Best and worst storyline game

[Guest]

46 minutes ago, LCLegend said:

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.

Yeah considering LCS' story is longer than GTA V's the Leone family should have felt a lot more fleshed out. The absence of Luigi and Joey is a big fail for that reason imo. May not have been executed well but I kinda like the whole rising through the ranks of the mafia concept somewhat. Shame the Leone family itself didn't have more key characters to complement Toni and feel like a proper organization.

Edited October 2, 2019 by Guest

[Sunglasses]

25 minutes ago, Utopianthumbs said:

Yeah considering LCS' story is longer than GTA V's the Leone family should have felt a lot more fleshed out. The absence of Luigi and Joey is a big fail for that reason imo. May not have been executed well but I kinda like the whole rising through the ranks of the mafia concept somewhat. Shame the Leone family itself didn't have more key characters to complement Toni and feel like a proper organization.

Rising through the ranks is somewhat cool, though I actually think it was done better in GTA III. It's possible Claude could have become a somewhat important member within the organization had the stuff with Maria not have happened. Scenes like when Toni becomes a made man in LCS don't feel that special (probably because it wasn't a mocap cutscene, something that really need to be in LCS more). I don't know, I don't see that many redeemable aspects about this game now that I've played through it again more recently, glad you like some parts of it though!

Edited October 2, 2019 by LCLegend

[Max.pain]

gta 4 and tlad as the best for the reasons me and other gta 4 fans here mentioned before. also vice city can be called the best too, i don’t think any of them deserves to be called the worst.

Edited October 2, 2019 by Max.pain
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[Evil empire]

GTA Vice City's storyline is filled with inconsistencies, under-exploited or not-exploited-at-all very interesting elements and many aspects aren't justified by anything, GTA San Andreas is much more consistent in comparison like I wrote here with a much better length of life by the way.

 

On the other hand the difficulty is much better dosed in GTA VC than in San Andreas which is another very important element.

 

 

[LittleJesus]

Best: GTA IV 

Worst: Liberty City Stories 

[jaylen pizarro]

best gta 4

worst vice city stories

Edited April 2, 2020 by jaylen pizarro

[Limefong]

Best: GTA Vice City. 10/10

Worst: GTA V, Storyline made no sence at all. 1/10, Terrible story.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Limefong

[JRC99]

On 12/13/2017 at 4:58 AM, JRC99 said:

Out of the games in the series I've played:

 

TBOGT- It's a fun game to play, but it really did ruin Bulgarin. Like others have said, he seemed so menacing in IV, but in the Ballad, he's a joke. What the Hell? Niko definitely should have been the one to end him. Hell, Niko never even found out by the end of the game (Though he'd obviously find out afterwards, something like that would be all over the news.)

 

SA- The Los Santos parts are great, they're superb. Everything else is a bit of a mess.

 

V- Hoo boy, the big one. Franklin has no character. None. He mostly just stands in the background while Michael and Trevor bicker and carry on like a couple of teenage girls. He's as shallow as a puddle. Then you spend half of the game being the government's bitch. And the final bosses are really, really lame. IV has Pegorino and Dimitri, who, by the end, players have a real, legitimate reason to absolutely hate them. They're true antagonists, and getting revenge was great. V gives us...... Stretch, who was in like two missions at the beginning of the game and doesn't even get mentioned again until then. Wei Cheng, whose evil deed was.... not wanting to work with Trevor. He ambushed Trevor and Michael in Yankton, yes, but only after Trevor attacked his business, Steve Haines (Okay, he actually does make sense.), and Westin, who didn't even put up a f*cking fight other than his guards. I get that he's not supposed to be a fighting type guy, but it was way too easy to get to him (though I admit, sending Merryweather to Michael's house does make him a villain worth killing.) But even still, I found them more annoying than evil. I don't know, it's like there's a disconnect.

 

I guess it's like this: GTA IV is like personally going through Pegorino and Dimitri's betrayal. You feel it. V is like reading a news article. You think, "Oh, that's awful to hear." but it doesn't really resonate with you on a personal level. You feel empathy, but it's not really personal.

 

Michael's a decent character. He's the most rounded of the 3, and the one I most easily connected with, because it was actually remotely possible to, and it is nice to see his home situation improve, it really is.

