People have given numerous and valid examples of how it's a bad port; why don't you tell us some examples of how it's a good one?.
To me the playability is better than SA and it does actually looks better than SA. Problem is most of the time people want miracles these days and start imagining some crazy shit.
No loading during playing ( this is some thing that makes this kind of game extremely hard to make)
Graphics are a improvement over SA and then some ( IF AA gets fixed it be even better ).
The roads are better in GTA 4 more bumps and such
More stuff that can be knocked over
Better police ( AI ) and work better than they did in SA. Plus other AI work great too.
Example: Police will try to cut you off and arrest you. AI take cover.
Physics are much improved over SA.
Car damage is much improved.
It's true that there's no pleasing people these days, as the saying goes with women too, however look at the PC consumer percentile that's dissapointing in GTA IV. We're talking numbers like over 90%. That's worse than Crysis was, yet Crysis, despite a slight bit of unoptimized coding (probably due to new hardware popping up during development), was not a port, it was just simply demanding, and for some they didn't care, because they were too busy playing with themselves while watching the visuals!
Well rule 1 is that your always wrong(weman). Crysis ? what a laugh now your talking of crap and boring games that have no real playability and is just about graphics and then people wounder why there's no playability in games.
As for your last comment...wait till when to buy it? Why should there be a risk when buying a game that's ported? How about developers stop being lazy **** asses and stop porting altogether?
And people would still complain lol..
What probably happened is that they added textures and stuff to the game as well to make more people happy as they always expect it be better than what it's ported from.
There's a risk in buying any game these days for example FC3. Thank GOD i did not buy that game..
The problem with developers is that they are controlled by corporate bozos with some grandeur vision for their product(much like some over the top interior decorator with a lisp named Jonas), and this means that whatever experience or ideas they have, will be squandered for the sake of quantity over quality. You see it all the time with MMOs, Age of Conan anyone?
Sad but true and is the reason i hate buying EA or Atari games.
Rockstar used to be one of the few development teams that ran their own show, and came out of nowhere to produce games in their own vision, without needless restraint. The bigger Rockstar has become, the worse their games have become.
There's no coincidence to it
Yeah well for a game like this to be on the shelfs of most country's is very surprising at the least. Same happens with every thing made today if it's not costs or a publisher wanting a dead line. They did what they could in the time frame they had, people could be happy that EA or Atari are not the publisher at least there some hope of a patch or patches to fix what is wrong with the game as EA would just leave it and let you suck it up.
If i am mad at any thing with Rockstar is that they rushed the patch WAY to fast.
.... or lower....
BAD PORT; BAD GAME
