Which GTA to start with?

[Dennis[DK]]

I want to get into the GTA franchise/serie. But I don't know which GTA to start with. Would you recommend the very first GTA, or the latest? Some recommend me GTA III, because it's considered the best GTA at all. Is this correct, in your opinion?
So, which GTA would you recommend me to start with?

[supertrooper225]

Originally posted by cruste:

Originally posted by supertrooper225:

Some people just WANT to be mad. That is why they make this stuff up. Drama drama drama.

and you are my drama Queen number one

OK? I am not complaining about mods or cheaters.

[cruste]

Btw San Andreas before Gta5.
Outstanding character development, you can go to the gym train real hard and you see how your avatar becomes more and more athletic. Then you go to the chicken bell and start the supersize experiment, just to check out if your nice tiny bmx can handle the pressure.

[Kuroodo]

I recommend playing GTA SA before playing GTA V.

[Kuroodo]

Originally posted by cruste:

Btw San Andreas before Gta5.
Outstanding character development, you can go to the gym train real hard and you see how your avatar becomes more and more athletic. Then you go to the chicken bell and start the supersize experiment, just to check out if your nice tiny bmx can handle the pressure.

& You alos noticed a difference when your skills increase, unlike GTA V lol.

[DELTA]

gta 4 was my favorite due to the city felt more alive and pedestians where fun to follow and fight, gta 5 fighting peds is just one punch know outs all the time. also guns looked more like there real world counterparts in gta4

[Kuroodo]

Originally posted by DELTA FORCE:

gta 4 was my favorite due to the city felt more alive and pedestians where fun to follow and fight, gta 5 fighting peds is just one punch know outs all the time. also guns looked more like there real world counterparts in gta4

Except for the RPG. The RPG was stupid and buggy. Heck you can shoot at the ground and it would slide across it until it hit something that wasn't floor.

[Rusty]

Originally posted by Fo Feck's Sakes:

3 marked the very start of this open world, complex storyline and long singleplayer style of game. Vice City was excellent. San Andreas was even better. 4 was terrible. 5 is a worthy member of the GTA franchise.

/thread.

That's not true, 1 and 2 were the revolutionary start of this type of open world freeform multi-storyline RPgame, 3 was just the first game to put it into 3D.

Honestly outside of nostalgia I really don't see why people would recommend 3 so much, it wasn't a great story and it was a terrible port for PC as Rockstar really really wasn't a company that paid PC any real love until lately, and the masterpiece of their single player GTA V.

Vice City is an incredible story, especially if you watch and love Scarface prior to playing it. Personally though my only gripe with Vice City and anything prior was that you couldn't swim. You could drive a boat, wade through convenient waist deep pools, fly, ect, but if you touched deep water, you were insta-wasted. If you can ignore that, Vice City is definitely worth a solid playthough.

San Andreas was solid all around, but it didn't really make you feel for the character development the same way Vice City did, granted Vice City piggy backed real hard on Scarface, but it nailed it so perfectly. (The official Scarface game came out a year or two later to try and 1-up Vice City and it bombed hard).

I don't recommend touching IV because it tried so hard to build a story that they forgot that people want to progress and win. IV was largely grey in every way, the poor protagonist scraped by from beginning to end, hardly getting anywhere in life. A huge contrast from the previous storylines of going from the bottom to the most respected SOB at the top of your era.

GTA V for PC though, I think is a game that everyone should experience for themselves. Multiplayer problems aside, Single Player I personally feel might be the best technical game I've ever played. No loading screens, no repeating mission goals, extremely wide range of graphic options. a legitimate shooting experience that doesn't rely on that weird snap to auto-aim, and encourages approaching every shootout as a potential life/death risk. And 3 fairly solid interlinked stories.

[Darque]

Like indie games. GTA 1 and 2.
Like darker mob orientated (but now dated) 3d expirience. GTA 3
Like Glossy Miami Americana, GTA Vice City.
Like Gangster from Hood to Blinged out sell out. GTA San Andreas.
Like "being Russian" and more "relistic" car handeling, GTA 4.
But GTA 5 is the most modern and a mix between the above and comprimising for "accesability", making it alot of fun, though lacking a certain depth, despite it's polish.

Played mostly 4 and 5 on-line, While I miss the more true car handeling of 4, I haven't touched it since 5 was realeased. And dispite the fact the single player seems the most developed/cinamatic in 5, On-line is where I'm drawn in.

Unless you're drawn to a theme specifically, I'd go with 5. Just because it's more modern, and gameplay wise, arcade'y n' fun, while still being based in reality and being grounded there. And the fact you won't really be missing out on anything.

Though San Andreas had alot of gameplay depth and diversity that was fun, which has been, to a degree, missing since. And 4 as I said had the most imersive, if not sometimes buggy, driving.

My two pence...
(apparently that took me 20 odd minuits to write...)

[Randox]

If you want to go back and play the older games, I would strongly recommend going back to GTA III and starting there, then playing the PC games in order (3, VC, SA, 4/ELFC/TLAD, 5). There are a lot of technological improvements between each game in addition to the tweaks Rockstar always makes to the gameplay (except 3 and VC, which if I recall correctly play pretty much exactly the same).

Like for me, it's hard to deal with the super turbo awesome grip that vehicles have in Vice City, or the fact that AI vehicles drive on physics free "rails", which is particularly glaring in some areas of San Andreas.

3 and VC are also pretty short games, compared to the others, so you can bomb through them, and if you want to become a hardcore fan of the series, you need to witness the evolution of the games ;P