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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Hits the U.S. App Store
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I actually am and I was very involved in modding the RAGE engine back in the day. You're a bit optimistic/deluded if you think a tablet will run a game as endlessly complex as GTA V by the end of the decade. It's a 38GB install by itself and barely runs on a PS3. Keep dreaming.
RAGE isn't as simple as you think, and GTA IV/V is RAGE overdosed on steroids. You have no idea what you're on about.
It's funny saying that I'm deluded when all you have to do is look up that companies like Nvidia are releasing mobile devices with GPU's that are almost 2 times MORE POWERFUL than the ps3... NEXT YEAR. And you think in 10 years we won't be able to run current console games?
Lol cause FLOPS is the only thing a GPU needs.
An iPad Air's GPU is over 115x times faster in GFLOPS than a PS2, yet it runs SA half as well. Gee I wonder why.
I'm going to guess...major in marketing? Or politics?
Lol cause FLOPS is the only thing a GPU needs.
An iPad Air's GPU is over 115x times faster in GFLOPS than a PS2, yet it runs SA half as well. Gee I wonder why.
I'm going to guess...major in marketing? Or politics?
An honest question, because I have no idea about technical details and I totally can't hold my own in any honest debate of what device can run what or what any hypothetical device will be able to hypothetically run in five or ten years time:
But what makes you say an iPad Air only runs SA half as well as a PS2? Where does that come from and what do you mean? My iPad 3rd generation runs it totally well and great just with some minor occasional framerate drops that I've noticed so far, and that leads me to believe that the Air would run it a whole load of a lot weller and greater.
*and I'm sure occasional framerate drops weren't completely out of the question on original PS2 games(?).
And while reiterating the point that I don't know what I'm talking about -- I could totally imagine that mobile devices could run GTA IV within five years time, absolutely no question they will within ten. But I also don't know wtfudge a Rage engine is. But the doubt about this possibility is just surprising to me.
Lol cause FLOPS is the only thing a GPU needs.
An iPad Air's GPU is over 115x times faster in GFLOPS than a PS2, yet it runs SA half as well. Gee I wonder why.
I'm going to guess...major in marketing? Or politics?
According to reviews I've read by people who played it on PS2 (I didn't), it actually runs quite a bit better on new iPads than on the PS2.
More to the point, 10 years from now, will most of us even want to play GTA IV/V on our smartphones and tablets? I understand some of you guys get a rush from the novelty of playing a 10 or 20-year-old game on the small screen of your smartphone or tablet, but for how long does that last? I've purchased a bunch of games that I played during the 80s and 90s as a kid for my iPhone/iPad and after a day or two, with the exception of Tetris and Galaga, I've never played them again.
I started playing GTA III for iOS and it didn't take me long to realize that I could never come close to replicating the original experience that I had with the larger screen of my TV combined with the better controls of the DualShock 2 controller back in 2001. I also like my gaming experiences to be new. Because of that I stayed away from Vice City (and Nintendo, which is another story). I didn't want to waste my money again for a subpar experience. Now, that doesn't mean I want developers to stop releasing old games on new platforms. We should all have the choice to feel nostalgic for a few minutes or if we're lucky, a few hours.
I started playing GTA III for iOS and it didn't take me long to realize that I could never come close to replicating the original experience that I had with the larger screen of my TV combined with the better controls of the DualShock 2 controller back in 2001. I also like my gaming experiences to be new. Because of that I stayed away from Vice City (and Nintendo, which is another story). I didn't want to waste my money again for a subpar experience. Now, that doesn't mean I want developers to stop releasing old games on new platforms. We should all have the choice to feel nostalgic for a few minutes or if we're lucky, a few hours.
Lol I have it right here on my PS2 and its running at 40fps just fine. Only dips if a lot of explosions happen.
I played through all of Vice City on my iPhone, and Pokemon Yellow on my Galaxy Nexus. The controls in vehicles in VC were sometimes a bit iffy, but I found setting it to button mode (i.e. left/right buttons) and enlarging them to their maximum size helped a lot. Obviously I bought SA, and I quickly found that those left/right buttons could do with being a tad bigger, but other than that it's definitely playable (and more to the point - enjoyable).
I've also gone through Zelda: OOT on a 3DS and FF7 on a PSP.
Playing an old game is like re-reading an novel. You can still experience a great story, even if you can broadly remember how it goes.
Framerate is one thing, but what I read was that the graphics look a lot better on the iPad version. Apparently draw distances are better, load times are much shorter, shadows and reflections are better, more details are apparent, etc. Since I don't have a PS2 I can't confirm any of this. Check out toucharcade's review or pocketgamer's review of the game. I'd be curious to know if you can confirm or deny what they said about it. Note, you'd have to try it on an iPad 4 or newer to see the best performance apparently.
It doesn't need any warnings, if Rockstar announce a new GTA game (on whatever platform), people will buy it regardless of any trailers etc.
Fair enough, but for me, my explorative nature is more powerful than my sentimental side. Anyway, I have a PS4 now which I got after trading in my PS3. The only game I miss is Red Dead Redemption and I'm contemplating to get RDR once it becomes available for the PS4. It's possible by the time it gets released I won't be interested in it anymore, especially if my PS3 data saves can't transfer over and I have to go through all of the missions again.
Additionally, I didn't get GTA V for my PS3 because I knew I would only own my PS3 for two more months and I have this feeling that Rockstar will release an enhanced PS4 version of the game next year, possibly with a larger map and additional missions. I know I'm missing out right now, but once Rockstar makes the announcement, I'll know I made the right choice.
Anyone get rockstsrs cloud support to work between devices ?trying to get my saved progress over to my phone and even when I sign into the club it wound pick up my saved points from the game on my iPad. It works flawless with gta 3?? Not working with SA
Lol it's a 9 year old game and as such looks great for its time. It's a highly complex world with a lot going on so obviously they couldn't give it Infinity Blade graphics (seeing as the iPad Air barely runs GTA SA smoothly as it is).