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[Und3r5c0r3]

What the f*ck did you expect?

 

I remember a long time ago before the game was released, R* told us that they were going to try to make this game more realistic than past GTA's. A fair warning that they were trying a new style with GTA4.

 

And yet, quite a few of you are complaining about the game because it is a more realistic game and because it is different from past GTA games. Well, what the freakin hell did you expect?! Very early on, R* said it was going to be more realistic, but you guys are all saying that R* screwed us over because it's more realistic than past GTA's. They didn't screw us over, they gave us what they told us we would be given! You all say it sucks and that the people who reviewed this game were wrong to give it a 10/10. But those reviewers gave it a 10 because the game achieved exactly what it was expected to achieve, and that is more realism.

 

If you aren't a total dumbass, then you will realize that GTA4 is an excellent game when you judge it by it's realism. You're judging this game in the wrong category, and that's not fair.

[Mr. Mcreary]

What he said.

[GTA_dog]

What the f*ck did you expect?

 

I remember a long time ago before the game was released, R* told us that they were going to try to make this game more realistic than past GTA's. A fair warning that they were trying a new style with GTA4.

 

And yet, quite a few of you are complaining about the game because it is a more realistic game and because it is different from past GTA games. Well, what the freakin hell did you expect?! Very early on, R* said it was going to be more realistic, but you guys are all saying that R* screwed us over because it's more realistic than past GTA's. They didn't screw us over, they gave us what they told us we would be given! You all say it sucks and that the people who reviewed this game were wrong to give it a 10/10. But those reviewers gave it a 10 because the game achieved exactly what it was expected to achieve, and that is more realism.

 

If you aren't a total dumbass, then you will realize that GTA4 is an excellent game when you judge it by it's realism. You're judging this game in the wrong category, and that's not fair.

My thoughts exactly!

[greebo-man]

I did expect what was coming. A new, realistic GTA to propel the series into the modern age.

I was only disappointed that it lacked that one sense of complete craziness. I works great as a game, and it thouroghly deserves its top marks, and if it wasn't part of the GTA series, but a stand-alone title, I would like it even more.

But on comparison to the other GTAs, it just wasn't the same.

[mike752]

GTA IV is great, but it really lacks replay value. I could still play SA and land an AT-400 on a highway for fun, or disguise myself as a policeman and kill all of the cops in the garage with a silenced pistol without being spotted for fun. People say use your imagination for fun. If I wanted to do that, I'd save myself $60 and imagine I'm playing the game. I don't want to pretend like I'm a paramedic, I want to actually try and be a paramedic like the last games. I mean, I love the new physics system, the scope of the city is great and all, but I'd like to do something awesome in the city other than fly a helicopter and look at how beautiful the city looks. I can do that in real life!

[greebo-man]

GTA IV is great, but it really lacks replay value. I could still play SA and land an AT-400 on a highway for fun, or disguise myself as a policeman and kill all of the cops in the garage with a silenced pistol without being spotted for fun. People say use your imagination for fun. If I wanted to do that, I'd save myself $60 and imagine I'm playing the game. I don't want to pretend like I'm a paramedic, I want to actually try and be a paramedic like the last games. I mean, I love the new physics system, the scope of the city is great and all, but I'd like to do something awesome in the city other than fly a helicopter and look at how beautiful the city looks. I can do that in real life!

My points exactly.

Where else can you get that crazy rush of landing a jumbo jet on a highway, before owning some rozzers with a uzi bullet in the head while flying a jetpack through the Hollywood sign?

 

[TT1987]

The jetpack ruined GTA

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

Realism is all fine and dandy. I'm just pissed that it's lacking content 'realistic' or otherwise

[oeL]

When are threads like these going to stop?

 

Lets just let everybody know my own opinion about a game. Everybody needs to hear my voice!

 

Just like the assholes who blast there music at stoplights. I dont wanna hear your f*cking garbage.

 

Oh, this goes out to both the haters/fans.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

What else would we talk about? Ratman?

[EmmaISsoontobeMVP]

What is there to talk about ?

