Did you replay the Definitive Edition? Because looking at this list, some of the missions when you have to go from point a to point b within a time limit are much easier because the gps now tells you the shortest way
Yeah noticed that too pretty sure they nerfed the difficulty in some of the missions, the driver, the shootist, even the zero rc missions were easy the cartel construction site was the most noticable tho they used to shred you in .2 secs
24:06 The drunk driving actually does attract police attention; you just have to be in the presence of an officer, which will then trigger a two-star wanted rating.
I have a lot of disagreements (in particular, I have Naval Engagement and Cop Land ranked much higher) but we both have Death Row ranked on top. Great video!
That mission where you had to impress the getaway driver is the bottom of my list. The rest of the game was fine back in the day, but that one was my roadblock. I only beat it because the police caused a pileup including myself and my opponent into an alleyway near the end. I just happened to get out of the alley for the AI could.
A fun fact about Back Alley Brawl is that you don't even need to "talk" to the Chef. You can just run him over with you car and the mission continues on no problem. Which is probably why the jury mission is in the game.
@daseafrate2025 Bearing in mind this list is just his opinion, not sure who you are to tell people they are blinded by nostalgia. Everyone has own preference. This is my 2nd favourite GTA, and there are only a few missions on it I hate. Others probably love them. Again it's all about opinions.
@@aliceflores812He’s not wrong,there’s a good chunk of missions that are poorly designed and give you little to no time to complete shit. It’s still my favorite gta game next to 3 and even that game has worst mission designs lol.
I was surprised that you gave the driver mission more credit! I never like how the cops ONLY go after YOU! I'm hoping your next gta project will be Vice City Stories but we all know your next video project is taped under the phone.
There's this weird "do the top floor first" tip for Demolition Man going around and I never understood why. If anything, it makes the mission harder. Killing the guys before picking up the bombs is mostly placebo as well. The only trick to this mission is being over the age of 10 and learning the flying controls
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ngl, last time, i did it on my own accord, and actually found it kind of easier like saving "best for last"
That's the tactic I use and I never fail at that mission. I just do it simply to get the longest journey out the way first. I'm not sure how so many people struggle with demolition man.
Fun fact: you don’t need the motorcycle to complete G-Spotlight, you can actually grab the Police Maverick from the nearby police station and fly through the checkpoints and it will still count…
This is the case with SOOO MANY missions 😂 Copland is exactly the same 😂 Something like that would be IMPOSSIBLE in modern mostly scripted games like RDR2
@@iusemyrealnamebefore except they're completely different. RC Heli mission is completely skill based, introduces you to a new mechanic and does it badly and at the wrong time. Damn train mission doesn't show you anything new, just uses previously shown stuff in a new context. Also one may argue that it requires luck along with skill.
Idk if many people know this but in Phnom Penh ’86 in the beginning of the mission as you are flying under the bridge if you look straight up you’ll see someone jump off the bridge and lands into the blade of the helicopter. I discovered it as a child but don’t know how widely known it is. Anyone else ever seen it?
I've played Vice City for all of these years and I'm just now noticing at 43:13, there's shadows in the cutscenes? For all characters? And they're like, good? This is crazy, how did I never see this before.
The fact that getaway driver is not at the bottom of the list kind of irks me. I failed that mission a good 60 times. The rest of these missions only took me 1 to 3 attempts
@@danielcaruso5155 it’s that he’s literally too fast and the cops always ram into me🤦🏽♂️ The only reason I passed is because he drove into the water and never spawned back in🤷🏽♂️
I entirely disagree with Naval Engagement, if you keep the M60 upto that point destroying the boats is easy, and its all about skills take cover crouching improve accuracy and also many things such as wall to hide behind, and 4 star wanted level in VC is nothing compared to the one you get at SAM in GTA 3 whose cop AI is way worse, Love juice is easy with bike if you know how to accelerate (rather than just going forwards), bike reaches 300 x speed, VC might have cool missions but missions are tasks assigned to you, but thing about SA is the outstanding stuff you can do in free roam (like parachuting from top of mount chiliad, also side missions like burglary completing which by stealing $10,000 worth good you get infinite stamina + you can have fun robbing gang houses seeing them sleep with weapons on sofas and they attackl when they see you and you can fight back), at least VCS lets you swim in GTA VC. Still I love GTA VC since 2004. My worst mission is shakedown smashing windows is lame with time limit, As for my favorite mission its Rub Out taking out Diaz and taking over his mansion epic stuff!
Rub Out is awesome. And I agree with you, regarding Naval Engagement (heck, my brothers are good enough to win with the Ruger). Also, I met the actor who voiced Diaz (Luis Guzman), he’s really sweet!
