The helicopter mission was hard at the time because we as children had never flown in games like this before, it was new and therefore hard. I also 1st tried it as an adult semi recently, it's because we're good now and we were shit back then.
I hate when a game that just removes music when the soundtrack is just as iconic as the characters it still pisses me off that my favorite 2 GTA soundtracks are ruined San Andres and Vice City in the defective editions and San Andres all it needed to take to annoy me was Ozzy Hellraiser being removed on the 30th anniversary year of said song
Wait so your saying newer versions of this game dont have I ran by flock of seagulls? I played this game so much on ps2 and was thinking i might pony up $5 to play on my phone but without the music it would be a hard pass.
Played this with my Dad when I was about 8/9. Probably influenced all my taste in music even today. He was mad, he used to go from when he got home (6/7pm) till 3am, printing out the internet guides for the secrets and trophies. And the worst was our TV was so far from our sofa, we had to sit on a straightback metal dining chair the whole time or else on the floor. But they were probably the best times of my life
It was about 2 hours into playing Vice City for the first time that I realized I could go nuts and started causing chaos all over town. We all went through that phase. 🤣
I learned that in gta 4, ans my favorite thing to do was shoot drivers while their car was moving(usually cops during a chase) and watch them veer off the road due to there being no driver
It sucks that we won't be appearing in GTA VI 😢. Having him as an old mafia boss in Vice woulda been fuckin amazing and I'm like 90% they would've actually done it despite no physical CJ in V or Claude in IV
@@Jiub_SNwe don’t technically know that since the game has been in development for ten years so he could have done some voice acting sessions within those years so I wouldn’t give up on that idea just yet
I played Vice City recently and did the Demolition Man mission easily. I found it super hard when I first played the game in 2005 because, at that time, I had never played a game with this kind of controls, spinning in 3 axes. Now I have many hours playing games with helicopters. In my opinion, this is why it was so hard at that time and today is hard to understand why people say this was the hardest mission.
Yeah that's ultimately the conclusion I came to as well. Alot of posts and articles discussing the missions are several years old, so I think it's just the unfamiliarity that makes it feel tough. As no one brings up the bombing missions for the haitians and that has some iffy controls too.
I used to have a horrible time with that mission oddly enough when I got older and was drinking I just took the advice of Burt Reynolds in the cut scene even though Tommy doesn't take a bit of old Kentucky I pour myself a glass take a few deep breaths and a couple sips and finish it first try
@@fuzzyslippersyt the bombing mission for the haitians has to be the most single annoying mission in GTA VC. When I did my playthrough of it I was stuck for almost an entire day trying to figure out the why every time I would fly for a while I'd lose control and nose dive into the water. After enough agony I looked up a playthrough for guidance and saw the person playing use the plane as a car and just drive them over, I was so mad that the flying was so bad that I had to resort to driving them over to finish it.
7:25 Yep exactly, the original release had such good music. I was in school when I played this game in 2002 and my parents were so mad about me playing this kind of game. But my mom watched me play once and heard the soundtrack and made an agreement with me, she wouldn't mind me playing the game if I let her play the soundtrack while I was at school. So sometimes I'd come home afterschool and I'd see the TV on with high volume and Vercetti sitting in a car listening to the soundtrack lol! This was before you could just easily listen to music on TH-cam and she didn't want to pay for music.
Vice City stories is severely underrated. It's almost a mix of San Andreas and the classic Vice City. It's probably the perfect version of the 3D era GTA with the grab controls that let you snap necks, swimming, and the empire control submenu. It's just a very short game considering it was a PSP title
seeing San Andreas stuff in Vice City straight up nuked my mind back when i was a kid playing this, it felt so surreal but god damn the game was a bomb of fun
@@Generationalwealth94 considering it took all the best from the first two 3D games and was built for the PSP it's still impressive. I'd argue that it's the only GTA game (to date) that you actually let you feel like the crime boss by the end. And until recently with GTA online it was the only GTA game that let you sell drugs.
Can't believe it's been 20 years. I remember convincing my grandmother to buy me this because I was underage and the look the guy gave me at GameStop 😂
Hah, yeah, it's also funny, looking back at that era of blocky, cartoony graphics that some adults were concerned about underage teens playing the game. Look at the GTA games of recent and now those graphics hold up. GTA games aren't even the most gory or explicit games out there.
@@coolioso808 I still get it, though. No matter how blocky or not… well… maybe when you have kids you'll get it, too. I certainly remember thinking more along your lines. But now that I have kids, I wouldn't want my kid playing any games before the recommended age limits. I'll certainly play them all (and laugh along) with him eventually, though! But yeah, you don't want your kid having his mind filled with violent or sexual shit before you can't avoid it. The things I got away with getting my mom and grandparents to buy me growing up, though, lol... man! I straight up got away with robbery! I'll never forget convincing my mom to buy me "Carmageddon" when I was like 14. Or tricking my grandma to buy the album "Fuck the System" by "The Exploited" (seriously, Google that album) a couple years later. I got pretty wilded out looks from the store clerk in both of those cases, too 😅 Those days they couldn't really understand. But these days, we - parents - just know better.
Your channel has a lot of depth. I like to listen/watch retrospective videos when I'm also doing something else, and it's nice to see that old games still get attention. You definitely deserve more subscribers!
This was a beautiful game. The soundtrack took me back to my childhood. The visuals took me back to my trip to Miami in 86 at the age of 15 during the holidays. Crazy that for New Year's Eve, the hotel we stayed at, the Hyatt in Downtown Miami, had a party complete with a Synthpop cover band. I didn't know it then, but they were coked out of their minds.
I'm pretty sure there were more people on a steady stream of coke than not, in Miami, in that era. Lol... anyway, I dig the story. Thanks for sharing. Wish I'd experience the same, too!
