All GTA Stories Ranked
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Vice City’s biggest issue in hindsight is that we don’t get to learn more about Tommy’s background, learn of his family in greater depths, his relationship with Sonny, more details on the going-ons of Vice City that wasn’t really explored much and so forth in the same vein as IV.
@@rayvenkman2087 facts i like to think tommy was a badass mobster before like john wick pretty much the mafia boogie man and dialogue when you get arrested support this
love seeing appreciation for VCS' storyline
Glad to see GTA VCS's story being respected as it deserves
Facts. That game is criminally underrated.
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@@awesomecocoapuff99now a days, it's being too overrated
@@rhythmkhandelwal2940 Is it really? I still don't see people talking about it enough. A couple of years, I don't remember anybody mentioning VCS unless they were either a hardcore GTA fan or a GTA TH-camr. Hell, tbh, only hardcore fans really know about VCS. Casual players usually skip that one since it was a PlayStation exclusive.
@@awesomecocoapuff99 yeah, but in any VCS video, they will keep spamming the "underrated game, best gta game, better than San Andreas, better than V" things to the point that it becomes annoying
I think Vic Vance, Luis Lopez, Huang Lee are probably the most relatable characters since they’re grounded in reality and didn’t have bad intentions in the beginning. They weren’t gangsters, mobsters, or big time drug dealers, they’re just regular guys who are in bad situations till push comes to shove
Like they say "Caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time"
I'm not looking for characters to be "relatable". I'm looking for a unique experience in someone else's shoes; a lifestyle that I live through vicariously. I find that more engaging personally. I get enough of so-called grounded reality as it is. I don't want that mundanity replicated in a game.
To each their own.
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@@notsyzagts7967well u less your in the 80s pushing coke or working for a gay nightclub owner these characters are relatable and their stories are unique lifestyles which you can step into so idk what ur on about
They don't have to be relatable. They need to be likeable.
Glad to see Chinatown Wars up so high. It really surprised me with how good the story actually gets
Cw in general is underrated. But I can see why it's not loved because that isometric camera is turn down for some people.
It’s like a John Woo movie
@@erso_returned2530CW story was really great, problem is that the ending feels extremely rushed, you just kill the 2 “rats” and immediately you get an email
@@clursunnyi understand what you mean. Killing Zhou and Chan and then Kenny. But considering the huge mess the Triads were in, Huang gave them the final blow. There wasn't much more they could do
honestly yes, if you look at GTA IV's DLCs as their own separate story i understand the placement, but if you look at them as an extension of GTA IV's story i think they enhance each other perfectly, by for example contextualizing why Luis showed up during the transaction with the Jewish mafia, or just the way it expands on Johnny's side of the same story.. and that in and of itself is why i love GTA IV's story even more than i already do.. because ngl, the diamonds arc would've otherwise been the least interesting arc of the main game (still decent on its own tho)
having the dlc's that high is already pretty good
@@mike04574 fair
I didn't think VCS would have ranked soo high on this list! I was honestly scared that this would have been ranked lower!
Exactly. I wanted it to be ranked high.
I think VCS is the best Stories game
But that's just me
Well of course, as it should... compared to LCS, Vice City Stories (Story-wise) was pretty different, more Uniqe Gameplay, A Final Antagonist who's actually just as Good as Tenpenny & Dimitri, and (Especially from the fact they featured a Real Life Celebrity)🤯
Despite Vice City Stories so Slept on by Fans and WreckStar, VCS as a whole was something that should've been the next Big Thing after San Andreas... GREAT Game, and a Perfect way to be the last 3D Universe Game to be Released❤
CJ was saving money to leave town when he was working with Truth, that's why
13. GTA 2 (1:32)
12. GTA 1 (3:50)
11. GTA: London 1969 (6:58)
10. GTA: Advance (9:15)
9. GTA: Online (11:50)
8. GTA 3 (14:02)
7. GTA: Liberty City Stories (16:32)
6. GTA: San Andreas (20:40)
5. GTA: Vice City (23:43)
4. GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony (27:08)
3. GTA 5 (31:55)
2. GTA: Vice City Stories (35:23)
1. GTA 4 (38:45)
GTA IV is my favorite story. But I’m not going to crap on V at all. In fact, I’m more impressed they were able to create a great story that revolved around THREE main characters!
in a way gta 4 story involves 3 people well a one big story going on for 3 people at the same time that weirdly intertwine 😂
A minor correction for a part of your discussion of GTA 4: the main character of the Brother movies is named Danila and the character Sasha you mentioned is actually from the movie Behind Enemy Lines. Niko's likeness is taken from the actor thay plays him. He was even offered to voice Niko himself.
