Comments on: FEATURE: GTA4, Bad Game Design Strikes Again

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:02:14 +0000

Chinatown Wars does the save system right.

By: Nightwalker83

Nightwalker83 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:00:34 +0000

Yeah, I agree about the save feature in the game! I wish Rockstar would realize that not everybody has the stamina to do missions that some times take ages then realize you’ve forgotten something that could help you. Adding a per part save function would be a great idea, especially for the really long missions.

By: deaDRop

deaDRop — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:10:09 +0000

Honestly I thought it was going to be like the other games in the series but i was dissapointed after my initial play ,I thought the whole thing was bad no-way as entertaining as San Andreas.I felt as it was only half a game.I mean,how boring is it playing darts on machine as the 360???or pool for that matter.I felt as there was not enough free thinking for the player and not enough distractions even the freeplay multiplayer mode was dull after a while.The cars in the games handled as though you where driving a cow !!!!,,,very frustrating in races and in missions where you have to chase npcs.Also when controling Nico I felt as it was sluggish. I loved the other titles in the GTA series but for me this one sucks and blows at the same time….sorry Rockstar

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:21:34 +0000

LOL Standard ad hominem argument. If it isn’t “You just don’t like Rockstar” or “You don’t like GTA”, it’s “You suck and you’re a newb! LOLZ”

I’ve been gaming for 30 years. I know what’s what.

By: Beattie

Beattie — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:41:28 +0000

Derwhat OWNS “Maybe you should go play Lego Star Wars, my 5 year old nephew beat it no problem.” Lmao. Yes GTA IV in my opinion is a really good game, and from what I’ve read you are just really bad at the game.

By: Derwhat

Derwhat — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:37:27 +0000

With the sniper mission, I agree that there should be a clearer read to who the enemies are, it’s easy to get confused. That said, the red icons are a dead give away to who the enemies are; I beat the mission on the first try, don’t know why you had such a hard time, unless you’re color blind.

As far as repetitive gameplay goes, yah driving gets old. But that’s why they introduced taxi’s if you don’t want to waste your time. The missions have more variety than the last game as well.

But to say you’d like to save in between missions is a joke. I mean come on, you spend about 15 minutes max on a mission, it’s not 2 hours or something. Games were meant to have fail conditions; you learn from them, get better and advance.

Overall your comments don’t really point to anything about bad game design, just that if you made the game, this is what you’d do out of preference (meaning you like games to be easy and not challenging). Maybe you should go play Lego Star Wars, my 5 year old nephew beat it no problem.

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:56:21 +0000

Yeah, I prefer save points too. I also prefer microtransactions.

Checkpoints > Save anywhere?

Where’s that Kool Aid?

By: Tahiri

Tahiri — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:43:25 +0000

Correction, it’s not bad game design, it’s just game design features that you don’t like. I myself am fine with them. Same for Dead Rising. I PREFER save points in that game. Do you know how hard it is to have save-anywhere in a scripted game?

By: duderino

duderino — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:49:38 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. the game is very entertaining though, but it kind of sucks that you have to redo missions instead of just “moving on”