My Take on GTA4

[QUOTE="MedicMike66"]

It's an extremely fun game, moreso than previous entrees', but I think overexcitement got the rating. The controls can be frustrating, especially the driving missions. The graphics are great but not perfect, and definetly not any better than Bioshock or 'gears'.

I get the concept that sometimes games can transcend numerical scales, but the name itself is what got the rating.

Coyo7e

Complaining about driving controls just says to me you have not played the game a lot yet. I think they are spot on.

I think it's a lot more of a realistic simulation, than previous games, but I think you have to have too much playtime to get the controls down.

[QUOTE="Coyo7e"][QUOTE="MedicMike66"]

It's an extremely fun game, moreso than previous entrees', but I think overexcitement got the rating. The controls can be frustrating, especially the driving missions. The graphics are great but not perfect, and definetly not any better than Bioshock or 'gears'.

I get the concept that sometimes games can transcend numerical scales, but the name itself is what got the rating.

MedicMike66

Complaining about driving controls just says to me you have not played the game a lot yet. I think they are spot on.

I think it's a lot more of a realistic simulation, than previous games, but I think you have to have too much playtime to get the controls down.

The thing that was hard for me to adapt to as far as driving goes was the wonky camera, like when you tore off up a hill. But now I do not even consider it as I naturally manipulate the camera without thought.

I love driving around the city because I love the driving a lot. But maybe thats just me.

Its a good game but i wont be buying next GTA ... i loved GTA3 it totally rocked, everything was so new and revolutionary.... i liked a bit of Vice City but found San Andreas boring cuz it was the same old and stuff , yea they added lot of things but still ... GTA4 same stuff better graphics and thats it.

Now if this is your first GTA experience it will be an amazing experience so i think i deserves a 9.5 just for those ppl

G3ckobain

I do not understand how you can characterize GTA 4 like this. It certainly felt like GTA, but it was not the same old stuff.

In every GTA game up to four I would hit a point, about 30 hours in, where everything just felt like the same washed out texture. An ally was not ally so much as just a space between buildings. In GTA 4 the opposite has happened. With every hour I go deeper in the more detail I find, and the more unique each area of the game feels.

But the depth of field visual effects work to a stunning level. Busting down one of the bridges at sunset is amazing.

[QUOTE="The_Game21x"]

Well since you think that, take a look at this. It's a picture of the link I gave you earlier.

What does it say by the 10.0 rating? Hmm...looks like the word "Prime" to me.

But that really doesn't matter. Everything you said is all your opinion of what you think a game that receives a 10 should be, which clearly differs from that of the many reviewers that gave this game a 10. It is not a fact. Justin Calvert, the Senior Editor at GameSpot who reviewed the game, even said near the end of the GS video review that the game isn't perfect. Don't believe me? go watch it for yourself.

Bottom line, the game isn't perfect and no one said it is but to say it isn't worthy of the score it received is just your opinion. It doesn't make it any better than anyone else's.

Andrew_Xavier

"This exceedingly rare score refers to a game that is as perfect as a game can aspire to be at its time of release."

There's that word again, "perfect". That grasping too :cry:?

If the game isn't AS PERFECT AS A GAME CAN ASPIRE TO BE AT IT'S TIME OF RELEASE, then how did it get a score indicitive of a game that is "AS PERFECT AS A GAME CAN ASPIRE TO BE AT IT'S TIME OF RELEASE"?

Here we go again. :roll:

"as perfect as a game can aspire to be" does not mean perfect. If it did, they wouldn't have changed the score from Perfect to Prime in the first place or, they wouldn't go through the long explanation and just said "Perfect".

The fact that they went through the trouble of saying "as perfect as a game can aspire to be" is indicative of the fact that they realize that no game is or ever will be perfect.

You can continue to debate this subject but you may want to go look up the definition of Perfect in the dictionary and come back with a better understanding of the application of said word.

[QUOTE="MedicMike66"][QUOTE="Coyo7e"]

Complaining about driving controls just says to me you have not played the game a lot yet. I think they are spot on.

Coyo7e

I think it's a lot more of a realistic simulation, than previous games, but I think you have to have too much playtime to get the controls down.

The thing that was hard for me to adapt to as far as driving goes was the wonky camera, like when you tore off up a hill. But now I do not even consider it as I naturally manipulate the camera without thought.

I love driving around the city because I love the driving a lot. But maybe thats just me.

It's definitely not just you. I won't pretend I don't take insta-cabs occasionally, but I often drive to missions or checkpoints because it's so enjoyable. Even having to retry missions and drive back to a certain objective, which can be bothersome if you died on the brink of completing a more intricate mission, isn't nearly as annoying as it would be in almost any other game. The city is too alive and detailed and the driving feels too good to make it too big of an issue to me.

The radio soundtrack has gotten a lot of complaints, but I don't really get it. Lots of great stuff in there, and it gets better the more you listen to it. Most of the complaints seem to stem from the fact that the majority of the songs/artists aren't mainstream and popular, but that's not really a fair criticism. Many people would see that as a plus.