Grand Theft Auto 3 Retrospective: A Disappointing Foundation

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Today, DJ Peach Cobbler dissects Grand Theft Auto 3...a game he loves...but no longer likes.
I always do these descriptions in the third-person. I don’t know why
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I really loved Grand Theft Auto 3, but I no longer like it. This video hurt, viewers. It really hurt. Grand Theft Auto is an incredibly important franchise to gaming history, and was my introduction to gaming, but Grand theft Auto 3 is...not fun. Rockstar Games has gone so far from the roots that is this game, and in the process, rendered it obsolete in every way. This video made me feel old, viewer. It made me sad.
But I hope you enjoyed it anyway.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

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[@-Scrapper-]

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[@Gospel-xm7vd]

Phew, almost forgot to leave a like before watching the video

[@Dough_Dough4]

It says comment was posted 53 minutes ago, why doesn't it work?? COBBLEEEEEEER!!!!!

[@MClayton243]

@@-Scrapper- of course not, his father right him, same thing Luke Skywalker's father did.

[@matsonovskyMD]

GTA 3 is bad by "modern standards", but there wouldn't be "modern standards" without GTA 3

[@HaidaWay]

The mechanics of the game are on par, if not better than cyberpunk

[@amarson2322]

@@HaidaWay lets not go that far, Cyberpunk for all its faults can’t be worser than a game from 2001 no way

[@bionicmanspeedruns]

@@amarson2322 idk man the questlines were breaking for no reason 2 months after release. If the game becomes unbeatable it is worse. I hope it's fixed cuz I haven't checked

[@1mmarker]

@@amarson2322 that makes no sense, so i could release the worst broken game ever made but it can't be worse than gta 3 because its a 2001 game?

[@MerlautJones]

Righteous, I can still play GTA 3 on consoles without any problems.

[@Mikelp79]

Glad I'm not the only with "my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother" etched into his brain until his dying breath.

[@rayvenkman2087]

Ever used that to get out of having to drive someone somewhere?

[@thegethconsensus393]

I remember calling him 8 balls… comedy gold.

[@tomiecacique]

I still remember that whole phrase and say it randomly all the time lol

[@CC-8891]

Not only that line but the entire radio discography is also burned into by brain.

[@shortcake1025]

What's etched into MY brain is 8-Ball's running cycle as the container ship explodes, on the sniping mission, in the docks.

[@agw2468]

The legend says that there is no video where cobbler doesn't praise Doom Eternal

[@darrylbonczkiewicz1860]

Great creators appreciate great creations.

[@Ojos_Del_Sol]

or use Home - Resonance lol

[@QuickQuips]

Ooh. He should collaborate with Under the Mayo.

[@idrinkmilk282]

That’s because doom eternal is deserving of eternal praise

[@motorhh]

he didnt mention eternal in the far cry 3 video

[@ModsViciado]

Shit, there’s people who’s been nostalgic to the ipad version of GTA 3 already??????

[@Upamanyu2000]

Always had been

[@u0aol1]

I was writing a similar comment thinking fuck, I'm old man. What happened?

[@rodrigolampert7302]

Você por aqui?? Meu primeiro contato com o KZbin foi com seus vídeo de GTA

[@randomango2789]

My iPhone 5C was the only way I could play GTA 3 when I was in middle school. Those were some great times :)

[@yume5338]

Proof that GTA 3's era of games have an inherent nostalgia factor to them

[@ja-nathen]

Things I learned today 1. I need to start playing the GTA games 2. Trash cans are expensive

[@Bombingham]

I learned elevator musics are bad

[@halfastudio]

I learned that DPC has never played a video game

[@kaspervletter290]

And that the yankees put chili sauce on burgers

[@garyredfield1498]

I actually started playing Gta some months ago, it's cool, but damn it takes a lot of space

[@DBLRxyz]

How the hell have you not played GTA games. I was born playing it straight out of the womb lmao

[@thedrbat9572]

"gta 3 is the most important out of the three" this is a line that is nothing but true. without III we would not understand any of the terms in other gta games.

