• Agent Karyo@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      Even if avoid discussion about subjective versus objective, there is also context.

      Ray Liotta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino did a great job.

      The soundtrack/score (remember the intro scene) was also very good and has only gotten better with age.

      The film is also very stylish.

      That covered for the writing, which is its own thing.

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        4 days ago

        It had an all star cast who could make any dialogue sound Oscar worthy. The writing in all GTA games have been awful. GTA V is the worst.

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        4 days ago

        The main thing I remember from Vice City was the excellent sound track.

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      Eh, it mostly just riffed on popular crime movies and TV, especially Scarface. San Andreas was funny, but it wasn’t until GTA4 that I’d say the writing was actually good.

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        GTA2 has under-rated world-building (there is not much writing), it was humourous in many ways, but also subtly dark and dystopian in a way that I don’t think we’ll ever see in GTA again.

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          2 days ago

          PTSD from all thugs harassing me every 15 minutes “hey man, why are you not calling me anymore?”