I remember being a 5yr old and walking into Sam Goody with my parents, Vice City just came out and my dad was trying to convince me to get it. I looked at the boats and cars on the front and insisted it be a dumb racing game. That weekend I went to my dad's and he was shooting people and stealing cars, I begged and begged for a turn and he said, "Nahhh this is that game you said you didnt want" I started playing it and it was a core memory for me. RIP pops❤
The song for me that always reminds me of Vice City is 'One Thing Leads To Another', I can't even listen to it without hearing "Flash FM" during the intro.
I heard 'Run to You' by Brian Adams the other day, and I still half-expected it to stop on "oooohhh when the feeling's right now." 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' will never not be "the song from Vice City" either.
Iconic GTA radio songs and the clever quips and lines from the DJs before and after songs is almost permanently etched in my mind, and reactivated again anytime I hear those songs in real life, like "Turn Up The Radio" or "Out of Touch."
@@coolioso808 "Out of Touch" for me is the Vice City theme song in my mind. Every time I hear it, I am in a tank using the vehicles can fly cheat and firing the gun as a means of propulsion, flying above the height limit of aircraft.
Blows my mind that at the time Vice city was released, a game that came out 20 years ago were games where you play as a shape like Pong, space invader, etc. Now a game 20 years ago looks like vice city. Could say the same about MGS2
Games of the late 90's and early 00's were great. I remember playing the first two GTA games on my Mom's college computer and I was in middle school. I have seen the entire evolution of the series. I knew it would turn into what it did. Same with Metal Gear. Been around for the majority of the series' history and saw the entire evolution of it.
Banged out raking all the leaves in my backyard while keeping an eye on my 2 year old with this in my ear, great job dude. Brought me back. I remember playing this at a friends house back in elementary school and getting in trouble talking about it in class 😂
Thank You for this beautiful video. I first played Vice City on the PS2 in 2013 when i was 6, but i still play it on my PC today. Maybe it isnt the most beautiful game in the world, but it has one of the best stories. Its just a beautiful game and you made a beautiful video for it!
And you can mod it to take some player hostile shit out without sacrificing the original feel And you can mod in more neons from vice city stories to make it even more VICE CITY
Sorry, but it's by no means the best way to experience the game. Play the PC version of this game just once and you will immediately change your opinion. The load times, graphics/draw distance and controls alone are multiple times better than on PS2. I also emotionally connect Vice City and San Andreas with the PS2, but why someone would play the PS2 version nowadays is beyond me. And yes, you can use a controller on PC, all you need is a plugin for that. And no, getting your hands on the original PC version with Billie Jean included is not hard. You can literally google it and download a 1.3GB image of the game within minutes.
Sunshine Autos also has street races. You could also get some of the strongest weapons by finding all the hidden packages. They also unlock the Rhino and Hunter at the army base, which you can safely get into after the Cop Land mission, when you can change into a police uniform to use to avoid being shot at by the soldiers. You can also use the Hunter or a Sea Sparrow helicopter to get into the Leaf Links golf course in order to keep your weapons as well.
I went on rampages that lasted hours, getting into dogfights with police helicopters with the sea sparrow and landing on rooftops with the minigun. Could probably remember where all 100 hidden packages are to this day.
So many cool details and unique things in this game. I love how after you do the mission where you drop flyers, promoting your movie, you can find the flyers on the ground, replacing the newspapers that were there before
I played Vice City on PC as a kid. It made the last fight easy mode with the minigun and the mouse aim. Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Gary Busey as Phil lol.
With having fully watched the video, I would have to say Vice City is still my favorite PS2 title. I can’t deny the level of content in San Andreas is more diverse, and it’s an excellent game on it’s own right, providing more than Vice City for the same price. But the simple pastiche and respect that Vice City pays to the era leads to a product that is undeniably one of the best portrayals of video game art, in my opinion. If you grew up with the game, you know what I mean.
Totally agree, the outfits, the music, the characters all fit in with what the 80s was and what movies in the 80s were like. Compare it to that 80s/90s nostalgia you see in shows and movies nowadays, and it feels superficial. Like they know things about that era, but don't really understand what the era actually was.
Vice City taught me an important lesson that I carried with me for the rest of my life since playing it "It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from the mistakes of others." I heard that on the radio station from one of the DJs and I never forgot it. Years later I went back and played again and I heard another DJ say "If you listen, one day you might be heard." That was another wise statement I took with me, anyone who says these games have nothing to teach you, is totally wrong.
I've played "Vigilante" up to level 50 in the beginning and earned a total of 2.6 million, then completed "Paramedic", "Pizza Boy" and 100 fares as a taxi driver. So, I've already collected 3.8 million, more than enough for anything you'd ever want to buy, including unlimited firepower. Kinda smart preparation.
Never realized or knew how talented the voice cast actually was. Something they eventually started to reduce, and I understand, the name GTA is the only name they need to sell millions and millions. (And I’m not criticizing the recent voice cast, just saying they are less known names).
Excellent video mate. I haven't played Vice City Stories in a long time, but I can confirm to you that yes, Victor Vance also had to deal with Lance's shit and that game sorta foreshadows Lance's end with his attitudes and recklessness. He causes a lot of problems for Victor, but won't get into spoilers if you plan on also playing VCS and I'm looking forward to that if you do.
The main thing to know in the mission where you have to beat Hilary in the car race is that his car accelerates faster, but your car has a higher top speed. So if you can keep your speed up in the straight sections, you'll gradually catch up to him.
