Sleeping Dogs (PS3/360/PC)

[Sho]

So, anyone gettinG this?

 

[Dragonfly]

So, anyone gettinG this?

Yes.

 

[Appswah]

Yep. Pre-ordered with shopto.

 

[Sho]

Nice. Same.

 

[Sweey]

PC Requirements:

Minimum
• OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or Athlon X2 2.4 GHz
• RAM: 2GB
• Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
• Graphics card memory: 512 MB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB

Recommended
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
• RAM: 4GB
• Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.
• Graphics card memory: 1 GB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB

If PC reviews are good, I'll buy it.

EDIT: Pre-order for £19.99 and risk it being shit? :hmm:

 

[Dundon's]

I lamped this a few months ago and was really looking forward to it until I discovered there's no online play. PC gamer gave it an ok rating but said it's nothing special, it just combines a few different types of games together and this is what they ended up with.

 

[Jonno394]

Go for it Sweey. Reviews have been around 7-9.5. sounds good enough to me.

Im playing Dead Space 2 and Darksiders 2 comes out in s couple weeks so I'll be holding fire on this for a month or two.

 

[Viperized]

PC Requirements:

Minimum
• OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz or Athlon X2 2.4 GHz
• RAM: 2GB
• Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
• Graphics card memory: 512 MB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB

Recommended
• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
• RAM: 4GB
• Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.
• Graphics card memory: 1 GB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB

If PC reviews are good, I'll buy it.

EDIT: Pre-order for £19.99 and risk it being shit? :hmm:

£20? Damn, that is actually a pretty good price for a new release.

 

[Ali]

More reviews coming in -8.5 on IGN, 4.5/5 on Gamesradar. Think I'll go for this one, I need a good open world game to keep me going.

About £32 for the standard version on Zavvi.

 

[Jonno394]

7/10 from Eurogamer; they feel it is basically too much like a GTA game..

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-14-sleeping-dogs-review

As efficient as it is at hitting its genre targets, the relentless second-hand mimicry keeps Sleeping Dogs from finding its own groove. The only time the game feels like it might find a niche to call its own is during the police cases, when the need to plant bugs, triangulate phone signals and gather evidence offers a brief respite from the crime clichés elsewhere. It doesn't last long, though, and never builds enough momentum to change the course of the game. The lure of the established GTA template is simply too strong to be broken by a game this beholden to what came before.

It's a sad irony that the gameplay format that offers the most freedom for the player is the one most likely to trap developers in a loop of repetitive, copycat design. They have the ability to conjure up large, populated, realistic worlds and traverse them in any number of ways, and yet still we end up getting the same old cops-and-robbers story.

Sleeping Dogs certainly doesn't deserve to take all the blame for this situation, and Rockstar has some serious game-raising of its own to do with GTA5. But when a game is so clearly intent on being a follower of trends rather than setting them, it's hard to feel much passion for Sleeping Dogs' vanilla retread of established ideas. When compared to his open-world peers, Wei Shen's stoic promise to do "what I always do" ultimately feels more like an apology for low ambition than a rallying cry.

 

[Sweey]

80% from Bit-tech (PC) which felt the same:

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2012/08/14/sleeping-dogs-review/1

 

[Sweey]

Pre-ordered this on PC for £21.60 yesterday and have downloaded the game files (~6GB). There's an additional HD texture pack to download (4.4GB) which I'll get around to on Friday evening.

Whether I get around to playing this some time soon is suddenly up in the air - I now have the PSX version of Final Fantasy VII and PS2 version of Final Fantasy X to play on my PC.

 

[Jonno394]

I prefer X to VII

 

[Sweey]

At the risk of hijacking the thread, any other really good ones Jonno? IX?

I've completed the PC version of VIII about three times but although I own VII for PC have never played it for long...which will change with the superior PSX version.

 

[Jonno394]

I’ll be brutally honest, I’ve never finished a Final Fantasy game because most traditional JRPGs bore me after a while.

IX is definitely worth a punt, feels more akin to the older FF titles with less emphasis on teenage angst, and a more fantastical/magical storylive. The lead character Zidane is easily more likeable than Squall and Cloud, plus Vivi is perhaps the best FF character, period.

I have never played XII but it is very much a different beast to any of the titles that have came before, hence why I think I should play it!

How are you playing them on the PC btw??

 

[Sweey]

I’ll be brutally honest, I’ve never finished a Final Fantasy game because most traditional JRPGs bore me after a while.

IX is definitely worth a punt, feels more akin to the older FF titles with less emphasis on teenage angst, and a more fantastical/magical storylive. The lead character Zidane is easily more likeable than Squall and Cloud, plus Vivi is perhaps the best FF character, period.

I have never played XII but it is very much a different beast to any of the titles that have came before, hence why I think I should play it!

How are you playing them on the PC btw??

I've played a bit of XII on PS2 before and liked it but didn't get very far so want to revisit it one day.

I'll have to PM the answer to your question.

 

[Appswah]

Mine came in the post today but wont have time till the weekend unfortunately.

 

[Phatmann]

Mine came in the post today but wont have time till the weekend unfortunately.

Where did you order from? I ordered from Amazon and mine hasn't been dispatched yet. I'm not too fussed though as I will only be able to play it briefly over the weekend as I'm away on holiday next week.

 

[Ali]

Where did you order from? I ordered from Amazon and mine hasn't been dispatched yet. I'm not too fussed though as I will only be able to play it briefly over the weekend as I'm away on holiday next week.

OMG! How will you conduct your FL transfers? :unsure:

Going anywhere nice?

 

[Appswah]

Shopto.

Wasn't expecting it but they usually send you an email of the it all packaged up and ready to go which I recieved yesterday but thought they wouldn't post till today.. Obviously I was wrong.