spaceeinstein Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 (edited) ...whoops, I get confused when people quote me. Just to fill up this post, I agree *below*. Edited August 20, 2008 by spaceeinstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machida Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 When it comes to the individual cannons I think Rockstar's intentions are always to move the franchise forward, towards a certain idea. In the case of IV it appears to be the "living, breathing city" aspect. If so we're likely to see certain new features that progress this idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moot Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 You want to know what game didn't live up to they hype? Not GTA IV, it's awesome and i've re-dedicated my life to it. Madden 09. Worst game ever. i'm so pissed i post this everywhere. Boycott EA!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StankWhistle Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 When it comes to the individual cannons I think Rockstar's intentions are always to move the franchise forward, towards a certain idea.In the case of IV it appears to be the "living, breathing city" aspect. If so we're likely to see certain new features that progress this idea. lol well most of us GTA fans expected more extra curricular activities. You can argue all you want.... no one is wrong. The single player game is great.... but after that is gone, if you are satisfied driving around and doing the same 3-4 different time passers... then great. Old GTAs gave me about 20 things to do, so that is all im comparing them by. I'm not grading it on any other scale other than GTAs own "expectations" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Prickles Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 GTA III continues to be my favourite of the franchise except for IV. I still enjoy aimlessly walking around gritty Portland and doing battle with those damn Leone mafiosos. It really depends on what can keep the player entertained. I, for one, enjoy occasionally playing as if it were real life, meaning driving lawfully, carjacking almost only at night, long walks in Middle Park, etc. I find the level of immersion, that is, that all these peds are actually DOING something, that the game is calculating and processing all these things at once, to be a spectacle. First time I played GTA III, I was about 10, and I spent a good two hours walking around in Portland, not causing trouble, just exploring, seeing what there was to see. Some people enjoy games with high levels of action; something always needs to be happening to keep them entertained. Once you've completed ANY game 100%, it gets a LOT less "action-packed". My two cents. Personally, I think IV is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonrock Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Hype is just hype. Hype isn't a measure of how good a game is/was, but how much people wanted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaytow Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 to me gta4 is like star wars episode1. you can pump all the money,physics and special effects you want into a product... gtas golden age is over, this isnt to say that 1 2 3 vc sa lcs and vcs don't still own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moot Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 to me gta4 is like star wars episode1. you can pump all the money,physics and special effects you want into a product... gtas golden age is over, this isnt to say that 1 2 3 vc sa lcs and vcs don't still own. I respectfully dissagree with you. I think the golden age is just beging. R* would be fools not to relase expansions for this similar to VC and SA. i foresee i long and bright future. (Please god let me be right). Boycott EA!! Woot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e2thejdot Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Rockstar and the media NEVER hyped the game at all. It was always the fans who hyped it and were basically making up a game in their heads and expecting GTA4 to be exactly like the idea they had thought up AKA the be all and end all of games. Uhmm.. are you on a different universe? Because here on Earth, I was reading a lot of previews from a lot of different magazines and websites that basically flat out lied to us about features. Media didn't hype the game? Yeah, and they never hyped Dark Knight either. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machida Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Rockstar and the media NEVER hyped the game at all. It was always the fans who hyped it and were basically making up a game in their heads and expecting GTA4 to be exactly like the idea they had thought up AKA the be all and end all of games. Uhmm.. are you on a different universe? Because here on Earth, I was reading a lot of previews from a lot of different magazines and websites that basically flat out lied to us about features. Media didn't hype the game? Yeah, and they never hyped Dark Knight either. lol So that would be individual reviewers as appose to Rockstar then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moot Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 for the love of god yes the game was hyped, it's called marketing you idiots! just look at madden! do you think anyone would have bought that piece of crap otherwise! Get over it already! GTA IV rulz and it will be the first in a series of awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk1 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 OP your not alone,you may think your the only one because all the 10 year olds bash you here. gametrailers.com is another story,i`ve never seen so many people dissapointed with a game even the mods there are agreeing. i supose it`s because their grown up and can "admitt" they were disheartened with it or mabey it`s because they are true to the francise and dont like the new direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livejoker Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 