Agreed. While 3, VC, and SA were awesome, the shift in style made them so different they’re not really comparable.
GTA2 stuck to the top-down view that made the original game so much fun. And the faction system was pretty cool.
I really enjoyed VC and SA, but I found it a bit jarring that the character now had lines. I always preferred that he was a “shut up and do what you’re told” kind of guy.
GTA4 was fine.
GTA5 was a really nice tech demo that lacked depth in the gameplay. Great writing, though.
They could have stopped at any time, but once their three day plan failed, putin decided to engage in a money-burning competition against a group of countries with a combined gdp roughly 25 times theirs…