 

There are no crazy storys to tell about GTA4, no "OMG, something random just happen to me" moments in GTA4. Just a whole lot of "I followed this ped down the street today" from the people who like it and "this game is disapointing" from the people who don't and until DLC is exposed that is all your going to see. It's kind of sad that people had this game since the 29th and are still following peds around and saying "pool" is a fun feature in the game, I mean c'mon now be real it was not fun in San Andreas so I don't know why it would be fun now. I never went into the pool house in San Andreas because I was too busy having "fun" yes fun and not that bull sh*t people are trying to picture them selfs having when they play this game. I was really enjoying my self. People already want a new GTA which is sad since this one just came out and people are bored with it.

 

I mean the 1st thing I did when I got the game was go site seein and follow peds, I did not even do the story 1st or rush the game. The game been out for a while now and people are stil following peds and that is just sad because they have to follow a ped to have fun.

Edited July 17, 2008 by EmmaISsoontobeMVP

[goldeneye517]

I love it !

[Dhatz]

 

The jetpack ruined GTA

holy shizzle. i just realized this is the truth.

E: No! I was wrong all the years! DLC is what ruined GTA the most. Because it ruined GTA IV.

Edited July 17, 2008 by Dhatz

[Und3r5c0r3]

I read all your posts, and this will be a reply to all of them since I don't feel like making an individual response to every post, because most of them are f*cking dumb and probably made by people who didn't even read all of my first post.

 

To the positive responses:

Thanks for the support and having some sense. I'm guessing you are the people that are actually old enough to buy the game.

 

To the negative responses:

You're all f*cking idiots. Especially you, EmmaISsoontobeMVP. You're the idiot leader. The reason you are f*cking idiots is because you are still complaining about all the unrealistic features that were left out of GTA4. You were told before the game was released that the game would be more realistic. So why did you expect to be able to land jets on the highway? You bought this game (or more likely, asked your parents to buy this game for you) knowing that you would most likely not be able to do stuff like that. And then, when you played the game and found out that you wouldn't be able to do crazy unrealistic things, you start acting like R* told us we would be able to do those things! That's really stupid.

 

So really, the game wasn't disappointing at all if you expected what we were told to expect. R* was trying a new style with this GTA, and it seems to have been less popular than past GTA's. But R* gave us what they told us to expect. So instead of saying "omg this gam sux r* giv us sh*t gam nd scroo us ovr," how bout saying "Although R* succeeded in creating a more realistic game than we are accustomed to, I didn't find this GTA to be as enjoyable as past GTA games."

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

Many of us have tried that approach too. You stiill get the response OMG GTFO AND PLAY SR2 IF

YOU HATE IT SO MUCH. So what's the difference, some people are just offended by any kind of

negative feedback about the game.

 

As for all the crazy features from SA yeah you're right i did know that IV was scrapping them, but

i also expected many realistic featured in their place. This is the thing that disappointed me. It's

not the nature of the content, but just the sparsity of it

[Acropolis7]

I'ts soo realistic that when someone drops their shopping bags, they just leave the contents on the ground and walk away just like in real life J/K, but IU find it funny whenever I see that happening in the game.

[Und3r5c0r3]

 

Many of us have tried that approach too. You stiill get the response OMG GTFO AND PLAY SR2 IF

YOU HATE IT SO MUCH. So what's the difference, some people are just offended by any kind of

negative feedback about the game.

 

As for all the crazy features from SA yeah you're right i did know that IV was scrapping them, but

i also expected many realistic featured in their place. This is the thing that disappointed me. It's

not the nature of the content, but just the sparsity of it

I haven't seen anyone calmly express their dissatisfaction with this game in the way I suggested. Nobody ever says "I did not enjoy the new style of GTA4 as much as I enjoyed the style of past GTA games." They always say "GTA4 sucks and it was a complete waste of my life playing it, and R* really f*cked up, and the reviewers were full of bullsh*t, and bla bla bla..."

 

As for there not being enough realistic features, I don't understand that. Name a few realistic features you felt were missing.

