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GTA V being a game people remember from their childhoods when it feels like it came out a week ago
Damn I remember just starting 1st grade, feels like yesterday
EDIT I failed making a joke about an impossibly young age but that's not even that young lmao I'm high af
Nothing will top GTA SA for me, favorite in the series and favorite story.
4's story is pretty good, probably the most "mature" of the series, but I've yet to play 5.
GTA SA had my favorite map, characters, story and gameplay. Me and my friends used to stay up all night just messing around with the cheat codes and stuff.
I remember that once I tried to explain to a skeptical friend about how Rockstar Games contain some interesting commentary and satire of American Society that you just don't get from mainstream television and film, and that this content is experienced with more immersion. For whatever reason the example I led with was that GTA V's map is separated rather distinctly between the urban core and the barren rural desert, and that whereas in the city you can listen to public talk radio talking about upcoming elections and the death of culture, in the country you can listen to conspiracy theorists and shows with nationalist and religious themes. While both are lampooned, I thought that it was an interesting artistic choice to set up media echo chambers to illustrate that we don't share a common media environment in this country and that the ideas that we're exposed to are largely driven by class and demographics, taking what are already divisions and exacerbating them. For a game that came out in 2013 I feel that there's a lot in there that's prescient, if not valuable for understanding the zeitgeist of American culture of that decade.
The social commentary, 'themes', all that crap may be deep and shit, but the answer is still no because it is poorly written. You can try to make a good point and still fail to make a good story
GTAV's story is fucking awesome. I hate cars, guns and Los Angeles and it's still one of my favourite games I've ever played.
I don't think any of them could top IV for me. San Andreas' story had its moments but the series still had that cartoony vibe which took away from the dramatic potential of what could be a really good story with CJ. IV is when the series took itself seriously. Traumatised Yugoslav Wars vet tries to escape his past, is consumed by his sins while everything he builds is taken from him. Everything you do hurts a wounded antihero you want to succeed while Philip Glass plays over a rainy Gotham.
To me it felt like if the south park guys were given unlimited manpower to make a game. So I'm gonna go with no.
Logically I feel like I should say it doesn't but I still really enjoy playing through it anyway. All of the themes explained in the video passed right by me while playing so I honestly just saw it as the hilarious adventures of 3 guys trying to make it and I still highly enjoyed myself throughout anyway. Yes they're all assholes but that's what makes it so fun for me.
