I personally think it’s Cj then Niko

​@@Vince888 CJ to me Just feels like your run of the mill gangster character with no real depth.

@@MikeJAk49 all the gta main character are stereotypes

@@MikeJAk49says the one who’s never played it

Best GTA protagonist in (of course) best GTA game

Compare this to V too. Wade, Ron, Lamar, a lot of the background characters don't get a lot of love.

@@ultrabigfella I think San Andreas could show more interactions with Big Smoke and Tenpenny after the Green Sabre. It will be intresting to see how Tenpenny treats Big Smoke.

San Andreas was the Fast and Furious of the GTA series. It was never a story to be taken seriously, at least not like GTAIV and RDR1. GTAV’s sub story with Franklin and Lamar’s hood politics was much more realistic and down to earth despite the rest of the story being mediocre.

They did Bulgarin dirty though

San andreas had more variety in its story missions though. Gta 4 story missions got repetitive.

Another reason to legitimately dislike rockstar and their shitty methods

He already got paid for GTA4 he just wanted more money after the fact

@@theinsp3ctor368 Yes. That's what royalties are.

@Pumpactionmusket as far as I'm aware he asked for royalties after the game had sold

Unfortunately Rockstar *_(or more likely, Take Two)_* stiffs *_EVERYONE_* when it comes to their Royalties. Young Maylay and Shawn Fonteno can attest to this.

As much as I love GTA 5 I kinda hope 6 goes for a mix of 4/5 and combines the best elements of both games while giving us something new

It's a song I go back to often. And it's one of the first tracks I try when testing new headphones.

@@dylanburton4955 Yeah , I want more darker storyline but at the same time having fun gameplay rather than realistic one.

@@frog6054 Yeah, it would be the perfect balance

@@frog6054 no chance, its all family friendly now

You should try GTA SA I started off with THAT 😁

The true OGs started with Grand Theft Auto (1997)

@AL3X1KUS I was born in '98 So i missed out 😔

@@victorcharles27 I start with GTA III when I was 9 and actually I complited every GTA at least 5 times.

​@@iciu125 Not too much older than you, same went over to a friends house played gta 3. My first Grand theft Auto experience at 11.

Absolutely

So true!💯

Except the performance... Even brand-new hardware couldn't run this at 1080p 60fps properly back in 2008.

Naw, the story is great but the gameplay is bit boring compared to GTA 5 and San Andreas. At least in my opinion.

@@skillaxxx They update the game, it's called complete edition if you're interested to try it out again. Now it's ran great even on lower-mid range laptop/PC. Although some songs and radios got deleted.

When I was in high school my class and a teacher came up with “Video Virus” as the name of the sickness I would always seem to have the day after certain major games came out.

I used to aim at the ground with an RPG and blow myself up just see how my body would land cause the physics were so hilarious 😂😂

I have spent hours launching my car off of things to watch it flip and tumble. Same with just driving around, vehicles had a great sense of weight to them, even with a lot of practice, driving at high speed always felt like you were one tiny mistake away from disaster.

I remember around the time it was getting released, there was no official/leaked gameplay footage on youtube just rickroll'd videos. The first time I experienced any gameplay was when the game was in my hands. Haven't had such an experience like that since.

@@Allaboutdatps3 Well games have become a lot different since then. Post initial sale monetization has become a key focus along with graphics. Graphics have always been a big focus of games of course, but in the past they were far more limited by hardware, now the limit is mostly just time. Other then BeamNG Drive and Wreckfest, I haven't seen a physics and damage model as impressive as GTA IV either.

​@@scottthewaterwarriorthey're limited by greed

He couldn’t even answer to that

ironic considering the fact that at the start of the game, niko is required to kill people for similar amounts of money

​@@pyroxonI think of the mission the FBI man sends you on, where at the end you can spare 1 man after murdering all of the people there, you're just another murderer

It's even worse if it was 1000 in Serbian Dinar, as it's worthlessness during the Yugoslavian Wars meant that Darko sold them out for about 10-15 American dollars

​@@chrisahearn789thank god they said dollars which is not a synonym for money in general

This was my fav W of the video.

