Thread 718318368

GTA 3 is actually stronger than I recall. It feels extremely comfy in a late 90s/early 2000s way.

>>718318368 (OP)
how much can it bench press?

>>718318368 (OP)
This but SA

>>718318368 (OP)
controls are the biggest flaw, and some of the missions are straight ass, but generally speaking i like it better than vice city.

>>718318503
you can enable auto-lock in the settings

>>718318368 (OP)
It's outdated, san andreas is better in every aspect

>>718318368 (OP)
It's literally the best GTA game ever made, but midwits will claim Vice City is better. SA is very close though.

3 was absolutely magical in 2001. I can't relive those days.

>>718318368 (OP)
It has a certain je ne sais quoi about it that no other game can capture

>>718318960
I remember the hype around that game, that was something, and one day I finally got it, it was a big event in my home all friends came to see the game

when I played it as a kid I never got past the first area cause I didn't know how missions worked. I just skrewed around and killed NPCs hijacked cars. when I replayed it 20 years later it was a really weird feeling actually playing the missions and going past the first area

>>718318368 (OP)
Had this downloaded and played some today for the first time in years. Found a ramp I could use to land on the tram rail, wound up on a rooftop where I got a flamethrower and a hidden package, then navigate this game's awful jumping to leap on a roof vent to get back on the tracks and run back to the station so I wouldn't have to just jump off the building and risk killing myself. All in the first thirty minutes of the game. Had a good time, seems like a great game to play in pieces, mission by mission, or just fuck around till you're bored. I like how compact it is compared to the newer games, feels more like a video game level extrapolated into a town as opposed to a town retrofit into a video game.

>>718318742
this

>>718318960
>>718321686
It was one of those "the future is now" moments.

GTA 3 is a game where you can feel everyone who worked on it truly dumped their heart and soul into it.

Understand the dev team only consisted of about 20 people. Twenty people made this and ultimately created the genre.

game is a bit short, was very surprised when it just ended

Never had any attachment to gta despite playing most of them and finishing them. Always thought they were mid

>>718322374
where are the women
just kidding i bet half of them are in this picture

The driving is still so damn fun

More fun and fast paced than IV and V

>>718323070
This was a time when people channeled their troubles into their work.

>>718322374
We will never go back to this and get SOVLFVL game ever again.
Gamedev teams now consist of Jeets, diversity hires and slave devs, with Project Managers and HR overseeing them.

>>718321825
same here

gta 3 has a certain arcade feeling to it. feels good.

>>718325618
I miss when games were more arcadey and gamey

>>718318368 (OP)
It is underrated. The map works well since you quickly memorize it and it has nice amounts of variation in a condensed space.

Shame that the third island is so unfinished.

GTA3 was better than Shenmue because is more realistic hit people than talk to them

>>718318742
Based GTA III and San Andreas enjoyer

>>718318742
SA is too long and bloated and doesn't have coked out Tommy run speed. And SA is ironically enough the longest game in the series and least deserving.

>>718318368 (OP)
Tis a masterpiece. They're just ripping off Bringing Out The Dead and King of New York a lot but it comes across as very unique and inspired. Same thing with IV desu.

>>718322161
>feels more like a video game level extrapolated into a town as opposed to a town retrofit into a video game.
Well said.
I would say 4 is sitting somewhere between those two positions.

>>718327246
>because is more realistic hit people than talk to them
Burger moment.

COMIN' BACK WITH A BLAST

IN THE NAVY

I love this game.

>>718329302
SA falls off when you have to deal with catalina's shit and then get to san fierro. When SA is boyz in the hood and then CJ being exiled to bumfuckville is the best part of the game. my feelings as to why ultimately boil down to when CJ is just some street thug is when he is most interesting. The increase in scope SF and later LV bring (yeah yeah gotta do ocean's eleven in not-vegas) dilute this experience for me. The return to LS is decent (apart from gang wars because that is poorly done) because we go back to thug CJ now deciding to unfuck shit rather than just go with the flow the rest of GSF (well, mainly sweet) dictate.

>>718332369
Fix your minimap.

Yep, I've been drinkin' again

So did they REALLY find zombie elvis?

If I recall it had a bit of an eerie feeling to it.

It tickles me how the pile of magazines you get in your portland safehouse for finishing the el burro mission is both a reference to his name, british slag and a bong children's TV show that (by now) hasn't been broadcast for 70-80 years. The fact that playing on ps2 also makes it nearly impossible to see because of the resolution unless you stand real close and use a sniper to zoom in is one of those many little things that turn up in rockstar games.

>>718318742
SA is the over bloated directionless mess of a sequel that usually happens to the third installment of any franchise

>>718318368 (OP)
Zoomshits will never know, their first gta was V

>>718333551
The PS2 version at least has a notable blue hue to it which does a surprising amount of heavy lifting for the atmosphere. Almost like the whitepoint is 6000k or something.

>>718334358
This is false. Even back in 2007-2012 kids under the age of 10 were playing GTA. Most of my friends started with SA or something.
t. '99 zoomer

>>718318368 (OP)
Which version do I play?

Emulate PS2?

