It is sad because back then GTA games were made for adults ... And then they realised it's a major success among kids so they're no longer targetting grown-up. Yes I'm talking about you GTA online
Still my favorite GTA game! I would also let my younger sister play at the time. Her favorite thing to do was steal a taxi and just drive around picking people up and dropping them off. Every time I came back to the game, I would have tons of money from letting her do taxi missions for an hour or two. Thank sis, lol
Not sure if you meant it but I remember that phrase: Makin Bacon from the first ever GTA I used to play back in 1998 ! I loved that game so much... trying to run over all those Hare Krishnas... GOURANGA!!
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 it was huge up in Winnipeg during the 00's it was ridiculous. Vivid memories walking home and told to stay away from women standing in the same place during the days with no bus stop bear by.
except that if you were over age 20 you would realize that not much has changed between 2004 and 2020 compared to 2002 and 1986. The only thing that changed between 2004 and 2020 is the internet got a lot faster. 1986 and 2002 (I was alive for both) were like 2 different eras entirely.
I used to use Emotion’s and Flash FM’s playlists when I gave rides on weekends around my college town. Some people just enjoyed the good music. Others would ask “is this from Vice City?” when songs would change and it’s another song from the game. Such an incredible and absolutely iconic soundtrack.
I love how the city was the smallest, but had more nooks and crannies like alleys and secret entrances that makes it worth exploring. Gta V is waaay bigger but no buildings you can enter, and not much things to discover static buildings etc.
@@Pelican07.23 ehh idk its big for sure but all buildings to me are just backgrounds don't have significance or cant enter them or lack of easter eggs. Even gta san andreas had more interesting buildings like in san fierro and creepy backwoods areas that felt haunted.
@@cacaman17 san andres was generic when it came to a lot of building's with each one being same with no way to enter them there were many Easter eggs in that game ,but it doesn't come close to gta v with ufos,ghost and zombies that's my opinion tho.
My older sister introduced me to this game when I was about 12. She couldn't beat the RC helicopter mission and asked me to beat it for her. Needless to say, I ended up hooked and we beat the game together.
Honestly that mission wasn’t as hard as everyone made it out to be. I got it in one of the other day. And I’m just playing the game seriously for the first time.
I’m not a native English speaker, but when I was a kid I played the shit out of this game and learned 80% of the cheat codes by heart. When I grew up and learned English, the fact that those cheat codes were actual words absolutely blew my mind. Also, I was the one who all my friends called over so that I could complete the RC Heli mission for them.
The 80s revival thing was still fresh when Vice City came out. Ray Liotta's voice work as Tommy Vercetti is unbelievably good. And the game's script is genuinely funny.
@@dksoulstice6040 The fact alone that you played as RL was friggin awesome. THEN the fact that just his acting alone put that game on another level. I admit, that last statement might be a little bias as I like his acting. Then the game was itself was awesome, not to mention ever other top tier actor in it! I remember buying the game just because it was my first ever GTA game not knowing Ray Liotta was going to be in it, I was kneecap breakingly surprised.
I owned 3 GTA games - 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. All 3 were significant for me. I liked the throwback element of the latter 2 games, and the cultural stuff, including but not limited to the music, made a big impact. In HS I loved old school hip-hop, so that backdrop was very welcome for me at the time. ...But ultimately, I'm with the last person who commented... The impact of GTA in my life was nothing to MGS 👣📦🔫🚁🐸🚬🦊
One underrated aspect of this game is how it really opens up once you have the mansion. Suddenly it’s not a semi-linear story about revenge, it’s now up to you to take over the city as a crime lord. You can keep doing the story missions and clamp down on businesses with Lance, or you can buy new assets and do those missions (Malibu Club, Film Studio and Print Works having the most interesting new story content) to generate cash, and if you’re bored of that, there’s a Love Fist concert that needs your help and a Haitian/Cuban gang war that you help start, participate in both sides in, and help finish off. And a lot of it is optional. I completely skipped the Malibu missions when I first played it because it was so expensive, and now I realize that I missed a big portion of the game.
Florida Man showers city with porn posters Florida Man enters a building in a motorbike and jumps on top of buildings and switches spotlight into image of woman's breast. Florida Man kills 30 taxi drivers in an empty compound. Florida Man destroys glass panes at local mall. Florida Man saves European band Love Fist from a car bomb planted by a crazy fan. Florida Man kills 68 drug dealers using a BAR mounted helicopter. Florida Men Disguises as cops and plants a bomb inside a local mall. Florida Man jumps over a local Ammu-Nation store while riding a motorbike. guys, keep this meme going.