I have never met anyone that failed "Shakedown" even with its arbitrary timer. You could have mentioned one point and that being the mission start point being right outside Diaz's room right after the Rub Out mission ends. I've seen people forget to save and stuff because of that mission marker
i can agree with all the list and rankings besides two: bombs away being that high and bombs away scoring higher than phnom pehn 86 dodo dodo was a better structured mission and i can understand the novelty (and that you're a planefan), but the plane controls could very much have a sensitivity slider, since they are so touchy it makes the whole experience annoying. but what makes it miserable is definetly the camera taking away any ounce of precision. and it's coming from multiple playthroughs between the ps2 and the original pc version. overall great list, and the rc copter on demolition man isn't that hard as people use to tell it is (it is easy even on the mobile version with the atrocious touch controls), you just need to take time to feel the helis controls, since contrary to the planes they aren't as reliant on speed.
Gun Runner ranks near the bottom for me because of the infinitely respawning enemies and how easy it is to die. Also Death Row because you have drive all the way across the map with a time limit and you can get ambushed from every corner with the toughest enemies in the game AND once you reach Lance it turns into a fucking escort mission to make things worse and Lance seems determined to run into gunfire every chance he gets.
2:11 I love how you can go for a "special dance," in the Pole club, but then Tommy just stares morosely at the floor. Maybe he's reflecting on all the love he could have made while he was in prison during 'Nam. Nasty business
In a cosmic sort of way, it's hilarious that this was uploaded as I'm playing through Vice City again myself. #59 and 58 are always the missions I dread to do whenever I play this game #57: This one's always iffy for me. If I can manage to get to the 2 closest cop bribes then the mission is simple from there. It's really down to RNG #56: Having the outfit swap there in the mall makes this one a bit easier, even if its temporary. #55: It's slow, but you can cheese this by driving to the fire station and keep the truck behind the fence. Pedestrians can still interact with the truck if you're close enough while the cops cant open the door to arrest you. #54: This one's another case of RNG having a big case on how this mission pans out #53: Ah yes, the mission that houses a good chunk of Vice City's memed quotes. #52: I'll give the pizza guy this; his scooter skills are immaculate. He can go pretty fast if you alert him and aren't properly prepared for a chase or get bad luck with traffic. #51: There's the line! #50: You wouldn't label it as bad, but that won't stop me from hating this mission. #47: "Dumb Florida moron..." #45: "Call yourself a mang, mang?" #37: This one, just as the description put says, isn't as bad as I remembered it to be. Doesn't mean my feelings towards it have softened though, I honestly think it should have been lower. Also, rip the original pc players of this game, this mission was badly glitched in that version. #29: This mission was honestly like the midway point of a movie or a mid-season finale of a show. Kind of fitting that this is where it places. #25: As someone who has failed this mission before; yeah, you fail if the mob reaches and taxes all your properties. I only lost because I had absurdly bad luck with traffic and kept crashing. I've also noticed some weird quirk/glitch: if the mob takes the center bridge leading to the golf course, there's a possibility that they fall through the bridge or spawn in a manner that causes them to fall into the water which means I either advance to the next group that spawns or pass the mission completely. #19: Fun fact, the tank's message of protocol Delta Indie Echo is meant to spell out 'Die', obvious, but I found it funny. #18: Was not expecting this one to be so high up. #16: Not only is the paint job tacky, but the voice of the guy in it trying to be threatening adds to the cheese. Also, in a way, TBP cannot escape car combat. #14: You forgot the high quality quotes: "Sniper on the roof! They fight like girls!" and "FIGHT LIKE MEN WITH HUGE COJONES!!" #9 (Large): Would've figured this would be in the top 5 but I should know by now to expect the unexpected with these lists. #8: Phnom Penh is actually the capitol of Cambodia, which was used as a Vietnamese military base during the Vietnam War. #7: I can never forget this mission after watching the game freeze when DSP played this game and him going ballistic about it. #3: This is the type of mission where it's hard to truly master, but it's a fun challenge and once you get the grip of it, you'll feel good about it #2: Possibly one of the best combat segments in the game #1: Not sure how I feel about this taking the top spot, not because it's a bad choice, but because it makes me ask myself "do I like this mission more than this one or that other one. A list like this for GTA 3 and possibly the other games in the series feels likely, though this might just be because I'm playing through this game right now for my own channel, but I'm wondering if something like this would be possible for a series like Syphon Filter.
GTA V although I still like it , I felt it tried to please the fans of the 3D universe remember in GTA SA Cj breaks into a mlitary base and steal a jetpack? in GTA V you can steal a jet from the army or the RPG elements like Lung Capacity and Stamina also Trevor would have fit well in any 3D gta game
The mission cap the collector doesn't even need a lot of travelling. If you have the boatyard, the 1st group will go there, you go there and kill them. After that remaining groups will also drive to the boatyard, so you don't have to go anywhere, just wait at the boatyard. The mission waste the wife becomes much easier if you use comet. For the mission four iron, if you do it after treacherous swine, you should have chainsaw, which makes this mission way easier
Right now I’m playing VC for the first time in my life. It’s funny how some perceive its missions as scripted A->B straight lines, similar to GTA 5 cinematic approach, whereas oldschool GTA was more like sandboxes. Like why would you try so hard to go through the 5-star chase in Cop Land when you can simply jump in a non-police car and head straight to the Pay’n’Spray located nearby?
