>Most of /v/ never experienced how groundbreaking this was upon release

Well I sure as shit didn't play the gimped pc port.

>>712919182 (OP)
First time i played i stayed up all night just driving around and shooting stuff. Finally passed out at like 8am.
>>712920018
That box art is cooler than the burger version

>>712919182 (OP)
This but with MGS 2 and all all the hate it got for making you play as Raiden

>>712919182 (OP)
I saw it at a dad's colleague's house and it's eerie how the memories of the game I have are nothing like what I see now whenever I play it. It was near occult how you get dropped in a big, dark, rainy atmospheric gritty city and can go wherever the fuck you want. Only "open" game I played at the time was Jak 1 and GTA 1 on ps1.
You don't get the appeal by looking at screenshots it needs to be in movement with the blur and special effects, like vice city, like SA. And on a big ctr screen if possible.
And fuck the pajet demake. Anyone playing that shit is a tasteless all consooming never questioning anything GOY. If you feel targeted reading this post good.

>>712919182 (OP)
>>712920449
i played these two games and final fantasy X every day after school while watching simpsons and the Friends on my little crt tv. Life was pretty damn good.

this game is a bit shorter than i would have thought

>>712919182 (OP)
It wasn't that groundbreaking.

>>712919182 (OP)
I've always preferred III's Liberty City and all versions of it over IV's. Constant rain is comfy.

I had Bully and Destroy All Humans insetad

>>712921278
>must farm engagement with moronic statements

even worms crawling underground eating decaying matter have it better than low IQ /v/cels.

>>712921382
PS2 GTA got a style and tone more pronounced than realistic looking GTA so it resonates better with people with a soul. Still iv is fine. V is pure festering shit tier though.

>>712921382
As far as atmosphere, sure. But it's barren and same-y.

>>712921580
What moronic statement? It wasn't that groundbreaking, cuck.

You know what? I'm going to bust out some booze since I don't have work tomorrow and play some GTA III old school style while I try not to die in the heat.

>>712921687
>*munch munch*
>woow am I glad I'm not having it as bad as that guy
>*munch munch noise resumes*

>>712922323
You're sad and pathetic.

>>712919182 (OP)
I still remember cursing around to Head radio
never finished the game

>>712922656
Speaking about yourself in second person ain't giving you any allure. Are you going to nurture a personal grudge against worms now because of my post?

>>712919182 (OP)
gonna be honest, when I played this back then i used cheats to get a chain saw and just killled random pedestrians for about 30 minutes before getting bored and doing something else.

These days I like to use a modded pc version for my gta iii play as any old toaster can run the game at huge resolutions. Pic is 8k with 8xmsaa enabled.

>>712920018
The PC version of 3 was the only good port out of all of the GTAs.

>>712924790
The xbox port was better. Of the first round of releases it is ps2 > xbox > power gap > pc.

>>712924542
didnt the pc version remove loads of effects that gave the original its soul?

>>712919182 (OP)
>groundbreaking
It was just a generic renderware trash engine game. The only reason for the hype was because it pissed the boomers off so much that there were court hearings about it.

>>712925662
found the kid whos parents werent rich enough to buy a ps2. probably cried while he played gta 2 and driver 2 trying to recreate the fun he had playing at his rich friends house.

(me)

>>712925454
Yup which is why any modpack you see for the pc version these days restores all the missing ps2 content. Nobody should ever play the vanilla pc port in they ear of our lord 2025.

Remember: gta 3 wasn't groundbreaking in the same way doom wasn't and how seinfeld was never funny.

>>712919182 (OP)
Eh
I've been playing since snes. And only two games blowed my mind when they came out. Red Faction and Half Life 2.

Paging the galaxy brain MSX FM guy
https://youtu.be/oFOL8cqwTw4

>mfw they use the censored version of joyride

>Bought PS2 and GTA3 for my senior year of highschool
>DMC1 was also out
Truly the best of gaming times.

>>712919182 (OP)
to be honest, "ground breaking" was almost a common occurance. back then, technology was evolving fast. we expected huge leaps from one gen to the next and even several huge bumps & ground being broken during a generation.