[@imdebaws3715]

Fuck that Grove street 4 life

[@thedrbat9572]

Claude is the only reason CJ is still alive @@imdebaws3715 😂

[@VamshiOhgs]

I'm gonna be honest your content versatility is admirable to me, as someone who watches lots of video essays to implement those techniques into my own content, you are someone who is really an inspiration

[@OkachaWasTaken]

YEAAAA BABY THATS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@piemanlad]

A man of culture and style i see

[@b3nl555]

THATS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT WOOOOOO

[@stevenx399]

LESSS GO

[@Chuked]

Penguinz0

[@amarson2322]

@@Chuked *critical

[@aaronp4689]

I was 12 when this game originally launched and even I saw the irony of everyone blaming GTA 3 for violence knowing damn well 9/11 happened literally in a pre-GTA 3 world a few months prior lol

[@thetachyon456]

I've come to realize why I love this channel so much. There are many other channels out there that do similar video essays in a similar format, sometimes with similar voices. But what makes this channel so great is the top-notch deadpan comedy that comes with it. So many other times I see the jokes is video essays fall flat, often times for sticking out, or trying to get more out of the joke than they can, but you're jokes are at an almost nonstop pace. I am sure a number of them fly over my head, and that's a good thing, as it makes it so a. I can rewatch a video to find even more humor, and b. It keeps the feeling of the video strong, not having unbalanced humor as I mentioned many similar videos do.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Thank you! Please re-watch all my videos at all times, as much as possible. I demand total subservience. You exist to promote me. Don't make me send my wife's boyfriend to your house, he does karate.

[@-Scrapper-]

@@DJPeachCobbler I pressed the like button twice

[@Nightmare43262]

@@DJPeachCobbler aww! 😊Your wifes boyfriend would do that for you? That's so sweet of him! Relationship goals 🙌

[@halfastudio]

@@DJPeachCobbler yo buddy everything you have suggested till now was either a blast to try or just made my memories come back alive, but my man, RUINER was hot trashhhhh It offended me so much I had to go and Replay hotline Miami

[@TheFormalFools]

@@DJPeachCobbler 69 likes, nice.

[@sunsinger970]

Saints row was never just an imitator, it took the concept and ran in another direction with like a mad septic truck driver.

[@ninjapancake9]

The first one was pretty generic tbh. It definitely had some quirk and off color missions, but then again so do the GTA games. It definitely came into its own from two onwards though.

[@HitlerGaymes123]

Saints Row 2 is the best open world game.

[@imdebaws3715]

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[@jedizinho3474]

I love how he put ''the ocean on his shoulders'' in every video, it fits for anything

[@DJPeachCobbler]

It's seriously such a fantastic song

[@fullweezy3553]

Personally I like how he keeps sneaking the max Payne theme into his videos so now I'm just waiting for a max Payne video

[@HairyHarpy]

30:51 and he never did

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

The 3D Era of GTA is so weird that the chronological order of the story is OPPOSITE to the release order of the games. GTA3 was the first released but last chapter of the story, and Vice City Stories was the last released but the furthest in time prequel.

[@darealepic]

The 3d era was when they started to make the games more about actual stuff than "criminal guy does missions"

[@AlejoConejo-vb8ln]

@@darealepic Except for GTA3 of course

[@Elemtree]

I can’t believe all those gosh darn GTA games were responsible for WW2!

[@canobeans1210]

Can’t believe cod caused the invasion of Iraq

[@hashem6356]

Can’t believe plague inc caused covid

[@themostdiabolicalhater5986]

Can’t believe y’all think you’re funny

[@SLAD3]

@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 shut

[@sammydelamante7982]

@@themostdiabolicalhater5986 your user name is right

[@dmitriygryaznov9210]

It's also interesting how GTA's 2D roots were still visible in GTA3: it's possible to set your camera to top-down, and you won't miss much due to the way the missions/areas were designed and peculiarities of gameplay like inability to duck. GTA: VC did feel truly 3D though.

