| KichiVerde said: It appears there are a lot of GTA 4 haters. Well think of it this way. GTA 4 is to the 7th gen consoles what GTA 3 was to the 6th gen ones. It took some steps backwards but the revamped Liberty City was unlike anything else. The game has the most real city in the gaming world. That is an incredible achievement. And it will only get better. Perhaps it did not satisfy everyone but the series will only get better as they improve on the current build. |
There are those that find GTA thoroughly offensive because we just don't think random acts of urban violence are an appropriate form of recreation. There are too many people living the real version of GTA and they don't seem to find it recreational. Making it Video Game of the Year just further supports the concept that this is accepptable or "heroic" behavior.
I've had the misfortune of having worked with the forensic pathologists and have seen the results the real life form of this behavior, and I just didn't find it amusing, compelling, exciting. It was the surviving family members screaming in anger and dismay, sights that turn my stomach to think about and smells that are best left undescribed.
Yes I know that many games are based on violence but it least it is in a different time period, a fantasy world, historic. We have kids now playing GTA inside a house while the real thing is going on outside their window.
Note: I have played the game, gave it a fair try. Found it distasteful and boring. But I'm voting against it not as a game but as a game that should never have been made.
