Naturally I wasn't lucky enough to get the game early like a bunch of people so I was forced to sit all weekend reading about it and watching terrible streams with people playing it on PS4. I'm new to Twitch and Hitbox and whatever other live streaming things. I found out that these live stream sites have live commenting which are seemingly overrun by stupid fucking children spamming nonstop. I immediately stopped following what the few of-age users were trying to say due to babies ruining everyone's experience. Then there are the streamers themselves. Fuck. Maybe it's just the users who were lucky to get GTA V on PS4/X1... whatever the case... they were fucking TERRIBLE. I don't believe they ever played a video game before let alone a Grand Theft Auto title. And every stream also looked like it was recorded with an old Razr Motorola cell phone.
One stream in particular got me blood pressure to rise because of the stupidity. Not only were babies spamming the comments with stupid fucking wannabe ASCII art, the streamer was literally doing nothing except play with his sole friend online and take selfies at the Vinewood sign. WTF. I was finally able to track down decent streams with decent players from the GTA forums but... alas... jealous children would instantly report the stream and it would be taken down. SMFH. Children. Anyways... I sucked it up like everyone else and just waited until Tuesday.
When you first pop in GTA 4 on PS4 it automatically updates to the latest patch for optimizations, etc then installs. The install is about 45gb takes roughly 35 minutes. I didn't bother reporting news about all of the next gen features that have been added because everyone already knows and it's just a cheap way to garner hits... so I'm assuming you don't live under a rock. Not to mention most YouTube people were posting five to ten videos a day about all these new features when it could have been summed up in one nice video. But hey, who am I to judge?
GTA V looked really good on PS3. On PS4 is looks fucking amazing. It really does. The graphics are just that good. Better traffic, more pedestrians etc.... It just feels much more alive. I kept forgetting that I was playing a GTA game with the new First Person View. It just feels like a different game but with a familiar feel. There are a ton of options to customize the controls too, even a control scheme that's much more like a traditional FPS. I've clocked in about 5 hours so far and have only just unlocked Trevor and I can totally see me taking even longer to finish the story this time around. On PS3 I soaked up about 60+ hours and I didn't even do all of the side stuff add to that the fact that Rockstar added a bunch of new shit and I'm just fucking lost as to what to do! There's so much to do already. Too much to see! Sure... I've seen the game world before on PS3 but damn.... on PS4 is looks fucking crazy. I'm absolutely impressed so far with the job Rockstar has done. Fucking brilliant. Anyways.... lunch is over and I have to go back to work.
*By the way... those videos are mine. I'll be making a bunch of related videos just like it! Hope you enjoy them!
I can definitely see how much more immersive playing in first person would make this game.
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