Grand Theft Auto is the game that does its best to mimic real life. Anyone who’s ever gotten behind the wheel of a car realizes that a lot can be learned from a few hundred hours playing GTA. While the traffic laws are a bit more strictly enforced by police, the desire to run red lights and weave through oncoming traffic is palpable. Sometimes the game feels so similar to real life that we forget who we are and turn into legendary criminals.
The freedom experienced while playing video games is great and all, but the closer that freedom is to reality, the more devious we feel. To put it in a simple way, there are some people who play GTA and The Sims one way, and then there is the mayhem way. How wonderful it can be to escape from real life by playing a game closely related to real life but under your direct supervision. It makes that bad day you had turn into a much worse week for the NPCs.
These comics should help you remember some of the moments of GTA that have captured your attention in a way that seems familiar. They represent ideas that gamers have had and felt the need to place into some hilarious panels. Even when games like GTA get too real, there are people out there simply watching with amazement at how they wish they could get in on the insane action these video games offer.
24 Misunderstood Morning Commute
The best part about the increasing technology of cell phones is that everyone has become a gamer in one way or another. For the people who used to carry around their Game Boy or PSP, you know what we’re talking about. Some people are a bit concerned with their image in public. Have you met anyone like this? They’re a bit too vain or proud to be caught playing video games in public. We don’t fully understand why people would be ashamed of this, honestly; you see women out there reading Fifty Shades of Grey all the time, and they don’t seem to care who sees them or what they think. Cell phones easily mask this shame and action.
Same with tablets. Though no one should be ashamed of playing video games, it’s still seen as childish by the naysayers. However, no one bats an eye at a person reading a novel at the bus stop, yet a handheld game is considered immature. Anyone with a modern cell phone can pretend to be texting someone while getting their grind on in public. Just be careful not to let your thoughts come aloud like in this comic.
Comic by Ctrl+Alt+Del.
23 Not Rated By The ESRB
There are many games out in the world that have the same level of chaos as a Grand Theft Auto game. But of those games, there are few that allow a player to be an innocent bystander of the chaos. In the newest game of the series, a player can enter passive mode and simply watch all the mayhem unfold before them. And it looks exactly like this picture here.
Everything depicted in the panel above is accessible by the normal parameters of the gameplay. A man with a bazooka can face off against a fleet of helicopter flying friends as a sniper stands atop a tank in the middle of the city. It’s the glory of an idea of reality that is the Grand Theft Auto world. Just don’t try any of it at home in the real world. Grand Theft Auto is unlike many other sandbox games out there because there really doesn’t seem to be much of a limit to what you can do in it. It’s pretty incredible the kind of scenarios that people seem to come up with. Whether or not your gaming experience looks like this photo, we know that you had fun playing the game.
22 The Roughest Crew
It’s very possible that the men combined in this photo are responsible for more NPC eliminations than any other group of characters in any game ever. Seriously, think about it for a minute. Of all the gamers who play GTA, they must be responsible for quadrillions of dollars in damages for their normal casual gameplay. Grand Theft Auto is weird like that, where you can do all sorts of damage, but if nobody catches you doing it, it doesn’t seem to matter. Everyone knows that GTA is famous for its random acts of aggression as a past time while playing the game.
Half of the people who played it never bothered to finish, especially when there were cheat codes involved. Point is, this group of characters are responsible for the greatest gaming experiences of all time for many of us. But it’s obvious we’re long overdue for a female protagonist. Actually looking forward to it. We have to hope that in a future installment (maybe even the next one?) we’ll actually get a playable female character. Grand Theft Auto could use some strong female characters. The ones that we’ve seen so far are okay, but leave something to be desired.
21 GTA: Emily Dickinson
It seems like no matter what happens anywhere in the world, if something akin to a vehicle is stolen, GTA will be a reference. It’s one of those games that has such a simple name that people often forget it’s an actual criminal term. Grand theft auto is basically the crime of stealing a car of over $1000. But we’re basing that on the fact that grand theft is theft over a thousand, and auto is another word for car.
The Emily Dickinson Edition seems like something pretty sweet.
Double sweet if we get to use that sick scythe from the Grim Reaper. That weapon is consistently considered one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. Just think about all the awesome representations of the manifestation of demise in their respective creative universes. Never a weak fellow. While this joke might make a bit more sense to those who are familiar with both Grand Theft Auto and Emily Dickinson, even to those who aren’t, it’s something that’s pretty hilarious. We would definitely play this game if it ever got released, and we’re sure that a lot of you would as well! Make it happen, Rockstar.
