[quote name='Blade']It's just the "I'm cool because I'm killing cops and throwing people out of cars" games that I don't like. The linear aspects provide some justification for the criminal activity (although it's usually money), but other than that GTA is senseless nihilism. Killing Sephiroth is way more gratifiable than running over 20 cops in an ambulance.
Open-world games are good, but they're definitely made better with the inclusion of normally unattainable powers unless you play through the story (i.e. Skyrim). And that's another area that GTA fails in, since you can enter in cheats to unlock everything and become invincible from the start. Granted that you can do the same in Skyrim, but that requires opening the dev console and spawning objects, and that's more work for less.[/QUOTE]
For me, it's the same difference whether I'm killing cops or trolls or elves or orcs, etc. The fact that you can cheat is really a non issue for me. You don't have to, so if you don't like it, why do it?