pezus said:
adriane23 said:
pezus said:
RolStoppable said:
pezus said:
The GTA4 dislike is still surprising to me. It was in no shape or form a bad game. A bit overhyped, but not bad for sure! |
It didn't kill the Wii. You should have been here when the game got released, it was madness when NPD numbers for April 2008 were released. The supposed game of the generation put the 360 and PS3 each at around 190k units for the month while the Wii was above 700k. It was then when it ceased to be cool to like GTA.
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Ooh, I was here actually (lurking and enjoying it) and I remember the meltdown. That was in the good-old days when Nintendo actually had a solid strategy.
Maybe it's because of the disappointing hardware boost that so many people dislike it?
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I don't think so. Not a lot of people care about sales figures. For example, I never even heard about this site until 2009 and when I discovered it, I didn't even come here for sales numbers. A lot of people don't like the game because it wasn't San Andreas 2 or Vice City 2. The story was boring, the humor was almost non-existent, and the game didn't have a lot of variety to it.
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o.O This was actually the first GTA where I enjoyed the story (and completed it). They fixed the gunplay (let's face it, it was mostly crap in the PS2 GTAs) and the new physics engine was awesome to play around with.
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I definitely agree on the gunplay and physics, but that was all it did better than the PS2 games. The main attractions of Vice City and San Andreas were that they were caricatures of the real world. They were completely nonsensical which made the games feel like gigantic playgrounds. GTAIV doesn't feel like that.