The RC copter mission *was* hard AF in the first print run of the game, because they accidentally shipped the wrong version. It was fixed for the second print run and all downloadable versions later
I never played these games on console and only on PC. With keyboard and mouse controls, these games were quite a cake walk. Interesting to see from this perspective, and it's probably how the creators intended for it to be played
The game is literally my favourite. The feeling this City gives me is surreal. I feel nostalgic for times I didn't live in. Btw i really enjoyed this trip down the memory lane, was a great ride watching this video. Few notes: - Diaz had a real with Courtez's right-hand man where he was selling him info about Courtez and his deals, meaning Diaz might've known about the deal from him and ambushed it. -When you play shots from cutscenes or movies, try keeping the audio level the same as your voice, if I'm eating a snack, I can't hear the cutscenes if they aren't as loud, don't wanna change my volume every few minutes lol (this is a first world problem i know xD) -Vice City Stories has about the same feel but maybe better gameplay. Equal or better soundtrack, great story and features from both old and newer titles like San Andreas. I recommend the PSP version emulated. Its graphics will look updated because of the system they were made for, much better than the ps2. The looks of it are incredible and i dare even say breath-taking for such an old game. They really killed it, especially with having Phill Colins and his concert.
I recommend you to play the ps2 version of GTA Vice City Stories in PCSX2 since the PSP version is a little buggy. It has a very good story and some of it's mechanics are amazing like the Empire Building side missions and also many new vehicles and the ability to swim.
I was astounded playing the game now at 22, in comparison to being a little kid, at how easy I found demolition man, flew through it first try, this game felt so tough when I was younger, it had this level of mystery to it cause i had only got so far
I’m so glad someone finally said he’s from Carlitos way I been saying this for years but most reviews or overlooks of this game it’s never mentioned what a true legend for making that known
Demolition Man is much harder on PC due to horrible controls (using the numpad in a non-standard way ain't fun), although missions that require manual aim are a cakewalk. It is quite amusing to see people on different platforms having difficulties with different missions and overall aspects of these games. Cool video, by the way.
I remember sitting in my best friend's bedroom trying to complete the helicopter mission. We were teenagers and video games were a central part of our lives, after football. But we struggled and struggled and swore and swore. I loved the game, though. I have very, very fond memories of playing it and I miss those days.
It is funny how you can much easier identify your surroundings in Vice City and they give you a map seriously most places are kinda easier to navigate even without the map were if I didn't have multiple copies of GTA III posters/map I would sometimes have trouble finding stuff that wasn't marked
Anyone else notice TH-cam changing and showing more videos from channels with less subs? Love the variety I'm starting to see in my TH-cam recommended. Nonetheless great video, super thorough!
Vice City Stories Is not just my favorite GTA but my favorite game of all time I hope you play that one too while it's pretty divisive among fans if this game or Vice City Stories has the better storyline Stories has a really great slightly darker storyline with most major characters from VC making a appearance and the gameplay itself has also improved a lot from VC since it adds a lot of features and improvements San Andreas added to the series
I had to read the title like 5 times. “20 years”, I can’t believe it! I can remember when I first played this like it was yesterday. I was a kid myself but I remember being so happy just staring at the case when my uncle brought it to our house on Christmas. Tekken 4 had just dropped that year so my family & I played tekken all day but it was gta VC later that night
I always love the asset buying missions, and I think they're in exactly the right spot in the game; now that Tommy's taken over Diaz's empire and got the transition settled, he's expanding it aggressively. Buying up new properties and morphing them into illegal businesses always gives me the feeling that I'm taking over the entire town one racket at a time. It's _really_ satisfying. Also, do a pit maneuver on Hilary to easily win that awful fucking bullshit race. If you can sideswipe his back wheels enough to spin his car out, you can get a huge lead on him right away.
I remember back in 2002 how huge impact this game has. Internet cafe.. 15 PC's and every of my pals playing GTA VC...and i don't even think Ray Liotta knows how much great work he's done with voice of Tommy. Rip Ray aka Tommy Vercetti.
I love how half way thru the game it flips the script and you go from the guy messing up businesses to owning them. The auto business is great because you get access to the best and rarest cars in the game. The 80s music and Miami vibe made this one of my favorite games. Plus having Tommy talk was so much better than GTA3s mindless drone where your character was emotionless.
GTA Vice City made me get involved with real estate, motovated me do buy my first property (followed by 7 more) and my first Rolex to celebrate all that. Never has a computer game brought me so far in life 😂😂😂❤ thank you Rockstar Games studios
I spent so many hours playing Vice City when I was a kid, most of the time just messing around with cheats and rampaging as much as possible til I'd get killed or busted
This video was great, making me wish to re-experience Vice City all over again. The art for your character is also great! wondering who's the artist that made them? but anyways excited for your future videos!
For the mission where you race the driver for the bank heist, my friend used to park a Turismo near the starting point and get into it to finish the race. I just did it the way you did.
GTA VC is my favourite GTA of the PS2 era, and probably my favourite of them all. The Video? It's amazing mate, love it, keep them coming. I was shocked to see the numbers of subscribers. Your content has the quality of a much bigger chanel.
OMG I've just realised you have not half a million subs. You're really cool, man. Your videos are full of nostalgia and also provide me with English practice. Thanks 👍
Thanks! Gosh I kinda remember that Hilary mission. Yeah I think I just grinded it too until I won. Anyways great video! I played it originally on Xbox with the GTA combo pack back in... 2004? Anyways, got a PS2 now and might playthrough this and the other two GTAs when I get some rare alone time.
That was a amazing video and a proper tribute for a such masterpiece classic game that holds so much childhood memories! So interesting also some facts that i dint knew like that Cuban gang leader was voiced by Danny Trejo aka Machete character and Janet Jameson also was a part of voice acting!! Love this kind of detail they put on the game! About this mission of having 32:38 of your video its so funny because i had as well to leave the area and come back with health/armor to make it through... I loved how old gtas dint hold your hand much
I played vice city on release and I never had trouble with the RC helicopter, like you said after a couple of retries I had the controls down and completed the mission easily, and regarding the zero missions they were easy as well, there was only one mission with an extremely tight and frustrating timer (fuel) but the trick is to fly conservative, the more you move the more fuel you consume.