@@sxcxoxrxn Florida man collects 100 mayan artifacts for a millitary-grade helicopter located at his friend's house Florida man pilots a boat around the water to collect water-proof coke around Vice City
I was the same age, and since VC i love 80s music, Just feel connected to it through this Game. It is funny when i say that too people that really lived in the 80s :D
@@just-fun-stuff6753 Well, as someone who lived through the 80's, I thought most of the music sucked then. Now after all this time.... I think it still sucks!
@@TheNewBerser They still sell the old games so the Licenses still count plus older songs have cheaper licensing. Or at least I presume they are not as costly as GTA VI/V
@@MadShadow_ actually the versions of the games on the PlayStation Store are missing songs such as Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, Kate Bush - Wow, among others.
I'd rather an _aesthetic_ remake - something that polishes up the models, effects, and animations to an acceptable level for all future releases. There's a reason many Japanese PS2 games don't need full remasters.
I was 6 when VC came out. This was a game that made even my dad nostalgic and he wasn't into video games but he loved watching me play them. It made him nostalgic for the 80's. I was there day one for 3 too. My dad always explained games to me. This isn't real life. This isn't how you act in reality, you don't do wrong things in real life. My dad was always there to explain to me. Our favorite movie is also good fellas. Scarface is. Close second. My point is, I'm thankful for my father. He's as pumped for the remaster as I am. I thank God we have the memories we have. I mean that.
Because it was pure freedom and epicness! I loved it soooo much. And so much details :D I still listen to radio emotion with Fernando Martinez and even the commercials on the radio station are awesome :D haha
When a game captures the 1980's atmosphere SO WELL that even people who were born in the 90's and later loved it (not to mention being interested in 80's music), then you know it's good.
Well I mean... I watch films from the 1910's and still love them and I was born 1999, not all people automatically dislike anything that was made or set before they were born. I agree though, this is a good game.
As a Miami resident, I always found Vice City to be so charming. It's like a mini-Miami where all the landmarks are there, but the locations are way off, and everything is so adorably tiny. I think I have a small bias there in my love for this game.
@@TheLinkIsLost Back when this game came out I was working my very first job in Miami Beach. It's incredible how the art team captured the feel of a place with goddamn PS2 graphics. Imagine going home after work after dealing with the causeway traffic, to go play... at work. Anyway, I also moved here in 80's when I was born.
I've lived in South Florida for most of my life, since the early 70s. I remember playing this game with a friend and we were always shocked at how so many of the areas in the game perfectly captured areas in South Florida. The Fort Lauderdale strip and Boca Raton were areas we were very familiar with and we could even tell which streets (and back streets) were copied from real life.
Yes! Exactly! Plus the 80s era with the music and clothes were a huge turning point for Miami at that time. It was starting to go through a renaissance and eventually put back on the map in the notoriety sense.
I once had VCPR playing on the office radio for like 3 days before anyone realised it wasn't a real radio station, and that interviews started sounding like they were repeating
How did I never notice that Ray Liotta voiced Tommy Vercetti? By the way, Goodfellas and Scarface are two all-time gangster classics! And I agree that this game has a lot of charm and character, and the 80's setting is what really draws me to the game.
@@joshuathomas2012 Nothing against The Godfather. In fact, the first one is my all-time favorite gangster movie. It's just that Scarface and Goodfellas were the movies he mentioned, so I focused on them.
@Austin King Oh wow, a guy who thinks calling people virgins is some sort of insult. What is this, 1986? Rockstar could make a GTA 6 with GTA Online and the 'godly amount of money' would still be pouring in. But keep talking about running a business means, I'm sure you've got an MBA and would love to flex on us peasants on TH-cam.
I bought the complete soundtrack, it was a CD for every radio station. I think I still have them somewhere but it definitely had one of the best soundtracks of any game. The thing I liked about Vice City is that the City felt alive and changed as you played. I remember the talk radio station would mention stuff the player did, or parts of the city changing as you completed missions.
