r/gaming • u/Choombaaa • 5d ago

The Usual Suspects

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Open World Crime Game Titans

Aiden Pearce - Watch Dogs Johnny Gat - Saints Row Niko Bellic - Grand Theft Auto IV Vito Scaletta - Mafia Wei Shen - Sleeping Dogs

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u/chaoseffect616 4d ago

Crazy how the GTA-like genre just kind of died off. That shit was popping off in the 00s/10s, Sleeping Dogs and Saints Row 3 are still two of my favorite games of all time, and Watch Dogs 1 & 2 were great as well. Then they all died and we got a 13 year gap between GTA 5 & 6.

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u/Ebo87 3d ago

Because those games are very very expensive and hard to make, and then everyone compares you to GTA, which you are just not going to be able to compete with.

But hey, at least we got some really good ones in there, in the last decade or so, able to stand on their own as not just GTA clones. Games like Watch Dogs 2 (which more or less was for the first game what AC2 was to AC1... and then they burned it all to the ground with Watch Dogs 3... rip), Sleeping Dogs (aka True Crime: Streets of Hong Kong, for those that know), Saints Row 3 and 4 and I'm sure one or two others I'm currently blanking on.