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Post by andrew8798 on Dec 25, 2008 13:25:57 GMT -5
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Post by General Adam on Dec 25, 2008 13:26:50 GMT -5
The first GTA game I played.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 25, 2008 13:31:39 GMT -5
Great game at the time.
I can't really go back and play it now. Something about the perspective just throws me off these days. I can play other top-down games, but this one was just...it was weirdly done.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 25, 2008 13:41:51 GMT -5
People can say whatever they want, I still think this game has aged horribly. It's impossible to move the cars efficiently, and the overhead view doesn't help. The missions were repetitive and boring, and often annoyingly hard.
Honestly, until Vice City came out, GTA games were very forgettable.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 25, 2008 13:45:36 GMT -5
Exactly, ssnakey. It was awesome at the time, but it REALLY hasn't aged well at all.
I can still go back and play anything after II and have a good time, but the older ones just don't do it for me like they used to.
And this is coming from someone who started out on the original GTA.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 25, 2008 14:04:56 GMT -5
Exactly, ssnakey. It was awesome at the time, but it REALLY hasn't aged well at all. I can still go back and play anything after II and have a good time, but the older ones just don't do it for me like they used to. And this is coming from someone who started out on the original GTA. I guess I have the same feeling about GTA III. When I first played it, I was all "WOAAAAAHHH!! This is awesome! The city is HUGE!! There are tons of cars and s***, you can do drive-bys, ... it rocks!" and now, when I play it nowadays I think "well... it's definitely fun for five minutes but... man it gets boring quickly." You've also got to keep in mind it was one of the first PS2 games I saw and played, so it looked revolutionary at the time.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 25, 2008 14:09:32 GMT -5
I can understand that, but it's still fun to me.
I also still enjoy the fact that you can hide out on top of the police station, and the police will never get at you. Hours of fun were had wreaking havoc up there.
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Post by Alucard on Dec 25, 2008 14:12:05 GMT -5
I still enjoy the originals.
Can't beat the pricetag of "Free".
(That's not a warez endorsement, you can totally download them straight from Rockstar's site)
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Post by Single H on Dec 25, 2008 14:29:20 GMT -5
I prefer the old GTA games to the new ones. Iam an old school gamer thoughy lol. I like GTA 2 however I do prefer the 1st one.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Dec 25, 2008 14:36:32 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong, I've been gaming since the NES, and I still play tons of old-school games. It doesn't matter when a game came out to me, as long as it's good.
I just don't think the first two GTAs aged particularly well at all.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 25, 2008 14:44:56 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong, I've been gaming since the NES, and I still play tons of old-school games. It doesn't matter when a game came out to me, as long as it's good. I just don't think the first two GTAs aged particularly well at all. Same here. I have the same feeling during the occasional times I bring my SNES back from the dust and play some Mortal Kombat (as in, the original game). Yeah, pretty much all the fun when playing it nowadays comes from the kicks of nostalgia. I think some of the old-school games that aged the best are FPS games. Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Exhumed, ... the only exception would be Wolfenstein 3D. No matter how much people try to convince me, I will never find it good.
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Post by Spyke the Pacers Fan on Dec 25, 2008 15:01:17 GMT -5
GTA 2 was very fun, but the thing that frustrated me the most was getting lost and not being able to find the save point.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 25, 2008 15:13:01 GMT -5
GTA 2 was very fun, but the thing that frustrated me the most was getting lost and not being able to find the save point. Yeah, that's my other big beef against the game: only one save point (as far as I remember) and no freaking map to tell you how far from it you were, so if you were in a hurry or just wanted to stop playing it, you had to spend more time looking for that god damned save point than you actually spend playing the game. And with a bit of bad luck, you eventually crashed into a police car or crushing a pedestrian in front of a policeman and here you go for the car chase while all you wanted to do was to find that freaking SAVE POINT!!