20 Quality Family Time
Roman simply calls too many times. Everyone knows this and has gotten annoyed by it. It’s not really anyone’s fault, but the game really does know how to imitate how we try to ignore people in real life as well. They keep calling and when we finally do decide to answer, we’re super busy with our self-absorbed life. But when family comes calling, how can you really say no to them? We find it hard, but I guess if Roman was our cousin we’d do the same thing as Niko here.
This kind of stuff happens in another game we want to mention: Pokémon.
How often would you get called by trainers that you thwomped in battle throughout the game? Sometimes it’d be every ten minutes. The only reprieve from it was to turn the phone off. If you just fought a trainer, how have they even had time to go to the Pokémon Center and heal their little guys? Why do they want to battle someone who put them in their place? But in any video game where you get a cell phone, who has the time to go into the settings to turn it off? No one.
Comic by Dorkly.
19 Long Hair Don’t Care
We all wish we had magical control of our hair. To make it grow or shorten to the proper length, or to be styled in a way preferable to those we wish to impress with merely a thought. Hair is a very important way to express oneself, perhaps the most popular of attributes. It would actually be kind of fun to do something like this, as how many times have you gotten a haircut and regretted it? It’s so easy to cut hair just a little too short, and then you’re stuck sitting around with this sub-par haircut for way too long while you wait for it to grow again. It is, however, weird when you realize how disgusting hair becomes almost immediately after removed from the body.
This comic makes it seem like the idea of growing hair super fast to have a sweet new look is possible. We can hope that it’s possible in the future. Or maybe we can just hope that we will meet an alien race with this exact power, to control their hair, and they will teach us their ways. Who knew that Rockstar was so ahead of its time by merely having logic fails.
Comic by Arcade Rage.
18 The Deepest Of Pockets
When you think of all the items you’re able to carry in any video game, it sort of pales in comparison the carrying capabilities in GTA. Skyrim comes pretty close with all the thousands of spoons and candles and books you carry, but GTA has no limit. Skyrim gets annoying because every two seconds you pick up a flower or something and then you’re suddenly overencumbered and can’t move. Can this ever happen when anyone picks up a flower in real life? I’ve never seen anyone grab a daisy off the ground and then suddenly go, “Hey, I can’t move anymore!” and start wheezing. In GTA, you can carry every single gun and weapon, thousands of bullets, and millions of dollars in cash.
Not only can you carry all that stuff, you can swim with it too.
Maybe that’s why in previous games there was no ability to swim and that touching water would cause an instant bout of “wasted.” That would be a perfectly good explanation to all the gamers who’ve had that question in previous installments. But for every other video game that the super soldier or hero cannot swim has no excuse.
17 Peep Saves The Day
The reason this comic is in this article is that there has to be a large portion of us out there who’d love a crime-fighting bird that likes to cuddle after it catches criminals. And really, who blames them? Who wouldn’t want a cute, cuddly bird who can also stop crime? It’s useful, and also good to raise your spirits. Kind of like a therapy dog, but in bird form. An especially tough enemy such as Trevor would be quite the achievement for a police officer.
Though in game, he’s probably captured or ended hundreds of thousands of times.
This is one of those comics that is overly cute for no reason and doesn’t really depict the characters involved in their true light. Someone who’s never played GTA would read this and think that he Trevor character isn’t that bad and decide to get the game. Then when they play the main storyline they are traumatized at how he actually acts. It’d be pretty interesting to show someone this comic, actually, and then give them GTA for the first time. I wonder what they would do, and what they would expect.
Comic by Birdhism.
16 Mods Are Awesome
The best thing about mods is that you realize that somewhere else in the world, some other like-minded individual thought it’d be a lot of fun to play GTA as Iron Man too. Just like we did. Other people want to see crazy stuff happen and dominate a realistic world from their couches and keyboards. The great thing with mods is that if you can dream it, someone else probably has too, and it’s out there. You can usually find it with a quick search on your favorite search engine or through a mod database. It’s amazing, and it’s something everyone should experience at least once. It’s what makes video games the entertainment medium of the future. The younger generation loves it.
And don’t worry about video games being too intense.
Mods can fix that as well. It can make a violent game kid friendly and a kid-friendly game super violent. Just a few lines of code and you’re driving a mechanical t-rex as one of the Teletubbies. We’re not sure if that is a created mod yet, but it certainly should be. Actually, I’ve seen some pretty weird mods. I’m sure it exists.
Comic by ActionTrip.
15 Be Nice To Roman
There are people who love mini-game side quests in video games, and then there are people who hate them. There are also people, like me, who simply overlook them for the sheer amount of video games they own and just try to barely slip through the main story. Some mini games, like the ones that deal with cards, are very well thought out and do require some time and skill.
