The same could be said about SMG on the Wii. GTA IV and SMG are mainstream games and are definitely not for everyone.

The nickel just dropped and I understand in part the huge gulf between gamer tastes. 4-5 hours, even 10 hours just to get “into” a game; No f**king way I’ll ever have any use for a game that demands that kind of time commitment. Hell, I’m 63, I don’t have that kind of time to waste. I want the writers to spend their time making the game so I won’t have to waste mine. But now I understand the different mind sets.

Some years ago I was into model railroads. There was this company called Campbell that made kits for building houses and stuff. I ordered one and when it came I found the box was filled with miniature lumber, miniature siding, miniature shingles etc. In other words you built this little miniature building just like a real house, board by board. I stared at it for a few minute and said no f**king way I’m going through that so I put it on a shelf where it still sits and bought a lovely resin casting kit that assembled in about 20 minutes.

Never understood why anyone would buy one of those kits until one day I picked up a magazine and read a letter from a college student about how he loved the Campbell kit because just one would “last” him a whole semester. Whole different point of view that never crossed my mind.

So if you really are willing to put ten hours into a game just to see if it’ll start getting interesting, then you and I have indeed very different needs and never the twain shall meet. I want a game I can pick up and get right in, and right back out ten minutes later if need be. Ten hours is a non-starter but I now understand that people with the great luxury of free time might want something quite different.

For once I agree with Fishy.

Overrated, and oversold.

But I didn't know it was supposed to kill the Wii.

Actually your right on the ball as GTA 4 was a huge disappointment to most of us here.

It lacked the brilliance of GTA : SA

The game was overhyped and IS boring. So you are not alone with your feelings :)

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The only thing GTAIV killed was millions and millions of wallets.

 It wasnt, it was just one of leo-j's predictions that spawned an epic thread.

Yay, another GTA4 hater! How it has achieved such high sales is beyond me

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