gta4 or sleeping dogs?

[crackz12]

looking to get one of these games which is better ?

[MadamePinky]

I would go with Seeping dogs but I love modding in GTA IV

[dq333]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGRsrFdwb2c

[Alex]

Sleeping Dogs, not Watch Dogs.

Back on topic, I've gotta second the vote for Sleeping Dogs. It's a much better game. The cars handle better (everything else you do in GTA IV is so over the top, so why the emphasis on making the cars handle "realistically"... right down to the point of skidding a whole block past your turn if you try to drift around a corner at full speed?); the bullet-time slow-mo means shooting while weaving through traffic isn't a complete pain in ass (and GTA IV has you doing a LOT of shooting while driving); and it's just plain a better made, more optimized PC port, running at consistant speeds at decent settings on reasonable hardware, whereas GTA IV is notorious for throwing the occasional fit, even on some decent gaming rigs. Oh, and no GFWL to potentially shut down and brick the game in a month.

The only thing to keep in mind is, as one of the characters will point out, "Guns are something of a rarity in Hong Kong [where Sleeping Dogs takes place]." There will still be plenty of opportunities for gun fights, but you won't be tripping over hardware or collecting massive arsenals like you do in GTA. Most of the combat is hand-to-hand. Fortunately, the combat system works really well. Still, if you need to have a gun on hand at all times, I think you're missing the point, but Sleeping Dogs will probably wear on you after a while.

I'd honestly recommend either Sleeping Dogs or Saints Row III (SR IV is probably better, but it turns so much of the formula on its head it basically became a separate genre unto itself) over GTA IV any day .

[Rockhead Gaz]

I also give Sleeping Dogs my vote. Even though there's less running-and-gunning involved, the shooting sections of GTA are hampered by some slightly awkward controls, much like the rest of the game. SD on the other hand has excellent controls, a fantastic combat system, an interesting, if a bit cliched, storyline, not to mention that it's actually a decent PC port.

In short, SD improves on GTAIV in almost every way, it's by far the better option. I always found GTAIV to be overrated, but Sleeping Dogs is worthy of all the praise and attention it received.

[Azrael]

Sleeping Dogs by far!

[Seseorang]

If you play Sleeping Dogs right, you can be given the location of secret items rather than spend hours looking for them to get 100% completion.

[K4ever]

Its funny that even in the gta4 forum people still say sleeping dogs is a better game.

Me included.

[la_nague]

i dont like sleeping dogs, too much quicktime BS

[SmearyToast]

Maybe just me. BUT I hated it. Hong Kong ugh...I don't like the setting. If I could mod it. "Okay" because its a great looking game. And the hand to hand felt tedious to me. I felt like redsteel on wii. Why would I engage in hand to hand, when I have a gun? GTA is best. Go Wit'it! ;)

[fakecat]

GTA is better, for sure. Better car and body physics, much better animations and car damage (in fact, Euphoria physics is the best in open world games, you won't find better on PC), better characters and story. The only things that are worse in GTA are performance (was awfull on start, dunno how it performs on modern rigs) and graphics (debatable; GTA have ugly washed-outness, no AA and creppy lighting, but world geometry in Sleeping Dogs is so ugly, looks like an HD remake of PS2 era game).

[Randy Magnum]

Sleeping dogs is alot better game you will find yourself going back to alot. Sure gta4 is fun to mod but gameplay wise sleeping dogs. GTA has gone down the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ since vice city i think.
Theyre both good games buy both on sale should be under 10 for both.

[The Nothing Man]

if you dont want a huge headache,
sleeping dogs

please note

gta4 is not supported by modern os's nor hardware, sooo skip that, trust me

its not worth the head ache u will get

sleeping dogs is a much better port anyway, and more fun
gta is NOT better, at all, esp for anyone on any new machines,
most cant get the game to start and if you are lucky enough to only about 1/10 can get the game to run and without issues, me i can get it to run but the lag is so terrible i cant play muchless mod,
only 2 games out of the gta full pack even run on my machine win7 64bit with 4gb video card
DONT GO WITH GTA!!!
unless u have a 512mb vid card and xp.. then go for it

[Randy Magnum]

Are you implying GTA4 will run on 512mb of vram? Id like to see that. GTA4 doesnt recognize cards with over 2 gigs of vram unless you make it which is just a line of text -norestrictions I believe it is. But it is worth the headache if you can get it working with mods, vanilla sucks. Do some google searches and you will get all the games to work kaldire.

[The Nothing Man]

bob dole

you do realise that this game only needs a 512 card? yes? no?
you do understand its very old yes? no?

you do understand ive tested it on a 512mb gpu with xp pro sp2 and the game runs pefectly with no command edits because its in its native os and hardware, new stuff isnt meant to be

and yes not only am i implying it runs on 512mb vid ram, but it does so better than my 4gb vid ram with custom command line and no no (-nomemrestrict etc are bad commands rockstar says) they are generic and there are very specfic lines of code for the newer os's and cards

rockstar themselves gave me a 58 line commandline.txt

but mate this game is old, look at the specs then set the graphics to highest everything and tell me how much vid ram its really using! it says right in the menu
its about 400 ish mb vid ram, or LESS

sorry pal your turn to google or just use steam, and see 512 .. will and does run this game far better and a command lined 4gb card for me.. and most others

pfft im outta this thread, to many kids that think this game is new or something, not sure how u dont understand that this game was meant to run on that old hardware,
look at the steam store, see the os' supported, and how much mem and vid mem and cpu u truly need (its next to nothing)

[BridgetFisher]

Get Sleeping Dogs, more fun and it works!
GTA 4 will be removed from steam since it uses GFWL and that is shut down so you cant save your game or anything.