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Grand Theft Auto V - Review Thread | Take 2
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If it makes you feel better, the repetition bothers me more than the opinion expressed.
If this is the level of nitpicking that folks are up in arms with, than next generation will be delicious.
Yeah the tables are going to be turned hard with that power difference.
blitzcloud
Banned
Looks like the PS3 version looks better in some parts, the 360 better in others.
Take this comparison. 360 has the blue lights on the wheel, but the PS3 version has better textures bottom left and on that weird bricking in the centre.
PS3 top, 360 bottom.
ps3 with better texture resolution? color me very surprised.
Is that what actually happened? Because I remember very well GameSpot giving the game a 9.5 before changing it to a 10.0
Ravensmash
Member
First thing I'm going to do is find a bicycle, go for a ride round the block and then just stop on a corner to see the world in action.
Hypeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hypeeeeeeeeeeeee
shadyspace
Banned
how come we still ain't got skateboards
Maybe it means "vulgar" as in cheap or on the nose.
CloakedPuppet
Member
What are you talking about? From that gif, it's obviously the other way around.
Both look fine though. No matter which version you choose, you can't go wrong.
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Bunch of asshats scoring it 1, 2 & 3 just for shits, giggles & to "offset the 10s." User score means even less than the critic score, imo.
If it takes being THAT far zoomed out then I'm not going to sweat it. The pictures are hard to tell apart beyond that anyway, not like when GTAIV or RDR ran at blatantly lower resolutions.If this is the level of nitpicking that folks are up in arms with, than next generation will be delicious
oconnomiyaki
Member
In the paragraph or the article in full?
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
MikeE21286
Member
Good that it's better. Will be interested to see if PS3 has any advantages there.
Yeah but that was alway a hallmark of the GTA brand of satire.
The problem is that this 'satirical criticism' is highly questionable. We all know that sex and violence sells and Rockstar uses them to gain profit, not to educate us on cultural subtleties of our times.
Many people enjoy impersonating bad characters - killing whores and murdering the innocent in video games and GTA provides them the opportunity. Nothing artistic or ironic about it. Sessler should just recognize it for what it is (no one would blame him) but instead we got this pseudo-intellectual justification (for not criticizing some things in the game /like he did in God of War/ and maybe for the score) with poor Dickens in the middle...
If the bad language is lazy and overabundant (like GTA seems prone to) then it seems like a legitimate knock against the title.
mullet2000
Member
Well Mr. Snooty Snoot, I'll just say that comedy actually often tends to be one of the better historical windows into another culture.
I haven't played GTA5 either, but writing all of the satire off because something like "tw@t internet cafes" is present isn't really fair. Being crude doesn't mean that something isn't just as a valid a thing to look back on. Really, there's tons of classical literature that we look back on today that was considered very crude at the time!
If it seems like I'm trying to say something like "GTA5 is the Dickens of our time!", I'm not. I'm just saying that if you had an interactive "videogame" on the level of GTA5 that was created in 1800 and was a satirical reflection on that time period by those who lived in that time period don't you think we'd find that valuable today? I sure think we would. By that line of thinking I don't see how it's a stretch to say that someone in 2200 would find GTA5 to be a pretty interesting look into 2013.
Its not the swearing its the constant incessant swearing. The metro gamecentral review and blog is worth a read.
PsychoSoldier
Banned
I get what Adam is saying there, but it's still ridiculous to ascribe that kind of importance to any game given all the inane silliness inherent in both these games and the Houser's writing.
And while the Dickens' quote is quite mockable, him comparing the writing in these games to Jonathan Swift is pretty facepalm-worthy.
And while the Dickens' quote is quite mockable, him comparing the writing in these games to Jonathan Swift is pretty facepalm-worthy.
True, but if they thought it was shit, they can still mention it in the review.
After all bad on-foot controls were also an hallmark of the GTA franchise.
AgentOtaku
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Steve McQueen
Member
Well, I just buy both versions. Gonna wait for DF tomorrow and maybe I'll return one copy to the stores. What bothers me more....the fact that you don't have to install the second play disc could waste my old 360. Sounds like a jetengine already.
There is a difference between writing something off and calling it the next Dickens. The idea that GTA is an insight into modern culture hundreds of years from now is pretty absurd.
PS3 has a tad less aliasing, at least in that screenshot.
Paranoid much?
As far as I'm concerned, MetaCritic might as well not exist if user scores is worth less than the site scores.
There is no surprise that this game did well with almost every review website, giving this game a 9/10 will end up with a flamewar on the review and death threats from the rabid fanboys.
Any news on dat PC version? I'm still holding out on this game.
Brizzo24
Member
Looks like the PS3 version looks better in some parts, the 360 better in others.