Yeah! I still prefer if over GTA 5

I remember watching the previews in gaming mags. I knew I would be getting this right away

I chose revenge because it made sense for nikos story. Niko was metaphorically standing on a mountain of bodies to get to the guy and now that he has him, he chooses not to do it? It's alittle late in the game to make that decision. Where's his hesitation to kill before this? I'm not getting into is revenge morally justifiable or not. I'm just saying nikos actions, as us the player doesn't match up with him showing his enemy mercy. So I chose revenge

​@@stephenolder4552 TLDR: Deal is superior in any regard to Revenge, from technical, through narrative, all the way to sense of completion after you finish game standpoint. It did not make sense to go to Platypus. At this point Niko would've learned betrayal is common thing in crime world, and at end of a day it's money that counts. For most of the game he's talking about making money, for most people he's working for money, only 2 of them promise him help in finding traitor. He's not making any effort to get revenge on Dimitri, he doesn't even think about him, as Darko is his priority target. He'd find a peace in facing a man that he blames for how his life turned ot to be. Facing Darko is it for him, he can finally put his struggles to sleep. He wouldn't turn down an opportunity to make really big money to end it all. He had to realize why Dimitri would do it, and be able to forget about it if it meant he'd be able to finally get his hands on big money for Roman and Mallorie to live happily ever after. At end of a day Dimitri didn't even cost him anything of value prior to moment where you choose ending. It's quite clear originally Rockstar wanted you to choose deal ending, as it carries way more emotions than revenge. They only changed it to cannon ending once they realized that with power of foreshadowing and inability to sustain that much emotional impact people were choosing it way more often than deal. They couldn't ever expect you to care about Katie enough and avenging her to be same weight as loosing Roman and avenging him. Killing Dimitri under statue feels way more like ending of a story than killing Pegorino. I'm almost positive that adding option to choose ending was made later in developement, and originaly they planned deal to be linear ending. They putted way more work in "If price is right" and afermath of that mission compared to "Dish served cold", mission is way longer, has more scripts, more dialogue, unused for anything else place (Platypus is used right at start, they didn't make it exclusively for a mission as they had to make that interior for opening cutscene) etc. In "Dish served cold" Dimitri basically has quite generic dialogue prior to dying for this game standard, and mission is pretty simple and generic don't giving you a sense that's the final. After finishing deal game tricks you into thinking worst is behind you, presumably no one is mad at you and you got a happy ending, no loose ends, Niko says he's out of business, and then game hits that last blow you wouldn't expect. After finishing revenge game instantly let's you know there's one more loose end which is Pegorino and you can tell it's not over yet. While you could trick yourself into believing Niko and Dimitri would go their own way, Pegorino instantly tells you he's going to send his man after you.

@@southweststrangla9591 okay, well sparing him out of a sense of mercy or compassion didn't make much sense for Niko

​@@stephenolder4552 He didn't spare him out, he never cared too much for killing him in first place, after some time he didn't care at all. There was no sense of mercy or compassion, just business. Game is not trying to make a point that Niko feels for Dimitri, he takes a deal to get shit tonnes of money before retiring, no strings attached.

@@southweststrangla9591 I'm talking about killing Darko. That was personal to Niko.

Sadly but theirs still the Xbox one which is backwards compatible and 60 fps so it's something I don't recommend PC port because they took out the old songs with a patch and didn't even fix the PC bugs

@@YourLocalToker this is why I'm about to get Xbox

@@YourLocalToker Wot, I play the complete edition, yeah the songs are gone but the game is much more stable.

@@frog6054 Not really just because It doesn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't for everyone else The Optimization is horrible and the framerate constantly drops on a 3090 rtx if your talking about Rockstar Launcher good for you but the steam release has bugs with Missions(Mostly the last mission) not wanting to be completed or crashes when cars are driving because the psychics engine is locked with the framerate it's an old game with a terrible port

@@frog6054 here's proof if you need it kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdp3rM173taagWQ.html

Yea unbelievable that rockstar ignores this game and what fans are asking for. It’s like they on purpose ignore GTA 4 and Max Payne 3, two games out of three(RDR2) with the deepest stories they have created

It was going to. The backlash from the Trilogy resulted in rockstar changing their mind

@@donqon because they outsourced and fucked up their port

@@donqonwhich doesn’t even make sense they should’ve just taken control of making the remake

Because they know this games was made with heart

Says one of the protagonists of GTA 5 lmfao

@@salarzx62090 yeah but I also love Michael

@@Bladez5 I know. I was just messing around lol I love Michael and GTA 4/5 too

@@salarzx62090 ok

Imagine Michael with 4's combat mechanics plus his special ability. Man I miss GTA 4 shootouts so much

6 will be a disaster. Sure the graphics will look good, almost real maybe, but the story is most definitely gonna suck and we’re gonna be stuck with gta 6 online for the next 20 years.

