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elprincipe on 06 July 2009

No.



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txrattlesnake on 06 July 2009

The reason that I think GTA IV deserves the scores it received was because its social commentary was impeccable and it painted a very accurate picture of the USA as it has been in its declining years. Principally the decade 2001 to 2010. And it did so without trying to seem like a copy of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.



pastro243 on 06 July 2009

Yeah, it did, and won it, but I like MGS4 more



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Bitmap Frogs on 07 July 2009

By the way, there are a shitton of gamesites and everyone has its own GOTY prize...





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Ari_Gold on 07 July 2009

i didn't think super mario galaxy was the game of the year for 2007, and i didn't think GTA IV was the game of the year for 2008 and it doesn't bother me at all, just keep playing :)



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AdventWolf on 07 July 2009

It was the 2008 GOTY named by the VGA of Spike TV.



Euphoria14 on 07 July 2009

SaGa Frontier was 2008 GOTY easily.



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Untouch on 07 July 2009

No.
Too many bugs.

MGS shouldv'e won.



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Zkuq on 07 July 2009
reaver_x said:
hell no GTA4 is vastly overrated MGS4 deserves that title

So you'd replace an overrated title with another overrated title?

some great game > MGS4 > GTA IV



txrattlesnake on 07 July 2009
Reasonable said:
For me, no.

I loved the engine (even with the pop-in,etc) but was underwhelmed by the content and perplexed by the 'it's as good a script as Godfather, Goodfellas, etc. comments' - when it clearly was a D movie to their A movie status in the script and story dept.

It was fun in parts, interesting overall but really was more (or from a certain perspective less) of the same with a better developed city setting - i.e. not GOTY.


Storywise, GTA IV was much more prescient in its social commentary than either of the GodFather games or even to The Godfather movies nowadays.  First off, the social commentary contained in all of the shows on Nico's television were a very accurate deppiction of the Us and the inannity of a large percentage of its media offerings.  Secondly, Eastern European gangsters particularly from Russia and or the Ukraine are much more of a threat to the world today than the Italian mobsters depicted in The Godfather or the charcater that Pacino played in Scarface, yet you very seldom hear discussions about the threats posed by these Eastern European figures discussed in much mainstream news programming.  They are a shadowy prescence that GTA IV may have been the first work in popular media to take a serious look into.