Take this comparison. 360 has the blue lights on the wheel, but the PS3 version has better textures bottom left and on that weird bricking in the centre.
PS3 top, 360 bottom.
The "blue light" you see on the ferris wheel is intentional, as far as I can tell. I live right next to the boardwalk and it does light up at night with multi-colored lights. So the devs could've easily stuck that into the game and have the ferris wheel light up and change colors all the time.
Also, these shots were taken within micro-seconds on one another. The world is a living breathing world, and there's constant movement going on. Hence the water having different patterns and whatnot.
Believe it or not, there are actually people in real life who talk like that.
San Andreas nailed a number of different cultural things of the 90s, from music to a number of different things. I recently played through it again and was surprised by how much of the time period it managed to convey
CloakedPuppet
Member
Well - ok - in that case, it's a toss up. Personally, I'd rather have a bit more texture resolution but different strokes.
I think you will most likely be the exception rather than the rule but you have un-saddened my heart a bit.
Why are you guys ragging on Sessler for that quote? In the review, and based on trailers etc, I can see his point having great poignancy. Materialism, the NSA, spying, technology, the political system and laughable Republican or otherwise candidates and representatives that manage to get through and so much more.
I know the quote sounds pretentious and overly fluffed, but I have a feeling it's going to have some vague form of credibility when all is said and done.
I know the quote sounds pretentious and overly fluffed, but I have a feeling it's going to have some vague form of credibility when all is said and done.
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
Paranoid? Lol, no, you're right, these scores are on the money: http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox...er-reviews?sort-by=score&num_items=100&page=8
TheOohChild
Member
oh man, I want this on PC, but I have a 360 and poor self control.
Lumpy Onion
Member
That's actually a pretty big turnoff for me. When I was 10 years old I would be all over that kind of profanity, but nowadays I just find it tasteless. It bothered me enough in the previous GTA games so it probably will here too.
True but I don't want to listen to them for however long this game goes on for.
GTA is cheap satire. All characters are usually one dimensional representing a specific stereotype to the extreme. Its not some example of amazing writing. Its just trying to be something more than it is.
I'll put it to you this way, Red Dead Redemption PS3/360 will be the norm for next generation port differences between Xbox One and PS4 if we go by specs on paper.
Well they can be fine with vulgarity and swears, but everything gets tiring if there's too much of it. I don't know if that's actually the case, but the criticism isn't inherently wrong.
PairOfFilthySocks
Member
At the risk of ending up on a list of shame, most of those 'contrarian' reviewers(in this case, contrarian being anything other than 10/10 lol) seem to be more concerned with establishing their morals than evaluating the game.
As for the reviews in general, it would be nice if the they could point out flaws in the gameplay(which surely exist, you can't have a mechanically sound game when it's this big), but I guess waxing poetic bollocks about whether or not GTA5 advances the human race is a larger priority for dudes trying to justify the medium they cover.
I expected a mess of hyperbolic tosh claiming this to be videogaming's <insert classic from other meduim> sprinkled with a dash of social righteousness maneuvering(the guys taking a GTA's portrayal of a modern America at face value are proving particularly entertaining), but this shit has somehow managed to exceed my expectations.
Keep up the publisher foot worship, game "journalists".
As for the reviews in general, it would be nice if the they could point out flaws in the gameplay(which surely exist, you can't have a mechanically sound game when it's this big), but I guess waxing poetic bollocks about whether or not GTA5 advances the human race is a larger priority for dudes trying to justify the medium they cover.
I expected a mess of hyperbolic tosh claiming this to be videogaming's <insert classic from other meduim> sprinkled with a dash of social righteousness maneuvering(the guys taking a GTA's portrayal of a modern America at face value are proving particularly entertaining), but this shit has somehow managed to exceed my expectations.
Keep up the publisher foot worship, game "journalists".
PsychoSoldier
Banned
Unless there's some deeper narrative involving these things my bet would be that most of these themes will be covered briefly in order to serve some larger crazier storyline or used as one-off lines in the radio station.
We'll see, but consider me skeptical given what they've written before.
Wind's Howling
Member
Do not watch this if you do not want to get spoiled. It shows a cutscene with Michael talking.
Maybe it's the cut game quotes in the review that sing, "I need to meditate...or masturbate...or both." Step aside Dickens.
It's not just the one quote. The review (of what I watched) seemed very overwritten, which might not be so bad if Sessler wasn't reading it out loud.
vasametropolis
Member
Am I the only one confused why a publisher would embargo reviews up until the day before release when they know they have a 10/10 title on their hands? Always seems suspicious to me.
Yeah, that is mostly what I want from reviews too. The assessment of the game as a game and the graphics/mechanics.
This is going to sound harsh but I don't have enough respect for the general reviewers to much care for their pontification on the merits of GTAs brand of America satire or the social commentary.