Thursday, March 18, 2010

Games that Need to Change - PART 1


Grand Theft Auto
One of the greatest selling franchises of all time and I’m telling it to change. I am such a pretentious asshole. With each GTA iteration the world becomes more vast and expansive but sadly it’s starting to lose some of its appeal. Particularly with sandbox games players feel the need to do anything and go anywhere.

Never has a game needed branching storylines more than Grand Theft Auto. And don’t tell me that GTA IV had branching storylines because having two endings based on one decision doesn’t count. Those aren’t branches, that’s a tree stump with a limb sticking out. If GTA could take a page out of the Mass Effect book and allow the player to control the dialog exchanges and where the story heads I think it would reinvigorate the already great franchise. 


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