Post: #1

I started a thread the other year about GTA 5.

However, I feel this franchise deserves a thread highlighting the brilliance it has embodied.

Let's start from the first 3D GTA: GTA 3 - Liberty City

This is the video.

Shit, I played this game on a 14-inch TV in junior high...it seemed so cool.

Vice City?





San Andreas?





GTA 4?

Here are the two possible endings:





I could finish with the best rock channel in the series:





Or just the best song:





Love live Grand Theft Auto.

Post: #2

I played 1 and 2 back in the day. Low res graphics but fucking great. Loved pressing the tab key to make fart and burp noises.

Rockstar games gives away the first three for free (modified to run on modern computers).

On that note Carmageddon is a favorite of mine.

Post: #3

I've been playing them since the original when they were top down and 2D. Loved them then and love them still! When I was a kid I used cheats to turn the cops off, turn the riots on and give everyone weapons. I'd pretend it was the apocalypse.

Thinking about it now, I was playing The Purge before they ever made that shit into movies.

Post: #4

Perfect timing I finally found GTA5 for the Xbox One here in Peru two days ago. I played it on the Xbox 360 when it came out but never beat the last mission. There is a pretty nice difference in the graphics and details on the nex gen systems. Rockstar is a golden studio... they really take things to the next level with not only game play but with story and dialog.

Vice city will probably always be my favorite... the sounds track and setting where just perfect for a GTA game.

It may be awhile before we see GTA6..... anyone want to guess what setting it will be in? (I would settle for a HD part of Vice city to hold me over till GTA6)

Post: #5

I wanted to like Vice City, however the camera movement made me almost sick. So never completed it.

GT4 the lack of checkpoints on super long multipart mission and terrible shooting controls and vehicle on the motor cycle for that one mission I just gave up on it. I heard they fixed a lot of the issues on the motorcycle DLC game and possibly gay tony as well.

I really enjoyed Red Dead Redemption and it seems like GTA 5 fixed a lot of the bugs from GT4. Sleeping Dogs was amazing but not the same company. I'm going to wait until there is a 66 or 70% sale on GTA 5 though for the pc.

Post: #6

Most underrated GTA game:



For the DS, PSP, and now on mobile devices. Basically plays like GTA 2 plus Drugwars.

Post: #7

Which was your favorite character? I liked nico the most. had a pretty bad as backstop about how he got betrayed. he was never really sunshine and flowers.

Post: #8

(02-13-2015 01:08 PM)KC4 Wrote:  Which was your favorite character? I liked nico the most. had a pretty bad as backstop about how he got betrayed. he was never really sunshine and flowers.

Maybe its just cause GTA5 is fresh on my mind. But I have to say Trevor... he is all kinds of entertaining.

Post: #9

My favorite part in Vice City was the vigilante missions. I forget the name of the property that had four two-car garages, but I'd spend about 75 minutes gathering two normal police cars, three VICE Cheetahs, and three FBI Black SUVs. Then I'd max out my mp5 bullets. And then it's straight fun for hours upon hours. By around level 10, when everyone has shotguns, it's almost instant death if a gang of four criminals is allowed to step outside of their car.

Also, my brother and I would yell, "Get outta there, Liotta!" whenever death was imminent.

Post: #10

I was pretty stoked to see San Andreas come out for the 360 a couple months back to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Samuel L Jackson as Tenpenny... Just fantastic.

Post: #11

If you listen to the radio commercials, like WCTR on San Andreas, you'll notice the brilliant satire and hyperbole of liberal American culture. It's even dynamic based on your location, such as flambuoyant pro-homosexual commercials when CJ is driving in San Fierro. There are so many red-pill punchlines hidden in the radio, it's satrircal comedy is on par with the classic Simpsons. The RockStar writers should be honorary RVF members.

Seriously, listen to this like a podcast, and you'll notice the humorous jabs. This is essentially four hours of Bill Burr quality observations disguised as advertisements and talk shows:

Post: #12

Carmageddon influenced GTA?

Post: #13

Really cant wait until this comes out for PC. San Andreas will forever be one of my favorite games of all time.

Post: #14

Aint gonna lie, I frequently cruised the Vice City waterfront while listening serenely to Hall & Oates.

Before inserting a cheat code and shooting everything in sight with a minigun.

