Early to Mid 2000's GTA Clones

>>386391569
https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Godfather:_The_Game#Game_crashes_after_copyright_screen_on_modern_versions_of_Windows

Damn, was considering playing this, but this is a dealbreaker.

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you mean like that fucking scarface game I can't play anywhere?

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How was this game so good?

>>386391783
Yeah, I was considering picking it up for the PS3 or the 360. I had the PS2 version, and I don't know what if anything has changed in the later releases.

>>386392009
You could fill a mansion with whores and tigers.

Loved godfather on PS 2.

Most of them were shit, which is why the genre died out.

>>386393941
That and newer, fresher games to rip off.

>>386391569
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxt4CclwufI

remember the taxi driver game that was going to be a gta clone

>>386394327
There was going to be a Dirty Harry game too wasn't there?

What's with all these classic movies reimagined as GTA clones?

>>386391569
Man, this game was fun as fuck.
I loved the extortion mechanic. You basically had to find what scared each shopkeeper the most and push them. The more you pushed, the more money you'd get, but if you pushed too far then they'd snap. You had to find a nice balance between reason and violence. The mechanics were very fun. Bribe a cop to let you wave your gun around a little bit. Bribe a police chief to let you basically go to war whenever you want. Take over rackets, find sweet-ass black market dealers with sweet fucking guns. Bomb rival businesses. Crack open safes. Literally run enemy gangs out of the fucking city with a squad of goons.

>>386392009
this was probably my favorite of any GTA clone back then. I loved open world games chock full of stupid mundane minigames like the money laundering one from this game.

Any love for True Crime Streets of LA here?

>>386395212

Nope, it was garbage.

>>386392009
My friend and I would always make jokes about how their were sharks in San Andreas, and it blew our fucking minds when we got eaten by a shark in Scarface.

>>386395212
Garbage, New York was better

>>386394968
Yeah it was pretty surprising how much effort went into that game.
>>386395212
My friend and I used to play that a lot when we were kids, but it always just made me wish I was playing gta.

>>386391958
Get a wii or wii u and buy the disc. Easy.

>>386391958
Get a PS2

>>386391958
>>386395664
I play it on PC fine you just need this
https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/releases/tag/scarface

>>386391958
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Scarface-settings

>>386392035
I remember an anon say that PS3/360 versions are slightly different from the PS2 version, I just don't remember what.

>>386395486
especially with true crime, but this for every gta clone. now i appreciate true crime a little more with how it dealt with failure, and sleeping dogs was a good game, but comparing it to gta it had some fucked up driving and shooting mechanics

>>386395430
They're both shit, new york was worse.

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How did you guys feel when early-mid 2000s culture concluded in 2006?

I still hold on to the thought that true crime new york could have been one of the great releases of that generation if Activision didnt give it a rushed release.

>>386396489
>ps1 lasted until 2006
what the fuck, anything good?

>last good generation of gaming ends
so ps1 died out at the same time that the next generation died out? how does that work?

>>386396290
>>386395430
>tfw you had New York on the Xbox with the bugged release, and you could never finish the game.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox/925118-true-crime-new-york-city/faqs/40332

Tell me what it was like beating that game, anons. I still wonder to this day

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>>386392009
This shit is so good that I'm 100% sure Rockstar paid games media outlets to give it bad reviews

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Best "clone" coming through

>>386396760
PS1 lasted well after the PS2 was launched because it was still selling well. Sony finally discontinued it in 2006, after 12 years on the market.

>>386396867
was that mostly in Brazil, like the ps2? and again, was there anything good in that time?

>>386391569
What about The Getaway? I remember enjoying the demo but never played the full game

>>386397069
It was worldwide actually. But there wasn't much good, PS2 was getting the good games at that point.

>>386395554
Is the wii version the best one?

>>386395212
Had it on GameCube as a kid, since it was the closest thing to GTA on GameCube. Liked it. Never played New York, but everyone says it's better.

Out of nostalgia, I tried pirating it again on my hacked Xbox Hueg, but I think the iso I downloaded was a bad rip, cause it would always randomly freeze. Turning off and turning on the Xbox too many times seems to have corrupted the bigger hard drive I put in, so I can't even use it anymore until I buy another hard drive. Luckily, I still have the original stock hard drive to clone onto a new one when I buy one.

>>386391569
The Getaway: Black Monday was pretty good. The driving was a bit clunky though if I remember right, shame the sequel for PS3 got canned.