 

And Acropolis7, that is kind of unrealistic, but the simple fact that there are people walking around with shopping bags is a realistic feature.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

Many of us have tried that approach too. You stiill get the response OMG GTFO AND PLAY SR2 IF

YOU HATE IT SO MUCH. So what's the difference, some people are just offended by any kind of

negative feedback about the game.

 

As for all the crazy features from SA yeah you're right i did know that IV was scrapping them, but

i also expected many realistic featured in their place. This is the thing that disappointed me. It's

not the nature of the content, but just the sparsity of it

I haven't seen anyone calmly express their dissatisfaction with this game in the way I suggested. Nobody ever says "I did not enjoy the new style of GTA4 as much as I enjoyed the style of past GTA games." They always say "GTA4 sucks and it was a complete waste of my life playing it, and R* really f*cked up, and the reviewers were full of bullsh*t, and bla bla bla..."

 

As for there not being enough realistic features, I don't understand that. Name a few realistic features you felt were missing.

 

And Acropolis7, that is kind of unrealistic, but the simple fact that there are people walking around with shopping bags is a realistic feature.

If you haven't seen anybody calmly express that opinion then i can only suggest you must

rarely come on here, either that or you just overlook them because you're too busy being furious

at the trolls saying it sucks or it's a waste of their life.

 

Just a few realistic features i felt were missing

 

Robberies

drug dealing

buying properties

running businesses and illegal rackets

gambling

smuggling

car mods

burglary

kidnapping

stealth

hiring your own crew for missions

 

I could go on, but you ge the general idea.

 

I like the general idea of a more realistic approach, but i was expecting more realistic things to

do. since i was under the impression that the reason they made the map so much smaller was so

they could avoid all that unused space. But there actually is less to do. So that's my point, I couldn't

care less about any of San Andreas' features in particular, just the fact that we aren't given as much

to do

[1JamesMcFadden]

Agree with Tony

[Und3r5c0r3]

 

If you haven't seen anybody calmly express that opinion then i can only suggest you must

rarely come on here, either that or you just overlook them because you're too busy being furious

at the trolls saying it sucks or it's a waste of their life.

 

Just a few realistic features i felt were missing

 

Robberies

drug dealing

buying properties

running businesses and illegal rackets

gambling

smuggling

car mods

burglary

kidnapping

stealth

hiring your own crew for missions

 

I could go on, but you ge the general idea.

 

I like the general idea of a more realistic approach, but i was expecting more realistic things to

do. since i was under the impression that the reason they made the map so much smaller was so

they could avoid all that unused space. But there actually is less to do. So that's my point, I couldn't

care less about any of San Andreas' features in particular, just the fact that we aren't given as much

to do

I don't come on here every day, but I do a couple times a week. And every time I do, I pay the most attention to the GTA4 hate topics. I've read a lot of them, and I have yet to see anybody give only simple, constructive feedback. They always throw in a "It was a waste of my life" or "If I wanted to do that, I'd do it in real life" or some sh*t like that, that is not meant as feedback, but meant as a pointless complaint.

 

I won't disagree that some of those features would fit in the game. But, much like another list of missing features I've read before, some of them are unnecessary or wouldn't fit in the game, and some of them are already in the game, but just not considered an actual activity.

 

Robberies - would fit in the game, although you can shoot a register open in a store and take the money.

drug dealing - would fit in the game

buying properties - would not fit in the game, because it is supposed to be "rags to slightly better rags," so owning 6 houses wouldn't work.

running businesses and illegal rackets - similar to drug dealing? would fit in the game.

gambling - would fit in the game

smuggling - would fit in the game

car mods - would fit in the game

burglary - not sure this would be possible. Game consoles can only handle so much, and for a feature like this would require every building to be accessible.

kidnapping - would fit in the game, maybe make it similar to SR where you just highjack a car with passengers in it

stealth - you can hide from cops. The whole system is line of sight based

hiring your own crew for missions - would fit in the game

 

The map is smaller because there is no open country or anything. It is completely filled with very detailed city.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

I can appreciate all the little details, but the thing is, they can only hold my attention for so long.

