I'm excited.  I have played the PS3 version but I didn't buy it because I've been waiting for this one.  Who's going to get it?  We need to get some crazy multiplayer orgies going.

YES!

I pre-ordered it and expect to pick up my copy upon release. I'm psyched as tits.

There will be 32 players.  http://www.bit-tech.net/...-32-player-multiplayer/1

Steam is going to die tomorrow.  Quote me on this.

A 14 GB game that cannot be preloaded.  Good game.

EDIT:  Preloading now available.  However... I've been waiting to preload for a while now and haven't even started because of the congestion.

This is the ultimate fail of the decade.  It runs worse than Crysis did on shitty machines when it first came out.  Rockstar is REALLY getting hit hard with this shit:

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-Pc/dp/B001BNFQKO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1228340449&sr=8-1

1.5 star rating because of secureROM, Windows Live, Rockstar Social Club, and the performance of the game itself.

Every GTA and steam forum about this game is absolutely flooded with complaints and issues

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=337

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showforum=240

One of the funny things is I've read a lot of topics of Steam users actually getting refunds for the game, which is really surprising considering their refund policy prevents users from getting their money back if the game is already released.  Each time I tried to load the game it wouldn't respond in the task manager, so I had to alt tab, set the priority higher, and let ti sit in "Not Responding" for 20 minutes for it to finally load up.  I play the game and it's plagued with even more problems: shitty frames on low settings and multiplayer crashes.  Specifically, multiplayer will load up, and then quit the game.  I fixed that issue only to find multiplayer banning me randomly from servers and not letting me back in.

This is such a disappointment.  I wasn't planning to run this game high (as their readme about graphical settings indicates that higher settings are meant for future hardware), but the fact that I can't even run this game in a playable fashion with settings worse than the console version really pisses me off.  Let's hope for an epic patch that fixes some huge ass issue that is hopefully the reason behind all of this.

You know the game blows, right?  It is the same crap over and over and believe me, the story is NOT compelling. 

I'm glad I can always count on Oopsie's 2 cents.

He said the game sucks and the story is repetitive in that picture?  Interesting.  Anyway, apparently Rockstar is working on stuff now.  Hopefully it's some stupid anomaly that will be resolved with a patch or two.