ROMhack
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Slight disclaimer on this as I haven’t played much of GTA V but from what I did I much prefer GTA IV. Interested to hear if you agree/disagree...
I thought IV was a really sharp, funny game. You play as this violent immigrant who comes over to New York for a better life and finds nothing but shit in his face. He learns his cousin is a lying moron, weighted over by bigger ballers in the taxi business – itself surely one of the lowest ranking professions you could ever think of. He keeps on phoning you up to go bowling with an incessantly chirpy shit-eating tone like the game is deliberately trolling you. Then you meet a woman and think things are getting better but nah, she’s a fed out to get you. Tough fucking luck Nico. That's how it goes.
The game constantly puts you in scenarios that poke fun at parts of American culture. You meet tons of charismatic crazy people, blow loads of shit up and drive around listening to parodies of Judge Judy, featuring advertisements for a World of Warcraft-esque called ‘Loot ‘n Wank’. The whole script is as big as the entirety of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and nobody is safe from being poked fun of – from gun-loving conservatives to poor Romanian immigrants to left-leaning trust fund hipsters. The Episodes too were great, especially The Ballad of Gay Tony. A testament what could be accomplished with mid-2000s satire.
V however didn't grab me. I will admit that the gameplay is much more refined but I couldn't quite enjoy it in the same way. I'm not convinced it's as sharp culturally as IV was. I won't say it's a bad game because it's incredibly popular but nothing about it sticks in my mind. Again, that's only about 10 hours of gameplay so take the point with a pinch of salt.
Trailing off here but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. Did you prefer IV or V?
Edited for clarity.
I thought IV was a really sharp, funny game. You play as this violent immigrant who comes over to New York for a better life and finds nothing but shit in his face. He learns his cousin is a lying moron, weighted over by bigger ballers in the taxi business – itself surely one of the lowest ranking professions you could ever think of. He keeps on phoning you up to go bowling with an incessantly chirpy shit-eating tone like the game is deliberately trolling you. Then you meet a woman and think things are getting better but nah, she’s a fed out to get you. Tough fucking luck Nico. That's how it goes.
The game constantly puts you in scenarios that poke fun at parts of American culture. You meet tons of charismatic crazy people, blow loads of shit up and drive around listening to parodies of Judge Judy, featuring advertisements for a World of Warcraft-esque called ‘Loot ‘n Wank’. The whole script is as big as the entirety of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and nobody is safe from being poked fun of – from gun-loving conservatives to poor Romanian immigrants to left-leaning trust fund hipsters. The Episodes too were great, especially The Ballad of Gay Tony. A testament what could be accomplished with mid-2000s satire.
V however didn't grab me. I will admit that the gameplay is much more refined but I couldn't quite enjoy it in the same way. I'm not convinced it's as sharp culturally as IV was. I won't say it's a bad game because it's incredibly popular but nothing about it sticks in my mind. Again, that's only about 10 hours of gameplay so take the point with a pinch of salt.
Trailing off here but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. Did you prefer IV or V?
Edited for clarity.
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