What i hate about the driver mission is 1. It's unfair that Hilary drives Sabre turbo while you have to drive Sentinel and 2. Hilarys drive route is programed to be that way, he can go right through cara and stuff which doesnt make sense
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I think a lot of us will agree that "Naval Engagement" design is crap, and became even worst if do as developers intended and take the Landstalker as our getaway vehicle, also "Keep Your Friends Close" takes place inside the Vercetti State as a reference to Scarface.
Appreciated the placement of 'Demolitian Man'. Timer and challenge always seemed pretty fair and solid, and the RC Helicopter controls are far off from being bad. Thing is, this mission somehow preceds a fame of being 'the hardest of the game' by having roadblocked some in the early game, pretty much like 'Wrong side of the tracks' in SA. My impression is that many just repeat whats being said over the internet instead of actually playing the game while dealing with the rush to deliver content... All and all, I think you made justice for a mission that's actually well designed and receives unwarrant hate.
cop land is easy i think shake down is the eziest mission if you use uzi the boat challege is harder than checkpoint charlie the job should be on two number its soo good
I failed Trojan Voodoo like 10 times before noticing the steps on my 11th attempt before failing again, I think this annoyance could of been avoided if the steps were shown in the establishing shots.
Funfact: in remaster/definitive edition (mobile) Love juice and Naval engagement are fixed so Cop land is by far the worst mission in the game. In mobile edition it is close to impossible to do it in the way intended.
Literally me in gta vice city stories, plus i noticed the mission timers move way too fast and the drive by is very op like they can dump a hole clip in seconds. The latter problems i fixed with slowing down the emulation CPU to 50% but the sensitivity i thought i was just bad.
Wait, what? I just noticed that and it says in the option it's recommended for certain modern controllers. I play it on Steam Deck, do I need to set it to 100% for sensitivity to work properly?
I have ps2 physical copy, original gamepad and so on. Yeah the aiming sucks badly. That being said on pc you can mod the game so that it brings some ps2 visual effects, models from xbox version, and full and proper gamepad support which makes a game much better. But regardless shooting is the worst part of Vice City. Especialy when you compare it to awesome vehicle handling. In terms of shooting mechanics i think the best games in this genre of gta like games, can be found in Scarface, Watchdogs (you feel like John Wick), Mafia 3 and GTA IV. GTA V would be great in that regard, but super small health pool kinda forces you to use boring cover system too much, at least when using gamepad. San Andreas at first feels not great, but when you dig deeper into it, even if the guns luck a bit of kick, it's actually decent, with a good layer of tactical approach to it. Driver 3 was aiming for a proper system but they left it half baked, with barbone animations that feel like placeholder instead of actual finished ones.
To be fair, there is a reason for that. PlayStation controllers from the PS1 to PS3 had sticks that had _square_ ranges of input; a stick in the upper-left corner for instance was considered simultaneously as far left and as far up as possible rather than somewhere in-between the two directions. So, they need to do _something_ to let you be able to hit the corners of the square with modern controllers, otherwise there could be problems where for instance you may not be able to run full-speed on diagonals. Though PPSSPP has a better solution for this problem; with a toggle it remaps the input to a square without touching overall sensitivity. I believe other older controllers did this too, but I'm unaware of any confirmed examples. I know there's actually a _newer_ controller that does this; Retro-Bit's Saturn Pro Controller has sticks with square ranges of input.
The Driver Hillary gets a fast car You get a slow one One mistake and the run is over Doesn't even drive you to the bank for the hiest and gets killed, making "The Driver" mission pointless.
The funny thing about Gang Wars, Am I Right is that you can just completely bypass the fight by going into an adjacent alley with a line of sight on your target and picking him off with a sniper rifle or AR, then driving away. You don't need to kill anyone else
8:50 oh so it's like that one mission in Sonic Adventure 2 where Rouge being cocky as fuck is the only reason the player is given a stricter time limit. Nice, always a good way to annoy the players with a needless detail.
One thing to note on the rankings, especially the lower end I feel, is that there is an optimal way to do them and a sub-optimal way. Likewise a mission like The Driver has no real way to do it differently than intended so I feel that something as difficult as that one should be lower while ones like Navel Engagement and Shakedown are a bit unjustly low due to them being done in a very "straight-forward", no pre planned way.
You should rank Grand Theft Auto IV mission. My top missions of that game are: 1. A Revengers Tragedy 2. Three Leaf Clover 3. Hostile Negotiation 4. Late Checkout 5. The Snow Storm
One thing i loved about thebolder games which you have highlighted here is how flexible some of them are to get ctrative with your solution. Why not bring a helicopter to a level with a tight time limit for example. The new games are more cinematic but restricted.
Finally someone who appreciates Bombs Away and Demolition Man a bit... i love those two a lot (probably mainly because i'm a fan of every machine that flies) and i've been listening about how they are awful for almost my whole life
I like how in 4 Iron it's also possible to sneak your way onto the golf cart with weapons if you manage to jump over the wall. Then you can use your weapon of choice to easily take out the target. Leaving room for creativity makes for a good mission.