@@funnyword8084 🤣 They're really 'bout to give us 25 to life on GTA6

@@funnyword8084 I agree. I have a feeling it will be a mix of what happened with both Cyberpunk and No man's sky. A glitchy mess, and at the same time, an underwhelming one

I've been wanting to see a "Bonny and Clyde" style thing since the character switching mechanic was first introduced in the trailer for GTA V! But there focus on online and other decisions have very much tempered my expectations. I also am one of the people who _really_ liked the vehicle physics in GTA IV, though admittedly they may have gone a little too far for the general gaming audience, but GTA V went so far the other direction it put me to sleep!

@@funnyword8084 For the game be good there is 2 possibilites, or the online be extremely great or they finally do a good history again like RD2 or GTA4. Mypar fear is mostly wokeness at rockstar part...

Can you do a side by side translation?

Did you understand everything he said? 😂

San Andreas is the best game of the franchise

@@PolishGod1234cap everything from Catalina onwards is straight booty. Weak ass story😂 it takes the whole game for CJ to remember big smoke

@@PolishGod1234 Incorrect GTA SA is dog water compared to GTA IV and GTA Vice City.

@@FH4Player6397 lmao, nice joke. SA does literaly everything better than Vice City and Has more content than IV and VC combined

Yeah the revenge ending the cannon ending

Bros over hos

is no one gonna tell him it was Kate who died, not Mallory?

Kate McReary dies, not Mallorie. But it just goes to show that Kate is so forgettable.

Yeah, it's Kate, not Mallory who died... Mallory even states she is pregnant at the end and will name the baby Kate in tribute if she gives birth to a gorl

Agreed

Even though the last mission is still glitched for newer consoles

@@Bladez5 you can beat it by using your index finger and swiping between A and x really fast and it’ll work, but yea it’s annoying

​@@Bladez5 unfortunately a lot of aspects of the game, like quick time events, mini games, and even vehicle handling (especially bikes) were tied to the games fps. The ps3 and xbox 360 could barely get 30 frames per second.

@@nsagoogle9581 I had it for both 360 and PS3 and the PS3 was noticeably worse. It’s a slideshow anytime you’re driving and they tried to mask it with insane blur. It’s an ugly mess of a game lol and butchering the PC port was a crime! It’s such a shame because it’s a great game overall.

I was looking for this

They were going to, but after the poor reception to the disaster that was the definitive edition, Rockstar punished us by canceling it

@@Richtofen-gy9cjI think this might be back on the table since RDR1’s port probably did well

I really like that you pointed that out. We got to see the "real" him

3 soundtrack > 4

@@youngboy2pacdrake in my personal opinion, 4 is better. But you can like 3's more.

@@YSL8704 true bro, its all about personal favorite

@@youngboy2pacdrake exactly.

I'm currently replaying on my PS3 too and I can't believe I ever thought it was anything other than a goddamn masterpiece. It's amazing, Niko is a true legend of gaming.

@@tanyaflanagan8111 yeah, he is my favorite gta protagonist, and my second favorite rockstar protagonist after Arthur morgan. Didn't expect that honestly. But wow he is amazing. And the game obviously.

IT HAPPENED ONCE! BUDALA!

Let it go niko! It was a joke!

Same

But it’s still my favorite even though it wasn’t new when I played it

Lmao here come you bandwagoners

@@austinbatton4849 Not really, felt this way for 10 years... STILL haven't even finished GTA5's story because it bored me to fucking tears. if a bandwagon lasts 10 years? it's not a bandwagon. This story is patently superior to 5's

Same here. For the entire game, revenge is always the wrong path. Many times are you given a choice to kill or spare someone which finally culminates with Darko, Niko's phantom of the past that he's been chasing ever since. To take the deal and "cut yourself loose" was the pacifist option that Roman agreed with. Leave everything behind. Everyone was supposed to walk away more or less happy with a fresh start. So Rockstar hits you right where it hurts while you're unprepared.

That doesn't mean it's canon. It might make more sense but that's not how you justify canon. Revenge is clearly the intended route since Roman has a Lifeinvader page in V alongside Niko, and he wouldn't be able to have one if he died before the platform was made, which is a year after GTA IV takes place.

@@TheCynicalAutist Revenge is not canon until I am SEEING Roman on screen alive and breathing in 2023. That Lifeinvader thing in GTA V is just an Easter Egg, it doesn’t mean anything

@@twinswords79dualblade84 Well then neither is deal and at that point you're just screaming for no reason.

I’m saying Deal is canon **to me**, if you think Revenge is canon, more power to you but try not to use an Easter egg to justify an argument and prove your opinion is a fact.