Grand Theft Auto (Full series including GTAV and GTAVI)

GTA makes up for 60% of my console backlog lol.

Other GTA-related thoguhts/trivia:

First experience with GTA was either 1 or 2 at a buddy's house. Whichever one had the line of joggers in brown track suits. I thought they looked like cooked turkeys and always endeavored to run over the turkeys.

First GTA game I actually owned was GTA3 on the PS2. Lots of hours in that game. If you stock up enough ammo (or cheat) you can hold out against the cops indefinitely at the landing of the police station (ironically) between it and the hospital in the first area. Obviously choppers still come after you, but the AI isn't usually smart enough to come up the ramp around back and take you out. And since you're on foot, they'll drive up tanks right below you, get out and have a nice grenade/molotov dropped on them. Then you can steal a tank and go on a rampage that way. Also funny how tanks were invulnerable to everything except slow cooking by flamethrower. I miss that. Also ridiculously overpowered M4 vs the AK-47. Fav radio station: K-Jah

I played Vice City at another friend's house quite extensively but didn't get it myself until years later (late 2000s maybe even 2011-12). I also played it at school (long story there). Vice City is also where the perpetually flying tank was born (and apparently died since later games don't allow you to rotate the turret a full 180). Also loved shooting random assholes off bikes with the magnum. The distance they flew back was entertaining. Also this was the one that had Flock of Seagulls so props for that. I guess they were kicking themselves for blowing all the Scarface soundtrack on III though.

San Andreas was the bomb. Loved taking over gang territory with a jetpack and some Tac9s. Also loved cruising the desert in a chopper (the bike, not the helicopter) listening to K-DST. I actually have a K-DST playlist I'll pop on sometimes.

Got the Liberty City/Vice City Stories PS2 port two pack for Christmas one year before I finally got Vice City for myself. Played through Liberty City Stories, still need to do Vice City and Vice City stories (this is where the backlog starts).

My friends got me GTA IV for my birthday years ago (again, mid-2000s). Still haven't played it. San Andreas has made it hard to go back to Vice City with all the new features, I figure between that and the graphics update, it'd be even worse if I played IV first. I did pop it in briefly which resulted in a trophy entry on my account still sitting at 0%

Obviously haven't even touched V yet.

I'll get through it. Eventually.

I guess it worked in V, Rockstar can make a lot of things work I give them that, but I'm still not fan of it. I'm not part of GTA community, so I have no idea what kind of general feedback they got, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was positive.
As for GTA VI - Rockstar discovered a real gold mine with GTA Online, to the point that they even abandoned all single-player support. After that I can only expect some kind of GTA MMO and that's totally not my thing.

Yah, I mean, I keep waiting for a price drop (and no, not the Steam Sale price drops) of about 70-80%. Never comes, so therefore, never playing it. I tried to play IV, I got that one cheap... But quit about maybe 1/20th the way into it? I wasn't very far. Just too f'in' boring.

I swear, if it wasn't for the game being 60gb in size I'd just uninstall it... (took me quite a while to download back then when I really wanted to play).

GTA series was always too stupid and violent for me growing up, but GTA V definitely appealed to people like me (who were otherwise turned off by that kind of crap in the past) - except for one unacceptable scene, it's one of the greatest games I've ever played. I live in Los Angeles and the immensity of the realistic city AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY that they rendered is mind-blowing. What the hell.

If you want to avoid getting killed by others in public sessions, you can enable "passive mode" in the interactive menu. I usually stay in my own invite-only session with my friends because public sessions are full of cheaters on the PC.

It's definitely not a fun game if you don't have anyone to play with.

I'm not against multiple protags but I am against this current "reality" era of GTA where the cities are just empty, soulless carbon copies of their real life counterparts. I'd also like them to go back to the 3D/PS2 era and bring back the mafioso/gang warfare style that GTA3 and Vice City had. I'd like something different as well, like playing as a corrupt cop or a bounty hunter or something. Maybe even a female as one of the PCs. Most of all, pick a tone. Not 85% parody like 4 and 5.

What I want to hear from GTA in this gen is a good electronic, rap, and an actual METAL station maybe featuring Djent and Deathcore. On the electronic front, LSUR was a step in the right direction.

So, I realized today that I haven't really earned any achievements in GTA IV PC version. That is my next project. Been working through all past titles. Granted, once Anthem comes out, it's over.

Yeah I'm not really a GTA playe rbut the nwe trailer looks good I may be tempted by it if and when it does make it's wa yto PC as I heard it's coming to consoles first PC later. Not somethin gto worry about now though given it's dated 2025 so it's still more than a year out.

So: Grand Theft Auto V.

Prologue. Shoot a guard in the head. (yes, i tried to wing him, but that's not allowed apparently)
First mission. Recover a bike. Shoot a guy who's enquiring why I'm opening his garage. Shoot 9 more in the head. (to get perfect score)

Looks like I have to do a 'renegade' playthrough...