Vice City was my Rockstar Games peak. Love IV and appreciate the graphics of V, and I also grew up with San Andreas, but Vice City is my life. RIP Liotta
Vice City is my favourite too, it featured things that hasnt been replicated like going into the airport and the mall. Stealing the Infernus in the mall good times, the chainsaw, San andreas was awesome too but Vice City holds the spot.
True vice city got something right the guy on the video here says they were trying to they the color of the city and era right but a video game looking like that is just peak
I always respect Houser brothers for one thing. They don’t come out publicly and say that they started from the bottom and created GTA. They were clearly from privileged backgrounds and were well connected. They understood the effort their teams are putting into each game and took all the credit to the Rockstar name. That should be respected.
GTA V eventually added so many weird and wonderful aspects and items to the game over time, it makes me wonder where GTA VI can go; it has some MASSIVE shoes to fill.
@@Broken_robot1986 its a grind, you need to do the small missions first to buy property like a arcade or an apartment and there you can start heists with your friends
I used to work at T2/2K for a few years, there was always a friendly rivalry with our sister company Rockstar. It's awesome to see such an in depth documentary out about GTA and the companies that made it.
If only they weren't so greedy now. I mean have you seen how much they've been fucking up lately, they half assed the GTA trilogy, they won't stop milking GTA online and most of us are sick of GTA 5 now, RDR2 got abandoned even though it had so much potential for its online mode, and now I'm worried they're gonna milk GTA 6 once they make the online mode and then they'll get more greedy. I'm sorry man but Rockstar has become the very thing they made fun of and I hate it. You gotta at least admit they're not the same old rockstar anymore.
@@rogueraccoon1840 GTA 5 is still good games LOL throught & throught for me atleast. Honestly, I come to RDR 2 because of the singleplayer not online mode
So, I walked about 5 miles listening to this video, not even watching it, and my mind was lost in it, conjuring up images of the old GTA games and how my entire childhood was wrapped up in it. And now I know the crazy story of quality obsessed brothers behind it. The walk is usually intense as I use a weighted vest , but this one was a breeze. Thanks John, this was emotional and nostalgic. Keep creating stuff like this.
i cudn't believe the nostalgia, i remember playing games like lemmings and goblins and day of the tentacle as a kid, then the consoles and gta n stuff, n then 9/11 n the columbine stuff triggered me as the 1st sort of anti establishment narrative for my generation, with michael moorer n stuff followed by the crazyness of the internet. Gta has always been a massive reflection/escape of/from it all. This ones an epiphany.
I’ve been playing GTA since 3 came out. Needless to say, that game set the standard for what games strive for today. Over 20 years later and GTA continues to exceed fans expectations. They listen to their fans, and continue to push the envelope. It’s been over 11 years since GTA V and that game is still amazing. Can’t wait for GTA VI, I have 0 doubt that Rockstar will deliver and continue to exceed expectations
Vice City will always be my favorite. I played it with my cousin every day after school for hours. RIP homie. It's the last version that I ever played.
3:15 I told my uncle the same back when I was 7… He was so concerned & told my parents… but see what became of me now. After I served 10 years, I found out that life as a bank robber pays off at the end, after you get outta jail & recover the hidden money. The bad part is, my wife married my brother Max & they have two daughters now. Sometimes it‘s so weird to see em all together, but then again, I lived through so many cool things in life, met awesome people in jail & married some hot Model (now an OF model), while in jail. So I can‘t really complain about anything. All trolls aside. I‘m a writer now & I love creating things. And damn I have some freakin cool bank robberies in my stories. When GTA4 came out on PC, I modded the hell outta this game & filmed, voiced & created my own Bank robbery. Still have an early version of that on my HDD. But I really did tell my uncle that I wanna become that, but what I really meant is that I want my fictional characters to do that instead xD I‘ve been working on my stories since I was a kid. Some of the main characters still got their names from when I‘ve created them in early 2000. It‘s been a long way for me & my characters. I changed the story like a 100 times now. To answer some of your thoughts: My stories are actually deep stories, not like the troll text above ✌🏾 Anyways, such a great documentary! Thank you for that. I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day
I've been saying for a long time that nowadays the line between reality and GTA-style social satire is indistinguishable. I'm honestly shocked to read that 2018 Dan Houser quote again. Man is incredibly smart, he saw it coming. I mean, *imagine* that you spend 15 years writing some of the most outrageous shit you can think of and then you watch reality slowly bend itself to become what you wrote. What a time to be alive...
This guy didn't do research for this video, he just read some wikipedia short descriptions and a dozen of articles, he didnt make the effort to understand the topic, fuck, i think this video's script was generated by chatGPT
@@eunaoseibrother467no, you can tell he just read the book “Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto” and then made this video. Each part of this video follows the chapters in that book beat for beat lol Edit: that book got a lot of stuff wrong and was not authorized by Rockstar.