While others are simply gimmicks added to the game just for the quantity of content.
It’s hard to be playing GTA, riding around blowing things up and making money, to just stop to enjoy a leisurely game of bowling. Especially if you can’t start a brawl with the enemy team when you lose. There are too many rules in a classic sporting event for it to fit in the GTA world. GTA is synonymous with freedom. I guess there are some people out there who like the bowling game, just like there are some people out there who like to drive around GTA and obey all the traffic lights and rules of the road. We’re not that person, but someone out there is. We don’t judge.
Comic by Broken Teapot.
14 Just Like Scarface
Sometimes movies and video games have very similar plots and plot elements that you can’t help but think that inspiration for one came from the other. With GTA: Vice City and the film Scarface with Al Pacino, we have just that. And both projects are amazing in their respective mediums to the point where they are certainly considered classics. And yes, we do mean both; Grand Theft Auto is definitely a classic in its own right.
It’s got to be pretty simple for someone to mix and match the endings and plots in a scenario like this one. And we can’t really blame the guy, since he only has one eye and he’s talking to a guy who either has no eyes or is reading that book in braille. (No, I won’t believe that he’s wearing sunglasses, since it’s entirely unlikely that this artist suddenly decided to draw every one of these characters with one or no eyes.) Scarface and it’s Miami setting definitely made Vice City seem like a familiar location, and made us feel like we got to be Tony Montana himself. Too bad the Scarface video game was nothing like Grand Theft Auto.
Comic by Ready Soup Comic.
13 Contains Gamer Fun
It’s often pretty humorous when a video game character directly contradicts what many of us are doing in the actual game. For instance, in a game like Skyrim, you can be talking to a village person about how much they love their pig and cows, and then decide to steal them or end them. If the game doesn’t recognize the crime you’ve committed, it’s hilarious to watch the NPC’s realization unfold in front of you.
How could a character in a game filled with fighting and crime be expected to live a life away from violence and anti-social behavior? From the moment us gamers are able to get behind the wheel of a vehicle in GTA, we’re crashing through street signs and causing mayhem at literally every turn. All to try and see how many cops we can get to chase us. I guess it’s good, though, that gamers are doing this in GTA rather than in real life. Where else can you live out your weird fantasies of knocking over a streetlight with a car (and not totaling the car right away), or standing on top of a car while it’s driving at a top speed?
12 You A Busta
Cheat codes are sort of like modding a game in real time without having to go through all the software downloads and changes. The first game I ever used cheat codes for was Quake 2, and all I remember is having unlimited ammo and unlimited health.
In GTA, the same sort of thing can be done, but this time with a jetpack.
When we want to relax and not think about work or our real-life problems, we sit down to play GTA. And we might not have the time to go to Ammunation and buy all the guns and whatnot. So it’s easier to just input the code and get the party started. Whether or not you think we are bustas for putting in cheats is your own prerogative. We want to game. It’s to the point where a lot of people I talk to have the cheat codes for the earlier GTA games memorized, since we just used them so much. Those that didn’t have it totally memorized definitely kept a cheat sheet of codes somewhere close to their PlayStation, for easy access when extra help was needed. To be honest, we kind of miss those days.
11 You Fit The Description
This comic might hit home to many young black people in this country. Unfortunately, many of the YouTube videos out there show a person stopped by the police because they fit a description. That seems a bit unfair, but we also understand the police are just doing their jobs. Some of them, at least. But in GTA, the cops are all corrupt maniacs who should never have a gun or even a taser. This comic would be so much funnier if it didn’t sort of represent aspects of real life in a way.
But isn’t that what makes GTA so awesome? Its closeness to real life and lack of fantasy elements can reach a broader audience of people who wish deep down that they could be criminals. Even if they get blamed for something they didn’t do, it’s still a good time. At least in Grand Theft Auto, unlike in real life, there aren’t really too many consequences for either the person caught or the cops. You can always just respawn or pay your way out, and get back to what you were doing. Maybe it’s a good thing that you can’t do that in real life, though.
Comic by GameGags.
10 Objects In Reality Closer Then They Appear
If a person only has driving experience from GTA to go on before they hit the road in real life, then look out. Can you imagine a self-absorbed parent who sits their teenager in front of the PS4 and tells them to play GTA to get ready for the driver’s test? That they’re so busy the parent thinks that since kids love video games and driving is a valuable skill, why not include the most popular driving game into their knowledge center. One thing about GTA driving is that it could get you out of a dangerous situation.