Also the Las Venturas portion of the San Andreas plot was the only part that felt disjointed. Though Ryder's presence may be limited, CJ building up his influence in San Fierro served as a good contrast to him infiltrating the Loco Syndicate. If the Caligula heist and Toreno's later missions weren't a part of the LV storyline, the 3rd act would have been more streamlined with the rest of the narrative.
Wanted to write about the GTA 4 as well.
I feel the same about the Venturas arc...
I loved San Fierro's arc so much because it gets to show what CJ is capable of building from the ground up (with the right people) and he actually gets to manage a garage, possibly also hinting at his experience in Liberty 5 years ago.
It was an amazing contrast to Los Santos where gets to do the dirty work and being underplayed, until San Fierro proves CJ is at his best, no overly-rich assets or low-life behaviors, just CJ going with the flow.
For me, it’s:
1. IV (the undisputed king 👑)
2. VCS
3. TLAD
4. TBOGT
5. SA
6. VC
7. V
8. CW
9. III
10. LCS
11. Advance (haven’t played Advance but vaguely know its story and already know it’s at the bottom)
Haven’t played the OG GTAs from the PS1 so won’t speak on those at all.
By the way, major respect and props to you putting the VCS story at number two because it was easily the one of the best stories of the entire series and it deserves that recognition that many people overlook.
Really good list, what you mentioned about the gta 4 fanboys hating on gta 5 just because it’s not super dark is bang on. Both are good and different
Guinness you excited for GTA 6
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@@neutralbychoice3584 thanks😉
Yes I am
Who isn’t
@@tristanlederer2286 I'm not. I am 100% certain that it will be hot garbage.
Why does the GTA 1 main character sound so op he took out every body just because he can 😂
41:03 - Huh? It works on all the Xbox's and PC, I just recently did an achievement run on my Series X (that's always connected to the internet lol).
Hey could you make a character analysis video of Packie Mcreary? He’s just so underrated i loved him both in IV and V since you haven’t made one about him yet. Btw great video keep it up! ❤❤❤
I definitely agree that SA < VC in terms of the story. SA had better mechanics, better gunplay, ever better physics, was an upgrade on every technical level. But I played both VC and SA on release in my early teens, and even 10 years later when I was in my early 20s I still remembered the VC story vividly from start to finish, while the SA story started to become kind of a blurr in my memory, except for the 1st act which I did remember pretty well. Like you said, it becomes a bit convoluted and messy in the 2nd and 3rd acts, and for me personally was kind of forgettable, at least when I first played it in early 2000s as a teenager.
I did replay the entire 3D trilogy in my mid 20s, and then again more recently when the "definitive edition" came out in 2021 (by then I was 30), and it did refresh my memory of the story. And out of the 3 games, SA still holds up the best in terms of gameplay, but for me VC to this day is one of the best stories in a GTA game (as well as the best soundtrack). Though SA did have fantastic voice actors, and one of the best villains in the franchise. I'd rank them both even higher, probably above both GTA4 expansions, as those were even more forgettable to me. Purely storywise my top 5 would be:
1. 4
2. 5
3. VC
4. SA
5. VCS
GTA Online I don't even consider a proper GTA entry to be honest. It's just a continuous stream of ridiculous and over-the-top advenures combined with busy work, all designed to keep the new ADHD generation of GTA "fans" (mostly edgy kids and teens) playing and buying shark cards with their parents' credit cards.
Pretty much the Los Santos arc is what people remember the most from SA, I can understand why some of the Venturas missions are iconic for looking like an action movie set piece (Stowaway, Breaking the Bank's,) but still get overshadowed by the Grove Street-based missions
Sa has very in depth story which has started receiving the attention it deserves in recent years
The characters in VC just arent as interesting, some of the dialogue and writing is quite bad even i’d say.
