I remember back in November of 2001, I had a class with this guy who used to bring his map to school and tell us about the game. It was so surreal, it sounded unbelievable, it intrigued us so much that we NEVER paid attention to the teacher in this class. I was in the 11th grade at the time and the soundtrack was just too nice! The gangs, the radio, the cars on the ps2... you had to be there!
GTA III, MGS 2 and Halo CE were the Trinity that changed gaming forever. Modern games still use the framework set by these games. Mascot platformers and the Gamecube died overnight because of these three games
I remember playing a pirated version of gta my cousin got me . My father watching me laughing . then 1 or 2 weeks later saw the news about gta being too violent and telling me about it . When he realised it was the game I was playing since 2 month he started to laugh and never ever again spoke to me about game age restrictions. XD
And despite having a M rating, a whole lot of kids played it.😂 First time I played GTA 3 was when I was 8 years old when my older brother let me play it. My mom was so pissed.
It definitely had a huge impact on the American game industry, but games made by Japanese developers kinda stayed the same. They might have a game targeted at the western fanbase every once in a while, but a lot of these trends are specifically with American developers. Which probably explains why they had a comeback in the 2010s with the big game fatigue a lot of people have had recently.
This game imo really changed everything. I was grown into an era of level based games, and when GTA3 happened, I thought we had hit the peak of gaming at the time. The world was huge and being able to seamlessly do whatever at the time was nuts! I was lectured before being given the game, that aslong as i didnt think the actions portrayed in the game was okay to do in real life, I was good to go. Im glad i was given the opportunity to play it and retrospectively, 3 is probably my favorite one. Even with the trilogys issues, it made me remember how good the soundtrack was, and even the scale is still impressive considering it was one of the first Open world releases. Nowadays Ubisoft shits open world games out every year or so but GTA3 was really something special at the time.
This is the game that made me a gamer and I was 21. I messed around with Nintendo and sega as a kid but wasn’t that crazy about it (exceptions are Mortal Kombat on Genesis and arcade and Doom on PC).
It's a bittersweet story that GTA helped kill off platformers as I grew up enjoying and playing those, mainly Crash Bandicoot then eventually Ratchet and Clank and Jak & Daxter. However, I played GTA through my teenage years - my love for platformers never died but it was ... an interesting time, the 7th gen of consoles I mean. Thankfully it seems like more of a balance has been found now in the 8th gen onwards between mature games and platformers which have made a welcome comeback (as you stated) regardless of nostalgia. Best of both worlds.
It’s so weird how so many of the people who fought back against the Jack Thompson’s of the world, and raised a middle finger to them, saying that video games don’t cause violence, completely and instantly submitted to people like Anita Sarkeesian, when they claimed that video games made you sexist and racist, which caused the Triple A side of the industry to basically kill itself, in terms of creativity and fun.
I kinda have a biased dislike for GTA III for what it did to the 3D platformer genre (which was my favorite genre growing up), but I can't entirely hate it due to how important it was for paving the way for some of the modern games I enjoy today.
I found you shortly before you left indefinitely. Just wanted to thank you for the reviews, they were some of the most engaging content I've found on the site even your sense of humor shame the skits you did became less and less common! though it might not have worked out you've made an impression on me that will not fade. Thank you very much I wish you well.
Couldn't agree more and have always considered GTA3 to be the moment everything changed. I am curious what the big selling point for GTA6 is going to be, 5 very much marketed the 3 playable characters and the more open map
The only thing I can think of is being able to travel to any part of the US and each state being its own open world but I think that might be too ambitious even for PS5/Series X but who knows.
@@TerrorOfTalos I 100% agree; here's hoping GTA6 can do 'what players never knew could be done in a game'... for me the bear minimum would be allowing you to explore multiple states of America
@@devonwilliams5738 A game like this would literally take decades to develop.It'd probably also be bloated and empty with almost nothing to do. It'd make Daggerfall look like the original Legend of Zelda by comparison in terms of how content dense the game world is.
Continued to follow the series like the stale sweat of a brony! 😂😂😂😂 I was not expecting that that was so fuckin funny keep sneaking jokes please for the love of God just breeze over em like that don't even acknowledge em that would be hilarious
If you want to play all of them, it’s best to start with GTA III. III and Vice City possess a lot of the typical trappings of early 3D design, and playing the later games first will make them very difficult to go back to because of that.
@@chrisdelgado4621 Thanks for the information. Is the DS game worth a go? I tried the first game on my PlayStation Classic and didn't like it, but Chinatown looks like a more modern, improved take on that style.
