Best and worst storyline game

[bananaking13]

Can I know why the f*ck is San Andreas even an acceptable opinion??? Anyway, Vice City takes the cake, its too short and meaningless. There's more optional missions than required, and the storyline barely extends past the point where Cesar's mission is in GTA SA.

[Algonquin Assassin]

30 minutes ago, bananaking13 said:

Can I know why the f*ck is San Andreas even an acceptable opinion??? 

 

On 9/26/2017 at 3:24 PM, American Venom said:

San Andreas.

 

It starts off strong up until the moment CJ gets exiled from Los Santos. After that it becomes sh*t shambles with no direction or focus at all despite CJ trying to break Sweet out of prison yet he has time to be a spy for hire and messing with the mob.

 

Crappy story. 4/10.

There you go. 

[bananaking13]

15 minutes ago, American Venom said:

 

There you go. 

Okay, here's why you are wrong:

 

After CJ goes to the county, he has to follow Tenpenny's instructions, then after that he has nothing to do until Cesar finds him a job, then after that Tenpenny calls him back to work with The Truth, who gets him to San Fierro, where they try to set up a garage, and on their way they find a way to snipe out Ryder. They meet the Loco Syndicate, kill them, then kill Ryder, then they set up assets all over San Andreas (Madd Dogg's business, Venturas casino, Desert airstrip with Jetpack, Fierro garage/Wang cars, Zero's RC, many more) which distract CJ, but after Sweet's phone call when he goes to LC, CJ goes to Toreno and frees his brother. CJ wants Sweet to join him out of the hood, but Sweet reminds him the hood is his home. They become gangsters again, kill Smoke/Tenpenny, and that's it.

 

I don't know why there's so much hate to this storyline in this forum when it's one of the best in all of gaming let alone GTA. I do agree it's hard that the storyline is hard to keep up with, but it's not heiroglyphics. 

Edited March 24, 2019 by bananaking13

[billiejoearmstrong8]

I think the San Andreas storyline is over the top and a bit silly, but that works with the style of game that San Andreas is. It showcases the huge map and three cities they created and all the many new features. It's not exactly a masterpiece of well crafted characters and story the way a game like GTA IV is but that's not what they were going for, it's a crazy epic ride of a story. I loved it when it first took you out of LS and you're unblindfolded in this whole new place, and then continuing to travel around through the story and finally returning to LS at the end. The way they created that feeling of really being on a long journey in this endlessly huge world always with yet another place to travel to next and more fun characters to meet was where the story shined rather than in the technical details of the plot.

[iiCriminnaaL]

Best: IV & The Lost and Damned.

Worst: Hard to pick one, but it's gotta be one of Liberty City Stories, The Ballad of Gay Tony and V.

Edited March 25, 2019 by iiCriminnaaL 49

[JPFL]

Best: GTA IV and TLAD

Worst: GTA Advance

[Lioshenka]

Best: GTA 3. May not be the most realistic or the most fun, but just the right amount of each to be the best.

Second best: GTA SA. Ridiculously fun to play, but obviously not very realistic.

 

Worst: GTA 4, I suppose. You have to be a special kind of stupid to travel across the world to a cousin who lives in a castle of which you've never seen any proof.

[god speed]

Best: GTA IV + TLAD
Worst: LCS (haven't played the top-down ones)
 

6 hours ago, Lioshenka said:

You have to be a special kind of stupid to travel across the world to a cousin who lives in a castle of which you've never seen any proof.

Niko's ulterior motive for moving to LC was to find that "special someone" though.

[Crossbones]

Best: GTA IV

Worst: GTA V

[Algonquin Assassin]

13 hours ago, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

I think the San Andreas storyline is over the top and a bit silly, but that works with the style of game that San Andreas is. It showcases the huge map and three cities they created and all the many new features. It's not exactly a masterpiece of well crafted characters and story the way a game like GTA IV is but that's not what they were going for, it's a crazy epic ride of a story. I loved it when it first took you out of LS and you're unblindfolded in this whole new place, and then continuing to travel around through the story and finally returning to LS at the end. The way they created that feeling of really being on a long journey in this endlessly huge world always with yet another place to travel to next and more fun characters to meet was where the story shined rather than in the technical details of the plot.

Each to their own. Atleast you don't have a horrendous attitude (like some San Andreas fans have) and can enjoy the story for what it is without flipping your sh*t because others don't like it.

[TheSantader25]

We have had a lot of similar threads recently. 