Nah Loose Ends is honestly my favourite. Just the setup and the combat make it so fun and the help at the end is fun. I don’t find death row to be as good as u put it tho
I'm currently on my first playthrough, specifically the original PS2 version, and while I am struggling in a lot of areas, I'm still having fun here and there.
I have a few different opinions to yours. For me, it’s the 2 RC missions at the bottom, then The Driver. And at the top, Phnom Penh ‘86 is my favorite mission, followed by Keep Your Friends Close. I’d also list Poulet as my least favorite mission giver, and the Colonel as my favorite (Umberto is sadly only #2).
It's funny you ranked Love Juice and Cop Land back to back on the bottom, but you didn't cheese Cop Land with a helicopter like you did with Love Juice. It takes a few tries because sometimes the feds run up while you're waiting for the chopper to take off, but once you get in the air, it's a super chill ride back to the estate.
I think there's quite a few missions similar to the boat one in Vice City where they're designed around you having to go around and pick up better guns before the mission starts to do them properly
The Driver can eat my ass, I hated that damn mission so much cus im ass at racing, cant remember if I spawned a bunch of tanks for him to crash into or just ran him off the road but ive never done that mission honestly once.
"Shakedown" is 10x easier (and more fun) if you drive a motorcycle into the mall and do a drive-by instead of running around on foot like that. Also an M80 machine gun is best for "Naval Engagement." Or any weapon that blows up their boats the quickest.
As someone who recently replayed the trilogy it's shocking how much easier missions are as an adult than they were then.
Did you replay the Definitive Edition? Because looking at this list, some of the missions when you have to go from point a to point b within a time limit are much easier because the gps now tells you the shortest way
Definitive Edition or original? Because Definitive is way easier.
Oh yeah for sure
Yeah noticed that too pretty sure they nerfed the difficulty in some of the missions, the driver, the shootist, even the zero rc missions were easy the cartel construction site was the most noticable tho they used to shred you in .2 secs
Yep I noticed that after recently playing the trilogy as well lol
24:06 The drunk driving actually does attract police attention; you just have to be in the presence of an officer, which will then trigger a two-star wanted rating.
I have a lot of disagreements (in particular, I have Naval Engagement and Cop Land ranked much higher) but we both have Death Row ranked on top. Great video!
That mission where you had to impress the getaway driver is the bottom of my list. The rest of the game was fine back in the day, but that one was my roadblock. I only beat it because the police caused a pileup including myself and my opponent into an alleyway near the end. I just happened to get out of the alley for the AI could.
Still makes no sense if YOU can out drive your getaway driver, doesn't really make them a good driver for the job does it
@@christiankallio8586 And he proved himself totally useles during the heist 😂😂
I failed that race right at the very end so many times
Yeah I was only ever able to win via an exploit (stashing a Cheetah or Infernus to swap to somewhere near the start line)
I could have sworn the last time I beat that mission was only because I got lucky with the ai messing up.
A fun fact about Back Alley Brawl is that you don't even need to "talk" to the Chef. You can just run him over with you car and the mission continues on no problem. Which is probably why the jury mission is in the game.
When the "worst" rated missions aren't that terrible, you know you're playing an absolute gem of a game
They really are terrible. You re blinded by nostalgia which is understandable but still
@@daseafrate2025No
@@daseafrate2025not the games fault if you suck 😂
@daseafrate2025 Bearing in mind this list is just his opinion, not sure who you are to tell people they are blinded by nostalgia. Everyone has own preference. This is my 2nd favourite GTA, and there are only a few missions on it I hate. Others probably love them. Again it's all about opinions.
@@aliceflores812He’s not wrong,there’s a good chunk of missions that are poorly designed and give you little to no time to complete shit. It’s still my favorite gta game next to 3 and even that game has worst mission designs lol.
I was surprised that you gave the driver mission more credit! I never like how the cops ONLY go after YOU! I'm hoping your next gta project will be Vice City Stories but we all know your next video project is taped under the phone.
You REALLY underestimate the mind of an old school GTA Player.... we saw that stairway and immediately thought "Jump it"
💯 It's just screaming at you to jump it.
Always a good day when TBP uploads.
There's this weird "do the top floor first" tip for Demolition Man going around and I never understood why. If anything, it makes the mission harder. Killing the guys before picking up the bombs is mostly placebo as well. The only trick to this mission is being over the age of 10 and learning the flying controls
ngl, last time, i did it on my own accord, and actually found it kind of easier
like saving "best for last"
100% accurate
That's the tactic I use and I never fail at that mission. I just do it simply to get the longest journey out the way first. I'm not sure how so many people struggle with demolition man.
I didn't beat it til I was 17 I didn't beat the game til I was 23
@@Tyranniod it's more boring than hard. Bit of an arse to control but always pass first time.
