The BEST And WORST Parts Of Every Grand Theft Auto Game 

"The worst thing about GTA 3 is the brittleness of the cars." Saint Mark's District after Sayonara Salvatore: *Rubbing hands* "Good. Goooood."

My biggest problem with 4 is the realization that you can literally do nothing with your money. There arent any businesses or assets you can buy. Its only there for weapons, paint and spray and 5 dollar food. And i dont even use two of these.

Lung capacity requirement indeed sucks balls

For me the best thing about Gta 3 is the unique atmosphere,it feels dystopian and hopeless even if the game has an more fast action packed tone.

in GTA IV the 200 pigeons are nightmare, first at all 200 is too much and you can lose track, also you get nothing after 200 pigeons, even no reward after 100% completion, what a freaking waste of time

My worst thing about san andreas had always been the gang territories. So boring. And the way they're introduced in the first chapter makes them so worthless cause there's no point in having them early, its just bait to waste your time and then undo all that progress.

My fav part of GTA: SA was how customizable it was. From CJ's look to his body size to the different fighting styles he learn. Least fav was Toreno's training schools and Zero's missions. I HATE Zero's missions!

The fun thing about the hunger meter in San Andreas is you can negate it completely by just saving the game. If you're on PC, you're probably doing that often enough anyway due to any number of random crashes that might occur, so it's relatively a non issue. Fuck Sweet, though.

The worst thing about LCS is that the main antagonist had a good plan and perfectly executed it but was underutilized.

My personal least favourite part of GTA 3 is easily the lack of a world map. EDIT: To address some of the things here I play the game on the original PS2 release. Yes I do have the map that came with the game but I also have a cat who would love to jump all over it and the map is kinda bulky. If I played the game more often than once every 8-10 years I imagine I'd probably have it memorized. Not having the map available in game is just my least favourite part.

The frame rate on the GTA IV section... jesus, I don't remember the frame rate being THAT bad on the Xbox 360/PS3 back in the day.

Best thing about GTA Online: Being able to sell product from your businesses in am Invite-Only lobby. You won't get any bonus, but your stuff won't get destroyed either. Worst thing about GTA Online: The heists that force you to play with others. Friends aren't any problem, it's the randoms who do stupid things causing the setups and heist finale to fail repeatedly. Also the ones who only do the mandatory prep on the Diamond Casino Heist but not the optional which would make it easier

I remember watching you before the twisted metal videos got popular and now you're nearly at 100k. Well deserved man

In defense of Learn to Fly, if you get gud in the flying enough, you eventually unlock a free Hunter spawn at your airfield sans cheats, so if you're going lighter on the cheats, you can earn your ticket to going on brutal rampages up and down the strip of Las Venturas. I've had tons of fun blowing up cars up and down the strip once I got through all of that with good enough marks. Also, I've opted to finding the pearls via a map I've printed off for Lung Capacity.

You can actually complete Amphibious Assault with the base lung capacity. CJ won't drown or make the drowning sounds until the last underwater tunnel. So this mission 100% serves as 'story padding'

Bruh, I remember putting this game down in 2005 and coming back FOUR YEARS LATER because the Flight school was that damn hard and annoying lol 11yr old me was in shambles in that plane lmao

I literally just started playing the GTA series again and then you drop this video. Creeping me out dude.

My favourite GTA games: - Chinatown Wars - 4 (with DLCs)

I'm trying to complete GTA 4 for the first time this year and I totally agree about the lengrh. I'm at the point where I'm working with the pegorinos and I'm so tired that I searched up how many missions are left till the end. At this point I'm only playing because I'm close to the end Edit: finally beat it. Thank Rockstar for taxis & the skip function. I'm glad I went for the revenge ending. I don't have any motivation to start the DLCs anytime soon

If you had said 100K instead of 100 thousand it woulda been bars ngl

my favorite part of GTA 5 has to be the Sandbox, it takes everything you could do in GTA 4 and adds in a bunch of things from SA, and amplifies them all

Nah, man, Vic is gold, one of my favorite characters, only behind CJ and Claude.

I’d say the worst things about Vice City are the lack of swimming unlike VCS, the awkward & annoying first person perspective on big machine guns & GTA 1 aiming for miniguns, the rather weak sauce betrayal of Tommy to Sonny, my man Victor Vance dying in the intro and the boring & fake difficult as fuck sunshine autos fetch quests you have to do to get the asset. I’ll take making some coffee and tea while the nudeless strip club scene plays over scouring the map for very specific vehicles that almost never spawn when I need them & I can never remember what the less interesting ones look like or are called any day. Also aircraft handle like shit compared to Just Cause 1 but that’s a series wide thing as I know it from VCS.

