Do the GTA games ever get you angry?

[Thomas Vercetti Esq]

I'm a fairly chilled-out person in most aspects of my life, but video games are the one exception, and what an exception it is. I can't trace it back to any specific incident, but (and I'm not proud to say this) I can get into rages which, frankly, would convince anyone who saw them that I needed a straitjacket and a padded room. I'm talking blood-boiling, screaming, roaring, fits of blind rage - only I keep them (as far as possible) under my breath and what I might call "guttural growls" (think "death metal singer") to avoid the neighbours calling the cops because it sounds like there's a murder going down next door.

 

Interestingly, I never get that far with the GTA games. I can get pretty annoyed with things like bad controls, missions with no clear objectives, and so on, but if we create a scale of 0-10 where 0 is "no annoyance at all" and 10 is "explosion imminent", I rarely get much past a 3 or 4  with any of the GTA games. I have a few ideas why this might be. One is that the GTA games just aren't that difficult (the ones I've played, that is), so I find that I can generally make headway through them. Another is that if I get stuck on a mission, I can go do a side quest or just drive around randomly until I'm ready to try it again, i.e. you rarely get completely stuck with nowhere to go. Another theory: there are tough missions, but few missions that I'd call actually completely-stacked-against-the-player-style-sadistic difficult. And lastly, the GTA games are basically too funny to get mad at. Walking around and hearing things like "someone should hit you with a brick", "my wife is fine, if a little fat", and things like that, you realise that these games don't take themselves too seriously, so neither should we.

 

Anyone have anger management issues with GTA?

 

 

[cant remember]

The only thing that really frustrates me, which means mouthing a profanity and wave my wrists in an exasperated manner, is when the game screws me over. For example doing a long mission almost to the end only to get launched across the map by a physics bug because a rock clipped through the vehicle in an illegal weird way.

 

In GTA5 those moments are almost non-existent, since even if it happens there's a recent checkpoint, and losing time is the frustrating part to me.

[44Orca]

Well I was getting a bit mad with modders(cheaters) in the past but since they are part of gta online kinda got used to them teleporting or having godmode and winning when you are supposed to win.

As for the old games, the only mission that made me mad was Air Raid on PS2 , had me weeks not playing the game at all because of it and I didn't even know that it's optional back then.

As for today no.. I don't really even have the energy to get mad at anything.

Edited June 5, 2023 by 44Orca

[universetwisters]

I got really mad at BOMB DA BASE ACT 2 in GTA 3 when I was a kid but then again I was just bad at sniper missions. I got pretty mad at the yoga mission in V just because it was the dumbest goddamn thing in that whole game and I couldn't believe I had to sit through it just to progress the story 

[happygrowls]

the words "Curse you Berkley, Curse You!!!" are engrained into my brain because little 8 year old me could never beat that mission

[Evil empire]

Many things irritate me in the GTA's, City slicking in GTA San Andreas with that heap of crappy rubbish $hit Super GT is one of the worst examples.

[TCA]

Most of zeros missions.

[IVCavalcade]

Yea, I'm not a controller thrower but sometimes I get pissed off with GTA when I'm struggling with something I should pass first time. Most recently it took me 30 mins to finish the Hot Ring stadium event in VC when usually I pass it first or second attempt. I kept getting bad luck with enemy cars ramming me/having huge pileups that blocked the road and destroyed my car. A year or two back I failed VC paramedic twice in a row on level 11 or 12 when usually I pass first time. That was annoying as fk. 

Edited June 19, 2023 by IVCavalcade

[The-Ghost]

GTA4's driving annoys me more than anything and genuinely makes me angry.

 

Demolition Man was annoying in VC because I played it on PC the first time, a controller solves that mission.

 

But really, GTAIV's driving made me quit the game a few times, and not mid-way or some crap, I finish a mission and then remember having to drive to the next location for the next one, and I just quit, the only exception to this is if I am playing TBOGT, that one I ignore the driving because the rest of the game is more appealing and interesting to me. 

[WHAT!?]

I don't know man, I liked the driving in IV quite a bit... I think the main problem with it is playing on console or on a PC that has trouble pushing the game past 30fps. The frame times can get to be pretty atrocious. Which results in input being delayed or you just not getting information fast enough to respond appropriately. Going back to IV on a PC that can average 60fps or higher in that game makes the driving a lot more enjoyable... but thats coming from someone who liked it in the first place. I also enjoyed the FlatOut series of racing games. Which kind of feels like IV driving taken to an extreme. Probably an "acquired taste" though.