I actually really disliked the story after Sweet was released. "What the hood did for me?" The entire story almost laughed at how small the hood and the gangster lifestyle is in the grand scheme, how there's more in life, like the movies BoyzInTheHood and MenaceIISociety that lifestyle is nothing to be proud off. The game could have sent a powerful message about letting things go and actually leave that lifestyle. In the end, Sweet never abandoned that narrow minded way of thinking, everything was won and nothing was lost.
I kinda do think VCS has a much better story than VC,
VC felt like they're a spitting image of 80s movies, rather than making their own 80s-based story which I think VCS kinda did well@@thirdhandlv4231
I have to agree with San Andreas. I was about to go off but you are right the second half of the game is kinda boring. I love the different cities like you got Vegas and could visit the casino. But the excitement of the game died down. I many played just to get past it and get back to the hood.
Thanks for another video, man! Good stuff as usual! :D
Great Video! Personally my favorite was TLAD, followed by IV and VCS
My personal order is:
1. IV
2. VCS
3. TLaD
4. SA (I actually prefer the Bone County / Las Venturas act storywise)
5. TBoGT
6. V
7. CW
8. VC
9. LCS
10. III
11. Advance
Never played the first ones
I agree with your list, I really enjoyed CJ venturing off and becoming his own man getting away from the hood, trying to make a legit life for himself
SA story took a nosedive after the comeback to Grove Street
Great GTA story story ranking 🔥
Isn't Sasha the antagonist of the movie behind enemy lines?
I think that my biggest problem with GTA Vs story is that the story is the best thing about GTA V by a long shot, and when I play GTA V I don't really feel the insentive to do anything but the story missions and maybe a few strangers.
I wish that GTA V was given some of the same attention as GTA online and that there were more interesting and profitable side hustles you could do, I can't help but feel that GTA V was left intentionally shallow so that people would view GTA Online as the gameplay focus.
Considering we should've gotten 3 big DLCs that were remade for Online, it's pretty clear that they wanted to pull off GTAO strat with GTA 5, but GTAO ended up being way too popular to care about 5
Hell yeah, another awesome video to relax to after a long day. Thanks bro
Great video, one small correction though, the protagonist of “Brat” is named Danila, not Sasha
I'm a San Andreas fan, but as much as I love it and enjoy it every time I replay it, I agree in the fact that its story gets kind of weird. Everything about LS is great, it stablishes the plot in an incredible way, and I can still remember how amazing was the day I first got to The Green Sabre mission, after which we are taken to the woods of Angel Pine, in a completely new territory. San Fierro was very good too, as it was all about starting from the ground again and preparing to take on Smoke and Tenpenny. But Las Venturas... well, that's where everything turns into a weird direction, thanks mostly to Toreno's missions. I understand we are doing that because Toreno has promised us to set our brother free in exchange, but it feels just weird to be doing all those "Mission Impossible"-like missions. But I think the game improves again the moment we go back to LS.
On the other hand, I can't help but disagree about your ranking of GTA V's plot. For me, it is one of the worst of all. It's just so silly and absurd, it almost never takes itself seriously, except from the moment Trevor discovers Brad is dead (that mission is sick) and the other two endings. The villains are just lame, and it feels very anti climatic when you have to kill them. I don't think Devin was memorable at all, as he was introduced to us very late in the game, while Steve Haines and Stretch could barely be considered villains.
Entire game pointing about how CJ leaving the hood was the best thing to happen to him... And Sweet never changed in the end, gangster life forever, the life that not even his mother wished for him...
You're just hating on the gta v story just to hate it bro
The same arguments can be said to SA. There's no payoff, emotional scenes are pushed to the side, Smoke big reason is "taking the opportunity" and making a half baked statement saying CJ is the same as him, and the ending is a 100% happiness where everything was won and nothing was lost.
GTA V’s villains were great. They’re just different from the other gta games because they’re not as badass as the other ones.
But the thing I loved about V’s villains was how annoying they were. That’s exactly how a villain should be honestly. The whole time playing V, you felt like wanting to punch Steve and Devin in the face. And that’s what I loved about them
@@nfnjun3105 Yeah I loved them
Great video! However, a couple corrections need to be made:
1. I think the guy who robbed the bank with Claude and Catalina was not Miguel, but some random cartel mook. Also, in the cutscene, you see his body next to Claude's, meaning she killed him too
2. Sasha is not the protagonist from Brother (his name is Danila), but rather a character from a movie Behind Enemy Lines. He was played by a russian actor Vladimir Mashkov, and rumour has it that he was asked to be the voice for Niko, but he declined because he did not know much about video games at the time.
