What do you think of GTA missions?

i mean they are fairly basic missions
and there's not really many different ways to do most of them

I play the games but i've never been the biggest fan

i generally like the games more for the free roam
and i find the most fun part running up your wanted level and seeing how long you survive
or just seeing what you can stockpile when starting with nothing against the cops

What? Most of them CAN be completed with many different combination. I know I had fun with the variety.
But, yeah, I spend more time doing side-missions and exploring.

When I'm bored, I make a GTA Online ripoff and make all of the peds go crazy with weapons and traffic and six stars blazing. Great fun.

when you say many different combinations do you mean choice of gun
or just the route you take outside of that i don't feel the variety

Choice of guns? Dude, I use the same weapons all of the time: In missions where you have to kill, you aren't limited by gunfire. I always try to find the cooler ways to finish people off. It's not like all of them are even killing, anyway.

Choice of route only matters if you're timed. In which, I map-whore.

na thats what i mean though the better missions you don't have much choice and a lot of guns make the others redundant

and a lot of missions for the first section of every game are drop off things in different places

admittedly i haven't played GTA4 that much i'm still on the first island

Yeah, most of the missions are pretty standard stuff. Innovative gameplay hasn't ever really been the hallmark of GTA games, aside from the GTA and GTAIII, since they were sort of the first of their kind, or at least the first ones to do it as good as they did. But they still turn out really fun. Some of the missions in GTA4 were very fun and at the same time very monotonous if you think about it. Thinking about my favourite ones, they're nearly all "Go into this building, kill everyone on your way out" type missions, but I still love 'em.

thats probably the reason i loved vice city so much cause it had the asset missions
i really liked that idea and it wasn't done in the other GTAs
i think what little could be construed as that in SA were actual story missions
which defeated the purpose of it for me

the original GTA had some ingenious missions and had the rare incidence of you being able to end missions in more then one way (not that i ever figured any out apart from the glaringly obvoius one at the beginning of the game)