Fascinating and thorough, absolutely loved this deep dive, John; you're an incredible story-teller with perfect cadence, delivering with a clear, confident and auditorily pleasing voice; I could listen to you speak for hours. A small word of advice, take your time, remember to breathe. Thanks for this study, can't wait for next!
This video deserves so many likes man, i cant believe it only has 7.2k right now… Alot of effort went into this video and was presented extremely well. I miss the times of the early 2000’s and I think we all do.
These likes need to go all the way up. Well spoken and very informative without taking it too serious. Keep making them, and we'll keep watching. You got that blow-up factor,keep at it. 💥
Rockstar very smart. They’re releasing GTA6 on PS5 just 2 years or so before the release of the PS6 so they’ll sell another copy. Just like they did GTA5.
Correction: Cyberpunk’s launch was not disastrous that resulted in it being considered a failure. There was just mass controversy and backlash. The game at launch was a financial success and was immediately profitable even after they allowed refunds for all console sales. Same story with NO MAN’S SKY and LAST OF US PART 2 People commonly think those were disastrous launches, but they were all financially successful. Fun Fact: THE LAST OF PART 2 actually sold even better due to all the controversy surrounding it. It’s speculated that all the noice attracted the attention of casuals outside the fan base who would of normally ignored it.
I think you forgot one of the most important parts that gets overlooked. Something that was supposed to be a trend today in the game industry and talked about in gaming textbooks in the early 2000s. User created content GTA has a creator mode and a very large community who only play created jobs because, the jobs rockstar makes are bland and unimaginative.
2:40 Newcastle, not London. Carter works in London, but the film takes place in the Newcastle/Gateshead area as Carter travels there for his brother's burial and to find his killers.
i think you meant the ZX spectrum, instead of ZK, it did not get canned, body harvest got released but the blood went green, i had a copy on my Nintendo 64 in the Netherlands ❤
Still remember that first time playing GTA Vice City right after high school. 18 and going what in the hell is this! The soundtrack, stories, missions, been hooked ever since
The ESRB is NOT "the government." It's a self-imposed industry rating board. It's literally the private gaming companies themselves rating their own industry, a result of moral panic about video games and other media in the 90s. At least as far as the ESRBs actions within the gaming industry. Essentially they had to self-regulate, or the govt was gonna come down hard. And they aren't some ultimate deciders of whether a game is allowed to be sold, definitely not these days. Anyone could release an unrated game if they wanted to. It varies by country but there's ZERO requirement that your game HAS to get passed by the ESRB. Makes me wonder how much other info was wrong lol.
That’s what I’m worried about with 6. No Dan, but at the same time rockstar has done amazing each time. So I shouldn’t be concerned, but part of me still is.
This man makes real interesting video’s it’s facts, focused and great story telling! I don’t use social media and now days I only go to RUclips for learning😂 But it’s nice to see someone actully make content I’m impressed with even if it’s not a topic I care about. u can still focus and watch it like a documentary And it’s so well made with how he choses to react the depth of the research so on! This is my first comment ever but have to give creed to this channel
They must have had big connections to hire that many big named actors to be in GTA III. I always wonder how the hell they did that? Where the hell did they get that kind of money to pay all of them? Even with the success of the past games before GTA III, they either had to literally rob a bank or sell drugs on the side!
A heart warming homage of a series, very well documented, with a host both knowledgeable and a very talented communicator, and a very hard worked editing, always pays back. Like GTA, you only strive for the best. Very pleased to have found this channel.
I don't know if I'm imagining this, but I remember when I got GTA3 it had no cover art and it was all black and only the text logo "Gant Theft Auto III." I didn't see ad's or anything about it. It was all word of mouth from school. "you got to play this game man, its called Grand Theft Auto." no context or anything. Just said it was the best game he ever played. Told my mom to get it for me and the way it went down, was the best way anyone could have experienced it. It was Amazing!
I just wanted to say, I have watched a ton of videos about the history of Rockstar Games, but this was the best, the most thorough, and most entertaining one by far. Excellent work!
Just a quick edit for you, Freddie Starr was a well known comedian, the hamster story was to sell tickets for his stand up shows. He did used to sing the odd Elvis song though but would do them as a skit.
Not quite. Get carter is set in Newcastle not London. And it’s the ZX spectrum not ZK. Freddie star was a comedian not a singer. I’m not saying he used it but these mistakes are typical of chat gpt. it’s a great video tho
This is a well researched and comprehensive doc. Please consider taking a breather once in a while and let the story breathe - the narration never paused.