I literary just skipped to make sure GTA iv was the top of the top come on now best story best tone best comedy in the game best radio it’s just by FAR the best GTA
It is the best GTA game ❤
It's far from the best GTA game.hell it's not even a GTA game at all and feels more like red dead redemption even tho it came out years before the first rdr game.still it has a great story just extremely disconnected from the GTA formula and has some aof the worst missions ever.
I remember when I was the weird guy who loved gta 4 I didn’t care about blurry hd video it was mind blowing . Did u know if you shoot someone in the leg in gta 5 they will get up and out run you … if you shoot someone in the leg he will limp or lay on the floor and beg for his life or bleed out 🔥🔥🔥 something simple from 2008 hasn’t been redone in gta 5 or gta online lol
Because same platform. Technical limitations of PS 3 allowed either crap graphics with awesome physics or good graphics with GTA 3 physics
Finally. FINALLY someone who is not comepletely biased towards GTA SAs story.
I loved the game especially the huge map, easter eggs and opportunities you had in the game. You literally had no limits in this fantastic game.
But as you said the story just didn't feel right anymore after Sweets arrest. It became too inconsistent and unrealistic even for a gta game.
Honestly your issues with SA are my issues with GTA 4. I know everyone thinks it's the best but it's just so all over the place for me. Niko is a great character but I feel like the actual story is kinda non existent. It's mostly just Niko doing jobs for various people. I love the characters a lot but they feel almost detached. The Playboy X stuff is really great but you don't even have to do them to complete the game. And the game just kinda wonders on with no real purpose or motivation until it just decides to be over. Like Dimitri is the main antagonist and he is hardly a part of the story. And in the revenge ending suddenly Pegerino just becomes the main target. The stuff with Darko is really interesting but it takes up so little of the actual game I kinda forgot about it halfway through. The game is really great and Niko is a fantastic character but the story is very overrated I think.
Exxxxaacctly. People are just eating this up because its dark therefore its serious
In the same way, people think SA sillyness is enough to skip the toxic lifestyle and endless violence of hood lifestyle.
Yet, the entire story makes a whole 180° after Sweet release. _"What the hood did for me?"_ CJ is right, did nothing. They could have sent a powerful message about leaving that useless pride in a dirty street for things of actual value but the STORY DID NOTHING. Since the first mission, after Homecoming and even after Tempenny death, Sweet was never confronted in his perspective, and it will never will.
Fr. I’ll never understand why people hype up IV’s story. The story is only good on paper. “The protagonist goes to NYC to get revenge on the person that betrayed him and his friends during the war.” It does sound like an interesting story and all, but the story was too draggy. It srsly did not need 90 missions. The whole story is basically just Niko asking different people for help. And like you said, there were some characters in IV that were completely useless and didn’t help progress the story at all.
GTA IV had a good THEME for the story, but the overall story was just mid imo
4 has the best story but I love Vice City's story. It's just so fun!
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GTA 3 is even more dark and brooding than 4 is. So no, it’s not 4 and TLAD that are the only exceptions.
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I quite liked TLAD but it felt incomplete and rushed compared to TBOGT, like it was written for a 60 mission arc but only got 30 while TBOGT fit its length a lot better. So a more compelling story but not executed as well as it needed to be, imo.
Vice City Stories was the first GTA I ever played, on my PSP when I was 12. I wish there was a PC port so I could play it again, I've appreciated every game in the franchise more as I've replayed them over the years but never had that chance with VCS.
Also worth noting that it's pretty easy these days to get the GTA 4 PC port to work great and have everything (plus some fixes) from the original console versions, fusionfix + a downgrader to recover the music is all you really need.
Glad vcs is highly ranked u are a true gamer
I studied for a long time the Rodney King protesting and riots and how it tied in with affiliated gangs in the same area across Compton, Inglewood, etc. so I will always appreciate how the story of San Andreas so closely mirrored that region of Los Angeles during that time and how crack being funneled into low income areas by police enforcement and gangs ultimately impacted the social climate, but not so close that they couldn't still make it satirical and fun and silly and everything we know and love about Rockstar games. They really knocked it out of the park with CJs character and the political climate of that time.