[@sirizalot]

There's more than that - GTA III retains a lot of the arcade mechanics of the 2D games. Here's just one of them. The way those games worked was by getting points. You couldn't do anything with them, but once you had enough points, you could move on to the next chapter or level. The games had no story, and how you got the points was up to you. You could get those points in a few ways. The first way was by doing a whole bunch of grunt work given to you by people over payphones, often with absurd time limits and no way to retry, should you fail. The second way was by commiting violent crime. Crashing into cars, stealing cars, blowing them up, killing people - all of it would give you points in true arcade fashion. That mechanic is still there, for some reason, in GTA III. When you crash into cars, steal them or blow them up, you gain money from nowhere. Money in GTA III is practically as useless as the points in GTA 1 and 2, and works in a very similar way. To access the final story mission you needed to have a certain amount of money. The only other use money has in GTA III is to buy weapons, which you can beat the game without doing once. GTA Vice City seems to be where Rockstar ultimately decided what kind of games they wanted GTA to be. But GTA III is an amalgamation of two very different types of games that simply don't mix well, executed poorly.

[@chernobylthing3932]

It's actually approaching it's 20th anniversaryᶠᵘᵘᵘᵘᵘᵘᶜᶜᵏᵏᵏᵏ, ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒˡᵈ I felt that. A kid born when I first came to America would be Old enough to legally have an Email. Shit, I too am old

[@PrebleStreetRecords]

I remember buying it in a store...that hurts.

[@DEWAGE83]

Old enough to remember playing the GTA's before GTA3... shiiittteee

[@ipadair7345]

Whenever someone says they're feeling old, tell them to be happy, since it means the world is changing for the worse always but hey atleast evrerything isn't static.

[@cpt.battlecock5264]

*i am too old.

[@Void_The_Sinner]

I can taste the early 2000s air just watching this...i might have to play through it again sometime soon Sidenote: anyone else have the cheat codes permanently burned into their brain?

[@DJPeachCobbler]

GIVEUSATANK

[@golibrodagolibroda2071]

I'm pretty sure that my post death body will try to enter 1st weapon set from ps2 gta sa, it's so burned in my muscle memory.

[@nickrustyson8124]

It's funny because GTA 3 doesn't feel like it take place in 2001, it's a weird modern 1970s

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@@nickrustyson8124 That's... oddly accurate, actually. Your character doesn't even have a mobile phone! There's a pager that's used maybe twice in the whole game. Actually, when I was a kid playing GTA, it felt like each level took place in a different time period. Liberty City was the 90's, San Andreas was the late 60's / early 70's (probably all the "hippie" vehicles) and Vice City was the 80's.

[@prajwaljayaraj5887]

"Rockstar has never been non linear on purpose." I have never agreed more.

[@deadshot0908]

Tbf i never had a Problem with the main Missions being so linear, because in the world i could do everything i wanted, thats something i cant do in ubisoft games, if there is no more outpost to clear, or treasure to get, its done, in gta or rdr 2 i can play on and do the shit i want to do with this big sandbox, so that kinda balanced the linear missions out, for me at least.

[@imdebaws3715]

San Andreas has a lot of missions life hacks

[@tomreinke7618]

DJ peach cobbler = underrated Change my mind

[@DeliriantPsychosis1442]

Bro got 100k subs in less than a month. Definitely not underrated

[@tomreinke7618]

@@DeliriantPsychosis1442I think he should be at 300k at least with that production quality

[@ishaansharma4325]

@UCv6G61MipNKwpi7707l42EQ Lol

[@blacklightstarcraft]

I disagree old women in a sweatshop in Taiwan who love doom eternal are underrated

[@sigmaritearchlector5869]

Overrated since literally everyone in the comment is saying the same crap

[@adriantrusca1245]

Gta 3 was very fun when it dropped. You're seriously judging this game by today's standards?! The game was fun and revolutionary. It changed everything for open world games. For it's time it was a fucking masterpiece. And it still kinda holds up.

[@thomasffrench3639]

2001 was one of the best years in gaming, and GTA was one of the weaker games in the line up. You had Final Fantasy X, Tony Hawk 3, Smash Bros Melee, Devil May Cry, Halo, Pikmin, Ace Attorney, Jak and Daxter, Silent Hill 2 and Baulder’s Gate II; which I would argue are all better than GTA 3.

