A Video Tour of Joust Williams' Game Room

**Grave** · 17 Dec 2008, 03:44 PM

fatal fury final fight final fantasy oh no how dare they

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 17 Dec 2008, 04:13 PM

Double Dragon Double Dungeons Animegirl's chest, I'm so confused!

**Yoshi** · 17 Dec 2008, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by shidoshi

HEY, LET'S RUIN A JOKE BY THEN COMPLETELY SPELLING OUT WHAT SAID JOKE WAS IN FACT REFERRING TO.

**NeoZeedeater** · 17 Dec 2008, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I've gotta say, I'm loving the sudden worldwide GTA IV backlash. It was all I could do to keep from vomiting during the THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME EVER COME HUMANITY LET US PLAY IT AS ONE thing happening in the (completely paid off and/or cowed) media around its launch.

"Oh, Nico's such a real character. Oh, I'm so addicted to the missions. Oh, this is the only true realization of next generation evolvolutionatoriological techmology."

6 months later..."whatever happened to that game? Nobody ever talks about it anymore. Oh yeah, thats right...none of us actually finished it because it was shallow & repetitive. Wonder why the entire world never noticed all these games are like that before and - whoa, now that I think about it this is like the exact same premise as Scarface. OH HEY LOOK BRITNEY SPEARS HEADLINE ON DMZ CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK "

I'm a big fan of the 3d GTA games and I was backlashing against the overhype and presumably paid off reviewers giving it perfect scores from day one. It's a really good game, and I finished it, but it's mostly more of the same with better graphics and a handy GPS so it's not GOTY material for me.

GTA3 was a milestone for sandbox design (I wish all the people who hate it would acknowledge it was good even if personally doesn't appeal to them) and I expected by finally officially going to number 4 this time, it would be much more ambitious than the side-story sequels. There's still a good amount of freedom and emergent situations (which is why these games aren't shallow) in the driving parts but I think they could have made the on-foot mission areas better by having more routes through areas. The monetary system is kind of pointless, too, since you never run out of cash unless you play horribly.