What's Your Favorite GTA?

[lestagio]

I feel like there's always quite a few different takes on this. Admittedly I haven't played a ton of the games (which is partially why I'm making this thread!), but my favorite is Vice City. I really liked the isometric originals when I was younger, but the 3D games were way cooler. San Andreas was fun but I always felt like it ran a bit slow on my PS2, compared to Vice City which was smaller but way smoother. GTA5 wasn't really my thing. Not that it's a bad game in any way, but it's so huge and open, and I just didn't get the same feeling from it as some of the others. Thus why I don't plan to pick up GTA6 any time soon.

 

[Guinea]

GTA 5 for the gameplay, GTA Vice City for the story.

 

[Vardalis]

Vice City for the, as much as I hate how the word has been used lately, vibe. The location, cars, music, story, they're all great. When I want to play a GTA game I'd always go for that one even though SA undoubtebly has the better gameplay of that trilogy.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Vice City.

First GTA I have ever played — will play it forever.

 

[PatrickWeylin]

i loved china town wars, despite it being isometric. i used to stay up late at night making drug deals and driving around listening to the radio.

 

[ThunderBoy]

San Andreas for me

 

[zombie100379]

too hard to answer - i love the original top down gta , and gta 2 , i adored gta3 , vice city for the music , same with san andreas but for the size and the music , wasn't crazy about gta IV but loved lost and the damned and ballad of gay tony , and gta 5 online was one of the best times playing a game i ever had

 

[lestagio]

Vice City.

First GTA I have ever played — will play it forever.

Yeah, it was the first 3D GTA I played and the 2D games simply can't compare.

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Chinatown Wars for arcadey gameplay, San Andreas for variety and Vice City Stories for portability

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

Fun fact: Back when Vice City was the new hotness, I got a copy of it for free under the agreement of being interviewed for an article on video game violence in a women's magazine..
Long-story-short. A couple weeks later, the lady interviewed me for over an hour while I played the game in front of her. Months later, the ONLY quote of mine that ended up in the published multi-page main article was the opening line in large, bold print:

"FIRST WE HAVE TO KILL A BUNCH OF PEOPLE" said 17 year old [redacted].

(Context: I was asked something about having a shoot-out with the police. So I needed to get the "wanted" stars up. "How?" I was asked. My answer was the aforementioned quote)..

I still have a copy of that specific magazine. The article itself was surprisingly balanced, but I've had a permanently poisoned view of legacy media whit large ever since then..

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Fun fact: Back when Vice City was the new hotness, I got a copy of it for free under the agreement of being interviewed for an article on video game violence in a women's magazine..
Long-story-short. A couple weeks later, the lady interviewed me for over an hour while I played the game in front of her. Months later, the ONLY quote of mine that ended up in the published multi-page main article was the opening line in large, bold print:

(Context: I was asked something about having a shoot-out with the police. So I needed to get the "wanted" stars up. "How?" I was asked. My answer was the aforementioned quote)..

I still have a copy of that specific magazine. The article itself was surprisingly balanced, but I've had a permanently poisoned view of legacy media whit large ever since then..

You still played the game after that interview?

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Fun fact: Back when Vice City was the new hotness, I got a copy of it for free under the agreement of being interviewed for an article on video game violence in a women's magazine..
Long-story-short. A couple weeks later, the lady interviewed me for over an hour while I played the game in front of her. Months later, the ONLY quote of mine that ended up in the published multi-page main article was the opening line in large, bold print:

(Context: I was asked something about having a shoot-out with the police. So I needed to get the "wanted" stars up. "How?" I was asked. My answer was the aforementioned quote)..

I still have a copy of that specific magazine. The article itself was surprisingly balanced, but I've had a permanently poisoned view of legacy media whit large ever since then..

Oh, fuck right OFF.

I HATE it when they do that, but it's sadly nothing new — got interviewed once and they only used two isolated quotes from me -.-*

 

[Ikagura]

Saints Row 2.

More seriously I also liked Chinatown Wars for its more arcade-like gameplay (similar to the first two entries).

I kinda miss the scoring and video game aspect of the game.

 

[shaggi shaggi]

GTA Vice City. The entire game has an 80s aesthetic, which perfectly suits my taste.

 

[GundamJehutyKai]

Vice City and it's not even a contest.

I do like GTA2 as well, being that it kept that interesting top down view.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

You still played the game after that interview?

Of course! Off & on until it (and a bunch of other stuff) was stolen a year or two later..

Oh, fuck right OFF.

I HATE it when they do that, but it's sadly nothing new — got interviewed once and they only used two isolated quotes from me -.-*

Yeah, it certainly opened my eyes to the practice; so there was that. That was 22~23 years ago at this point, and my skills of pattern-recognition have only become more refined since then..
It's part of the reason why I prefer unedited, long-form interviews over the curated BS that legacy media outlets put out..

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Of course! Off & on until it (and a bunch of other stuff) was stolen a year or two later..

Grand theft stuff