 

The only GTA mission that ever made me lose my sh*t was in San Andreas and trying to get Sweet on to the back of that god damn firetruck. I didn't have a good time with that. The next would be GTA Online missions with their aim bot never ending spawn in enemies. God the enemy design in the game is so lazy. GTAO doesn't make me angry though so much as it just makes me disappointed.

 

[Silver]

I've had my fair share of angry moments playing these games for the first time when I was young. Missions like Bomb Da Base Act II, Demolition Man, Wrong Side of the Tracks or Learning to Fly have all made me angry one way or another because of how bad I was. However no game has made me angrier than Vice City Stories on PSP.

 

No matter how good I consider this game to be, I still have all those memories of me losing my sh*t over missions like Boomshine Blowout, Jive Drive, Unfriendly Competition, High Wire and so on... I really had a rough time playing this game, and I still consider it to be hardest GTA I've played so far.

[Stevie Goodwin]

On 6/20/2023 at 4:30 PM, Legomanarthur said:

I've had my fair share of angry moments playing these games for the first time when I was young. Missions like Bomb Da Base Act II, Demolition Man, Wrong Side of the Tracks or Learning to Fly have all made me angry one way or another because of how bad I was. However no game has made me angrier than Vice City Stories on PSP.

 

No matter how good I consider this game to be, I still have all those memories of me losing my sh*t over missions like Boomshine Blowout, Jive Drive, Unfriendly Competition, High Wire and so on... I really had a rough time playing this game, and I still consider it to be hardest GTA I've played so far.

Oh i agree with you 100% so far. I also feel your pain 100%. The mission that made me rage quit GTA VCS was the damn Papi Don't Screech mission.

I even still have PTSD from playing GTA VCS and that mission and even have that quote burned in my head for life when Alberto kept saying "Oh, ohhhh" "I don't feel too good" and kept getting that stupid Mission Failed message like 1000 times in a row and always screaming at my TV screen like a Banshee. This game is what started my gaming rage and we're also not the only ones so far that GTA VCS pissed us off so much as kids and scarred our childhoods for life and made us go angry like the AVGN (and i don't give a f*ck if AVGN is a fictional character). 

Honestly, I would RATHER much play NES games and have Mike Tyson knock me out in one hit on Mike Tyson's Punch Out or even play Silver Surfer on NES rather than play that unfair godawful piece of crap that is called GTA VCS again.

On 6/20/2023 at 4:30 PM, Legomanarthur said:

However no game has made me angrier than Vice City Stories on PSP.

 

No matter how good I consider this game to be, I still have all those memories of me losing my sh*t over missions like Boomshine Blowout, Jive Drive, Unfriendly Competition, High Wire and so on... I really had a rough time playing this game, and I still consider it to be hardest GTA I've played so far.

And this is why i would rather much play NES games at this point.

Edited October 13, 2024 by Stevie Goodwin

[cant remember]

Whenever I meet a strong enemy in a game I always have to think of you now, I think about how unfriendly and unwelcoming the game is being.

[Prasdana21]

Back when I was a kid, I was always angry because all we had to do was follow the damn train

[thechaostheory]

Vice city stories had a lot of missions that pissed me off

[RyanHutch]

I do recall getting angry at some of the earlier titles, You know the same missions that everyone got stuck on as a kid.

 

Although i would get more pissed off at GTAO nowadays than anything, The smallest simplest bullsh*t thing could happen to me and i'd lose it. It's a combination of the NPCS being aggressive and your character being weak and the rapid fire bug that is now just a difficulty modifier is the main one for me. Playing heists with randoms too f*cks me off to the point where im wishing for this game to shutdown so 6 can come out lol.

[LizzyGold]

That one stealth part for the "Obvious" side setup of the final heist. I must've tried 10 times before I managed to beat it.

[HOW'S ANNIE?]

I got caught on VCS. For well over two years I could never get past either Turn On, Tune In, Bug Out and Unfriendly Competition. I've never had any GTA missions make me as angry as those two, and they both fell during the same section of the same game.

[GrudgefromSanAndreas]

What makes me mad now I didn't know about SilentPatch back when I played SA so I mostly played at 15fps. Today I can't even get the original anymore.

[E Revere]

On 10/13/2024 at 6:10 PM, Stevie Goodwin said:

GTA VCS was the damn Papi Don't Screech mission.