GTA 3 was rated "M", yet my father was playing the game with me in his lap when I was only about 1 to 2 years old, laughing wildly as he played the game. Funny, huh?
it was when twitch was invented and u could make money on gamin thts when it became a thing . before we playd it alone cause we actually liked it. not for makin money
Gta3 directly killed Jak & daxter. That is why the Jak series is forgettable. It had no originality. Gta3 also gave us the birth of the influx of M rated and shooter games that still get made today.
Crazy that GTA 3, Halo 1 and DMC 1 all came out in 2001 and they each had a massive impact on their respective genres and the entire gaming industry
as expected for a new millenium
Also Metal Gear Solid 2 set new standards for presentation
Halo was so crazy, it revolutionized in its first three games
Even though I find them both highly overrated Silent Hill 2 and Final Fantasy X both released in 2001.
1998 and 2001 were each worth more than a decade in respect to their advancements of the art form
I was able to walk into Target in 2001 at the age of 16 and buy GTA3.
NO...PARENTS...NEEDED
I remember back in November of 2001, I had a class with this guy who used to bring his map to school and tell us about the game. It was so surreal, it sounded unbelievable, it intrigued us so much that we NEVER paid attention to the teacher in this class. I was in the 11th grade at the time and the soundtrack was just too nice! The gangs, the radio, the cars on the ps2... you had to be there!
At the time I had played gta 1&2 as well as gta london for several years, so when they announced this I was enamored. Got a ps2 just to play it.
GTA III, MGS 2 and Halo CE were the Trinity that changed gaming forever. Modern games still use the framework set by these games. Mascot platformers and the Gamecube died overnight because of these three games
Absolutely right
I was a big fan of Grand Theft Auto and Sly Cooper since childhood and still play the PS2 originals to this day.
I remember playing a pirated version of gta my cousin got me . My father watching me laughing . then 1 or 2 weeks later saw the news about gta being too violent and telling me about it . When he realised it was the game I was playing since 2 month he started to laugh and never ever again spoke to me about game age restrictions. XD
And despite having a M rating, a whole lot of kids played it.😂 First time I played GTA 3 was when I was 8 years old when my older brother let me play it. My mom was so pissed.
This should have thousands of views. Great job!
Bacon u deserve more viwees and subscribers! Keep up the aweesome work!
Took the words out of my mouth. Great perspective
GTA San Andreas = Zoomers and Memesters most favorited classic game
GTA Vice City = Hidden Gem
GTA 3 = Changed how we see the video game forever
It definitely had a huge impact on the American game industry, but games made by Japanese developers kinda stayed the same. They might have a game targeted at the western fanbase every once in a while, but a lot of these trends are specifically with American developers. Which probably explains why they had a comeback in the 2010s with the big game fatigue a lot of people have had recently.
This game imo really changed everything. I was grown into an era of level based games, and when GTA3 happened, I thought we had hit the peak of gaming at the time. The world was huge and being able to seamlessly do whatever at the time was nuts! I was lectured before being given the game, that aslong as i didnt think the actions portrayed in the game was okay to do in real life, I was good to go. Im glad i was given the opportunity to play it and retrospectively, 3 is probably my favorite one. Even with the trilogys issues, it made me remember how good the soundtrack was, and even the scale is still impressive considering it was one of the first Open world releases. Nowadays Ubisoft shits open world games out every year or so but GTA3 was really something special at the time.
This is the game that made me a gamer and I was 21. I messed around with Nintendo and sega as a kid but wasn’t that crazy about it (exceptions are Mortal Kombat on Genesis and arcade and Doom on PC).
That's a kinda underated subject, i dont see many people talking about
It's a bittersweet story that GTA helped kill off platformers as I grew up enjoying and playing those, mainly Crash Bandicoot then eventually Ratchet and Clank and Jak & Daxter. However, I played GTA through my teenage years - my love for platformers never died but it was ... an interesting time, the 7th gen of consoles I mean. Thankfully it seems like more of a balance has been found now in the 8th gen onwards between mature games and platformers which have made a welcome comeback (as you stated) regardless of nostalgia. Best of both worlds.
