A videogame that will make William happy

[Charlie Bell]

On 08/06/2008, at 7:17 AM, Max Battcher wrote:

> Andrew Crystall wrote:
>> On 7 Jun 2008 at 2:19, Charlie Bell wrote:
>>
>>> Not really. Good games are good games. I loved Lemmings and the
>>> Lucasarts adventures (Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Loom, The  
>>> Dig...)
>>> as much as San Andreas and GTA4 (and Half Life, Far Cry, Deus  
>>> Ex...).
>>
>> I think GTA4 as a game is fairly meh - I'm not seeing where it's
>> taking people that GTA3 didn't. Same for Halo 3 - give me something
>> like Gears of War instead (until you hit the silly dark sections...)
>
> GTA4 tries to up the story-telling of the series, particularly by  
> having
> a protagonist with an actual background and character development.  It
> succeeds to a certain degree due to the fact that previous GTAs mostly
> tacked story on as an after-thought.

Well, San Andreas was pretty good in a plot-development way, and the  
main story was a little longer. I do think with GTA4 they've really  
hit a sweet spot, though, and the environment is a lot of fun and  
really captures behaviours well. I'm really keen to find out what  
happens. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the main story missions, as  
far as I can tell, and playing like a git (ie killing whenever I get  
the choice). I'll then play through again, and savour the side- 
missions and try to complete the random tasks, jumps and so on.

Charlie.