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« on: February 07, 2005, 05:00:15 PM »
Actually jonnyboy I can think of think GTA IS brilliant for what it does that no other games seem to do... Something it borrows from the Simspons. It's hilarious parody world that it creates through the environment, characters, and radio stations. The writing is so amazing in the GTA games... I mean they are just brilliant, and I love the inside jokes that carry through the series and seeing the characters at different points in their lives. You know I think the writing to the GTA games is probably better than any other game series. It's larger in scope than No One Lives Forever, hasn't managed to turn into a nonsensical anachronological mess like Metal Gear Solid, and is funnier than just about everything you can watch on TV or play on your consoles or computer.
And about Iwata... something tells me he isn't going to say anything of any use to us, and it's all going to be all that crap he always says, an hour of fluff and nonsense about an impending gaming apocalypse and how Nintendo will rise from the ashes with it's single button controller and usher a new era of game playing old grandpas and the return of gaming to the good old days before Sony and MS ruined gaming with pretty graphics, hard drives, the internet, and other such transgressions.
Bill, if Zelda didn't care what you did, you could chop up NPC's, kill chickens, and throw Epona into the fires of Mt. Doom from whence she came! Or Death Mtn., whatever it was. Anyway, am I the only one who doesn't think GTA is that violent? It's nowhere near as violent as Manhunt or something. Anyway, no one who plays GTA runs around randomly shooting people. It gets old quick and the police will just come kill you... As far as the missions go, unlike say Halo, where you do one thing (kill things), GTA is fun and varied and while there are plenty of missions where you have to kill someone there are just as much where you have to buy real estate, sell pizza, protect help a rock band diffuse a terrorist bomb from their limo, and so on. Take one mission from Vice City. Once you buy the Kauffman Cab company you'll be competing with the big Taxi company. After a bunch of missions dropping people off in your cab the rival company will dispatch a sqaud of Taxis to assassinate you. You get trapped in your cab in this little area in the airport with 20 taxis chasing you and you have to survice for a certain amount of time. It's pretty hilarious. Then the boss, a Tiger striped taxi comes in, and you must defeat it in one on one Taxi Combat.
I mean, that's pretty ridiculous stuff. There's nothing wrong with GTA and it's definatley not overly violent, and the game actively discourages violence. People take it way too seriously.
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So we could care less about what Nintendo's like right? 
