[quote name='Scrubking'][quote name='sketch226'][quote name='Scrubking']GTA won, stop whining and deal with it. It deserves every accolade it gets.
I'm happy a game that actually focuses on gameplay won.
Emergent, open-ended gameplay > all Jo0 HaTErS11!!![/quote]
funny, I'll bet if the GTA series were E rated and devoid of all "teh MaTURe" content it wouldnt get any attention and it'd be considered a B-list title.
The fact is all these so called open-ended games like Grand Theft Auto and Morrowind are just as linear as anything else- Just because you have this big open world to randomly and pointlessly move around in doesnt change the fact that it's simply busy work between a very linear series of story missions.[/quote]
Um... yeah... that's why it's called open-ended
gameplay not open-ended story. You really know what you're talking about.

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I'm glad some people are simple enough that they consider pointlessly driving around in GTA "great gameplay". Why dont I just code a game where that's all you do, there's no point, there's no story, you just drive around a pretend city and steal vehicles over and over and over again by pressing a single button...maybe you can run people over too because it's just so amazing to be able to do that...and then according to you that's great gameplay!!!