Fun fact: you don’t need the motorcycle to complete G-Spotlight, you can actually grab the Police Maverick from the nearby police station and fly through the checkpoints and it will still count…
This is the case with SOOO MANY missions 😂
Copland is exactly the same 😂
Something like that would be IMPOSSIBLE in modern mostly scripted games like RDR2
Didn't put Demolition Man on the bottom.Best video 10/10
That mission gets so much unwarranted hate. So f’cking easy
@@joshuatealeaveshonestly for me it was skill issue but now it's a cake walk
Pretty much goes the same with The wrong side of the track, people really need to know that it was easy
@@iusemyrealnamebefore except they're completely different. RC Heli mission is completely skill based, introduces you to a new mechanic and does it badly and at the wrong time. Damn train mission doesn't show you anything new, just uses previously shown stuff in a new context. Also one may argue that it requires luck along with skill.
@@p0werfu11 oh yeah I just realized that demolition man are the first flying mission in gta. That took a skill to get used with
Idk if many people know this but in Phnom Penh ’86 in the beginning of the mission as you are flying under the bridge if you look straight up you’ll see someone jump off the bridge and lands into the blade of the helicopter. I discovered it as a child but don’t know how widely known it is. Anyone else ever seen it?
Yeah, it's a worker from the company whose trucks you destroy in the mission "Riot." I think it's pretty well known.
holy moly, best GTA ranked by TBP - prime content
I've played Vice City for all of these years and I'm just now noticing at 43:13, there's shadows in the cutscenes? For all characters? And they're like, good? This is crazy, how did I never see this before.
The fact that getaway driver is not at the bottom of the list kind of irks me. I failed that mission a good 60 times. The rest of these missions only took me 1 to 3 attempts
Learn to drive. Just drive without hitting everything like Hilary and you'll be fine. Sometimes slower can be quicker 😉
@@danielcaruso5155 it’s that he’s literally too fast and the cops always ram into me🤦🏽♂️
The only reason I passed is because he drove into the water and never spawned back in🤷🏽♂️
I love this. You should do GTA 3 missions ranked next. Im curious about espresso 2 go's placement on your ranking
I entirely disagree with Naval Engagement, if you keep the M60 upto that point destroying the boats is easy, and its all about skills take cover crouching improve accuracy and also many things such as wall to hide behind, and 4 star wanted level in VC is nothing compared to the one you get at SAM in GTA 3 whose cop AI is way worse, Love juice is easy with bike if you know how to accelerate (rather than just going forwards), bike reaches 300 x speed, VC might have cool missions but missions are tasks assigned to you, but thing about SA is the outstanding stuff you can do in free roam (like parachuting from top of mount chiliad, also side missions like burglary completing which by stealing $10,000 worth good you get infinite stamina + you can have fun robbing gang houses seeing them sleep with weapons on sofas and they attackl when they see you and you can fight back), at least VCS lets you swim in GTA VC. Still I love GTA VC since 2004. My worst mission is shakedown smashing windows is lame with time limit, As for my favorite mission its Rub Out taking out Diaz and taking over his mansion epic stuff!
Rub Out is awesome. And I agree with you, regarding Naval Engagement (heck, my brothers are good enough to win with the Ruger). Also, I met the actor who voiced Diaz (Luis Guzman), he’s really sweet!
Considering Love Juice:
6:12 dude is lost. There is no reason to be in that spot in that mission 😂
naval engagement is way easier if you use an m60 and manually aim at the yachts to explode them, i beat it first try with a controller that way
Yeah, I don't remember ever having problems with that mission
usually i find it easier just to grab the rpg from the pool at the hotel and two or three rockets later you're good.
“I don’t need to be courageous, I have a gun.” Truer words were never spoken.
These videos are so comforting to me. Lol
Rub Out will always be my favorite Vice City mission I'll never forget the feeling when i first unlocked the mansion.
My fav missions are these :
All hands on deck , Messing with the Man , G-Spotlight , Cambageddon , The Job and Phnom Penh '86
I have never met anyone that failed "Shakedown" even with its arbitrary timer. You could have mentioned one point and that being the mission start point being right outside Diaz's room right after the Rub Out mission ends. I've seen people forget to save and stuff because of that mission marker
i can agree with all the list and rankings besides two: bombs away being that high and bombs away scoring higher than phnom pehn 86
dodo dodo was a better structured mission and i can understand the novelty (and that you're a planefan), but the plane controls could very much have a sensitivity slider, since they are so touchy it makes the whole experience annoying. but what makes it miserable is definetly the camera taking away any ounce of precision. and it's coming from multiple playthroughs between the ps2 and the original pc version.
overall great list, and the rc copter on demolition man isn't that hard as people use to tell it is (it is easy even on the mobile version with the atrocious touch controls), you just need to take time to feel the helis controls, since contrary to the planes they aren't as reliant on speed.
Glad I'm not the only one who absolutely loves Loose Ends. My favourite Vice City mission.
