Why We Stopped Playing GTA IV

May 28, 2008 | By: Chris Buffa

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Not everything is rosy in Liberty City. Now that the hype train slowed down, Grand Theft Auto IV has issues, and we're not talking about the high-priced hookers.

Hanging out with people blows

Rockstar created this sprawling metropolis that begs to be explored but ruined it by forcing us to chill with everyone. Taking a scenic drive, bashing someone's brains with a baseball bat and outrunning the law becomes less cool when some bozo gives us a ring and asks to go to the strip club. We can only watch those same three dances so many times, and the same goes for hearing our annoying girlfriends scream out lame dialogue while doing the horizontal mambo. To make matters worse, not meeting up with these people causes our ratings to drop, which affects our good standing. Bottom line, real life is difficult enough without having to worry about our virtual friends.

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cstamp33 at 8:27 pm on May 30th 2008

"this game is too hard!" "the strippers aren't nude!" lol you guys are noobs. go back to playing minesweeper and looking at porn.

zompironin at 8:08 pm on May 30th 2008

Achievements too difficult? I have like, Idk I think 43/50 or something. I think you guys just suck at videogames as much as you suck at writing reviews for them.

zompironin at 8:04 pm on May 30th 2008

Is this supposed to be a serious review or is it supposed to be funny? Why do you guys have a problem with clothed strippers? "Hot coffee caused R* to lose touch with reality"? I think that the reality is if you need nudity for a videogame you're a sad little dude without the cajones required to get some real *****.

lilpupusher at 5:59 pm on May 30th 2008

You guys were wooing over this title when it first came out. Now you tired of it. SERIOUSLY. You guys are a bunch of picky nerds who know nothing about games. Grand Theft Auto is one of the best games out there. Yet you whine It is to hard. Well maybe you just suck.

espnewsguy05 at 2:32 pm on May 30th 2008

About having to go back all the way to the beginning of the mission and starting from scratch, that is not necessarily true. You do have the option of doing that if you want to, but if you have a good amount of money earned from previous missions, it will be a lot easier and a lot faster to hail taxi cabs to go start the mission again. Just a thought.

ignasias at 2:03 pm on May 30th 2008

Ok I'm just going to say for your first point about the hanging out with friends thing? Its called turning your phone on sleep mode you stupid noob.

herestoyourheart at 1:24 pm on May 30th 2008

Proclaimed to be close to the perfect game by a huge amount of people and nearly every reviewing site, but I'm sure some website that's probably getting a traffic spike thanks to this article knows what they're talking about. This is written like the person who did this article watched someone else play the game and then picked it apart from there. I almost thought the article had merit until I read the part about strippers not being naked. Something tells me the list needed to be rounded out. But congratulate yourselves, you're above having fun and enjoying a great game for being a great game. I hope you go back and write reasons why you stopped playing other critically acclaimed games for reasons that most people don't even care about or are a minor annoyance at best, something like you quit playing Bioshock in a huff because (well, obviously other than to draw some traffic to a website that the radar doesn't even recognize) the Big Daddy's drills didn't do enough damage to the world. Seriously, this article reeks of "we're too hip for Grand Theft Auto IV."