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GTA IV Was Good, But Grand Theft Auto Was Better - Find Out Why

Hobgob1in | June 04, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 XBOX 360 
GamersDailyNews looks at the original Grand Theft Auto game in comparison to the latest instalment. Despite GTA IV breaking all kinds of sales records and forging a reputation all of its own, GDN says the soul of the original has now been entirely erased.
Find out why GamersDailyNews thinks Grand Theft Auto is better than GTA IV. Gouranga!
GTA IV focuses its listless energy on exemplifying the world of organized crime. The entire purpose of Grand Theft Auto was basking in the hysterics of DISorganized crime!

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  • 3 thumbs!
    iLLmatic | June 04, 2008
    That was a good laugh.
    • 1 thumbs!
      Storm | June 05, 2008
      They are serious! Dis-organized crime is way better than organized!

      Entertaining read, heh.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Jesus | June 05, 2008
    They can't be serious, surely. How can you possibly say that GTA I was better than GTA IV? Are they braindead or something?
  • 1 thumbs!
    whinkle | June 05, 2008
    its all how you look at it, I think the writer was speaking more from expectation as at the time GTA was a new genre as GTA IV is a rehash. Granted the graphics, multiplayer, and gameplay are better now, but in the whole scheme of things, you come away somewhat disappointed when you just play the single player
    • 0 thumbs!
      Final Blade | June 05, 2008
      You can say that about any game series to be honest. DMC1-4, resident evil, Silent hill, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat......Etc.
      That doesn't mean much anyway.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Gothic Girl | June 05, 2008
    It's amazing to see how far the series has come. The difference between the GTA and GTA IV screens is ... wow.
    I bet we all weren't expacting the GTA series to end up looking the way it does now!
  • -2 thumbs!
    Zero and X | June 05, 2008
    I didnt like the original, it didnt appeal to me, especiallly since you move your walking character like a car, that was annoying.

    EDIT: People, stop thumbing others down for having an opinon. Read my *bleep*ing comment, I never said GTA1 was bad, just that I didnt like it. I shouldnt get thumbed down for that.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Armed Rebel | June 05, 2008
    If GTA2 had some more advanced features, a case could definitely be made that it's better than IV.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Armed Rebel | June 07, 2008
      I mean, GTA2 multiplayer might be the funnest thing in the world.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Forlorn | June 06, 2008
    Less pixels > more pixels?
  • 0 thumbs!
    ChiroVette | June 15, 2008
    Honestly? I think that piece is an example of a writer who takes himself WAY too seriously. That whole piece was a monolithic conundrum of an overindugled intellectual showoff. (Kind of like the previous sentence in this post lol)

    Seriously, if you read that post, he goes on and on about how GTA has changed, abandoned its roots of mayhem and disorganized crome, and yet DOES NOT give a single example to make his point. he prattles on and on in what reads like a 17 year old wanna-be heavy metal guitarist who can't play songs but can run through scales like nobody's business. This guy makes NO salient point, brings no bonafide complaint to the table, does not, in fact, criticize ONE facet of gameplay with so much as a concrete example, and yet, he tries to tell us why every GTA game since GTA III is just off the mark somehow.

    Man, I wish I had an ego that big that I could get a job writing for a big gaming site and get paid to say absolutely NOTHING with such flagrant self-indulgent verbiage.

    I mean seriously, can anyone find ONE place where this guy even remotely supported his perspective? Forget whether you agree with him or not. The fact is, I am one of the people that does believe that GTA IV has lost its way. However, whether you agree with my reasons or not, at least I, and people who feel as I do, can furnish you with actual examples of gameplay to make my point. His article was like the high-IQ version of the n00b poster who waltzes into the forum and starts a thread saying, "Like OMG!! GTA Sucks! How can all you idiots like it? It is SO bad!!" And gives not one examploe of WHY he feels that way.

    Well, that's my rant for the night.
    • -1 thumbs!
      Final Blade | June 15, 2008
      Your posts are highly entertaining. More-so than this article rant.

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