All I hear about this game is “best game ever.” People honestly seriously get mad at me when I tell them I don’t like it or I think it’s boring or even that I simply don’t think it’s the best game ever.
I’ve played it, and in all honesty I just thought it was kind of…boring. Fun for about 15 or 20 minutes but very repetitive and stale. The play control is terrible too, not smooth at all. And after about an hour of playing it on a big screen TV I got a horrible headache and I almost hurled (and I am NOT one to get motion sick.) Grand Theft Auto 3, I can honestly say, is the only video game that has ever literally made me sick.
Turns out that people have different opinions. Odd…
I love GTA3, although I still haven’t gotten around to finishing it, got drawn away by a few other games that I like even better.
It’s not for everyone of course, but I haven’t met anyone who hasn’t enjoyed it. Whenever my non-PS2 owning friends come over they all grab for the game like it was the last banana in the monkey-house.
Kind of contradicting…My whole point (contrary to your “different opinions” point) is that I haven’t met a single person, online or in real life, who hasn’t completely diefied this game. And I meet alot of people.
Sorry, but you haven’t even begun to scratch even the outermost stratosphere of the depths of this game. Come back and see us when you’ve spent a solid week on it (and I mean without sleep or eating and stuff…)
Well I’m not going to get mad at you just because you don’t think it is the best game ever. How you can call it boring boggles my mind though. Here’s why many people think it is one of the best games ever.
Large well detailed environment. There are 3 sections of the city to explore with many hidden items throughout.
There are many vehicles for the character to steal including sports cars, army trucks, police cars, ambulances, a bus, and even a personal aircraft.
It isn’t difficult to learn how to play and the missions are fun.
Outside of the missions required to win the game there are plenty of bonus missions. Finding all the packages, busting criminals in vigilante mode, rescuing injured people in the ambulance, and putting out fires with the firetruck.
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I beat the game twice before it started to wear thin. I guess we can just chalk this up to GTA 3 not being your cup of tea.
Well you’re the only one I’ve ever heard who made those complaints about GTA 3. If the game were no good I seriously doubt it’d outsell Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid.
If it makes you feel any better I don’t like the Final Fantasy games at all. I find them very dull even though some of the graphics are pretty.
The reasons why GTA3 rules have been pretty well outlined. But if it’s not your thing, hey no big deal.
I myself cannot get into the Tony Hawk games at all. Everyone raves about them, even people who otherwise hate skateboarding. However, it was SSX that first got me hooked on boarding games. Tony Hawk does jack for me.
Heh… I guess I’m the only person who wishes that GTA3 was even more detailed. I’m talking about “rent a hotel room thirty floors up and snipe someone out from half a kilometer away” detailed. I’m talking about “pick out which boxes of virtual cereal you want to put rat poison into” detailed.
But I’m very anal about games. I haven’t yet found one that reaches my preferred level of micro-detail… ah well.
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Does anyone know if/when this will come on the Greatest hits program? I want to buy the game but if its going to be 1/2 price in a month or two I can wait.
bernse: I doubt this will happen soon, since it’s still one of (if not the) top-seller for PS2. IMO, not worth waiting a year to save $15, but, to each their own.
Got around to picking the PC version up a few days back, and have been playing pretty much non-stop. I hope the half-sequel coming up gets a faster port.
Nay. I want more alleyways too narrow for cop cars, more bolt-holes, buildings that you can bust into while trying to lose the cops when on foot, some sort of Elite-style dynamic mission generator, and a more fluid gang-hatred setup. Perhaps like the current Cop Annoyance Level, with places to go to zero out a gang’s hatred of you for a suitable fee. More, more, more!
About my only real complaint is the instant replay mode should really have been designed to be on the level of Driver, or at least have more user control (more cameras, zooming, etc.).
Does anyone else play the game, but not? My brother and I compete to see how many people we can run over etc and how high a police rating we can get before being wasted or busted… I like the buses best for this
I suppose I’ll eventually get around to completing challenges, but we just got it. I can’t believe how much better this version of the game is than (dreamcast)GTA2.
Oh, yeah. I’m not a video game person, so I kinda suck at doing missions and things of that sort. I just like seeing what new things I can get to happen. I can’t count the number of laugh out loud moments I’ve had with this game. One of my favorites was when I stole a car while it was waiting in traffic, then the owner stole it back from me, and drove straight into the car sitting in front of him.
The “how long can I survive with the army after me” game is pretty fun as well. Especially if you have the machine gun and can shoot down the helicopters.
I can understand not liking the game, although it seems pretty rare among people I know, but I can’t see it being boring after an hour.
You’ll want to ask around, but I’m pretty sure that the GH program has a time component - I think the game has to have been out for > 6 months, but I’m not entire certain.
And Cisco, I’m wondering, did you try the missions or did you just go around running people over and beating people up? Even I, who love the game, get tired of it when I do nothing but do that (for about 1 minute) then try and avoid arrest (for about the next 10) then rinse and repeat.
Oh, and if we’re looking for things we want in the next game, keep in mind that the original GTAs had motorcycles - the Superbike was, bar none, the fastest vehicle in the game, though damn near impossible to control - and the ability to walk backwards which, though it doesn’t seem like much, means that you can run from the cops and shoot at them at the same time.
Oh, and the lines of Hare Krishnas (changed to Elvis impersonators for GTA2) that you could run over for massive point bonuses ($75K, IIRC).
Yessir. And I’d like the virtual world to be bigger - yes, BIGGER!!!- three areas in one city just isn’t enough for me! I’d like more “unique” people running around outside, I’d like a constantly moving virtual world (not this “randomly generate random people and vehicles when you get close” stuff).
Unfortunately, that sort of game wouldn’t work on any of the current consoles… heck, I don’t think it’d even work on even ultra-high-end computers right now. Not for what I want. I guess I’ll just have to wait…
I just want to say, there are some people I know who love the game for all the wrong reasons. I can see why one would like the game so long as it were more than just a blood spilling lust. The game just uses that as a gameplay device, it’s not all that there is to the game.
Stupid friends of mine just want to play it becaus they think they are cool if they do. It’s sort of like when people hail beer to be the best beverage on the face of this plannet, but really either hate it, or just think it’s “ok”. I’ve know people like that, it really pisses me off. They just do it because they think they’re ‘bad’, or just one of the guys.
You just described my friend Chris, Mr. ZZZ. He ranted and raved about the greatness of this game, and when he showed it to me… all he did was steal a car, run over a few pedestrians, get chased by the cops (and, eventually, a helicopter), and then die. Repeat ad infinitum.
It was amusing once - and got slightly more amusing when he used the cheat codes to get a tank - but after he continued doing this for twenty minutes, I started to think that GTA3 probably wasn’t popular due to its intriguing and in-depth story…
Naw, man, the Barracks OL (or just a plain ol’ flatbed) is unparalleled. (Except, of course, for the tank, but that thing’s hard to get and hold on to doing it the natural - non-code - way.)