 

1.San Andreas

2.IV(+EFLC)

3.V

4-5.III,Vice City(It can change anytime) 

6.Vice City Stories

7.Liberty City Stories

[Algonquin Assassin]

16 minutes ago, TheSantader25 said:

We have had a lot of similar threads recently. 

Decided to merge a couple together. It looks a bit weird because it was originally just for the 'worst" story, but yeah. Same thing really.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

best story is gta 4. i love nikos story. its a long journey with a lot of memorable characters and missions.

 

worst story is gta 3. the protagonist dosent even talk. the story is boring and the characters suck.

[Copcaller]

LCS 

[Timcatgt5]

Vice City Stories is my favourite story driven game because the plot device is Victor Vance's brother, who suffers from an illness and needs medical care that costs a lot of money.

 

That's where Victor comes in, and despite the opportunities the US Army has to offer, he has no choice but to go all in and risk his career for a life of crime, just to make enough money to support his family, and this is his motivation to carry out his quest. 

 

Also his relationship with Louise is another part of the game that has some importance, because they stay good friends throughout the course of events, and after saving her from an abusive husband, she assists Victor in building a criminal empire. Both characters personality change after their new found wealth, and cease contact for a while, but they still remain in good condition. Despite an occasion where they fall out, they later reconcile, but only for a short period of time due to an unfortunate event. 

 

San Andreas isn't my favourite, but it's tough to think of how to progress the story after The Green Sabre, so they sacrificed the plot for additional content.

[Tao Cheng]

Best: Chinatown Wars

Worst: Vice City

On 3/25/2019 at 9:23 AM, confederatestatesgta said:

best story is gta 4. i love nikos story. its a long journey with a lot of memorable characters and missions.

 

worst story is gta 3. the protagonist dosent even talk. the story is boring and the characters suck.

I will wager a hint and take it you got into GTA around Vice City / San Andreas or GTAIV...

[GrudgefromSanAndreas]

ok so i managed to overcome my unwillingness to play storyline in V but still, only scenes with Franklin and Lamar are somewhat interesting, and i mean literally only when either of them or both are there...

[Lemoyne outlaw]

7 hours ago, Tao Cheng said:

I will wager a hint and take it you got into GTA around Vice City / San Andreas or GTAIV...

what does that have to do with it?

[Tao Cheng]

4 hours ago, confederatestatesgta said:

what does that have to do with it?

That influences GTAIII to be your least favorite duh.

[Jack Lupino]

Mission wise

Best story: San Andreas

Worst Story: GTA IV

 

Plot wise:

Best Story: San Andreas

Worst Story: Liberty City Stories

[Algonquin Assassin]

9 hours ago, Tao Cheng said:

That influences GTAIII to be your least favorite duh.

Why?

 

It doesn't matter when he started with the series. I love GTA III, but even for its time the story was the typical cookie cutter revenge plot. Claude being a mute isn't very appealing to some people either regardless if they played the game new or some years later. 

[Bratva Assassin]

From best to worst storyline:

1. IV/EFLC (10/10)
2. Vice City (9/10)

3. III (8/10)

4. SA (4/10)

5. V (3/10)

[Lemoyne outlaw]

10 hours ago, Tao Cheng said:

That influences GTAIII to be your least favorite duh.

like american venom said. it does not matter. sure i got into gta after gta 3 was out. but i have played gta 3 before and i just did not like the story very much. i would feel the same way even if i had played it when it came out. i understand some people liked it and i know it is part of gta history. but they could have had gta 3s story for gta 5 and i would still say the same thing. if you like gta 3 thats cool. enjoy it. but just know that not everyone is going to like it.

[GrudgefromSanAndreas]

well tbh i think gta3 story is average and generic so it's totally understandable if you dislike it, i personally neither like nor dislike

[El Penguin Bobo]

Favorite to least favorite story:

 

GTA IV: 9/10

 

EFLC: 8.5/10

 

GTA V: 8/10.

 

GTA VC: 7.5/10

 

GTA LCS & VCS: 7.5/10.

 

GTA 3: 6.5/10.

 

GTA SA: 5/10.

 

Not including the 2D games because they didn't really have much of a story...

[Xaguararin]

On 9/26/2017 at 9:21 AM, [...] said:

Both SA's and V's stories were "Meh", but if I had to choose the one that's worst, I'd go with San Andreas. The game's story had many unncessary threads that felt completely moronically in a game which storyline was meant to be about gangbanging.

buddy the game was not just about gang banging, the story was meant to be about a guy who got himself a chance to get himself out of the hood (a horrible place that Cj had been born into  that) and a opportunity to live a better life.