I just don't see the point in having an amazingly detailed area, but putting nothing interactive in

there. Because then i have no reason to go there, and all of their hard work has gone somewhat to

waste. I like the fact that it's more detailed than the previous games, but i feel they focused to

much of their attention on that, and not enough on interactive content. As i said, it's not realism

that's the problem, there are many cool things they could have added and still maintained that

realistic and gritty feel they went for. I honestly thought that considering it took them so long to

develop that it would contain lots more features than it does. That is the only reason for my

disappointment. It's great what we did get, but there just wasn't enough meat to it, and a little

too much dressing

[e2thejdot]

To the negative responses:

You're all f*cking idiots. Especially you, EmmaISsoontobeMVP. You're the idiot leader. The reason you are f*cking idiots is because you are still complaining about all the unrealistic features that were left out of GTA4. You were told before the game was released that the game would be more realistic. So why did you expect to be able to land jets on the highway? You bought this game (or more likely, asked your parents to buy this game for you) knowing that you would most likely not be able to do stuff like that. And then, when you played the game and found out that you wouldn't be able to do crazy unrealistic things, you start acting like R* told us we would be able to do those things! That's really stupid.

Nah, whats really stupid is you getting bent out of shape on a message board and cussing out a female. Bold and italicize all you want, it won't make the game better.

 

Don't say stupid sh*t like "You were TOLD!!!" No, uhmm... I wasn't told. The previewers flat out lied to us. Hell, they said you could do everything from climbing light poles to storing guns in your trunk. We didn't know there wouldn't be buy-able property. IGN misinformed us of that too. We didn't know we'd have nothing to spend our money on or pretty much nothing to do besides sight-see once the game was completed. We didn't know there would be a completely useless internet system in the game. No, we didn't know.

 

What we expected was Rockstar to put together a game that is exactly how they describe it to be (realistic) and still entertaining enough to KEEP YOU BUSY UNTIL THE f*ckING DLC COMES OUT, you prick.

[SJT]

 

To the negative responses:

You're all f*cking idiots. Especially you, EmmaISsoontobeMVP. You're the idiot leader. The reason you are f*cking idiots is because you are still complaining about all the unrealistic features that were left out of GTA4. You were told before the game was released that the game would be more realistic. So why did you expect to be able to land jets on the highway? You bought this game (or more likely, asked your parents to buy this game for you) knowing that you would most likely not be able to do stuff like that. And then, when you played the game and found out that you wouldn't be able to do crazy unrealistic things, you start acting like R* told us we would be able to do those things! That's really stupid.

Nah, whats really stupid is you getting bent out of shape on a message board and cussing out a female. Bold and italicize all you want, it won't make the game better.

 

Don't say stupid sh*t like "You were TOLD!!!" No, uhmm... I wasn't told. The previewers flat out lied to us. Hell, they said you could do everything from climbing light poles to storing guns in your trunk. We didn't know there wouldn't be buy-able property. IGN misinformed us of that too. We didn't know we'd have nothing to spend our money on or pretty much nothing to do besides sight-see once the game was completed. We didn't know there would be a completely useless internet system in the game. No, we didn't know.

 

What we expected was Rockstar to put together a game that is exactly how they describe it to be (realistic) and still entertaining enough to KEEP YOU BUSY UNTIL THE f*ckING DLC COMES OUT, you prick.

Your a prick, now shut up and stop whining e2thejdot.

 

[Und3r5c0r3]

 

To the negative responses:

You're all f*cking idiots. Especially you, EmmaISsoontobeMVP. You're the idiot leader. The reason you are f*cking idiots is because you are still complaining about all the unrealistic features that were left out of GTA4. You were told before the game was released that the game would be more realistic. So why did you expect to be able to land jets on the highway? You bought this game (or more likely, asked your parents to buy this game for you) knowing that you would most likely not be able to do stuff like that. And then, when you played the game and found out that you wouldn't be able to do crazy unrealistic things, you start acting like R* told us we would be able to do those things! That's really stupid.