27:19..Lol That slideshow tho.. .Loved the Video, The nostalgia hit, especially with that liberty city theme

The best thing in the Definitive Trilogy is that GTA III now has a fullscreen map with pay n sprays and ammunations marked but that was a thing they carried over from the 10th anniversary mobile port which also had it and which the definitive edition was based off

I think the only thing that can be said that are the "best" about the Defective Editions of the GTA 3 Trilogy is, well, the same best parts from their superior contemporaries, plus having checkpoints. Its "worst" parts are the same, plus, well, how badly the HD ports were handled.

Always dropping bangers!

The 2nd best thing about San Andreas........the god damn multiplayer mod. SAMP was one of THE best things ever modded into a videogame. It's so good that many future games' multiplayer pretty much just copied what SAMP did.

I've only really played through and beaten San Andreas and GTA V, so for my worst and best... San Andreas: The best part was the overall scale and scope of how it was able to run on PS2 hardware. Worst was the mandatory Flight School/Gang territory mini games that dragged out the latter end of the game. For GTA V: The best part was Lamar Davis and the radio stations. The worst is everything else, I genuinely hate that game with every fiber of my being and how it's essentially the only thing Rockstar and gaming revolves around when it comes to GTA.

Omg I actually got a notification for this channel. I swear I miss 75% of your releases

love your vids. good luck hitting 100k!

Tbf the clunky mechanics and inability to swim in LCS kind of feels less out of place when you think of it as a prequel to gta 3.. it feels more like we've gone back to the old vibe of liberty city from SA so the old and dusty controls and physics kind of fit in

The gang territory mechanic in san andreas was alright during the beginning but in the finale it was tedious, during the mission beat down on b dub, he tells cj and sweet that big smoke's lieutenants know where he's hiding, so you'd assume they would go around los santos and interrogate these lieutenants about big smoke's whereabouts, but nope instead we gotta take over 30% of the gang territories.

6:21 Oh, and a visit to St. Marks after Sayonara Salvatore really showcases the brittleness of the vehicles when the Mafia bust out the shotguns.

1:55 The way you said "Da Shootaz" got me on the floor rolling

Another great video ! I’m a big Vice City fan, and i definitely agree on both the soundtrack and Pole Position club points, i’d like to add to the positives the voice acting, especially of Ricardo Diaz, every cutscene with him is hilarious lmao. The map is really nice too, areas like Ocean Beach, Little Haiti and Starfish Island all feel unique and distinct, although i feel like Downtown is a bit repetitive. For the negatives i really have a gripe with the no swimming mechanic, because to me it goes against the games’s theme and atmosphere, and it doesn’t compliment gameplay either, it’s just lame. A minor nitpick for me is the loading screens between islands, to me it’s just interrupt the flow of the action

Great, entertaining video. New subscriber here and looking forward to future content! ❤

33:55 bru 💀

I’m a GTA Vice City fan the most. I love the soundtrack, the ‘80s, the dialogue and mechanics. Ricardo Diaz had the funniest scenes and lines. What I didn’t like, the inability to swim, some of the missions such as Checkpoint Charlie, and Dildo Dodo, Vic being killed, and Lance being such an incompetent jerk as well as a traitor. I love the ‘80s, and it was fun to play a game based in ‘80s Miami.

glad you did this my man

I stopped playing in the middle in TBOGT when I played GTA IV for the same reasons you said.

Please try the Yakuza series, you'll love it, 8/10 gameplay and very well written

I will admit.. I love the Definitive Edition Trilogy. I loved those games so much when I was younger, so the fact that they look so much better than the original to me was enough to give up my money. 🤷

Great vid man thanks!

About GTA IV i would say, for the first playthrough back in those times the absolute best thing was the RAGE engine, Euphoria for ragdoll physics, and cars' handling and weight. All of that can be summarised as gameplay, i suppose. It was truly something incredible after GTA SA physics to see something this grounded and realistic... in a GTA game! But, what essentially has passed the test of time - it's the main protagonist and his story line, as you chose as well. The more you play it the more you love it, even when the gameplay is already out of date (i still like it though, it's different in a good way from GTA V for example).