On 3/30/2019 at 9:41 AM, ThatKyloRenGuy said:

From best to worst storyline:

1. IV/EFLC (10/10)
2. Vice City (9/10)

3. III (8/10)

4. SA (4/10)

5. V (3/10)

how is SA the second worst and how is gta 3 the 3rd best game. The gta 3 protagonist literally does not talk and shows very little personality the whole game. (not saying gta 3 is a bad game it is just Claude is hard to connect with because of his lack of personality)

 

 

My opinion: Ballad of gay tony and the lost and damned somewhere in the 2/3   VCS and LCS inbetween 2/4 probably

1. Gta 4 (sad theme filled with lost and it made it easy to connect with Niko) (some people do not like the game because of that thou)

2. Gta san Andreas (sad but also had a moving up in the world kinda aspect to it)

3. Gta vice city (took the aspect of moving up in the world to the extreme and had a happy setting to it)(the asset mission's were cool and fun)

4. gta 5( story was not focused at all but very action packed and fun)/gta 3 (almost no personality but had cool missions and i ended up feeling like I connected to claude by the end of the story)

Edited October 1, 2019 by Xaguararin
wanted to restate my wording of my opinion

[Guest]

Best : GTA IV

Worst : GTA III

 

It's funny because both games are hitman themed(I've seen the argument that IV's story is more or less III's story taken to the next level), but the way they were executed made all the difference. Don't mean to put down III, it's probably the most ambitious GTA but the limitation of having the protagonist be mute meant that you couldn't really know his opinion on the events of the story. So there was no real engagement in the storyline for me. To me it feels like R* focused most on story in IV. The 'protagonist in a foreign land' theme is done best here, the revenge theme is done best here,the characters feel most fleshed out here and IV  has one of the best climaxes and the lead up to it as well.

Edited October 1, 2019 by Guest
added a word

[Sunglasses]

Best: GTA III
Worst: GTA Liberty City Stories

 

I might have probably posted a reply to this thread before but I think GTA III's plot is the best because it's simple and gets to the point. Everything Claude does is to get to Catalina, and by doing that you explore the criminal underworld of this metropolis populated by kooky, insane personalities. Claude is a stand in for the player as well, and I always felt it was cool to control Claude however I wanted to because it felt wrong to control characters like Vic Vance however I wanted to in the open world. Vic is one of the more upstanding protagonists, thus I find it really difficult to see him killing people out of nowhere. I could play Claude like a deadly assassin, or a raging madman and it's really of no consequence how his character acts in the story, so I always found that neat and a step above other GTA games.

Liberty City Stories is ultimately pointless and dull. Toni is maybe the least remarkable protagonist in this franchise, he carries none of that charm that Tommy and other protagonists later on down the line exude, and the other characters introduced, save Vinnie, are also rather forgettable. The humor is maybe the only saving grace of the game. If you removed all the copies of LCS in the world, I don't really think anything would have changed for the 3D universe story.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, LCLegend said:

Liberty City Stories is ultimately pointless and dull. Toni is maybe the least remarkable protagonist in this franchise, he carries none of that charm that Tommy and other protagonists later on down the line exude, and the other characters introduced, save Vinnie, are also rather forgettable. The humor is maybe the only saving grace of the game. If you removed all the copies of LCS in the world, I don't really think anything would have changed for the 3D universe story.

For me the only thing that makes LCS' story avoid last place is the fact that it's the only GTA from III onwards where you're actually part of a mafia organsation rather than working for them as a hired gun which is kinda cool. Agree with you otherwise, remember someone telling me that Toni arguably had more personality in IIi than in the game where he was the protagonist lol.

[Sunglasses]

44 minutes ago, Utopianthumbs said:

For me the only thing that makes LCS' story avoid last place is the fact that it's the only GTA from III onwards where you're actually part of a mafia organsation rather than working for them as a hired gun which is kinda cool. Agree with you otherwise, remember someone telling me that Toni arguably had more personality in IIi than in the game where he was the protagonist lol.

I think the fact that Vinnie is killed later on and that you're essentially Sal's lap dog from there forward makes me appreciate that fact a little less. Doesn't feel like I'm in a crime organization filled with different faces and different personalities but rather I'm Sal's servant. I would have seriously appreciated some other characters accompanying you throughout the story, maybe make Mickey a regular, we get to see Luigi rise up and establish himself and we could help him out, literally anything. Something like SA where you actually help out and work with your fellow gang members like Smoke and Ryder, etc. It makes you feel isolated from the rest of your organization, it's just boring to me.