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greatly overrated. still fun to mess around due to its sandbox nature. but thats about it. the gangsta plot smells already. i really would like to see a more serious aproach to a sandbox game by Rockstar themselves.



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VanceIX said:
F0X said:
VanceIX said:
The only games in the series that deserved the scores they got were GTA III and GTA IV.


You have my attention.

Best story and characters.

Nico was the only protagonist in the entire series you could really feel sympathy for, the rest are just assholes (especially Trevor, Franklin, and Michael from V). 

I love story and character driven games, so I loved GTA IV. GTA V and San Andreas may have been better gameplay wise, but the characters were unlikable and the story meh. The dark tone of IV was amazing.

Also, I hating having to sit through two characters yelling the n-word at each other 15 times per sentence trying to emulate ghetto hoods or something.


True, although I think the narrative suffers quite a bit by being in a GTA game. Mafia II and, to an extent, L.A. Noire felt like better designed open-world strory-driven games (although I don't like L.A. Noire's plot as much as GTAIV's).



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F0X said:
VanceIX said:
F0X said:
VanceIX said:
The only games in the series that deserved the scores they got were GTA III and GTA IV.


You have my attention.

Best story and characters.

Nico was the only protagonist in the entire series you could really feel sympathy for, the rest are just assholes (especially Trevor, Franklin, and Michael from V). 

I love story and character driven games, so I loved GTA IV. GTA V and San Andreas may have been better gameplay wise, but the characters were unlikable and the story meh. The dark tone of IV was amazing.

Also, I hating having to sit through two characters yelling the n-word at each other 15 times per sentence trying to emulate ghetto hoods or something.


True, although I think the narrative suffers quite a bit by being in a GTA game. Mafia II and, to an extent, L.A. Noire felt like better designed open-world strory-driven games (although I don't like L.A. Noire's plot as much as GTAIV's).

Just finished GTAV today and I have to admit that scene was just totally rubbish, I sat there thinking who the hell wrote this crap... it has to be the worst written VO I've come across.



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wilco said:
GTA IV is the most overrated game ever. I'm not even going to sugar coat it, it is a genuinely bad game

I sort of agree that it might be overrated, but I don't see how it's a bad game. It really isn't one to me. I had quite a blast playing it!



Many things in IV are the best in games. GTA V is simply the best game ever. They are the best rated games for reason. What is the best selling game for last-gen? GTA is masterpiece for demanding gamers.



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SnK0610 said:
It's funny you all say GTA 4 was the worst GTA.

GTA 4 was the highest rated GTA game.

And the best GTA According to reviewers.

Reviewers gave it a score of 9.8

Gamers gave it a score of 7.4

Big difference.

Exactly!



GTA IV and GTA V were overrated but still good games. Everything else in the series, deserved what it got. It would be awesome if they based a whole GTA storyline on a biker gang, abit like the Lost and Damned but longer so that it would be a full game



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I think the games are good, but overrated metacritic wise. 85-87 seems more appropriate to me.



I say GTA as franchise is Great.



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Both.
It deserves somewhere between an 83-93 on Metacritic,so its a great series, but it has 97-98 metascrores, so its also
over rated.