GTA:SA in the shops

Stephen

As we know by now, the PC and Xbox versions of GTA San Andreas are in the hands of the warez monkeys after the game went on release in the USA. As it is not due for release here until Friday (boo, hiss!), does anyone know if any of the bricks 'n mortar shops have broken the street date on it yet?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Ah you fecker... the thread title had me thinking it was being sold in the shops.
Hmmm, I wonder though... an extra tenner in the pocket of the sales clerk might losen his grip... and a copy of GTA:SA might just "fall" onto the counter.
Then he just has "buy" a copy on release day to make up for the stock/till.
Yes, if anyone knows of someone who'll wink and nodd, please post it here... where they won't be found out. (mwooahahhahahhaaa!)

DonkeyStyle \o/

Stephen wrote:

As we know by now, the PC and Xbox versions of GTA San Andreas are in the hands of the warez monkeys after the game went on release in the USA.

Really? Hmmm I didn't know that.
Thanks for the warez update.
pwnt

Stephen

The thread about GTA SA and securom/starforce below this goes into greater detail

kaimera

not my intention when I posted it tho...

damn monkeys!

TerrorFirmer

As we know by now, the PC and Xbox versions of GTA San Andreas are in the hands of the warez monkeys after the game went on release in the USA.

:cool:

The only way to go after I discovered I do not get paid until a month of work :eek:

DonkeyStyle \o/

MobileInfantry wrote:

The only way to go after I discovered I do not get paid until a month of work :eek:

Carefull now.

To be entirely honest I'm damn tempted to give it a little preview before friday, but by the time I'd get 4Gigs down; it'd already be friday, so there's little point
Gah, why must they keep us waiting?!
I'd managed to put it to the back of my mind for the past 6 months or so, avoiding my brothers PS2, then I read this thread and I'm all GTA-horny again.
I'm this close to reinstalling GTA:Vice City just to tide me over till friday.
Anyone else gagging for it?

kensutz

Guess I'm a warez monkey trying before I buy. It's sweet and I haven't played in on the PS2 this is my first time playing it on the PC and I like

Stephen

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

I'm this close to reinstalling GTA:Vice City just to tide me over till friday.
Anyone else gagging for it?

I am... I have it on PS2 but the PS2 just can't cope with it. I'm going to trade my ps2 version against the cost of the PC one in gamestop on friday.

flogen

It's likely that the shops have it by now, and HMV is probably the place to keep an eye on for street date breakage, out of past occourances. Saying that, there was some big deal between distributors and shops for SA on the ps2 and it worked well, so I'd expect the same this time around too.
I would consider being a warez monkey, but my PC would never be able to hack the game anyway, and my xbox is unchipped!

Retr0gamer

I have it!











For the PS2

Crash

Anyone any idea on minimum pc specs and what can/cant handle it?

KdjaCL

2400Xp
1.5Gb
9800Xt

Runs it super toasty at 1280*960 everything on Very High.


Everyone should PM Evad asking for a copy to be sold early.

kdjac

LookingFor

KdjaC wrote:

2400Xp
1.5Gb
9800Xt

Runs it super toasty at 1280*960 everything on Very High.


Everyone should PM Evad asking for a copy to be sold early.

kdjac

I've heard there are some issues with ATi Catalyst v5.5? Have you had any trouble?

Pacifico

Any problems with frame limiter off? Like buildings disappearing?

KdjaCL

LookingFor wrote:

I've heard there are some issues with ATi Catalyst v5.5? Have you had any trouble?

Nope 60+ fps(only got Cat 5.5 yesterday)

Any problems with frame limiter off? Like buildings disappearing?

Thats gonna happen regardless but only in background, draw distance to full kinda stops it but reqs more ram and decent Gpu.

kdjac

Zapp Brannigan

man all this fuss over a sub standard game? amazing!

The Free Man

xtravision should have it on the shelves tomorrow!

KTRIC

The Free Man wrote:

xtravision should have it on the shelves tomorrow!

Can you back that up ??

Tusky

Slurms wrote:

man all this fuss over a sub standard game? amazing!

Fuss ? Its only a one page thread. Calling the game sub standard is idiotic...oh your sig is horrible too.

KdjaCL

Slurms wrote:

man all this fuss over a sub standard game? amazing!

Actually according to all reviews its the best game ever.

I would agree with that simply amazing game.

kdjac

DonkeyStyle \o/

The Free Man wrote:

xtravision should have it on the shelves tomorrow!

Uh, since when do xtravision do PC games?

KTRIC

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Uh, since when do xtravision do PC games?

It's out for the Xbox aswell and they sell Xbox games

DonkeyStyle \o/

K-TRIC wrote:

It's out for the Xbox aswell and they sell Xbox games

Oh I see, very clever.
Homerclese cares not for xbox... BE GONE

Retr0gamer

KdjaC wrote:

Actually according to all reviews its the best game ever.

I would agree with that simply amazing game.

kdjac

Bah, not me. I enjoyed Vice City far more and San Andreas takes far too long until there are good missions (however the last few are excellent). I think Eurogamer summed it up well by saying there was more fun per sq kilometre in Vice City. It's still an excellent game but for me just short of greatness for me.

The Free Man

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Uh, since when do xtravision do PC games?

dunno if they all do them, the one in finglas does ps2, xbox, pc, gc, ds, gba.

they usually sell their games the day before release. i got pes4, mgs3, and gt4 the day before they came out.

DonkeyStyle \o/

The Free Man wrote:

dunno if they all do them, the one in finglas does ps2, xbox, pc, gc, ds, gba.

Hmmm, their site is all "xbox this, ps2 that"... be sure to let us know if they have the PC version in stock.

