Gamer Limit: In Defence of Grand Theft Auto IV, Part One: My City Screams

dchalfont - 66 days 12 hours ago

there is no defense for gta iv, it will forever sit among the games that should not have been bought

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smooch_357 - 66 days 9 hours ago

I've read countless opinions of people who have loved it and hated it. I didn't particularly care for it myself either...I had tow major gripes with the game, the physics and the story.

As for the game physics, I absolutely loved how they affected the outside world like the people and other cars in the city, but i hated how the in game physics held me back from playing the game how I liked. I never got used to the way the car you were driving always spun out of control when you tried to make turns too fast. Because of this, I never really played "all out" the way I did in the previous GTAs because i knew that if my warrant level got to high, I wouldn't be able to out run the police as easy I would have in a previous GTA. Also, I wouldn't start riots just for the heck of it anymore because I couldn't dodge cops and the FIB as I use to in the old GTAs, I remember in San Andres, I use to be able drive like across the whole map, making high speed turns, 180's while dodging through traffic and avoiding cops, while driving as fast as the car I was in would take me.I never did this in GTA IV....

As for the story, I didn't find it too engaging, I read the article for this post and couldn't remember half the stuff the author was refiring to, and definitely didn't remember feeling anything for anyone, (except for roman at the end). I barely remember any of the other characters names. To me, to many of the missions seemed like "filler missions", (like they use in anime cartoon shows)...and I'm not referring to playing darts, bowling, and going on dates that the game tried to make you do.....There so many characters, and so many missions that you had to do for those character, that in the end, didn't even advance the story. An example of this is how you met packie... I haven't played the game in while, but if i remember correctly, there was a group of people that you met and did missions for, that introduced you to him, and then once you stated doing missions for packie, you never heard from them again, I think one of them ended up becoming a contact in your cell phone, who wanted to hang out from time to time.

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