yeah, gta1 blew my mind with the open world sandbox and 2 made it better with competing factions. it was amazing to me that the games just threw you in the middle of a map and said "go nuts"...

then i played 3 where this fucking dickhead basically grabs you by the ear and forces you to go here, take that, listen to this, go there ... and i was like "fuck this" and never touched a GTA again. i have like an hour of gameplay in 3d gtas.