GTA4- Lost & The Damned-DLC- Coming to PC very soon!

Draeger · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:35

Apologies for the thread bumpage but when I see that well known high street game vendor is taking pre-orders for this and has it being highlighted on their main page as coming soon. I had no idea it was coming out for the PC at all.

dirtydog · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:01

Another week to go then, I am on the fence about this at the moment.

Do we know, if you already have GTA IV, will you need to install this in its entirety, given that it must make use of much of the same assets?

Draeger · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:17

I'm sure I read this was going to be a stand alone affair, not requiring the original GTA4?.

dirtydog · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:28

Indeed but I thought it might include the option to perform a more lightweight install, if you have the original game - it would make sense to me. I bet it doesn't though.

antijoke · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:35

You guys wont be disappointed if you like GTA4. Both DLC packs are amazing!

dirtydog · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:37

How long would you say the single player missions take to play through? Worth £15?

Draeger · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:37

dirtydog said:
Indeed but I thought it might include the option to perform a more lightweight install, if you have the original game - it would make sense to me. I bet it doesn't though.

Ahh, I get you now. Yeah - That would make sense and be a nice option. For those that still have it installed that is.

I know that I don't have more than two or three of the latest games installed at any one time. When I've finished a game I generally uninstall it. Seems pedantic but I like keeping my system clean and tidy although there's nothing to suggest having loads of games installed at once makes any difference, mind. :cool:

EDDS · 9 Apr 2010 at 16:53

dirtydog said:
How long would you say the single player missions take to play through? Worth £15?

for each episode if you just played the main missions prob 6 hours.

if you like to do a bit of everything each episode will take around 10-12hours

they are well worth the money, especially tbogt

dirtydog · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:30

Cool, I've pre-ordered it then, despite my reservations about the performance

Hank_Marvin · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:41

im going to get it, gtaiv was great on pc, not that i've completed it yet, must do. hope it makes use of current gtaiv install.

synixx · 9 Apr 2010 at 17:44

i've played this on the xbox 360 and it's great.

marc2003 · 9 Apr 2010 at 18:41

i was well cheesed off when this got delayed. it was supposed to be out on the 30th march. :mad:

i wonder if it's been optimised at all. the original didn't run too well on my pc (see sig

). but i don't care - i'm still buying it. this is one franchise that is guaranteed a sale with me.

neoboy · 9 Apr 2010 at 18:46

I got a very similar spec to you and I get quite bad performance too although still can't stop playing it at the moment. Think I may give this a bash.

HangTime · 9 Apr 2010 at 19:04

Very rare that I see standalone games have a lightweight install, apart from anything else the publishers probably view it as a waste of QA effort. As in, they don't want to have to throw resources at testing 'upgrade' installations in addition to clean installs, when it isn't going to earn them any extra sales. Not to mention the additional development cost etc.

dirtydog · 9 Apr 2010 at 19:21

True. I guess I'll be kissing goodbye to another 15 gigs of HDD space then...