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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Halo 3 had one of the biggest releases in history with parties around the globe for the launch... and it's critics scored it just as high as GTA V.
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So? Besides Halo 3 was better than the subsequent releases. As I mentioned before my problem isn't it being a sequel but a lack of innovation or a genuine masterpiece. Halo 3 did that IMO. As did GTA III and Vice City. As did Resident Evil 4. However in all those cases the future releases stagnated. I don't think you can release the same game, albeit incrementally improved, and be one of the best games of all time. That belongs to it's predecessors that broke new ground.
This is an incremental improvement. A larger map, more characters, more missions. More of the same. One you stripe away the scale it's curiously empty of depth.
I do think this will become a more accepted view once the dust has settled. Look at the revisionist opinions of GTA IV as a very good game but not the groundbreaking epic it was hailed as, this will happen here because they haven't radically changed it. They added more of it. We'll have to wait and see about GTA: Online. That could change things but until then I maintain the same opinion of it.