GTA (series)

[Ohemgee]

Ah the jetpack. How I remember abusing that.

[Despain]

Just started playing GTA 4 on my PS3.

Series is so addicting.

[Shenrien]

Just started playing GTA 4 on my PS3.

Series is so addicting.

I got about half way into GTA4 when they released the trophies and I had to start over, that's when I started to sorta have fun, I had a reason to actually finish the game (I owned the game from release it took about a year for trophies to be added so.. that was my progress lol)

The story was solid but the game play.. augh.. I died so many times going up and down curbs and I never understood how, I think GTA San Andreas had the same problem, only thing I really didn't like about it was the driving! It was like driving a vehicle through pudding!

Talk Radio also wasn't as funny.

[Fairy-Killer]

Vice City is by far the best. GTA III had the best car, though. Banshee, Banshee, Banshee. I remember going and stealing the fighter helicopter in Vice City and getting so good at it that I got up so high in Vigilante missions that I was making $600k+ each time. Finally died cause I hit the triangle button when I dropped my controller for some reason. Ended up with $27M.

[Wintermute]

Vice City. Fun as all hell.

Could not stand San Andreas. The RPG elements weren't bad, and I could deal with the pop-in walls 4 seconds after you hit them, but all the Gangbanger bullshit just pissed me off so much I never went back to it after I finished.

GTA IV was alright. It felt like a more "grown up" take on the series but just wasn't as fun without all the ridiculous bullshit and side-games you could get up to in the others.
Did have its moments though.

[Nekonaruto]

Slightly off-topic: does anyone know ANYTHING about a new GTA?

[Shenrien]

Not that I've heard of, there was an image floating around some where saying "Liberty City Finished" ripped behind it had a sign that said Stop and it looked to be in a country theme area, might be a hint for the future.

Anyways; I played GTA4 Online tonight, meet this awesome guy from England and he showed me some amazing glitches, god I haven't laughed so hard from how they broke things, cars flying through the air at speeds that you could only get by throwing yourself into the blades of a helicopter, hell it could have even been faster, most of the time he would just disappear on my screen and end up on the other side of the city.

[Wintermute]

Not that I've heard of, there was an image floating around some where saying "Liberty City Finished" ripped behind it had a sign that said Stop and it looked to be in a country theme area, might be a hint for the future.

Anyways; I played GTA4 Online tonight, meet this awesome guy from England and he showed me some amazing glitches, god I haven't laughed so hard from how they broke things, cars flying through the air at speeds that you could only get by throwing yourself into the blades of a helicopter, hell it could have even been faster, most of the time he would just disappear on my screen and end up on the other side of the city.

Was that the car launching bug with the swing set?

You could really fuck up the cars with that one provided you didn't clip a skyscraper and launch out the windshield.

[Shenrien]

Was that the car launching bug with the swing set?

You could really fuck up the cars with that one provided you didn't clip a skyscraper and launch out the windshield.

haha yeah, I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

[Akucaen]

Vice city was pretty awesome. There was a certain (dare I say) soul to it that makes me nostalgia for it more. That said, San Andreas is most definitely my favorite. The scale of the game and the ridiculousness of it (as mentioned earlier going from spray painting to robbing casinos in fighter jets) made it fun. Plus I always loved to just drive around and San Andreas was the best for long drives (without wasting expensive RL gas. ), it was fairly scenic for lolps2 limitations.

GTA4 is just weird. For all intents and purposes it should be the best gta evar, but there's something about it I just didn't like. It's fun enough, the story is there (no better or worse than prior ones), but there's just something... missing.

[Shenrien]

GTA4 is just weird. For all intents and purposes it should be the best gta evar, but there's something about it I just didn't like. It's fun enough, the story is there (no better or worse than prior ones), but there's just something... missing.

I blame the fact that each GTA before it added something the others didn't have.

GTA3 gave us a third dimension and a whole new perspective of the game

GTA - Vice City gave us the first Helicopters we could fly in the game, as well as a little stunt plane

GTA - San Andreas added fighter jets, jet packs, and a huge variety of weapons to use.

GTA4 didn't really give us much of anything, polished graphics, and a deep story that could barely keep itself together as your phone rang every second you ran over a pedestrian to say BAD! or ask you to go drinking or something.

Hopefully, with GTA5 they bring back some of the maniac things that makes the series so notable, I'd love to see Fighter Jets, and Jetpacks and dual sawn-off shot guns and things that don't make sense sometimes because it adds a whole new level of fun to the game when you can do things that seem broke (TANKS!)

[Akucaen]

No, I don't think that's it. GTA3 was fun, but I would call it soulless as well. That's mainly due to the main character never speaking, but the feeling of the world... I don't know. GTA3 was fun because it was 'whoamg' and in 3d, but it didn't have any charm to it, Vice City & San Andreas did.

It's hard pegging abstract concepts though.