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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9861901" data-attributes="member: 18">Definitely most of the missions (always with a few, exceptional, er, exceptions) are somewhere between okay, humdrum and actively tedious, I think that's true for literally every GTA game, and it's true by the standards of the time too. It's a game held together more by the interstitials gameplay than the focused gameplay, as you indicate. Over time the GTA games have got better like - GTA V is, gameplay-wise and driving-around-wise and so on, way better than Vice City, but the stories are still about mostly repulsive people, and in fact GTA V is particularly bad there because Trevor is in the mix (I get what they were trying to do with him, and how he is indeed what someone who acted like how most people play GTA would be like, but it was a bit much), who is possible the most vile (not most objectively morally reprehensible, just most vile) GTA protag, even if he is played with a lot of panache by Steven Ogg (who is the perfect man for the job).Be interested to see how 6's Bonnie and Clyde thing plays out. GTA's writers have never had to handle a female protag before. Two of the main writers of all previous GTAs except GTA 1 (Dan Houser - who was effectively the "showrunner" of GTA - and Michael Unsworth) both left so only one of the three previous writers remains, Rupert Humphries, joined by a couple of new people (one of whom worked a lot on Brooklyn 99 but only wrote 3 episodes), so we'll see if that'll result in much tonal change. I suspect it will - hopefully for the better but we'll see.Yakuza's gameplay has basically nothing to do with GTA though right? So how does that follow as a "why"?The mainline Yakuza games are basically a giant pile of minigames (some of them good) held together with a story that's both stronger and considerably better-told and more relatable (imho) than anything in GTA, and running around (there is some driving in some but it's not the main mode of getting around/exploring, walking is) and beat-em-up sections which are nothing like GTA's driving nor GTA's terrible shooting bits. Plus two of the most recent Yakuza games are turn-based JRPGs! I'm not kidding or exaggerating either - they have literally have full-on turn-based combat, job systems, party management, etc. etc. Apparently they're loosely inspired by Dragon Quest (That's Like a Dragon - maybe not the most subtle name, come to think of it - and Infinite Wealth).Are you sure you're not maybe conflating GTA with Sleeping Dogs, which does have the same basic gameplay loop as GTA and is also about Asian gangs, albeit the Triads, not the Yakuza. That said, Sleeping Dogs was flatly superior in the combat and missions to, well, pretty much any GTA game - however it was wildly inferior in the interstitial driving around and so on. The only relationship between GTA and Yakuza is that they're both technically open-world games (albeit with wildly different open worlds) and themed around the criminal underworld.I guess it would follow if you really hated games about violent criminals specifically? But even then the Yakuza people are, well, morally and likeability-wise vastly superior to any GTA protags.</blockquote>

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