Please notice that the title says GTA SIX, not four.

Boy am I relieved to hear a real review on this game and not some ad-induced fluff piece the rest of the industry can't seem to spit out quick enough.

Lots of nitpicking.

But he's so right about the disastrous turn games are taking by trying to be gritty and realistic.

I didn't know reality was so goddamn brown.

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The driving in the game is pretty bad in GTA IV, it was as what yahtzee said... Though I'm a bit sad of what was said near the end... Just so we're clear I am never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever going to review Mario Kart Wii...

Curse you Yahtzee!!! My Inner nintendo fan is crying right now thanks to you! *Sarcasm

I thought that it was some funny shit.

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Can't wait to see his Mario Kart Wii review!

lolz at the comment about Nico being fresh from battling the Combine over in HL2...

>> ^Aemaeth:
Please notice that the title says GTA SIX, not four.

That's because dft also subscribes to the "because I say so" method of sequel numbering.

dft's fighting the man.

Maybe after they get that Large Hadron Collider built, they can finally find a way to make Zero Punctuation's videos play in Firefox.

LOTS of nitpicking, and although I almost always agree with Yahtzee, I'd have to disagree with quite a few of his points.

He's right about the turning, but only because it's a rough transition after so many years of GTA car-turning being so loose and arcadey. This is more realistic, but also a bit stiff. Which leads me to my next point.

I think Yahtzee should rethink his point about games trying to become too realistic over arcade-style. All of the GTA3 games had very arcade-like reactions and physics to it. Take for example, the headshot, making the head disappear, and in it's place a stream of blood shooting straight upwards for several feet from the neck, before the body just falls over. Now, that's funny at first, but after so much of that, it got a bit too cartoony, and I was hoping for a more 'realistic' reaction. Now look at GTA4's physics. They're jaw-dropping. When you hit somebody with a car, they act so accordingly, thanks to the Euphoria physics engine (basically a much smarter, and more natural ragdoll type of physics). I mean, hell, the cars had Euphoria as well. When you hit another car hard enough, the driver dies from the impact, and his face plants into the steering wheel, leaving the car horn blaring continuously. Little details like that also make it really cool. Is Yahtzee honestly saying he'd rather a cartoon reaction over something so impressive as the Euphoria physics?

And the coloring of the city was not brown and grey. Only during cloudy/rainy/foggy days were they greyish/blue, and some point of the day was the city brown. Other than that, I was absolutely AMAZED with how pretty the daytime was. Noon-time actually looked like noon, with a natural looking sun beating down on the sidewalk and cars, etc. Dawn looks like dawn, and so forth.

All in all, he seemed to have liked it. I was a skeptic of GTA4 before I got it, and I honestly was THAT impressed with it, that I'll argue in it's defense against one of my all-time favorite reviewers. Different strokes for different folks, but I think sometimes people should take a step back from their nit-picking, and appreciate what I'd like to consider real quality. I mean, people love ripping on bad games, and rightly so. But I think we as gamers have become somewhat spoiled in the sense that we feel we should rip apart absolutely everything. I'm not directing this towards Yahtzee specifically, but sometimes it just seems that people will have a problem with something just for the sake of having something to complain about to the point of missing the entire point of healthy criticism. This game wasn't perfect, but it's obvious that instead of putting out much of the same, they came together and made something if good quality, and I think people should at least acknowledge that. Whew, sorry about that.

But he's absolutely r ight about one thing. What the hell was Rockstar thinking when they made trees the only thing in the whole game completely indestructible? You can run through newspaper stands. You can bulldoze straight through trash-cans, leaving trash littered in it's path, etc etc etc....and then smash straight into a tree without it budging an inch. The effect of flying through your windshield is really awesome though .

Rockstar is a bunch of tree huggers obviously.

3:37 - wow, issykitty sure has gotten fat

Abel_Prisc, you're taking these reviews waaaaaay waaaaaaaaay too serious...

@campionidelmondo,

Really?

I don't really think I take it seriously at all, actually. More or less, I just wrote a personal review into the comments section of a VS video. I was pretty bored last night, though, so I do apologize for the wall of text.

Yea you did, you wrote stuff like "Yatzee should rethink this", which clearly shows that you don't get it. He exaggerates, that's what he does. It's not supposed to be a serious review, it's more comedy or entertainment. The mere fact that you wrote that long a comment to basically review his review shows me that you don't get the purpose of this video and that you have waaaaay too much time on your hands.

>> ^Xax:
Maybe after they get that Large Hadron Collider built, they can finally find a way to make Zero Punctuation's videos play in Firefox.


d00d - turn off adblock and enjoy.

LOL, morally flexible combine fighter. LOL, exaggerate standing. BWA-HA-HA poplar trees. Actually in the past games I always wished you could just outrun the cops and chill - I was happy to see that. HAHAHA - drive geese.

HA HA - *woohoo is called out in the video itself. Excellent.

Ah, good times.

" All in all, he seemed to have liked it. "
- well, he did point out the unprecedented fact he'll keep playing after the review after all! -
As campion points, yeah, don't put too much thought into your response (see my above model example, <grin>) b/c Yahtzee doesn't care, and most of us are too busy giggling along with the bitching.

I absolutley LOVE the use of the Serbian national anthem.

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The new Firefox beta won't even show this video :'(

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 and have never had problems with Zero Punctuation. Hopefully the next update will fix that beta you guys are using.

>> ^Obsidianfire:
The new Firefox beta won't even show this video :'(


I have a problem with watching Yahtzee videos with Firefox too, and I use 2.0.0.14. Videoegg (the player Yahtzee uses) is the only flash player that won't work for me in Firefox. Just for these videos, use IE if you own a PC, or Safari if you're an effete Mac snob.

>> ^Obsidianfire:
The new Firefox beta won't even show this video :'(


It's just you then because Firefox 3 RC1 is playing it just fine. Maybe you need the WMP plug-in for Firefox or something? That's the only thing I have that isn't vanilla Firefox. Well, that and Java.

The numbering is logical and consistent, since it follows the same scheme that Unreal Tournament uses: The engine is upgraded, the number grows. GTA and London used the exact same one, GTA II was supposedly a new one (they claimed that in the past, though I'm not that sure), GTA III had a new 3d one, Vice City and San Andreas just tweaked it a little, and now GTA IV has a completely new one again.

Other than that, the review was great, as they always are. I've loved the GTA series for as long as it has existed, and never once have had any doubts about a new one. Rockstar hasn't disappointed me once yet, they have always taken the series forwards. No two games have felt the same, and even though I loved VC more than SA, after playing through SA, VC just feels so empty and limited. The story is better, but everything else...

Though hopefully they have fixed the camera from SA, that drove me fucking insane. Never could see where you were turning...

I think for now I'll play all of them again just for the heck of it. A lot of time to kill before this comes to the PC.

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