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My favorite was IV, especially with the expansions when they improved police behavior. It was insane first time stealing a tourist helicopter and swooping between skyscrapers for the sheer joy of it, not even as part of a mission or anything. V was ok but drat the protagonists were badly written. Michael doesn't like reality TV, tech companies, yoga, and his kids misbehave. It felt like bad Arrested Development fan fiction, none of the humor lands and it made me not care about the characters. I don't like the Rockstar trend of ranking you after every mission. Sorry you didn't take a lot of actions you didn't know were available, that's a bronze star. Would you like to replay that 20 minute mission to try again?
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20 Blunts posted:like 95% of my video gaming has been GTA franchise. San Andreas - amazing soundtrack and just a lot of fun GTA V Vice City - Lance Vance's last dance! GTA IV GTA III MakaVillian fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 13, 2020 |
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^^this dude gets it
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I used to get high af and walk around in first person mode in 5. The detail work they did was just incredible. Spoiled a bit in retrospect come to find out Rockstar had the worst crunch in the industry to get that nice first person detail 
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mario, duke nukem, and metal gear all made remarkably good shifts to 3d
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gta 5s biggest problem is that the missions dont get fun until like, 20 hours in. for some reason every rockstar game now has to have like 50 pointless missions that arent tutorials before the player can actually do cool poo poo.
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MakaVillian posted:San Andreas - amazing soundtrack and just a lot of fun this ranking is objectively correct
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My favorite GTA game is Saints Row 2.
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My favorite memory of San Andreas was taking a bike to a mountaintop and pedaling off at full speed. As CJ plummeted he yelled "I hate gravity!"
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Lol this "I hate gravity!" ^MakaVillian posted:San Andreas - amazing soundtrack and just a lot of fun I'd always get the same song on the same station when I'd cheat-spawn the jet. It was a really great game with a great soundtrack. Great graphics too for the era--it supported 720p on the Xbox via the component cable. I had San Andreas loaded up on the drive of a modded Xbox and the initial loading screen took about ten seconds tops. GTA in cinematic mode was always a killer experience.
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Edit is not quote e: content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezjn6TgI-A grillster fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 13, 2020 |
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GTA3 has probably my favorite soundtrack of any game. they didn't have the money or clout to put together a bunch of hits like they did later so it's all so homemade and cobbled together, i can't tell if they got really creative or just said "gently caress it, put whatever in there you can find". also chatterbox is the best of all the talk radios
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:My favorite GTA game is Saints Row 2. Hell yeah ripping parking meters out of the ground and throwing them at people along with lobster traps and fire hydrants, can't do that poo poo in GTA 
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Wall Balls posted:GTA3 has probably my favorite soundtrack of any game. they didn't have the money or clout to put together a bunch of hits like they did later so it's all so homemade and cobbled together, i can't tell if they got really creative or just said "gently caress it, put whatever in there you can find". also chatterbox is the best of all the talk radios Some Chatterbox... classic within the first minute. The GTA team must have hired some of the You Don't Know Jack end credits people.
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May 13, 2020 19:23
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zenintrude posted:On that note, is there any other medium in which the third title in a franchise is not only light years beyond the previous titles in the series but essentially sets the tone for its medium’s design for the next 2 decades? FPS games, Wolfenstein the first two Wolfenstein games were weird top-down stealth games, Wolfenstein 3D is a FPS where you slaughter hordes of nazis and then fight mecha-hitler
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V is actually a serviceable racing game. Customization for vehicles, weapons, powerups, and crazy customizable tracks make for a pretty good arcade racing game despite the weirdass physics (hitting curbs makes you go faster).
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The best part of GTA III was just driving around listening to Lazlow's show. The "countries that don't have guns ain't American" caller still makes me laugh.
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May 13, 2020 19:41
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The talk radio has always been the best part of GTA. Cheat codes, talk radio, and hilarious blood fountains when you snipe heads. That was peak GTA.
