Post by Merv on Nov 24, 2021 13:42:54 GMT 1
I have been a fan of the GTA series since i played the first one back in 1996/1997. My cousin owned it so anytime i went over his house for a sleepover or whatever we'd spend half the night running over people in an ambulance and laughing hysterically at the irony. I then acquired GTA 2 for my Playstation...back then there was no need to call it a PSOne...and loved the gang aspect. Loonies for the win!
I was about 17 when GTA 3 came out and my mind was blown. What i used to play from top down only was now an immersive environment...and they kept the gangs, or rather made the gangs more 'realistic' with the mafia, yakuza, triads, etc. You could get a prostitute, bang her and then kill her to get your money back! The outlet for your most sinister desires was never so accessible. I was a big fan. So then they brought out Vice City which was a more polished version, included motorcycles, and set in the 80s with a lot of banger 80s tracks. I was full in. I will say by the time they released San Andreas i was burned out on the GTA games. I did eventually play it but not until a few years later. And while i had been a huge fan of this franchise I hadn't picked them up since my initial playthroughs back in the early 2000's....until recently...
I bought the definitive editions of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. Ill be honest...mostly for 3 and Vice City....because it had been 20-21 years since i had even touched the games. My nostalgia got the better of me...I wanted to assasinate the Don again, a mission i had replayed several times as a youth. I wanted to start a war with the Haitians in the 80s. All that jazz. So i bought those games...and man....it is HARD to step backward. The games are basically just what they were...which I was ok with in theory...but i had forgotten just how bad driving was in GTA 3. The cars all drive like boats, one little bump and you flip, you never turn back over, the car blows up 2 seconds after it catches fire, you can't bail until it comes to a full stop and even then you can't climb on anything so you might be trapped near the exploding vehicle anyway...you also lose all your weapons if you go to jail or the hospital and have to start all over there. Basically i realized just how many things they fixed to make the game more playable by the time they got to GTA V, which i have sunk countless hours into the past several years.
I still gave it the old college try...in 3 i got halfway through the Yakuza stuff (2nd island) and in Vice City i only really just got started. Didn't even start up San Andreas. Figured if im gonna play that i might as well just load up GTA V Online....so i did. And now im back to the most recent and polished of GTA games.
Do i regret my purchase? Not at all. Unlike Cyberpunk 2077 I actually did expect the games to be clunky and hard to play. Its historically a Rockstar thing. Violent games with clunky controls. And it was fun to revisit, and i could always redownload if i get the itch to continue onward.
Anywho...just thought id share my experience.
I was about 17 when GTA 3 came out and my mind was blown. What i used to play from top down only was now an immersive environment...and they kept the gangs, or rather made the gangs more 'realistic' with the mafia, yakuza, triads, etc. You could get a prostitute, bang her and then kill her to get your money back! The outlet for your most sinister desires was never so accessible. I was a big fan. So then they brought out Vice City which was a more polished version, included motorcycles, and set in the 80s with a lot of banger 80s tracks. I was full in. I will say by the time they released San Andreas i was burned out on the GTA games. I did eventually play it but not until a few years later. And while i had been a huge fan of this franchise I hadn't picked them up since my initial playthroughs back in the early 2000's....until recently...
I bought the definitive editions of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas. Ill be honest...mostly for 3 and Vice City....because it had been 20-21 years since i had even touched the games. My nostalgia got the better of me...I wanted to assasinate the Don again, a mission i had replayed several times as a youth. I wanted to start a war with the Haitians in the 80s. All that jazz. So i bought those games...and man....it is HARD to step backward. The games are basically just what they were...which I was ok with in theory...but i had forgotten just how bad driving was in GTA 3. The cars all drive like boats, one little bump and you flip, you never turn back over, the car blows up 2 seconds after it catches fire, you can't bail until it comes to a full stop and even then you can't climb on anything so you might be trapped near the exploding vehicle anyway...you also lose all your weapons if you go to jail or the hospital and have to start all over there. Basically i realized just how many things they fixed to make the game more playable by the time they got to GTA V, which i have sunk countless hours into the past several years.
I still gave it the old college try...in 3 i got halfway through the Yakuza stuff (2nd island) and in Vice City i only really just got started. Didn't even start up San Andreas. Figured if im gonna play that i might as well just load up GTA V Online....so i did. And now im back to the most recent and polished of GTA games.
Do i regret my purchase? Not at all. Unlike Cyberpunk 2077 I actually did expect the games to be clunky and hard to play. Its historically a Rockstar thing. Violent games with clunky controls. And it was fun to revisit, and i could always redownload if i get the itch to continue onward.
Anywho...just thought id share my experience.