As someone who has seen this company, played the first GTA before it was popular, this company dose not drop a GTA with it being ready for public consumption. It is why it is always out selling it's competitors. No other company but Nintendo has been able to do this with a single IP
It’s the Z*X* Spectrum btw. Also saying people didn’t build real careers around gaming in 1988, after the market had already had TWO video game crashes by that point… Tons of people had built careers off of video games by 1988 man, the NES was 3 years old ffs. Too much misinformation for me to trust anything else you have to say. If you can’t get those basic and well known details right, how can one trust the more obscure details?
1:04:55 GTA RP is NOT powered by shark cards. these two things have NOTHING to do with each other. FiveM is a community project. makes me wonder about all the other info (but overall looks good). GTA RP aka fivem aka cfx was bought by Rockstar in 2023 to probably be implemented in GTA 6.
lol, I saw "Diego Angel" and immediately went "Ain't that the company who used to make Midtown Madness?"... Dear Mr. Diego Angel, thank you for all the great memories I had as a child, when my parents used to block me from playing GTA, xD Not going to lie though, I LOVED this documentation!
This is great, but with how fleshed out some aspects were; the PSP basically never happening and Chinatown Wars being "It wasn't too popular so don't worry about it" is a massive slap to the face with the flow and thoroughness of everything else.
Exceptional documentary. Rockstar definitely had an impactful part of my early life. When GTA3 released, it was so mesmerizing and intriguing to me, I played it at 5-20fps avg on a business gateway computer. I finished the game later on with a gaming pc.
Thanks for the history lesson and I’m sure for time sake you didn’t expand on the RP aspect of GTA online but I think it deserves a little more than a foot note. GTA RP is the reason for the intake in sales when it was starting to decline in 2020. With RP fans and none fans alike now enjoy a second life outside of their normal existence, RP has made a whole new aspect time GTA that was once thought about in the original concept for gta. You get to become a police officer! A Medic. A nurse. A mechanic. And the list goes on! Perhaps if you haven’t already, do a video and deep dive into the world of RP!?
I am from Dundee and it makes me so proud that I live in the city that GTA was born in, I played GTA and Lemmings to death when I was younger, I see the old DMA studio daily and it makes me smile to think the greatest franchise of all time started here.
You have great storytelling ability. I played this while i was working out at home, and it was really easy to follow - even if i didnt watch video, just listened to audio. Your skill would greatly translate to podcast or some sort of spotify audio just like this. Great work
Great video. I clicked with a "I probably know this, but I'll watch/listen anyway" attitude. Glad I clicked because I was wrong and there was a LOT I didn't know.
Theres no way you can make money from atari games rent an office and pay a full team to become rich 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 cencor ship american spelling shit whilst you have guns...
DJ Pooh was brought on to help write the story of San Andreas. By this point they had help. Which paid off big time. IV also had help I believe. V for sure. Their team has grown beyond the brothers. Well, Dan leaving was definitely a huge loss and avoidable imo. But not really. Money was always gonna triumph.
Impressive work 👏👏 covering all those interwoven events rich with details and still presented in such a comprehensive manner ain't an easy feat. Keep it up 🤗
Great overview. Just one correction-the ESRB isn't a government agency. It's a voluntary non-profit organization and system that game developers and publishers choose to take part in. It's sort of like the MPAA for movies. It was established in 1994 as a response to congressional hearings in the US that questioned the violence in games like Mortal Kombat, Nighttrap, and DOOM. While it is completely voluntary most publishers in the US, Canada, and Mexico submit their games to its ratings process. It's considered one of the most reliable self-regulatory non-profit orgs by the USA's Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
I think part of the franchise success on the 5 is: children who played and couldn't afford the game now can and will since they're adults. as for mobile: it's a competitive market .. they kinda will have to release a GTA for mobile with all the S+ tier game stats and a gatcha mechanics if they want to compete now, ofc being playable on phones, consoles and pc is a must. Gatcha with realistic graphics are possible on phones, it's kinda like what they already have but free to download
i am old, just a few years younger than the boys who made the first GTA game "Race & Chace" and i have played all of their games even bought GTA: London. and i still remember then GTA III launched and how we installed a MOD so we could play multiplayer. but it was little more than 1 second out of sync. the netcode from the mod was not good. but still super fun. cuz that what we all talked about in GTA III that we wanted multiplayer then we played PC games in my parents basement, the old school LAN Party´s. But i can say, sense GTA III i play the GTA Games for the story, i want to know and experience the story, same with Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, i love the stories and the GTA Radio listening to the crazy radio talk and radio talkshows. in Vice City i did put in MP3 files in a radio folder that did become a separate radio channel. The GTA Online stuff i dont care about, not at all. i just want to play the storyline but i never rush the story line, i always wander off on my own quests and do side quests. the story is always so good i dont want to spoil the story by rushing it through. and the last GTA-V was really cool then you could play more than one character!