You want to know my opinion? Get the f*ck over it. how many threads have we had now speculating that it may not have lived up to the hype? Stop it now! If you dont want to play it, dont, and stay off the forums. Couldn't be said better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opium_addict Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Actually I am VERY hyped for the next game as this is pretty much the foundations for the new GTA canon. GTA 3 started off the last canon and was very similiar to 4 (except graphics) in the way that it had hardly any features but every new game that came out had new features and eventually they got to SA which of course we all know is a fantastic game. They pretty much have the graphics and everything all sorted and now they can focus on features for the next one which I think is gonna blow everyone away. I really like this game and play online EVERDAY for HOURS and it brings me alot of fun. It's just building blocks...... Wow, Well I understand that this is the "new" 3 and therefore features "missing" should be in subsequent games, most of the things missing were simply on purpose because it didn't fit Niko's character. This to me is a huge mistake. Can I see Niko skateboarding? No... hell no. Should I be able to hop on one? Yes.... f*ck yes. Niko can't Bike ride because Niko would never ride a bike. Niko could never have a sweet house with nice cars or a mansion because Niko could never be that rich. Niko can't pimp out cars because Niko wouldn't care. Niko would never ever basejump and If he did he shouldn't have a parachute cause Niko doesn't know where to find them. Niko can't really rob a store because if you take the money from the til, the cashier would never tell Niko to not rob him and apparently magically give him a star as he's leaving. I am not a Niko hater, don't go there. He is simply my favorite video game character to date.... I am actually making fun of Rock*'s reasons for these things not being in the final product. Honestly... the only time I feel like I'm playing an old GTA is when I am holed up in a hospital killing everything in sight....no not because im a crazy f*ck...but because it is fun and chaotic. Old GTA Style. Well im going to rip apart this retarded logic a bit. You said that the media hyped the game, when NONE of these features were in any of the Media releases R* or the "media" made. and FYI, the internet DOES NOT count as the media, the people on the internet had lack of information just like the fanboys did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algonquin Assassin Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 (edited) I was already bored of IV once I beat it 100%. I mean, what am I gonna do? Just kill people and run from cops. Gets boring quickly, unless you're easily amused. So should we lock you in a room, with GTA 1 for 6 hours? Before R* spoiled everyone with fancy features, this is all we could do. I can remember all the times in 1998 I had just causing mayhem in GTA 1, and you know what? It was fun, and still is. I've been playing IV multiplayer, and I've had alot more fun then I ever did in SA. I actually prefer multiplayer as a whole to all of SA's features. When I'm playing deathmatch, team deathmatch, turf wars etc it feels like a GTA game should be. IMO the replacement for everything that was lost is multiplayer. As for the hype, well as far as I'm concerned people only have themselves to blame. I never read previews for the simple fact that most of it is bullsh*t, but they know how gullible most people are, so they can get away with it. In other words most people fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It met my on personal "hype" anyway. Edited August 21, 2008 by Miamivicecity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StankWhistle Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 (edited) I was already bored of IV once I beat it 100%. I mean, what am I gonna do? Just kill people and run from cops. Gets boring quickly, unless you're easily amused. So should we lock you in a room, with GTA 1 for 6 hours? Before R* spoiled everyone with fancy features, this is all we could do. I can remember all the times in 1998 I had just causing mayhem in GTA 1, and you know what? It was fun, and still is. I've been playing IV multiplayer, and I've had alot more fun then I ever did in SA. I actually prefer multiplayer as a whole to all of SA's features. When I'm playing deathmatch, team deathmatch, turf wars etc it feels like a GTA game should be. IMO the replacement for everything that was lost is multiplayer. As for the hype, well as far as I'm concerned people only have themselves to blame. I never read previews for the simple fact that most of it is bullsh*t, but they know how gullible most people are, so they can get away with it. In other words most people fell for it hook, line, and sinker. It met my on personal "hype" anyway. I hear ya, the internet drove most of the hype. I am not ripping on R* for "Hyping" the game too much. To say that R* didn't mean to .... well of course they did... any company would... Saying the media and R* had nothing to do with the hype is retarded (which is what I said) Anyways you are asking me to lock myself in a room and play GTA I then play GTA IV... I bought GTA I when it came out.... a long time ago. This is not 1998... this is 2008 (as if you didn't know) and sorry.. you saying "at least it has more features than GTA I" well c'mon ...are you serious? Also no one seems to notice that I praise GTA IV as possibly one of the best games I have ever played. The only comparison I am making is against the standards R* laid out for itself. Sure....driving around and doing the same old 5 things after the game is beat is fine for some people, I can understand that.... at the same time you people flame someone who wants more GTA IV (myself) and honestly it seems most of you have hit the worst type of Fanboy possible... The type that ignores anything (true or not) regarding something that may come off negative towards the thing they like... You are no better than console fanboys. (not