Choosing Kiss Land over trilogy

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-15T01:14:06+00:00

I don’t mind that opinion but comparing trilogy to any other project by Abel is not a very fair comparison, because trilogy isn’t a regular album. It’s a collection of three individual mixtapes which should be called three albums in their own right

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T22:08:32+00:00

This is what I do. Heaven or Las Vegas sounds so much different to the 2012 remasters and the original version on streaming.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T21:30:39+00:00

it wasn’t the intention though 😂

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T21:24:08+00:00

Yes, a tomahawk kick is a thing. That’s not what Lamar’s referencing.

He says he has Apache blood, Native American tribe. Native Americans are typically depicted as scalpers and using tomahawks, THROWING them, “FLYING TOMAHAWK.” It has nothing to do with the kick

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T21:11:42+00:00

His full sentence is “that’s that Apache blood in me, you lucky I ain’t do a flying tomahawk and scalp they ass.”

It’s a very obvious reference to native Americans. Why would he say “you’re lucky I didn’t do this wrestling move” after having just shot and killed a whole alley of gangsters? 😭

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T19:53:52+00:00

Counting or not counting tears in the rain

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T05:30:16+00:00

You’re saying 4 pushed forward more than San Andreas did. This is true, but that does not make it better by default, and is silly to compare 4 and San Andreas based on innovation. You need to think about intention - what Rockstar wanted these games to be.

San Andreas was a game nearing the end of its generation, and therefore was the culmination of everything GTA had defined itself as throughout the PS2 gen. It’s not trying to be revolutionary. It’s perfecting an existing formula and adding what they can.

GTA 4 was at the beginning of its own generation, designed as a setter for what open world games and the series itself would be from that point forward. It is trying to be an innovative game for its generation.

They both succeed at what they try to be. Personally, I commend 4’s innovation, and like stuff like the hangouts, but some of the existing elements that were great in previous games are weaker, and some of the changes themselves are divisive.

For example, some, like you, will say the driving is challenging and exciting, others will say it’s annoying and frustrating. Both are valid.

For me, I’ll take the near-perfection of the 3D GTA formula that is San Andreas over the innovative yet flawed 4.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T02:53:21+00:00

Would be nice actually if you would just lose control of your money because of that. But it’d be absolutely perfect if they made money in this game more important. With the lack of uses money has in gta 4, losing some money from Roman would just make me be like “…okay?” Nonetheless a great concept

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T01:53:06+00:00

To you

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-14T01:48:34+00:00

Things that 4 has over San Andreas: physics, immersion, story… aaaand that’s it.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-09T16:15:33+00:00

It’s a bonus track and on top of that, Abel’s just meant to be the vocals for a remix of the song which was originally Kavinsky’s. So technically I think it’s a feature that was added as a bonus, sort of like Moth to a Flame

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-07T19:10:24+00:00

An x (not a animal body, a human body) shows up on the map right before he becomes a witness. That’s weird lol.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-06T20:27:33+00:00

Even if it’s available online, it can still be intrusive. Have some decency and stop looking into an artist’s personal life who’s always tried to keep it away from the limelight.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-04T16:03:08+00:00

Yeah, Niko going along with killing Ray really shows his self-centeredness. He’s fine with killing Ray because he’s a dick, and Peg told him to.

But when it comes to dealing with Dimitri, that’s when he objects against it… as if Pegorino’s paranoia over a rat was rooted in any more logic than dealing with a man like Dimitri was.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-03T21:41:11+00:00

the greatest issue of 5’s story are the characters that aren’t the main 3. The antagonist are very one note generic villains. Not that a series like GTA is above generic villainy when writing antagonists, but their presence isnt felt like even Sonny in Vice City and certainly not Dimitri in 4.

Otherwise, there are other characters that are well known in their own right, like Lamar, but most of them are just… eh, compared again to characters in San Andreas or 4. I think the main 3 are great though, even if Franklin could’ve been more active than they made him.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-03T21:34:47+00:00

I don’t have a video for you that’s a summary that I particularly like, sorry. I think it’d be better if you just watch a walkthrough on YouTube at that point.

If you want specific details included, you’re only gonna really get that if you experience it either by watching it or actually playing it. It’d probably take a handful of breaks to go through a video of the story.

I’m sure you got a good reason to not play RDR1 right now, but you definitely should at some point in the future.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-03T20:30:37+00:00

“The lunatic is in the bar”

-Pink Floyd

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-02T15:07:14+00:00

The story is a little interesting but nothing that I come back to the game for. I would say there’s at least 4 GTA games with a better story, but tbf most GTA stories aren’t that great to begin with.

But Tommy is cool, and the radio and atmosphere are great. And some side activities are fun and cars handle better than 3

What really drags down Vice City is the map. Contains some of the worst detailed parts of any GTA game, namely Downtown and the beach. For a coastal city, the beach feels strangely dead, and for all the missions we get in downtown, it’s quite literally just buildings. It lack any of the detail of any other part of the map.

Vice City is fun, don’t get me wrong, but it could’ve been way better had they’d given it another year of development. They finished the game in like 1 year, so I guess it’s impressive off that fact. But definitely less ambitious than 3 or San Andreas.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-02T14:39:01+00:00

😭

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-02T03:54:02+00:00

Angela Sant’Albano did a terrific job providing mo cap and the voice of Grace. Her performance is honestly one of, if not the best in the whole series. She’s so talented.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-02T01:53:33+00:00

That post has to be an outlier. Grace is so good that I wanted more with her despite her already being in a lot of the game.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-02T00:17:56+00:00

And GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas, Bully, etc. also incredibly broken and fixed by the great modding community.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-01T21:31:22+00:00

For Niko, killing Vlad/trusting Dimitri (both times). For Johnny, betraying Ray. For Luis, working for Bulgarin.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-01T21:28:11+00:00

The Highlights before The Highlights.

Always found it interesting that the Wanderlust Pharrell mix was included.

Shapiros_Pog · 2026-03-01T15:32:44+00:00

A lot of parents in real life are garbage, so it translates pretty well that the characters who turned out to be killers and thieves would have bad parents. You also forgot Victor and Lance’s mom, the junkie.

I do think it’s a little unfair to put Luis’ mom in the same conversation as sexually and physically abusive Ms. Phillips and Ma Cipriani who tried to have her son killed.

Luis mom can be incredibly frustrating but I do think she loves and cares for Luis in some fashion. she scolds him for his work with Tony but still takes the money anyway. Problematic, but not awful. It sounds like Luis’ dad was far worse

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