10 Things That Suck About Grand Theft Auto IV

Tron - 7 days 10 hours ago

GTA4 is fun, don't get me wrong. I love running people over, pushing people into trains. But, he makes some good points. I just can't shake the feeling that i have done this before. I know some of the missions will copy from GTA to GTA but everything seems so similar. And the money complaint is spot on. R* needs to make sure LA Noire is different and fresh.

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cybervike - 7 days 10 hours ago

It's very addicting I agree and I haven't played anything else since it came out but a fair number of reviews game this game a perfect score and I think these issues deserve to be brought to light because I'd have to say I've experienced some of them myself and it's an issue.

#1 - I agree..there is little value.
#5 - I miss the mini-missions but I don't mind the mini games either
#6 - This has happen to me more than a few times..frustrating
#8 - I just don't see the purpose anymore..becoming annoying.
#9 - I agree
#10 - Agree 200% with this one. I hate it when that happens.

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dachiefsman - 7 days 10 hours ago

thanks for the disagrees....

"I just can't shake the feeling that i have done this before"

Well it is something you have done before especially if you played the previous GTAs, so why do people come back?

Cause it works...I know the game is not flawless and no I don't have my head up Rockstar's a**. The game to me delivered more positives than negatives. Granted my tendencies when playing a game are not overly critical unless the game is blatantly bad.

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Tron - 7 days 10 hours ago

Your right.. I think my expectations for this one were way to high.. This is the first year i have been online reading reviews on new games and systems so based off all those 10s I thought i would get something more.

The game is very good, and i will put lots of hrs into it. I just expected more.

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dachiefsman - 7 days 10 hours ago

I can relate with yea Tron my feelings and expectations were high for another game Halo 3.

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LastDance - 6 days 18 hours ago

i agree on everything he said. especialy the cover system is so frustrating. and on the contrary to what EVERY reviewer said, multiplayer felt very tacked on. Its a good game..but as soon as i started to do missions for a guy called (sigh) playboy...It was as if i was waiting for it to turn all GTA and get dull.

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dachiefsman - 7 days 10 hours ago

Please tell me another game that is not good that is addicting....

It doesn't make any sense.

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rhood022 - 7 days 10 hours ago

@above

Just because its addicting doesn't mean its a perfect game or deserves a perfect score. In fact, the author of this article makes some valid points, yet his opinion is immediately questioned because he challenged the almighty GTA.

What about this article is unfair exactly? Or what is off base?

Sadly, this is the state of gaming today. Hype sells, plain and simple. This is especially true about legacy games like Zelda, Mario, Metal Gear, GTA, etc or games by respected developers.

People love these games or the love the games by these developers and immediately build up the game as perfect. Mass Effect, for example, in no way deserved its high scores. The story was amazing, but the game itself is seriously flawed developmentally. But because people loved KOTOR or Jade Empire, Mass Effect was an automatic winner.

GTA is no different and the author points out the game's significant short comings.

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dachiefsman - 7 days 10 hours ago

Where did I say that addicting = perfect rating. I even said the game is not perfect in my first post.

I just don't understand why someone wouldn't have done an article like "The good and bad of GTA IV" instead of "10 reasons why gta sucks" see the difference, plus it is more balanced approach as well.

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Lumbo - 7 days 3 hours ago

because the good points of GTA4 have already been told .. to death .
By most of the general video games "journalists" and "critics".

What you say is that its seemingly perfectly valid to praise the game putting a blanket over the shortcommings, but if you want to write something about the shortcomings you shall not, unless you point out all the good points again and again. Else you end up with flames from the insulted fanretards for daring to criticize the holy game.

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Silellak - 7 days 9 hours ago

Why does everyone hate the cover system so much?

For me, GTA4 is somewhere between Gears of War's cover's system (nearly perfect) and Rainbow 6: Vegas's (meh).

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The Closing - 7 days 9 hours ago

I've yet to find a cover system worse than this. I had to constantly try to find positions that allowed me to shoot. Another cover system annoyance for example there was a bunch of blockades lined up touching one another, and I couldn't even move from one to the other. Ridiculous.

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Silellak - 7 days 9 hours ago

So your opinion of the game changed based on what some gaming website told you to think about it?

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Silellak - 7 days 9 hours ago

The car driving mechanics are a matter of personal taste. They don't "suck".

What's wrong with the lock-on system? Yeah, I still occasionally target the wrong person, but I also have FREE AIM, which is a huge step over other GTA's. This GTA made combat FUN - and that alone is a big deal. I rarely have fun with a sandbox game's combat system. It always feels watered down compared to a full-fledged action game. See: All other GTAs, Oblivion, Assassin's Creed, Saint's Row. GTA4 is the first time I've loved the combat in a sandbox game.

What weapons that the game NEEDS are really missing? Sure, the katana and chainsaw were fun, but do we really need them? We have all the important ones. The incredible physics when you fire an RPG make up for the loss of any other weapons.

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permutated - 7 days 9 hours ago

The driving mechanics are awful man, seriously, they're too clunky and you spin out far too much at slow speeds. Even Crackdown had better shooting and driving mechanics, and the streets were roughly as tight-cornered.

Oh, and they're missing the Chainsaw, the Katana, and the Brass Knuckles...some of the greatest parts of other GTA games.

Sounds like you're still caught up in all this hype bull-sh!t so why don't you stay out of stories like these until you get your common sense back, hmm?

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Silellak - 7 days 9 hours ago

You're right. Because I disagree with you, I must:

1) Still be caught up in the hype

and

2) Should not discuss GTA4.

You know what? Get over yourself. Your opinion isn't the only one. Sorry if I don't think a few melee weapons were the "best parts" of previous GTA4s, or if I think comparing the driving or combat in GTA4 to Crackdown's is laughable.

Crackdown was, for me, an average game, at best.

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