So incredibly inspiring. Both the Houser brothers and Benzies and everyone else who was at the core of Rockstar during those years. I wonder if the opportunity to create similar magic is still there at this moment in time, because Idk about how many others, but I'm sure as fuck inspired to take on similar creative endeavours, so a video like this is highly appreciated.
im not even mad they figured out monetization by making a solid base game and adding multiplayer.... it'll only become an issue when they switch priorities
For people that've been following R* carefully like myself - the company has a lot to prove with GTA 6. IV was my favorite GTA after San Andreas (GTA 2 was my first PS1 game in 1999) and really every title they've been a part of has a special place in my heart. 6 will be the first big title without Dan, Lazlow, Leslie Benzies, and a few other big names in the company. Even RDR2 still involved all those creatives and it was also pretty much done with development when the stories about R* workplace culture helped spur the gaming industry to try and balance the crunch culture. So they're missing key people including script writers, the radio creative director, a lead programmer, etc. They have to appease both militant political ideologies and sensibilities, come up with an online game loop that at least somewhat bucks the standard fare of GTA 5s online to keep long-term interest, write the 1st compelling female lead in the largest franchise in gaming history... This is a huge task and it's understandable why it has taken so much time. The game will not live up to everyone's hype, but will it be successful enough creatively to keep people's faith in the series?
Everything about this video is fantastic! Extremely professional and well done all around. I watch a lot of youtube and this is top tier content delivery.
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I think GTA V only has that big jump in sales because people like me that have bought gta 5 like 4 times on various consoles
Exactly, the numbers are inflated because it’s been sold to around 40m people 4 times so it doesn’t count in my opinion
That's underscores just how good the game is.
@lolly_bread kindof but it also might underscore that it took so long for them to release a new one and its all people had for a decade plus
@@BreadLobbynah cause if it sucked we wouldn’t buy it multiple times, we’d get bored. Same as Skyrim
@@thefirsttrillionaire2925 i dont think it sucks now okay
Vice City was my Rockstar Games peak. Love IV and appreciate the graphics of V, and I also grew up with San Andreas, but Vice City is my life. RIP Liotta
Its the nostalgia, realistically vice city is ass
@@JuanRincon-d8n having a different opinion is totally fine
Vice City is my favourite too, it featured things that hasnt been replicated like going into the airport and the mall. Stealing the Infernus in the mall good times, the chainsaw, San andreas was awesome too but Vice City holds the spot.
True vice city got something right the guy on the video here says they were trying to they the color of the city and era right but a video game looking like that is just peak
Me too. Vice City was the best
I always respect Houser brothers for one thing. They don’t come out publicly and say that they started from the bottom and created GTA. They were clearly from privileged backgrounds and were well connected. They understood the effort their teams are putting into each game and took all the credit to the Rockstar name. That should be respected.
you dont get respect bc you do your job. sorry. that is literally the bare minimum
So you have a lot of respect for them for not publicly lying?
Being honest and grounded is arguably the bare minimum.
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582I mean, yeah
@@martinlutherkingjr.5582In this economy?
GTA V eventually added so many weird and wonderful aspects and items to the game over time, it makes me wonder where GTA VI can go; it has some MASSIVE shoes to fill.
GTA VI is going to be the game release to top all game releases.
I went online once and couldn't figure out how to do the fun games I would see other people doing and never touched it again
FiveM my man @@Broken_robot1986
@@Broken_robot1986 its a grind, you need to do the small missions first to buy property like a arcade or an apartment and there you can start heists with your friends
Gta VI has no shoes to fill, in fact it brings its own giant shoes to step on the previous pair
I used to work at T2/2K for a few years, there was always a friendly rivalry with our sister company Rockstar. It's awesome to see such an in depth documentary out about GTA and the companies that made it.
If only they weren't so greedy now. I mean have you seen how much they've been fucking up lately, they half assed the GTA trilogy, they won't stop milking GTA online and most of us are sick of GTA 5 now, RDR2 got abandoned even though it had so much potential for its online mode, and now I'm worried they're gonna milk GTA 6 once they make the online mode and then they'll get more greedy. I'm sorry man but Rockstar has become the very thing they made fun of and I hate it. You gotta at least admit they're not the same old rockstar anymore.
They aren't a sister company. Take 2 were the money men and they bought out Rockstar.
@@rogueraccoon1840 GTA 5 is still good games LOL throught & throught for me atleast. Honestly, I come to RDR 2 because of the singleplayer not online mode
@@rogueraccoon1840just wait until their loyal customers have to p2p for x amount of time. 🤑
@@rogueraccoon1840when will you people learn that gta online is the price for amazing games like gta 6
So, I walked about 5 miles listening to this video, not even watching it, and my mind was lost in it, conjuring up images of the old GTA games and how my entire childhood was wrapped up in it. And now I know the crazy story of quality obsessed brothers behind it.