If you ever have to play it again, take the scenic route on the western edge if the map. It's much easier.

 

Just make sure you don't drive too fast.

Edited March 17 by E Revere

[cant remember]

2 hours ago, E Revere said:

If you ever have to play it again, take the scenic route on the western edge if the map. It's much easier.

 

Just make sure you don't drive too fast.

That's an excellent idea I hadn't thought of that.

 

 

I been replaying the entire series, starting with GTA1 and boy I don't recommend this game if you anger easily. I'm usually a chill guy but this game can get me riled up (internally). As if  the jank itself weren't enough, it likes to f*** with you by crashing hours into a session.

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- Heist almighty, done most of the missions, doing car missions. I have to follow a car only for it to stop before entering the garage. Mission is stuck so I decide to blow it up. the missions giver moans about me blowing it up but for some reason the "mission complete" is stuck playing over and over, I now got 17x multiplier and the score is in the millions. Great! Only the red arrow never appears. I try to do some more missions but I'm softlocked.

 

- Doing it again, this time I have to drive a pickup into a garage, I accidentally get out in a way that the door is now blocked, the pickup is also stuck and can't be pushed. I blow it up to continue on with other missions but the game doesn't register the destruction & still tells me to drive into the garage and all missions requiring driving into a garage can't progress, nothing happens once you enter a garage, softlocked again.

 

- Bent cop blues, I was halfway there, but the game suddenly froze entirely. Now I have a tactic, do the monotonous fetch missions you never fail first and create a savestate. I wanted to beat the game fair and square the way it originally was without save scumming but this is my exception to the rule.

 

It's been said a million times but other annoying things I encountered:

- Bent Cop Blues has a mission where you have to shoot someone on the train station, but there's no way to get on the platform except a footbridge that starts in another district, what gives? Easy if you know but if you don't expect it you try to follow the narrative only for the game to go "haha got you there's no way to get there except through a secret entrance, clock is ticking!"

 

- Countless moments where you fail because the instructions just aren't clear or you're not given the time to read it when a 5 second timer already starts.. Game says "convince them to depart with their money". Ok so I'm robbing them, I shoot them but nop mission failed, just taking the briefcase was the thing. Lot's of moments where I feel threatened by a group of NPC's but they aren't a gang meant to be killed so I fail.

 

- Overall inconsistencies. San Andreas has several missions per phone while LC has two sets of 4 phones, then VC has a phone for each individual mission, 12 of them. Spray/bomb shops also have totally different designs, in LC spray shops are a barn, bomb shops a garage with a vertical sign. In San Andreas spray shops are like drivethrough carwashes. In VC they are now both garages in the sides of buildings with an awning covering up the entrance from view as if the camera

 

[Jeansowaty]

3 hours ago, cant remember said:

That's an excellent idea I hadn't thought of that.

 

 

I been replaying the entire series, starting with GTA1 and boy I don't recommend this game if you anger easily. I'm usually a chill guy but this game can get me riled up (internally). As if  the jank itself weren't enough, it likes to f*** with you by crashing hours into a session.

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- Heist almighty, done most of the missions, doing car missions. I have to follow a car only for it to stop before entering the garage. Mission is stuck so I decide to blow it up. the missions giver moans about me blowing it up but for some reason the "mission complete" is stuck playing over and over, I now got 17x multiplier and the score is in the millions. Great! Only the red arrow never appears. I try to do some more missions but I'm softlocked.

 

- Doing it again, this time I have to drive a pickup into a garage, I accidentally get out in a way that the door is now blocked, the pickup is also stuck and can't be pushed. I blow it up to continue on with other missions but the game doesn't register the destruction & still tells me to drive into the garage and all missions requiring driving into a garage can't progress, nothing happens once you enter a garage, softlocked again.

 

- Bent cop blues, I was halfway there, but the game suddenly froze entirely. Now I have a tactic, do the monotonous fetch missions you never fail first and create a savestate. I wanted to beat the game fair and square the way it originally was without save scumming but this is my exception to the rule.

 

It's been said a million times but other annoying things I encountered:

- Bent Cop Blues has a mission where you have to shoot someone on the train station, but there's no way to get on the platform except a footbridge that starts in another district, what gives? Easy if you know but if you don't expect it you try to follow the narrative only for the game to go "haha got you there's no way to get there except through a secret entrance, clock is ticking!"