34:27 all though everyone hates the definitive edition id have to say the best thing is definitely the gps guide and the controls The worst Graphics Game play messes all the time And the cutscenes are very odd + Original is always best even if it's hard as hell

RIP CHEAT CODES , only the OGs know

My least favourite part about San Andreas is the entirety of San Fierro because imo it vastly outstays its welcome. There are just too many side missions in this place and none of them are very interesting Zero's missions Driving School 3 import/export lists Valet Wang Cars Courier Gym moves 2 stadium missions Snapshots

San andreas had the best side content in the gta games to me

GTA 1 & 2: I basically agree with you on everything GTA III Pro: Atmosphere and map design(also amazing original songs on the radio.) GTA III Con: Lock on is pretty poor when using a controller (and screw them one shot shotgun leone's post sal klap.) GTA VC Pro: Like GTA III Atmosphere and map design. Also the best 80s hits music like you said. GTA VC Con: Massive grind for endgame. GTA SA Pro: The story during the first act. GTA SA Con: Abysmal pacing, filler missions, & oversized map (honorable mentions for flight school & lung capacity requirement). GTA Advanced: I pretty much agree with you on everything. I don't like the game much but the setup for GTA III is nice. GTA LCS Pro: Best mob based game (GTA is always intertwined with the mob it was nice to be in it for once very good plot.) GTA LCS Con: No PC port. It being a psp game already made it lose out on some things like you said but a pc port would have allowed us to do a lot. GTA VCS Pro: I agree with you for the most part on the pro but want to add in the soundtrack is almost rivaling og VC. GTA VCS Con: Certain plot events are dumb. I love the story of VCS but lots of problems could of been avoided if Vic used his head for 30 seconds. (Also the no pc port con of LCS.) GTA IV Pro: The theme song. It really is able to rival every other GTA theme (and has a fantastic physics engine even if the handling of cars is shit.) GTA IV Con: The game aims for realism but those last few missions in the game were very GTA V like when it comes to the amount of enemies you have to kill. Also terrible PC performance. Even after "the fix" modding it is unstable and it should perform a lot better than it currently does. GTA Chinatown wars Pro: I'm so with you on the drug mini game lol. GTA Chinatown wars Con: Returning to the old style camera was a terrible call and no voice acting (I know this is mainly because its a ds game but maybe it shouldn't have been a ds game.) GTA TLAD Pro: The brotherhood aspect and ability to call on Terry & Clay during the story/running the lost. GTA TLAD Con: I don't like how easy it was for Brian Jeremy to flip the gang on Johnny very stupid. Johnny is the VP and Brian Jeremy is a known jerkoff and only a treasurer that dick rode Billy how could his word have more weight than Johnny in any scenario. As for your con for tlad I don't agree with at all because its literally a supplemetry dlc to the main game. Its not a game. The right way to experience GTA IV would be to bounce between all three chronologically which I've done multiple times even for my master cut GTA IV game movie. GTA TBoGT Pro: Color scheme + Social/Night life additions GTA TBoGT Con: Luis should of had a more robust girlfriend system over Niko alongside the current hookup system considering how he is. GTA V Pro: I'm with you on the seamless trinity setup GTA V Con: This was the game that ruined rockstar permentantly as they made so much money from GTA Online they went back on their word for single player dlc and begun to abandon future prospects for GTA Online like RDR2. GTA Online Pro: Early GTA online back when 1 million was considered legit rich the game was actually fun and the payouts werent bad since not everything was millions of dollars. GTA Online Con: Other than what I listed in the previous con the economy is so trash in GTA online its just not even worth playing anymore especially since the new updates are not fun. GTA remastered Trilogy Pro: Native controller support on PC without mods. (Its nice but that's literally it and not worth it since the mods work fine) GTA remastered Trilogy Con: You can get significantly better visuals and performance with mods on the original games. I am a little surprised you called out GTA IV on length and not SA considering IV only has 88 missions and SA has 101 missions and requires you to do the gang war stuff to an extent to complete the game while having a way larger map too with some of those missions requiring going from one city to another. There is more variety but its still way too damn long.

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Great video!

For me the worst thing about San Andreas was also the "remaster", there's just so much wrong with it. I remember in one of the first cutscenes Tenpenny and Pulaski drive straight through a passing train lol

One good tip for lung capacity - after finishing Photo Opportunity swim back to San Fierro and make sure you swim underwater

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My worst thing about san andreas was that one mission with the rc plane given by zero. An absolute nightmare.

the hunger mechanic wasn't that bad, CJ can eat 11 meals in one visit to any fast food place, eat anymore and CJ Vomits. just eat 11 salad meals and CJ should be good for a whole in game week (about 3 IRL hours) no the absolute worst part of San Andreas is something required for 100% and it's the BMX races down Mount Chiliad. from my experience it sucks rotten ass, I got lucky during my last run where D.B. Cooper crashed into my opponents killing them during the last race.

expanding off what you consider the worst part of vice city, id just go out and include pretty much that entire final chunk of the game where you need to do all these missions buying up buisnesses. Some of them are mildly fun but I just think theyre too out there and repetitive with their own newly introduced structures, I just like the kind of flow that was being followed previous to that personally

I like how you didn't say anything about the Defective Edition 😂

Good stuff

that 100k creepin on up!!!

