Materia-Blade said:
I personally like the franchise, but only for doing random destruction. I don't know what score the game should have had but I know it's much bellow 98. it's just a franchise that got lucky with marketing/controversy, wich makes people buy it because of a fad and not because of the actual game. |
I wouldn't personally give it a 97/98 either, but that's still just my opinion, not a basis to write off everyone that disagrees (which is evidently a lot of people). The same goes for you, especially when the game only fits with your tastes as far as "doing random destruction".
When you consider the staggering number of people that are completely in love with the series, coupled with it presenting arguably the more 'alive' open world to date, and it receiving very high scores (on every platform) makes sense. I don't need to agree with them to understand that.
GTA has been popular for far too long to be considered a fad though. It's definitely seen a popularity boost with GTA5 (which i'd credit to the long wait, expected growth, and 3 major release cycles keeping it relevant for longer), but that doesn't make it an inherent fad. Best to wait and see how GTA6, 7, etc, do before stating definitives like that.
