Random GTA Discussion

Finished TLAD a few hours ago. Warning: Do not finish this game and watch the season finale of Sons of Anarchy in the same night. You will consider buying a motorbike.

Still love it. The story is fantastic. The characters are brilliant (and I still think Johnny is the most likeable of the three). The gameplay is great (being able to call for proper backup with Clay and Terry). Just brilliant.

Ballad of Gay Tony from tomorrow night.

Mc Love wrote: »

TBOGT is the best series of the three

No chance, TLAD is the easy winner. That should have been the main story with Niko as one of the DLC packs.

Beefy78 wrote: »

I've got to say... I don't like TLAD.

Mc Love wrote: »

TBOGT is the best series of the three

In terms of gameplay and humour, I'd agree. The mission scores and challenges were a great feature too (which I actually hope carries over to GTAV in some form).

For me though, I just didn't like Luis or his story. And I don't think the difference in gameplay was significant enough for me to pick TBOGT over TLAD. TLAD just had everything I wanted. TBOGT threw in some stuff which just didn't work for me (managing the nightclub, dancing minigames). I just loved the theme and vibe of TLAD, as well as being able to call for backup, races where you can hit other riders with baseball bats and how it tied in with the main GTAIV story (Niko killing Jason and Jim, Johnny kidnapping Roman, whereas Luis's connections mostly just revolved around the diamonds). Calling Clay to deliver a bike wherever you are was great too.

Let's face it, there's no wrong answer, and it's easy to see why people would pick one over the other.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

I liked TLAD, but I generally don't like motorbikes in GTA games, so it was always going to come 2nd to TBOGT for me.

I'm the opposite. Nine times out of ten in Vice City I'd save my game in the apartment opposite the biker gang's place (Big Mitch Baker) so when I'd start again I could take one of the Angel bikes. Loved flying down the long straight down to the ports, turning round and flying back up, with V-Rock blasting.

The faster bikes and scramblers though can be a bit annoying, but the chopper bikes, I nearly always steal them if I see them. And since Johnny can ride them better than Niko or Luis, they're great to ride in TLAD. Hell, just last night on the bike I slid sideways into a car and flipped it over. Very unrealistic, but pretty funny.

Almost finished TBOGT. This really does have pretty much all the best missions and weapons. I still don't like most of the characters though (Yusuf and Mori are brilliant, and Rocco is a pretty good antagonist, but Luis just annoys me most of the time).

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Luis was actually my favourite of the three. Don't really know why, guess I just liked his lifestyle. :P

I liked the story of BoGT. I liked Luis as well. He had that street smartness about him. I could really relate to him as I'm always struggling to make changes in my life and be a better person but life keeps throwing these curve-balls. It's hard to change your lifestyle and keep your friends at the same time if they are doing the very thing you are trying to get away from. I loved the banter they have on the way to missions. The two lads slagging Luis, typically being ingnorant and putting them down, only because they were probably some what jealous that Luis was going places, legitimately (sort of). That sort of begrudgery that's prevailent in Irish society.

The relationship betwen Luis and Tony was good. Luis felt he owed Tony his life. He knew Tony wasn't a bad guy but he got himself in a mess. Luis knows what it's like to be in a mess. Tony was the only guy who would take him on after Luis served time. Luis is probably the best thing that happened Tony. Tony gave him a chance and Luis paid off.

Rockstar did the odd couple and I think it was an original take on it. The street-smart thug with more brains than society would give credit and the camp drama-queen nightclub owner, taking on the Liberty City underworld.

Check this out:

Rockstar has revealed that it would one day love to put all of the Grand Theft Auto franchise’s cities into one huge game and allow players to fly between them.

“Of course at some point we would like to have one big world containing all our cities,” Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies told Digital Trends, “and let the player fly between them and revisit their favorite areas, and in that context re-imagining Vice City would be very interesting.”

The developer has previously boasted that Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos is bigger than Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and GTA IV combined, so the thought of having every city in one game is pretty close to becoming a plausible reality.

I genuinely believe that article is a hint at what r* are planning for when the next gens come out to pass the time between before gta 6 or whatever it might be.

Beefy78 wrote: »

Is it wrong that I can navigate my way around Portland in GTA 3 much better than I can the roads around where I grew up??

Played GTA III not long ago and within ten minutes on each island I knew exactly where everything was. Not having an in game map seems odd now but it really helped you learn where everything was

I had forgot how much fun San Andreas is.

Bring back the double weapon system for GTA V is all i can say.

Javelin was by far the most hilarious weapon of SA, police chopper after police chopper.....

aaronjumper wrote: »

While not at all practical, did anyone else feel like a badass wielding two sawn off shotguns?

Double Tec-9 is where it's at hommie.


It took me ages to pass the flying school ffs the last time i did the learning to fly mission i was still drinking.