Sunday, May 04, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV.They've been working on it for how long?
It's been a while.
So how is it that with such an extended development period that they can finally release the game with a critical bug?
I'd read reports of freezing a couple of days before I bought the game, and hoped I wouldn't be one of the 37% (allegedly) who suffer with the freezing problem.
On installing, it played just fine, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Next day, I loaded it up, got past the intro screen, onto the game save loading screen and.... nothing. It just sat there with the "loading" text blinking away at me, doing nothing at all.
Reboot... reload.... nothing. "Loading"
Bollox!!!
So, I googled possible fixes, knowing othere people had suffered the same kind of trouble.
The most common suggested fix was to delete the game, and all related data from the PS3's hard drive, and reinstall. So, I gave it a try.
It worked.... for about 30 seconds, and then froze mid-game.
BOLLOX!!!!!
I googled a bit more, for other suggestions, and finally found one that worked.
The solution is simple, but absolutely unacceptable, when one of the major selling points is online multiplayer mode.
The fix?
Log out of the online Playstation Network.
DOH!!!
So now single player, offline mode works just fine, but there's no way to play online.
Oy! Rockstar!!! Get your act together!!!
I can understand this kind of crap happening on PCs, where there is such varied hardware, and the number of possible configurations are endless... but we're talking about a console, for goodness sake, where there is only a very limited variation in hardware.
Steve 9:49 AM [+] (0) comments
Monday, April 21, 2008
After a couple of weeks playing the game, and after reading several reviews online and in magazines, I believe it's time I brought you my very own review of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.I may do something similar for Mario Kart Wii in the near future...or I may not. We'll see how things pan out.
Labels: consoles, games, gran turismo, PS3
Steve 2:14 AM [+] (0) comments
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is out now for PS3.I've been playing it a bit tonight, being off work with a bitch of a virus.
It's mostly pretty familiar stuff, just with prettier graphics... but for one big bonus... online multi-player.
Here's a very poor quality video clip I shot this evening of me playing online.
My apologies for the burp near the start... I was drinking coke. Also apologies for the poor lighting and bad focus... my good camera has a flat battery, and the one I used just doesn't like recording tv footage.
Labels: consoles, games, gran turismo, PS3
Steve 4:13 AM [+] (0) comments
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