Gun Runner ranks near the bottom for me because of the infinitely respawning enemies and how easy it is to die. Also Death Row because you have drive all the way across the map with a time limit and you can get ambushed from every corner with the toughest enemies in the game AND once you reach Lance it turns into a fucking escort mission to make things worse and Lance seems determined to run into gunfire every chance he gets.
Shakedown is such a fun mission I don't understand your low rating tbh
My favorite GTA of all time... A little unfinished, but it has a lot of heart. 💜
1:55 YAY! I got noticed! No this isn't gonna totally inflate my ego... much :D
2:11 I love how you can go for a "special dance," in the Pole club, but then Tommy just stares morosely at the floor. Maybe he's reflecting on all the love he could have made while he was in prison during 'Nam. Nasty business
It reflects the player perfectly, questioning their life choices and how they ended up there.
"Camstain" is devious lol
In a cosmic sort of way, it's hilarious that this was uploaded as I'm playing through Vice City again myself.
#59 and 58 are always the missions I dread to do whenever I play this game
#57: This one's always iffy for me. If I can manage to get to the 2 closest cop bribes then the mission is simple from there. It's really down to RNG
#56: Having the outfit swap there in the mall makes this one a bit easier, even if its temporary.
#55: It's slow, but you can cheese this by driving to the fire station and keep the truck behind the fence. Pedestrians can still interact with the truck if you're close enough while the cops cant open the door to arrest you.
#54: This one's another case of RNG having a big case on how this mission pans out
#53: Ah yes, the mission that houses a good chunk of Vice City's memed quotes.
#52: I'll give the pizza guy this; his scooter skills are immaculate. He can go pretty fast if you alert him and aren't properly prepared for a chase or get bad luck with traffic.
#51: There's the line!
#50: You wouldn't label it as bad, but that won't stop me from hating this mission.
#47: "Dumb Florida moron..."
#45: "Call yourself a mang, mang?"
#37: This one, just as the description put says, isn't as bad as I remembered it to be. Doesn't mean my feelings towards it have softened though, I honestly think it should have been lower. Also, rip the original pc players of this game, this mission was badly glitched in that version.
#29: This mission was honestly like the midway point of a movie or a mid-season finale of a show. Kind of fitting that this is where it places.
#25: As someone who has failed this mission before; yeah, you fail if the mob reaches and taxes all your properties. I only lost because I had absurdly bad luck with traffic and kept crashing. I've also noticed some weird quirk/glitch: if the mob takes the center bridge leading to the golf course, there's a possibility that they fall through the bridge or spawn in a manner that causes them to fall into the water which means I either advance to the next group that spawns or pass the mission completely.
#19: Fun fact, the tank's message of protocol Delta Indie Echo is meant to spell out 'Die', obvious, but I found it funny.
#18: Was not expecting this one to be so high up.
#16: Not only is the paint job tacky, but the voice of the guy in it trying to be threatening adds to the cheese. Also, in a way, TBP cannot escape car combat.
#14: You forgot the high quality quotes: "Sniper on the roof! They fight like girls!" and "FIGHT LIKE MEN WITH HUGE COJONES!!"
#9 (Large): Would've figured this would be in the top 5 but I should know by now to expect the unexpected with these lists.
#8: Phnom Penh is actually the capitol of Cambodia, which was used as a Vietnamese military base during the Vietnam War.
#7: I can never forget this mission after watching the game freeze when DSP played this game and him going ballistic about it.
#3: This is the type of mission where it's hard to truly master, but it's a fun challenge and once you get the grip of it, you'll feel good about it
#2: Possibly one of the best combat segments in the game
#1: Not sure how I feel about this taking the top spot, not because it's a bad choice, but because it makes me ask myself "do I like this mission more than this one or that other one.
A list like this for GTA 3 and possibly the other games in the series feels likely, though this might just be because I'm playing through this game right now for my own channel, but I'm wondering if something like this would be possible for a series like Syphon Filter.
GTA V although I still like it , I felt it tried to please the fans of the 3D universe
remember in GTA SA Cj breaks into a mlitary base and steal a jetpack? in GTA V you can steal a jet from the army or the RPG elements like Lung Capacity and Stamina
also Trevor would have fit well in any 3D gta game
Dam dude this video probably took a while huh? I love the hard work dude
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The mission cap the collector doesn't even need a lot of travelling. If you have the boatyard, the 1st group will go there, you go there and kill them. After that remaining groups will also drive to the boatyard, so you don't have to go anywhere, just wait at the boatyard.
The mission waste the wife becomes much easier if you use comet.
For the mission four iron, if you do it after treacherous swine, you should have chainsaw, which makes this mission way easier
This guy is insane. He put the hardest missions as his tops. Fucking Death Row number 1?!
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Can you do Bully missions from worst to best?
Just remember whenever u feel sad tbp just remember u entertain a lot of people
bro makes a living playing Vice City. He's obviously never sad
I feel like the point of the Shootist mission is to prove to phil that you're not just a guy with a big ego who thinks he can shoot
For Cop Land there is a Sparrow spawning nearby that you can take and just fly off safely back to the villa when the job is done
I always use the one that spawns at the mansion from the hidden package rewards
Naval engagement is way easier if you get an rpg
Honey wake up, he's posted a GTA game again!