[@henrynelson9301]

He never judged it by modern standards. And his criticism of the story doesn’t have anything to do with technical limitations or poorly aged game mechanics

[@TimSlee1]

Nah, it doesn't hold up at all. That's your nostalgia talking. But like he said; you gotta start somewhere.

[@chanadlerbing8659]

This was the first game I ever played when I was 4 years old. 17 years later gaming has become my life and I’m heading into a game design position when I graduate in a year. Thank god for GTA 3 and the PS2.

[@kummakummakummakummakummac8606]

Good for you. I still remember the first time I seen GTA 3.

[@Logan_93]

Congrats zoomer. No idea why you were playing this at 4yo, but more power to ya!

[@avace917]

GTAIII is my favorite of those 3. Being a New Yorker, I'm biased. You pretty much nailed the location comparison. Although the main Red Light District was in Manhattan, there were and very well may still be a few in Queens and the Bronx. The reward for advancing in the game is actually the cars. They get more advanced with each new island

[@avace917]

I have to add that despite all the double crossing we do in this game, it never bothered me as to how our character feels about it. We basically play an opportunist who starts off being double crossed by our girlfriend. Then we get double crossed AGAIN by Salvatore because of Maria. It's street politics. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. This was the first GTA game I played. I just remember being blown away by it. I had just turned 30 but was totally caught off guard

[@malletUsergaming]

@@avace917 your wrong, stop trying to sound so smart. The only gang you double crossed was the Yakuza. The cartel betrayed you, the Leones betrayed you, the triads want you dead, the diablos didn't care about you whatsoever if you were loyal or not, the southside hoods have no beef with you.

[@imdebaws3715]

Fuck New York Cali all the way

[@InsulindianPhasmid2214]

can we just appreciate the Jakey refence while talking about mission linearity? it's like cobbler knows his audience

[@rickyretriever4503]

Yes. I don't hate jakey, but I had a feeling that anyone who watched his video would come to the conclusion that "yes GTA III good because player freedom' when they later realize that all the other missions follow the same linearity as Rockstar's modern titles.

[@hannibalcase1100]

Is Jakey okay? Has anyone checked on him? :c

[@malletUsergaming]

@@rickyretriever4503 not exactly, modern titles fail you for abandoning the area, more scripted sequences, yes GTA 3 still had scripted missions but it wasn't as restrictive that it would later become

[@coldbloodedtwilight5602]

Cobbler's videos are always such a wild ride like they can start with "The hit single Umbrella by Rihanna has a line that goes-" and then somehow work around to a conclusive end like "-and that's why good mobility in a game is what defines a generation." What a thrill.

[@artydomi2466]

Was literally just rewatching your New Dawn video and I see you've posted!

[@DJPeachCobbler]

A coincide, I assure you. I have not hacked your computer, do not be suspicious

[@Kono_Dio-Da]

"GTA III spawned endless imitators" *Shows Red Dead Redemption, a game by the same studio*

[@BargB]

Well, rdr is just gta 3 with cowboys, tou can see the formula right there

[@Kono_Dio-Da]

@@BargB That's like calling GTA VC an imitator. It's the same studio, you can't exactly copy yourself

[@Alucard2077]

@@Kono_Dio-Da say that to EA (look at most FIFA Games )

[@Kono_Dio-Da]

@@Alucard2077 That's different, that's not changing a single mechanic and just swapping models

[@Alucard2077]

@@Kono_Dio-Da I was making fun of EA lol, but ur right u can't copy yourself

[@zachperkins688]

Personally I love the simplicity and arcadiness of GTA3 compared to the other game. GTA3's AI for example is insane and always leads to crazy hilarious scenarios happening.

[@OutlawedPoet]

Yep, I've been drinking again.