>>718335281
The modded pc version is the best overall but y'knoiw, modding. For just plug-and-play ps2 version thrown into pcsx2 is the easiest. Regardless of which way you go the ps2 version is generally considered the gold master against which all others are judged.

>>718325763
Same that's why saints row 1 and 2 were so good

>>718336051
Doin' gods work

>>718322161
you can jump off
VC 3 and stories have a max fall damage of like 40

I found out that the action replay cheat for infinite health doesn't actually do that - it gives you absurd health regeneration but during on session of "lmao 6 stars how long can you last" I got jumped by 4 army dudes and their M16's killed me because they did so much damage it outpaced the regeneration.

>>718329302
>>718332510
the hood shit is the most sloggish shit with the tacked on territories
SF is a breath of fresh air and you become james bond in the desert just for sweet to show up and bog the game down again

>>718332510
Fierro is fine since it's a fresh experience compared both to LS hood and countryside. Tough it's still ganster like. Venturas is where it gets weird and borders on parody.

>>718337251
God that muggy, blue atmosphere GTA 3 had to its weather always gave it a kind of character I've been obsessed with since I played it.

>>718338242
We all know and love it.

>>718318742
For me it's a tie between GTA 3 and GTA 2.

>>718325618
>>718325763
True. For how revolutionary it was you can still feel a lot of GTA2 into it which completely disappeared in later instalments.

>>718322374
We have to go back.

>>718339076
It is a shame we'll never get another gta 2 like game as imo it would massively benefit from 3d.

>>718318368 (OP)
I enjoyed it when it originally first came out back in the day but recently I've been doing a playthrough of all GTA games this year before VI drops in a few months and this is the only one I had to legit stop playing mid way and skip, it's just fucking bad gameplay wise.
every other game has been fine

>>718340456
But...but...the AESTHETICS!!!!

>>718318368 (OP)
Honestly can't take it. It's like the potential man meme. Yeah it's super innovative and a fuckhuge open world until you play like 5 missions, and they all suck balls compared to the other 3D GTAs. OST has some good tracks but several stations are actual fucking garbage. The map is nice and you get familiar with the city easily until you get to fucking Shoreside and have a sudden desire to murder every single motherfucker who worked on this goddamn district.

>>718340456
>it's just fucking bad gameplay wise
Low IQ spotted.

>>718340456
Catalina, plz.

>>718341467
GTA3 is fucking dogshit
>framerate, performance, and pop-in are horrible
>pressure sensitive X to drive is obnoxious, have to constantly mash it in fully for top speed
>camera controls are so fucking bad. forced inverted for first person, can only see directly in front of you and cannot pan the camera at all while moving or driving; can only do jarring instant switches to sideview/rearview
>gun controls are the worst I've ever seen. lockon is so inconsistent and you just stand there like a beanpole spamming your gun. can't aim, can't take cover, can barely move, can't look around without fucking up your aim
>can only driveby with one weapon and only when aiming left/right
>mute protagonist means zero conversations in the car
>police are extremely aggressive and will repeatedly spawn out of thin air and smash into you rendering any car destroyed in like 30 seconds
>police will just sprint up and open a car moving at 20mph, aim their gun at you for a nanosecond and you're instantly busted and lose all weapons
>no map in the menu at all (and many icons don't show up at all, only for a limited time, or only if you're very close)
>minimap is just awful. no way to manually control it and it constantly has jarring zooms way in and way out as your speed changes
>cars are so fragile, hit a traffic cone at 5 mph and your car starts smoking
>NPC drivers drive like absolute psychopaths, veering all over the road smashing into everything. of course, they're invincible, while you take 1-2 hits and can't drive straight
>missions are basic fetch quests and usually only a few minutes long
>hostile NPCs and police just disappear right in front of you when you reach a destination or finish a mission. You have hostiles shooting you, finish a mission and they instantly phase out of existence
Legitimately one of the worst games I've ever played

>>718341647
>mute protagonist means zero conversations in the car
Lowest IQ spotted.

>>718321686
>all friends came to see the game
We did this for GTA 5 when a friend got his hands on a copy for PS3 a week before the official release date

>>718318368 (OP)
LC Stories is better

>>718341887
That must've been exciting as fuck. I mean I wasn't enamoured by GTA V but I do remember the hype and that is part of the experience.

>>718341901
no

Anyone else here never completed SA because they'd fuck their saves by messing with cheat codes and then were unable to complete some mission in Las Venturas because of a bug
I still have no idea how the game ends, maybe should replay it some day

>>718341887
>>718341963
I unironically can't wait for VI to completely devour the /v/ catalogue for a year straight

I'm assuming once there's images of the male strippers floating around that will be majority of the OP images

it's my favorite one

>>718339076
>>718339593
>we'll never get another mission like Hot Dog Homicide

>>718341647
Most of these points are correct and they had a lot of room to tighten things up, which they did by the time of SA, but worst game you've ever played? You must only have played about 8 games in your life.