In the beginning & an old friend shouldn't have been counted as missions considering there is barely any input to give in those missions
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Oh... Phnom Penh 86... That's a reference to the Cambodian Jeanoside (I know I spelled it wrong, youtube doesn't like the mustache man word)
Right now I’m playing VC for the first time in my life. It’s funny how some perceive its missions as scripted A->B straight lines, similar to GTA 5 cinematic approach, whereas oldschool GTA was more like sandboxes. Like why would you try so hard to go through the 5-star chase in Cop Land when you can simply jump in a non-police car and head straight to the Pay’n’Spray located nearby?
What i hate about the driver mission is 1. It's unfair that Hilary drives Sabre turbo while you have to drive Sentinel and 2. Hilarys drive route is programed to be that way, he can go right through cara and stuff which doesnt make sense
I'm a simple man, the bacon dude posts and I fall asleep to his new video, followed by another, and another, and another
I'm about to go to bed, I went into TH-cam and boy oh boy guess who was at the top of my algorithm
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By the way i think the mission name copland is a reference to the movie copland which starred ray liotta who was tommy vercettis voice actor!
I think a lot of us will agree that "Naval Engagement" design is crap, and became even worst if do as developers intended and take the Landstalker as our getaway vehicle, also "Keep Your Friends Close" takes place inside the Vercetti State as a reference to Scarface.
Appreciated the placement of 'Demolitian Man'.
Timer and challenge always seemed pretty fair and solid, and the RC Helicopter controls are far off from being bad.
Thing is, this mission somehow preceds a fame of being 'the hardest of the game' by having roadblocked some in the early game, pretty much like 'Wrong side of the tracks' in SA. My impression is that many just repeat whats being said over the internet instead of actually playing the game while dealing with the rush to deliver content...
All and all, I think you made justice for a mission that's actually well designed and receives unwarrant hate.
I doubt you'll ever do this with the one of the first two gamess, but I look forward to It If you consider It.
cop land is easy i think
shake down is the eziest mission if you use uzi
the boat challege is harder than checkpoint charlie
the job should be on two number its soo good
I failed Trojan Voodoo like 10 times before noticing the steps on my 11th attempt before failing again, I think this annoyance could of been avoided if the steps were shown in the establishing shots.
Amazing video so well put together
Funfact: in remaster/definitive edition (mobile) Love juice and Naval engagement are fixed so Cop land is by far the worst mission in the game. In mobile edition it is close to impossible to do it in the way intended.
I just 100% the game and got all but the very last trophy today. I love vice city.
Use Brown Thunder for Cannoli
I wonder how many people think aiming is really hard on console just because PCSX2 sets your joystick sensitivity to 130% by default
Literally me in gta vice city stories, plus i noticed the mission timers move way too fast and the drive by is very op like they can dump a hole clip in seconds.
The latter problems i fixed with slowing down the emulation CPU to 50% but the sensitivity i thought i was just bad.
Wait, what? I just noticed that and it says in the option it's recommended for certain modern controllers. I play it on Steam Deck, do I need to set it to 100% for sensitivity to work properly?
@@ShadowMan64572 I'd say set it to 100% and if it doesn't feel extremely slow keep it at 100
I have ps2 physical copy, original gamepad and so on. Yeah the aiming sucks badly. That being said on pc you can mod the game so that it brings some ps2 visual effects, models from xbox version, and full and proper gamepad support which makes a game much better. But regardless shooting is the worst part of Vice City. Especialy when you compare it to awesome vehicle handling. In terms of shooting mechanics i think the best games in this genre of gta like games, can be found in Scarface, Watchdogs (you feel like John Wick), Mafia 3 and GTA IV. GTA V would be great in that regard, but super small health pool kinda forces you to use boring cover system too much, at least when using gamepad. San Andreas at first feels not great, but when you dig deeper into it, even if the guns luck a bit of kick, it's actually decent, with a good layer of tactical approach to it. Driver 3 was aiming for a proper system but they left it half baked, with barbone animations that feel like placeholder instead of actual finished ones.
To be fair, there is a reason for that. PlayStation controllers from the PS1 to PS3 had sticks that had _square_ ranges of input; a stick in the upper-left corner for instance was considered simultaneously as far left and as far up as possible rather than somewhere in-between the two directions.
So, they need to do _something_ to let you be able to hit the corners of the square with modern controllers, otherwise there could be problems where for instance you may not be able to run full-speed on diagonals. Though PPSSPP has a better solution for this problem; with a toggle it remaps the input to a square without touching overall sensitivity.
I believe other older controllers did this too, but I'm unaware of any confirmed examples. I know there's actually a _newer_ controller that does this; Retro-Bit's Saturn Pro Controller has sticks with square ranges of input.
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Amazing video! I loved the reference at 38:17
The Driver
Hillary gets a fast car
You get a slow one
One mistake and the run is over
Doesn't even drive you to the bank for the hiest and gets killed, making "The Driver" mission pointless.
