What's with all the GTA IV hate?

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Mitsurugi said:
GTA4 was way too scripted. I wanna complete XX mission by blowing up the guys car before the 100th chase begins, oh no, I can't its not part of the story and if I use codes, I get penalized. Seriously, no codes in a GTA game, WTF?? Additionally, the game tries to be more realistic than its predecessors and until cars started flying at me in the final mission, it was. The missions themselves were very bland and unimaginative; go to this place and retrieve this item, chase after that car, kill this person, nothing as awesome or hilarious as the missions in San Andreas. Finally there's the main Protagonist a yokel who's looking for revenge/answers. I completed the game hoping that Niko would, become a rich entrepreneur (like many CJ and Tommy), instead he stays pretty much the same except now he's emo and has even less to do ( for all that detail there sure aren't a lot of places to go or things to do ).

I'll go with this.