Gta 4
I've always been a fan of GTA (since the first one for PS1), so now I finally got GTA 4 for the PS3, since everyone was telling how amazzing it was.
but so far I'm not finiding it that good, actually I'm finding it rather boring, sort of "more of the same" but just a litle less interesting.
the main charecter isn't that apealling, the story is also boring... and I really hate this new "lets go out with the friends" thing... it's just anoying and not very straight forward...
the new controls are also bugging me, and after a week, I just feel like I haven't gone anywhere with the game and I feel like I'm always around the same 3 or 4 streets (driving has become so boring that I find my self just using taxis most of the time).
I'll pice San Andreas or Vice City any day of the week instead of this one...
please someone tell me it's going to get better...
but so far I'm not finiding it that good, actually I'm finding it rather boring, sort of "more of the same" but just a litle less interesting.
the main charecter isn't that apealling, the story is also boring... and I really hate this new "lets go out with the friends" thing... it's just anoying and not very straight forward...
the new controls are also bugging me, and after a week, I just feel like I haven't gone anywhere with the game and I feel like I'm always around the same 3 or 4 streets (driving has become so boring that I find my self just using taxis most of the time).
I'll pice San Andreas or Vice City any day of the week instead of this one...
please someone tell me it's going to get better...
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The game itself is a lot easier than SA but i miss driving round the countryside and taking in the sights.
I didn't like this friends thing either and the mobile phone feature was annoying. You'd be trying to escape a police chase then the friggin' phone would go off, that was off putting.
It's not a bad game but i may think twice about buying GTA5 (if they ever make one).
I enjoyed both of those far more than the actual game, and they go a fair way to adding some of the fun back! I didn't really bother much with the friends thing either, so I missed out on the benefits they give you but found I didn't really need them...and I spent a lot of time in Taxis too, but with the trip-skip this just meant I finished it quicker than I normally would...
I think they've learned a lot from the reaction to GTA4....both The Ballad Of Gay Tony and Red Dead Redemption allow you to play missions again any time you want, and give you more freedom to explore....so I personally can't wait for GTA5!
That absolutely sums up my opinion of it. Thankfully R* have redeemed themselves with RDR.
I was supposed to be following someone and my brother rang me on the mobile, which alerted the guy to the fact he was being followed...
I have to say GTA IV hasn't gripped me as much as GTAIII or Vice City did. Had some fun in the multiplayer, but even that is spoilt by 12-year old kids screaming obscenities down the headset.
My memories of it are a little blurred however, as I had to race through it in order to write a walkthrough. I think I finished it within 24 hours of it going on sale! Thankfully I had more time to enjoy the DLC episodes (which are both excellent - if you're missing the 'fun' of VC and SA then give Gay Tony a go, some of the missions are so OTT it's crazy).
Ballad Of Gay Tony has some great new weapons that make rampages so much more fun... I love sitting in the Superstar Cafe, firing grenades out of the windows at passers-by, and rigging the door with timed explosives for when the cops come in to nick/shoot me. Not to mention skydiving without opening my 'chute, and pummeling face first into the ground (haven't hit a pedestrian yet, but I bloody will one day). Awesomeness!! :smile:
And to be fair, there's a lot to like about GTA 4, at least initially (though the "improved" car handling never gelled with me). Far better graphics, a real feeling of being in a living city (relatively speaking), that whole "Wow!" feeling that you got when you first saw GTA 3, etc. But after a while you notice that the missions aren't as much fun, and they've left out so much. Not that I missed the RPG elements, I have to admit, but no pushbikes? No parachutes? And it was still set in America, not Great Britain :sad: (Alright, so that last one won't bother most people, but it really annoys me - I want to drive on the left side of the road in a mini, and drive past red double decker buses, pillar boxes (a British term for "post box"), fish 'n' chip shops, etc, in the pouring rain. And run over a traffic warden or twelve.
That sums up my feelings, too. It seems to me they worked hard on everything, except what actually made the earlier 3D GTAs so much fun. The missions, the atmosphere, the feel of the vehicles, everything, seemed a step backwards from GTA 3 San Andreas (my favourite one). And why was the playing area so much smaller? They should have surrounded the city areas with countryside, as in San Andreas, only this time they should have added more features and playable missions to the surrounding areas. GTA4 needed far more powerful hardware than San Andreas, so why not use it to have a larger map, not a smaller one, and with more features, not less? And surely we should have been able to enter most, if not all, building now? And personally, I think that when you die, it should be game over, and back to the last game save. I never agreed with respawing in GTA games.
Having moaned here at length, I have to point out that I've not played GTA 4's expansion packs, which I've heard are very good.
I do think that the next GTA should be set in England, though. Even if they stick it in the rubbish half of the country (the South)!
To be fair, that does say something for the AI (of the NPC you were follwing). In most games it wouldn't have registered with your quarry at all.
And yes, I was no fan of the phone, either.
It's like that on most games, at least on XBox Live! I don't know about the PC, or the PSN network, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The Getaway and it's sequel were massively disappointing to me. It was potentially fantastic, and yet ruined by staggeringly bad game design decisions, such as long un-skippable cutscenes, no map when you were driving, you couldn't control the camera when on foot, the controls were awful (and you couldn't redefine them), etc. It was almost as though the game literally hadn't been tested for playability.