An old trick from back in the day was to wait for Hillary near the finish, line up a shot, and snipe him in the head. This fails the mission, of course, but he will slide down the usually locked door of his Sabre, as sniped people do in GTA 3/VC/SA. You can then grab his everything-proof Sabre, save it in a garage somewhere, and then actually attempt the mission normally.
I really don't consider Phil to have been retconned. He tells Tommy if he had more people like him in Nicaragua then he might still have both arms. In a part where Tommy just saved him from his own bad decisions. Maybe he got the boomshine recipe in Nicaragua
Still get a refreshing feeling when starting up at the beginning of vice city, it’s been feeling nostalgic for the past couple days especially with god of war releasing again and sonic also I even been watching The Godfather gameplay vids
Luiz Guzman in my personal opinion, his best role was in the show OZ an HBO show from the '90s and is super underrated and I recommend to anyone who has hbo max
I recently played Vice City and the only way I wound up beating Hilary in the race was by getting a 3 or more star wanted level before starting the race, then letting the cops hit his car and derail him and blow his tires trying to get to me. Still took me a few tries.
Vice City was the first time I heard Quiet Riot's Cum On Feel The Noize... I remember driving down "Miami Boulevard" at top speed in an Infernus blasting that song. Can't wait to go back to Vice City in GTA 6!
Man, serious nostalgia on this one! I was so hyped I was literally dreaming about playing it back when you would be excited reading an ad in a magazine… and it didn’t disappoint!
Right? Part me wonders if it's a an inexperienced thing, like you played it when your 8 and just assume it's the hardest thing in the world. Then when you replay it as an adult, it's like "Oh its not so bad"
@@fuzzyslippersyt Most of us didn't play much games and were children. I went back to it as a teenager and it was eayyy. It's still easy now cause you're used to it
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The helicopter mission was hard at the time because we as children had never flown in games like this before, it was new and therefore hard. I also 1st tried it as an adult semi recently, it's because we're good now and we were shit back then.
I hate when a game that just removes music when the soundtrack is just as iconic as the characters it still pisses me off that my favorite 2 GTA soundtracks are ruined San Andres and Vice City in the defective editions and San Andres all it needed to take to annoy me was Ozzy Hellraiser being removed on the 30th anniversary year of said song
Trivia: the film company inter global used in the game is an actual film distribution company for low budget 80’s movies.
Wait so your saying newer versions of this game dont have I ran by flock of seagulls? I played this game so much on ps2 and was thinking i might pony up $5 to play on my phone but without the music it would be a hard pass.
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Played this with my Dad when I was about 8/9. Probably influenced all my taste in music even today. He was mad, he used to go from when he got home (6/7pm) till 3am, printing out the internet guides for the secrets and trophies. And the worst was our TV was so far from our sofa, we had to sit on a straightback metal dining chair the whole time or else on the floor. But they were probably the best times of my life
I share memories like this but with wooden dining chairs
Wholesome af
same. played with my dad and listened to all the 80's songs. my dad turned out to be a chomo, but we had fun.
Dads are the best
@@V-Peewhat’s a chomo did he mean he is gay or something
It was about 2 hours into playing Vice City for the first time that I realized I could go nuts and started causing chaos all over town. We all went through that phase. 🤣
Yup. Especially on PC with the tank cheat and weapons cheats. Bad day at work? Oh just take it out on cartoon 80s Miami when you get home. 😁
I learned that in gta 4, ans my favorite thing to do was shoot drivers while their car was moving(usually cops during a chase) and watch them veer off the road due to there being no driver
Did you not play the original GTA?
Facts 😂
Phase? Lol
I miss Ray Liotta. He was a great actor with no shortage of great roles, but he'll always be Tommy Vercetti to me.
Wow didn't know he died last year
It sucks that we won't be appearing in GTA VI 😢. Having him as an old mafia boss in Vice woulda been fuckin amazing and I'm like 90% they would've actually done it despite no physical CJ in V or Claude in IV
He'll always be Henry Hill from Goodfellas to me 😁
@@Jiub_SNwe don’t technically know that since the game has been in development for ten years so he could have done some voice acting sessions within those years so I wouldn’t give up on that idea just yet
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I would, Rockstar fucking hated working with the guy and he's part of the reason they're not big on big name actors anymore.
Rip ray liotta my favorite protagonist out of all gta games
he's literally the first one to have an actual character and they knocked it out of the park
Yeah its a shame like alot of the reedt of the caste was being petty actor drams but i heard he was okay guy
Rip tear
@@volodymyrbilyk555 we know it's literal
Yes and Tommy is favorite GTA protagonist of all time
I played Vice City recently and did the Demolition Man mission easily. I found it super hard when I first played the game in 2005 because, at that time, I had never played a game with this kind of controls, spinning in 3 axes. Now I have many hours playing games with helicopters. In my opinion, this is why it was so hard at that time and today is hard to understand why people say this was the hardest mission.
Yeah that's ultimately the conclusion I came to as well. Alot of posts and articles discussing the missions are several years old, so I think it's just the unfamiliarity that makes it feel tough. As no one brings up the bombing missions for the haitians and that has some iffy controls too.
Also you can actually kill all the guards with the helicopter first without starting the timer, then you go back for the bombs
It's the same with the train mission in San andreas. These missions are way easier than people remember.
I used to have a horrible time with that mission oddly enough when I got older and was drinking I just took the advice of Burt Reynolds in the cut scene even though Tommy doesn't take a bit of old Kentucky I pour myself a glass take a few deep breaths and a couple sips and finish it first try
@@fuzzyslippersyt the bombing mission for the haitians has to be the most single annoying mission in GTA VC. When I did my playthrough of it I was stuck for almost an entire day trying to figure out the why every time I would fly for a while I'd lose control and nose dive into the water. After enough agony I looked up a playthrough for guidance and saw the person playing use the plane as a car and just drive them over, I was so mad that the flying was so bad that I had to resort to driving them over to finish it.
