Gaston, thank you SO MUCH for not speculating on the name of the new Xbox because while Sony trudges down a predictable and typically static path of PS, 2, 3, 4, Microsoft will obviously not call this the 720, nor 540, 1080, or a 1440 McTwist.
They call it Durango for a few months. You call it the successor. Well done.
If it's DC, I'll buy it. Fallout 3's DC was the weakest representation of the place I think I've ever seen. If it's San Andreas _again_, I'll wait for the bargain bin. Nothing can top GTA3 San Adreas. BUT, if this has any of the ambition of San Andreas's city-hopping (anyone who hasn't played it: you could drive from a San Diego-like city to a Los Angeles-like city, to a San Francisco-like city, and then fly to a Las Vegas-like city), I'll snatch it up in a heartbeat. Ambition=SCALE in my opinion. Yes, I was impressed at how well NYC was represented in GTA IV. But this time? Go big or take it to the back of the bus. Oh and Andrew Park, I can't WAIT to see the bustling streets of Kansas City. It's gonna be awesome.
Loved this game. About the time I used "the protagonist" to kill that first mob boss by barricading his car in the driveway and then setting it alight with a flamethrower, I thought "this is incredible--no game thus far has been this fun." I might have given up on games as having been too formulaic. The PS2 was just kinda boring until GTA 3 came along. And by the time I had finished San Andreas (which I believe was the holy grail of video gaming, it really was), I knew gaming was on the rise again.
The US is inundated with sports spectacles: Baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, lacrosse, auto racing, motocross, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, bicycling, etc, etc. Why can't gaming just be leisure? I'd rather go down to the river to see (or, get this, participate) in some disc golf or rowing competition than pay to support your overgrown LAN party. Also: the most mediocre night of playing multiplayer games with your friends is probably more fun than the biggest MLG event.
I remember asking this game store owner in Littleton (the one on Belleview and Federal) if he planned on stocking GTA III, and he said no, not unless there was a mode that allowed you to play as the cops and shoot up criminals -- he thought GTA was bad for society. Last time I drove past his old store (Game Force Littleton), it was a nail salon. What a tool. Anyway, I bought GTA III from the Denver Game Force and I've never been the same. This game should really be considered #1 best console game EVER.
That annoying a-hole Otis in Dead Rising. Yeah, if that guy ever stepped out of the security room, I was gonna surgically remove his head with a shotgun. Thank God for Infinite Mode, where one of the first things I could do was kill Otis with a frying pan.
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