Nah, whats really stupid is you getting bent out of shape on a message board and cussing out a female. Bold and italicize all you want, it won't make the game better.

 

Don't say stupid sh*t like "You were TOLD!!!" No, uhmm... I wasn't told. The previewers flat out lied to us. Hell, they said you could do everything from climbing light poles to storing guns in your trunk. We didn't know there wouldn't be buy-able property. IGN misinformed us of that too. We didn't know we'd have nothing to spend our money on or pretty much nothing to do besides sight-see once the game was completed. We didn't know there would be a completely useless internet system in the game. No, we didn't know.

 

What we expected was Rockstar to put together a game that is exactly how they describe it to be (realistic) and still entertaining enough to KEEP YOU BUSY UNTIL THE f*ckING DLC COMES OUT, you prick.

Your a prick, now shut up and stop whining e2thejdot.

 

Bent out of shape my ass. I've kept the cussing to a minimum. I simply have very low tolerance for dumbass 14 year olds that got their hands on this game and then started spamming the internet with bullsh*t complaints. And emmaissoontobemvp has not specified their gender. Click their f*ckin name. Their name could be talking about their sister Emma for all we know.

 

And yes you were told. The reason my arguments are becoming less relevant is because we are drifting to a different subject, and that is the lack of realistic features. The original topic was people complaining because the game is too realistic, when we were told very early on that the game would be realistic.

 

The previewers didn't lie. Maybe storing weapons in trunks and climbing light poles were in the game at the time that they played it, and R* took those features out so they could sell them later in the DLC. Previewers don't just lie about the games they play. If the previews are different from the actual game, then the game company should be blamed.

 

The internet system isn't useless. It is used quite a lot during the story. And there's never anything to spend your money on after the game is completed. At the end of SA, we all had millions of dollars, but was there anything in SA that you could spend those millions of dollars on? No. So what did people do? There wasn't anything fun left to do except gamble and do ambulance or firetruck missions or w/e. So they made up their own things, like stunting and searching for bigfoot.

 

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[WellsMcK]

Don't say stupid sh*t like "You were TOLD!!!" No, uhmm... I wasn't told. The previewers flat out lied to us. Hell, they said you could do everything from climbing light poles to storing guns in your trunk. We didn't know there wouldn't be buy-able property. IGN misinformed us of that too. We didn't know we'd have nothing to spend our money on or pretty much nothing to do besides sight-see once the game was completed. We didn't know there would be a completely useless internet system in the game. No, we didn't know.

 

 

Yes. Those early reviews said there would be an internet system that said you could find people to date, they said it wouldn't hook up to the actual internet.

I still have a sh*t load of money in San Andreas, only thing I bought a lot of was weapons until i had infinite ammo for them.

So do you realize that you would climb a light pole once and say, well what was the point of that? All I did was climb to the top, get bored, and climb back down.

How could storing guns in your trunk be of any use when you have all of them on you, it's more convenient to have them with you than to have to get out and go swap out.

They never told us we would have buyable property. Buyable property was in two of the nine (I think it's nine) Grand Theft Auto games that Rockstar has put out.

[e2thejdot]

 

To the negative responses:

You're all f*cking idiots. Especially you, EmmaISsoontobeMVP. You're the idiot leader. The reason you are f*cking idiots is because you are still complaining about all the unrealistic features that were left out of GTA4. You were told before the game was released that the game would be more realistic. So why did you expect to be able to land jets on the highway? You bought this game (or more likely, asked your parents to buy this game for you) knowing that you would most likely not be able to do stuff like that. And then, when you played the game and found out that you wouldn't be able to do crazy unrealistic things, you start acting like R* told us we would be able to do those things! That's really stupid.

Nah, whats really stupid is you getting bent out of shape on a message board and cussing out a female. Bold and italicize all you want, it won't make the game better.

