Rocketpig's article on GTA4

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MontanaHatchet said:

rocketpig said:

roadkillers said:
Wait I read it again and I have to ask. When you said mediocre did you mean games in General? If so I apologize but it seems like it was aimed towards GTA4 since that was the main example in the article.

No, I didn't call GTA mediocre. I actually quite like the game. It was an assault on reviewers in general, the focus just happened to center around GTA.

I could have written the same article for BioShock, Super Mario Galaxy, Halo 3, or almost any other big budget title that received scores well above what it deserved.

But you didn't.

People bitched endlessly about Halo 3 and how it was supposedly a disappointment (it actually got me into the series, so I don't see how).

Those games I listed were all good games. The only problem was that they weren't nearly as innovative or great as people made them out to be (the closest IMO would be SMG). Halo 3 wasn't much more than Halo 2 with tweaks. There's nothing wrong with that, I just don't see how so many sites gave it a 10/10 (or, inversely, how some sites gave it a 7.5/10). The same goes for BioShock. In several ways, it's actually a step back from their System Shock series. At least Halo didn't regress at all, though BioShock did have stellar artistic design.