Arcadey fun.
>crazy taxi with guns
>>12652792Sounds fun.
But...it was never in arcades?
>>12652789The RC missions pissed me off so much I shit talked the classic series for over a decade before finally coming back around to just not caring about GTA.
>>12652809Its essence was.
>>12652809Every time someone says "arcadey" it's a shitter who never played arcade games coping about what he thinks arcade games are like. I saw some retard on /v/ unironically call Kirby Air Riders "arcadey". Hard avoid any game that has this word attached to it and disregard the opinion of anyone who uses this descriptor.
>>12652864go back to shmup general queer, men are talking
>>12652864Lots of console games have arcade modes. Doesn't mean they actually play like arcade games. It's just another way of saying the focus is on the basic gameplay.
>>12652945being low IQ and brown doesn't make you a man, tranny
>>12652980Makes no sense to call open world racers "arcadey"
>>12653056The controls are arcadey.
>>12652792you say it like it's a bad thing
>>12653121Your mom is arcadey.
>>12653056Imagine complaining on 4chan about the creative use of a word to convey a meaning.
>>12652789yup, way more replayable than 4 and 5
>>12652809zoomers use 'arcade' to mean 'anything that appeals to my ADHD'. pay attention to the pattern of games they apply that label to, it's always bright and wacky and loud games that are basically the vidya equivalent to Looney Tunes.
>rockstar >funOnly if you've never played many games before. Their shit has such bad controls and general game design it can only be enjoyed from a position of ignorance and novelty.
>>12653252But doesn't that also describe a shit ton of actual arcades?
>>12653261I didn't say they were incongruent. the thing is there are actual arcade video games that don't have stereotypically 'arcade' gameplay. zoomers have developed a habit on a generational level of intentionally misusing words to try and manipulate people's perception of things. ultimately their style of speech boils down to "thing I liked as a 12 year old = good, thing I did not like as a 12 year old = bad". every discussion boils down to this. they cannot think outside of extremes and Black Or White false dichotomies.
>>12653252>>12652864"arcadey" as a term meaning "simple controls and direct fun" as opposed to "simulation" meaning "grounded, technical, and/or realistic" goes back to the 90s, you underage faggots
>>12653279Nah, that use started in the 90s at the latest. Lots of console ports had an arcade mode that mirrored the original experience more or less, and then whatever other modes. But when games started getting too bloated they added a separate arcade mode so players could pick up and play outside of the bloated main story mode, which is all it really means in this context. Pick up and play. Zoomies didn't invent or hijack that in any way.
>>12653290>simple controlsGTA 4's controls are not appreciably different from GTA 3's. >direct funsubjective. >fun and realism are diametrically opposedthere's one of those false dichotomies I was talking about.>>12653295>arcade means having a quickplay modethere are "sim slop" games today with a quickplay mode. is MLB The Show an arcade game? it's got quickplay.
>>12653295conversely, is Mario 64 not 'arcade' because it doesn't have quickplay? c'mon.
>>12653303Nothing about Mario 64 is like an arcade game
>>12653301There are plenty of arcade baseball games so not a stretch if it's actually a tripped down mode. Doesn't mean it's an arcade game but you're the only one who seems stuck on that point. We're talking about the modern usage of the word in relation to games or modes of play that are simple, stripped down or pick up and play.
>>12653307mascot platformers are the literal posterchildren of 'good old arcadey fun games' people put on a pedestal to contrast with modern games, don't try and pretend otherwise. I know it's factually not an arcade game, my point was zoomers don't use the word 'arcade' right.>>12653309we're discussing how zoomers misuse the word to essentially mean "game I like". and you are reaffirming my point without even realising it. their/your usage is operating from the principle that "arcade games are simple" which is factually untrue. to use sports games as an example again, PES is no more mechanically complex than FIFA, if anything FIFA is more complex. yet, FIFA is called 'arcade' in comparison to PES. why? because it's less realistic. yet, arcade games aren't shackled to unrealistic gameplay either; Ferrari F355 Challenge is one of the best racing simulators of its generation yet it was an arcade game. and it's not an exception either; there are literal hundreds of train and flight sim arcade games. all this ties back to my original point that, zoomers use 'arcade' to mean the video game equivalent of Looney Tunes. when they argue that games need to be more "arcadey", they're no different than the people who say Japanese cartoons suck because they doesn't have Bugs Bunny throwing a pie in Elmer Fudd's face. they're applying an extremely narrow and self-serving opinion of what the word 'arcade' means and acting as if it's an objective factual critique of the industry.
>>12653327You're a moron.
>>12653336I accept your concession.
>>12653301GTA 4 isn't retro you fucking mongoloid
>>12653351it's older now than the PS1 was when /vr/ was founded.
>he thinks retro is just a measurement of timeyou are a fucking brainless retard
>>12653327Simply disregard all usages of the rhetorical device "arcadey" because its usage is inherently dishonest, presumptuous, and self-serving.
>too much of a pussy to dare directly respondthat's right, know your place. try and actually follow the discussion before mouthing off next time
>>12652809Correct, arcades were in ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3PznTE04U
>>12653471But since you didn't directly reply to that person, that makes you a pussy too!
>>12653256GTA3 is incredibly fun to just drive a car around in. No matter how many times I smash into a cop car, reverse over them, then try to get away until they absolutely ass-fuck me it is STILL fun. That is because of the controls.
>>12653301>GTA 4's controls are not appreciably different from GTA 3's.In an age when analog control was well established, you had to hold down a button just to run. GTA4's controls were worse than GTA3.
I'm playing Liberty City Stories on the PSP for the first time and it's surprisingly good, it really feels like a combination of these two games, I'm sure the sequel is even better.
>>12653327You are gen Z
>>12653940Sadly it's not really. LCS is like an updated and arguably improved version of 3 and has mostly fun missions. VCS is alright but definitely isn't better than VC. Still worth playing for the returning characters and radio stations but temper your expectations a bit.
>GTAI only ever played San Andreas, should I even bother with III, VC, 4, and V?
>>12654038III and VC yes but skip the others.Chinatown Wars was the last actually fun GTA though.
>>12652789Wouldn't call GTA particularly arcadey after 2.>>12652792Kinda?>>12652847They're annoying, but at least there was only one of those which were hard in GTAVC.
>>12652980Only barely makes sense. The original game was the most arcadey because it actually counted score and lives, and you actually NEEDED to reach a target score to beat a city instance.Fact is, in the first game, you could fuck up and fail every single one of the missions and fail to get their score reward, BUT, you could still keep building score otherwise, like by just stealing and selling cars, killing people, doing Kiiiiiiiill Frenzies, etc, and separately from that, you could find hidden Score Multiplier powerups, which would multiply score from everything, be it missions or you just pasting a whole row of Hare Krishnas under a schoolbus.So cause enough mayhem and engage in enough outright grand theft auto, and you could beat the mission instance after all.I actually kinda like that the first game would only give you one shot at beating a mission, and then if you failed it, oh well, you lived with the consequences of that, try other missions instead.One of my favorite memories of that back in the 90s was the one in Liberty City, where you're parking a tanker truck with a bomb at the LCPD HQ, and I stressed my way over there in time, but I forgot to hit the brakes, so after I ran away, the truck apparently just kept rolling, away from the police station, and blew up somewhere else.This both made kid me go "Oh come ON!" yet also it was very funny, because the mission giver would yell at me and call me a fuckup for bombing some completely unrelated neighborhood.As much as I love GTA 3, VC, and SA, they would just give you a mission failed and not even give you that little bit of funny flavor.
>>12653290Never heard it used that way in the 90s or 2000s.
