Before the cover based shooters Before the modern combat multiplayer FPSs Before the third person stealth-action games with crafting systems Before all of these were pureed and made into Far Cry 3
There were the GTA clones. Anyone else get a sense of nostalgia for these? They seem like they were much more razer focused and filled with things to do than modern open world games. Is it because the crime sandbox genre is so fitting?
I'm thinking of going back and playing some of the ones I had when I was younger. Namely, the original Saint's Row, Scarface, and The Godfather. Anyone know which versions of these are the most complete and best running?
Damn, was considering playing this, but this is a dealbreaker.
Jordan Powell
you mean like that fucking scarface game I can't play anywhere?
Nolan Sanders
How was this game so good?
Logan Thompson
Yeah, I was considering picking it up for the PS3 or the 360. I had the PS2 version, and I don't know what if anything has changed in the later releases.
Jordan Miller
You could fill a mansion with whores and tigers.
Colton Martin
Loved godfather on PS 2.
Ian Thomas
Most of them were shit, which is why the genre died out.
remember the taxi driver game that was going to be a gta clone
Mason Bailey
There was going to be a Dirty Harry game too wasn't there?
What's with all these classic movies reimagined as GTA clones?
Jace Watson
Man, this game was fun as fuck. I loved the extortion mechanic. You basically had to find what scared each shopkeeper the most and push them. The more you pushed, the more money you'd get, but if you pushed too far then they'd snap. You had to find a nice balance between reason and violence. The mechanics were very fun. Bribe a cop to let you wave your gun around a little bit. Bribe a police chief to let you basically go to war whenever you want. Take over rackets, find sweet-ass black market dealers with sweet fucking guns. Bomb rival businesses. Crack open safes. Literally run enemy gangs out of the fucking city with a squad of goons.
Christian Bennett
this was probably my favorite of any GTA clone back then. I loved open world games chock full of stupid mundane minigames like the money laundering one from this game.
Grayson Butler
Any love for True Crime Streets of LA here?
Blake Phillips
Nope, it was garbage.
Robert Allen
My friend and I would always make jokes about how their were sharks in San Andreas, and it blew our fucking minds when we got eaten by a shark in Scarface.
Brandon Wood
Garbage, New York was better
Jackson Clark
Yeah it was pretty surprising how much effort went into that game. My friend and I used to play that a lot when we were kids, but it always just made me wish I was playing gta.
I remember an user say that PS3/360 versions are slightly different from the PS2 version, I just don't remember what.
Elijah Roberts
especially with true crime, but this for every gta clone. now i appreciate true crime a little more with how it dealt with failure, and sleeping dogs was a good game, but comparing it to gta it had some fucked up driving and shooting mechanics
Jack Perry
They're both shit, new york was worse.
Isaiah Russell
How did you guys feel when early-mid 2000s culture concluded in 2006?
Carson Reed
I still hold on to the thought that true crime new york could have been one of the great releases of that generation if Activision didnt give it a rushed release.
James Miller
>ps1 lasted until 2006 what the fuck, anything good?
>last good generation of gaming ends so ps1 died out at the same time that the next generation died out? how does that work?
Colton Powell
>tfw you had New York on the Xbox with the bugged release, and you could never finish the game.
Tell me what it was like beating that game, anons. I still wonder to this day
Brayden Ramirez
This shit is so good that I'm 100% sure Rockstar paid games media outlets to give it bad reviews
Connor Clark
Best "clone" coming through
Easton Sanchez
PS1 lasted well after the PS2 was launched because it was still selling well. Sony finally discontinued it in 2006, after 12 years on the market.
Robert Gutierrez
was that mostly in Brazil, like the ps2? and again, was there anything good in that time?
Jaxon Bennett
What about The Getaway? I remember enjoying the demo but never played the full game
Michael White
It was worldwide actually. But there wasn't much good, PS2 was getting the good games at that point.
Zachary Morris
Is the wii version the best one?
Caleb Kelly
Had it on GameCube as a kid, since it was the closest thing to GTA on GameCube. Liked it. Never played New York, but everyone says it's better.
Out of nostalgia, I tried pirating it again on my hacked Xbox Hueg, but I think the iso I downloaded was a bad rip, cause it would always randomly freeze. Turning off and turning on the Xbox too many times seems to have corrupted the bigger hard drive I put in, so I can't even use it anymore until I buy another hard drive. Luckily, I still have the original stock hard drive to clone onto a new one when I buy one.
Eli Morris
The Getaway: Black Monday was pretty good. The driving was a bit clunky though if I remember right, shame the sequel for PS3 got canned.