necessarily directed towards the person I'm replying to) I personally will instead do something creative and recommend things via forums (which R* reads BTW) and voice the fact that this game held my interest less than any other GTA before it (not including I or II) And before you take that out of context (since fanboys need to be coddled) By interest I mean after beating the game...post single player experience. I am sorry but the way you people act in here I kind of wonder if most of you are old enough to buy the game w/o adult supervision. Edited August 22, 2008 by StankWhistle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algonquin Assassin Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Anyways you are asking me to lock myself in a room and play GTA I then play GTA IV... I bought GTA I when it came out.... a long time ago. This is not 1998... this is 2008 (as if you didn't know) and sorry.. you saying "at least it has more features than GTA I" well c'mon ...are you serious? Huh? I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to Mzepplin, and where did I say "atleast it has more features than GTA 1"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BioVirus Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 GTA : San Andreas is the best selling game of all-time in the United States Think about that. A lot more people enjoy being able to do many things as opposed to doing very little things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Vercetti Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I decided to forego reading all the replies and just respond to the original post. It's actually the opposite for me. After San Andreas, my interest for GTA was waning, especially since SA was somewhat of a let-down for me. I wasn't hyped at all about IV and I wasn't sure what Rockstar could do to interest me, especially since Saint's Row already did San Andreas twice as pretty as they ever hoped. I bought it because I was curious, and honestly, because I'm a grandtheftauto fanboy at heart. But now I'm more hyped about the next GTA than I ever was for San Andreas. Sadly, I think those of you who don't like the new style are in the majority, so you'll probably win this one. Either way, I hope you choke. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt21 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Dont tell me when you first put the gta disk in and you where in game for the first time you didnt think WOW....seriously no offence but if u dont like gta4 then dont play it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nico Bellic Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 GTA : San Andreas is the best selling game of all-time in the United States Think about that. A lot more people enjoy being able to do many things as opposed to doing very little things. and where did you read it, that gta san andreas is the best selling game of all time in usa???gta 4 has 600 millions copy's for the first week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyk1 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Over all....no gta 4 did not live up to the hype for a lot a of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StankWhistle Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 GTA : San Andreas is the best selling game of all-time in the United States Think about that. A lot more people enjoy being able to do many things as opposed to doing very little things. and where did you read it, that gta san andreas is the best selling game of all time in usa???gta 4 has 600 millions copy's for the first week ROFL what? 600 million copys the 1st week?...you are hilarious. Anyways the gentleman you were speaking to was referring to all time sales not 1st week sales... as if it's possible to sell 600 million copies in the 1st week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hart Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Ive f*cking had enough! Dont come on these f*cking forums if you think its sh*t. At least stay on the OTHER GTA forums, but stay the sh*t away from here. c*nts. And yes it was overhyped. Mainly due to misread previews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatmanIsReal Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 GTA : San Andreas is the best selling game of all-time in the United States Think about that. A lot more people enjoy being able to do many things as opposed to doing very little things. how many years has San Andreas had to sell so many games. think about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StankWhistle Posted August 23, 2008 Author Share Posted August 23, 2008 GTA : San Andreas is the best selling game of all-time in the United States Think about that. A lot more people enjoy being able to do many things as opposed to doing very little things. how many years has San Andreas had to sell so many games. think about that. I don't think GTA IV will end up selling as many, but I could be wrong. Word of mouth isn't that great on this one. Most friends of mine are borrowing out their copy's after beating it since there isn't much else to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash_735 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Over all....no gta 4 did not live up to the hype for a lot a of people. Those poor people not being able to enjoy a good game because of rose tinted glasses *tuts* Also, thanks for calling me a 10 year old because I like GTA IV, that's mature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saigon Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 I love the game, but I feel like it did not live up to the hype. Still a solid game for VC's first GTA on the next generation systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt21 Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 GTA 4 has broken world records with the amount of units sold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Prickles Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 ...in the first week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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