Weird things you used to think when you were young about the GTA series

[Kiro Ivo]

Back when I was a kid, I thought that GTA IV is set in 2000, a year before III.

[The Tracker]

Vice City is (Shamefuly) the last 3D era game I got to play, and when I first learned about its existence shortly after playing LCS, I used to think for a long time that Toni Cipriani and Tommy Vercetti were the same person, but in different eras. 

 

This is a pretty embarrassing thing to admit, because now VC is my second favorite game in the franchise just after IV.

 

Edited January 29, 2024 by The Tracker

[Kiro Ivo]

14 hours ago, The Tracker said:

Vice City is (Shamefuly) the last 3D era game I got to play, and when I first learned about its existence shortly after playing LCS, I used to think for a long time that Toni Cipriani and Tommy Vercetti were the same person, but in different eras. 

 

This is a pretty embarrassing thing to admit, because now VC is my second favorite game in the franchise just after IV.

 

 

I first played GTA IV on my friend's Xbox 360 console, then GTA SA with mods on my PC, the game frequently crashed.

My first normal personal GTA was Vice City, then mom bought me San Andreas, and later III.

 

[Dave Mustaine 1998]

That all GTA titles took place in the same universe. Silly me!

[Kyoto]

When I was 9 years old I used to think America's Next Top Hooker from GTA IV was about fishing.

[Kalashnikov1947]

I thought the Zaibatsu drugs Claude was eating were peanuts.

Edited February 21 by Kalashnikov1947

[The Journey]

When I was a kid playing San Andreas for the first time I thought the locked islands were gonna be unlocked with updates

 

I was waiting and waiting till I finally looked it up online and saw it has a whole story.

Edited March 21, 2024 by The Journey

[Dom.]

I think I remember thinking that "GTA Liberty City" was a game. I was really confused when I didn't see it on Rockstar's website at one point.

[Gamerwind]

I accidentally discovered in GTA 3  that girls get inside your car and started shaking and making weird noises when parked near the bushes .

10 year old  innocent me thought it's some secret health boost as I saw 125 HP each time girls leave the car.

I showed it my elder brother who was late  teen and he was laughing uncontrollably and it took me another 5-6 years to actually realise what was going on inside the car.

[Gamerwind]

 

I thought GTA 3 was another Max Payne  game with big map and lots of freedom & driving cars , both takes place in New York,  I saw Rockstar logo and name  in their intros & the graphics looked similar and Gun sounds,police siren, helicopter & NPC voices sounded same to me 

 

 

Edited March 22, 2024 by Gamerwind

[TaylorSwiftDies2038]

I used to think Tommy Vercetti was Eddy from Ed Edd n Eddy's dad.

[bahraini_carguy]

Not specifically GTA but rather Bully.

 

• I thought that the rest of the locked map contained different rival schools. That was until i figured out how to pass Help Gary and unlock Chapter 2.

 

• Similarly early on, i thought that Jimmy could eventually be able to drive a car near the end of the game just like in GTA. 

[Meta26]

I remember feeling so guilty as a tiny kid when I made niko roam outside of his apartment because I thought video game characters had feelings and that he wanted to go home. I felt like someone taking an animal outside of their habitat.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

when i first started playing gta and before i had any knowledge of guns. i thought that all guns were fully automatic. that changed when i got my first airsoft gun and i held down the trigger. i was so confused. i thought the gun was broken and i had to take it back to get a new one. it's funny how dumb and gullible we are as kids. 

[Haruko Haruhara]

I had no idea what all the 69 references meant as a kid, I thought that number was some inside joke between the devs

 

Then I finally learned what it was when I saw someone in a YouTube comment section telling someone else "go 69 a grizzly bear"

[propanecocaine71]

When I was younger I thought n on the map would lead to a different location,not realizing how a radar of compass worked.