7:25 Yep exactly, the original release had such good music. I was in school when I played this game in 2002 and my parents were so mad about me playing this kind of game. But my mom watched me play once and heard the soundtrack and made an agreement with me, she wouldn't mind me playing the game if I let her play the soundtrack while I was at school. So sometimes I'd come home afterschool and I'd see the TV on with high volume and Vercetti sitting in a car listening to the soundtrack lol! This was before you could just easily listen to music on TH-cam and she didn't want to pay for music.
i know this comments kind of old, but man this is so sweet! what a beautiful memory
This is so funny, lmao
Your Mom has good taste in music
Hands down my favourite GTA game. Love everything from the characters, to the art direction and man… that soundtrack. The soundtrack was so so good.
Yes my favorite as well. I had to defend it against my co worker over GTA:SA. 😭 Difficult
@@Davincicode6 well no wa vice city edges except for the preferences
Vice City Stories is a better game.
shit ending
It's crazy how the map was so small but didn't feel small.
Vice City stories is severely underrated. It's almost a mix of San Andreas and the classic Vice City. It's probably the perfect version of the 3D era GTA with the grab controls that let you snap necks, swimming, and the empire control submenu. It's just a very short game considering it was a PSP title
It's a 20 hour game if you take it slow...if you wanna complete everything you're in for 30-40 hours depending on your skills.
I fully agree it's actually a very good game and it's worth playing despite the very slow loading times in between missions
seeing San Andreas stuff in Vice City straight up nuked my mind back when i was a kid playing this, it felt so surreal
but god damn the game was a bomb of fun
It's not as good as San Andreas but it's definitely a nice game, and much better than Liberty City Stories.
@@Generationalwealth94 considering it took all the best from the first two 3D games and was built for the PSP it's still impressive. I'd argue that it's the only GTA game (to date) that you actually let you feel like the crime boss by the end. And until recently with GTA online it was the only GTA game that let you sell drugs.
*Vice City stories is even more 80s - esque* ❤️
*It's an underestimated classic*
Much better than the unfinished Vice City from 2002
Both soundtracks are legendary
Ballad of Gay Tony is one of the top gta games
@@Luckas9Nah. VCS sucks.
Objectively wrong.@@wtd12121
Can't believe it's been 20 years. I remember convincing my grandmother to buy me this because I was underage and the look the guy gave me at GameStop 😂
Hah, yeah, it's also funny, looking back at that era of blocky, cartoony graphics that some adults were concerned about underage teens playing the game. Look at the GTA games of recent and now those graphics hold up. GTA games aren't even the most gory or explicit games out there.
@@coolioso808 I still get it, though. No matter how blocky or not… well… maybe when you have kids you'll get it, too. I certainly remember thinking more along your lines. But now that I have kids, I wouldn't want my kid playing any games before the recommended age limits. I'll certainly play them all (and laugh along) with him eventually, though!
But yeah, you don't want your kid having his mind filled with violent or sexual shit before you can't avoid it.
The things I got away with getting my mom and grandparents to buy me growing up, though, lol... man! I straight up got away with robbery! I'll never forget convincing my mom to buy me "Carmageddon" when I was like 14. Or tricking my grandma to buy the album "Fuck the System" by "The Exploited" (seriously, Google that album) a couple years later. I got pretty wilded out looks from the store clerk in both of those cases, too 😅
Those days they couldn't really understand. But these days, we - parents - just know better.
Your channel has a lot of depth. I like to listen/watch retrospective videos when I'm also doing something else, and it's nice to see that old games still get attention. You definitely deserve more subscribers!
listening to these vids while grinding 100% completion in them old gta games
This is a great game for just driving about listening to the radio. Something about it just feels safe and comfortable.
K chat i listened for it on repeat id pull over and just let it play.
👍🏻Sometimes I just park my car and listen to the music.
Looking forward to a Vice City Stories Retrospective. It's one of my favorites because you can take over gang businesses.
i agree, it’s probably also because i played it the most as a kid because i couldn’t always use my family’s 360 / my ps2
only downside to the businesses is that you eventually end up building the one with the highest revenue all over the place
Wish they’d add it to iOS they have lc stories
This was a beautiful game. The soundtrack took me back to my childhood. The visuals took me back to my trip to Miami in 86 at the age of 15 during the holidays. Crazy that for New Year's Eve, the hotel we stayed at, the Hyatt in Downtown Miami, had a party complete with a Synthpop cover band. I didn't know it then, but they were coked out of their minds.
I'm pretty sure there were more people on a steady stream of coke than not, in Miami, in that era. Lol... anyway, I dig the story. Thanks for sharing. Wish I'd experience the same, too!
Miami still on those nose beers
I remember being a 5yr old and walking into Sam Goody with my parents, Vice City just came out and my dad was trying to convince me to get it.
I looked at the boats and cars on the front and insisted it be a dumb racing game.
That weekend I went to my dad's and he was shooting people and stealing cars, I begged and begged for a turn and he said, "Nahhh this is that game you said you didnt want"
I started playing it and it was a core memory for me. RIP pops❤
Vice city was the reason I really appreciated 80’s music.
Same here and 80’s culture along with it. Gave me a big love for Miami too
Holy shit, is this why I love the 80s?
The song for me that always reminds me of Vice City is 'One Thing Leads To Another', I can't even listen to it without hearing "Flash FM" during the intro.
I heard 'Run to You' by Brian Adams the other day, and I still half-expected it to stop on "oooohhh when the feeling's right now."
'Owner of a Lonely Heart' will never not be "the song from Vice City" either.
Iconic GTA radio songs and the clever quips and lines from the DJs before and after songs is almost permanently etched in my mind, and reactivated again anytime I hear those songs in real life, like "Turn Up The Radio" or "Out of Touch."
