Unbelievable.
Gamespot youtube review, top comment.
I hope Carolyn was ready for this. Due to her sexual orientation, this shit was going to happen no matter what score she gave to this (a high profile) game.
Unbelievable.
Gamespot youtube review, top comment.
Gotta love him. He's not for everyone but he's extremely enthusiastic about things that he enjoys and, although prone to hyperbole, you can't argue that he isn't articulate.
Gamespot gave it a 9 and people are already going into meltdown mode over a 9? Instead of losing faith in humanity, I choose to instead laugh at those poor pathetic souls.
All I heard while reading the last two pars: waaa waaa waaa waaa
Watch out, they [gamespot comments] have a petition going to fire the reviewer.
https://www.change.org/petitions/gamespot-staff-fire-carolyn-petit
Burned by GTA4 hype? That's sort of how I felt. I liked the game but the hype was just insane.
I feel like waiting and seeing with GTA5.
Is it more tolerable than GTAIV? Some of the social commentary/satire in that one made me want to stab myself in the head.
Though it did some of the funny well.
I hope Carolyn was ready for this. Due to her sexual orientation, this shit was going to happen no matter score she gave to this (a high profile) game.
Yeah, it should be fine.Depends on what you hated about 4. It doesn't have anything as overwrought as "I keeled peepel, smaggled peelpel" or 4's ham handed moral platitudes.
There are still plenty of strawman "ASSHOLE LIBERAL" "ASSHOLE CONSERVATIVE" one-note characters but they're usually at least well acted and kind of funny.
whenever reviewers lay on hard the hyperbolic cross media comparisons, in this case with dickens, it always feels like it comes from a place of insecurity. like you have to shout about how each major game with a story is a transcendant, socially concious piece of contemporary art to justify devoting your profession or at least a significant amount of your time to videogames.
Man the payola train must be pretty powerful if a transgendered woman (understandably) sensitive to misogyny still has to give it a 9.
Disappointed she didn't give it lower. GTA games deserve to be called out for their regressive bullshit, misogynistic and otherwise. The Housers come off as more disturbed and unbalanced with each new game, seriously.
Sessler, you're taking your job too seriously.
So Rockstar tried to tell a profound and deep story full of satire but fell flat on their face?
Michael, the retired bank robber living in Los Santos under a new identity after faking his death at the climax of the opening flashback, is, by contrast, a character who could never anchor a GTA game by himself. His story – a faded hoodlum in therapy, whose wife cheats on him, whose kids hate him and who finds himself increasingly irrelevant in a city that prizes youth and beauty more than anywhere else on the planet – simply doesn’t fit the traditional GTA mission template. Yet his inclusion enriches the story and its setting, adding in modern Californian themes like therapy, infidelity, the emptiness of wealth and young America’s unquenchable yet unfussy thirst for fame. You can’t shoot your way round those. His story can be cutscene-heavy, but is so vividly realised and finely delivered that you won’t even notice, much less complain. And even if you do, there’s enough bombast elsewhere to make up for it.
The Strangers & Freaks side missions, meanwhile, are character-specific but make up for the absence of switching by filling out the richness of the world with a supporting cast that typifies modern California in all its vapidity. In town you’ll find paparazzi, celeb stalkers, fitness freaks and adrenaline junkies; out in the sticks lie Minutemen, and rednecks shooting critters for kicks. All are shot through with Rockstar’s signature dry wit, and introduce you to locations and distractions you might otherwise miss – a triathlon across Vespucci Beach, perhaps, or a BMX race down Mount Chiliad.
There are wrinkles, but none so serious as to prove ruinous. The game’s treatment of women – every female in the game exists solely to be sneered, leered or laughed at – is a real concern until you realise that it applies to the male characters as well. As Trevor, there’s a forced torture scene that will make you thoroughly uncomfortable until five minutes later when, back on the road, you misjudge a corner, kill a handful of pedestrians and laugh out loud, and it becomes apparent that Rockstar has made quite a powerful point, one that will later be acknowledged by one of the protagonists. We are all despicable people.
You soon realise that, rather than the gangster flicks of GTAs past, you’re now playing an episodic TV show. It’s a construct that’s as well suited to lost Los Santos weekends as it is the sporadic two-hour sessions of the time-poor, one that doesn’t just keep up the pace during downtime but also drives the best set of missions the series has ever seen.