>>712927585
>best looking game of 1997
pfft, G-Police had that beat.

>>712927585
This. 3D was still expanding and evolving. So many different interpretations and ideas on where to take 3D gaming with the likes of Half-Life, Thief, Mario, GTA etc.

>>712919182 (OP)
VGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>2003
>be me, about 11 years old
>PS2 belongs to older brother
>he would go out on weekends and typically stay gone the whole time
>spent my whole days and nights playing this shit
>favorite thing to do was put on the pedestrian riot cheat code then hop on top of moving cars and randomly shoot people

Man those were the fucking times.

>>712920018
mouse and keyboard will always be superior
stay mad

>>712928360
>favorite thing to do was put on the pedestrian riot cheat code then hop on top of moving cars and randomly shoot people
That was always great. My friends and I would often take turns seeing how long we could survive. Usually not long due to an errant rocket launcher shot or flamethrower but it was fun.

>>712928396
The game wasn't changed to accommodate kb+m at all. Let me be clear, you didn't beat the game by any stretch of the imagination if you played with kb+m controls. You're a cheater and a fake gamer.

I still remember clearly how much the Dodo filtered people. I loved flying that thing.

>>712929041
stay mad, gimp

>>712929041
>The game wasn't changed to accommodate kb+m at all
To clarify I mean the difficulty wasn't changed. kb+m totally breaks the challenge of the game.

>>712929118
What difficulty are you talking about exactly?

>>712929429
The difficulty of getting shot at by 10 Colombians with assault rifles while trying to wrangle the game's janky lock-on.

>>712929041
>NOOO YOU ARE WRONG BECAUSE REEEEEE
yep, the pc port was superior

Would (You) do it with a Game Girl anon? Make sure to check out hiphophunnies.com

>>712920946
>And fuck the pajet demake. Anyone playing that shit is a tasteless all consooming never questioning anything GOY.
Fucking based.

>>712929585
I wonder what an MSX girl would be like....
GOD I wish I had a gf who appreciates dnb. I'd give anything.

This is as much as I played of the definitive edition just to see how bad it is. Naturally I didn't pay money for this and I also set my upload ratio to 0 so to as not seed it to anyone.

I remember when i first played dark messiah and had so much fun with the combat thinking how great things are gonna be. Now, 20 years later, I am still playing dark messiah because there hasnt been a game that scratches that itch. I was so naive back then.

OLDFAG THREAD BROTHERS

>>712929757
Born in the last century.

>>712920536
dudes had access to three polygons and managed to atmospheremaxx

>come home from school
>boot up gta 3
>slap hybrid theory in my hi-fi
>drive around causing chaos while listening to points of authority

>>712923229
>chain saw
nice try tourist, chainsaw was added on SA not 3

>>712929980
Same, except I placed Hybrid Theory in the custom radio station folder and blasted it in-game.

>>712930001
Chainsaw exists in VC tourist-chan.

>>712929980
holy soul, this but somewhere I belong

I spent 20 years believing it was basement until an anon here pointed out it is base bins
>[x] doubt
So I go and play the game now on good good headphones rather than rattling 1W TV speakers and clear as day, base bins. My head asplode at this realisation.

>>712930194
Meteora would be VC territory.

>>712929730
jesus christ that's awful

>>712929730
>and I also set my upload ratio to 0 so to as not seed it to anyone.
based leecher

one thing I liked the most of the PC port is that you could add your own music on a folder then hear those songs on the in-game car's radios

>>712929898
t. 1999 boomer

>>712919182 (OP)
I remember finding a pedestrian overpass and shooting at civilians and eventually cops, helicopters and tanks until I got bored and never touched it again.

>>712925035
Why, what was wrong with PC? Less songs?

>>712930060
>>712930194

>>712920536
soul gas

>>712930606

>>712930603
It is missing music and a whole shitload of visual effects and has more bugs.

>>712922285
My dad had tv like that when i was a kid.

>>712920536
>ILOVESCOTLAND
yep is GTA 3 PC gaming time

>>712930824
>sunniest day in glasgow ever recorded

>>712930824
We've got all your 'ome defence needs

>>712921278
soul making
sound shaking
earthquaking
change

>>712930680
damn

>>712930959
>glasgow
Don't you mean Glasgae?

