Grand Theft Auto!

[MecaKane]

Ok, I've been hearing a lot of bunk about grand theft auto fans only playing it to enter in cheats and blow [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] up! Actually, I've only heard it from one guy, but he assures me that absolutely everyone besides myself who owns a GTA game just runs around entering cheats to blow stuff up. Which means that everyone I've ever talked to about it has been lying to me.
Hense this thread and poll! Now be honest, I'm not going to put anything in about cheats because if you were to go around just killing stuff without playing any missions you'd have to use cheats since there aren't that many weapons availible at the start of the game. And if you do play the missions maybe you suck and need to use the occasional cheat every now and then.

[Psychotic]

I couldn't do the first mission of GTA: San Andreas. You have to go to someone's house. That's all you need to do. But I just couldn't handle it! Way too intense for me! I had to cheat and get all the guns and the moneys and the guns helped me get to the house! I'M SORRY! I JUST HAD TO CHEAT!!!!

[MecaKane]

I couldn't do the first mission of GTA: San Andreas. You have to go to someone's house. That's all you need to do. But I just couldn't handle it! Way too intense for me! I had to cheat and get all the guns and the moneys and the guns helped me get to the house! I'M SORRY! I JUST HAD TO CHEAT!!!!

True story: When I first put the game in my ps2 after getting it for christmas, after riding around on the bike a bit I saw a hooker and tried to beat her up, but she had a gun and killed me! >:O

[Erdrick Holmes]

You know how I play the games? I use the discs to set my drinks on.

You obviously don't know about the US GTA fans. People who play the GTA games outside of Europe play the game with cheats and do random acts of violence wtihout dying or running out of ammo. Only about two people I know who play GTA games actually do missions. I'm very positive that the GTA series would not be so popular if the game never had cheats.

[Agent Proto]

Many people don't use cheats. I know I don't... but then again, I don't bother playing GTA.

[XxSephirothxX]

I play the game, and I never use the cheats. Don't even know them, and don't care for them. I think they're a lot of fun, and I do most of the missions, but going around and blowing stuff up can be entertaining as well. The charater-building system in San Andreas, as well as the vast world to explore, are very interesting. Also, getting a 2-3 star wanted level and then seeing how long you can survive in a car with the Cinematic Cam on is tons of fun.

[RSL]

This is getting tiresome, Joel. Why are you so insistent on stereotyping people here? GTA is one of the top selling game franchises in existence right now. Surely you can't know that each and every last person plays only to shoot stuff and use cheats. This is just not the case.

And if it was the case? WHO CARES!?!?! If I want to buy Parappa the Rapper just to make Parappa say "kick" over and over and over on the first song, then guess what? I'm going to do just that! I spent my money, I'll do as I please. Thank you very much.

[Psychotic]

Well, as far as the cheats go, there are some GREAT ones that add to the gameplay. Like there's a mode that gives everyone guns and want to shoot you. It's a great survival game...like a mini-game I guess. Plus there's ones that make bikes bunny hop 4368456458 feet into the air. It's all just adding to the long-life of the game.

[edczxcvbnm]

I have 100% in almost 2 games. I got screwed in Vice City but 100% in GTA III. I do just pop the games in and run around blowing [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] up more than the actual missions...though I don't use cheat codes to do it because I find it to be more fun to walk out of the police station and start beating the [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] out of people and see how far I can make it before dying or getting arrested again.

Then again after you get to 100% you really wouldn't need codes because so much is unlocked and free to you that you wouldn't need to enter the codes.

[MecaKane]

You obviously don't know about the US GTA fans. People who play the GTA games outside of Europe play the game with cheats and do random acts of violence wtihout dying or running out of ammo. Only about two people I know who play GTA games actually do missions. I'm very positive that the GTA series would not be so popular if the game never had cheats.

I guess that makes sense, europeans must truely be better than americans in every aspect since it's even spilling over into how they play video games.
Oh well, I guess I should've added a continental option to the poll.

[Meat Puppet]

hangthedj

[edczxcvbnm]

And if it was the case? WHO CARES!?!?! If I want to buy Parappa the Rapper just to make Parappa say "kick" over and over and over on the first song, then guess what? I'm going to do just that! I spent my money, I'll do as I please. Thank you very much.

You can do that in Parappa the Rapper and go into freestyle mode if you are awesome enough.

[Rase]

WHile I haven't played them very much, I must saw, one of the best things is the freedom. It's like, "Well you can do whatever you want, but if you want to advance the story, do this". It's nice to do a mission, than something mindless/random/strange, then repeat, rather then mission, mission, mission.

[strawberryman]

I dislike these games quite a bit, but it makes up with how fun it is terrorizing the little game people for no good reason.

[Dreddz]

Im not a big fan of the series but it is a good franchise. People like it and I have nothing against them. But the game is WAY over-hyped
There was no option to say I dont like the game but played them
But I have to admit that the original GTA games for PS1 I enjoyed alot
The new ones arent very good