 

- Countless moments where you fail because the instructions just aren't clear or you're not given the time to read it when a 5 second timer already starts.. Game says "convince them to depart with their money". Ok so I'm robbing them, I shoot them but nop mission failed, just taking the briefcase was the thing. Lot's of moments where I feel threatened by a group of NPC's but they aren't a gang meant to be killed so I fail.

 

- Overall inconsistencies. San Andreas has several missions per phone while LC has two sets of 4 phones, then VC has a phone for each individual mission, 12 of them. Spray/bomb shops also have totally different designs, in LC spray shops are a barn, bomb shops a garage with a vertical sign. In San Andreas spray shops are like drivethrough carwashes. In VC they are now both garages in the sides of buildings with an awning covering up the entrance from view as if the camera

 

Part of the reason why the shops are different in each map is cuz each map was designed by another person iirc. This was also the case in GTA2. I think this jank is likely why people find it hard to get into these old games. But hey it's not as bad as with London 61. VC has probably some of the most gruelling missions ever, some of them I'd just outright fail on purpose because I had no patience to go through the hassle they offer. For example that mission where you have to shoot a bunch of Rastas at the basketball court, like Jeez, that one I failed like 3 times. I think one of the biggest issues is by VC the game sometimes plunges you into finding a location without any other details. "Wire up the car with the bomb." and that's it, as if they expect you to know the location, fair point, you should have a printed out map, but still.

 

One of the worst moments is in GTA London where there are TWO missions where you will blow up in a van in seconds. The one in Chelsea Smile is especially utter bullsh*t and cheapshot because you get NO WARNING. You gotta know beforehand you will explode, I am not kidding. You gotta pick up the van and after 3 seconds if you don't leave, you blow up. In the other one that I think was in the last chapter you get a 2 seconds message that the van will explode if you don't leave, but most of the time an unprepared player wouldn't even notice this and die in the explosion. 

 

On an unrelated note the most I raged was probably the Freefall mission in SA. I still can't freaking get it right and it takes multiple attempts to even get close to the f*cking Shamal. f*ck this mission. VCS with the gang attacks also made me pull my hair because gangs reappear even if you take them over and even if you take over the last empire, suddenly another one gets taken over by rivals. And of course you get hit by a message to defend another one because your goons are the most useless sacks of sh*t I've ever seen and cannot do sh*t on their own. No wonder Vic is a drug addicted pansy by 1986 when he had to go through so much sh*t 2 years ago all alone. IV had no rage-worthy missions, neither did III imo. For VC, the only thing I dread doing is the RC sh*t, but for Bombs Away there's a nifty trick where you can leave your van at least.

Edited March 17 by Jeansowaty

[Fidzy]

On 6/6/2023 at 1:12 AM, universetwisters said:

I got really mad at BOMB DA BASE ACT 2 in GTA 3 when I was a kid but then again I was just bad at sniper missions. I got pretty mad at the yoga mission in V just because it was the dumbest goddamn thing in that whole game and I couldn't believe I had to sit through it just to progress the story 

Bomb da base on ps2 back in the day was horrendous, I remember it well!

[Lioshenka]

I get fairly mad at GTA 1. I got mad every time I started playing it, but I shut it down when I start boiling up inside.

 

Two reasons:

- Stupid controls that are unlike other 2d games (arrow keys direction depends on the character position and isn't bound to the XY axes)

- Shaky camera that just won't stand still

Edited March 18 by Lioshenka

[drcherrybomb]

Simple video games.

[ilyove6]

The weapons in GTA Advance didn’t exactly make me angry, but they did annoy me quite a bit. (and no auto-aim)

Out of all the guns available, only the shotgun is actually useful. But then again, what else could you expect from a GBA game?

 

[Kalashnikov1947]

Yeah. The fact that Rockstar to this day refuses to put any of their old games on GOG (a game store that I consider to be superior to Steam at most times mainly because of the lack of instrusive DRM on their games) with fan patches. Even 2K, a company in the same T2 umbrella as Rockstar was nice enough to put games like BioShock and Mafia there.

Edited March 25 by Kalashnikov1947

[GhettoJesus]

Never. Some missions were tough back in the days, so I suppose those were a bit infuriating, but they never got me angry per se. And the games def never make me angry now.

Edited March 25 by GhettoJesus

[m0rkv2]

If a gta game makes you angry then you have deep unresolved issues. Go to therapy

[E Revere]

On 3/26/2025 at 2:40 AM, m0rkv2 said:

If a gta game makes you angry then you have deep unresolved issues. Go to therapy

people are allowed to get mad at video games