We Have Our Priorities Mixed Up
by Roly Reyes on April 28, 2008
Quick! To the Gamestop!
Tonight is the night. After so long, at the stroke of midnight, neurotic, pixel-crime loving consumers will be heard around the world as they stand outside one of the 260 GAME stores and one of the zillion GameStops that will be hosting a midnight launch for Grand Theft Auto IV.
As averse as I am to the purpose that Metacritic serves, I couldn’t help but give the GTA IV Metacritic page a once over, with unsurprising results. As of the time of writing, it was maintaining a strong 99 out of 100 universal acclaim, putting it among the highest rated of all games, making the genius BioShock take a backseat and shoving aside the cumulative quality of The Orange Box.
Is that the straw that broke the camel’s back, making you want it now?
Tell us, readers. What responsibilities will you not-so-painfully be ridding yourself of to be one of those zombie-like consumers tonight? Skipping school? Has some “thing” been going around your workplace lately? I doubt it’s a coincidence the amount of absences that will be seen internationally.
Or, like me, are you having to tough it out through the week, praying for the end of the week to arrive quickly so you can do nothing but just sit in front of your screen and soak up every bit of Liberty City?
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on April 29, 2008 1:41 am
Damn straight you got your priorities mixed up. I mean, common on…wtf…biggest game in gaming history and not a much news about it…lol.
Hopefully I can pick up a copy tomorrow at Fry’s.
on April 29, 2008 6:04 am
My only question is: Does this game deserve the 99/100 its received, or is this just the product of a lot of hype? I want to know if this really is the greatest game evar!!!1! or just another overhyped game thats been getting 10s across the board before its even been released publicly. Seeing as how I can’t play the game in my current predicament, I lay the burden on you, my fellow ripten writers, to come up with fairest, most unbiased review on the whole of the internets! Do me proud.
on April 29, 2008 7:57 am
Just playing through the early parts of the game now…it draws you in nicely so far. I’ll be reviewing it on my blog this week.
on April 29, 2008 8:43 am
I like the game so far roman cousin is very funny and using a cell to play multiplayer is crazy . i didn’t know about this until i used the cell phone because i restarted the game looking to see if a start menus had multiplayer.
on April 29, 2008 9:28 am
To me this seems an obvious attempt at negating Metacritic’s influence on the industry. These game systems need to be able to scale back. So that if a game comes out that is better than GTA IV that GTA IV ends up being a 90 or something similar to that.
As it sits, games like the Ocarina of Time enjoy super high ratings and by all rights they should have been dethroned a LOOOONG time ago.
on April 29, 2008 1:06 pm
Gonna grab my copy on Thursday morning, have got a couple of days off and Monday is a national holiday in good old England!
Good times.