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K JAH 4 life
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i never noticed all the small details in gta 4 until i saw this. they put some crazy effort into that game https://youtu.be/GWVtZJo-HqI
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EorayMel posted:Hell yeah ripping parking meters out of the ground and throwing them at people along with lobster traps and fire hydrants, can't do that poo poo in GTA That's kind of the thing. I'm not really into the GTA super serious structured story stuff much. I get bored of the missions and storylines after a couple hours in favor of doing goofy crap, which Saints Row is perfect for. I prefer the lighter slapstick mood.
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May 13, 2020 19:55
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some of the set heists in GTA V were good, i mean they were pulled directly from movies, but having tangerine dream play while you drilled a bank vault was cool
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May 13, 2020 19:57
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dk2m posted:i never noticed all the small details in gta 4 until i saw this. they put some crazy effort into that game Jim's House of Inaccurate Guns and Parade Float Racing. Gross. Idk overall 5 still just 'felt' better overall to me
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i remember the driving in GTA4 being kinda punishing but i don't remember it being this bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drp9o4E7G7U
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zenintrude posted:I don’t think we’ve had such a drastic shift in the immersiveness of games since the release of GTA3; It feels so insanely revolutionary compared to games before it. xcom apocalypse was pretty meh
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:My favorite GTA game is Saints Row 2. Resting Lich Face posted:The talk radio has always been the best part of GTA. Cheat codes, talk radio, and hilarious blood fountains when you snipe heads. That was peak GTA. or failing to catch up to the plane on my atv and trying to take it out with a rocket launcher hail mary. games wouldnt let that pass the mission now. it wouldnt fit the tightly scripted mission constraints
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Muscle Wizard posted:gta 5s biggest problem is that the missions dont get fun until like, 20 hours in. for some reason every rockstar game now has to have like 50 pointless missions that arent tutorials before the player can actually do cool poo poo. I love that one of the Saints Row games totally takes the piss outta that by opening with you losing everything and acting like you're gonna have to climb up from the bottom and then halfway through the tutorial mission to earn your power back your character just says "gently caress it" and makes their gang rob a bank or some poo poo off screen and you get access to pretty much everything almost instantly. Shame the later games in the series never had all the random buildings you could walk into or hidden stores with different clothes. It's weird that one of the series that started off as a lovely GTA clone wound up 'getting' what made the GTA fun better than Rockstar. I've played every GTA since the ps2 ones and never completed a single one before getting bored, but I've completed every SR games since SR2.
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redm posted:My favorite GTA game was Jak 3.
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Coolness Averted posted:I love that one of the Saints Row games totally takes the piss outta that by opening with you losing everything and acting like you're gonna have to climb up from the bottom and then halfway through the tutorial mission to earn your power back your character just says "gently caress it" and makes their gang rob a bank or some poo poo off screen and you get access to pretty much everything almost instantly. i dunno man i never really liked the series after 2, it got too cartoony for my tastes. like the reason why gta is cool is because its like you're loving around in the real world. if my dude has all these super powers and poo poo its like i'm playing one of those boring superhero games that were also open world but you couldnt do the fun stuff like shoot policemen. i don't really want to be superman who kills cops, i want to be a nasty lil fucker criminal. its gta.
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Muscle Wizard posted:i dunno man i never really liked the series after 2, it got too cartoony for my tastes. like the reason why gta is cool is because its like you're loving around in the real world. if my dude has all these super powers and poo poo its like i'm playing one of those boring superhero games that were also open world but you couldnt do the fun stuff like shoot policemen. i don't really want to be superman who kills cops, i want to be a nasty lil fucker criminal. its gta.
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efff saints row!!!Big Beef City posted:Jim's House of Inaccurate Guns and Parade Float Racing. Gross. I think 5 is just more arcade-ish or something, idk. They seemed to go more in the direction of realism with 4. They made everyone really fat in IV too, I remember now as I watch that youtube. I feel like a spoiled brat about it but I don't really like 5's map. They should've done something more like Red Dead 2 where the map boundaries are rivers/impassable terrain. But then planes and helicopters, I guess. Just feel like I was all pumped for sprawling LA and some wide open desert, instead they make LA feel like a port city on a tropical island.