This was absolutely the pinnacle of the series for me. The music, the DJs, the setting, everything was just spot on. And the fact that Tommy is voiced by Ray Liotta is just incredible to me. That brought a level of authenticity to the game that was just so rare back then. Aside from maybe Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher, I don't recall many Hollywood actors doing voicework (well at least not as the main character, I know GTA III had a great cast as well). It's now commonplace, but at the time, it was pretty much unheard of. I also really appreciate that the map is a reasonable size. That's one thing I didn't like about San Andreas and GTA V. They take forever to travel and driving feels like a chore. GTA San Andreas alleviates that a bit because of the music and the multiple cities. But I still don't enjoy having to trek through so much nothingness to get to my missions.
gta vice city was boring with the same reppetetive missions and just meh. It's the nostalgia talking to you not that it was the peak. GTA is set for driving and shit like that but the map in vice city was so small that it you know everything after you finish the game and then theres nothing to do.
Vice city was my life I still remember it took half hour for me to install it on my p4 pc I asked my friend why its taking soo long He replied Dude Its installing an entire city on a pc I was amazed by technology The sound effects of vc On a 5.1 speaker was such an amazing feeling I played vc every day For 3-4 hours I can type cheats more faster on a keyboard than my own name
I think having a small map really holds the story back! Look at San Andreas since the maps so big you can tell multiple unique stories through the games.
@@CarrotConsumer even now that's not terrible time. I bought Payday 2 for my old shittier PC, that somehow managed to run it, took me almost the whole day. 10am to about 6-7pm.
What are the chances, i was reading comments with the video playing and i come past your comment and i read it in my head and in the video he said it in sync with me
I haven't finished original vice city, cuz i got bored quickly since i was playing it after GTA 4 and eflc probably. But my first GTA was vice city stories on PSP during elementary school years, that game was a blast for me when I didn't even know english at all and was trying to figure out what to do on the missions by myself and my classmates.
You know, in the heist mission "The driver" , the Sentinel has actually a bigger advantage once you realize that car is based on a BMW 7 series, you know, the one that came with V8s and a V12 IRL, so ingame that car has better top speed and handling than Hillary´s Sabre Turbo. It was Rockstar trolling non car guys by giving them a boxy car agains´t a car with a racing stripe... you know, the racing stripes give your car +20 Horsepowers.
i was stuck in that mission for days as a kid. recently i bought the ps2 classic version for ps4 and completed the mission on my 4th try. Once you know the route, it's not that hard
@@sureokk speaking of the Ruger in Vice City, it has oddly low rate of fire which used to bother me. Then I got into the world of guns and found out that the real-life counterpart of the VC Ruger is semi-automatic at best so now I'm assuming Tommy just taps the trigger fast enough to make it pseudo-full-auto. It's still weird how Rockstar hasn't bothered with making recoil at least in form of random spread during continious fire while giving some NPCs hilariously large inaccuracy in form of the random spread cone being so huge they can't reliably hit you even from the 5 m distance. UPD: fixed grammar.
I grew up in Miami in the 80's, so most of the games little details are right on. There's even neighborhoods called Little Havana and Little Haiti. I was even surprised to hear the police dispatcher's accent in the game.
The color palat was actually one of the main appeals for me, this game offered alot more color than many other PS2 games which tended to be very green, grey, and brown.
Characters: Rosenberg from Carlito's way, Carrington: Senator from Godfather; Baker: Waingrove from Heat; Danny Trejo, is Himself; that one guy is Lebowski.
I was suprised GGG never mentioned Rosenberg being from Carlito's Way. I watched that film for the first time a few years ago and was like ohhhhhh shit it's Ken. Which guy is Lebowski?
@@stevepoolosaur1721 - GGG also mixed up Lance's brothers. The brother who is gunned down was Lance's little brother while the character you play as in VCS was his older brother.
Vice City was my first GTA experience and even though it may not be the best , the soundtrack and putting in the cheat code for a tank, will forever hold a special place in my heart.
Honestly for me back when I first got it and the news I heard about it I thought it was going to flop, especially after the news about the struggles rockstar had with working with the voice actors * cough cough Ray. But point being it has done a great send off to people who grew up in that time. Equivalently it has done an ever better job to introducing kids-teenagers to a nostalgic time they never did live but instead heard of from their elders. But as I said anything from the atmosphere and music, it was a massive staple in gaming same as GTA 3 was when it first came out.
@@diamondice7261 Ray was a huge ass to Rockstar employees when he voiced the game. Notably they said sometimes he was perfect and into it, and other times he really didn't care and in general he underestimated how HUGE games and GTA were in 2000-2002. Even one of the heads of Rockstar at the time had to TELL HIM OFF because he was being so obnoxious to not only the people with him in the VO booth, BUT EVEN OUTSIDE OF IT.
