Weird article. GTA2 came out in 1999. That’s a long time ago. I doubt most of that team still works there. The idea that they had an issue making it somehow meaning that, over two decades later, the same issues will remain is an odd conclusion.
It’s just a weird comment, I get what he’s saying back then, but Saints Row had multiple games come out in pseudo-futuristic setting that were batshit crazy and fun to play, so obviously it can be done.
Lets be honest, we won’t see a futuristic GTA at this point because shark cards are a money-printing machine and Take Two will never approve anything like that because it would be too risky.
We probably won’t see a GTA doing it anyway because Watch Dogs, Crackdown and Cyberpunk are already basically that.
I loved the faction angle for GTA2 , alongside the improved controls. I want to make a game inspired off it as one of the creative projects I’m trying to work on.
At this rate we won’t be seeing another GTA game after 6 until 2040 anyways
At least they’ve already finished the engine it will run in.
I mean, the historical and geographical context of the newer entries definitely adds to the satire, but GTA2 wasn’t a bad game at all. I def liked it more 1 and 3 at the time. Interesting that the dev team wasn’t fond of it.
Good thing we have Cyberpunk 2077
Three weeks into the future. One teeming city. Seven streets gangs. Unlimited criminal opportunity
-gta2 manual
My favourite of the lot
Bullshit I loved the hell out of that game. I definitely play a version just like it.
I actually really liked the weird scifish city of GTA2 a lot, it had surprisingly strange vibes.
It clearly wasn’t the developers strength though, they are far better at making cities that are heavily inspired/woven together from chunks of real places.
In my opinion the game that captures GTA 2 vibes best is Skillshot City previously known as Gene Shift Auto.
Gameplay is fast and fun and it is a genuinely good free to play multiplayer game with fast rounds.
I remember loving GTA2 but wanting a 3D GTA, then when they came out I never played GTA ever again
GTA2 was the best, this is a true fact
GTA2 was good, it’s just games journalists obsessed with a “3D full immersion VR future”, that they felt threatened by every 2D games made once the first Voodoo cards left the factories. The reviews were not about the games, but endless whining about they losing their “fully realistic games” (past Medal of Honor, they usually envisioned a perfect recreation of Battle of Normandy) because a man made a theme park game with accurate roller coaster physics in assembly.
The 3D push was quite similar to the current AI push, but more successful. Imagine if Microsoft blocked games being released onto XBox if they don’t have a certain amount of AI generated assets and/or “live generated content”.
Imagine if Microsoft blocked games being released onto XBox if they don’t have a certain amount of AI generated assets and/or “live generated content”.
Shhhh! Don’t tell them this idea, please!
Xbox is already dying, they’re in no position to scare developers off.
MS is definitely going this route.
They likely already have that as plan Z already, knowing that console manufacturers demanded 3D objects in the games developers made for their consoles.
Wouldn’t that just be Saint’s Row 4?
No wonder I loved the later Saints games.
Just please put the random string of Elvis impersonators trolling the streets back in there
