Is calling this the best GTA just a Yea Forums meme or did the series actually peak here?

Is calling this the best GTA just a Yea Forums meme or did the series actually peak here?

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>did the series actually peak here?
It did. Last time R* put some love and heart in their work was RDR1.

The story was kino but the game was boring af (apart from a few missions)

Pic related is the true peak of the franchise. Fun missions and a good story. I have no idea why gta v is so bad, I was expecting it to be like tbogt.

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The game was really criticised for cutting a lot of content from San Andreas
Solid entry but the best?
No ,its probably the most controversial of the franchise tho.

Your favorite GTA is dependent on if you played it as a kid. It was many zoomers' first GTA game, so of course they're going to fondly look back on it.

It had incredibly fun physics that you could spend hours fucking around with. Beyond that it was just as boring as every other GTA game. Wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle, etc.

It had a lot of great stuff in it but overall it has aged poorly and was a step back from SA in many ways. It doesn't deserve the title of "best gta game" but it's far from the worst. It's just kinda bland looking back on it.

The game was ugly as hell. I mean yeah it's a gloomy dirty city, but holy shit I can only handle so much grey, brown, and tan.
Still the driving and police shootouts are much better in IV than in V. The police in V are basically terminators who almost never miss. I don't find the driving as fun either. I hope Rockstar takes the driving and police to a happy medium of IV and V.

>it has aged poorly
Nah it's aged the best considering it still has the best controls in the series, the characters aren't ripped straight out of movies and it has two dlcs to expand on the world.

In hindsight 4 is more or less a prototype for the Housers actual passion project, the Redemption series.

I mean, aside from being able to drive cars, it's literally not a GTA, the story is serious, the characters fate is dramatic and the ending is wrist cutting depressing either way, neither the spin offs nor V followed that trend, so I guess they did their serious writing attempt with 4 first before developing it further with RDR 1 and 2.