Also Driver: Parallel Lines was fucking rad. Most fun driving physics of any ps2 era GTA clone and it had full car customisation (performance and looks) for every car in the game. The 70's aesthetic and soundtrack was comfy as hell too. Nothing like mowing down hobos in central park with an old Dodge Charger
Carter Bell
Pretty good once you get used to how it works The controls are still a bit shit though
Josiah Peterson
I wouldn't know, I had NY on xbox too and while i completed LA I couldn't stand more than a few hours of NY. It's really difficult to play nowdays because of the shitty controls but I still enjoy the getaway, it's not a 'good' game but it's still got some very enjoyable levels like the second mission where you burn down a restaurant or the one where you fight through a Yardie drug house. I'm pretty sure young me fapped to the strippers.
Camden Russell
Are there any other games like The Godfather games, specifically games that focus on the turf takeover. GTA:SA and Godfather always left me hanging because they felt tacked on.
Isaiah Anderson
Saints Row 1 and 2 had a lot of that, I think.
Andrew Lewis
Not really, it's just a minigame. A gang war rts would be awesome come to think of it
I liked the wanted system in parallel lines, it was much better than GTA. Getting out of sight of police and then quickly switching to a 'clean' car made sense and was really tense when you were trying to sneak past police before they noticed it was you
Anthony Gutierrez
I thought it was so difficult way back then. Those yayo running missions were such a pain in the ass.
Elijah Murphy
Oh fuck The Getaway games were great.
Michael Robinson
NY was insanely well replicated. It was also cool how you could switch between fighting styles and the weapon selection was really vast.
It was just very unpolished.
Nathaniel Lee
>movie about crippling depression and loneliness >almost no action in it >even the "action showdown" is just a short massacre on pimps "Hey guys, wouldn't that be the ultimate game to make a funny GTA clone where you drive like crazy and kill dozens of goons?"
The best cancelling decision ever made.
Alexander Hill
I remember that the last game ever released on the PS1 was in German speaking countries "Schnappi das kleine Krokodil" (Schnappi the little crocodile).
Not really a glorious goodbye.
Julian Rodriguez
2006 really was a year of massive change, I remember you could just feel it in the air at the time that things were changing.
Leo Sullivan
And Scarface is a tragedy about a fall from grace and an attack on the War on Drugs, yet they still managed to make a decent power fantasy game out of it.
Julian Robinson
>PS1 lasted well after the PS2 was launched because it was still selling well. Sony finally discontinued it in 2006, after 12 years on the market. >There was a PAL region One Piece game that was released in 2003 (originally released in 2001 in JP) >The PSOne model out sold the Sega Dreamcast and the PS2 in 2000
Godfather 1 was great but wtf happened with the second game. Utter trash.
Scarface game was also good, and JC1 was so much fun to younger me.
Evan Roberts
my shitty computer had a hard time running this shit couldn't run at more than 10fps nevertheless made it through the first couple of missions before it became unplayable
Jose Lee
nigga the ps3 came out in 2006
Charles Nelson
it was pretty good just roaming around the streets of NY clearing the same gangster dens over and over always felt food to clear out one of the other family's headquarters just by yourself and the gun upgrades were fucking primo
Kayden Gonzalez
I still play this quite often. with simple fixed for laa and widescreen it works on regular widescreen and 21:9. only "downside" it its capped to 60. awesome game.
Kevin Scott
Who else played the game before getting around to the movie?
Isaac Sanders
He became a vigilante at the end of the movie, even though he got shot and almost died
Cooper Richardson
I bought that on GOG not long ago.
Nicholas Richardson
Skyler was BASED
Grayson Phillips
I played the fuck out of the demo for parallel city, it had a small part of the city which was blocked with walls with x on them.
David Sanders
That atrocious accent though. It was awful, in a comical way.
Man, The Saboteur is a lot of fun. Also nice to be able to drive around occupied Paris. Even if the Trocadero Palace is anachronistic, the fact it was included in a game to explore was neat.
Andrew James
>nobody mentioned the best GTA clone
Elijah Ortiz
Was this the Mercenaries sequel we were all promised?
Cooper Perry
Yeah, nah. Once the novelty of it being the Simpsons wore off it was actually kind of shitty
Nathan Butler
I loved this game
Josiah Brooks
Me. Played it when I was a dumbass kid. Getting the chance to see the original movie in a local cinema made me think about it again just recently, actually.
Zachary Rogers
Oh noooooo Oh noooooo Oh nooooooooooo... (yo yo yo) oh no you DIDN'T!
Gabriel Gray
It still hurts.
Charles Ramirez
I'd say 2007 was bigger year of change because of iPhones, Big Bang Theory, social media, etc.
Brayden Garcia
>throwing people off buildings with the ps3 motion sensors >capping capos >that authetic italiana atomsphere
Ryder Long
Was the PS3 or the 360 version the best version?
Michael Morgan
Rip pandemic
F
Aaron Jenkins
Good game. Replayed it recently this year. Made with love by simpsons fans. Same with the Scarface game.
Julian Bell
Kind of sad that this genre effectively died with Watch Dogs 2.