@@coolioso808 "Out of Touch" for me is the Vice City theme song in my mind. Every time I hear it, I am in a tank using the vehicles can fly cheat and firing the gun as a means of propulsion, flying above the height limit of aircraft.
@@adawg3032 I feel ya dawg. Right on, man. Takes me back, too!
Mine was Africa I heard that song every time I got in a car so to me that was the theme of the game
Blows my mind that at the time Vice city was released, a game that came out 20 years ago were games where you play as a shape like Pong, space invader, etc.
Now a game 20 years ago looks like vice city. Could say the same about MGS2
Games of the late 90's and early 00's were great. I remember playing the first two GTA games on my Mom's college computer and I was in middle school. I have seen the entire evolution of the series. I knew it would turn into what it did. Same with Metal Gear. Been around for the majority of the series' history and saw the entire evolution of it.
(My Mom went back to college in her 40's, hence why I was in school at the time also)
Banged out raking all the leaves in my backyard while keeping an eye on my 2 year old with this in my ear, great job dude. Brought me back. I remember playing this at a friends house back in elementary school and getting in trouble talking about it in class 😂
Thank You for this beautiful video. I first played Vice City on the PS2 in 2013 when i was 6, but i still play it on my PC today. Maybe it isnt the most beautiful game in the world, but it has one of the best stories. Its just a beautiful game and you made a beautiful video for it!
Getting your hands on the original version is the best way to experience the game.
Definitely. The only downside is performance being a bit bad sometimes but I can live with that because it's the game as they intended.
Controls for fps is difficult but the album and originality is worth it
And you can mod it to take some player hostile shit out without sacrificing the original feel
And you can mod in more neons from vice city stories to make it even more VICE CITY
Sorry, but it's by no means the best way to experience the game.
Play the PC version of this game just once and you will immediately change your opinion. The load times, graphics/draw distance and controls alone are multiple times better than on PS2.
I also emotionally connect Vice City and San Andreas with the PS2, but why someone would play the PS2 version nowadays is beyond me.
And yes, you can use a controller on PC, all you need is a plugin for that.
And no, getting your hands on the original PC version with Billie Jean included is not hard. You can literally google it and download a 1.3GB image of the game within minutes.
@@Jaaayzen I meant the original version as in the one that came out in 2002-03 era in comparison to the re releases. I played the PC version as well.
Sunshine Autos also has street races. You could also get some of the strongest weapons by finding all the hidden packages. They also unlock the Rhino and Hunter at the army base, which you can safely get into after the Cop Land mission, when you can change into a police uniform to use to avoid being shot at by the soldiers. You can also use the Hunter or a Sea Sparrow helicopter to get into the Leaf Links golf course in order to keep your weapons as well.
I went on rampages that lasted hours, getting into dogfights with police helicopters with the sea sparrow and landing on rooftops with the minigun. Could probably remember where all 100 hidden packages are to this day.
at the golf club entrance, you can park a car near the ramp and just jump over, no need for helicopters
@@hundkebab2433 I often do that too. Helicopter saves me time though with travel back and forth.
@@TV-Tony the helicopter is probably the best vehicle in vice city, makes collecting hidden packages and stuff a real blast
@@hundkebab2433 Although you can only get to a helicopter in the second half of the game, unless you're using cheats or glitches/mods.
So many cool details and unique things in this game. I love how after you do the mission where you drop flyers, promoting your movie, you can find the flyers on the ground, replacing the newspapers that were there before
I played Vice City on PC as a kid. It made the last fight easy mode with the minigun and the mouse aim. Also, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Gary Busey as Phil lol.
With having fully watched the video, I would have to say Vice City is still my favorite PS2 title. I can’t deny the level of content in San Andreas is more diverse, and it’s an excellent game on it’s own right, providing more than Vice City for the same price. But the simple pastiche and respect that Vice City pays to the era leads to a product that is undeniably one of the best portrayals of video game art, in my opinion.
If you grew up with the game, you know what I mean.
Totally agree, the outfits, the music, the characters all fit in with what the 80s was and what movies in the 80s were like. Compare it to that 80s/90s nostalgia you see in shows and movies nowadays, and it feels superficial. Like they know things about that era, but don't really understand what the era actually was.
it was the first video game i ever played! (i was an unsupervised 4 year old.) greatest of all time tbh.
Wow.. I knew about Ray Liotta voicing Tommy of course, but the rest of the cast is awesome as well! I really must replay this one!
That was a great trip down memory lane for me. What a great and relatable take.
The only thing I felt was missing was mentioning Lee majors.
Vice City taught me an important lesson that I carried with me for the rest of my life since playing it "It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from the mistakes of others." I heard that on the radio station from one of the DJs and I never forgot it. Years later I went back and played again and I heard another DJ say "If you listen, one day you might be heard." That was another wise statement I took with me, anyone who says these games have nothing to teach you, is totally wrong.
I've played "Vigilante" up to level 50 in the beginning and earned a total of 2.6 million, then completed "Paramedic", "Pizza Boy" and 100 fares as a taxi driver. So, I've already collected 3.8 million, more than enough for anything you'd ever want to buy, including unlimited firepower. Kinda smart preparation.
Never realized or knew how talented the voice cast actually was.
Something they eventually started to reduce, and I understand, the name GTA is the only name they need to sell millions and millions.
(And I’m not criticizing the recent voice cast, just saying they are less known names).
The reason Rockstar started working with lesser known actors is BECAUSE of Mr Liota - apparently he was a bit of a diva in the booth.
I still haven't watched this video.
But I'm already excited.
Gta VC is my favorite game of all times.
Excellent video mate. I haven't played Vice City Stories in a long time, but I can confirm to you that yes, Victor Vance also had to deal with Lance's shit and that game sorta foreshadows Lance's end with his attitudes and recklessness. He causes a lot of problems for Victor, but won't get into spoilers if you plan on also playing VCS and I'm looking forward to that if you do.