The drug mini-game in Chinatown Wars is fantastic, and it's essentially a slightly-more involved version of 'Drug Wars' from 1984. I love it for all the reasons you listed, it's simple but an insane amount of fun, and bar-none the best way to get a ton of cash in the game. It's a bummer they haven't really brought the mechanic back -- the closest is the ability to sell some drugs your character produces in their shops/fronts on the street in GTAO, and it took them a literal decade to add that feature to the game (it got added in early 2023.) If they don't bring back the business venture and drug stock market in GTA VI, where it would make a ton of thematic sense anyway, I will be a very disappointed goober.

For me: GTA 3- Best is that it’s the game that started the 3D GTA games. Worst is that it’s so primitive compared to all the other GTA games, which means it hasn’t aged that well. Vice City- Best is the businesses. It makes getting money so much more important and it also makes you able to, in a way, take over Vice City. Worst is that you’re not able to swim. San Andreas- Best is that there is just so much to do. The developers really went all out when making this game. Worst is that sometimes, the developers were just too ambitious. Some of the stuff they added were great ideas, but just become kind of frustrating because the technique just wasn’t there in 2004 to really make these things work properly. GTA 4- Best is the new engine. Worst is the game is just boring. The missions are very repetitive and there isn’t much fun to be had. TLAD- Best is that they made riding a bike fun, for the first time in the GTA games. Worst is that they didn’t really add much else. TBOGT- Best is that it’s way more fun than GTA 4, the missions aren’t as repetitive and feel more like how they were in previous GTA games. Worst is that it’s a bit too short. I personally like it more than regular GTA 4, but you can tell it’s just DLC. GTA 5- Best is that it’s the first time, to me, in a GTA game where the developers knew exactly what they were capable of. The game is impressive and I never felt like they implemented something that they weren’t capable of. Worst is most of the side activities are a bit boring. GTA Online- Best is you can play as your character. I love it when games allow you to make your character and give you the freedom to do whatever you want. Worst is that it’s a bit boring early on in the game, when you don’t have much money. If I didn’t have friends to play the game with early on, I definitely wouldn’t still be playing the game now. Definitive Edition- Best is it added checkpoints. Worst is that there are new glitches and mistakes that weren’t in the originals. San Andreas on the definitive edition is worse than it was back in 2004.

Too bad they decided to destroy the Vice City soundtrack by stripping Michael and Ozzy among others. Victor I can see you disliking but he’s one of my favorite protagonists. Goddamn I love VCS. I have to say though I agree with pretty much everything you said. Spot on.

VCS also introduced some other QoL features. It marked collected items (such as red balloons and stunt jumps) on the map, so it was easier to see what you were missing. AFAIK no other GTA game has done this (I never played Chinatown Wars)

31:05 this part took me out 😂😂😂😂 why you do him like that?! Lmao

I’m happy that I’m not the only person who didn’t like GTA 5’s story…

Agree with the GTA 5 story, it felt like as soon as we were getting started with 1 thing, it randomly switched to another not to return until half the game, there was no clear direction of the story, it felt like it was just randomly written and jumbled together.

bro how can you not mention gta iv's theme

First person I ever heard complain about a game bring to long 🤨 I wish games more long now days

Could not agree more with the san andreas cheats section. There are so many and there is such a good variety that the combos you can do are almost limitless. Especially before trophies were a thing so trophy hunters didnt have to worry about messing up their save. Loved san andreas

Anyone who doesn't like the original GTA, most likely, didn't play it during it's release. It's a classic that spawned the most popular franchise (in sales) in history (i think, anyway... final fantasy maybe? Correct me if I'm wrong). GTA 2 was the worst game they ever released. The guns were stupid and ridiculous, and the respect system was garbage and unnecessary.... which is why they cut it. I remember after playing the originated Driver, thinking that if GTA changed to a similar graphical look they'd have the most popular game they ever made and i was so pleased when they did. It was a wish come true.