I think it's a very relaxing game despite its theme of drugs and violence. The sunny beaches and 80s music make the city a very pleasant place to be in. That's why VC and VCS are somewhat more special than any of the other GTAs.
The good old days of watching my older brother play on his ps2. I remember every time he would leave me in his room, telling me not to mess with his game. *I always did it anyway*
R.I.P. RAY LIOTTA aka HENRY HILL aka TOMMY VERCETTY the GREATEST PROTAGONIST IN GTA HISTORY. HE WAS THE first protagonist with the voice (Claude didn't speak 😁) and it was PHENOMENAL ROLE. I hope Rockstar gives him respect and tribute in the next GTA 6.
@@lenny578 well, it only ended because he got cucked , and i just now looked up definition of getting cucked and well (When his wife took her lover in front of him, he knew he had been cucked) and well something similar happened to CJ ,on the upside , when Catalina wanted to CJ to fight with Claude , if they would have fought CJ would beat his ass ( a while back i analyzed which is the strongest their universe protagonist and well , Claude would lose even to James Earl Cash because they are similar in fighting skill ( more or less ) but James has much more physical strength , (he and Victor are only ones that could break necks )
San Andreas is my favorite game in the series but CJ is the least chad protagonist, sorry. Vic Vance and Niko (and maybe Trevor) are still my favorites, i confess i never really liked Tommy, something about him just rubs me off the wrong way lol
Born in '86 too! Lots of fond memories staying over at friends places over the weekend to all-nighter this game as much as possible before having to head back to school on Monday, day dreaming about how we could have handled the last mission better..
Yes they did originally intend for Vice City to be bigger. They were planning to add in the Florida Swamplands and mentioning of it can still be found in the game files. Supposedly there's an area in the game where you can tell it was supposed to begin. I think the channel that investigated it was called Vadim M or something.
J.J. It's the area near the airport where there is a boat hanger and where a road breaks into two. One part goes towards a cargo hold building and other goes past the boat hanger and abruptly ends to nowhere. That's where the entrance to the swamplands could have possibly begun.
i remember buying this game when i was 15 in 2003. i immediately fell in love with it. i always loved the atmosphere of the 80s that we see in movies and tv shows, and at that time i was starting to get into metal and hard rock, so having a game that combined both of these aspects really blew my mind. it will always be my favorite gta of all time, even though the sequels are objectively better games, gameplay-wise. but the atmosphere of vice city will always have a special place in my heart
I picked it up shortly after launch because of all the authoritarian hate it received. Been a fan ever since. And yeah, best soundtrack of any of the series. Went and got 3 afterwards, but 3 didn't have the charm. Was a young adult when Miami Vice was aired, so definitely understood the vibe - Freeze Pal! Miami Vice!
Because the graphics and gunplay are outdated, and yes, I still have my PS2 copy tucked somewhere with my PS2 and I also bought the trilogy for PS4. Still fun to play though.
The soundtrack was no joke. I have all the music stations on a USB drive in my car. Driving around on a hot day with the windows down and Espantoso blaring is bloody glorious. I did have to edit the ads out though. That high school humour hasn’t aged well.
This, along with Vice City Stories, was responsible for getting me into '80s music. Before those games, I wasn't familiar with the musicians of the '80s and only grew up listening to '90s music. But those two games were the ones that made me do more research on not just '80s music, but the '80s in general. Overall, while not without its flaws, Vice City definitely had the best storyline of the III era series.
Glad you discovered and are enjoying 80s music. The early 80s were pretty good with so many new and exciting genres coming on the scene. New wave and synth stuff was always my thing. It did start going a bit rubbish later in the 80s though. Great decade though, but I would say that being an old fart now who was 16 in 1985.
This wasn't mentioned. The console versions of the game have trails, which which superimpose currently rendered frames over previous ones to emulate motion blur, and light trails which give the city a more vibrant 80s look, drastically changing the lighting from looking flat. The Neon lights pop out a lot more and reflect, and the sky has more different shades, such as purple to dark purple gradient skies rather then dark blue at night, and a more natural 80s looking miami blue sky, and a beautiful yellow tint on things during sunset. The smoke effects are more apparent. Even the cars in the distance have a little sunlight effect. There's a mod on the PC version that emulates the effect from the console version.