The old gta's were crazy as if you failed a mission you could not replay it
That's only in gta 1
I really can't consider GTA: O content as a story, sinceI personally will not engage with some of its DLC or heists. I'm just there as a respectable nightclub owner that often...dabbles...with some illicit trade.
To me San Andreas and V share the same problem: a meandering ton of missions past the first act that dilute what was an interesting setup in its the opening hours of the game. I'd much prefer a shorter amd more focused main narrative and pad out the gameplay with unrelated sidequests and activities. Yeah, I'm one of those guys that don't jive with the cringy humor elements of the franchise. Sorry but not sorry.
As someone who’s played every single GTA from 3 to 5. I must say IV is my least favourite because of the story. It’s too grim, and feels more like Mafia than GTA.
Idk if I would put the lost and damned above the ballad of gay tony. To me, it had a pretty weak story. But hey, gta 4's in first place and that's all I care about.
It’s not a gta game if a corrupt cop doesn’t try to blackmail you
Although I disagree that the San Andreas story went downhill after the Green Sabre mission, (and San Andreas is only my 3rd favourite GTA,) I'm glad someone else mentions that after Big Smoke's betrayal, you don't see him again until the last mission. How people can call him an all time villain when he goes missing for well over 50 missions and doesn't actually appear as a villain between the betrayal and finale I don't understand. Tenpenny is the true San Andreas villain.
love your vids. and you are scratching my GTA hyperfixation i've got going right now. getting hype for 6. I hope they condense the narritive unlike 5. hated the narrative of 5 compared to 4
Lost and damned should have even behind ballad of gay tony
I'm not mad at the list although I would say GTA V had a weaker story than the HD trilogy
Agreed.
LCS came out in 2005 VCS came out in 2006
12:00 wait, wait, wait! Gta Online has a story? Really?
Anyone know why Guiness says that the best way to experience GTA IV is on an Xbox 360 that wasn't patched since 2008 at 41:02?
First in patches they removed some music tracks second it looks best on xbox 360 and runs the best
@@yes2462 ah thanks for the info.
The PC version can play at 4k resolution and 60+ FPS. On top of that, you can patch the original tracklist into the game using mods.
I played through IV and the DLC last year, it is still an amazing experience.
I am at least glad that you did rank TLAD's story a bit higher
"Begins working for the GTA Universe version of Donald Trump" 😂😂
I still don't believe Diaz was the one that set up the ambush
Very Good list and agree with a lot of these picks and general order! I do think LCS is slightly under-rated here and VCS slightly over-rated here. I am aware that I am likely a tad bias here as I adore the (now considered overdone) Italian-American Mafia stories, plus I find Vic Vance a tad on the boring slightly goody-too shoes side.
My favourite GTA story is GTA IV, but I still love GTA V's story, but would be lying if I said I didn't wish for the GTA series to stay closer to the gritty and realistic side.
I think off the top of my head, my top 3 would be;
1 - GTA IV
2 - GTA LCS
3 - GTA CW
I don't think they have any bad stories in general, gameplay wise I would have it;
1 - GTA IV (I love the heavier game feel and yes, I adore the driving ha!)
2 - GTA V
3 - GTA III (Bias again because it was my first GTA, I love the arcade feel and the difficulty when I'm in the mood!)
Also, as much as I ADORE GTA SA, I am so happy to see someone actually say it how it is. It has a STELLAR first act but after Sweet goes to jail, the story takes a bit of a nose dive, even though the gameplay stays excellent, especially for the time. I would have loved a story based in that time period with those gangs but with the gritty realism of GTA IV. That would probably have been my ideal GTA game!
If there are 15 GTA games, GTA 5 is at #15. I hated the story so much in 2013 and recently seeing the first hours again, I could not feel ever stronger. Cringe, corny, and try hard acting with 3 doofus actors of CUCK cop, crackhead and fake thug.
Bait used to be believable at some point you know?
Don't cut yourself on the edge there
Lmao Steven Ogg literally became a huge actor because of his performance in V.
Why is it important to play the original unpatched disk version of 4?
You was knocking Ballas off with a crossbow?
Did you forget that GTA IV and TLATD/TBOGT were on physical disc for the (superior) PS3?
