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Anonymous Mon Mar 21 11:55:18 2022 No.8736716 [Reply] [Original]

What's the deal with the first 2 GTAs? I never see anyone talk about them. Are they worth playing?

Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:09:25 2022 No.8736767

Super zoomed out top-down game where all you do is
>drive to telephone booth
>guy tells you "go here and kill this guy for me"
>drive to place
>kill guy
>drive to another telephone booth
>guy tells you "now go to this other place and kill this other guy for me"
>repeat ad infinitum
>oh, and you sometimes get chased by the police
At least with the 3D games, you're not squinting to look at tiny ants, and there's an actual story

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:15:48 2022 No.8736796 GTA2 is only for people who know the meaning of respect. Such people are a rarity nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:32:18 2022 No.8736869 File: 128 KB, 256x364, The_Sopranos_-_Road_to_Respect_Coverart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8736796 Nah, that's pic related.

Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:32:34 2022 No.8736870

>>8736716
They're totally worth playing. It's obvious that the GTA concept was truly activated by to-scale 3D and sim elements, but like all /vr/, that doesn't make these games retroactively bad. For me, GTA1&2 represent 90s PC gaming, which was highly experimental and sort of underground.

I just realized that's Trump Tower on the boxart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:47:46 2022 No.8736924 >>8736716 Driver > gta

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:58:02 2022 No.8736954 >>8736716 top down blind driving has never really worked imo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 12:58:19 2022 No.8736956 Good games but hard to get running at the correct speed so it easy to end up crashing into buildings. They even had multiplayer on pc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 13:01:13 2022 No.8736964 >>8736716 It's worth playing. While GTA2 was good on console and PC, GTA1 should only be played on PC.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 13:05:16 2022 No.8736975 >>8736869 Someone should make a shop of this with a staredown between Tony and George Costanza

Anonymous Mon Mar 21 13:22:32 2022 No.8737013

>>8736716
They're freeware now, so you can see for yourself.

I downloaded GTA 2 a few months ago and played it for a couple of days. I had fond memories of it but there really isn't much to the game. The missions get really repetitive and occasionally frustrating, especially when your task is to drive a specific vehicle from point A to point B to point C while getting shot at by infinitely spawning enemies.

On the other hand I like that I can just launch the game and immediately start hijacking cars and massacring people without any cutscenes or missions. Just exploring the city, finding new powerups and hidden paths is pretty fun, though like I said I got my fill after a couple of days and don't feel any need to revisit the game anymore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 14:13:15 2022 No.8737129 >>8737013 Where are they freeware?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 14:34:20 2022 No.8737184 >>8736716 GTA 2 is probably the best top down racer / shooter on the PC, needs more love

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 15:17:27 2022 No.8737284 >>8736716 I thought they were really cool when they were released. I thought it was basically top-down carmagedon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 16:23:41 2022 No.8737450 File: 57 KB, 256x364, soprano.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8736975

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 16:27:50 2022 No.8737464 >>8736716 Yes they are excellent. The R* website used to have them for download for free until they became the company they are today, but definitely get the PC versions since the PS one is lacking.

Anonymous Mon Mar 21 16:32:11 2022 No.8737480

They're good. I prefer the first one. The second one's faction system is interesting but it is hard as balls, I mean I did beat it but some of those missions I had to skip or fail.
I think the best thing about them are the soundtracks and radio chatter. I still get songs from 2 stuck in my head all the time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 16:38:26 2022 No.8737503 >>8736716 Bad controls and boring scenarios. Forgotten for a reason.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 18:25:19 2022 No.8737764 >>8737450 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 19:16:56 2022 No.8737909 >>8737480 Same. Good games, at least for the time, but always preferred the first one. Any of you guys played GTA London? How was it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 19:22:34 2022 No.8737932 >>8737909 >Any of you guys played GTA London? How was it? Better than 1 and 2. It has good mission design, and actually has a narrative other than you're a criminal that wants money.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 19:36:02 2022 No.8737969 >>8737129 https://gta.com.ua/rockstargames-classics-free-download.phtml

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 19:44:40 2022 No.8737990 >>8737969 They put them back? Did they ever give out the London ones?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 19:56:26 2022 No.8738036 >>8737969 huh would never expect rockstar to do anything like that, thanks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 20:00:38 2022 No.8738052 >>8737990 I had to do some digging to find that link again, so I'm guessing it's not that they put them back, but rather maybe forgot to take that one down. No idea about London.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 20:17:24 2022 No.8738103 >>8737450 Heh