Now I have a phobia of sticking pins under my toenails and kicking things. Just...ouch.

It would be cool if this best and worst part idea became a reccuring series

4:25 For GTA 2 it’s definitely the Kill Frenzies once you get past the Downtown Area. If you know you know

10:21 i never knew this is why i couldnt get past this mission, interesting

Congratulations silver play button imminent you'll be at 100K in no time IMO one of the hardest parts of the Grand Theft Auto series was playing GTA Vice City and on PC in particular in the mission where you have to control the RC helicopter and blow up the construction site absolutely brutal I haven't played much of PC since the mid-2000s I've been a console gamer since but I remember in particular that level was incredibly brutal the controls were just awful to fly that RC helicopter in those tight quarters

I thought I've been subscribed since the thieves in time video but I was mistaken. Fixed now

For me the best thing about GTA online is how fun the grind is on everything and the worst is the griffers and cheaters

Tbh I'm glad he's not the only one who feels about the grading system in tbogt 😅 legit it's understandable when it comes to the RE series or at most fighting games attempting that style for replayability reasons but gta and other games like assassins creed brotherhood n beyond would feel like a hassle for me rather then genuinely willing to play the levels or games again for such achievements or bonuses that come out of it

One thing I've noticed, is that most people who played SA or V, or any other GTA Game, are disappointed with IV's lack of customizations and activities. That's what most people wanted because that's what were present in GTA Games that had Los Santos as their map, because they would rather do anything else than play the story. So they never really appreciated what bigger upgrades IV actually focused and improved upon instead, like the Story, Characters, Protagonist, Details, Features, Physics, Realism, Map, Interiors. These were the Major Upgrades Rockstar had done and offered in this game, but people were still disappointed because they couldn't give Niko hairstyles and silly clothes that probably wouldn't even suit his taste, and were wishing they could fly planes instead. We already have helicopters which could land us anywhere on the map and even rooftops where we could just camp on those pesky cops and feel undefeatable because we have the high ground. Tell me, can a plane land you on rooftops and have fun being a camper? I don't think so. Helicopters are underappreciated, and most players these days are just a bunch of spoiled brats now.

I totally agree, Liberty City Stories theme song was/is the best, followed by GTA 4's theme song. Was Giorgio Moroder who composed it? No idea.

Funny enough, I was just suggested a video saying Niko Bellic is the greatest character in all of GTA.

was not expecting a UHF clip in here, 10/10 vid

to me the worst part of gta 2 is the mission design, some missions just take way too long and you can die or get busted really fast in that game

Interesting choice about LCS, i liked it

worst thing in vcs must be the high wire mission. it took me 2 weeks to complete it, i eventually got a burnt out that i can only attempt to try the mission 2-3 times per day before getting tried of it. you might scratch yourself to the wall while try to pickup the first container, missed by a few inch on the second container and it won't pick it up. and saving the dude is just pure agony, he turns corner non-stop and in just a few bump, your helicopter burnt up instantly. I managed to complete the mission out of pure luck, maybe God feels sorry for me, but I will not touch that game for the rest of my life.

One thing a hate about TBoGT is that Boulevard baby mission! It pissed me off so fukin bad!

Flight school was my worst thing still can't make it past that 12:06

Man i cant believe your almost at a 100k!! Congratulations man heres seeing you reach 200k in the future!!

Having a dedicated Fart/Burp button will never not be the one and only time I could do so in a game, Well almost, Crash Tag Team Racing had one during the loading screen.

So nobody gonna give credit for the great "UHF" reference in the definitive trilogy?

My most hated part of LCS was the hidden packages. Some of them were impossible to get to. It defeats the purpose in my opinion, they're supposed to be Hidden packages, not stunt jumps. Plus i hate how you can't get them all without beating certain missions. You can't get 100 before the final mission. To me, the fun of finding the packages is getting good weapons for early parts of the game. What's the fun in getting them all AFTER beating all the difficult story missions?

the worst thing about GTA 4 is the PC Port. it's so fucking unoptimized that I can't even play the game without it lagging or crashing almost all the time

According to Andrew Hamilton there are plenty of nice guys in prison. He is, however, in Australia.

why was gta 1's logo using the new logo font???

GTA 3 has the most broken physics I ever play like if you getting wanted star the police will hit your vehicle like a slingshot you will flying like crazy and the vehicle handling was not good tbh

I love when GTA Advance is remembered

The most dangerous gang in Vice City Stories were the Sharks. They would come out of nowhere and blast you with their AK-47s, after buying their properties.