Preach man 👏
Best way to play, especially nowadays.
Yeah I still have the complete edition on PS3.
Vice City Stories ❤❤❤
An excellent story with the mechanics of GTA San Andreas
The protagonist of the two Brat (брат) movies is Danila, not Sasha
Nothing will top the GTA 4 story for me
1. GTA IV
2. GTA Vice City
3. GTA San Andreas
4. GTA III
5. GTA Liberty City Stories
6. GTA Tbogt
7. GTA Vice City Stories
8. GTA TLAD
9. GTA V
The other games i never played, so thats my pick
41:08 You can still play gta 4 on Xbox Series X but you still need the orignal game disc as all Xbox 360 games will not longer be for purchase from July of this year. 😢
Why is the best way to experience GTA4 to play it on an xbox 360 that has never been connected to the internet?
The biggest issue with GTA V's story to me, and that's why I prefer GTA IV, is that it is way too short. The story goes way too fast, and many aspects could've been more developped. Had the game gotten 1.5 to 2 times more missions, it would've been my absolute favorite
12:05 don’t you mean of the HD games? there’s the 3D universe and HD universe
Can you post a link to the livestream you mentioned? New fan here- replaying all the gta’s and happy to find your content! 🎉
Okay but can you please do a explanation/timeline video of GTA online tho???
My only opinion is that i would of ranked VC higher but i agree with the rest
If we looked at purely whats more iconic and defining in terms of “gta story” and thats if we take ALL ages into consideration, then the top 3 would be:
1.San Andreas
2.Vice City
3.4
This isnt really an opinion either, my personal top 3 is SA then VCS then VC
As a San Andreas diehard, i'll have to disagree with you on the 2 later acts of the game, i believe that they're essential for CJ's character and the story.
I'm convinced that the main value of GTA SA for Carl is to not be a buster, and to not run out on people and problems and take the pressure and face them, and him running out on Grove Street at the end of the first act after The Green Sabre builds the same buster mentality that he had 5 years ago running away from brian's death, away from all the trouble and the pressure which effected his friend and family views on him, most importantly Sweet.
So he came back to win back his brother's respect and appreciation by sticking to The Grove and helping it get stronger which he does directly before The Green Sabre.
After the fall of The Grove with The Ballas ambushing it and C.R.A.S.H and Big Smoke teaming against Sweet and getting him arrested, CJ found no choice but to leave The Grove once again and run out on it, progressively straying off in every act from it, and seeing the better world he missed out on by staying in the hood and working with Sweet, all the commitments he made in San Fierro and Las Venturas made you progressively forget about your original home, and all the friends of different ethnicities and backgrounds expands the themes of San Andreas further to the player and CJ so much so that at the end, Carl just didn't care about The Grove anymore, he just left it to crumble and so we're reminded once again by Sweet and forced by him to go and build it back up.
I think it all builds up nicely not only to expand the world of San Andreas in which it has done an AMAZING job at, but also complete the circle of Carl Johnson's character and comes in resolution with Sweet at that cutscene in End of the Line (the scene with them in the car).
Besides, The antagonistic forces aren't completely removed from the story once you leave LS, don't forget that Big Smoke's crack empire was supplied by The Loco Syndicate, an organization set in San Fierro, by destroying it and its leaders + take out Ryder, Smoke's right hand man, Not only do we cause immeasurable damage to Smoke's business but to his mental sanity as well.
That and in the LV desert, Mike Toreno (who he got to know through the Loco Syndicate, i think is a great link) tells CJ about his brother and gives him a chance to get him released after doing his missions.
Add that on top of Tenpenny and his unit showing up everytime around to remind the player of the constant powerful force that keeps pushing CJ around between their fingers.
The story in San Andreas is linked beautifully in my opinion even in the 2nd and 3rd acts of the game, in fact i enjoyed them much more than the first act but that's just me.
the Only 3D GTA Games I like were GTA VC, GTA 3, GTA LCS, and GTA VCS, and GTA CTW
Chinatown wars is considered HD btw why don’t you like San andreas?
I don't hate it, it's fine, but Rockstar took away some stuff that were supposed to be for the game and also during the storyline wise Sweet is still mad at his own brother CJ for running away and CRASH blackmailing CJ to cover up for their crimes just so they can run free to get away with that stunt they pulled after CJ was heading back to Grove Street.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the odd similarities with gta online and gta 3 😂😂😂 especially when I'm driving around in the banshee
Gta 4.
