Current mood:

angry

Nerding out a little (Rant)
I've kinda just lost all credibility for the gaming community because it seems every major electronic publishing company has given the game GTA IV a perfect 10/10. Now I can understand a game being fun and all, but a 10?!? For a GTA game?!?!? Its retarded! I mean, sure, I bet it will be fun and all but to compare a game that's not even out yet to the greatness that was Nintendo 64's Zelda title is pretty absurd. I read stuff that said its story was "oscar quality" but that's a load of bull because the story's in GTA are basic gangster flick stuff and are all about promoting the "American dream" and "Engaging in debauchery" and all that jazz. Graphics in the game look alright, but best original art? The entire game's city is BASED OFF OF NEW YORK. There's nothing original about that! And they say it has a good soundtrack......Its all licensed music. Once again, no originality. If I wanted LICENSED music, I'd turn the music OFF on my game and just listen to my CD player or the radio (even though I hate the radio). So yes, gameplay may be amazing in the game and its true that it is highly amusing fighting random pedestrians, but gameplay alone does NOT equivocate into a perfect score. So either money's exchanged hands or everyone's ideas of what a good game is are being thrown out the window.
You wanna know what a good game was? Check out Super Mario Galaxy, Bioshock, Okami, or the Jak and Daxter Series to name a few. Now THOSE deserve 10's more than any garbage GTA could turn out. I respect the game for possibly being amazing, but original, masterful and perfect? Not so much.
Then again, my attitude on video games is pretty much completely negative as of late and I see myself outgrowing said interests in the near future and embracing reading/writing altogether. But more on that later.
Right now, I need sleep. G'night.