 

Trevor. Trevor's a goddamned mess. There's zero consistency to be found. It's all just "LULZ HE'S CRAAAAAAAAAZY". He preaches loyalty, but treats everyone around him like trash. It's hypocrisy, but unlike, say, Niko's hypocrisy, it's not well written, at all. I could go on and on, but I'd just be repeating myself.

Gonna go ahead and update this as I've played a couple more.

First, I obviously loved IV. Even then. I left it out to complain. Because I honestly have none with it. Other than that next time I play through, I really need to actually spend time with Kate to connect to her more.

TLAD- Good story. Big part of why I never enjoyed Trevor. Nuff said. 

 

Vice City (I've played it long ago but never got quite finished until a year or two back, maybe 3 now)- It's not deep, and it wasn't supposed to be. Knew what it wanted to be and executed it almost perfectly. 

 

III- There's not much to say. To me the story was never the main draw of the game. It's passable, and that's fine by me. I kinda wish Claude spoke, but at the same time I understand why he doesn't. It's really just curiosity as to what he thinks. 

Edited July 4, 2020 by JRC99

[LowTierDude]

I mean in the end theyre games so storyline should take second priority.

 

Like i thought lcs's story was dogsh*t but it was probably one of the most fun 3d era games in the series just because of the sheer number of activities you could do in that game.

Edited July 4, 2020 by DownInTheHole

[Guest]

Best - Vice City Stories. Vic gets exiled from the army, begins to work for Phil, allies himself with other people (like Umberto and Reni) to assist him on his journey against Martinez and the Mendez brothers, then meets Diaz and Gonzalez who also assist him in his journey too. Then kills Martinez and the Mendez duo at the end. Perfect story.

 

Worst - Liberty City Stories. The plot goes absolutely nowhere. Everytime, Toni follows orders from anyone around him. Also, most of the characters dragged the game down. Crappy.

Edited January 2, 2021 by OH76

[Americana]

1. Grand Theft Auto IV 

2. Grand Theft Auto III

3. Grand Theft Auto: The Lost And Damned

4. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

5. Grand Theft Auto V

6. Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

7.  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - Just random set of missions after we leave Los Santos. Awful.

 

Also, I haven't really played Grand Theft Auto games for PSP, so I can't say much.

Edited January 5, 2021 by Americana

[Dr Busta]

I have just started San Andreas again after three or two years of not playing it and in a very San Andreash feeling right now 

So I choose San Andreas as my favorite 

My least favorite story would be LCS 

It's so random and Toni is worse than Claude atleast Claude had some Motivations or something but Toni is just everybody's lab dog and characters are so forgettable ( Leon , the church guy , Maria ) the only real good character is JD 

And at the end they just threw the whole 2 million dollars at the end

Even GTA 3 did the ranking up in the Mafia better

I am currently replaying it anyway I did every side mission, odd job and main mission in Portland (except the taxi)  and I will start Donald love missions later 

I don't really think I would change my mind about the story though  . It makes you feel like Toni is the only member of the mafia 

Also it broke the canon a Lot

Edited January 7, 2021 by DR:BUSTA

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, DR:BUSTA said:

 It's so random and Toni is worse than Claude 

Always has been.

[Guest]

Mainline games this is how I see it. Worst being 1.

 

1. GTA 3

2. GTA V

3. GTA: SA

4. GTA: VC

5. GTA IV

Edited January 5, 2021 by darkdayz

[FanEu7]

The best GTA story is easily GTA IV, the rest don't even come close. It has the most compelling and mature story of the series and Niko is just a very well done character.

 

GTA VC, SA and GTA V all have fun & entertaining stories and memorable protagonists as well despite not having the depth of GTA IV, I kind of put them on the same level overall. 

 

Worst stories are GTA 3 and LCS easily. Only good part is Salvatore, rest of the characters are lame.

Edited January 5, 2021 by FanEu7

[Krymefull]

 

I've heard from Jason Schreier that GTA V's story was so bad, Dan Houser secretly left Rockstar Games without the public's knowledge, only to later return to write Red Dead Redemption 2 and then officially leave the company 2 years later. Source: trust me bro.