[bahraini_carguy]

During the cut-scene of the mission Rigged to Blow, Ilyena asks Niko about his bad deeds and he responded with that infamous 50 dead children line. Now for the longest time, i thought Niko was essentially saying that perpetration of such heinous crimes were so horrid that he lost any beliefs in the perceived notion of humanity within human beings (hence the "doesn't have a soul" line).

 

What i didn't realize until more recently is that he's basically saying "i don't believe in God" and that he's atheist.

Edited June 1, 2024 by bahraini_carguy

[Dr Busta]

On 5/3/2024 at 6:45 AM, wacky woohoo pizza man said:

I had no idea what all the 69 references meant as a kid, I thought that number was some inside joke between the devs

 

I thought sex was an inside joke between the devs 

[PointlessRedemption]

That the ghost of CJ's mom was actually in the game. Because of that, I was always afraid to go inside CJ's house.

Edited June 3, 2024 by PointlessRedemption
Grammarrrrrr

[squishyboithighs]

Back when I first played Vice City at the age of 12 and Tommy said he was "missing 20 keys" I thought he literally meant keys for a door  

7 hours ago, PointlessRedemption said:

That the ghost of CJ's mom was actually in the game. Because of that, I was always afraid to go inside CJ's house.

The panopticon was freaky as hell for me to explore because of all the leatherface rumors I read. Obviously he's not real but being 12 you'll believe a lot of crap online

[drcherrybomb]

On 1/29/2024 at 5:31 PM, Kiro Ivo said:

Back when I was a kid, I thought that GTA IV is set in 2000, a year before III.

I mean, it wouldn't really make a difference either way. GTA IV is in a different continuity.

[Ingramsl]

I remember....when I was in school 14 years ago, there was a high school student playing a game, at that time I was in elementary school. At that time, I didn't know it was GTA and I didn't know about mods (at that time, we had to use ThePirateBay or Kickass (later, do you remember when the FBI shut down the Kickass website? The owner of the website was arrested in Poland and sent to the United States? That's the guy)). When I got a computer in 2014, I downloaded GTA NFS Underground 2 (now the mod for GTA Vice City) and played the first game of this series, GTA Vice City.

[GhettoJesus]

When I first played GTA III as a young lad I thought MSX FM had just one song. They all sounded the same to me.

[Lock n' Stock]

That Vice City was a direct sequel to GTA III and that Tommy was just Claude having moved to a new city.

[universetwisters]

On 6/30/2024 at 3:16 AM, GhettoJesus said:

When I first played GTA III as a young lad I thought MSX FM had just one song. They all sounded the same to me.

 

Literally me with Rise FM too 

[Agent Edward]

Back when I was a kid, 6-12 yo, I used to think that GTA games were impossible to beat without cheats, but from 12 yo onwards I realized they weren't hard without them and I lost every bit of enjoyment for using them.

[drcherrybomb]

On 6/30/2024 at 10:16 AM, GhettoJesus said:

When I first played GTA III as a young lad I thought MSX FM had just one song. They all sounded the same to me.

Hey, that's actually fair enough. Lol.

[Carbonox]

On 7/7/2024 at 7:40 AM, universetwisters said:

 

Literally me with Rise FM too 

Literally me with Rrrrrrradioooooooo Espantosoooooooooo

[The Time Ranger]

It was during the mission in San Andreas where you have to seduce the casino employee to get her keycard and she brings you to her sex dungeon. I didn't really think about the sex dungeon or wonder what is was. I loved the gimp suit though, I thought it was some kind of superhero costume and I used to roleplay as a hero vigilante fighting crime on the streets wearing it. The Ballas probably sh*t themselves when they saw that coming.

[2017bizarresummer]

1 hour ago, The Time Ranger said:

It was during the mission in San Andreas where you have to seduce the casino employee to get her keycard and she brings you to her sex dungeon. I didn't really think about the sex dungeon or wonder what is was. I loved the gimp suit though, I thought it was some kind of superhero costume and I used to roleplay as a hero vigilante fighting crime on the streets wearing it. The Ballas probably sh*t themselves when they saw that coming.

OMG same, I thought it was a comic villain costume tho.