Comments on: 10 Reasons why GTA IV sucks

By: Paulhitchings1

Paulhitchings1 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:39:00 +0000

I agree. I will never play that crappy game again. Why make combat if you do it horribly? The best thing GTA has going for it is that you can do anything (almost) you want in the world and get away with it. Now, by trying to make the game a little more realistic they have totally ruined the whole goddamned thing. My TOP 10 Reasons GTA IV SUCKS DONKEY DICK
1. Immovable objects on the side of road like bus stop that totally fuck anything trying to get past. stupid
2. lack of garage, or so it seems. parking space, really?
3. totally worthless combat ability.
4. camera autofollow – super annoying!
5. lack of off-highway areas. i live in a city, i want to play out of the city…
6. no redial or memory on phone, I don’t dial in real life, why in a game?
7. Delays in animation sequence between events, i.e. getting in car, falling down, getting hurt. If I wanted a realistic game it would take fucking hours to crawl to the ER. I am playing a game, don’t try to make me wince or get up slowly after being hit by a bus in an impact that should have killed my anyways!
8. Daytime/nighttime. Again, I don’t want to play in the night super often, otherwise I’d fucking go wander around in the dark or turn the brightness way down on my TV.
9. What is up with cars sliding around like crazy taxi? Game designers ALWAYS fucking always have trouble with cars. They fuck up the cameras, make then too hard to control, too fake, too realistic. I can tell there are a lot of real physics in GTA but please for god’s sake once I enter a skid don’t fuck my life until I stop. That is NOT realistic. Also, the throttle during turns is garbage. I could power slide with my station wagon easier than it is to coordinate in this game. Do they think players want to slide around like fucking retards all day? Considering how many things there are on the road at any given time you would think they would put more work into designing driving dynamics that are more useful since they must know that I am going to spend way more time than I should driving at 100 mph. Again, if I wanted realism I would drive around at 25 mph for the whole stupid game and stop at the lights (which I do love running, haha)
10. Finally, with all the awesomeness of the previous games why wouldn’t they keep everything in GTA IV that players love? Do they think I care about playing in realistic cities? I don’t.

Overall I am supremely disappointed with the gameplay of GTA IV despite it being a truly beautiful environment.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:20:00 +0000

Too bad you don’t lose your weapons when you die.
do you even know what game is being discussed?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:07:00 +0000

These have to be THE 10 worst reasons to dislike anything. Whoever wrote this article needs to learn our language. I don’t understand your wordy ass lingo that’s supposed to have a lot of big words and sound all smart. Next, if your a 45 year old prick living in your moms basement than no shit everyone playing the game will be half your age, its made for 17+ year olds, we should be complaining about the old ass losers twice our age clogging up the online while they should have a job and not be playing grand theft auto on their xbox. Obviously the radio repeats itself continuously, do you honestly expect to see lazlo running around doing the same shit five times every day. If there’s one thing I agree, its that niko should be able to whoop some ass. The controls for this game are pathetic and we expect much more from a game with such expectations. The ‘y’ button only does one thing. Either get in a car, or get in a car. So why does niko run around in circles like a pansey when I push ‘y’ how can a character controlled by me do the wrong action when I push the right button.

By: FreddJ

FreddJ — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:41:46 +0000

Tis game sucks!

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:37:49 +0000

and why no jetpacks on this game?

By: HWV

HWV — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:35:51 +0000

I agree with Tyrone on the sense that they claim the game has much realism, yet no gas tanks on the vehicles & you cannot swim underwater.

Though i did laugh at the sarcastic virtue of this article. “Jesus Packie, I DON’T LIKE YOUR SISTER!!!” Agreed with that the most. :happy:

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:59:48 +0000

Gta iv sucks my reasons
no underwater swimming
too much police attetion
no gas tank on car(laughs at realism claims)
no airplanes
no bullet holes in people(which isnt realism)
no buying airplane tickets to other cities like in san andreas
lame clothing selection

By: Means

Means — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:01:07 +0000

GTA 4 sucks because:

(1) Graphically, when I play it on maxed out settings, it has graphics which are far worse than Left 4 Dead 2 or even Half Life 2, yet it has vastly worse framerates than a game like Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which runs at 40-60 FPS for me at graphics which are 10 times better when maxed out. Graphics are also glitchy, having strange visual artifacts and horrible view distances, low resolution textures etc, yet place a tremendous load on video RAM.

(2) You can go around blowing up things and stirring up mayhem in the city, but that is all to it. Knocking down people, blowing up cars, rob some shops, shooting cops then die yourself after being surrounded by cops. I can get 10 times that in Modern Warfare 2 or Bad Company 2 where I can drive real tanks and helicopters to blow up real enemies, entire buildings, call in airstrikes, snipe, heal and support my teammates, have a sense of camaradarie etc. Plus all the big explosions in real FPS games.

(3)Interaction sucks. No scripted events other than the missions. Even the custom maps in Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne like Reallifeformorons, or a Peasants’ Life have more interaction with people. Once you have played The Sims 3, the absolute lack of interaction makes it placid and totally prozaic.

(4) Frustrating missions. You can try some missions 10 times over and fail it, and there are no cheats to skip missions to get to the good parts. Some missions also seem to deliberately make u kill 100 people, only to walk into an explosive can and kill you (like the one where Roman got robbed … there are unconspicuous barrels that explode without any warning when you approach them).

(5)Lack of depth. Let’s see. Driving. If I wanted driving, I will play Dirt 2 instead. Shooting. MW2, BFBC2, HL2, TF2, L4D1 and 2, CS:S. Interaction. Sims 3. Buying real stuff or property. Simcity 4, Civilization 4. Explore. World of Warcraft. Strategy. RA3, the upcoming Starcraft 2 or Supreme Commander 2. The game itself lacks substance after you have played it for a while, since there are always better substitutes that you can find in every genre or aspect that it aims to please.

(6) Others: Non-linear gameplay can be good, but when it is way too non-linear, coupled with the other reasons as mentioned above and the lack of scripted events, the gameplay seems anemic when you try to veer off course into the realm of roleplaying. Sure you can try hanging out with buddies, destroying stuff and do some exploring, but the total lack of “special triggered events” or “special effects” that you can trigger out of a mission, or buy houses, get married etc totally makes non-linear gameplay just shades of black and white.

By: fudouche

fudouche — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:55:30 +0000

no doubt, it does suck, but for serious reasons, not all the wannabe humorous stuff u posted here…

By: Mitchell Taljaard

Mitchell Taljaard — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:46:41 +0000

not a very article , unless i missed the sarcasim so where , anyways gta rules guys , these issues u bring up are minnor and pointless , witch is the point of the artilce no?