Post: #15

My favourites were always Vice City and San Andreas.

Absolute perfection for me would be the ability to play through VC and SA - possibly GTAIII too - as Tony Vercetti. I never really liked CJ.

Post: #16

I played these games since I was a kid and they were 2D and top down, and GTA V is one of the only titles in the last few years I could be bothered to boot up my xbox to play through.

San Andreas was my favourite for a long time but it's not aged well at all. The soundtrack is still probably my favourite though. GTA IV is a great game in a lot of ways but the missions are too repetitive, the shooting is whack (clumsy third person mechanics and it seems like every mission requires you to go inside cramped buildings; nightmare), and Liberty City is just a dull place to be when you get right down to it. That said when I was a younger man me and my buddies sunk a lot of hours into messing around online on that game.

I know it's now old hat to heap praises on GTA V but, damn, that game is just so well executed, polished, and straight up fun to play. The sheer quality of presentation throughout is amazing, bar maybe nearer the end when it just turns into a huge shootout where they overload you with enemies.
Not to forget that since turning 3D GTA has been about one thing thematically; a satire of the American Dream. And even though it can be on the nose sometimes, you can't go five minutes in V without seeing a scathing indictment of millenial Americans.

(I was actually fooling around on it yesterday and immediately got into a side mission where you foot race a fitness obsessed, aggressive, late thirties single woman who screams about how she's going to emasculate you while you're racing her)

Post: #17

I have played these since the very beginning. My favorite was GTA London. They have remade that one but I always thought it was the funniest one. I think it spurned my love of watching British Gangster movies and films.

Like Kbell, I loved Red Dead Redemption to death! I hope they hurry up and make a new one.

Post: #18

Post: #19

(02-14-2015 08:43 AM)Kristoph Wrote:  Not to forget that since turning 3D GTA has been about one thing thematically; a satire of the American Dream. And even though it can be on the nose sometimes, you can't go five minutes in V without seeing a scathing indictment of millenial Americans.

(I was actually fooling around on it yesterday and immediately got into a side mission where you foot race a fitness obsessed, aggressive, late thirties single woman who screams about how she's going to emasculate you while you're racing her)

Indeed, people forget it's a British game, Scottish to be exact.

Quote:‘By any sort of commercial scale, Grand Theft Auto is easily Scotland’s largest cultural export ever. The series has sold something like 135 million copies so far,’ said Scottish Games Network’s Brian Baglow to The Scotsman.

‘The series has come on not just in leaps and bounds, but in long jumps since then. It’s become far more than the sum of its parts, it’s a fully global phenomenon. This is the fifth major release, and the nice thing is that all of them have been made here in Scotland.’

Although the London-born Dan and Sam Houser are the lead writers and producers for Grand Theft Auto, the franchise has always been made in Scotland.

Well, it appears the writing is English - we're the best satirists, after all. Scots aren't bad either.

Post: #20

(02-18-2015 05:49 AM)Teedub Wrote:  

(02-14-2015 08:43 AM)Kristoph Wrote:  Not to forget that since turning 3D GTA has been about one thing thematically; a satire of the American Dream. And even though it can be on the nose sometimes, you can't go five minutes in V without seeing a scathing indictment of millenial Americans.

(I was actually fooling around on it yesterday and immediately got into a side mission where you foot race a fitness obsessed, aggressive, late thirties single woman who screams about how she's going to emasculate you while you're racing her)

Indeed, people forget it's a British game, Scottish to be exact.

Quote:‘By any sort of commercial scale, Grand Theft Auto is easily Scotland’s largest cultural export ever. The series has sold something like 135 million copies so far,’ said Scottish Games Network’s Brian Baglow to The Scotsman.

‘The series has come on not just in leaps and bounds, but in long jumps since then. It’s become far more than the sum of its parts, it’s a fully global phenomenon. This is the fifth major release, and the nice thing is that all of them have been made here in Scotland.’

Although the London-born Dan and Sam Houser are the lead writers and producers for Grand Theft Auto, the franchise has always been made in Scotland.

Well, it appears the writing is English - we're the best satirists, after all. Scots aren't bad either.

WELL WELL! If that is the case, I want a new GTA London game!!

(And it better have lots House, Jungle\Dancehall\Drum and Bass, etc. in it)