The safe cracker doesn't open the safe, either.
The funny thing about Gang Wars, Am I Right is that you can just completely bypass the fight by going into an adjacent alley with a line of sight on your target and picking him off with a sniper rifle or AR, then driving away. You don't need to kill anyone else
8:50 oh so it's like that one mission in Sonic Adventure 2 where Rouge being cocky as fuck is the only reason the player is given a stricter time limit.
Nice, always a good way to annoy the players with a needless detail.
I shot Hilary King’s tires out back in the day. That was the only way to beat him for me at 13.
One thing to note on the rankings, especially the lower end I feel, is that there is an optimal way to do them and a sub-optimal way. Likewise a mission like The Driver has no real way to do it differently than intended so I feel that something as difficult as that one should be lower while ones like Navel Engagement and Shakedown are a bit unjustly low due to them being done in a very "straight-forward", no pre planned way.
Good video. It's funny, I've seen some lists where the RC missions were on the bottom!
You should rank Grand Theft Auto IV mission. My top missions of that game are:
1. A Revengers Tragedy
2. Three Leaf Clover
3. Hostile Negotiation
4. Late Checkout
5. The Snow Storm
24:35 this mission funnily enough also gives the other bikers a way faster bike you'll see this for yourself if you steal one of them
One thing i loved about thebolder games which you have highlighted here is how flexible some of them are to get ctrative with your solution. Why not bring a helicopter to a level with a tight time limit for example. The new games are more cinematic but restricted.
Finally someone who appreciates Bombs Away and Demolition Man a bit...
i love those two a lot (probably mainly because i'm a fan of every machine that flies) and i've been listening about how they are awful for almost my whole life
Somehow im thinking that you would rate these missions differently if played on the pc
40:45 - funny 🙂Dude just couldn't leave his bike. What a dedication.
I like how in 4 Iron it's also possible to sneak your way onto the golf cart with weapons if you manage to jump over the wall. Then you can use your weapon of choice to easily take out the target. Leaving room for creativity makes for a good mission.
25:01 - "It's a mission with a Ph level of absolute zero."
So... it's extremely acidic? I... don't think I understand.
I'll admit, I misspoke. I only half remembered the science behind pH levels.
@@TBP Fair! I was wondering if it was a reference I didn't know, or some roundabout allusion to car battery acid being Ph 0 😂
are you going to do ranking GTA 3 missions? I'm just asking.
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Well, Libertarians have been saying that “Taxation is Theft” so it doesn’t surprise me that the word tax is a synonym for theft in slang
25:24 if that happens to be one of my favourite three days grace songs
Nah Loose Ends is honestly my favourite. Just the setup and the combat make it so fun and the help at the end is fun. I don’t find death row to be as good as u put it tho
I'm currently on my first playthrough, specifically the original PS2 version, and while I am struggling in a lot of areas, I'm still having fun here and there.
I wish your SA missions video hits million views
After this ima watch your san Andreas one love stuff like this
Haven't clicked a video so fast in a long time.
I have a few different opinions to yours. For me, it’s the 2 RC missions at the bottom, then The Driver. And at the top, Phnom Penh ‘86 is my favorite mission, followed by Keep Your Friends Close. I’d also list Poulet as my least favorite mission giver, and the Colonel as my favorite (Umberto is sadly only #2).
Glad I'm not the only one who loves Loose Ends. Number 1 for me.
It's funny you ranked Love Juice and Cop Land back to back on the bottom, but you didn't cheese Cop Land with a helicopter like you did with Love Juice.
It takes a few tries because sometimes the feds run up while you're waiting for the chopper to take off, but once you get in the air, it's a super chill ride back to the estate.
I think there's quite a few missions similar to the boat one in Vice City where they're designed around you having to go around and pick up better guns before the mission starts to do them properly
The Driver can eat my ass, I hated that damn mission so much cus im ass at racing, cant remember if I spawned a bunch of tanks for him to crash into or just ran him off the road but ive never done that mission honestly once.
15:37 I realize Max Payne 3 starts like this, too
41:12 See the head on the floor on the right?
It is correct to say Vice City is the best in the "GTA" series
Finally someone to not shit on demolition man because of the skill issue
Yet puts naval engagement, love juice, cop land, shakedown and juju scramble low over skill issue :>
Still good video though
Me too, i could never beat the driver took me 100 times. Then when i was older i did it first try
Might sound embarrassing but I couldn’t beat the shootist from 2008 to 2021
Aaagh c'mon, Naval Engagement is easy as hell if you pick up a rocket launcher from Hooker Inn and shoot the boats with it
Back Alley Brawl ranked above Cop Land is quite the skill issue
"Shakedown" is 10x easier (and more fun) if you drive a motorcycle into the mall and do a drive-by instead of running around on foot like that. Also an M80 machine gun is best for "Naval Engagement." Or any weapon that blows up their boats the quickest.
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Great video to fall asleep to ✌️
What aboutr Vice City Tightened mod?