The walk is usually intense as I use a weighted vest , but this one was a breeze.
Thanks John, this was emotional and nostalgic. Keep creating stuff like this.
i cudn't believe the nostalgia, i remember playing games like lemmings and goblins and day of the tentacle as a kid, then the consoles and gta n stuff, n then 9/11 n the columbine stuff triggered me as the 1st sort of anti establishment narrative for my generation, with michael moorer n stuff followed by the crazyness of the internet. Gta has always been a massive reflection/escape of/from it all. This ones an epiphany.
how heavy is the vest?
@@reccct Not as heavy as my heart. Lol kidding it’s 15 kg or 33 pounds
I’ve been playing GTA since 3 came out. Needless to say, that game set the standard for what games strive for today. Over 20 years later and GTA continues to exceed fans expectations. They listen to their fans, and continue to push the envelope. It’s been over 11 years since GTA V and that game is still amazing. Can’t wait for GTA VI, I have 0 doubt that Rockstar will deliver and continue to exceed expectations
Chinatown Wars is so good. This guy said “don’t worry about it” 😂
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Idk why you took the time to post this but I'll take the time to comment to it
What you on bout pal
I was looking for this comment
@@Stirling-Moss If you must ask, you'll never know
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This is some quality content right here: one hour of pure gold and deep analysis of Grand Theft Auto. This is exactly what I was looking for
Vice City will always be my favorite. I played it with my cousin every day after school for hours. RIP homie. It's the last version that I ever played.
We got to understand the business model before we got GTA VI
3:15 I told my uncle the same back when I was 7… He was so concerned & told my parents… but see what became of me now. After I served 10 years, I found out that life as a bank robber pays off at the end, after you get outta jail & recover the hidden money. The bad part is, my wife married my brother Max & they have two daughters now. Sometimes it‘s so weird to see em all together, but then again, I lived through so many cool things in life, met awesome people in jail & married some hot Model (now an OF model), while in jail. So I can‘t really complain about anything.
All trolls aside. I‘m a writer now & I love creating things. And damn I have some freakin cool bank robberies in my stories. When GTA4 came out on PC, I modded the hell outta this game & filmed, voiced & created my own Bank robbery. Still have an early version of that on my HDD. But I really did tell my uncle that I wanna become that, but what I really meant is that I want my fictional characters to do that instead xD I‘ve been working on my stories since I was a kid. Some of the main characters still got their names from when I‘ve created them in early 2000. It‘s been a long way for me & my characters. I changed the story like a 100 times now. To answer some of your thoughts: My stories are actually deep stories, not like the troll text above ✌🏾
Anyways, such a great documentary! Thank you for that. I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day
Is there any way I can see the bank Robbery in ur hdd?
I've been saying for a long time that nowadays the line between reality and GTA-style social satire is indistinguishable. I'm honestly shocked to read that 2018 Dan Houser quote again. Man is incredibly smart, he saw it coming. I mean, *imagine* that you spend 15 years writing some of the most outrageous shit you can think of and then you watch reality slowly bend itself to become what you wrote. What a time to be alive...
Never thought I’d see something like this on this channel! Dude you make top tier videos on all subjects. Cannot wait to watch this
Body Harvest wasn’t cancelled. It released. Just not with the launch promotion expected.
Race’n’Chase was never multiplayer.
This guy didn't do research for this video, he just read some wikipedia short descriptions and a dozen of articles, he didnt make the effort to understand the topic, fuck, i think this video's script was generated by chatGPT
@@eunaoseibrother467 For real. Folks are in here in the comments gushing over how researched things were when there are significant factual errors.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed, all the comments saying how amazing it is 😂
@@eunaoseibrother467 Yeah even the video editing was odd in the first 30mins. A lot of wrong footage of games and cover art.
@@eunaoseibrother467no, you can tell he just read the book “Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto” and then made this video. Each part of this video follows the chapters in that book beat for beat lol
Edit: that book got a lot of stuff wrong and was not authorized by Rockstar.
Fascinating and thorough, absolutely loved this deep dive, John; you're an incredible story-teller with perfect cadence, delivering with a clear, confident and auditorily pleasing voice; I could listen to you speak for hours. A small word of advice, take your time, remember to breathe. Thanks for this study, can't wait for next!
This video deserves so many likes man, i cant believe it only has 7.2k right now… Alot of effort went into this video and was presented extremely well.
I miss the times of the early 2000’s and I think we all do.
Brilliant video, but the editing and pace of his voice overwhelms a little, but might also just be the overload of incredible info!
Yes misnaming the ZX Spectrum as a ZK deserves a 👍🏻
NOT!
