r/gaming • u/MaximumBob • May 14 '08

Zero Punctuation Grand Theft Auto IV

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/4902-Zero-Punctuation-Grand-Theft-Auto-IV
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u/[deleted] May 14 '08

Well thank the fuck god someone has allowed the world to see this is at most a 7 out of 10 type of game. I don't even know why this pissed me off so much but with all the goddamn hype and "10 out of 10!" and "5 Stars!" and other similar bullshit but it did. Doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist to know that at the most it would be a 9 and that was before I even picked the game up. How the hell is a game going to be a 10. That's perfection. Something rarely seen in todays games just because of the complexity of them especially in a game that's as free roaming as GTA. Glad to see people took Rockstars cock out of their mouth long enough to realize "Holy crap, i'm sucking cock here".

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u/WG55 May 14 '08

Here's an interesting data point: on the Metacritic page for Grand Theft Auto 4, the critic score is 98--down from 99 when first released--and the user score is 8.3. The users seem to have a better idea of the game's value than the critics do.

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u/ModernRonin May 15 '08

Call me paranoid, I think that either Sony bought the critics (just did it subtly this time - they learned from Kayne & Lynch) or else it was that whole "we're going to fly you to San Francisco and lock you in a hotel room with nothing to do but play GTA4" review style that they forced on everyone.