toroid
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And now it looks like this:
edit: Disregard. The user reviews are back now. Dunno what's going on over there. Panic, I guess.
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Grand Theft Auto V - Released on PC
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And now it looks like this:
edit: Disregard. The user reviews are back now. Dunno what's going on over there. Panic, I guess.
Modron
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Valve just had a momentary outage for around 10 minutes when you happened to glance at the store, so no games had reviews and you couldn't view community crap.
LESS T_T
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Aaaand it brought down the overall score to Mixed:
With this and the Paradox price increasing thing (and the Chinese invasion of Football Manager last year), I guess big publishers really beginning to hate Steam's review system.
Explorerbc
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It is still a top seller though 
Steam forums are full of corporate shills defending Take-Two for "protecting its property" from evil hackers.
Steam forums are full of corporate shills defending Take-Two for "protecting its property" from evil hackers.
LESS T_T
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In short, Chinese gamers bombed FM2017 reviews and sent death threat to Sports Interactive boss and his family, because the game doesn't have Chinese language support that the developer "promised": http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-31-football-manager-trashed-on-steam-by-angry-chinese-fans
SEGA surrendered, and then actually promised Chinese support. Though it was delivered six months later, the overall review score recovered only about 10 percent. (At least it turned to Mixed from Mostly Negative.)
Moral of this story: It's better than nothing.
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lol aweigh
Pretty sweet of R* to get them together.
Pretty sweet of R* to get them together.
Baron Dupek
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They say GTA6 will be less brave but it looks like 5th game is getting new treatment.
The trailer was filled with glitches like NPCs sitting on each other in cars while clipping and every number plate being yellow.
The trailer was filled with glitches like NPCs sitting on each other in cars while clipping and every number plate being yellow.
Hobknobling
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Finally got around pirating this since it was the only mainline GTA I hadn't played yet. Funny how the PC port was praised at release since it runs like garbage on modern hardware and the load times are atrocious. This seems to be a problem especially on AMD CPUs based on some Reddit discussions. Rockstar does it again!
Both shooting and driving are really well executed this time on a mechanical level. Shooting is a bit too popamole at times, but Rockstar tried to make up for it by forcing the player to move or kill enemies coming from multiple directions. The game also doesn't really encourage using many different weapons and the main reason for that is almost non-existent enemy variety. It just makes sense to pop heads with assault rifles and switch up for the sniper rifle for certain parts. Shooting from a car is also way way way overpowered and makes many missions trivial. There should be a larger accuracy penalty when firing from a moving vehicle.
Vehicular destruction is a disappointment. The car damage models were improved and I can appreciate that, but it is now ten times harder to make a car explode. It was always a great emergent gameplay moment when you flipped a car in a mission or when your car caught fire and you had to improvise quickly. It was a bad decision to get rid of this.
Last year I played Vice City and realized how important the radio channels are for that game. Unfortunately GTA V has a fairly weak hand when it comes to the music. Big part of that is the general drop in quality of music in modern times, but also some of the more specialized channels are a bit weak. Did they have licensing issues? I did enjoy the [EXCITING ACTION MUSIC] they added to the missions in certain parts. It is a shame that the game doesn't have a theme music like many of the other games. Even the mission ending jingles are gone.
The writing is quite consistently above average, but the story really suffers from pacing issues. The ending comes suddenly and Rockstar just takes the easy way out on resolving all the loose plot threads. This manages to sour the whole experience quite spectacularly. Some of the characters are a bit weak and don't really move forward after the initial premise. Michael's family and everything related to Franklin is half-cooked. Trevor is the most enjoyable and complete character of them all, but suffers from the poorly written conflict between him and Michael.
I like the map and it has a ton of detail put into it. Unfortunately there seems to be this permanent detachment between the map and the missions. This game could've really benefitted from a free-roam phase like what Rockstar was experimenting with the Vice City business missions or even the turf wars part in San Andreas. Now it feels like the enviromental and mission design teams were just two different entitities working on different things.
Overall, this game was a slight improvement compared to GTA IV. If they had released single-player expanions for this game, this would have had the potential to be my favorite GTA. Now it is somewhere above GTA IV, but lacking the strong theming and more arcadey feel of the original 3D trilogy.
Both shooting and driving are really well executed this time on a mechanical level. Shooting is a bit too popamole at times, but Rockstar tried to make up for it by forcing the player to move or kill enemies coming from multiple directions. The game also doesn't really encourage using many different weapons and the main reason for that is almost non-existent enemy variety. It just makes sense to pop heads with assault rifles and switch up for the sniper rifle for certain parts. Shooting from a car is also way way way overpowered and makes many missions trivial. There should be a larger accuracy penalty when firing from a moving vehicle.
Vehicular destruction is a disappointment. The car damage models were improved and I can appreciate that, but it is now ten times harder to make a car explode. It was always a great emergent gameplay moment when you flipped a car in a mission or when your car caught fire and you had to improvise quickly. It was a bad decision to get rid of this.
Last year I played Vice City and realized how important the radio channels are for that game. Unfortunately GTA V has a fairly weak hand when it comes to the music. Big part of that is the general drop in quality of music in modern times, but also some of the more specialized channels are a bit weak. Did they have licensing issues? I did enjoy the [EXCITING ACTION MUSIC] they added to the missions in certain parts. It is a shame that the game doesn't have a theme music like many of the other games. Even the mission ending jingles are gone.
The writing is quite consistently above average, but the story really suffers from pacing issues. The ending comes suddenly and Rockstar just takes the easy way out on resolving all the loose plot threads. This manages to sour the whole experience quite spectacularly. Some of the characters are a bit weak and don't really move forward after the initial premise. Michael's family and everything related to Franklin is half-cooked. Trevor is the most enjoyable and complete character of them all, but suffers from the poorly written conflict between him and Michael.
I like the map and it has a ton of detail put into it. Unfortunately there seems to be this permanent detachment between the map and the missions. This game could've really benefitted from a free-roam phase like what Rockstar was experimenting with the Vice City business missions or even the turf wars part in San Andreas. Now it feels like the enviromental and mission design teams were just two different entitities working on different things.
Overall, this game was a slight improvement compared to GTA IV. If they had released single-player expanions for this game, this would have had the potential to be my favorite GTA. Now it is somewhere above GTA IV, but lacking the strong theming and more arcadey feel of the original 3D trilogy.
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