Need help covincing my firend that GTA3 and Vice are just as good as SA

[Jimmy_86]

The situation is this:

My friend has had an interest in GTA but has never owned any of them. He is keen to buy them (and the machine to play it on). He's briefly played GTA3 and had a reasonable amount of time with a borrowed copy of Vice and is now thinking of buying. (I'm talking about the 3D ones here)

The thing is, he thinks only buying SA is enough and he "won't miss out on that much" by ignoring GTA3/Vice.

I'm not trying to make him spend all his money, but how can I get across the message that to maximse the enjoyment of these games, you should be familiar with the others...I mean you wouldn't watch The Empire Strikes Back and forget the rest of Star Wars would you.

It just seems a shame to miss out on all the character storylines (radio and missions) and all the running jokes etc.

Any ideas?

[SmellyCat]

well it is completely his choice. but completely understandable. maybe if you told him that all 3 of the games really do tie into eachother if you pay enuff attention. sure SA has alot of great features the others do not. but we wouldn't have SA if we didn't have the ealier GTA games.

[Jimmy_86]

Originally posted by SmellyCat
we wouldn't have SA if we didn't have the ealier GTA games.

For sure, it seems that many people are blinded by "features". I agree that SA is the best overall, but remember how amazing it was first playing GTA3, and then the entirly different environment of Vice City. All the story tie ins just make it that much better than many games (even putting the gameplay/features aside)

[SmellyCat]

i 'm guessing he's playing the ps2 versions of the games. maybe if he had the pc version of gta3 and vice, maybe modding the games (as well as playing the storylines) might intrigue him a little bit more. give him a few half spoilers (halfspoilers : such as, tellhimg about boomshine saigon, where you have to drive phil to the hospital, drunk)
just don't tell him that he lost his arm, or why you have to drive him there, but that's only an example.....maybe certain things like that will influence him to find out further what happens.
but all in all, you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.

[Jimmy_86]

Too true, just seems a shame to see someone miss out when you know they'll emjoy it. Good points though, thanks.

[DiscoBombs]

Tell your friend hes a fucktard for thinking he "wouldnt miss much" SA has several tie-ins the GTAIII and VC.
He needs to buy all 3, play them in order (3, VC, and then SA), then he will be happy.

[Holster]

GTA San Andreas has little extra features that the othe ones dont have, like loads of gear to chose from, mini-games and you can swim.
Its great.

[tyr]

you should say to him GTA 3 is set after SA and VC b4 SA