I dont know when i watched this long informative content on youtube in one go....amongst the top videos i ever watched
These likes need to go all the way up. Well spoken and very informative without taking it too serious. Keep making them, and we'll keep watching. You got that blow-up factor,keep at it. 💥
Rockstar very smart. They’re releasing GTA6 on PS5 just 2 years or so before the release of the PS6 so they’ll sell another copy. Just like they did GTA5.
Correction: Cyberpunk’s launch was not disastrous that resulted in it being considered a failure. There was just mass controversy and backlash. The game at launch was a financial success and was immediately profitable even after they allowed refunds for all console sales.
Same story with NO MAN’S SKY and LAST OF US PART 2 People commonly think those were disastrous launches, but they were all financially successful.
Fun Fact: THE LAST OF PART 2 actually sold even better due to all the controversy surrounding it. It’s speculated that all the noice attracted the attention of casuals outside the fan base who would of normally ignored it.
I think you forgot one of the most important parts that gets overlooked. Something that was supposed to be a trend today in the game industry and talked about in gaming textbooks in the early 2000s.
User created content
GTA has a creator mode and a very large community who only play created jobs because, the jobs rockstar makes are bland and unimaginative.
2:40 Newcastle, not London. Carter works in London, but the film takes place in the Newcastle/Gateshead area as Carter travels there for his brother's burial and to find his killers.
i think you meant the ZX spectrum, instead of ZK, it did not get canned, body harvest got released but the blood went green, i had a copy on my Nintendo 64 in the Netherlands ❤
It's a ChatGPT script. There are so many incorrect factual statements in this video just in the first 30mins.
I actually really liked GTA2 back in the day
Still remember that first time playing GTA Vice City right after high school. 18 and going what in the hell is this! The soundtrack, stories, missions, been hooked ever since
we highly acknowledge the effort you put in this video.
its not the usual click-baity view-catcher content, we often see on this plattform.
The Bertelsmann CEO later went to jail for embezzlement and is overall an idiot.
The ESRB is NOT "the government." It's a self-imposed industry rating board. It's literally the private gaming companies themselves rating their own industry, a result of moral panic about video games and other media in the 90s. At least as far as the ESRBs actions within the gaming industry. Essentially they had to self-regulate, or the govt was gonna come down hard. And they aren't some ultimate deciders of whether a game is allowed to be sold, definitely not these days. Anyone could release an unrated game if they wanted to. It varies by country but there's ZERO requirement that your game HAS to get passed by the ESRB.
Makes me wonder how much other info was wrong lol.
I used to play the 1st gta so hard when i was 12 im 38 now, trippy to see how far it came
GTA 6 will be the biggest game in history 💯
Not without Dan
That’s what I’m worried about with 6. No Dan, but at the same time rockstar has done amazing each time. So I shouldn’t be concerned, but part of me still is.
It's gonna be amazing. But not what it could be. Not the full potential with the Housers. Plus the online mode will overshadow it.
This man makes real interesting video’s it’s facts, focused and great story telling!
I don’t use social media and now days I only go to RUclips for learning😂 But it’s nice to see someone actully make content I’m impressed with even if it’s not a topic I care about. u can still focus and watch it like a documentary
And it’s so well made with how he choses to react the depth of the research so on!
This is my first comment ever but have to give creed to this channel
They must have had big connections to hire that many big named actors to be in GTA III. I always wonder how the hell they did that? Where the hell did they get that kind of money to pay all of them? Even with the success of the past games before GTA III, they either had to literally rob a bank or sell drugs on the side!
A heart warming homage of a series, very well documented, with a host both knowledgeable and a very talented communicator, and a very hard worked editing, always pays back. Like GTA, you only strive for the best. Very pleased to have found this channel.
I don't know if I'm imagining this, but I remember when I got GTA3 it had no cover art and it was all black and only the text logo "Gant Theft Auto III." I didn't see ad's or anything about it. It was all word of mouth from school. "you got to play this game man, its called Grand Theft Auto." no context or anything. Just said it was the best game he ever played. Told my mom to get it for me and the way it went down, was the best way anyone could have experienced it. It was Amazing!
I just wanted to say, I have watched a ton of videos about the history of Rockstar Games, but this was the best, the most thorough, and most entertaining one by far. Excellent work!
Just a quick edit for you, Freddie Starr was a well known comedian, the hamster story was to sell tickets for his stand up shows. He did used to sing the odd Elvis song though but would do them as a skit.
10/10 for the research, production, and pacing! Keep it up John!
Not quite. Get carter is set in Newcastle not London. And it’s the ZX spectrum not ZK. Freddie star was a comedian not a singer. I’m not saying he used it but these mistakes are typical of chat gpt. it’s a great video tho
@@j0nnyism Good catch. I feel like a lot of people dont realize how many content creators nowadays use chatgpt to write for them...
This is a well researched and comprehensive doc. Please consider taking a breather once in a while and let the story breathe - the narration never paused.