Problems i have with the gta stories, of the games i played
3s story is, minimalistic, nothing much nothing less, Claude being mute is a handicap, no emotions and events that feel forced, like why would Maria say she and Claude were a thing when they only had 1 mission together, if Claude has separate missions just for Maria i would see it, and after the death of Salvator, she dips
Vice city kinda the sane problem, once you finish the missions for a character he dips, and the Properties, if done better then i wouldn't mind but they were added to make the game longer
San andreas whole Las Venturas part is helping Woozie to rob the casino, even if you didn't do the prep missions you still did everything to take down the Casino, started working for the big shots in the casino to get them on your good side
Liberty City is, same as 3, story is just there, nothing really, you just do stuff Salvatore tells you, if game fleshed out the Mafia plot a little more like you slowly taking out the other mafias and just like in san andreas have gang wars
Andvanced, the story of Advanced is better then 3 and LC, because there is a goal, yeah it feels pointles but Vinnie being still alive was a good twist, everything after that, laughable
4 is, a game with a perfect story, diamond plot line was great, Elizabeths drug emoire, and to the extension Playboys as well were good, Manny is thr biggest problem with the story, game would have been better without him
Chinatown wars, again as Advanced, there is a goal the whole game with a good twist, but everything from beginning to the end skips that plot, nothing really brings Huan to the sword until Heston shows up, and even then he still makes you do things for him before he helps you in finding th3 sword
5 is a bad excuse of a story, 3 characters is cool and all, but when only 1 of them is likable, damn, like who will like Michael, this sad, pathetic, self centered slimeball who would betray everyone, or Trevor a maniac, he is there just for the lols, Franklin is the only one who people can stand, and the Villains, the game tries to make a villain for every character and it fails, they either don't appear tethering, are annoying or in the case of Chang, are gone for 2/3 of the game
TLDR
3 has nothing interesting to give
VC uses businesses to lengthen the story
SA doesn't use LV at all
LCS doesn't have a goal
Advanced is a tailchase
4 has many irritating characters
CTW is also a tail chase
And 5, only Franklin is likable out of the 3 protagonists , and antagonists are trash
Id’d say San Fierro city from SA is more underutilised than Las Venturas was
As a PC player I grieve for not being able to play VCS
Hey no hate but might be worth it to put time stamps in other vids
I'm gonna show my favoritism here and say I completely disagree with San Andreas placement, for me its the second best followed by Vice City Stories, I genuinely can't wrap my head around how people might find the story to be over the place or unfocused when, for me at least, has always been so straightforward and easy to follow:
CJ comes back home for his mother's funeral and helps to rebuild his gang to its former glory because he feels like he owes that to Sweet after letting his little brother die and then running away for 5 years, he then gets betrayed and forced to remain away from Los Santos and in the country side so he can make some money while trying to figure out what to do about his brother who's now in jail, then he goes to San Fierro where he starts his own business which ends up being quite successful all the while he's strengthening his friendship with Woozie and infiltrating and eventually destroying a criminal organization that supplied with drugs his former friends back in LS, then there's the little intermission with Toreno in Las Venturas who promises to free Sweet, then in the actual city of LV CJ helps Woozie set up a casino in which CJ owns a share of while also plan and eventually pull a heist on a mafia casino, in the final stretch of the story Sweet is released and convinces CJ to help him rebuild the gang once more despite not truly wanting to because CJ feels like he owes that to Sweet, eventually he puts Grove Street back on top and gets rid of Big Smoke and Tenpenny.
I know this long ass paragraph can make the story seem complicated but if you play the games its incredibly easy to follow, it's the story of a man who comes back to gang life after running away, after being cast away unwillingly by the antagonists he finds other opportunities and eventually realizes that leaving the hood was the best that could happen to him, some people might say that CJ goes back to the hood in the end but he shows how he doesn't want to go back to that life in almost all the cutscenes after Sweet is released, he only helps out because of Sweet, it doesn't mean he's going to stay forever, people don't give Carl enough credit, he's not so dumb that he'll go back to being a gangbanger when he's a wealthy businessman by the end of the game. It may not be the best story in all of GTA, that place belongs to IV, but it's definitely the best in the 3D Universe by a wide margin. I know I probably sound like an angry fanboy but this is just how I truly feel about these game's stories, they're all easy to follow, even GTA V despite having 3 protagonists, some of the stories are better than others but the story of San Andreas is definitely near the top.
