Best open world Rockstar title?

[EtherTakeover]

Which is the best of Rockstar's open world titles?

Edited August 6, 2017 by Spider-Vice

[Spider-Vice]

No point in this being a poll-only thread, discussion helps. Reverted.

Edited August 6, 2017 by Spider-Vice

[SabreGT]

Grand Theft Auto IV & Bully.

[Emmi]

Grand Theft Auto IV & Bully

[Sunrise Driver]

Manhunt 2, GTA Advance & Oni

[Jason]

Red Dead Redemption and it's open world is IMO the best they've ever done. As an open world game GTA IV for me lacked soul and character. It's a technical marvel of a game, but the city is lifeless. It's carried by an amazing physics system but beyond that there's no life to it. V fixes many of the problems I had but for me it's far too dependent on the mechanics and tools you have at your disposal to the point where the game world takes a back seat. The stuff is there in V, but you're basically encouraged to play like you're on cocaine 24/7 so you never go see it.

 

But RDR? RDR is slow, you move the world at speed where you are constantly taking in your environment. There's a functioning day/night cycle, shops open and close, the bar comes to life, etc. Out in the wild you wander keeping one eye and ear on the environment incase a snake or coyote creeps up on you. There's small, random events that feel completely natural happening as you explore and there's treasure to find, bounties to collect, poker and other games you actually want to play and plenty of other things to out in the world to do. For me, it was Rockstar's last open world game where the world takes centre stage and when an open world game does that it usually ends up being special.

[BLOOD]

Grand Theft Auto V.

[Femme Fatale]

GTA IV+DLC and Manhunt.

[Algonquin Assassin]

GTA IV. It's still never been topped for detail, immersion and feeling like a real place. Best physics, story, protagonist, missions, side missions and I could go on and on, but that would be a pretty long essay.

[Emmi]

^ Yeah, I think we all agree that GTA IV was groundbreaking/what GTA III was compared to GTA 2. I want this feeling again with GTA 6.

[The Rockstar Gamer 108]

GTA IV & EFLC, and Max Payne 3.

[Algonquin Assassin]

GTA IV & EFLC, and Max Payne 3.

MP3 isn't open world. Just saying.

[BUT THE BENZ]

GTA SA, The Max Payne series, GTA V, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire. my main gaming material since 2001!

 

I've spent years, in-game, within these worlds they created. I beat all the games multiple times, not a guy to 100 % everything and get all the trophies, but I like the grind in certain areas and aspects.

Thinkin back just now, with GTA SA I had a bizzare connection, because I'd start a new game from scratch, in the hood, whenever I was at a point in my life when I was supposed to go out and get my sh*t right. learn for exams, find a job, further educate, all that noise. I did this GTA SA boomerang thing for at least over a 5-years stretch I think.

*sigh* good times, and San Andreas was the perfect place for escapism. Just like Max Payne 1. I must have spent a year ingame-time on that alone just aswell.

 

Games, best art ever.

[Emmi]

^ 'a year ingame-time' WOW!

[jaljax]

The whole Gta Series IMO

 

GTA IV & EFLC, and Max Payne 3.

MP3 isn't open world. Just saying.

 

Neither is Red Dead Revolver , Red Dead Revolver is a stage based game lol.

 

Everyone make's mistake's though , nothing new lol.

Edited August 27, 2017 by jaljax