Food for Thought
James Reynolds | July 29, 2008I’m obviously busy packing, but here’s a tidbit from an email I just received from a Good friend of mine, what do you guys think?
GTA. I would give it a 7 out of 10. I was playing it the other day and I suddenly realised it does nothing new whatsoever and many of the things it does do are bad compared to other games. For example, the saves in that game are the worse I have experienced for quite some time. One fuck up (eg shooting Roman in the head) and you have to do half an hour of shit just to get back to where you were. Why couldn’t there be checkpoints? It feels as if the game is forcing you to play it rather than playing it to enjoy it. In only two instances is the game superior to San Andreas (let alone VC). The graphics (what a shock) and the characters (Brucie is great). SA was so much more fun.
The radio is shit in GTA4 and the channels that I listen to seem to loop every 5 minutes. It also feels unfinished. The roller coaster and golf courses are only two of the more obvious examples of where the developers have been forced to complete the game quicker than they would have liked.
So I played (and finished) Prey and thoroughly enjoyed it and have been playing Oblivion as a Nord rather than go back to GTA. It is not a bad game, it just shouldn’t be excused its blatantly obvious flaws as it is a GTA.
Hate to say it, but he’s got a point, although he hasn’t played Multiplayer with us which I gurantee would help him love it!
Regards,
JamesR.
7/10 … Youch, Oblivion is more a 6-7/10 than GTA IV.
i could never take prey over GTA the only thing that gae had going for it was the gravity shift and then thats only on certian paths
GTA isn’t a 10/01 but it’s certainly higher than a 7, i’ve encounted none of these save problems save for the bank job. most mission dont last longer then 10 minutes. and lets be honest if there was a rolercoster in this gmae you actually use it?
no and VC had a gold course you couldn’t use either
Considering how much interactivity is built into GTA IV I was expecting a little more in the way of fun… It took a team of dedicated workers dozens of man hours to just do the Cabaret stuff … It would’ve taken one guy twenty minutes to do a Rollercoaster …
8 or a 9 out of 10, at the least.
I don’t think his nonsense about saving is in any way correct – anyone with sense saves after every mission in any case.
It’s a million times better than SA, which was essentially just driving around in deserts. Now THAT was doing half an hour of shit to get back to where you were. Plus Nico > any other GTA character.
I’ll admit it’s lame how little is interactive – but frankly he destroyed his whole point when he tried to claim Oblivion is better than GTA or that Oblivion is better than eating wallpaper paste or sticking your testicles in a blender. Prey is like Portal, except it isn’t and should fuck off.
…who is this mysterious friend, anyway?