The main thing to know in the mission where you have to beat Hilary in the car race is that his car accelerates faster, but your car has a higher top speed. So if you can keep your speed up in the straight sections, you'll gradually catch up to him.
The RC copter mission *was* hard AF in the first print run of the game, because they accidentally shipped the wrong version. It was fixed for the second print run and all downloadable versions later
So, what was wrong with the first version?
Can’t believe you haven’t played VCS! Definitely one of the best GTA’s out there trust me you need to play it.
It has Phil Collins concert
I can't believe you are only at 55k subs man. Great content. Thanks for taking me back in time to my childhood!
I miss this game so much was the first game I ever played and will always hold a special place as the game that got me into gaming
I never played these games on console and only on PC. With keyboard and mouse controls, these games were quite a cake walk. Interesting to see from this perspective, and it's probably how the creators intended for it to be played
Fantastic work. What a well put together retrospective, you definitely deserve more attention. Thanks for this.
I wish you 10 million subs because someone who makes this much quality videos deserves it. Good luck.
The game is literally my favourite. The feeling this City gives me is surreal. I feel nostalgic for times I didn't live in. Btw i really enjoyed this trip down the memory lane, was a great ride watching this video.
Few notes:
- Diaz had a real with Courtez's right-hand man where he was selling him info about Courtez and his deals, meaning Diaz might've known about the deal from him and ambushed it.
-When you play shots from cutscenes or movies, try keeping the audio level the same as your voice, if I'm eating a snack, I can't hear the cutscenes if they aren't as loud, don't wanna change my volume every few minutes lol (this is a first world problem i know xD)
-Vice City Stories has about the same feel but maybe better gameplay. Equal or better soundtrack, great story and features from both old and newer titles like San Andreas. I recommend the PSP version emulated. Its graphics will look updated because of the system they were made for, much better than the ps2. The looks of it are incredible and i dare even say breath-taking for such an old game. They really killed it, especially with having Phill Colins and his concert.
Halfway through, great video, can’t wait to replay this again
I recommend you to play the ps2 version of GTA Vice City Stories in PCSX2 since the PSP version is a little buggy. It has a very good story and some of it's mechanics are amazing like the Empire Building side missions and also many new vehicles and the ability to swim.
Or mod the stories content into PC vice city and have the best of both lmfao
"there's no up North anymore, its all down south"
Love this game, easily my favourite GTA
I was astounded playing the game now at 22, in comparison to being a little kid, at how easy I found demolition man, flew through it first try, this game felt so tough when I was younger, it had this level of mystery to it cause i had only got so far
You're only 3 years older than I was when VC released lol
Watching GTAVC videos and reading comments makes me feel ancient lol
I’m so glad someone finally said he’s from Carlitos way I been saying this for years but most reviews or overlooks of this game it’s never mentioned what a true legend for making that known
Demolition Man is much harder on PC due to horrible controls (using the numpad in a non-standard way ain't fun), although missions that require manual aim are a cakewalk. It is quite amusing to see people on different platforms having difficulties with different missions and overall aspects of these games.
Cool video, by the way.
Such a great video for one of my favourite GTA games, you’re incrediblely underrated and deserve more subscribers! keep up the great work! 😁
I remember sitting in my best friend's bedroom trying to complete the helicopter mission. We were teenagers and video games were a central part of our lives, after football. But we struggled and struggled and swore and swore. I loved the game, though. I have very, very fond memories of playing it and I miss those days.
Shocked you didnt say he was your best, best friend.
Don’t usually comment but I just wanted to say your videos are awesome my guy. Hope your channel blows up
Another great video! You do such a great job breaking everything down, and explaining details. I really enjoy your work!
It is funny how you can much easier identify your surroundings in Vice City and they give you a map seriously most places are kinda easier to navigate even without the map were if I didn't have multiple copies of GTA III posters/map I would sometimes have trouble finding stuff that wasn't marked
Why did you skip cherry poppers ice cream and the cab business?
Anyone else notice TH-cam changing and showing more videos from channels with less subs? Love the variety I'm starting to see in my TH-cam recommended. Nonetheless great video, super thorough!
Bro's got 3k subs and look at the quality of these vids. You'll probably hit a mill before the end of next year.
Vice City Stories Is not just my favorite GTA but my favorite game of all time I hope you play that one too while it's pretty divisive among fans if this game or Vice City Stories has the better storyline Stories has a really great slightly darker storyline with most major characters from VC making a appearance and the gameplay itself has also improved a lot from VC since it adds a lot of features and improvements San Andreas added to the series
I had to read the title like 5 times. “20 years”, I can’t believe it! I can remember when I first played this like it was yesterday. I was a kid myself but I remember being so happy just staring at the case when my uncle brought it to our house on Christmas. Tekken 4 had just dropped that year so my family & I played tekken all day but it was gta VC later that night
I always love the asset buying missions, and I think they're in exactly the right spot in the game; now that Tommy's taken over Diaz's empire and got the transition settled, he's expanding it aggressively. Buying up new properties and morphing them into illegal businesses always gives me the feeling that I'm taking over the entire town one racket at a time. It's _really_ satisfying.
Also, do a pit maneuver on Hilary to easily win that awful fucking bullshit race. If you can sideswipe his back wheels enough to spin his car out, you can get a huge lead on him right away.
Great vid 👍 this was my first Gta game, I remember playing it for the first time back in 2003 when I was 5 lol
I remember back in 2002 how huge impact this game has. Internet cafe.. 15 PC's and every of my pals playing GTA VC...and i don't even think Ray Liotta knows how much great work he's done with voice of Tommy. Rip Ray aka Tommy Vercetti.
This game was the reason I bought a PS2 back in the day.