[@sunsetman22]

I'm hot, you're naaaaaaaaht

[@hannibalcase1100]

GTA3 is still the source of my favorite GTA story: there's an early mission, where you're tasked with assassinating a guy. Whenever you approach him, though, he runs to his car and drives off, making the mission an absolute bitch to accomplish with the options available to you. Except... There's an earlier mission, which tasks you with stealing a car, getting it to a certain garage to rig up a car bomb, and returning the car to where you found it. So, after what must have been well over twenty failed attempts at this little digital man's life, I had the bright idea to... NOT approach him at first, but instead, go around the area to the other side, and wouldn't you know it, there was his car... You already are where this is going, I'm sure. And yes, it worked beautifully. What really gets me is, you'd never be allowed to do that in GTA 4/5 or RDR; you'd be given a failure state just for going too far away from your mark. Hell, you'd probably be given a fail for stealing the mark's car. I guess that over-guidance is what eventually turned me off the series. Early GTA felt like you were lost in a first-world foreign country, but you're in a nice part of town and have enough scraps of the local language to get around and have a good time. Nu-GTA feels like being taken on a guided tour through an authoritarian state, where you'll be disappeared the instant you step out of line. Anyway, neat video, I haven't watched it yet.

[@ggwp638BC]

At the time GTA 3 WAS over the top. It wasn't just novel, it was everything GTA V is today. The closest we had of GTA 3 at the time was GTA/GTA 2, both of which are literally just shooting and driving tiny dots, and sometimes you pick up payphones. Crime sandboxes weren't new, but before that they weren't that interesting. It was the larger scope of GTA 3 that really brought the formula to work.

[@trevorphillips8895]

I was super tired but when I saw DJ posted a gta video, I sprung outta bed wide awake

[@gaborpatai603]

Cobbler: "it is burned into my Frontal lobe" -Oblivion bgm starts- I feel addressed in a strangely personal way.

[@spartan456]

As a resident of the armpit that is known as Alton, IL, hearing "Alton Illinois was never going to be good" is an astute observation.

[@hudsondraulans212]

Fuck yea bro keep doin what you’re doing. It’s really refreshing to see someone make deep observations about a game that ultimately makes a statement on the industry as a whole. It’s obvious how much time and passion goes into these videos so it sucks to see that the support you get is lackluster. I doubt you’re the only one doing stuff like this but you are the only one who has reached mine and others’ recommended feed, so shouting out other channels that were used as sources is a great way to grow the community! Keep doing you cobbler don’t change for anyone or anything!!

[@hash2335]

You're one of the few KZbinrs that actually make me laugh. I'm so glad I found this channel

[@Liakos_sapranidis]

I like how he used the same music at 7:30 as the trilogy remaster

[@bhx6252]

That was the song Rockstar used for the 10th anniversary mobile release as well

[@xanderthomas9305]

I found your channel at 4k subs like a month ago, binged every video. Glad your still improving the content

[@TNOFanZacharie]

I KNEW YOU’D MENTION RAMBLELIME! By the way, Alton, IL creator’s new mod looks great! Really hope It’s gonna be great! He’s really tallented.

[@kaosdays2146]

I have never been so excited about cobbler baby... ok that’s a lie I’m fat

[@southtowndunky8882]

60% of my childhood gaming (2005-2010) was grand theft auto III (yes :3 kinda exceeding VC & SA, idk why but i loved the setting more i guess) I love this video, themks ♥️

[@TurboLight]

"Filled with super cheap to licence trash" FLASHBACK FM literally has tracks from Scarface which are really good, and certainly not "cheap" and far from being "trash". The game also has it's own official composed radio tracks which are also not cheap to get someone to compose these tracks in the first place, and also to get artists to sing these tracks.

[@OfficialDJSoru]

"The game isn't fun" Yeah, can't blame ya for thinking that Cob "The music is cheap to license trash" BOI YOU TAKE THAT BACK! AIN'T NOBODY SHITTING ON RISE, K-JAH AND MSX

[@TimSlee1]

That's where I disagreed, the radio is the best part of GTA 3.

[@ronnenfelt5438]

I'd say silence suits Claude because he's meant to be perceived as a silent, obedient and emotionless psychopath. To think of it that way, he's way scarier than cartoonishly Vaas-esque Trevor and any other protagonist since. Any bit of personality or emotion would make him humane, and he's supposed as inhumane as Manhunt protagonists. It's just who he is - a ruthless killing machine. Tommy is ambitious and greedy, Niko is broken and torn apart by guilt and revenge, Trevor exists entirely for Z generation, Michael is a walking midlife crisis, while Claude is... A complete psycho

[@sarkastikartist7044]

Oooooo nice! This will surely draw eyes, Mister Cobbler. With your types of analysis, I'm sure you'll do this legendary series justice. (Even though it was before my time.)

