Wednesday 21 July, 2010

So, as tempted as I was to claim I played this on the NGage, I decided I was being graded for this after all.

I had one simple goal - fly a plane. The problem with the modern GTAs is that they go for realism, in my opinion. (Which is why they removed planes from the future versions) They strive for more "realistic" gameplay with fancy plots about morality and physics. GTA players would probably agree with my statement that "I don't play GTA to tackle moral issues and consider my actions or their value or blah blah blah" No, you go on a mass killing spree, the army shows up, eventually you get "Wasted", rinse and repeat. Also the cars used to be much easier and more fun to drive.

The thing though is while you seemingly blow up, run over, or shoot thousands of people as well as steal their cars, you don't feel like you inconvenienced anyone in their world at all. You don't even consider now that guy who's car you stole now has to walk to work, let alone 'I have slaughtered half a city'.

Will people come to see other real people like this? I doubt it.

Reading through some of the other entries, I've noticed people seem to care mostly about the language of all things. The amount of shock the writers conveyed shocked me. I admit even I noticed some sexist remarks, but perhaps only because I was listening for them. But it certainly didn't seem like the biggest moral issue in the game. Maybe they just don't have anything better to write about.




The rest of log is dedicated to telling about my exciting adventure. Plane included.

As I said, I wanted to fly a plane. The game, however, decided to try to force its plot on me or something. I decided to make use of my bike and peddle around the whole map via train. Hopefully ending in train to bike combat. Unfortunately, a train snuck up on me. I survived the encounter though. I then reached a part of the game where the game wanted me to have done plot to move on, so I swam across. Swimming - an ability I would come to regret... I then found another train, but with no bike, it became fist to train combat. I ended up clipping through the train and discovered you can steal them! I forced the conductor to jump a cliff and a long chase involving the police ensued and I eventually derailed and died.

But then I finally found the airport! Apparently they wanted me to do some flying school, so I just made a bridge out of cars and snuck in. My first plane ride ended like 9/11, but then I grabbed another one and climbed as high as I thought I could go and bailed out. I fell for a few game hours and hit water. I then spent well over half a day of continuous swimming through a terrible storm to reach land. In that time, I leveled up my stats at least three times. And then I got out, got back in and drowned myself and went to my next class.

If only I had a memory card... :/

I had no idea you could hijack the train.

Regarding the language used in the game, do you think it's excessive and thus loses its meaning or is does it's excess contribute to how ridiculous the game can be at times?

Like we discussed in class, it's a bit of a criticism. People probably swear a lot more than they realize. But obviously if you swear too much, the meaning is lost. If swearing is supposed to be some form of impressive display of anger or something, and you swear at everything - well, no one is going to be impressed anymore. If that makes sense. Because the rest of the game is satirical, I can't help but think so is this element.