Reply To: Son of Open Thread
i have recently made the purchase of an xbox 360. you can find my gamertag in my profile if you are interested, but at the moment the only game i have is grand theft auto 4. this is why i bring all this up – i would like to open a discussion about that franchise, but i doubt it will be a popular enough topic to merit its own thread. thus, the open thread.
i never really played this series much until a few months ago and i started with san andreas, so my musings may not be terribly reflective of the entire franchise. that said, one of the things i found the most fascinating about san andreas was the way it tried to communicate what life was like for the poor in los angeles in the early 90s – the way it tried to show gangs, gang violence, drug abuse, and corruption in law enforcement from a different perspective than that of the average player. i know it can't have been entirely accurate, and though it touched on the subject some it didn't really describe the full crushing depth of poverty that so many people are forced into, but i still found that aspect of the game fascinating. i think it's a good example of how you can use video games as an art form.
of course that's mostly the initial part in los santos – after that you go to san fierro and las venturas and shoot down helicopters with rpgs and steal jetpacks and jet fighters, but still. i feel like that part was better as a video game and not as interesting artistically, whereas the initial section was more interesting artistically and still successful as a video game.
thoughts?