Poll: What's your favorite GTA game so far?

[Chaos Isaac]

The one with good gameplay.

Oh, what, you don't know what I mean? Of course I mean GTA four. Yeah, sure, the NPC's call. But at least my car doesn't explode when flipped over, and the idiots i'm riding with will get out if that does happen. I can jump and move decently, and taking cover, blind firing and positions tend to mean more then jack all.

 

[Tanis]

I really have fond memories of Vice City.

But I did like being able to SWIM in S.A.

 

[captainballsack]

Personally, I don't think that the GTA games are good games by any stretch of the imagination. I think they make great TOYS, but not great, challenging games (Boy do I hate myself when I say shit like that).

With that said though, I enjoyed the Vice City experience the most, purely because it was the first one I played (and who doesn't love that soundtrack?!)

 

[Caffiene]

Ive enjoyed almost all of them, but I have to say the originals (1 & 2) were the most purely fun. Particularly the multiplayer.

 

[Spectrum_Prez]

Vice City, easily. San Andreas would be second - but I really didn't enjoy the miles and miles of empty countryside (which some people did, apparently). I'm a city guy and wished they had spent more time adding depth to one city rather than making three smaller ones and adding filler farmland in between.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Personally, I don't think that the GTA games are good games by any stretch of the imagination. I think they make great TOYS, but not great, challenging games (Boy do I hate myself when I say shit like that).

With that said though, I enjoyed the Vice City experience the most, purely because it was the first one I played (and who doesn't love that soundtrack?!)

Why hate yourself?
That's a valid perspective on it. I would agree, especially after you finish the story missions and sides, GTA definitely becomes a toy. You just jump in to play around and cause chaos in that little world. Some of them (like Vice and SA) felt like entire toy chests.

Everyone loves the Vice City soundtrack it seems. I loved it too. Actually, as a Genesis fan, I enjoyed the VCS soundtrack a little more. You could even play as Phil Collins in multiplayer. It had The Cure too.

 

[Kristian Fischer]

Vice City, closely followed by San Andreas. The rest can suck it.

 

[Talvrae]

Definatelly Vive City, the humor and character in it was great... i never got into San Andreas, and IV bored me

 

[00slash00]

Vice City was the most fun. It was the only game that really didn't seem to take itself seriously. I wanted to ike San Andreas because I had heard so much about how great it is, but I just didn't find it fun

 

[Longstreet]

GTA 2. No question about it.

Might be a bit nostalgia, but i loved just destroying EVERYTHING with my trusty flamethrower.

Vice city / San Andreas are not that far behind though.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Liberty City Stories deserves its own option in this poll, and it'd be my vote.

Especially The Ballad of Gay Tony combines the more zany atmosphere of Vice City and San Andreas with the advantages of GTA4's modern gameplay. And it does without the god-awful friend system of GTA4 to boot. What's not to love.

 

[thejoshualee]

I love all of them but my favorite was San Andreas. I loved the variety of locations and activities- like ramping a motorcycle off of the Luxor (or The Camel's Toe) into a base jump. The massive scale of that game provided ample opportunity for satire, which is my favorite aspect of the GTA games. I also loved the fact that so much of the landscape was familiar to me, having visited many of the spoofed locations in person. I loved playing pool at the Lil' Probe Inn because I've eaten at the Little A Le' Inn in Rachel, Nevada and so forth.
I feel San Andreas was in that perfect little sweet spot where Rockstar was satisfied with their technology to really go all out with a game in a cycle that started with III and was reset by VI.
It's looking like V could be another sweet spot, at least that's what I'm hoping for.

 

[Mr Mystery Guest]

San Andreas was the only one I didn't like and didn't complete. There were so many good things about it (jet packs) but it was just devoid of all humor. I didn't like how it took itself uber seriously and you do have to like gangster rap unless you play with mute on. The worst bit of gameplay was having to constantly eat otherwise you loose energy and can't complete the missions. That was far more irritating than being pestered by your fat cousin wanting to go bowling.

 

[MHR]

IV

I was a fan of the grey, gritty depressing realism. That and the guns were pretty fun to shoot; you had the copious sparks and the environment reacted with physics, and people stumbled and fell over when you shot them in the leg.

And if you think about it, the story was pretty epic. An endless blurr of pointless violenc for money, Niko being unable to escape the crime life destroying all the people he ever cared about, and in the end

Spoiler

the hobo

gets the bag of diamonds the whole city's underworld has been fighting over.

 

[DoPo]

GTA 2. No question about it.

Might be a bit nostalgia, but i loved just destroying EVERYTHING with my trusty flamethrower.

Come here, brother

Spoiler: I have something for you

Yeah, it's GTA 2 for me, as well. Dunno, GTA3 was boring, I found, and lacked a certain kind of wackiness I liked from the previous instalment. Never got into Vice City, as it looked mostly similar and I haven't really bothered with the series since.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

San Andreas was my first game outside of the likes of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon and even then I only got it because I read that I could be a Train Driver in it!

That game was my "Entrance" into the more mature games and seeing that game showed me that much of what was in the game was wrong and I shouldn't do it.
You heard me, I became a better person though GTA

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Jeez, for me it's a toss-up. I can't decide whether it's Vice city or San Andreas. For the longest time I though it was San Andreas and none of the other games would beat it. There's just so much in it. But then I played Vice City and it was just so Stylized and fun.

It's a tie, i can't.

 

[Roofstone]

IV.

I agree that it needs more humour, a bit more light heartedness, more to do, less phone calls..

But gosh darn it, I still liked that game. And I stand by it as long as I am not bribed to do otherwise!

 

[Vigormortis]

Ive enjoyed almost all of them, but I have to say the originals (1 & 2) were the most purely fun. Particularly the multiplayer.

Just about what I was going to say.

Pretty much every GTA after 2 were, to me, just significantly less fun, 3D versions of the first two games with mediocre crime dramas added on.

I was never interested in the characters. The stories never drew me into their worlds. The locales tended to quickly lose their appeal and luster.

I don't know. I just felt like there was more love and care put into the designs of GTA and GTA2. All of the games after (with possible exception of Vice City, maybe) felt like purely technical creations. Well crafted, to be sure, but devoid of fun and "soul".