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Whats frustrating about the save system?

Well, a conjunction of factors. That you lose all your equipment when you die, it takes forever to load a new file, and the taxi system is gone to quickly get back into the mission. The game would be much more enjoyable if you could simply restart a mission after dying.

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Well, a conjunction of factors. That you lose all your equipment when you die, it takes forever to load a new file, and the taxi system is gone to quickly get back into the mission. The game would be much more enjoyable if you could simply restart a mission after dying.

If you don't lose your equipment and things theres no real penalty to dieing. You can also avoid this just by saving before a mission and reloading if you die.

I personally never found the load times to be a pain. I guess dif people have dif tolerances to load time.

Although the one thing that did bug me was having to watch part of the cutscene over and over. Sure you can bypass it fairly quickly, but it would have been better to bypass it even quicker.

But minor things like that don't deconstruct an entire game for me. I mean you can knitpick and find minor flaws here and there, but for every con to gta, you can list 5 pros.

And honestly A list Japanase franchises aren't 100% polished and perfect either. Im not a huge FF fan, I just never got into most of them. But my friend Rob is so obsessed its scary and even someone as hardcore of a fan as him has FF games he dislikes and has listed off various minor complaints about certain games in the series that are similar to your complaints about Gta.

Lets face it Japanese culture is different then American culture no matter how american-zed they become or how japan-ized? we become. But there are def american companies who put their heart and soul into games and make some really good games. Some redefine games in general, others just merely make really good versions of already existing genre's. But all in all to totally dismiss the American market is in my opinion, way too deiscerning and over critical. I think you'll miss out on some really fun games. (good example is gears of war)

But I think Ill concede my side of the discussion here because I really do see it as a discussion that will get down to the difference between the americans and the japanese. And I personally think that dispute has already been expertly settled in the Michael Keaton film Gung Ho lol =]