Report 37: Shooty bang bang and more of the same
This is probably the most down-to-earth GTA out of all. It’s still pretty fun and shines with its satire and characters. The crazy parts still show up (mostly in The Ballad of Gay Tony) from time to time.
The collectibles were annoying as hell and there’s too many of them. It’s my fault for even going for it, I guess. I was getting pretty tired of GTA already by the time I got to Gay Tony episode.
Gay Tony’s mission objectives/results that you have to perfect to get the achievement were quite a buzzkill. I didn’t want to be reminded how bad I was every time, and it’s the only reason the Complete Edition isn’t complete (pun not intended), but beaten. I might’ve stuck around to get the rest of the achievements, but I’m NEVER going to be as good as the game wants me too.
I also wish the games weren’t as bugged as they are. I’ve had quite a few crashes, softlocks and various audio issues.
Overall, a solid GTA entry, but I think I would’ve enjoyed it more if it wasn’t for my OCD about the achievements and if the technical perfrmance was a bit better.
It’s a pretty hard action game. For some reason I decided to crank up my suffering and choose the Hard Difficulty from the get-go. Needless to say, the experience was downright frustrating at times. But when I got somewhat good at the game, I actually liked it enough to try the Insane difficulty (try is the keyword here, I don’t think I want to go through this again all the way, but even harder this time).
The game actually looks pretty decent. Even though it’s pretty much Serious Sam structure all over again, it’s not even noticeable.
There’s only two weapons that you can switch modes on to do different kind of damage, that was pretty interesting.
The plot kinda… went nowhere, and I don’t know if it was some sort of sequel-cliffhanger or did they want to make another DLC, but it’s fine. The plot was decent enough for that kind of game anyway.
Overall, a surprisingly fun (and really fricking hard) game.
Since the remake turned out to be the hottest garbage out there, it’s as good time as any to sweep the dust off the original.
I honestly struggle to find any reason who thought such remake would be a good idea, since, even if they get rid of all the technical issues, the core of the game would be ultimately the same - the graphics are worse, the gameplay is pretty much the same but worse in some aspects, and the plot is the same - you can just play the original game that still holds up to this day and is practically superior in every aspect possible.
So, the original. The plot is pretty interesting, the game itself is fairly fast-paced - except the stealth sections, I guess, they do drag the tempo down a bit. Although the stealth part here is broken (still serviceable though) and it works pretty weird. The enemies can be downright blind and - especially - deaf, so you can pretty much run through some of the stealth segments if you want to.
I don’t know if I’m missing something, but the final twist before the cliffhanger kinda… doesn’t make any sence to me. Like, what was the masterplan here? It’s one of those twists that are delightfully cheesy, but still, I’m confused.
Overall, it’s a pretty solid and short shooter with occasional stealth that could’ve been handled a bit better.
It’s literally the same game all over again. I only have myself to blame, because I keep buying it; there’s still something that I like about it, I guess.
It’s a simplistic resource management all over again. The resources’… sources don’t respawn in this one, so you’re probably going to need to learn the getting-money-fast-trick just like in the previous games.
As you might’ve noticed, it’s much shorter than the other entries. I’m perfectly fine with that, playing through HotK 3 was a pain in the ass sometimes.
Overall, more of the same with minimal changes.
Ah, GTA IV was really fun. I never finished the other expansion, but Ballad of Gay Tony was excellent. Also I played it outside of Steam so I thankfully did not have to worry about achievements!
Thanks for the XIII review, it’s one of those games I was hoping to play one day because I missed them when they came out. Good to see that it’s so short, makes my aspiration much more realistic. And thanks for the warning about the remake :)
I really wanna play GTA but my backlog is already so big. =w=
Get those last 5 achievements for 100% You got this!!!
Just as I was about to comment on your post. Huh. Weird.
These’ll easily add 10+ hours of gameplay, I’ll try to do them later, when I’ll get over my GTA fatigue. And I already started Hitman 2 with Legacy Pack (haven’t played the first one at all) recently, soooooo… I’ll be stuck with it for a while anyway.
I’m trying to go through 3 more Hyperdimension games so WE CAN DO THIS! ;A;
…So I’ve just googled stuff just to make sure and realized you can achieve all the mission goals in separate runs (as in - you don’t have to keep your health high, speedrun, show good accuracy at the same time during the mission, you can replay it over and over for each separate goal). So, that one achievement that scared me off isn’t that impossible after all.
…Welp I’m feel dumb now.
I guess I’ll definitely do the achievements after all.