Plenty of games let you play as criminals who run around stealing and killing indiscriminately...

EASY

Are you ok?

From San Andreas onwards they started writing the protagonists as complicated individuals in direct contrast to the mindless carnage the player will inevitably have them do.

That's why Tommy is the best protagonist, he's the one character that was given an actual personality, but it was simply "I'm an immoral cunt" with zero attempts to make him seem complex.

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Can we all agree that Toni Cipriani is the shittiest protagonist in the whole series. He's so fucking bland and the map to GTA 3 is the worse in the series.

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or alternatively

lol ship station same thing what are u some kinda autist?

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CJ and Niko were the only good "complex" characters minus Niko's iwannastopwaahh:'( because CJ saw more of the world and more opportunities in life playing the smarter nigger and Niko saw some shit, and grew cynical and disillusioned.