>>712931631
No jock.

>>712931381
stealth GTA2 thread?

>>712931381
It is a lesser known fact of 2 that you can take truck cabs, hook them to trailers AND use cranes to load other vehicles onto said trailers. RPing as a truck driver in the 90's was never so violent.

>>712929041
You're right, kb+m means you're cheating
But playing with a thumbstick means you aren't playing the game at all

>>712931842
[incoherent genki girl noises]

>>712931969
JESUS MY SAVIOR
MY FAVORITE FLAVOR
I PREFER GOD TO MY KIDS

>>712919182 (OP)
Zoomers hate it bc theres no aim assist. Smh

>>712929557
>yeah bro i played guitar hero on a keyboard!!!!!!
You didnt experience the game

>>712928396
It isn't. KB+Mfags are non-human vermin using a work prehipheral to play video games.

It doesn't get more autistic than holding this opinion. Nobody without autism is playing GTA with a keyboard mouse. Having a defective brain is mandatory for something like that to be possible.

I am perfectly calm and smug when I tell you that people who think KB+M is superior are infact mentally ill.

>>712932093
No, zoomers hate it because there is no ingame map (learning to navigate is for fags, where's muh gps) and no autosaves.

>>712930001
lol lmao even
look up the weapons in Vice City

I didn't even play the missions. I just ran around causing havoc for hours.

>>712920536
I wonder if game devs could create a game with the same strange desolate atmosphere on purpose.

>>712920449
That intro is fire.

>>712932368
>school done
>use cheats to give all the npcs weapons and fight each other
yeah it's gaming time

>>712932237
to be fair, this kinda makes sense providing you're talking about the later gtas.

not the grand theft auto where you need a pristine 2000 dualshock 2 to be able to not drive at 40mph and aiming is clunkier than watching you try to waddle from your car to the walmart mobility scooter

>>712932559
>on purpose
Are you implying it was an accident? You know the GTA3 devs made it that way on purpose right? The graphics and foggy rainy atmosphere didn't just magically manifest on the disc by an act of God.

>>712931631
>glasgae
what fucking scottish accent is that supposed to be?
glesga mate

>>712919182 (OP)
I remember thinking it was really weird and not like GTA 2 at all which I had played a ton of. I later ended up loving Vice City and San Andreas but never went back to finish 3.

>>712933112
>FFFFFFFFFFFUCK

i see pain in your future.

the goat childhood

>>712931842
gta 3 should have been gta 2 2, as in a pseudo futuristic scifi setting

liberty city stories is better

>>712931860
iirc a mission teaches you that but it's not until the third district

>>712933624
i enjoyed whatever references and mechanics crossed over from 2 to 3. made me feel a bit superior gta3 wasn't my first gta.

i remember being initially confused what driving through picrel did until i actually did it and it fixed my car
i can't think of another game that references games that weren't out yet
plus max payne had nothing to do with cars.

>>712934574
I really like the grimy contemporary setting of the GTA3 we got, but I wish they did another pseudo futuristic game afterwards instead of Vice City.

>>712931842
I never got to beat this game
>be ESL
>try to guess what the missions are
>could not get past one of the earlier missions because couldn't figure out you have to (and can) honk your car horn
>couldn't figure out the save system, started from the beginning every boot up
>years later discover that there are multiple levels
I really missed out

>this
>groundbreaking
>pc already had bigger, more complex games for half a decade before this came out

>>712919182 (OP)
i miss when gta games had cheats

Gta3slavs should hang yourself

>>712934861
like what?

>>712919182 (OP)
My friend told me about this game in the schoolyard and I thought he was bullshitting cause it sounded too good to be true. I went to his house later and couldn’t believe it was real.

>>712934789
it took me a fat minute to realize that the TV van antenna always points to the save location
glad i figured that out on my own, i felt so smart

>>712929585
Nice to see the captcha doing its job to keep spam off the site. NOT

>>712919182 (OP)
it was one of the first games I played, so yeah I've got no idea how groundbreaking it would have seemed to a proper oldfag

>>712931609
This fixes most or all of the issues:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1962760372

>>712929041
not my fault they controllers are so shit at aiming that a mouse is considered cheating even when you get auto-aim
besides, most of the game's difficulty comes from driving. surely controllers have the decisive advantage there.