Also Driver: Parallel Lines was fucking rad. Most fun driving physics of any ps2 era GTA clone and it had full car customisation (performance and looks) for every car in the game. The 70's aesthetic and soundtrack was comfy as hell too. Nothing like mowing down hobos in central park with an old Dodge Charger

>>386397135
Pretty good once you get used to how it works
The controls are still a bit shit though

>>386396783
I wouldn't know, I had NY on xbox too and while i completed LA I couldn't stand more than a few hours of NY.
>>386397135
It's really difficult to play nowdays because of the shitty controls but I still enjoy the getaway, it's not a 'good' game but it's still got some very enjoyable levels like the second mission where you burn down a restaurant or the one where you fight through a Yardie drug house. I'm pretty sure young me fapped to the strippers.

>>386391569
Are there any other games like The Godfather games, specifically games that focus on the turf takeover. GTA:SA and Godfather always left me hanging because they felt tacked on.

>>386397754
Saints Row 1 and 2 had a lot of that, I think.

>>386397754
Not really, it's just a minigame.
A gang war rts would be awesome come to think of it

>>386397403
I liked the wanted system in parallel lines, it was much better than GTA. Getting out of sight of police and then quickly switching to a 'clean' car made sense and was really tense when you were trying to sneak past police before they noticed it was you

>>386392009
I thought it was so difficult way back then. Those yayo running missions were such a pain in the ass.

>>386397135
Oh fuck The Getaway games were great.

>>386396783
NY was insanely well replicated. It was also cool how you could switch between fighting styles and the weapon selection was really vast.

It was just very unpolished.

>>386394327
>movie about crippling depression and loneliness
>almost no action in it
>even the "action showdown" is just a short massacre on pimps
"Hey guys, wouldn't that be the ultimate game to make a funny GTA clone where you drive like crazy and kill dozens of goons?"

The best cancelling decision ever made.

>>386397164
I remember that the last game ever released on the PS1 was in German speaking countries "Schnappi das kleine Krokodil" (Schnappi the little crocodile).

Not really a glorious goodbye.

>>386396489

2006 really was a year of massive change, I remember you could just feel it in the air at the time that things were changing.

>>386398780
And Scarface is a tragedy about a fall from grace and an attack on the War on Drugs, yet they still managed to make a decent power fantasy game out of it.

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>>386396867
>PS1 lasted well after the PS2 was launched because it was still selling well. Sony finally discontinued it in 2006, after 12 years on the market.
>There was a PAL region One Piece game that was released in 2003 (originally released in 2001 in JP)
>The PSOne model out sold the Sega Dreamcast and the PS2 in 2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XizEOCa6KMw

Godfather 1 was great but wtf happened with the second game. Utter trash.


Scarface game was also good, and JC1 was so much fun to younger me.

>>386392009
my shitty computer had a hard time running this shit
couldn't run at more than 10fps
nevertheless made it through the first couple of missions before it became unplayable

>>386396867
nigga the ps3 came out in 2006

>>386391569
it was pretty good
just roaming around the streets of NY clearing the same gangster dens over and over
always felt food to clear out one of the other family's headquarters just by yourself
and the gun upgrades were fucking primo

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I still play this quite often. with simple fixed for laa and widescreen it works on regular widescreen and 21:9. only "downside" it its capped to 60. awesome game.

Who else played the game before getting around to the movie?

>>386398780
He became a vigilante at the end of the movie, even though he got shot and almost died

>>386401772

I bought that on GOG not long ago.

>>386401772
Skyler was BASED

>>386397403
I played the fuck out of the demo for parallel city, it had a small part of the city which was blocked with walls with x on them.

>>386402251
That atrocious accent though. It was awful, in a comical way.

Man, The Saboteur is a lot of fun. Also nice to be able to drive around occupied Paris. Even if the Trocadero Palace is anachronistic, the fact it was included in a game to explore was neat.

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>nobody mentioned the best GTA clone

>>386401772
Was this the Mercenaries sequel we were all promised?

>>386402598
Yeah, nah. Once the novelty of it being the Simpsons wore off it was actually kind of shitty

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I loved this game

>>386401857
Me. Played it when I was a dumbass kid. Getting the chance to see the original movie in a local cinema made me think about it again just recently, actually.

>>386402686

Oh noooooo
Oh noooooo
Oh nooooooooooo...
(yo yo yo) oh no you DIDN'T!

>>386402823
It still hurts.

>>386399975
I'd say 2007 was bigger year of change because of iPhones, Big Bang Theory, social media, etc.

>>386391569
>throwing people off buildings with the ps3 motion sensors
>capping capos
>that authetic italiana atomsphere

>>386403969
Was the PS3 or the 360 version the best version?

>>386401772
Rip pandemic

F

>>386402598
Good game. Replayed it recently this year. Made with love by simpsons fans. Same with the Scarface game.

Kind of sad that this genre effectively died with Watch Dogs 2.

>>386404858
Iirc the don's edition was only for ps3