I love how half way thru the game it flips the script and you go from the guy messing up businesses to owning them. The auto business is great because you get access to the best and rarest cars in the game. The 80s music and Miami vibe made this one of my favorite games. Plus having Tommy talk was so much better than GTA3s mindless drone where your character was emotionless.
20:46 I see you had a very nice childhood show as well...
GTA Vice City made me get involved with real estate, motovated me do buy my first property (followed by 7 more) and my first Rolex to celebrate all that. Never has a computer game brought me so far in life 😂😂😂❤ thank you Rockstar Games studios
Can't wait to visit Vice city again in GTA 6.
It's about damn time for a comeback!
This game inspired a love of 80s music for me and my friends (we were all born in the 90s)
I spent so many hours playing Vice City when I was a kid, most of the time just messing around with cheats and rampaging as much as possible til I'd get killed or busted
Been enjoying your content. It’s been helping me get through this flu season. Please keep up the good work!
This video was great, making me wish to re-experience Vice City all over again. The art for your character is also great! wondering who's the artist that made them? but anyways excited for your future videos!
I have two artists, @plaguebirb on Twitter does most of my poses (the one's in the sweater). While @JGdraw did the Tommy variants
For the mission where you race the driver for the bank heist, my friend used to park a Turismo near the starting point and get into it to finish the race. I just did it the way you did.
GTA VC is my favourite GTA of the PS2 era, and probably my favourite of them all.
The Video? It's amazing mate, love it, keep them coming. I was shocked to see the numbers of subscribers. Your content has the quality of a much bigger chanel.
Vice city stories is pretty good. You should probably give it a shot.
Fantastic video in-depth and entertaining
Demolition man was actually one of my favorite missions. Anything that involves driving through checkpoints I find harder.
OMG I've just realised you have not half a million subs. You're really cool, man. Your videos are full of nostalgia and also provide me with English practice. Thanks 👍
Thanks! Gosh I kinda remember that Hilary mission. Yeah I think I just grinded it too until I won. Anyways great video! I played it originally on Xbox with the GTA combo pack back in... 2004? Anyways, got a PS2 now and might playthrough this and the other two GTAs when I get some rare alone time.
That was a amazing video and a proper tribute for a such masterpiece classic game that holds so much childhood memories!
So interesting also some facts that i dint knew like that Cuban gang leader was voiced by Danny Trejo aka Machete character and Janet Jameson also was a part of voice acting!! Love this kind of detail they put on the game!
About this mission of having 32:38 of your video its so funny because i had as well to leave the area and come back with health/armor to make it through...
I loved how old gtas dint hold your hand much
i saw you had less than 1k views and i swear i''m not hating it's a CRIME more people don't watch your vids. keep up the good work. salute
Great video! You deserve way more subscribers
I played vice city on release and I never had trouble with the RC helicopter, like you said after a couple of retries I had the controls down and completed the mission easily, and regarding the zero missions they were easy as well, there was only one mission with an extremely tight and frustrating timer (fuel) but the trick is to fly conservative, the more you move the more fuel you consume.
An old trick from back in the day was to wait for Hillary near the finish, line up a shot, and snipe him in the head. This fails the mission, of course, but he will slide down the usually locked door of his Sabre, as sniped people do in GTA 3/VC/SA. You can then grab his everything-proof Sabre, save it in a garage somewhere, and then actually attempt the mission normally.
I really don't consider Phil to have been retconned. He tells Tommy if he had more people like him in Nicaragua then he might still have both arms. In a part where Tommy just saved him from his own bad decisions. Maybe he got the boomshine recipe in Nicaragua
I watch a lot of underrated channels but this is 100% the best! You deserve so many more viewers
This chanel is going to blow up shortly, with quality content like this is just a matter of time, great work pal
Still get a refreshing feeling when starting up at the beginning of vice city, it’s been feeling nostalgic for the past couple days especially with god of war releasing again and sonic also I even been watching The Godfather gameplay vids
Luiz Guzman in my personal opinion, his best role was in the show OZ an HBO show from the '90s and is super underrated and I recommend to anyone who has hbo max
You missed the best part about vigilante missions. You can do them in the military helicopter!
20 years old wow that went fast. Loved Vice City probably my favourite GTA game and had it on PC.
“I trusted you Tommy, I would have had you made”
*has been a made man for more than 20 years by now* LOL
I actually found Hilary's mission easier than the RC Helicopter one.
I recently played Vice City and the only way I wound up beating Hilary in the race was by getting a 3 or more star wanted level before starting the race, then letting the cops hit his car and derail him and blow his tires trying to get to me. Still took me a few tries.
Vice City was the first time I heard Quiet Riot's Cum On Feel The Noize... I remember driving down "Miami Boulevard" at top speed in an Infernus blasting that song. Can't wait to go back to Vice City in GTA 6!
Vice City is my favorite GTA game hands down.
Out of Touch and I Ran are more fitting for the game's "theme song" than Billie Jean easily.
also play LCS and VCS on an emulator or smth. Totally worth it and also gives you tons more insight.
this was such a fantastic nostalgia trip back to my childhood, love it
Man, serious nostalgia on this one! I was so hyped I was literally dreaming about playing it back when you would be excited reading an ad in a magazine… and it didn’t disappoint!
Almost 3k views huh? Nice.
It's over 207,000 now. Gratz
18:10 yeah, I've never had a problem with that mission, and I actually like the controls for the helicopters in this.
Right? Part me wonders if it's a an inexperienced thing, like you played it when your 8 and just assume it's the hardest thing in the world. Then when you replay it as an adult, it's like "Oh its not so bad"
@@fuzzyslippersyt Most of us didn't play much games and were children. I went back to it as a teenager and it was eayyy. It's still easy now cause you're used to it
Sunshine Auto's was my favorite thing to do as a kid, since it was the only thing my little mind could actually understand at the time XD