/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9954165
>had it as a kid and didn't play D1 until much later
>the cartridge is now gone
cCan't really relate to the D1 kids since I grew up with 2 and don't really have nostalgia for 1

Genuinely one my favorite games ever, I play through it regularly on emulator. Shame about the cartridge, bwygd. How much would it have fetched for these days? It was a PAL copy so I imagine it was pretty rare.

I remember just sitting at the end screen and listening to this over and over
https://youtu.be/mP0QhZsqoN4

I was 10 years old at the time, having grown up with an NES, Gameboy, PC and N64.

It blew my goddamn mind. No game before it had managed to give you such an intoxicating feeling of freedom. The pedestrians, the array of cars, the in-game radio that went on even when you weren't listening, the atmosphere, the day-night cycle. The violent subject matter was important, but thats only telling half the tale; The real reason it was so amazing was that it all contributed to the feeling of "I can do anything". Of course, you could just go do the missions and kill random pedestrians; Or you could say "fuck it" to any violence at all and go be a taxi driver in a seedy part of town, listening to flashback fm in the early hours of Portland docks as the rain falls on your hood. You could explore, just drive around, hell, you could even fly if you wanted to. You didn't ever need to, but it was there.

It might seem quaint in 2022, but at the time it genuinely felt like a game where you really could do anything. Liberty City truly felt alive, and every bit of GTA 3s success was completely earned.