Ah yes, the good old days when they used to take their time and put effort into the little details when making a game, because they couldn't just patch it, and the discs would be used for years, so it would have to hold up. I still remember when there were no microtransactions. Good times. Too bad corporate greed is rampant these days.
This game is amazing and just an amalgamation of 80's movies and TV. Scarface, Miami Vice, Carlitos Way. Even Friday the 13th when Tommy wears the hockey mask with the chainsaw haha.
Here's my perspective why it was so popular back in the day: - Cheat codes (Yes! Believe it or not, it made the game so much more fun to play and watch) - It was installed on every computer in all internet cafes (not as many people had their own PCs back then that's why internet cafes were so popular) - It's open world (GTA series were pretty much the only game series that allowed you to steal and drive any car you see around the map and you can also kill pedestrians and police can start chasing you and you get the idea) - It had a pretty good soundtrack.
Pretty good soundtrack? PRETTY GOOD!? My fuck, kids these days are so spoiled. Back when Vice City released, the only game with a licensed soundtrack that even came close to it was Gran Turismo 3: A-spec, and the open world concept was only unique in terms of 3-D graphics. Ultima, Fallout, and Baldur's Gate did 2-D open worlds in the 80s and 90s, respectively.
I prefer Saints Row 2's design for sandbox gameplay and missions. It splits the story with fun activities and it makes the city much more fun to explore over doing in game missions like in Vice City that feel like some activity from Saints Row 2.
The soundtrack was so good. I was mostly listening to music and just playing the game in the background. It nailed that feeling of Miami Vice playing "In the Air Tonight" while driving down the streets of Miami. By far, my favorite of the series.
The vibe, the map, the missions, those awesome radio stations, the vehicles and the main characters... These are some of the things that made GTA Vice City a very good and enjoyable game. I remember that I never in my life had to install a single mod for that game to enjoy it, that's how much I loved it! I love GTA IV, GTA San Andreas and GTA V, but Vice City is just very special to me. Damn, I had a good childhood...
Tommy is the most likeable character GTA has ever deployed. Also, the ost is so phenomenal. The plot is awesome, even though is heavily inspired on the Scarface movie. The atmosphere is just bliss, the dialogues are well put together. Yeah, GTA 3 may have been the inovartor and the template, San Andreas has the memes, but to me, Vice City and IV has the best characters and plot. I really fekg invested in both Tommy and Nico's story.
@@tylercouture216 Same for me. GTA V was a pile of shite. It's gone too far away from the original spirit of the games, there is no thrill anymore in most of the missions.
It was so good because of the atmosphere, the music, the characters, the story, the acting, the gameplay, just everything came together to make it the nutz.
I haven’t bothered with another GTA after this one and Vice City Stories but I’ve been told by people that grew up during the 80’s that those games really feel like a time capsule. Really wish Rockstar would take another shot at that time period or at the very least remake those games.
I’ve always preferred Vice City over the other two games in the GTA 3 trilogy. It was always more fun and had the best written story out of the three games. I’d even call it a masterpiece. Hell, it’s even more of a masterpiece than any of the other titles in the series.
Naw man. The soundtrack and nostalgia are what's driving this opinion. San andreas had better gameplay, a more involved story, gta iv was all about realism the original trilogy dreamed of having, and gta v is the best overall package in every category.
@@buhshmuh Doing things better doesn't automatically make it the better game, the RE2 remake does a lot of stuff better than the Original, but the Original is still the better game, also no one plays GTA for realism.
@@Puremindgames re2 remake is way better than the original, that's not even debatable. The controls in the original are shit, the graphics suck as they were that weird ps1 awkward 3d era, and the new one has superior gameplay overall. Realism made gta iv unique but yeah not my favorite either. Vice city was the awkward entry with growing pains in the series
Can u just say, this games facial animations kind of slept on. They look awesome! I never noticed it because when I played it I was like 7 and it was on a crt.
20:11 I remember being so sick of this mission as a kid that I put on the 'Cars Fly' cheat. It was pretty funny seeing him fly away and crash into things.
The story
The atmosphere
The humor
The characters
The vehicles
The setting
The soundtrack
The gameplay
The EVERYTHING
Don't forget the pedestrians and their quotes
And the shite they talked about on the radio
Dont forget the memories
The gameplay? Not sure about that, but everything else is good
Flash fm
The game which is 18+
Becomes everyone's childhood.
