How many hours do you think you've spent messing around in GTA's sandboxes?

[Shane D]

For me, though I didn't own a copy of 3 my close friend did and I spent many hours messing around in it with him, and then several hundred in Vice City, and also several hundred in San Andreas.

 

 

..but they removed the arcadeyness in 4 and I didnt find any fun in it so I didn't play it at all, and while 5 brought the arcadeyness back a bit I still found it pretty boring and only spent an hour or so messing around in it (and didn't complete the story either)...

 

What about you guys?

Edited April 15 by Shane D

[cant remember]

I wouldn't be able to put a number on it but to me the newer ones are less fun to mess around with in freeroam because I aged and what I enjoy in a videogame shifted.

 

Pretending to be an NPC, follow traffic rules, set up a chian of 10 cars to blow at once,... those things are still better in the HD engine, but I don't find these things fun anymore, even in the old ones I stopped playing it that way.

[Silver]

Across all games probably thousands of hours. I've been playing GTA for more than 20 years and I spent a lot of time messing around in the open world, not so much nowadays but that's mostly because we haven't had a new GTA in so long.

[Shane D]

35 minutes ago, cant remember said:

I wouldn't be able to put a number on it but to me the newer ones are less fun to mess around with in freeroam because I aged and what I enjoy in a videogame shifted.

 

Pretending to be an NPC, follow traffic rules, set up a chian of 10 cars to blow at once,... those things are still better in the HD engine, but I don't find these things fun anymore, even in the old ones I stopped playing it that way.

 

Maybe it's just the fact that the sandbox hasn't really had any drastic evolution scince San Andres (and in ways even devolved) as to why you've lost interest??

 

San Andres is like 20 years old! Any game that old is going to feel dated!

 

I have plenty of ideas that could make the sandbox fun again, I think.

 

35 minutes ago, Silver said:

Across all games probably thousands of hours. I've been playing GTA for more than 20 years and I spent a lot of time messing around in the open world, not so much nowadays but that's mostly because we haven't had a new GTA in so long.

Can I ask how you typically play it?

 

And seeing as though you put 100s of hours into each game, if there was another game just like GTA but which scraped story mode and devoted the entire focus/budget on making the best sandbox mode, is it fair to say you'd certainly buy it?

 

[Silver]

3 hours ago, Shane D said:

Can I ask how you typically play it?

 

And seeing as though you put 100s of hours into each game, if there was another game just like GTA but which scraped story mode and devoted the entire focus/budget on making the best sandbox mode, is it fair to say you'd certainly buy it?

Back then I would spend a lot of time exploring the open world and messing around without bothering with the missions. I've become a lot more interested in the storytelling since then so whenever I'm doing a new playthrough I usually stick to the story without spending as much time in the open world. But that's mostly because I've become so accustomed to the different GTAs, I'm not really discovering anything new that prolongs my time playing compared to my first few playthroughs. Once I get to play GTA VI for the first time that will definitely change because I'm sure the game will have a lot of things for us to discover and enjoy outside of the story.

Still, occasionally I do launch a game just to chill in the open world and enjoy the atmosphere for a little while.

 

As for your second question I don't really know, maybe. If it's an open world full of cool features then I'm sure I'd be able to have plenty of fun for some time. But I think that would eventually be wearing thin after a while if there's absolutely no story or journey whatsoever. With singleplayer games, I like to immerse myself in the protagonist's shoes and the story, especially if it's really good from start to finish. Nowadays it's probably what I'm looking forward to the most because in a way it's what keeps me playing and doing multiple playthroughs.

While gameplay is extremely important for a series like GTA, I don't think the series would've been nearly as good if R* chose to only focus on its sandbox with little to no story.

[Evil empire]

Probably thousands.

[zxdani777]

definitely thousands

[WALEAD99]

for me gta v and gta sa got more than 5000h

[universetwisters]

 

 

 

At the BARE minimum 

[Nico]

The only GTA I own on Steam is V and I don't even play it anymore, I have 308.2 hours on it but that was all before 2017 and it also had hours by my brother (we couldn't afford to buy it for two accounts so we agreed on using mine). He has since bought it for himself.

 

The rest of the series? I have no idea lmao. Well, well into the four digits of course, if not five digits lol.

Edited April 18 by Nico

[Coltrane Crowley]

More than 200 hours in San Andreas!