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crazychris4124

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thoughts on the series and the upcoming gta 5 which will be released in september or october.

just looked it up, it will be released on september 17

my first gta was gta 3. one of the best games on the ps2 that ive played even though i only completed the first handful of missions, maybe 2-3, 5 at the most. i would just use cheats and just cause chaos across each island, i have no clue how the game ended and i think i plan on keeping it that way.

gta vice city is my 2nd favorite game for the ps2, right behind battlefront 2. id give vice city a 99 while bf2 would get a 100. everything about vice city was awesome, music the radio host doing funny/crazy stuff, i actually played the missions, they were fun and some were challenging but i was still able to beat it. i loved to fly around n try to kill people with the blades or jump off piers with a boat. only thing at fault was you could not swim even though the game is set in miami which is known for its beaches and crystal clear water.

didnt play gta san andreas for a while due to the hot coffee 'crisis'. i got it off a torrent site a year or two ago and idk just something about it didnt click for me, i never finished it.

gta 4 was hell of a lot of fun...at first. sometime after the episodes were released it was hard for me to play more than 20 minute of it and forget about multiplayer. all of the modes were empty except free roam but that sucked since 90% of the modders were dicks and they would just kill u over n over again or they would somehow reset your xbox. i still have the game but i almost never play it, maybe once or twice a year.

i played all three portable gta games for the psp. chinatown wars was the best and vice city stories was great, it was nice that could swim and build and defend a crime empire.

hopefully gta 5 fixes some of the problems in gta 5 like getting rid of the modders, adding incentives for playing the other game modes, improving on the radio (kinda disappointing in gta 4), less serious single player but not too silly like saints row. it looks like we will see a trailer or maybe even a gameplay demo at e3, would be awesome if we got something earlier.
 
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I played GTA II then went on GTA III. I bought Vice City and San Andreas on PS2 and they were my favorite game for a very long time :).
 
The first I played was the original, I still have the demo somewhere for PS1. I have owned and played all of em since and I am proof that games do not break kids.

What GTA5 needs is as Denther says - PC support
 
The only console I have ever owned is a PS2, and I don't even have that anymore. So they better do a PC release, even a late one is better than nothing.
 
Aastii said:
The first I played was the original, I still have the demo somewhere for PS1. I have owned and played all of em since and I am proof that games do not break kids.

What GTA5 needs is as Denther says - PC support
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And that means more than a crappy unoptimised port
 
Denther said:
No kidding. That's my most demanding game. I run BF3 maxed out at about 60FPS average but this game struggles to stay about 35 on medium/high.
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Proptip: It's your 955. Trust me, I had one. The intels completely smash it in GTA IV unfortunately.
 
linkin said:
Proptip: It's your 955. Trust me, I had one. The intels completely smash it in GTA IV unfortunately.
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Yeah I know.... :/ My overclock helped a bit but not very much. That's the one game where I regret having an AMD. Everything else it works fine for. I laugh at people when they say AMD isn't enough for gaming. I'm rocking a 4 year old chip and am still maxing pretty much everything I throw at it.
 
crazychris4124 said:
hopefully gta 5 fixes some of the problems in gta 5 like getting rid of the modders, adding incentives for playing the other game modes, improving on the radio (kinda disappointing in gta 4), less serious single player but not too silly like saints row. it looks like we will see a trailer or maybe even a gameplay demo at e3, would be awesome if we got something earlier.
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They are called "hackers" for a reason, you cant get rid of them. All devs can do is make the game harder to modify, but Id actually rather try and steer devs AWAY from making games harder to modify because mods are what keep games alive years after their release. GTA4 for PC wouldnt still be installed on my PC if it wasnt for all the mods for it. Hopefully GTA5 follows suit with this, but that all depends on the modding community. I for one am not very good at modding, though I have made few attempts with different "value" games that were developed poorly to begin with thus are easier to modify as they are more elegant.

From the sounds of things, the single player will remain just as serious as its always been. I havent noticed it being any more/less serious than it has been from the 3rd one. It will never be like Saints Row though, thats what makes Saints Row its own game.

If anything, the single player will be more serious as you are divorced and have kids. Thats always fun...

Watch Dogs seems to be a likely competitor to GTA5 for me. While its a bit of the opposite, more like True Crime, its still open world and free like GTA and so far its number 1 on my list of next gen games.

And to trip down memory lane with others, the original GTAs were in their day the best thing since sliced bread. Whats sad, is unlike other original games like Zelda, Sonic, Earthbound, or so on, you cant just pick it back up 20 years later and know WHY it was the best. Its something thats hard to see today.
 
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G80FTW said:
They are called "hackers" for a reason, you cant get rid of them. All devs can do is make the game harder to modify, but Id actually rather try and steer devs AWAY from making games harder to modify because mods are what keep games alive years after their release. GTA4 for PC wouldnt still be installed on my PC if it wasnt for all the mods for it. Hopefully GTA5 follows suit with this, but that all depends on the modding community. I for one am not very good at modding, though I have made few attempts with different "value" games that were developed poorly to begin with thus are easier to modify as they are more elegant.

From the sounds of things, the single player will remain just as serious as its always been. I havent noticed it being any more/less serious than it has been from the 3rd one. It will never be like Saints Row though, thats what makes Saints Row its own game.

If anything, the single player will be more serious as you are divorced and have kids. Thats always fun...

Watch Dogs seems to be a likely competitor to GTA5 for me. While its a bit of the opposite, more like True Crime, its still open world and free like GTA and so far its number 1 on my list of next gen games.

And to trip down memory lane with others, the original GTAs were in their day the best thing since sliced bread. Whats sad, is unlike other original games like Zelda, Sonic, Earthbound, or so on, you cant just pick it back up 20 years later and know WHY it was the best. Its something thats hard to see today.
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im talking about the douchebag modders on xbox that have unlimited ammo, bottomless clips and invincibility plus some will somehow restart your xbox. pc mods like icenhancer, new car models and skins are great if you can get them to work properly. wish rockstar would give us a steam workshop for gta 4 like they did with l4d2. easy access, installation and secure download for all mods.
 
For me it has to be Vice city, it reminded me so much of my youth,
the music, clothes,cars,even the wacky chats on the radio,
gta 3 was good but not polished enough,
san andreas to large
vice city just right
 
Vice City was my favorite. 3 was great when I first played it but i cannot go back to it.

San Andreas and 4 did not do anything for me. Cannot say why exactly. San andreas was just too big, and tried to do too much. 4 just lost some of what made the PS2 games great.
 
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