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March 31st, 2008 @ 13:07
Here. This is fucking epic, frankly. There are more words in this Dan Houser interview related to Grand Theft Auto than you could possibly ever need. A quick cut and paste into Word reckons this article’s over 9,000 words long.
Unbelievably, this is part one, with the second piece being published next week. Author Hilary Goldstein’s piece shits all over the previous record-holder, Edge’s 16-page GTA marathon, which in turn trumped Australian site Gameplayer’s ten-page playtest at 5,000 words.
Hilary and IGN: we salute you. You have more words on Grand Theft Auto than anyone else. If you can make part two more than 11,000 words, you will have written a third of a novel on a crime action series. No one, no one, is going to beat that. You win.
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
That Edge interview was actually really good. Loads of great insight into the series as a whole.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Seen these?
http://www.gta4.tv/article/785307/official-hud-revealed-zoo-weekly-aus/
March 31st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I’m sure the Edge piece was good, but I have a massive aversion to giant word counts.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Cheers. Just done a story on those shots.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
The difference is that one page from the Edge preview is worth more than the entirety of anything in shittest-site-on-the-internet, IGN.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Good as it may be, I’m guessing aside from Blerk, there are about three other people in Britain that read the entire thing. Call me a cynic.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I’m a huge ‘interview cynic’, I hardly ever bother to read them even if I like the interviewee’s games. They’re generally dreadfully boring, full of interviewer sycophancy and/or just glorified adverts for the dev’s forthcoming title. This one seemed different, though. Doubt I’ll bother with IGN, though.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I’d probably give the Edge article a go. If I read Edge
March 31st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The whole thing’s on Next-Gen.biz, officially like.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I’ll have a looksie.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I can’t be arsed to read the IGN article. How many times does it use the word “ton”? “Tons of options, tons of guns” etc.
Can anyone condense it into a couple of bullet points for me?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I can condense every article written on GTA IV for you so far:
“It’s good.”
March 31st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I read the whole thing admittedly. Not sure I can stomach a whole 9000 words on IGN…is there anything actually new in it?
March 31st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
No idea. There’s no way I’m reading it.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I’d sooner read an IGN megaton Doogie Howser interview - only the power of Neil Patrick Harris himself can save us from the ‘oncoming storm’ that is GTA IV.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I bet KITT could save us from it. He could rocket-boost away from it.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
EXCLUSIVE footage of Pat’s exclusive GIGATON interview with
DoogieDan Houser!!!http://i27.tinypic.com/24n2opk.gif
March 31st, 2008 at 5:38 pm
That fucking kills me. It’s the punch at the end that does it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I think you were too hasty to call this an IGN win! CVG returns to our shelves, with a 180 page GTA article. I know it’s not online, but still!
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185811
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Christ on a bike. Who’d want to read 180 pages about one game?
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I want it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Christ on a bike. What normal person would want to read 180 pages about one game?