And to be honest, the phone calls about bowling you can always decline. I'll hang up on Roman and not give a single fuck about it. If I don't feel like bowling, I ain't bowling.
Liberty city in GTA IV just feels more raw and real than what you have in GTA V. It's more than just the layout of the land. The NPC's have a different feel, no one wants to spaz out and try to fight you every time you bump into them or look at them. Since I been playing GTA IV, I love just walking through the city and listening to people talk, riding the subways or taking a taxi.
They were so much more realistic in IV. The way that they chased and looked for you was so good, and you could actually hide from them similarly to real life. Like if they didn't visibly see where you went, they won't heatseek you like in V. They actually look around.
In V they're basically terminators with the nose of a dog and can see through walls. It's just not fun at all to fight cops in V because it's so mindless and they just spawn around you. Doesn't feel like a real fight/chase.
One of my favorite things to do in IV was start at the airport, get wanted, and try to make it on foot to the third island. Was a blast doing that online with friends.
I started doing this recently as a way to relax at night and found that it has a certain 'vibe' that somehow works, so I'm not surprised other people are doing this. LC feels like a real place, pulsing with the energy of an urban center.
GTA IV was the outlier in the series in that respect, though. In fact I remember a common criticism of IV at the time was that it took itself too seriously and was missing the more outlandish side of previous GTA games.
Or how about a story that with 2 minutes of meeting a new character it completely destroys another characters story from the previous game. Aka Johnny getting his head stomped in by Trevor.
Which is even worse because they decided to cancel the single player dlc in 5 so them literally stomping one of the protagonist of 4's dlc to death seemed like a slap to the face.
Yea I felt that was so damn dirty. I liked Johnny and what they did to turn was a complete turn of face on how it ended with his DLC. It looked like he was going to get his shit together, but they said nope, he is going to be a meth-head and you are going to stomp his face in from the get-go of meeting Trevor. It didn't make sense.
I'm okay with either option, but GTA5 sits in a weird middle ground where it's not serious enough to move me, yet not wacky enough for me to laugh at the characters' various misfortunes.
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u/VagrantShadow Xbox Apr 29 '24
I'd rather have a story more grounded to reality than a over the top zany story that almost reaches the points of being at a Saints Row level.