As someone who has seen this company, played the first GTA before it was popular, this company dose not drop a GTA with it being ready for public consumption. It is why it is always out selling it's competitors. No other company but Nintendo has been able to do this with a single IP
One of the best long-form videos I have ever seen on RUclips.
I just knew Scarface was a huge influence on GTA Vice City. Thanks for confirming it.
It’s the Z*X* Spectrum btw. Also saying people didn’t build real careers around gaming in 1988, after the market had already had TWO video game crashes by that point… Tons of people had built careers off of video games by 1988 man, the NES was 3 years old ffs. Too much misinformation for me to trust anything else you have to say. If you can’t get those basic and well known details right, how can one trust the more obscure details?
1:04:55 GTA RP is NOT powered by shark cards. these two things have NOTHING to do with each other. FiveM is a community project. makes me wonder about all the other info (but overall looks good).
GTA RP aka fivem aka cfx was bought by Rockstar in 2023 to probably be implemented in GTA 6.
It's all crap chatgpt script. I caught a lot of bad info in the first 30mins.
finally smth worthy to watch, keep making bro, i love your content
7:27 ZK? It's ZX Spectrum ...
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@@cynthiaandoh9575 More like potato tomato 🙃
Just one of quite a few sloppy mistakes in this video
lol, I saw "Diego Angel" and immediately went "Ain't that the company who used to make Midtown Madness?"... Dear Mr. Diego Angel, thank you for all the great memories I had as a child, when my parents used to block me from playing GTA, xD
Not going to lie though, I LOVED this documentation!
This is great, but with how fleshed out some aspects were; the PSP basically never happening and Chinatown Wars being "It wasn't too popular so don't worry about it" is a massive slap to the face with the flow and thoroughness of everything else.
I’m so excited to watch this one. You deserve all your success John
This is an amazing doc. So underrated.
Completely watched the full video
Great to have good content back on this channel
Keep it up🎉🎉
GTA2 was such an awesome game.
Exceptional documentary. Rockstar definitely had an impactful part of my early life. When GTA3 released, it was so mesmerizing and intriguing to me, I played it at 5-20fps avg on a business gateway computer. I finished the game later on with a gaming pc.
Thanks for the history lesson and I’m sure for time sake you didn’t expand on the RP aspect of GTA online but I think it deserves a little more than a foot note. GTA RP is the reason for the intake in sales when it was starting to decline in 2020. With RP fans and none fans alike now enjoy a second life outside of their normal existence, RP has made a whole new aspect time GTA that was once thought about in the original concept for gta. You get to become a police officer! A Medic. A nurse. A mechanic. And the list goes on! Perhaps if you haven’t already, do a video and deep dive into the world of RP!?
Great analysis and comprehensive doc! Not even a gamer but always loved the edginess and boundary pushing Rockstar has accomplished with GTA
Bro I listened to this on Spotify. Now there’s a video for it. Yess!
Good video but u could try slowing down the amount of words you're tryna push per second. Just a suggestion 👍
I am from Dundee and it makes me so proud that I live in the city that GTA was born in, I played GTA and Lemmings to death when I was younger, I see the old DMA studio daily and it makes me smile to think the greatest franchise of all time started here.
This video is so well made. Loved it!
You have great storytelling ability. I played this while i was working out at home, and it was really easy to follow - even if i didnt watch video, just listened to audio. Your skill would greatly translate to podcast or some sort of spotify audio just like this. Great work
My favorite youtuber with my favorite game! Love it already :))
Great movie! Brings many memories. Born 92. It was cool to see how these titles grew behind the curtain and how these companies grew. Great job!!
Great video. I clicked with a "I probably know this, but I'll watch/listen anyway" attitude. Glad I clicked because I was wrong and there was a LOT I didn't know.
Man, this is a terrific video. The story was told so well. Almost done and i don't want it to end.
You have such a good channel. Straight gold John, keep it up
Fun fact: When you own an Arcade on GTA Online, one of the Arcade games you can buy for it is Race and Chase.
Unbelievably thoroughly done. Super good. Awesome polo BTW, drop a link to it if possible
not really
OMG we're in for a treat! But more than 1h; i'll keep it in my "watch later" list. This will gain views in the long run! Cheers!
It’s rare I watch an entire hour RUclips video and listen to every word
Not a bad documentary but you also got so much wrong
like what?
Like?
Great video! The only thing I expected to hear, but didn’t, was Microsoft passing on the exclusive rights to GTA 3 for the Xbox.
Theres no way you can make money from atari games rent an office and pay a full team to become rich 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 cencor ship american spelling shit whilst you have guns...
John Coogan, Your content is so clean!
one of the guys who wrote the dialog for the warriors game slept on my couch, we would lan party every day and play a shitload of counterstrike
DJ Pooh was brought on to help write the story of San Andreas. By this point they had help. Which paid off big time. IV also had help I believe. V for sure. Their team has grown beyond the brothers. Well, Dan leaving was definitely a huge loss and avoidable imo. But not really. Money was always gonna triumph.
