One Month Later...Can We Finally Admit GTA 5 is Overrated?

You say GTA V is overrated because its repetitive and then name a game thats way more repetitive as your goty? In fact Bioshock is probably the most repetitive action game there is. GTA V's gameplay is WAY more varied than Bioshock. GTA hasnt evolved? How has Bioshock evolved?

A game has pierced the upper echelon when obligatory hate/discredit threads start showing up

Good job R*

gotg does not care if you like it or not.

Most fun I had in gaming this gen. By far my game of the gen. Rockstar redeem themselves with this one. I hated gta 4 and rdr, max payne 3 was boring and midnight club LA was not as good as midnight club 3

It's pretty good. Better than the crap that was 4.

Hell no, Game of the Year, Game of the Gen.

It's the GTA i've been waiting for since this gen started. GTA IV was a great game in it's own right, but, lets face it, terrible when compared to the legendary San Andreas, I don't know what Rockstar were thinking when they replace Harrier Jets and Tanks with Bowling and TV within a TV.

I would even go as far to say that GTA V is underrated when compared to GTA IV, Gamespot didn't seem to understand that people were not raging over GTA Vs 9/10 because it didn't get 10/10, but because GTA IV got 10/10.

Meh. Gameplay is really improved overall. I'm not a San Andreas nut rider like so many here. GTA 5 is an improvement over San Andreas and 4.

But at the end of the day It still more GTA even if it is the best in the series. GOTY is TLOU.

Seeing a few folks here say the game is underrated. I'm kind of confused on how this game is underrated. Seems everyone loved it, sales exploded, and critics adored it.

The game really isn't that great. It's far too difficult to make money, it's far too easy to get killed and the penalty is high. The majority of missions hardly involve actual gameplay.

@Pffrbt: Sounds to me like you just suck at the game

That was predictable. The characters die in one or two hits, they die far too easily. It isn't fun because it severely limits how much experimentation and dicking around you can do.

Let's not.

I don't know, have people already admitted GTA IV was overrated as hell and that it's probably the worst GTA from the main series post III era?

I found it to be a technical marvel that remedied mostly all of the issues that plagued IV. That said, the writing and ridiculous, over-the-top, overly exaggerated, obnoxious drama queens that the game called "characters" were so bad to the point that they nearly ruined the game and definitely didn't want to make me play it anymore.

People get so incredibly impressed upon first playing GTA games that they have trouble looking deeper and seeing that they're really in a shallow world, only offered superficial trivialities to occupy their time until the next linear "go here, kill x, escape" (with some slight differences). I don't include the heists in these those, they were an improvement but even after I experimented with them I didn't see much of a difference (could never avoid the cops, for example).

use cover and use it smart i found this the easiest GTA game of the lot, and play the stock market right at the end of the game and saving your assasination missions.

And the penalty for death is too high? im curious did you play GTA IV it was much more crippling to make money and the death/respawn penalty was far more draconian.

They totally got it right this time. Wasn't a fan of IV but V is amazing. GTAO is also the best MP experience since Battlefield 3 .. with TLOU MP coming a close second

I do use cover, I never said the game was difficult, just that the fact that you die so incredibly easily sucks a lot of the fun out it. I already know about playing the stock market after all of the story missions, the problem with that is that by that point you're pretty much burnt out on the game.

And I never said this game wasn't better that GTA4, I couldn't even tolerate that game long enough to finish it. It being better than GTA4 doesn't make it not bad.

Probably what I hate most is that the vast majority of missions have barely any gameplay. It's mostly just driving around over and over and over again.

Yeah I personally think it's overrated. I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

The game is amazing its everything GTA 4 should have been.

I think this is the first GTA which is not overrated at all. I have never finished a GTA game but this I'm just about to and I cannot wait, even if the story is a bit weak in my opinion.

it's hit and miss for me i mean it's 10 times better than GTA 4. The Hiests were rubbish i mean the first one was great but the hiests after had no relevance, all that about using the same crew because they level up, i mean seriously what leveling up did they need, you userd them once after and only one of them, hiests were a let down, i mean the ending hiest was just about you walking to it, nothing else.

The other thing was there is nout to do after the game has finished,

Yes its overrated, but no game was ever going to live up to the extreme amount of hype GTA5 had. I still enjoyed playing it though, even if the story was pretty poor.

Sold it after a week of owning it. The terrible clunky controls just make the whole thing a chore to play. I don't know why more reviewers didnt pick up on that and take that into account when scoring it.... Its almost like some reviewers these days are afraid to give games with big budgets and production values less than an 8/10...the game play just... wasnt... fun. Press one button to hide in cover press another to pop out and auto lock on kill someone...is just dull/boring requires no skill to do...its almost akin to a bunch of quick time events. My whole time playing it i kept saying to myself 'did they even play test this game?' or just show people videos of scripted scenes (where the game does actually look good and worked very well to market it.)

Yup it's overrated. I tried playing it quite a few times, got bored within half an hour each time. It's same old GTA.

If only Rockstar had included an option for manual aiming!

An old thread, yes...but...

I definitely agree it's over rated. Heavily. It started out with a lot of promise, but it wasn't as good as the hype made it out to be. Although it feels more alive in it's design, the game play is lacking. Sadly, GTA holds my interest less and less with every release.

The cops are too annoying. They take the fun out of aimlessy rampaging (an old way I used to blow off steam after work). You spend more time running from them than actually killing people. You get a wanted level for doing nothing sometimes. they can be ridiculously easy, or frustratingly impossible to lose with absolutely zero consistency. Biggest flaw in this game by far.

Money is way too hard to come by.

The lung capacity is inconsistent. Franklin has full, Micheal is about half. Yet Michael can stay under a lot longer than Franklin for me????

Races are just impossible, unless you play it that much to really get the driving down. I could go on....

I'm a casual gamer that occasionally gets engrossed in games that deserve the hype (Mass Effect series is deserving of this). Rockstar has pretty much isolated the casual gamer from what used to be a fun way to kill some time. It seems to be an attempt at being too realistic, and needs more time involved just to learn the curve.

It's just my opinion, but it will be my last GTA that I'll play. It was a gift, otherwise GTA IV would have been my last.

Anything is overrated nowadays.

overrated and still won't win GOTY

So...you critize GTAV for being repetive and lacking innovation and then you praise BioShock Infinite? Lmao...

Overhyped maybe, overrated not I think.

No, it's the best game R* has done.

No. It's not perfect, no game is, but it's easily one of the best games i ever played.

I playing right now and I can't disagree more. It's probably the best game I've played in ages.

Why is there always that one guy who has to insist that everything good and enjoyable in the world is over rated?