Comments on: The Grand Theft Auto Problem http://expertologist.net/2008/04/15/the-grand-theft-auto-problem/ A blog about game design. Mostly. Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:34:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mana http://expertologist.net/2008/04/15/the-grand-theft-auto-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Mana Tue, 06 May 2008 10:16:30 +0000 http://expertologist.net/?p=139#comment-122 Thanks for this post! :) GTA IV is the first GTA I played, and I was really a bit dissappointed. I haven't red criticism of this games like yours before, so I was a bit alienated by my reception of the game at first. ;) Like you say - it never feels really like sandbox because of the limited interaction - usually I can already do more in several rpgs. And beeing limited to being bad, can be really hard. I'm really surprised how less people seems to have a problem with this. Most of the time I don't wanna shoot people because of the reasons the game is offering me. ...and besides being better than in the previsous games, the controls are really(shooting, hiding, running etc.) awful. I never expected a so clumsy old feeling gameplay - to slow, too many buttons, no context sensitive actions.... Thanks for this post! :)
GTA IV is the first GTA I played, and I was really a bit dissappointed. I haven’t red criticism of this games like yours before, so I was a bit alienated by my reception of the game at first. ;)
Like you say – it never feels really like sandbox because of the limited interaction – usually I can already do more in several rpgs. And beeing limited to being bad, can be really hard. I’m really surprised how less people seems to have a problem with this. Most of the time I don’t wanna shoot people because of the reasons the game is offering me.

…and besides being better than in the previsous games, the controls are really(shooting, hiding, running etc.) awful. I never expected a so clumsy old feeling gameplay – to slow, too many buttons, no context sensitive actions….

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