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Saints row 2 was really good but Saints Row 3 was just missing something. All the neighborhoods felt the same, the city felt dead as hell, and it leaned way too hard in to the wacky humor. Like yeah that was present in 2 but people liked it because it came out at the same time GTA backed away from that poo poo in San Andreas with GTA IV being super serious and "realistic" and it felt like Volition didn't understand that.
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This is hard to describe and people are gonna poo poo on it, and that's fine. I'll understand. I think part of my not liking SR as well was that while GTA and its crass humor came off as a parody of society and even itself, it could be pretty funny. SR always came off as the little brother who heard naughty words and said "That's it. That's what makes you funny." and ran with it and so had to be crasser, cooler, cheaper and more random-er and grosser because LOL that's what's funny, right guys, look! I can do it too! Look! Which, yep, I know. But that's how it came off to me. Whatever.
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Resting Lich Face posted:The talk radio has always been the best part of GTA. Cheat codes, talk radio, and hilarious blood fountains when you snipe heads. That was peak GTA. Rusty Brown's Ringed Donuts is something that will stay with me until I die
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I was obsessed with the original GTA when it came out and when GTA 3 came out it blew my mind. One thing I found interesting is that if you switch the camera view to the bird's eye view it ends up feeling very similar to the original. That close up third person view really adds to the immediacy and impressiveness of the game, but the gameplay didn't change that much. I did miss the massive chain reactions though. In GTA 1 you'd get cash for every exploded car, but a car set off by that explosion would earn double cash, and if a car was set off by that it would double again, and so and so on. I loved grabbing a bus, blocking traffic, and cramming all the cars together for a massive chain reaction. I once beat the first city in like five minutes by creating an explosion worth a million dollars.
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gary oldmans diary posted:the city in saints row games was always dead. you could be at a downtown crossroad and the bustling city will spawn like 1 pedestrian and 1 car on the street Ok, BUT - SR2 did a really cool secret thing that I wish GTA games would do. If you came across NPCs standing in a group and you joined the group, after a while your character would join in with what the group was doing. It was a neat little thing that really made the world feel more alive. I agree everything after SR2 was disappointing. Your guy in SR2 is downright psychotic. I love the tonal shift from haha fun and games to the boss using a waitress as a human shield or glassing someone in the face. It wasn’t afraid to get pretty brutal with characters’ deaths. Trevor in GTA5 felt like a good approximation for the Boss. That’s the only GTA game I’ve ever finished actually mainly cause of his character. And where the gently caress did my gender slider go in the other games Volition??
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I dunno if this has been patched by now but in V, sometimes when Trevor was standing still on a sidewalk people would call the police on him. Not super fun to have to deal with a wanted level when you are trying to do side missions. Police battles took a huge dip in quality. It was thrilling to have Niko try to fight off hordes of cops armed only with a basic pistol and shotgun. It got a lot more generic and robotic in V.
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Famethrowa posted:I used to get high af and walk around in first person mode in 5. The detail work they did was just incredible. The FPS mode is crazy to me. It makes the hosed up things you're doing feel just a little more "personal" and I actively avoid doing bad things when I play with it on because of that. I would like to do a whole playthrough of the game staying in FPS, but it was kind of janky when I messed around with it after first getting the PC version of the game. The Red Dead iteration was a bit better, but you can still tell when using it that the game and movement/animations were all designed solely with third person view in mind.
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EorayMel posted:Fun fact: manhunt takes place in the same GTA universe, in the same city across the one GTA 3 takes place in I hate myself for this, but Manhunt took place in Carcer City, not Liberty City. Same universe though.
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(and also reuses some assets/sounds)