Impressive work 👏👏 covering all those interwoven events rich with details and still presented in such a comprehensive manner ain't an easy feat. Keep it up 🤗
Great overview. Just one correction-the ESRB isn't a government agency. It's a voluntary non-profit organization and system that game developers and publishers choose to take part in. It's sort of like the MPAA for movies. It was established in 1994 as a response to congressional hearings in the US that questioned the violence in games like Mortal Kombat, Nighttrap, and DOOM. While it is completely voluntary most publishers in the US, Canada, and Mexico submit their games to its ratings process. It's considered one of the most reliable self-regulatory non-profit orgs by the USA's Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Just one correction? This chatgpt slop was filled with bs.
Do you think TTWO is a good buy right now at $155?
Coogan never misses, what a rabbit hole.
I think part of the franchise success on the 5 is: children who played and couldn't afford the game now can and will since they're adults.
as for mobile: it's a competitive market .. they kinda will have to release a GTA for mobile with all the S+ tier game stats and a gatcha mechanics if they want to compete now, ofc being playable on phones, consoles and pc is a must. Gatcha with realistic graphics are possible on phones, it's kinda like what they already have but free to download
This is very well made! I’ve watched a ton of these videos and I learned a lot from watching this. Very well made mate!
i am old, just a few years younger than the boys who made the first GTA game "Race & Chace" and i have played all of their games even bought GTA: London. and i still remember then GTA III launched and how we installed a MOD so we could play multiplayer. but it was little more than 1 second out of sync. the netcode from the mod was not good. but still super fun. cuz that what we all talked about in GTA III that we wanted multiplayer then we played PC games in my parents basement, the old school LAN Party´s. But i can say, sense GTA III i play the GTA Games for the story, i want to know and experience the story, same with Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, i love the stories and the GTA Radio listening to the crazy radio talk and radio talkshows. in Vice City i did put in MP3 files in a radio folder that did become a separate radio channel. The GTA Online stuff i dont care about, not at all. i just want to play the storyline but i never rush the story line, i always wander off on my own quests and do side quests. the story is always so good i dont want to spoil the story by rushing it through. and the last GTA-V was really cool then you could play more than one character!
Amazing storytelling. I was engaged through the entire video, a rare thing these days!
46:35 that’s crazy I remember being a kid and going to the gym and trying to get my character buff 😂😂😂
This is great, John. Must have taken you forever to put this together. Thanks!
Great video! I’m really impressed you included sign language for deaf viewers
So incredibly inspiring. Both the Houser brothers and Benzies and everyone else who was at the core of Rockstar during those years. I wonder if the opportunity to create similar magic is still there at this moment in time, because Idk about how many others, but I'm sure as fuck inspired to take on similar creative endeavours, so a video like this is highly appreciated.
John Coogan, man thanks for researching and telling the story in such an amazing way!
I'm always here for John Coogan marathon uploads.. Epic stuff
im not even mad they figured out monetization by making a solid base game and adding multiplayer.... it'll only become an issue when they switch priorities
They did prioritize singleplayer for rdr2 instead of milking it in Online mode -> focusing on GTA 6
Such a great video with amazing quality. I hope it reaches a wider audience!
For people that've been following R* carefully like myself - the company has a lot to prove with GTA 6. IV was my favorite GTA after San Andreas (GTA 2 was my first PS1 game in 1999) and really every title they've been a part of has a special place in my heart. 6 will be the first big title without Dan, Lazlow, Leslie Benzies, and a few other big names in the company. Even RDR2 still involved all those creatives and it was also pretty much done with development when the stories about R* workplace culture helped spur the gaming industry to try and balance the crunch culture. So they're missing key people including script writers, the radio creative director, a lead programmer, etc. They have to appease both militant political ideologies and sensibilities, come up with an online game loop that at least somewhat bucks the standard fare of GTA 5s online to keep long-term interest, write the 1st compelling female lead in the largest franchise in gaming history... This is a huge task and it's understandable why it has taken so much time. The game will not live up to everyone's hype, but will it be successful enough creatively to keep people's faith in the series?
Great video John! Amazing storytelling. I learned so much about R* and T2.
Big amount of research went into this video for sure! Thanks!
Massive video! I watched the whole thing. Looking forward to more videos like this
one hour, ten minutes and four seconds, okay let me watch quality content.
You should change the title to most profitable franchise ever to exist
Everything about this video is fantastic! Extremely professional and well done all around. I watch a lot of youtube and this is top tier content delivery.
I wish NFL 2K would come back. You should do a video on what EA did to keep the NFL license.
They paid billions of dollars for it.