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 20:51:47 2022 No.8738176 >>8736716 yeah. and dont forget gta: chipchip cheerio edition

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 20:52:56 2022 No.8738182 >>8738176 nvm. i should read replies before answering, eh

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 21 20:54:41 2022 No.8738189 >>8736767 so hotline miami stole their gameplay loop from GTA?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 00:25:20 2022 No.8738662 >>8736869 Why the fuck did someone feel the need to make this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 00:29:06 2022 No.8738668 >>8736716 They're great games with bad controls.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 00:45:44 2022 No.8738701 File: 344 KB, 800x1156, 1645513919182.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8736869

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 00:55:10 2022 No.8738717 >>8736767 lol you must not be very good at video games

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 01:35:59 2022 No.8738776 >>8736964 PSX chad here. It's fun to get a beeber message about a car mission that doesn't exist in this version.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 03:56:52 2022 No.8738930 >>8738701 >>8738701 Now, this would work on a pizza box.

Anonymous Tue Mar 22 04:05:37 2022 No.8738951

>>8736716
I like the first GTA. I played it quite a bit back in the day. I tried GTA 2 and some other sequel that must have been on the PS2, but I couldn't get into them for whatever reason.
The missions are kind of beside the point. There isn't really much of a story. You can just go steal a car, run people over, shoot people, whatever. Evade the cops until you get caught, and repeat. Best car to steal is a police car, because it goes the fastest.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 08:48:16 2022 No.8739282 They get overlooked due to the success of the 3D games. I've somehow never played 2.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 08:53:35 2022 No.8739291 >>8736716 Play the PC versions

Anonymous Tue Mar 22 09:01:22 2022 No.8739314

>>8737990
>>8738036
That's not the official rockstar website, it has an .ua on the end.
If you wanna download gta 2 you can use this german website that rockstar themselves provided with download links back in the day
https://www.chip.de/downloads/Grand-Theft-Auto-GTA-2_13015291.html
Or just use myabandonware.

Anonymous Tue Mar 22 10:20:25 2022 No.8739479

>>8736716
I played the shit out of GTA2 on my PSX growing up. I loved that game. Usually just aimlessly drove around, causing mayhem, running over Elvis impersonators, and doing missions occasionally to spice things up. I remember the first time I figured out analogue mode on the controller could aim the fire engine’s water hose. Blew my little mind.

I tried playing GTA 1 on PC a few years later and couldn’t really do it. It felt too rough and bare-bones even compared to GTA 2, which I still loved at the time. i should try it again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 18:56:28 2022 No.8740640 vaguely recall playing the GTA2 demo on a "never obsolete!" emachines running windows me or something. the premise of the demo was something like, "you have a bomb in your stomach that will detonate in 15 minutes, kill as many people as possible!"

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 20:01:58 2022 No.8740869 >>8737450 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 20:39:05 2022 No.8740974 >>8740640 you could remove that time limit and play the entire first island but not at dusk

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 21:05:02 2022 No.8741031 >>8738717 what are you talking about retard, what he said has nothing to do with skill, it's just a description of the game plays

Anonymous Tue Mar 22 22:29:57 2022 No.8741303

>>8736716
Brother was simping for those, never tried them myself. Didn't like 3 much. Vice City was the only one that really clicked with me, didn't like SA bc of nignog culture and mumble rap protags
5 is good, TBoGT was good. Rest all shit espc 4 is pure aids

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 22 23:05:29 2022 No.8741381 >>8737450 Would've been funnier if Costanza was eye-level with Tony. Could've omitted the two other guys if they were in the way. Still funny regardless. Good job, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 04:14:56 2022 No.8741863 GTA 1 still one of my favourite titles to this day, I wish other GTAs other than 3 had the bird view camera as an option

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 04:56:51 2022 No.8741908 >>8741863 Not retro but did you ever play Chinatown Wars? Great game.

Anonymous Wed Mar 23 05:03:45 2022 No.8741914

>>8736716
If you're willing to learn the controls and different gameplay, yes, specially GTA 2, its retro-futuristic atmosphere is absolutely fantastic and is still a blast to play.
Hell, you don't even have to play the missions, you can beat the game by just destroying vehicles, people, finding secret stuff, etc

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 15:42:49 2022 No.8743103 File: 74 KB, 256x364, soprano2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8741381

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 23 16:29:33 2022 No.8743223 >>8743103 Awesome

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