Am I The Only One Sick To Death of GTA IV Yet?

There are 8 top stories shown on the front page. 6 are about GTA IV.

The second hottest story is about a guy who kind-of sort-of maybe looks a little bit like Niko.

This game is not perfect. In fact, it is so far from perfect that I am convinced the reviewers were all on drugs when they got this game.

I bought it after reading the reviews, expecting something special. I was hoping for the same feeling I got when I first play GTA 3, it was an amazing game, and GTA IV is the same. The same game that is.

Go to point A, pick up Mr X, take him to point B, then to point C, kill Mr Y. and go back to point A.

Rinse and repeat.

How can so many people be so amazingly impressed with something we have played 3 times already?!

Ok, I must admit it has an interesting multiplayer. So release a GTA Online and knock the price down. 4 hours into this game and I am thoroughly bored. The graphics have some serious frame rate issues (on both consoles, which everyone seems to have missed), the cars handle like they are on suspension built from custard, the AI is less than impressive, and the mission structure is exactly the same as we have seen before, except now instead of playing through missions and progressing, you have to spend half your time playing poorly implemented mini-games to keep your in-game friends happy.

How can so many people be so satisfied with this? R* have been overambitious, and have tried to do too much and has ended up doing it all quite badly, instead of focusing on one element and making it great.

I am seriously disappointed with this game and will be returning it promptly, and I just hope that everyone who does enjoy it actually goes and plays it instead of posting 30,000 stories about it on N4G

[Truplaya]

I started playing the GTA series at the first one, the top down one.

The series has gradually improved and each game is better than the last. You complain about the graphics? have you seen GTA San Andreas lately?

What are you comparing the graphics to? its the best looking open world game out there. The car handling is great, you must be rubbish at driving or are picking the wrong cars.

Yes, the missions structure is the same, but that is GTA. What else do you want? All Call of Duty games are the same, go there, shoot that, repeat, but no one complains.

You need to go back to the days of the SNES when all games were 2D and lasted a minutes before getting boring or frustating. You would then see how lucky you are to have games like GTA available.

[vidoardes]

I am not sayign the graohics are bad at all, I just think they are not as good as everyone says they are. And as for the best looking open world game? Look no furthur than Burnout Paradise (locked at 60fps mind).

You compare the samey gameplay to Call Of Duty, everyone did moan about 2 and 3, they were the same as every other world war II shooter out there, but go and look at CoD 4. It takes the idea, turns it around into something awesome (and not just because of the pretty graphics). The gameplay has been totally revamped from the previous titles, and that was what I was hoping for from GTAIv

[kira989]

I understand where your coming from... There are people who absolutly love GTA and than there is people like me who play it occasionally...

I agree that all GTA's are the same... IN THE BEGINING!!!

I think that once you get the ball rolling and your persona gets to the point where he is big s**t thats when you see the crazier missions...

If you cant make it that point.. maybe GTA isnt for you, but i can tell you right now that you arent the only one who's geting sick of it, just one of the few...

[LinuxGuru]

Confession:

I've never played a GTA game, nor do I ever plan to.

=)

[PS360WII]

Awesome blog and I agree with you

[kosha]

Im not sick of gta4 the actual game. But i am sick of all the news and hype about it. Good blog

[gEnKiE]

I LOVE GTA but I am sick of seeing the same old stories on it...

[MorganX]

You are not alone.

[gladiatory2k]

Wow an honest review of the game. I am actually disappointed. My biggest issue is with the way the cars drive. After having played Burnout paradise, I was hoping the cars in this game handled as well, but you can turn for crap, just tapping the e-brake can send you into a tail spin, and the missions are really feeling snooze worthy. I DO like the variety of activities in GTA, but the storyline almost feels like a step back. I almost wish for Tommy Vercetti to come out of nowhere and slap this one....but then again, I am barely on to the second island so hopefully it gets better. I could do without the dating mini game though.

I am looking forward to saints row 2 now more than ever. I know it isn't much better, but I always liked Vice City more because it felt more like you were building an empire, and I like it when the meglomaniacal aspect of my personality gets a little love. Time to stillwater under control of the saints!

[LJWooly]

I think GTA is one of those games that have a magical brainwashing quality to them, regardless of quality. See: Halo 3.

However, I am currently playing through, and enjoying GTA4.

[Amanosenpai]

Really ^_^, youll find what u need

[Jerkstore81]

I sympathize with you, but just try to understand this is the biggest, most revolutionary multi-platform game to ever be released in a long time. Grand Theft Auto is a worldwide phenomenon, but things will die down soon.

[IntelligentAj]

Yeah i'm sick of all the news about it. I haven't been on the site in 4-5 days and when I come back all I see is GTA4 articles. It's good to know I didn't miss anything important.

[Bryla84]

Your honesty is brutal yet fair!! However i dont think its bad enough to take back to the shop. Plenty worse out there!

[zonetrooper5]

Im loving GTA IV but there are flaws to it like there is to many games out there. There are framerate issues, pop ins etc but I think this is overlooked by the fact that it is so polished and well rounded that these flaws can be overlooked in one way.

I found the driving hard at first but after a while of driving I was able to do it easily. You don't have to do the mini games with your friends if you don't want to, this is a sandbox open world game. You can do pretty much whatever you want within this world that Rockstar have created. Alas, I can understand why GTA IV is not what its hyped up to be but I feel that overall its brillant with a few flaws of course.

[vidoardes]

Nice to see people can give proper, well thought out responses. I understand there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people that think this is a great game, and that I am in the minority.

Nice to see you can all talk about it like adults :D

[gobstoper8735]

come on the game is awesome