Putting the 'role' back in role-playing games since 2002.
Donate to Codex
Good Old Games
  • Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.

    "This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.

In terms of direction? - 3D Era / HD Era

In what format do you enjoy GTA

  • Top down classics

  • 3D Era GTAs

  • HD Era GTAs

  • All

  • None


Results are only viewable after voting.

Abhay

Augur
Joined
Aug 12, 2013
Messages
204
Location
India
I am a big GTA fan since GTA 2 and has become as equally loved as RPG's. 3D Era GTA's offered an amazing sandbox and open-ended gameplay elements with many interesting things to deviate from the main story that till date sounds as engaging and fun as the days back then, and no other open world franchises have managed to ever pulled me back into replaying for years as these 3D Era GTA's
Then comes...
GTA IV
The beginning of a new direction in the franchise by Rockstar. On a technical level, the game managed to bring a lot of improvements, but what I really hated was how out of place it felt; missing a lot of that sandbox "appeal".
Whether its the "realism" or the heavy emphasis on everything should make sense for "Niko", but it became my first major disappointment with the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
I never like this direction they took to change the series in the HD Era.
GTA V still suffers from a lot of similar IV problems except that its a bit more fun.
But I can't help thinking that the new direction just feels ..wrong. The sandboxes in the modern GTA's are nowhere as fun ( unless you mod ) as the 3D era GTA's made me such a big fan of this open world franchise.
So Codex, what do you think about the GTA as a franchise in this new direction, in comparison to the old GTAs, and any ideas that you think will be the best way to go forward for future direction??
 

zwanzig_zwoelf

Graverobber Foundation
Developer
Joined
Nov 21, 2015
Messages
3,178
Location
デゼニランド
GTA 3 is my favorite game in the series. Vice City and San Andreas were kinda meh.
GTA 4 was okay, but it's been years since I played it. Never tried GTA 5 and probably won't.

Gotta play older games, iirc I played the original GTA for an hour or so while my friend was finishing his homework, and I only remember that I disliked the control scheme.
 
Self-Ejected

Excidium II

Self-Ejected
Joined
Jun 21, 2015
Messages
1,866,227
Location
Third World
GTA 3 is my favorite game in the series.
For what reason? I could never get into it even though I liked GTA 2 and the idea of a 3D GTA was crazy at the time (first game I got on my new pc even). It just felt off, and iirc had too many timed driving missions.
 

zwanzig_zwoelf

Graverobber Foundation
Developer
Joined
Nov 21, 2015
Messages
3,178
Location
デゼニランド
GTA 3 is my favorite game in the series.
For what reason? I could never get into it even though I liked GTA 2 and the idea of a 3D GTA was crazy at the time (first game I got on my new pc even). It just felt off, and iirc had too many timed driving missions.
The blocky town kinda felt like my neighborhood, I guess. VC and SA didn't have the same vibe, even if they were superior.
 

BLOBERT

FUCKING SLAYINGN IT BROS
Patron
Joined
Jun 12, 2007
Messages
4,290
Location
BRO
Codex 2012
BROS I LIKED VICE CITY BESDT OF ALL THE GAMES ON MY FIRST PLAYTHROUGH

NEVER FINISHED 1 2 OR 3

TO BE FAIR THOUGH I FUCKED AROUND ALOT IN 1 AND 2

VICE CITY JUST FUCKING NAUILED THE SETTING
 

Baron Dupek

Arcane
Joined
Jul 23, 2013
Messages
1,871,395
Location
spite
So I'm not the only one who liked GTAIII more than VC and SA? Good to know.
Why? Maybe theme incompatiblity? Music choice? Living in middle europe might did something.
 
Joined
Apr 10, 2009
Messages
3,875
Location
Classified.
GTA1, 2 and London are my favorites in that order. The rest I consider GTA-in name only, though they aren't bad games. But GTA was meant to be top-down news copter view, sorry newfags.
 

sullynathan

Arcane
Joined
Dec 22, 2015
Messages
6,473
Location
Not Europe
Can't believe people think gta 4 is better than gta 5 purely because of its physics engine
 
Last edited:

Abhay

Augur
Joined
Aug 12, 2013
Messages
204
Location
India
Yeh, physics, world details, story, and of course, the star protagonist; Niko Bellic.
I found 4 absolutely boring. Good game, but offers a very weak sandbox thus not strong on replay factor.
 

Baron Dupek

Arcane
Joined
Jul 23, 2013
Messages
1,871,395
Location
spite
It still boggle my mind that I managed to do pilot school in SA on keyboard. My biggest gaming live achievement so far.
 

sullynathan

Arcane
Joined
Dec 22, 2015
Messages
6,473
Location
Not Europe
Can't believe people think gta 4 is better than gta 4 purely because of its physics engine
What?
Typo:lol:


It still boggle my mind that I managed to do pilot school in SA on keyboard. My biggest gaming live achievement so far.
I hated that mission so much. I really thought I would quit San Andreas at that point but the feeling of accomplishment afterward made you think you were a master pilot.



