@Hailinel said:
@AhmadMetallic said:
@SeriouslyNow said:
@Hailinel said:
@AhmadMetallic Actually, that line is more or less the sort of tripe I'd expect out of BMX XXX, not a game that wants its story and characters taken as seriously as GTAIV's.
I think you haven't actually played BMX XXX. The game worlds of Rockstar strongly parody the world they reflect. Parody, even purile and juvenile parody has its place. Rockstar are 50% British and they have taken their cues from the likes of Python, Not the Nine o Clock News and so on. The humour actually works very well and frankly, i_smell is painting a picture making the game seem like Meet The Spartans when it's actually a lot more Airplane; they're both Zuckerberg parody comedies but one is shameless, shallow and tiresome while the other is clever, hilarious and occasionally poignant. GTA IV is most certainly the latter.
SeriouslyNow has fucking spoken.
Not really, because I still don't see how the game's tonal dissonance isn't off the charts. A guy that doesn't want to get back into crime and complains about his lot while turninjg around and murdering half the city against a backdrop of dick jokes?
Saints Row: The Third stuck its guns to its humor and is more Airplaine than GTAIV will ever be.
Dude, I have to wonder (and I'm not being rude when I say this) if you have played ANY of these games or have seen Airplane. There's nothing remotely Zuckerberg in Saints Row The Third. If it draws from any comedic inspiration at all, it might be things like National Lampoon or The Onion but definitely not Zuckerberg comedy at all. GTA IV is a Zuckerberg styled parody and even their parodies have their moving moments; in Airplane there's the whole will they/won't they get back together shtick and while it's tired and trite by the end of the movie the audience cares to find out. That's how GTA IV rolls too with its less shallow aspects,
Now, I'm a critic of GTA IV in many ways. And in many ways too I feel that SR3 is the better 'game' but GTA IV's world is a lot more cohesive and a lot funnier. SR2 even had its moments, both comedic and moving but GTA IV trumps them both when it come that special something which makes you actively enjoy the world you find yourself immersed in.
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