Say a tractor-trailer has lost control of the vehicle and the only place for you to escape is a sidewalk with a few people walking on it, you may know how to navigate that chaos due to GTA. No one ever truly thought that GTA could save lives, but it does in more ways than one, especially when you consider driving skills. Though we still believe that nobody should ever say that they’re a driver based on Grand Theft Auto. Just because you’ve played a game doesn’t mean you have the real-life skills too.
9 Santa Claus Is Coming To San Andreas
Face it. If you were playing in GTA and you saw Santa flying around with a few reindeer, you’d immediately need to pursue him and experience that ride. When flying was introduced to GTA the game became something truly amazing. Now mix that with being able to deliver presents all over the world as some sort of ice king demigod like Santa Claus.
It’s no wonder GTA is considered one of the best games around.
Even if you were in real life and saw Santa, you’d think that it was some sort of joke. But once you realized that it’s not, your childhood mind would force you into commandeering the vessel and getting the truth. We’d all want to bring Santa to our parents’ doorstep and simply just ask for the lies to end. Is he real or not? It would be ridiculous (and also fun) to see a child hijack Santa’s sleigh for themselves and drive away. They’d probably also keep all the presents for themselves, which is something that is both selfish and also intriguing. If we could have all of Santa’s presents, maybe we would take over his sleigh too.
8 Grand Theft Auto Shrugged
Ayn Rand is one of those authors that made all sorts of waves with her novels. They’re pretty popular and for their time they were very controversial. Love her or hate her, you’ve probably heard of her books and have some kind of relationship with them, good or bad. Anyways, she’s not on everyone’s good side. Sort of like when GTA 3 came out and there were some strange actions a player could commit with certain kinds of professionals.
So maybe Ayn Rand would fit well in this genre. And not to mention that’d be a pretty sweet game title. Rand Theft Auto. It rolls right off the tongue as if it was meant to be. We’d finally get a female protagonist in the GTA games and she’d have a pretty interesting backstory and moral compass. When GTA finally becomes a world superpower with plenty of money to spend, I think we can suspect a game like this to be released. At the very least, I’m sure that we can get a mod for something like this. Like I said before, the modding community is very creative, and this seems right up their alley.
7 Preparation For Real Life
Every single time we see a ramp in GTA, no matter what we’re doing or what mission we may be on, we have to take the risk. It’s sort of like when we were kids and used to ride bikes through the woods. You’d see a dirt mound or something on the trail and the physics in your mind would start to calculate. They’re just kind of there, and you know they must be going for something, so why not just hop it and try it? You’d pick up speed and get ready for some sick air.
The same applies for GTA. It also kind of applies to real-life driving as well, even though that has way more consequences and we don’t do it. You see a ramp and think that it’d be an awesome experience to just sail through the air and feel that moment of adrenaline as you free fall through gravity. Maybe this is something that you shouldn’t try in real life, though. There’s a pretty strong chance that things won’t turn out all that well if you try it. Life isn’t really like a GTA game.
6 Random GTA Reenactment
Any time you steal a vehicle in real life, you can blame the action on your unquenchable desire to play Grand Theft Auto all day every day. It’s one of those games that doesn’t get old. And if you play it enough, real life and Grand Theft Auto life may start to blend together in some crazy way. But most of the people you come in contact with will understand that you are merely just trying to slake your lust. The guy in the gray shirt definitely understands.
It almost seems like he’s a little upset that he didn’t think of the great idea to reenact Grand Theft Auto himself. After all, if you’re ever escaping the police in a car and you’re with a friend, the idea that it’s just like Grand Theft Auto should cross one or both of your minds at some point. Though we’re not sure that people will totally understand that if you tell them. “Hey, I’m sorry I ran my car into your house. I was just trying to make everything like Grand Theft Auto!” It probably won’t fly, unless you’re living in some alternate universe.
Comic by Shortminds.
5 The Arsenal Of It All
The thing about Master Chief is that he only needs 2 guns. Though it’s obvious that he would want to carry more, the reality is we just wish he could carry more ammo. You only need two guns in Halo anyway. The sniper and the pistol from the first game. We’re not talking about the pistol from the later games that was garbage. We want the original pistol in all its glory. When you’re good with the guns you do have, why would you need any more, unnecessary ones?
Still, it’d be nice to be able to carry as many weapons as a GTA character can in the games. They carry so much it almost seems like they have control over matter and atoms. Allowing the weapons to manifest in their hands merely the thought of holding it. We wish that video games would suck us into their realms so we could learn these secrets. Sort of like Wreck-It Ralph, except more crazy. I wonder if that’s the kind of thing anyone’s ever thought of before. It sounds a little bit crazy, but it’s definitely the kind of thing that I would actually do if given the chance.
