How much did it impact the industry?
It changed everything, you idiot.
much
Quite a bit. Big difference from gta2.
>>12849379It changed everything in 2001.
Bigly
the game starts to suck once you get to the 2nd island
Objectively, it changed the entire direction that gaming would go in right up until today.
>>12850162Game is trash at any point. many old games got jank, but you get past that after a few minutes and get used to it. Not with GTA 3. The only reason the game got popular back in the day was because of the big map and you could go on a rampage. Vice City and San Andreas shit on 3 so hard it's not even funny.
>>12849379Pay your respects, first.
>>12849379Quite a damn bit. It was the biggest video game phenonom up to that point in popular culture. I remember cool adults on SNL making jokes about playing it. People you didn't think were into games got into them because of it. It pretty much started the cinematic open world game. It was crudly made, the graphics sucked, the controls were janky, but it was servicable and offered a game that played like nothing else. It was endlessly replayable. I remember taking turns with friends on a late fri-sat night trying to see who can run from the police the longest and cause the most destruction, or exploring the city looking for secrets. Unlike the later games, the size of the game was perfect for that, and almost every nook and cranny you visited rewarded you with something to find. GTAV for example was the opposite. I remember getting 90% through the game before I even found a secret package, and I was starting to think there wouldn't be any since I started the game off looking in every nook and cranny and quickly realized that it was a waste of time.VC improved on it in a lot of subtle ways, but I still prefer the grittiness of III and the more vertically the islands had.
III is the best GTAVice City is a better III
>>12850176>...who?
>>12851042If it weren't for Atari's incompetence in the third entry, it would've went toe-to-toe with GTA. But hey, at least Saint's Row exists.
>>12851046i love saint's row (or at least used to). saint's row was so fucking close to doing something with 2 that i remember being giddy for their next release. i thought that they'd actually give gta a run for their money.
>>12851075They didn't realize SR2 already struck the perfect balance between black comedy and crime drama. 3 pushed it too far and the series never recovered.
>>12849379I remember how huge this was. Airing at the same time as the sopranos felt really big.
>>12849379Impactful, but nowhere nearly as much as Floigan Bros was
I hate this board so much.
>>12851562This thread is one of the better ones which is sad but you're not helping make the place any better
