Pre Platinum Review:
This was the first and only game I got on midnight release.... well technically my dad did. I made him wait outside my local GAME for the doors to open while little 7 year old me waited at home in the warm. Safe to say I was bouncing off the walls to play "the best game ever", Glad to say I wasn't disappointed. I played that game almost as much as I used to play GTA 4, switching between the two every couple of days to get a good mix of both. It was only when we finally got Wi-Fi put in the next year that the true treasure trove that was online gaming was opened before my eyes. This helped strengthen my love for this game as GTA Online became a huge part of my life for the years to come.
But after over a decade of Grand Theft Auto 5, I've seen the general consensus that GTA 5 has somehow gotten worse, which is something I don't really understand. My view on this dilemma has always been something along the lines of "yes, while some of the changes to GTA, especially in the Online mode have been negative, it doesn't make a big enough change to the game to warrant such a drastic shift in opinion."
I feel like a lot of peoples frustrations with this game lie in being burned out from playing the same game for the better part of 11 years and counting. But this frustration has turned into unwarranted anger which is being directed at the product as a whole instead of the specific things people dislike.
I want to see if my opinion changes on this idea that Grand Theft Auto 5 has somehow gotten worse because of the decisions made by Rockstar in order to try and keep it's newer, younger audience entertained and engaged.
It would also be nice and look through the story of this game (as it has been a good 4 or 5 years since my last playthrough) and see if the games story is up there with GTA 4 and RDR2.
This was the first and only game I got on midnight release.... well technically my dad did. I made him wait outside my local GAME for the doors to open while little 7 year old me waited at home in the warm. Safe to say I was bouncing off the walls to play "the best game ever", Glad to say I wasn't disappointed. I played that game almost as much as I used to play GTA 4, switching between the two every couple of days to get a good mix of both. It was only when we finally got Wi-Fi put in the next year that the true treasure trove that was online gaming was opened before my eyes. This helped strengthen my love for this game as GTA Online became a huge part of my life for the years to come.
But after over a decade of Grand Theft Auto 5, I've seen the general consensus that GTA 5 has somehow gotten worse, which is something I don't really understand. My view on this dilemma has always been something along the lines of "yes, while some of the changes to GTA, especially in the Online mode have been negative, it doesn't make a big enough change to the game to warrant such a drastic shift in opinion."
I feel like a lot of peoples frustrations with this game lie in being burned out from playing the same game for the better part of 11 years and counting. But this frustration has turned into unwarranted anger which is being directed at the product as a whole instead of the specific things people dislike.
I want to see if my opinion changes on this idea that Grand Theft Auto 5 has somehow gotten worse because of the decisions made by Rockstar in order to try and keep it's newer, younger audience entertained and engaged.
It would also be nice and look through the story of this game (as it has been a good 4 or 5 years since my last playthrough) and see if the games story is up there with GTA 4 and RDR2.