These missions are 'Chinese Takeout' and 'Sexy Time' for TBoGT, and 'Angels in America' and 'It's War' for TLAD. So we get a chance to acquaint ourselves with each game's cast of larger-than-life characters.
In any case, to get a good taste of what the golden age of Grand Theft Auto used to feel like, we thought it proper to play two of each game's early-stage missions. Compared to how things work today, it really makes you think about how much things have changed. But trust us, dealing with a slightly clunky PC user interface is well worth taking a deep dive into what top-quality, triple-A open world video games used to play like.
It might be a little jarring transitioning back to playing Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned (TLAD) and Grand Theft Auto: and the Ballad of Gay Tony (TBoGT) if you've spent the last decade instinctively used to the twitchier, more manically-paced successor game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V.