No longer do we have to forgive a colossal open-world’s mechanical shortcomings as we wrestle with cumbersome controls: this is Max Payne’s weighty gunplay, Midnight Club’s vehicle handling and Red Dead’s animation.
Man the payola train must be pretty powerful if a transgendered woman (understandably) sensitive to misogyny still has to give it a 9.
Disappointed she didn't give it lower. GTA games deserve to be called out for their regressive bullshit, misogynistic and otherwise. The Housers come off as more disturbed and unbalanced with each new game, seriously.
I wish this wasn't the case, but I've seen those sorts of comments pop up before with her reviews. Not the first time she'll have to deal with it sadly.I hope Carolyn was ready for this. Due to her sexual orientation, this shit was going to happen no matter score she gave to this (a high profile) game.
I think it's a bit of missing the forest for the trees.
In a game of psychopaths, sociopaths, killers, violent criminals, drug lords, mafiosos, etc the part that bothers someone is the not ideal treatment of women?
That's like judging Adolf Hitler, and focus weirdly in some petty flaw of his personality instead of the whole exterminating jews thing.
Even if we give it as a valid complaint, a bit of mysoginist behavior is "expected" in the setting of gang members, crime veterans, sociopaths and the like, for realism sake.
And the satire is poorly conceived because it comes off as misogynistic. Ding!
whenever reviewers lay on hard the hyperbolic cross media comparisons, in this case with dickens, it always feels like it comes from a place of insecurity. like you have to shout about how each major game with a story is a transcendant, socially concious piece of contemporary art to justify devoting your profession or at least a significant amount of your time to videogames.
I hope there is some sort of parody about people freaking out over review scores in the game.
Pretty much the same view I have, which is why I can understand the frustration of many however I do think quite a few are going too far.I think it's somewhat fair to criticize the game given the nature of choices games give you with gender and romances today, but I don't think it's fair to factor that into review scores.
I try to have the presence of mind to separate overt sexism from unintentionally implicit sexism.
There is a post a few pages back where a poster is claiming this game will be the greatest game to ever exist. The hype is metastasizing.
So Rockstar tried to tell a profound and deep story full of satire but fell flat on their face? Again? Tell me something new. RDR must have been a fluke because it was universally loved while the GTA games have been getting dumber in terms of story. And at this point developers should really take up the challenge and make a game with a balanced female protagonist. We need to mitigate the "LOL! GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN!" environment we have created.
Gamespot gave it a 9 and people are already going into meltdown mode over a 9? Instead of losing faith in humanity, I choose to instead laugh at those poor pathetic souls.
GAF should do thier own Sessler style comments.
Here's mine. GTA V I feel genuinely has the ability to bring peace to the world, such is this games awesomeness that all of the worlds major conflicts would be ended if everyone plays it.
IGN is getting really fucking predictable.
Adam Sessler does have a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from UCLA...
I believe Sesslers quote is truthful but dressed up to be partially satirical of the blowback such comments have gotten recently. Citizens Kate, Oscar worthy etc. Not that I have a problem with any of these personally.
Even violent criminals have a down ass chick. Even sociopaths have a partner. Drug Lords have the wife that hold it down when he There's gone and knows the security keys to all his safes? I mean there no excuse sometimes. What about Bonnie and Clyde?
I love GTA for life but if the game can't try to get some strong women in there, why should it not be pointed out? GTA has been blasted for its violent behavior for years by news outlets. It's not something the world or even parents don't know when their kids want it, but the portrayal of women in the game is barely talked about. I'm just saying. If someone can point it out, the last thing anyone should do is ignore it. I do want to root for a woman someday in a GTA. I want to be able to call her my down ass chick.
Stupid GTA reality distortion field. I KNOW I ought to wait it out for some sort of equalization and consensus to form here on GAF, as I've never actually enjoyed past GTAs, but the hype is undeniable and I've got money to burn :l
Sure but this one looks to be worthy of a high score. I really have no expectations but this looks much better than GTA4. That's all I can go by but I'm not buying into all the hyperbole I read in the spoiler thread and some of these reviews.
Escapist reviewer should be playing something more like this:
Make sure the shoot-bang is good enough that people don't care about the inherent ugliness of the game world or the characters. ?