GTA IV is new king of Xbox Live hill

Really? matches run pretty smooth throughout the whole time. Only time it lags is when a player enters the game.

Whenever I'm on live I mean.

same. I haven't seen any GTA lag yet...idunno

Agreed on the posters above. I've been playing GTA just about everynight since release online and it's been very smooth. Only a few hits here and there but they are rare.

Get new internets homie, mine is like everyone elses, runs perfect 95.6% of the time.

Thats the exact number btw

eh? it runs smooth as hell on live, remember it's peer to peer, so it's either you or your fellow players having a crap connection. I've had one tiny moment of lag when my wife started downloading something on the laptop.

Well, I'm both glad and sad to hear other people aren't sharing in my problems. Every other Live game I play doesn't seem to have these issues and my internet connection and NAT settings are excellent. When I mean "lag," specifically I mean when I hit a person or vehicle in GTA, often times it will initially look like I've sent them flying, only to have them appear right next to me as if I hadn't done anything. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

Also, when I mention mechanics and gameplay, I'm referring to things like, if you're in the middle of an incredibly intense firefight and you want to jump into a car, you SPRINT towards the driver's side, hit Y and your character nonchalantly walks over to the door, casually sits down, closes the door and starts the engine as if bullets aren't pummeling his face.

I haven't given up all hope yet; I'm still giving it a go, but there's a whole list of issues I have with GTA multiplayer and I'm not going to list them all here. I'm glad you guys are enjoying it, at least.

Actually, there are numerous threads on Xbox.com in regards to multiplayer problems with GTA IV. My particular problem is that I continually get dumped back to single player with a disconnected from server error or, I get into a game and get booted out, or I get into a game and everyone else gets booted out. I have yet to play a single game of multiplayer.

I can play other online games just fine, but not GTA IV. We are a minority, but it is happening and it does suck. Hopefully, Rockstar/MS will either release a patch or fix whatever server end problem some users are having.

I have bad bandwidth with ok latency and I played a 16 player match smooth as butter.

Sure it did. You probably don't even have a 360.

minus teh ghey of course

wow is dwarfingly lame

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Wait so I can driveby a group of orcs in GTAIV?


FUCKING SWEET!!!

Hey arrrgh, that was awesome. I agree in the fullest

You're welcome for the Gears sprinkles. ;)

LOL, yeah you and my buddy Joe78 play Gears. Hes so close to his Seriously achievement that he can taste it. Hope it doesnt glitch on him haha! I try to get on there every once in a while but Im freaken rusty =) Also, it just amazes me how even with Gears supposedly lag, glitching, host advantage people still play it to this day. Its because its awesome and way diff than any other MP game out there. Theres nothing sweeter than you being last man standing on your team and taking out 3 or 2 of the other team ending it with a headshot or curbstomp for the win. You get back in the lobby talking smack =) That game just gets your adrenaline pumping haha!

Yep, that pretty much epitomizes the awesomeness of Gears.

Mafiya Work 4v4v4v4 beats Gears Of War anyday.

photoshop? bah! too expensive and long to download pirated! ms paint, homey.

over 9000 hours in mspaint

This is correct and was talked about by Major Nelson on his podcast. Many sites keep making this mistake when creating posts about the top xbl games. PLEASE STOP SAYING WHETHER OR NOT GTA'S MULTIPLAYER CAN KEEP IT ON TOP. IT'S NOT BASED ON MULTIPLAYER, IT'S BASED ON HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE PLAYING WHILE LOGGED INTO LIVE, SINGLE OR MULTI.

ive yet to go online, my internet sucks.

story is great though so im not really disappointed.