Rocket-launcher will solve you a lot of problems
I mean.. it's GTA IV.. even my boss has probably played it… Only bought this one on Steam fairly recently, and had intended to play it over the holidays, but Coromon and other events pushed it out to here
I'm sure i played this before, most likely on PS3, but i doubt i finished it then, and i definitely didn't play the expansions, which were a nice change of style. You can kind of see the through-line from the three boys here to the triple protagonist scenario of GTA V
Speaking of GTA V, IV reminded me a lot of it, which is backward, sure, but makes some kind of sense since i played V for a lot longer and is more recently in memory. Unfortunately i just ended up missing the conveniences of the more modern GTA iteration. I get that it's kind of a "style of the time" thing, and part of me can settle into that, but once you've been spoiled…
And then every GTA (and RDR now) game review has to, by law, mention the bipolar split between the free-form open-world shenanigans/simulation, and the focused linear story-telling, which yeah.. still exists here. Going back in time doesn't help that a whole lot. I think what makes it so frustrating is that Rockstar seems impressively competent on both sides, and so you can imagine how great a marriage of the two would be. But in this game, they're still divorced, and we can only visit each on alternating weekends
Anyway, still a good game; still got great production values - although maybe add the Fusion Fix to your modern installation before playing
I never played it! Hahahaha got away from gaming shortly after San Andreas released, and basically just haven’t had the urge to get to a GTA game since returning to gaming lol
Now I’m just suffering through Coromon. I saw in your review that you enjoyed your time with it, which seems to be more than I can say about it. Just defeated Illugin and headed to the desert, so let’s see if things improve for me!
Suffering? Oh no.. I hope things improve for sure, but now i’m very interested to see your thoughts on it (hopefully it’s not so unenjoyable that you won’t even write about it)
Oh I’ll write about it for sure! Hahahaha there are nice parts to it. In particular I generally like the combat, it has a very short time to kill (i.e. battles end very quickly) so it’s not SUPER strategic, but I still enjoy it. But mostly everything else is a chore. Yesterday I had to do that minigame where you collect Pure Essences before being able to fight Illugin and it was such a hassle
Oh yeah there’s a few of those mini-games that take slightly too long. On the one hand it’s impressive that they put in the effort for all of them, but on the other hand, yes, they can be quite the hassle