[@purush4086]

"as I will detail in my next video cement them as the true kingpins as the crime sandbox" Morgan Freeman: He never did

[@pekkalanger5076]

GTA IV had the same boring reward problem. Niko is always saying he takes the jobs for the money but in the end all you can buy is clothes and ammunition which you can have in endless amounts about halfway through the game anyway.

[@threatmaker]

"gta 3 did not do this concept justice" to be honest, neither did gta v

[@skytop082]

>Talks about Skyrim being the first game that ever grabbed him >Mentions his childhood memories of GTA III being on the Ipad re-release instead of the PS2 I think we're getting old, lads.

[@jaypiosled]

I always appreciate someone who's willing to take comedy into demonitization zone. Thanks for the video!

[@Geetarit]

Dude I love this video those Vietnamese sweatshop workers really know their stuff!

[@Michael-ib6ky]

Imagine making a game that's so fundamental to gaming that youtubers can make videos about it with its soundtrack in the background while pretending to talk about other games *thanks Doom*

[@drewsbrewcrew]

I'm just gonna say, I'm from Texas, we know our chili, and chili burgers are awesome.

[@williammabreyv2097]

Give us the Vice City video, or we’ll mess up yo hands brotha

[@fencer4597]

rockstar game design always felt like building a lego set by following an instruction

[@uconspiracy]

Chatterbox radio is all I remember in detail about GTA III

[@QuarantineV1]

There was a mod titled "Alton Revoicing Mod" that had come out at some point well before this video. If you use that and the LIP replacements found on the Nexus page for Alton, IL, it is actually a good mod. I'm just happy having a Fallout 3 mod, since it did not get the same love New Vegas did from the modding community.

[@a1k0rn17]

I replayed gta 3 a year ago and had a totally different experience. It could be attributed to the fact that i was playing on the ps2, but the fact remains i absolutely loved the atmosphere, the electronic music, the map, and just the vibe how grim everything was. I totally immersed myself in the world. I also think the difficulty is probably one of the most enjoyable out of a gta game, every mission completion felt earned. It's a shame you didn't mention tho how you can't 100% complete it after beating the missions

[@saisameer8771]

I actually really enjoyed gta 3 and I started playing it like a few months ago. It has a lot of awkward game mechanics but once you get used to it the game's a lot of fun. The missions are fairly non linear too even if it's not intentional.

[@OutlawedPoet]

I had more fun playing through GTA 3 than I did with base GTA 4.

[@PartyQuest]

"disappointing" ?! when it was 2001 and we had windows 98 and pentium 3 this was a masterpiece! i was hungry all day to play it! F school, give me GTA 3 all day back then. it blew minds, no other games did it! not gothic not morrowind nor unreal tournament, or half life.

[@mykelmellen2378]

"Super secret KZbinr number you can't talk about" Great, now I have to follow the rabbit home.

[@dash_r_media]

A fine review, but having played GTA3 extensively this month, I cannot agree. It mostly holds up.

[@H.V.C_Shino]

*me searching "dj waffles" trying to find this channel*

[@timofalltrades8475]

I poke my head out of the gutter for one freakin second and fate shovels shit in my face!!!! That’s the GTA line stuck in my head. I know it’s from vice city and not GTA 3

[@Ektuma]

Hell yeah i still remember playing GTA 1 even after playing GTA SA i loved the fact that your character can vault over cars

[@Zack-xv2yc]

To me at least, I see GTA 3 as a "pre-alpha" build. Not for a game, but for an entire genre of games, while GTA VC was the impressive "beta" of it.

[@Palemagpie]

Reminds me of that goddamn rock music that must be worshipping the devil. Because I don't understand it, so therefore it must clearly be evil and misleading the nation's youth. Will someone please think of the children? And how we can stop them from having any fun?