>>712935695
You can oneshot enemies in this game by aiming for their limbs with a mouse. Most of the time this happens without even needing to try. Conversely, the lock-on targets the center of their bodies, and so it takes many more bullets to kill them.

I thought Shenmue was way more impressive and better. Still hold that opinion and I know I'm right.

BEES LAZLOW, BEES

>>712919182 (OP)
I played it at release and thought it sucked. My friend was obsessed with it though

>>712937132
based final fantasy enjoyer

KNOWLEDGE IS KING!

>>712937853
That was my first exposure to dub.

As someone who played GTA III when it released, obviously I was blown away by the freedom to cause criminal mayhem in a 3D city. But I was more impressed by Vice City. It had a clearer vision, quality of life improvements, and a more cozy city to hang out in.
I never liked San Andreas. There was too much extraneous content and I didn't like the vibe despite their being much more to explore.

yeah but most of /v/ played GTA 5 and it was so good Rockstar decided to support it for 10+ years
they only took a little break from gta to make RDR2 and went right back to gta5 online

>>712919182 (OP)
mafia was better.

Vice City was better.

>>712931842

>>712941145
Hi DSP

>>712919182 (OP)
>boot game
>do intro and help 8ball
>steal a car
>break into the car dealership
>steal the banshee
>gaming time

>>712923229
>>712930001
I was always kinda pissed that the Colombians threatened to fuck you up real bad by saying "You want the chainsaw, gringo," and yet there's no chainsaw in the game so you can't gruesomely dismember those greaseballs.

I played it way late, in the long forgotten year of 2002. It straight up changed my life

>>712941145
>"What?! WHAAAAAAAAT? THAT'S FUCKING STOOPID"

I spent so much time driving around like a normal person, not speeding or running lights etc, and just observing the world. It wouldn't take long for something to go down between NPCs, it was one of the first games to trigger my interest in "living worlds" in games, how non player centric interactions can improve a game in multiple ways from gameplay to immersion etc.

>>712943218

>>712920946
>And fuck the pajet demake.

I recently completed this version, and it was fine. Driving is improved, the notorious bullshit missions have been tweaked to be more reasonable, the overhauled combat system lends further assistance to the player, cars have increased longevity in the world and no longer disappear during cutscenes, meaning you can take a vehicle of your choosing to a mission and still be at its wheel when that mission is over. With the new Classic Lighting feature added in the last update, the cities in all three of the DE games look better than the originals; yes, you can nitpick individual textures here and there, but taken in whole the remastered cities are plainly upgrades, superior to anything achieved by mods, though still below the quality of production we were all hoping for when this edition was announced.

These are the real issues with the DE:

1) Incomplete radio music. This one doesn't bother me because I tired of all these songs the first time around, and I always replace the game music with my own playlists, but I understand that this is a sore point for others and I agree that a "Definitive" edition should have all the parts in place, especially parts that for many players were essential to the identity of the games.

2) On a related point, touching again on this question of completeness, I feel that both Liberty and Vice City Stories should have been part of this package. I mean, why the fuck not?

3) Ugly character models with warping limbs. The original models are ugly too, and the new ones don't exactly look worse, but they don't look any better either. This is particularly a problem in San Andreas. I don't think this will ever be fixed in future.

>>712946370

>>712930680
What music?

>>712947269
A song from cleff fm.

>>712919182 (OP)
I got hit with anti-violent-game propaganda by cops at the time, so I've been programmed to not touch GTA.

>>712919182 (OP)
You're right.
What's more, soon we'll hit a point where there will be no people left who played it on release, when the last oldfags die. It's inevitable.

>>712947646
based jack believer

>>712947885
I'm here forever.

>>712947646
The PS2 games are so cartoonish that the violence can't be taken seriously. RDR2 is much more brutal because of the realistic graphics and physics, and because you can sadistically torture people with the lasso, yet it caused no controversy.

yo-ma smells o' fish

>>712923064
You sound underage. Grow the fuck up.

