I’ve been wanting to try Grand Theft Auto IV for ages now, because it’s had such good praise in the press over the past year – Kotaku just gave it their ‘Game of the Year’ award as well. So I got it for PC, only to be frustrated by the whole setup system in general. The game installs so much external crap with it, there’s unnecessary amounts of verification and logins and authentication, it won’t run at all without everything being updated (including XP itself, NVIDIA drivers, and many other things…) as well as being connected to the Internet (which my computer doesn’t like doing so much these days). And then I found that my PC could hardly run it well at all. Ah well, my housemate’s playing it now and he’s enjoying it on his superior computer.
I’m doing it the easy mode – playing the 360 version. But really, Rockstar… do you really have to do this? We just want to play the goddamn game.