[@evanblack20]

Thanks peach now I understand that it’s the circumstances of my birth that are to blame for my complete failure.

[@rawdog7881]

The hot coffee reference got me

[@thomasffrench3639]

Honestly I think that Grand Theft Auto games can do a silent protagonist really well, but they focus on linear mission structure that completely ruins it.

[@lawcane]

I haven't played this game in 15 years, but I remember I hated the Waka-gashira wipeout mission. The Yakuza were always straight with the character and Donald Love was a scumbag.

[@Endru85x]

I agree, and i think the lack of any response from Claude makes this more awful. Hey, i,m rich scumbag and i will be even richer scumbag, just kill the brother of a girl who saved you, i will give you some peanuts. Claude don,t have any purposes, emotional stakes, he just moves from point a to b, he is not relatable at all.

[@lawcane]

@@Endru85x exactly. I think that's why I didn't play much.

[@TitleTalkTCL]

Even though I disagree with the overall premise of this video, I reslly enjoyed it. Well done.

[@retroswags8368]

This channel is criminally underrated imo

[@futurevegan8617]

You said you were going to do Vice City in your next video! I want to watch that please.

[@Wardog01Actual]

Good stuff, big homie! I'm still playing V (offline only), and I'm still having a wonderful time! I love listening to trivia and opinions on this franchise. It's in my top 5 all-timers!

[@davidmcclean3826]

Where’s the vice city retrospective

[@gamingandgunpla]

Listening to 7:19 - to 7:42 over and over again. Anyone else?

[@ashj5952]

27:52 that thump of the drummer dying got me so bad i'm lmaoooo

[@smgtercero]

are you even gonna make the Vice City vid?

[@bananadane]

Where is the next vid you reference?

[@timofalltrades8475]

I was 15 when the game came out, it was the reason I bought the ps2. Me and my friends would spend hours passing the controller back and forth. Play until you die then it’s the next persons turn. After not playing the game for 15 years I bought a ps2 with GTA 3 and vice city. I beat vice city again and had allot of fun doing it. Now I’m working on gta3 and like you said the fun is gone, I’m about half way through. It was so much fun at the time because there was nothing like it before.

[@javiers5599]

"GTA 3 missions are the cinnamon Coke Zero of mission based video game design" -UberDanger

[@marcuswethington206]

When I was a young buck and didn’t know how to do missions that sole banshee was one of my few sources of fun in 3 lol

[@Mercury29477]

There actually isn’t roofs on a lot of Buildings in GTA 3 due to them I guessing not thinking anyone would be able to fly the dodo

[@JacobScott0000]

I was 13 when this came out. It was so amazing at the time. There is also a vibe to gta3 that the other ones don't have. It feels more..grimy, dark. Idk. I played it again recently first time since I was a teenager and it was a lot of fun. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it actually.

[@DoctorDex]

I made the mistake of playing Vice City first. Never really got into GTA III because it felt bland in comparison. I can respect the fact that it invented the genre, but I see little reason for playing it now aside from the history.

[@pokermitten9795]

I feel like this about the first Assassins Creed. It was basically a tech demo compared to AC2. Vice City is an all time great

[@LB-lj5wp]

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you. Your channel is the best channel i stumbled upon and I'm so happy it happened because your videos are so well made with amazing arguments and beautiful edits. I don't play games so often but your videos are so delightful to watch and I really mean it. Thanks for your effort and thanks for opening our eyes for the wider picture on these topics.

[@ArmsImGeddin4-7]

Putting Home - Resonance in your video real make me feel them! 🚀

[@MetallicaFan5591]

Man everyone knows about the banshee on the first island 👌

[@merciless41582]

This game hasn't aged good nor great at all. I recently started back playing it, (haven't played it in years), and its just an all around overrated game. It was great game when it came out 21 years ago, but playing it in 2022 is a pain in the ass. There are several games from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s that have aged great. This isn't one of them.