Damn I love revisionist history.

>>712947885
By the time biological death comes to claim me the technology will exist for me to 40k servitor-ize myself into a machine of permanent shitposting

>>712949748
nta but being a miserable bitter fuck doesn't make you mature. it makes people not want to interact with you.

>>712929041
>>712920018

>>712952871
I look like this and say this

>>712919182 (OP)
i've heard zoomers tell me gta3 isn't a sandbox game

>>712943530
LCS is very underrated. really wish the avenger bike would spawn somewhere on the map though

>>712953086
That's funny because it's more of a sandbox than all of the GTAs that came after it by far. You don't fail missions in this game for failing to follow Rockstar's carefully scriped setpieces and sit through conversations like you do in later GTA "games" (movies).

>>712953241
LCS suffers from changing the tone of liberty city from some grim, noir-esque dirty motherfucker to a much more upbeat "crime is okay if ur a big boi" yakuza" style. which I feel detracted overall.

>>712953737
Major skill issue

Games that make their mark usually get a lot of things right from the start. GTA 3 was a huge leap forward from previous GTAs. The guys decided to go straight from 2D to 3D without cutting corners, and they got so much right right from the start...

>>712919182 (OP)
i was there

>>712920018
retard. Mouse aim on the PC was superior

>>712954062
it was a leap for games as a whole. The first open world game.

gta is shit, I'd rather play a racing game or a shooter

I played this a my cousins house.
went home, saved up my pay working at a donut shop to buy a ps2 just for this game.

>>712953737
>*snort*
>*burp*
>THERE WAS NOTHING I COULD DO!
>I WASN'T PRESSING ANY BUTTONS!

>>712954634
>saved up my pay working at a donut shop
how long did that take

>>712933012
>...............M9.................

>>712919182 (OP)
I can hear this image

>>712953737
cars in 3 are so fucking squishy compared to vc and sa

>>712929730

>Claude's face goes from "Don't fuck with me" criminal type to some combination of depressed/retarded

That alone was enough to make me not want to pick this shit up. Fucking Rockstar man.

Anyone else looking forward to LC01?

Best thing to drive in the game?? I’m learning towards the Police car

>>712957905
Firetruck. Has the highest durability of anything besides the tank.

https://youtu.be/JRXPvOiWXhA

>>712919182 (OP)
The later games were more fleshed out, but they didn't capture the same soul 3 had

>>712957905

Depends. If all you want is raw speed, there's a Banshee you can access at any point inside the tiny building near the Portland crusher. Later on once you've unlocked the other islands, Cheetah and Infernus are the fastest. Stingers are good too if you can't find one.

>>712935043
same here, he was talking about how you could do anything and go anywhere I was like yeah sure bud, then I saw it

>>712920449
>Movie game
>groundbreaking

>>712954281
>Game is about driving 90% of the time
>But muh mouse aim

>>712919182 (OP)
Surely we are all over 30 here.

>>712957905
My favorite car was the Leone Sentinel

>>712924542
i know EXACTLY where this intersection is.

>>712954634
How many times did you get your donut stuffed and creamed for that PS2?

>>712919182 (OP)
Not really ocarina of time had already set the standard for all open world games.

>>712957905
it's a toss up for me since taxis and police cars are pretty much the same car
the benefit of taxis is they are absolutely everywhere and you can listen to the radio
the upside of police cars is there's a number of ways to get one delivered to you for free, and blaring the sirens can make traffic fuck off out of your way

Never 100 percent these games, the rc.game and the dirt bike in vice were too bullshit. This is after beating the lion King and headed dynamite on game gear.

>>712925804
Driver 2 may not be as innovative but it was way more stylish and character building. That final level getting pushed down the edge of the cliff made me believe I could get through med school.

>>712962691
>the rc.game and the dirt bike in vice were too bullshit
they're easy as fuck, just a bit tedious

>>712952871
can't spell consolecuck without cuck after all

>>712963241
You must be 18 to post here

>>712919182 (OP)
I played this game when it came out. Never really felt it was groundbreaking for some reason.