarize myself with the game and had my ass handed to me. I've played for about an hour and a half in total and it just doesn't feel like enough for me yet at all to form any kind of opinion. I know that it's just all large scale PvP "cops versus robbers" but it's hard for me to really come to any conclusions.

The fact that the game doesn't really even help to teach you ANYTHING is probably keeping me from really sinking my teeth into the game. It just drops you into the city, makes you do some extremely irrelevant and pointless PvE quests that serve almost no purpose and don't help you in the long run, and then after completing them you get to do the PvP missions.

Like I said, I did one so far and the criminals humiliated me pretty badly. I definitely need more time with this one.

So far I do like the game. It's not amazing and isn't the best MMO available, but it's certainly at least decent. My only gripe is that it's not very user friendly, and there is essentially zero hand holding when you first begin, meaning you're on your own to figure everything out.

I bought it too.

My computer is not good at playing it either

It may be time for an upgrade. My dad has a 5770 and I am really impressed with the power for the price. The only thing is the upgrade would be worthless without new CPU, motherboard and DDR3 RAM.

So that's £300 minimum, not really worth it when I can just *get by* playing games optimised for my console.

I'll see if I run into some cash this summer.

It may be time for an upgrade. My dad has a 5770 and I am really impressed with the power for the price. The only thing is the upgrade would be worthless without new CPU, motherboard and DDR3 RAM.

So that's £300 minimum, not really worth it when I can just *get by* playing games optimised for my console.

I'll see if I run into some cash this summer.

If I was to run GTA 4 it would run like a cat. purr-fect after all I did drop 1500$ on it this year. (Thanks tax money.)

I logged onto APB this morning to try and form an opinion of the game a bit better. I didn't get to do much since I was still fairly tired, but I was a little surprised at how shitty the community already seems to be. I was watching my chat window and people were being really malicious with one another, throwing racist insults and just being huge dicks.

So the community is pretty iffy so far. I only took part in one mission before I was able to really familiarize myself with the game and had my ass handed to me. I've played for about an hour and a half in total and it just doesn't feel like enough for me yet at all to form any kind of opinion. I know that it's just all large scale PvP "cops versus robbers" but it's hard for me to really come to any conclusions.

The fact that the game doesn't really even help to teach you ANYTHING is probably keeping me from really sinking my teeth into the game. It just drops you into the city, makes you do some extremely irrelevant and pointless PvE quests that serve almost no purpose and don't help you in the long run, and then after completing them you get to do the PvP missions.

Like I said, I did one so far and the criminals humiliated me pretty badly. I definitely need more time with this one.

So far I do like the game. It's not amazing and isn't the best MMO available, but it's certainly at least decent. My only gripe is that it's not very user friendly, and there is essentially zero hand holding when you first begin, meaning you're on your own to figure everything out.

there is a tutorial :\

the the pve missions are just pve until an opposing player gets a "dispatch" request, and if they accept your mission becomes pvp instantly

I'm about 8 hours played now on it and im 60 rating or something, its pretty awesome, I've gotten five stars a few times and its fun when everyone in the city becomes an enemy!

I play on world 2 if anyone else does my name is Sobanoodle

there is a tutorial :\

the the pve missions are just pve until an opposing player gets a "dispatch" request, and if they accept your mission becomes pvp instantly

I'm about 8 hours played now on it and im 60 rating or something, its pretty awesome, I've gotten five stars a few times and its fun when everyone in the city becomes an enemy!

I play on world 2 if anyone else does my name is Sobanoodle

Yeah, I've done a few missions now. It's not fun at all when you're solo, but group missions are a blast! Love driving around with other guys, hanging out the windows watching for criminals, guarding them while they defuse something, etc.

Does APB have a trial? It does seem very appealing.

I think yes it's like a 4 or 5 hour trial I think... Last time I checked. but that was 2 weeks ago.

Yeah, I've done a few missions now. It's not fun at all when you're solo, but group missions are a blast! Love driving around with other guys, hanging out the windows watching for criminals, guarding them while they defuse something, etc.

yeah i pretty much only play with my friend, me and him bought it at launch and play grouped all the time

yeah i pretty much only play with my friend, me and him bought it at launch and play grouped all the time

If you're on Zombie and ever need an extra hand, just look up Boulder.... Unless you're a criminal. In that case, I'll have to shoot you in the face. 

Double post, but who really even gives a shit these days?

To those who expressed interest in APB but haven't been able to decide whether or not they want to lay down $50 to play, I hope this helps: http://rev-depot.com/2010/07/02/apb-review/

blazblue is such a shitty knock off of the guilty gear series. some of the overpowered characters really piss me off. I tried giving it a chance a few times but now I dont even bother. Now when I think about playing it I just load up guilty gear x2 #reload, and it works!