Rockstar makes another game revolutionary in its bugginess.

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Rockstar makes another game revolutionary in its bugginess.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:47:26 PM #51679 Perm Link

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According to Kotaku, Rockstar has no ideas as to why the mega-hyped GTA IV is a glitchy unplayable mess to select few users. Thankfully, it seems the problems aren't as widespread as they were with the comically broken Bully: Scholarship Edition, and Rockstar sounds to be urgently searching for a way to fix it (and hopefully that will turn out better than Bully did, as well). However, regardless of the efforts that Rockstar takes, it is pretty unforgivable that they can't manage to code a game for either console without having to supplant it with a patch just to get it to run. Thank you, seventh generation! We truly love the laziness that built in hard drives has ushered.

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Rockstar declined to comment on the issue officially, so I went to the phone and called up Rockstar Support to see what they had to say about the problem.

A very friendly, and obviously unhappy, fellow answered the phone who, after thanking me for not yelling at him and apologizing profusely for the problem, spilled quite a bit of beans on the issue:

The man told me that the problem is apparently only effecting the 60 GB version of the Playstation 3, but that it didn't matter than my particular console was a launch console (Yes, I told a little white lie and said my copy was locking up.) He said the problem is not across the board for the 60GB PS3s but rather only impacts some, so their tech folks are working around the clock to try and figure out what is causing the issue.

He did ask me to make sure that my harddrive wasn't full and that I had the latest firmware update, but confessed that that really isn't what's causing most of the problem. He also said that the Xbox 360 is having the "exact same problem," which has further stumped their tech folks.

Lovely. And people wonder why PC gaming is dead.

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Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:49:26 PM #51681 Perm Link

Good points. I remember Rude having this discussion on why PC games suck (all the patching) and then I thought of how Xbox Live was able to patch mistakes and such... We've come full circle and the consoles now suck as bad as a PC.

Until Linux takes over for Windows.

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Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:50:36 PM #51683 Perm Link

Also, off the record (as it is just a rumour), but I've heard that the lack of load times being implemented by caching data to the hard drive is what is causing all of the problems. GTA IV apparently tries to cache too much data to the hard drive, then explodes when trying to access it. For some reason, it happens on both the XBox and 60GB PS3s (possibly 20GB models too) more than 80 or 40GB PS3s.

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Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:21:04 PM #51719 Perm Link

Well there wont be that big of a problem with that, when they release it on pc wit the larger hard drives and all

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Thu May 1, 2008 8:45:38 AM #51762 Perm Link

I haven't had a problem on my Xbox yet, but my friend has had freezing issues with his 60 GB PS3. Seems like it stopped freezing for him now though.

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Fri May 9, 2008 1:46:26 PM #52242 Perm Link

Ironically, me being the person with the biggest problem with this has already more or less forgiven Rockstar. GTA IV had already been delayed a couple of times before release, and delaying it again may have led share holders to favor the idea of EA's hostile takeover. I'm personally more comfortable knowing that Rockstar just released the game with some intermittent problems (major ones, for sure, but not incredibly common ones) than EA buying up the whole thing and running it down the toilet like they did with DICE.

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no problems here!

Sat May 10, 2008 9:00:24 AM #52265 Perm Link

In response to Tornado #52242

I've played GTA4 for about 30 hours total and have no problems with freezing or crashing. In the case of load times...it only really loads when you first boot it up, and maybe a few seconds before a mission. It's really not an issue. This is with a 20GB X360.

If anyone wants to goof around with multiplayer, ad my GamerTag to your friendlist and hit me up...(GT= RudeMoody)

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