It’s so weird how so many of the people who fought back against the Jack Thompson’s of the world, and raised a middle finger to them, saying that video games don’t cause violence, completely and instantly submitted to people like Anita Sarkeesian, when they claimed that video games made you sexist and racist, which caused the Triple A side of the industry to basically kill itself, in terms of creativity and fun.
certainly the best GTA 3 video essay i have seen, congrats
I kinda have a biased dislike for GTA III for what it did to the 3D platformer genre (which was my favorite genre growing up), but I can't entirely hate it due to how important it was for paving the way for some of the modern games I enjoy today.
that brony dig though :P
We need a video on Manhunt, the heat that game got was exponentially larger
I love GTA 3, but there are many elements from Shenmue and even the underrated Body Harvest who did it first.
4:17 is that tank flying
Old trick was to aim backwards and fire, the tank was extremely fast lol
3:08 bru 😅
Ive been playing games since the late 80's and never once thought it was a childrens toy or only meant for kids.
I found you shortly before you left indefinitely. Just wanted to thank you for the reviews, they were some of the most engaging content I've found on the site even your sense of humor shame the skits you did became less and less common! though it might not have worked out you've made an impression on me that will not fade. Thank you very much I wish you well.
Jak 1 was such a fantastic game, I wish they had stuck to the original formula rather than become a weird gta game like 2 and 3.
Underrated channel
Couldn't agree more and have always considered GTA3 to be the moment everything changed. I am curious what the big selling point for GTA6 is going to be, 5 very much marketed the 3 playable characters and the more open map
The only thing I can think of is being able to travel to any part of the US and each state being its own open world but I think that might be too ambitious even for PS5/Series X but who knows.
@@TerrorOfTalos I 100% agree; here's hoping GTA6 can do 'what players never knew could be done in a game'... for me the bear minimum would be allowing you to explore multiple states of America
@@TerrorOfTalos I mean, we can do a lot with SSDs. Even if a game like that would probably be over 200 GB. Cry for your hard drive.
@@devonwilliams5738 A game like this would literally take decades to develop.It'd probably also be bloated and empty with almost nothing to do. It'd make Daggerfall look like the original Legend of Zelda by comparison in terms of how content dense the game world is.
@@jeffreywilliams1347 I wasn't saying we should do it. Just that we could.
Grand theft auto 3 to me is such a guilty pleasure & one of those games I like more that I should.
Jack Thompson was paid by Rockstar to start the controversy
What's the game at 14:43?
dude why we come from knowing that games don't cause violence to people thinking that animes can do it?
Continued to follow the series like the stale sweat of a brony! 😂😂😂😂 I was not expecting that that was so fuckin funny keep sneaking jokes please for the love of God just breeze over em like that don't even acknowledge em that would be hilarious
I swear I'm the last guy on Earth who has still never played any of these. Which would be the ideal starting point for newcomers?
Try Sly Cooper; a great stealth platformer game, had so much fun back then when it came out, has 3 mainline games and a spinoff.
If you want to play all of them, it’s best to start with GTA III. III and Vice City possess a lot of the typical trappings of early 3D design, and playing the later games first will make them very difficult to go back to because of that.
@@chrisdelgado4621 Thanks for the information. Is the DS game worth a go? I tried the first game on my PlayStation Classic and didn't like it, but Chinatown looks like a more modern, improved take on that style.
@@y2commenter246 Yeah, definitely. I’d recommend the PSP version if you have access to it.
@@chrisdelgado4621 Thanks for the information.
I mean,JRPGs also had free roaming system.
There’s something I just don’t like about Grand Theft Auto! Idk what it is though lol, good video though 👍
GTA 3 was rated "M", yet my father was playing the game with me in his lap when I was only about 1 to 2 years old, laughing wildly as he played the game. Funny, huh?
You should do a review on The Getaway - Play it first though
GTA V was great in 2013 and 2014 - been crap ever since
it was when twitch was invented and u could make money on gamin thts when it became a thing . before we playd it alone cause we actually liked it. not for makin money
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i never even played zelda when it came out . we calld it a game for our sisters . it was a girl game still is
Nonsense, but keep judging things you never even experienced. Sure sign of an open mind.
@@malafakka8530 no i seen it playd but a elf with a sword with magic potions? ehhhh i choose contra
thus the noir game genre have born. yeah they never bat an eye on mobster movies, but when gta came, everybody loses their mind
Gta3 directly killed Jak & daxter. That is why the Jak series is forgettable. It had no originality. Gta3 also gave us the birth of the influx of M rated and shooter games that still get made today.
I gotta say man, your videos and content is great. Very well explained and structured, certainly made me want to check out more after the GTA V vid!
Honestly it’s not wrong when the new ways arrive, they come in sin, and the old ways die in a blaze