 

Don't say stupid sh*t like "You were TOLD!!!" No, uhmm... I wasn't told. The previewers flat out lied to us. Hell, they said you could do everything from climbing light poles to storing guns in your trunk. We didn't know there wouldn't be buy-able property. IGN misinformed us of that too. We didn't know we'd have nothing to spend our money on or pretty much nothing to do besides sight-see once the game was completed. We didn't know there would be a completely useless internet system in the game. No, we didn't know.

 

What we expected was Rockstar to put together a game that is exactly how they describe it to be (realistic) and still entertaining enough to KEEP YOU BUSY UNTIL THE f*ckING DLC COMES OUT, you prick.

Your a prick, now shut up and stop whining e2thejdot.

 

Bent out of shape my ass. I've kept the cussing to a minimum. I simply have very low tolerance for dumbass 14 year olds that got their hands on this game and then started spamming the internet with bullsh*t complaints. And emmaissoontobemvp has not specified their gender. Click their f*ckin name. Their name could be talking about their sister Emma for all we know.

 

And yes you were told. The reason my arguments are becoming less relevant is because we are drifting to a different subject, and that is the lack of realistic features. The original topic was people complaining because the game is too realistic, when we were told very early on that the game would be realistic.

 

The previewers didn't lie. Maybe storing weapons in trunks and climbing light poles were in the game at the time that they played it, and R* took those features out so they could sell them later in the DLC. Previewers don't just lie about the games they play. If the previews are different from the actual game, then the game company should be blamed.

 

The internet system isn't useless. It is used quite a lot during the story. And there's never anything to spend your money on after the game is completed. At the end of SA, we all had millions of dollars, but was there anything in SA that you could spend those millions of dollars on? No. So what did people do? There wasn't anything fun left to do except gamble and do ambulance or firetruck missions or w/e. So they made up their own things, like stunting and searching for bigfoot.

 

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Emma said she was a female in another post.

 

Previewers obviously are to blame more than Rockstar considering there was "Buyable Property" listed on their GTAIV map (IGN to be specific, the same one I mentioned before) a month AFTER the game came out. Rockstars fault? I think not. Bad reporting on their end if you ask me.

 

And you said it yourself.. I could gamble with my money (at least) in SA when the game is over. I could also buy tattoos, buy plane tickets.. hell, if I remember right couldn't you even buy cars from the import boat? The point is, there were still things to spend your money on. There were what, 30 or so houses you could still buy if you hadn't bought them all?

 

Really? Which part of the story aside from dating one gay guy to kill him is the internet system really used? And thats merely to train you on how to use the computer. I'm 60 missions in to my second time beating the game and I haven't used the computer once aside from that mission.

 

Think before you speak.. or at least do some research.

[merlinsteele]

What the f*ck did you expect?

 

I remember a long time ago before the game was released, R* told us that they were going to try to make this game more realistic than past GTA's. A fair warning that they were trying a new style with GTA4.

 

And yet, quite a few of you are complaining about the game because it is a more realistic game and because it is different from past GTA games. Well, what the freakin hell did you expect?! Very early on, R* said it was going to be more realistic, but you guys are all saying that R* screwed us over because it's more realistic than past GTA's. They didn't screw us over, they gave us what they told us we would be given! You all say it sucks and that the people who reviewed this game were wrong to give it a 10/10. But those reviewers gave it a 10 because the game achieved exactly what it was expected to achieve, and that is more realism.

 

If you aren't a total dumbass, then you will realize that GTA4 is an excellent game when you judge it by it's realism. You're judging this game in the wrong category, and that's not fair.

Not that anyone cares, but I find it a bit offensive when a thread is started off attacking someone for their opinions. Why don't you go to the thread that offends you and attack them there? Not that I totally disagree with you. In fact, when I see a post like the original, it offends me even if I agree with it partially, because someone is ready to attack someone for what they believe. They have their own opinion, so it must be right, therefore, they're laying down the law to the morons. Sorry, even if I agree with you on an opinion, I still think other people are entitled to theirs.