Yeh, physics, world details, story, and of course, the star protagonist; Niko Bellic.
I found 4 absolutely boring. Good game, but offers a very weak sandbox thus not strong on replay factor.
Gta 4 is boring as hell at first. I played it in like 2009 and stopped after an hour and didn't pick it back up till 2012. It takes too long till it becomes enjoyable, ballad of gay Tony was far better
 

Blowhard

Cipher
Joined
Dec 29, 2011
Messages
167
I'm sorry, but your original post made me question whether I was going retarded. I've seen google translate make more sense.
 

Siveon

Bot
Joined
Jul 13, 2013
Messages
4,510
Shadorwun: Hong Kong
Not a big fan of GTA in general, but I did like Vice City's setting at least.

...San Andreas felt a little too close to my own city sometimes.
 

Gragt

Arcane
Patron
Joined
Nov 1, 2007
Messages
1,864,860
Location
Dans Ton Cul
Serpent in the Staglands Divinity: Original Sin
Funny, I feel the same with San Andreas now, but back when it came out I lived in a completely different place.
 

pippin

Guest
2 is fucking awesome and Vice City must be the only GTA game you'll ever need. 3 felt dull for me for some reason.
 

Machocruz

Arcane
Joined
Jul 7, 2011
Messages
4,527
Location
Hyperborea
Saints Row 2 is the example of where this series should have went, i.e. amping up the criminality. Compare the side activities in that game to GTA 4 or 5. I mean, golf? Darts? Parachuting? Tennis?! Meanwhile in SR2 we have turf battles, pimping, Septic Avenger, drug running, insurance fraud, assassinations, auto theft, helicopter assault, drive bys, hostage taking, store hold-ups, mugging.. A lot more contextual reasons to cause mayhem than GTA now offers. GTA3 had rampage missions and rivals would shoot at you when you went into their neighborhoods. Chinatown Wars had gun-running and hijacking Ammunation trucks. SA had turf wars. Why didn't 4 have all this stuff plus more? Boring.
 

typical user

Arbiter
Joined
Nov 30, 2015
Messages
957
I enjoyed 3D GTAs more than HD especially San Andreas for it's overwhelming list of features.

I just hate the controls of GTA IV and V. Those games don't even know what I want to do, they snap me into wrong side of cover, my character can't turn back quickly and if you try to jump over water-gap then you will face-plant into ground. Rockstar should take notes from Ubisoft how animations and controls should be made. If I play TPP mix of shooting and driving then I don't want to struggle with simple tasks which weren't an issue in GTA III.

Volition with Saints Row series capitalized on Rockstar "realistic turn". People even bash GTA V's arcade'y driving system, while driving soapy boats with wheels suits them perfectly. They don't want to try Asseto Corsa or any other drive sim, they will gladly support retarded controls for one of the series that started as arcade 2D top-down view with missions where you had to turn people into hot-dogs.

Then there is Mafia 3 which goes full Saints Row.
 
Joined
Jul 26, 2015
Messages
1,361
PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Insert Title Here Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech Bubbles In Memoria A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. My team has the sexiest and deadliest waifus you can recruit.
I've only ever played Saints Row (II) and GTA (Vice City and IV) on the PC with M&K. Let me tell you, drive-by shooting and even really any vehicle driving was not very simple. Driving in SRII was so difficult for me that when I was playing with a friend in co-op campaign, I had to have my friend drive for me because he had a controller and I had gotten stuck between two walls and was literally unable to fix the situation with M&K. Drive-by shooting was almost impossible in Vice City.
 

sullynathan

Arcane
Joined
Dec 22, 2015
Messages
6,473
Location
Not Europe
I was particularly talking about videos like these

I know they are jokes but they're shitty jokes.
Saints Row 2 is the example of where this series should have went, i.e. amping up the criminality. Compare the side activities in that game to GTA 4 or 5. I mean, golf? Darts? Parachuting? Tennis?! Meanwhile in SR2 we have turf battles, pimping, Septic Avenger, drug running, insurance fraud, assassinations, auto theft, helicopter assault, drive bys, hostage taking, store hold-ups, mugging.. A lot more contextual reasons to cause mayhem than GTA now offers. GTA3 had rampage missions and rivals would shoot at you when you went into their neighborhoods. Chinatown Wars had gun-running and hijacking Ammunation trucks. SA had turf wars. Why didn't 4 have all this stuff plus more? Boring.
That's because Saints Row started as a San Andreas rip off and fully focuses on the whole gang premise more than all the GTAs.
 

As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.
Back
Top Bottom