people are going to compare them. They are comparable.
reasons why- reatail cost, release dates, 3rd person perspective, sand box city design, cops and robbers, guns and grenades, cars and crashing, ect...
if you put them on paper they are very similar, and if there is no demo available, many peeps go with whats on paper and what is on review sites (both pro and user)
definitely not over-rated. it is one of the most beloved franchises in gaming history and if you go anywhere all you will here is praise for GTA5. No heat, your just wrong about this one.
I think its childish and immature (probably the reason its liked- it doesn't take itself too seriously, its just about causing mayhem for the fun of it) personally- but I'm not a young person either, so...
I think my expectations were too high for this title. It feels too much like D2 or Torchlight.
The Boss fights were completely uneventful for me.
The loot system is nicely paced and is rewarding but the skill system is uninteresting to say the least.
The more I played the game the more I thought about the fact that I paid the same amount of coin for this as I did for Skyrim. Maybe it's not a fair comparison, but it just seems like in 2013 games should deliver more than grinding endless mobs while staring at the ground.
What am I grinding for anyway? Once you complete your quest for gear, then what? Endless loot grinding only makes sense if there is an endgame in which to use it. I don't consider harder modes to be an endgame.
Sure, the game is highly addictive. People keep saying that like it means something good. It doesn't. It just means you have emotional deficiencies. Cocaine and heroin are all sorts of addictive, and although they are fun at the beginning, they just become necessary to feel "normal", if you will. Is that a good gaming experience? I want to play games because I have fun playing them everytime, the whole time, not just for those fleeting and shallow moments of victory that are filled with huge voids of mindless action.
That brings me to my biggest gripe of the game: the lack of content and story length is almost unacceptable. Have any of the guys at Blizzard played a modern action/rpg? There huge compared to this game, in every way. Hell mode is not more content.... Why the hell did it take a decade to make this game...I'll never know.
I would have been happier to pay $30 for this game. Thats all I feel I got out of it. ...and I buy new games all the time and never complain about the $59.99 they cost, even the ones I dont like.
Onwards and upwards though. I played it and now I'm moving on. You'd be a fool to spend a hundred, or even 50 hours playing this game anyway considering everything thats out right now and coming soon. We are all very spoiled.
@cubachino yeah, because this is why I play games. I totally agree with you. I mean, who wants awesome graphics and huge expansive worlds if it comes at the cost of doing completely unnecessary crap with your hard drive. I'd way rather play crummy games as long as I can still transfer info to an external HDD, because that is where I get most of my enjoyment out of video gaming. file transferring is so fun.
@Metallicwolf29 @freedom01 dont deprive yourself. they arent going to change any. my 360 plays the exact same games and does the exact same thing it did when i first got it 7 years ago.
the only people who wont be buying next gen consoles are the ones who cant afford them, no matter what they say.
The point is, the new consoles arent going anywhere, and neither are the old ones, but, and this is a big BUT, the developers are going somewhere...and that is to the new hardware.
New games and new IP's are the lifeblood of video gaming and the next gen always offers that promise.
But you go ahead and holdout and just read on websites like this one how much fun the rest of us are having on our new consoles. That will show the "man" who's boss- wont it?
@DeViLzzz contrary to popular belief, consoles dont even make money. they are a vehicle to make money through licensing and publishing, which is where all the money is to be made. Thats why they always go down in price throuout the product's life cycle.
If MS needed to turn profit from selling consoles, they would cost twice what they do. Just the fancy exteriors on the consoles cost millions to develop and tool up for. Plus all the marketing study groups and everything else that went into the stupid plastic shell
...we haven't even got to the electronics yet, or the proprietary, custom made operating system consoles have. You should feel lucky they only want $500 for them.
Year 1996, PS1 MSRP - $399 Chevy Silverado SE ext cab pick-up MSRP - $20,999
I dont see the big deal. For one, its sort of been like this for past few years with VIP passes and the like. The good thing that is happening, that no one ever points out, is that publishers are dropping their prices rather quickly compared to the past. If your not patient enough to wait 3 months, then it's not feasible, but I'll buy new copies of AAA titles that I want for $40 all day long. Used copies of recent games are $20-30, then you might have to tack on $10 for a VIP pass. I recently purchased Tomb Raider for $40, played through it, and traded it in for $22 toward a new ($40) copy of Dead Space 3. So I experienced the whole of TR for 18 bucks and change.
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