 

As far as what the topic is, I don't remember being promised anything. I just wanted a game that was up with the current technology, and also had some fun involved. Did I get that? Yes, to a great degree. Would I have liked more? Yes, of course, but IMHO it's all up to a persons opinion as to if we got our money's worth, so oh well. You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to mine, so let's make the best of it.

 

[Capricornus]

I didn't expect too much from GTA IV when it was announced, TBH. I only expected better graphics (got that), new vehicles (got that), and an entirely new cast of characters (got that too). I have learned from the past that getting my hopes up highly for things will soon lead to my being highly dissapointed becasue they didn't meet my expectations, obviously. And this is why GTA IV was excellent for me, becuase compared to a sh*tload of other people, I barely expected anything from it. Also, I read none of the bogus previews and watched no live feeds.

 

I have learned, from the members on here, that the previews were highly misleading, claiming that certain features were in the game. Man I tell ya, people take anything and run with it. I mean, I can totally understand why people would have high hopes, because this is the first GTA on the "new" consoles, and that had everyone thinking: "Hell yeah! New technology are in these consoles. GTA IV will pwn hard!!" And now look. The majority of the people that were claiming GTA IV to be the Game of the Year (before it even came out) are the same ones saying that the game sucks ass and what not.

[Und3r5c0r3]

To e2thejdot:

 

My friend has a dog named Harley. Did you know that? I'm guessing you didn't, because the only way you could have known that is if you had been to my friend's house before. So don't just assume I know the gender of a forum member because they posted it in one of the 100,000 topics on here. Emma could be a f*ckin pixie dancing on a keyboard for all I know.

 

I don't know why IGN made a map like that. Maybe there's a detail about the map you missed or something. It could be properties that will be buyable after the DLC comes out. Bottom line is, IGN is full of sh*t, so don't take their word for anything anymore.

 

You could gamble your money in SA, why? To make more money? More money for what? Buy tattoos for what? Your character will look insignificantly different for a minute, and then you'll get used to it and forget about it. I don't know what you're talking about with plane tickets. You could buy cars from the import boat, but how is that different from just stealing one from the car shop? The difference is that when the car blows up, you wasted a lot of money, as opposed to wasting no money at all. As for buying properties, I have no argument for that. It would be a welcome feature. But I bet a few buyable properties will show up in the DLC.

 

It's not mandatory that you use the internet a lot, but you accept a lot of jobs through the internet. It's also not mandatory to use guns. Do you ignore the "gun" feature too? What about the driving feature? Niko has legs, so that makes driving totally pointless, right? Just cuz you don't have to do something doesn't make it pointless.

 

To merlinsteele:

 

No opinion is right or wrong, but some opinions are stupid. Somebody's opinion might be that children should be allowed to run for president in the U.S. It's an opinion, so it's not right or wrong, but most people would agree that it's stupid. This topic is about the people whose opinion is that GTA4 sucks because it's more realistic than past GTAs. That opinion is stupid because those people are judging this game in the same category as past GTAs, when R* told us very early on that GTA4 would not be the same style as past GTAs. Therefore, GTA4 should not be judged in the same category as past GTAs.

[mastervader m16]

What the f*ck did you expect?

 

I remember a long time ago before the game was released, R* told us that they were going to try to make this game more realistic than past GTA's. A fair warning that they were trying a new style with GTA4.

 

And yet, quite a few of you are complaining about the game because it is a more realistic game and because it is different from past GTA games. Well, what the freakin hell did you expect?! Very early on, R* said it was going to be more realistic, but you guys are all saying that R* screwed us over because it's more realistic than past GTA's. They didn't screw us over, they gave us what they told us we would be given! You all say it sucks and that the people who reviewed this game were wrong to give it a 10/10. But those reviewers gave it a 10 because the game achieved exactly what it was expected to achieve, and that is more realism.

 

If you aren't a total dumbass, then you will realize that GTA4 is an excellent game when you judge it by it's realism. You're judging this game in the wrong category, and that's not fair.

im one who wanted the realism... and enjoy playing this game, people say its boring because there's nothing to do but use your imagination and do something ...