[@malletUsergaming]

I disagree, one of GTA 3's primary focus was the freedom. The fact that you could do anything you want like it was your playground was amazing in a realistic environment that we are familiar with that still puts lots of games today to shame, the car handling is still fun to drive in and even collectibles felt more rewarding then later entries. Almost no other game has been able to recapture that dark foggy atmosphere in a way GTA 3 did

[@pekkalanger5076]

@@malletUsergaming ”Was” is the keyword here. Name one good game of today that GTA 3 puts to shame?

[@malletUsergaming]

@@pekkalanger5076 yeah was and still is. Have you played cyberpunk? A decent story but my god what an awful free Roam experience, a buggy and glitchy mess, saints row with it's lame story and mediocre gameplay and more.

[@pekkalanger5076]

@@malletUsergaming I said good games since GTA 3 was just that. Cyberpunk and the new SR has been shit on by both critics and the average player. My point being is it’s not a good game anymore. As an early FPS game the first Quake still holds up really well to any given highly praised FPS game of today to make a comparison. If we should put GTA 3 to the same test even vice city released the year after or saints row 2 (I can agree with you on every SR title after that) makes it seem like a boring soulless game. Or if i’m going to be nice: a necessary foundation of what was to come in the years ahead.

[@kingshukcs]

I remember I used to bash through that car dealer window to drive the only banshee on that island...and btw Awesome video.... waiting for your next one

[@Bassist-Beneath]

I need to start bringing up that 9/11 thing every time someone cries about how people are so sensitive today. Imagine being that fragile

[@noodlebrains2689]

People aren't sensitive about violence today, they're sensitive about the wrong thoughts and words instead. Is that really better?

[@yobob591]

Man, if you don’t understand why people were in pain and shocked immediately after 9/11 it clearly shows your limited understanding on the event. Obviously games shouldn’t censor themselves because of public opinion, but 9/11 was absolutely fucking horrific especially for the people who lived there, and it’s clear that releasing the game as is at the time would’ve been in bad taste, especially with the plane crash mission. The delay is completely understandable.

[@PaintedHoundie]

Nah this isnt the one lol. They would have gotten a ton of heat keeping that stuff in the game, and darkel would have fueled the flame of the fear people already had about muslim people right after 9/11, or been a symbol of it. That would be like having a character in a game make you do a mission where you shot up a school 2 weeks after columbine. you are right that people have always been sensitive. there are people who say we grew up on south park and family guy forget that they got a ton of backlash whenever they were controversial. the only example you should use for this is to prove that censorship and removing content isnt new or some PC culture thing.

[@lotanowo]

I remember when GTA3 was being in the works, I still lived in Poland at the time and having a PS2 was a luxury few of us could afford at the time. Every week I rushed to the local convenience store to look through all the gaming magazines for a chance to get a glimpse of the supposed "3D GTA GAME". The idea was hard to believe in, and all of my friends were anticipating it like the birth of their first child. And when the game came out and the reviews were piling in - boy did it seem like it was the game we were all waiting for. Such realistic graphics, amazing explosions, gripping story, the jealousy that enveloped you when you heard that your classmates had a PS2 and had the game but you didn't yet....Things were much simpler back then.

[@ibrahim5463]

I kinda wounder how the san andreas and vice city video would have been,we may never know but at least we will know what happend to those poor investors

[@-Scrapper-]

I'm commenting for the algorithm. Your welcome

[@DyaMetR]

I was dumbfounded too by the traitorous nature of Claude's character. Then I just thought that Claude was some kind of psychopath that would sell to ANYONE for money. ... but yeah, it's probably because it has no character.

[@e3uphoric51]

There were a couple of missions where you can choose how you want to do the mission. Like Salvatore's assassination, you can run up, drive by, or use a rooftop and snipe him when he comes out. S.a.m, you can use the boat or you can just drive to the airfield and wait for the plane to land after clearing out the cartel members. There's another one given by Asuka where you have to kill mafia members, and you can snipe a group of them from on top of the casino.

[@timmioto]

7:23 He actually predicted the song they used for the remaster trailer!!

[@Poppa]

happy 3 years

[@BigSmoke-ew5td]

Clown

[@cattycyoutube]

I preferred the later GTA games due to their improvements on the formula so I didn't play GTA III.