Did GTA IV really get any attention, outside of its launch? I haven't played it yet (might do one more PC upgrade before attempting to play the PC version with glorious mods), but while it did get crazy reviews at launch, I don't really remember hearing much about it after that. Pretty much forgotten. Little bit of buzz for the DLC, but not much it seemed. Opinions from non-reviewers always seemed pretty mixed to me (maybe not bad, but not "GOTY/GOTG" worthy, unlike say GTA:SA). But when places like IGN say the game has writing worthy of an Oscar, then I guess you definitely do make the "most overrated" list. Hype and huge advertising budgets does that I suppose.
Thats why I said it was so overhyped...at launch, every reviewer is giving that game a 10. Perfect 10. Then, people actually play the game and you dont hear anything about it.
The story never really intrigued me for San Andreas. That and it came out at a time when I didn't have a PS2...and I've never really had a desire to get it since. It's weird though. Usually I get a lot of pleasure out of aimlessly destroying the city and having the cops chase me. But after I played through IV, I really never went back. I love GTA and would love to see another one, but they need to take the series to the next level. Maybe take it to Europe. Create a truly living, breathing environment, where you can explore inside the buildings and you can destroy the landscape. And make more missions like the bank robbery in IV.
they could maybe continue the niko bellic saga and make him get on a boat back to europe like you said, but in europe he finds more trouble and escapes in a jet back to america where he tries his best to hide from europian cops undercover looking for him. thats just my opinion who knows what rockstar is brainstorimg right now.
You can't really compare "Baby's First Shooter" to the game franchise that got the mainstream media hating on gaming.
So the game that revolutionized the FPS genre on consoles isn't noteworthy at all? Your argument is saying that because of the hot coffee part of GTA, that means it's better. That's a pretty weak argument. I'm not getting into some big argument so I'm just gonna say both series are great but I don't think GTA was nearly as influential as Halo.