Actually, this reminds me of the time I was shopping for GTA:VC on release day... I went to GAME on grafton street - yup there's gta:vc... then I took a wander off to HMV, just to shop around... no sign of any GTA related malarky, so I asked the guy behind the counter "dude, wtf?" ... and he was like "woah, it's like being released tomorrow <smug>" ... so I'm like "roffle noob, GAME just down the road are selling it today you plonk." ... and he was like "hmmm" ... and I was like "roffel cu luzr"
And it wasn't even GAME breaking the release date either, this was the official date.
True story.

So you see... funny things like this always happen when I buy GTA.

TomCo

Dude was probably high. All the staff in HMV are perpetually stoned, and I base this on absolutely nothing.

Looking forward to GTA:SA though, hope it got a good graphical upgrade. Graphics haven’t really struck me as decent yet.

steviec

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Hmmm, their site is all "xbox this, ps2 that"... be sure to let us know if they have the PC version in stock.

Actually, this reminds me of the time I was shopping for GTA:VC on release day... I went to GAME on grafton street - yup there's gta:vc... then I took a wander off to HMV, just to shop around... no sign of any GTA related malarky, so I asked the guy behind the counter "dude, wtf?" ... and he was like "woah, it's like being released tomorrow <smug>" ... so I'm like "roffle noob, GAME just down the road are selling it today you plonk." ... and he was like "hmmm" ... and I was like "roffel cu luzr"
And it wasn't even GAME breaking the release date either, this was the official date.
True story.

So you see... funny things like this always happen when I buy GTA.

I was in Game at the time the street tape broke, it was quite funny, them hauling out big boxes of the game and people rushing to buy copies. Of course it happened about 30 seconds after I'd just given them all my money for a shiny new gamecube and couple of games(I'd played monkeyball for the first time in a friends house the night before and did what any sane person would and made sure I owned a copy at the first possible opportunity).

30 seconds later and I may have delayed buying that gamecube but oh well, it was worth it in the long run!

The General

i have it on PC since monday night/tuesday morning i was up til about 8 in the morning and then i fell into bed

The General

I have
GTA: San Andreas
GTA: Vice City
Driv3r

for the PS2, how much would gamestop/xtravision pay for these(trade in)

rainbow kirby

Sweet feck all tbh.

The General

rainbow kirby wrote:

Sweet feck all tbh.

:rolleyes: Thanks that really helps

The Real B-man

have it

flogen

The General wrote:

I have
GTA: San Andreas
GTA: Vice City
Driv3r

for the PS2, how much would gamestop/xtravision pay for these(trade in)

ok then, I'll elaborate on Kirby's behalf.
Driv3r is out a fair while and was a let down for people and so was traded in a lot, this means you would be extremely lucky to get more than 10 for it, infact 5 would be a lot. When SA came out, everyone decided to trade in VC. Couple that with the age of the game (a year and a half I think), and again you'd be pushing 5 tops. SA, you could get an alright price for it, but I doubt it. Where I work we have literally 30 copies preowned and have been told to give no more than 1 euro for it. Keep in mind that you wont be the only one trading in your PS2 version in the hope of getting the xb one, so don't expect people to be too generous.
There is a chance that xtravision will offer more, I don't work there so I don't know, but I would expect you'd get no more than 10 for the three of them, 20 would be a good deal.

tman

KdjaC wrote:

2400Xp
1.5Gb
9800Xt

Runs it super toasty at 1280*960 everything on Very High.

sweet. should run nicely at 1024x768 on my 9600 pro
hopefully it comes in the post on friday

Irishpimpdude

I got it for xbox and pc because ps2 sucks ass

madrab

Irishpimpdude wrote:

I got it for xbox and pc because ps2 sucks ass

carefull now, the league of anti-fanboys will be knocking on your door

tman

aye. you might want to rephrase that to "the ps2 version sucks gay ass with its homo framerate, clipping and crappy textures"

Elessar

So, back on topic,

Has anyone found this in the shops today? I am still deciding between either PC or xbox versions...so anyone sees either one, let us know!

KTRIC

Is it available in the shops today ???

Lord Oz

Play.com are actually selling it now - maybe other shops are too?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Just rang extravision in finglas, they don't even have it in store yet :rolleyes:

The Free Man

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Just rang extravision in finglas, they don't even have it in store yet :rolleyes:

crap. i was looking forward to playing it after work.

tbh, xtravision finglas has THE most incompetent ignorant manager in the world, so he could have been blatently lying to you(i hope)!

LoLth

got a mail form play on tuesday announcing that gat:sa had been shipped. Cant wait for the bionic postman modification program to kick in so parcels will arrive faster.....

flogen

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Just rang extravision in finglas, they don't even have it in store yet :rolleyes:

they probably just told you that so you wouldn't try and pester then into giving you a copy early. Most shops get deliveries of new releases on wednsdays, If they don't have it by now, they won't have it tomorrow.

KTRIC

I want it now

DonkeyStyle \o/

flogen wrote:

they probably just told you that so you wouldn't try and pester then into giving you a copy early.

Well that's the whole point really, if they're openly selling them a day before official release (as another poster suggested) then I don't see why they'd lie about it over the phone.
What I got from the phonecall is that they probably wouldn't break the release date even if they had it... something to the effect of "we may get it at some stage today, but it's not being released today".

It doesn't really matter at this stage anyway, the long awaited 10th of june is a mere day away... I've waited months already, what's another day.

Stephen

Yeah, what's another day?

*twitches and scratches arm compulsively*

Zapp Brannigan

KdjaC wrote:

Actually according to all reviews its the best game ever.

I would agree with that simply amazing game.

kdjac

well, then we'll agree to disagree. It was a bit harsh calling it substandard, but i own it and ive completed it and i didnt really enjoy it!
and Tusky, no need for personal attacks!

Stephen

Your signature does ming, though.