>>718341901
I fucking love LCS and Toni is definitely an underrated protagonist, but I'll say it's different, story-wise and atmosphere-wise. Which one you prefer is up to you.
One undeniable good point towards LCS is the easier gameplay thanks to things from VC and SA.
>fucking bikes, really helps when you're in Shoreside Vale
>VC's selection of weapons
>SA's free aim
>fucking Slash TV, definitely one of the best side activities in all GTA history
A shame you can't get a Hunter without using glitches though, because LC isn't made to be seen from above.

>>718341901
>>718342884
Best thing about the PSP games was hacking the shit out of them
People even made extremely crude but soulful custom locations and race tracks for them

>>718342178
Can't wait for the ragebait screenshots of black peds on beaches to flood /v/.

>>718318368 (OP)
https://youtu.be/xzH7h465MMM

The PS2 era GTAs are such that they all have a specific aura about them.

For example it's pretty unquestionable that San Andreas is objectively the best game from the era but personally I like Vice City better because I just happen to like it's "atmosphere" better.

>>718343790
That rockstar ram, rom intro is burned into my soul as the first two games I got with my ps2 were gta 3 and smuggler's run 2.

>>718343790
And their intro themes are all awesome. The LCS and VCS ones are underrated.

I see pain in your future.

>>718343830
https://youtu.be/Ag6H1e1rXJ0
Absolute kino.

>>718343902
>trusting anything that comes out of leeds
I wouldn't even eat a kebab from leeds.

GTA3 was my first exposure to reggae that I can remember.

>>718342109
took me 19 years to finally finish the game without any issues lol

>>718344035
Your loss, I guess.

>>718343998
seeing this intro screen for the first time put a shit eating grin on my face since unlike most kids i actually had and played games on a commodore 64

>>718344339
>admitting to being 50 on 4chins

>>718318368 (OP)
When the main compliment someone gives a game or anime is that it's "comfy" you know it's abysmal dogshit

>>718318960
>3 was absolutely magical in 2001. I can't relive those days.

I remember a school friend making up the wildest shit about gta 3 before the rest of us got to play it. It was just that - a load of bullshit - but still the fact that it could've been true was enough for us to lose our minds.

>>718344412
no i was the poorfag kid who got all the consoles a generation too late
the c64 was absolute ass in hindsight but i had a crate full of mystery white label floppies with bootleg games and so my curiosity couldn't be contained
i have vivid memory recall of gamestop in the late 90s having entire walls and bins full of traded in sega genesis games for 25-50 cents each.
mom bought me a genesis for $15 and sonic 2 for a dollar

>>718318368 (OP)
The only GTA games that didn't age like complete abject shit are the top down ones

>>718344493
Try making it more obvious you aren't terminally obsessed with this shit site.

If a regular person calls a game "comfy" they probably aren't regurgitating /v/ buzzwords they probably just think the game is actually comfy.

>>718344954
>giving a fuck what normies think
>ever

EEEEEYUP. I'VE BEEN DRINKIN' AGAYN.

>>718344860
>I'm a contranian faggot so I'm going to pretend the first GTAs that nobody likes were the best ones

Hey guess what the first GTA game cover has Trump tower on it deal with it.

>>718345154
>the first
Chinatown wars and the GBA game buttrape every other GTA

>>718345154
luv me top down GTA

>>718345261
Straight up soothing

You now remember Darkel from GTA III.

san andreas got me into house music and now im gay

>>718345261
You do you.

But a lot of people grew up thinking GTA 3 was the first in the series. In a similar way I remember little kids pointing at Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and going "THIS IS THE FIRST ONE MOM".

>>718344954
Comfy is literally a /v/ buzzword. Normal people don't describe games like that, they use words like "fun"

Reminder that Bully is the best Rockstar game.

>>718345701
No that would be midnight club 2.

>>718345261
this is actual SOVL, not pseudo soul slop like GTA 3

>>718345623
>I grew up around people that though GTA 3 was the first Grand theft auto
Why concern yourself with the thoughts of fucking idiots

>>718345701
Bully and RDR1 are the only ones I liked due to the immersive world and narrative. Any GTA bores me to tears after fucking around for 15 minutes.

>>718345759
https://youtu.be/g-Tvk7-DXVM
ACTUALLY I WONDERED IF I COULD SMOKE WEED WITH YOU AND FILL OUR BELLIES WITH DIET SODA AND PLAY BURNOUT REVENGE ON THE PS TOOOOOOO.

>>718345952
This, I can't suspend my disbelief long enough to pretend "Italians are actually really cool" to play 3

>>718345952
Rockstar actually did spend a bunch of money trying to develop a Bully 2 that took place in college. But they didn't like it so they bailed on it and it died.

So FUCK YOU if you liked Bully I guess.

>>718346368
I liked it when the game was called canis canum edit.

>>718345261
Unironically the best way to play 3 since the controls were so shit it hindered your visibility

>>718346979
Guess I'll just rub my toes on my feet since I'm such a massive faggot.

>>718346634
it was always called that in yurop

>>718347315
*dick all big*
sigh but why?

>>718347579
bully was a problematic name
I'm not joking

>>718346368
I don't think I want a Bully game made by nuRockstar desu

>>718323913
COME HOME AND PLAY OLD GAMES WHITE MAN

>>718318742
imagine thinking that this janky piece of shit is good, let alone the best of the series