the driving based missions in GTA...

The Drunken Samurai · tedious Joined: 13 Dec 2006

are basically Driver refined.

discuss. or axe maybe,i got nothing much else to say really,just an observation
_________________

Predator Goose · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Location: Oversensitive Pedantic Ninny

GcDiaz · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Clinton, MA

I still think of the collective "OH SHIT!" those Driver people must've uttered when they first popped GTA3 into their PS2 devkits. After all, for the longest time Driver was the only urban driving simulator game in town, and part two even let you exit and enter vehicles! I spent my first two hours with GTA3 in a sort of trance, absolutely marvelling at how much bigger, how much better this game did everything that Driver once claimed to do and then some. And when that first gang member came after me for hitting his homie? I was...flabbergasted.* Vice City was not as exciting. I only looked forward to the new city, and the motorcycles. It took San Andreas, with its massive real estate and RPG features, to really impress me again.

*I'd never played GTA1 or 2, so it was ALL new to me. Wish I could feel that way about a game again.
_________________
Steam/PSN/Xbawks: GcDiaz

Let's bring sexy back!

GcDiaz · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Clinton, MA

The Drunken Samurai · tedious Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Cossix · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:32 pm

Stuntman was Driver with all of the headaches and none of the exploration really. It was pretty terrible, if I'm remembering the game correctly.

efb

To contribute for real, I thought GTA:VC took a lot of GTA3 and really made it better. I liked VC the most out of the trilogy or whatever it is, mostly because by the time I got San Andreas I think I was starting to get tired of the formula and San Andreas has so much in it that it is simply overwhelming at times. I think GTA:SA is the kind of game where they simply present the player with TOO MUCH to do.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:41 pm

Stuntman had no replays. Nobody has those replays aside from Driver games, sadly.

I did kinda like Stuntman for what it was, in that it allowed them to structure what was happening and make a bunch of really neat things happen. Sadly it structured it all way too much, made it very hard to accomplish those goals, and then didn't really have any sort of checkpoint system or anything to make it any simpler.

So yeah, it wasn't any fun.

RecessRapist · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I liked the feeling of quasi-flight when you got hit by two police cars at the same time. I miss the second-to-last-gen :(

Lurky · banned Joined: 06 Dec 2006

Wow, whole lot of hate on Stuntman in this thread.

I had a lot of fun with Stuntman. As boojiboy7 mentioned it was a heavily structured game. It didn't have replays, instead it only had little trailer sequences for the movies your character completed.

Even as someone who really did enjoy the levels of Stuntman, I have to say, the loading times absolutely kill the game. I had my computer on when I played it so that I could play other games during the loading.

The Soviet Onion · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

I don't know, without the load times as a punishment for failure it probably wouldn't have created the same feelings of excitement.

les meat · Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Location: The sea

I thought GTA3 had ruined the series until SA

Driver can't compare at all, sorry its not even close
_________________

The Drunken Samurai · tedious Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:24 am

shrugtheironteacup · *man of tomorrow* Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: a meat