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Post by Single H on Dec 25, 2008 15:56:58 GMT -5
Yeah, that's my other big beef against the game: only one save point (as far as I remember) and no freaking map to tell you how far from it you were, so if you were in a hurry or just wanted to stop playing it, you had to spend more time looking for that god damned save point than you actually spend playing the game. And with a bit of bad luck, you eventually crashed into a police car or crushing a pedestrian in front of a policeman and here you go for the car chase while all you wanted to do was to find that freaking SAVE POINT!![/quote]
Ya that's true thatswhy I always used the level cheat while palying GTA 2
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Post by default on Dec 25, 2008 17:19:44 GMT -5
This was my first GTA2 game. I convinced my mom to get it for me at EB used back in the day for my dad's PS. Call me crazy, but I didn't find the top down perspective annoying at all. Granted, I played it a TON and after I beat it, it became insanely easy. All you really had to do was do like 5-8 missioned to build up your multiple factor. Then find a tank and start destroying everything in your path. And in either the second or last level, if you had an extra life, you could just park your tank under the tunnel at the bottom of the screen. The cops would be standing above you and too off screen to chase you. You'd keep making money hand over first (especially with the multiple factors).
Bottom line, I loved this game. The first was alright (my friend had it), but I loved the second. I prefer it to the third (although I liked VC and SA more... haven't played enough of IV really).
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Post by Loki on Dec 25, 2008 18:55:46 GMT -5
People can say whatever they want, I still think this game has aged horribly. Of course it has, but I don't think it's necessary a bad thing... The game was, and still is, good fun, without requiring a Top Shelf videocard and super-duper graphics. The graphics on GTA and GTA2 looked dated already when the games first came out. It was actually part of its appeal: an easy and "light" game, fun to pick up and play. That was actually part of the fun... Driving around FAST was usually vital, but speed increased the chance for running people over, thus making cops more angry... And the same goes for GTA 3, VC, SA, 4... Repetitiveness is the worst enemy of the GTA franchise, but many fans and reviewers tend to forget that. Vice City was great for the 80s nostalgia factor, but the core of the game hasn't changed from the first chapter to the overhyped GTA IV
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Dec 25, 2008 19:03:06 GMT -5
And the same goes for GTA 3, VC, SA, 4... Repetitiveness is the worst enemy of the GTA franchise, but many fans and reviewers tend to forget that. I disagree. In GTA 2, it was always "go there, kill that guy, go there, kill that, go there, kill that guy." In the newer games, there's more to it. Like taking embarrassing picture of someone to blackmail them, stealing a particular item/vehicle. There's been a bigger variety of vehicles and therefore a bigger variety of missions (well, it's still mostly killing people, but not JUST by foot or via drive-by) and of course, there's been more and more side missions like vigilante, taxi, ambulance, fireman, etc... I agree that the ideas remained basically the same, but there's been a lot of variations of these ideas.
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Post by a1TheEnigma1a on Dec 25, 2008 19:04:08 GMT -5
I never liked GTA 1 or GTA 2. GTA 3 was epic then I didn't like Vice City so much. I guess you could call that hit 'n' miss.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 25, 2008 19:12:07 GMT -5
I'm still trying to beat this blasted game. I have to go coast to coast (every mission without ever dying, failing, or getting arrested) before I can say I've beaten it. And like cereal, I can't start the new game (GTA3) before I've beaten the old one. Somehow I coast to coasted GTA1, and have been stuck trying to do the same thing here for years. I keep screwing up the tank missions. I f***ing hate tank missions.
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Post by domrep on Dec 25, 2008 19:42:04 GMT -5
Holy hell this looked horrible. And that was the camera angle? You couldn't adjust it to the way it is now? Terrible.
And what was with the blow torches and electrocutions or whatever? I felt like I was watching an X-Men game or something. Forget the difference between GTA 2 and Vice City. Just look at the difference between GTA 2 and 3. It was completely different.
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