No.

Yes and stop making "Does _______ deserve __ score on Metacritic" 
 
Its getting annoying, maybe you didnt make the other ones but still

OH MAN, WHAT AN AWESOME THREAD! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE PRODUCTIVE RESPONSES IT'S BOUND TO GET! I'M ACTUALLY GIDDY IN ANTICIPATION! 

What, no "Maybe" option?  I never played it, so I couldn't say.

WTF! stop.

This thread makes me extremely angry. 

No because it isn't very fun. I remember having so much fun with San Andreas and Ithat just never happend with GTA IV.

It was a good game, but got far too many 10/10s imo.

GTA IV was a weird game for me. I absolutely loved it when it first came out but I find that it's aged pretty badly already. Every time I've tried to go back to it I quit early on.

a better question would be "Does GTA IV deserve a high score?" because a 98 on metacritic means that almost all reviews were very high. And GTA IV does deserve a high score so GTA IV does deserve whatever high score metacritic shows.

" This thread makes me extremely angry.  "

 How original.

" GTA IV was a weird game for me. I absolutely loved it when it first came out but I find that it's aged pretty badly already. Every time I've tried to go back to it I quit early on. "

Well, really this is worded really well. It deserves the score on Metacritic, as thats what a bunch of reviews averaged out gave it.
 
I think you mean did it deserve the 48 or so perfect scores? obviously it did something right.
 
EDIT: Merry Christmas.

No.

I believe it deserves such a high score. It encountered the same weird backlash that bioshock got after a few months. I never quite understood why people went from love to hate on both cases.

"I believe it deserves such a high score. It encountered the same weird backlash that bioshock got after a few months. I never quite understood why people went from love to hate on both cases. "

" @expletive said:

" This thread makes me extremely angry.  "

The only thing that makes me angrier is the fact we can't flag polls.  EDIT: Heh... "flag polls" :) "

" @Scheds said:

" GTA IV was a weird game for me. I absolutely loved it when it first came out but I find that it's aged pretty badly already. Every time I've tried to go back to it I quit early on. "

 Things that become the norm in games some time ago, but in GTA IV, if you fail a mission, not only are you forced to repeat it from the very begining.. but you actually have to re-load the game, get a vehicle and drive all the way back just to start the darn thing.

I wish Metacritic didn't exist, you can't find an avarage between subjective opinions! That's just dumb.

No.

If that's equivalent to a five star on Giant Bomb, then yes. If that means "best game ever," no.

No, and never make threads again.

One of the least interesting story's of all time, not a chance it deserved that score.

" @Scheds said:

" GTA IV was a weird game for me. I absolutely loved it when it first came out but I find that it's aged pretty badly already. Every time I've tried to go back to it I quit early on. "

They definitely made some odd choices with the gameplay.  The most glaring being the lack of auto-saving and mission checkpoints..  Things that become the norm in games some time ago,but in GTA IV, if you fail a mission, not only are you forced to repeat it from the very begining.. but you actually have to re-load the game, get a vehicle and drive all the way back just to start the darn thing.  I've been playing the PSP games recently, and it's just an absolute nightmare.  Challenge is one thing, but this is just inconvienant and for that alone, it doesn't deserve such high scores. The game itself though I really enjoyed.  I do understand a lot of people were upset that they removed some of the craziness and over the top sections.  But I think it suits GTA more with the more down to Earth, realistic approach.  If I want a good story, I'll play GTA.  If I want mindless fun, I have Saints Row 2. "

I voted yes.  It was the best game of 2008 and I thoroughly enjoyed playing the Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony. 

For its time, it was a pretty good game, but not 98 good.

How much thought went into making this thread? How much thought went into the reply i'm making right now?

" @expletive said:

" This thread makes me extremely angry.  "

The only thing that makes me angrier is the fact we can't flag polls.  EDIT: Heh... "flag polls" :) "

i loved gta4, but 98, heck no!!!

Yes, awesome game. Easily the best GTA and one of my favorites this gen.

FUCKING  AWESOME THREAD.

"@Wes899 said:

"I believe it deserves such a high score. It encountered the same weird backlash that bioshock got after a few months. I never quite understood why people went from love to hate on both cases. "

There are people who hate BioShock????? "

" @Abyssfull said:

"@Wes899 said:

"I believe it deserves such a high score. It encountered the same weird backlash that bioshock got after a few months. I never quite understood why people went from love to hate on both cases. "

There are people who hate BioShock????? "

What!? N...no, t-that can't be true!!!! "

awaiting a thread asking if MW2 deserves the score it has 

Ill say yes because I thought it was great. All the GTAs before it had good main characters but the other characters werent that interesting, as well as mission id get bored of after doing for an hour or so, while GTA IV on the other hand had supporting characters like Brucie and Roman I found rather interesting and the story was engaging enough where id wanna do the missions just to see what happened. it helped I found Niko rather interesting and the dialog was probably my favorite of any of the GTA games. It took everything that made past GTA great, made a Liberty City that seemed more lively then any of the past games, and cut out a lot of the rather useless stuff from past games helping make one of the greatest sandbox games ever made so yeah id say a 98 is deserving.

No. I think it is a great game and it absolutely floored me when I first played it, but it's not worthy of a 98 if a 100 is defined as "absolutely perfect."

They definitely made some odd choices with the gameplay.  The most glaring being the lack of auto-saving and mission checkpoints..

but in GTA IV, if you fail a mission, not only are you forced to repeat it from the very begining.. but you actually have to re-load the game, get a vehicle and drive all the way back just to start the darn thing.

" How much thought went into making this thread? How much thought went into the reply i'm making right now? "

Metacritic averages the scores from the online reviewer community, these are individual opinions mashed together to form a rough estimate of the games fame/reviewers enjoyment. It's been more liked then other games by more people thus the average is very high. You happen to think the game is better or worse then the average of the internet community, that's great for you go write a review of your own and get it noticed enough to be included in the group of sites metacritic grabs from and maybe you can influence scores the way you want.

Hey, those guys who spend all day reviewing/journalising video games said it's 98 then SO BE IT. 

I didn't like gta 4 before, I even tried to say saints row 2 was better, however since I bought it on steam for the pc, the aiming has been alot better and the graphics are really sharp. I am enjoying the game more and I can't stop playing it. I finished it a few timees already, now i'm realising the brillance of the game even if everyone thinks it's overated.

No. Its one of the worst GTA games. Strip away the fun from the previous games and all GTA IV has going for it is the narrative.

Yes.

No.
 
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