i feel like i had a great experience playing gta 4 on my pc, and i have access to play it on 360, i just genuinely feel like i had a better experience on pc, but i do run a mod that downgrades the version of gta 4 to an earlier build from years ago so i can fix the few bugs the game has like flickering lights on high fps
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You can play gta iv on the new Xbox’s with backwards compatibility
Very very good list, but I don’t get why tbogt is so high up. Plot was mediocre at best and just served as a filler for the main game.
why do u sound like lester or is that just me
I agree w/san andreas. When has to start traveling to the countryside that’s when I became the least interested in the game
I understand you might think sa’s story goes a little wild in the second and third act as you said, but thats what happens with a rushed game, gta 4 was nowhere near as rushed as sa, despite that we had amazing continuity on vice city with some original characters returning not only from that game but also from gta 3 and then we have samuel l jackson playing the main antagonist... im not even gonna keep going but you can hate certain aspects of sa story while still respecting its legendary status and how its literally the most iconic. Putting sa’s story all the way down at the middle on this type of video makes it strongly opinion, and not as much factual (especially with what you put in front of it).
Just get a Xbox one or series X/S I got GTA 4 and it’s DLC’s on my Xbox one
Was there an update that made gta 4 different then the release version on Xbox 360? Why did you say that’s the best way to play I’m really curious
The PC version has been butchered at this point. Entire radio stations removed, lots of bugs still present. Playable sure but trash.
@@TheCriminalHistorian ah got it. Did songs get retroactively removed with updates on the XBOX 360 version or is it still the same as on release do you know perhaps?
@@crispcoffee7958 GTA IV on the X360 and PS3 remains untouched
Idc what anyine says I played GTA 4 and it wasn't that good. The game play was alright for back on the ps3 but the story wasn't that great. It was the first to have an alternate ending but if it is your first play through you wouldn't even know that. I enjoyed everything but the story to the point i didn't even want to do the alternate path. I know ssome poeple like gta 4 and it's nothing wrong with it but i just don't think it has the bet story. I think most gta games have faults in their stories that make them boring.
Let's take GTA SA. You said the second and third chapters are boring. Which they are both if you look into how you get into the second chapter and how you aren't allowed to go back "home" because a corrupt cop has all the cards then you think of it just like real life you would be thinking of ways to get around that by making money without having to kill and then fixing things you messed up like helping OG Loc get that rhyme book. When you think of thse other stories in the same way then you question did they do anthing really different.
Vice city stories best and underated
I'm curious, why do you say playing it on a 360 on disc without updates is the best way to play IV? It plays pretty well on series S or X, digital or disc, minus one bug at the end that is easily fixed.
Really I just meant the versions before they started removing songs and what not.
What bug at the end?
Oi another gta 4 fanboy
I actually disliked GTA SA story after Sweet was released
Are you playing the 2d titles only for the channel or do you actually wanna play them? I can imagine that it's hard to enjoy them nowadays 😅
Im actually playing them for fun but having the footage for future use will be a nice bonus.
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GTA 5 is the best
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Well my problem with GtaV isn’t so much that it’s not serious it’s that a lot of the characters to me aren’t as funny as they are annoying
My list is
Gta 4 +TLAD & TBOGT
San Andreas
Vice City Stories
Vice City
Gta 5
Gta Liberty City Stories
Gta 3
I love san andreas because i really do enjoy the different cities and pedestrians changing depending on what city or area your in. It had a bunch of content that other GTA did not have as well. I do agree that the story has moments where it lacks. But i love san andreas. It felt like a real life simulator. To be honest alot of what i like of San Andreas is the extra content. Like working out your character and your stats. Buying houses and just having more then one big city.
I loved 5. But i really felt like the story was rushed and we did not get to experience a full game. The last mission is just too atrocious. Its so lame for them to just kill all their enemies in one mission and then kidnap weston. It made the ending anti climatic and the antagonists didnt make me hate them. Gta 5 made me feel alot of emptiness. Still a great game but they were really lacking in the story i feel compared to other expansions.