On everything 🙌🙌🙌
Sad
I bought it used at a GameStop and they didn’t care
And it will be 18 years old in October. Finally I can legally fuck my copy of Vice City.
It is sad because back then GTA games were made for adults ... And then they realised it's a major success among kids so they're no longer targetting grown-up. Yes I'm talking about you GTA online
Driving around Vice City at night. Listening to Emotion 98.3. It felt real.
Dance Hall Days would not hit the same if I hadn't heard it through this game.
Couldn't imagine anyone else being the DJ, Fernando Martinez.
Lmfao yes
I couldn't agree more
Emotion......not Flash?
The “Mission Passed”-tune is probably the best and most satisfying mission passed-tune in any game ever.
1:07
Yeah baby
GTA 4 is good too
Lol my favourite is GTA Sanandreas Mission Passed Respect+ theme
My favorite is the GTA 3 mission passed tune. It's really catchy.
Honestly
Still my favorite GTA game! I would also let my younger sister play at the time. Her favorite thing to do was steal a taxi and just drive around picking people up and dropping them off. Every time I came back to the game, I would have tons of money from letting her do taxi missions for an hour or two. Thank sis, lol
what a lovely little story 😃 that's the best thing about gaming imo the good memories you create with them
Okay, That's adorable!
Not sure if you meant it but I remember that phrase: Makin Bacon from the first ever GTA I used to play back in 1998 !
I loved that game so much... trying to run over all those Hare Krishnas... GOURANGA!!
Based older brother
Lmao my sister also loved doing that in San Andreas
Fastest in game vehicle. Tank with turret point to the back.
You can actually fly with the tank in GTA3 lol
@Scribbled Intellect you're right lol
But as VC is basically just another GTA3, maybe it is possible there too?
I haven't tried honestly :-D
@@a.r.4822 what about the fighter jet in SA??? The game turns to mush at top speed
@@CrayZgunZ yeah what about it? tell me, you started to mention it lol
@@a.r.4822 i mostly flew with the tank. You can reach the upper border in opposite to choppers and planes
Australia: takes the hookers out of GTA III because prostitution is immoral
Also Australia: prostitution is legal
Sort of. Prostitution in the form of brothels is legal, but any other sort is illegal (e.g. street prostitution).
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 it was huge up in Winnipeg during the 00's it was ridiculous. Vivid memories walking home and told to stay away from women standing in the same place during the days with no bus stop bear by.
Tonny Abbott : Hell yeah!!!!!! Why did you not just tried the real experience than just playing video games my child?
Paying a hooker for sex than running her over and taking all the money she's got was hilarious
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 d
The time span between when Vice City came out, 2002 and when its set, 1986, is comparable to going from the 2020 to 2004
Yes
did you just call me old?!
hey hey hey, looks like it's about time for you to delete this comment buddy.
@@zepic9093 shut up kid
except that if you were over age 20 you would realize that not much has changed between 2004 and 2020 compared to 2002 and 1986. The only thing that changed between 2004 and 2020 is the internet got a lot faster. 1986 and 2002 (I was alive for both) were like 2 different eras entirely.
I used to use Emotion’s and Flash FM’s playlists when I gave rides on weekends around my college town. Some people just enjoyed the good music. Others would ask “is this from Vice City?” when songs would change and it’s another song from the game. Such an incredible and absolutely iconic soundtrack.
Those two are my favorite in-game stations too! Along with Wave 103 ( big fan of Tears for Fears and Kim Wilde).
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia Fever 105 is another favorite of mine-I didn’t really appreciate it until I replayed the game until COVID Hit unfortunately
@@mattderynioski1434 My all time favorite station in the game
This game introduced me to Luther Vandross. Thanks VC!
I prefer VCPR
The music, the age it was set up - it was a godsend.
Gta's are like mushrooms, set and setting matters.
@@pukelius4128 Amen
Agreed
@blue100000 na gta vice city was a god send the music was amazing
@blue100000 let people enjoy things
Game: for ages 18+
My dad when the game came out: my 5 year old son will like this
Lol
Sams
You got a cool dad.
He wasn't wrong
@Tankrifiy loser
I love how the city was the smallest, but had more nooks and crannies like alleys and secret entrances that makes it worth exploring. Gta V is waaay bigger but no buildings you can enter, and not much things to discover static buildings etc.
Gta v has the most sercets in the whole franchise.
@@Pelican07.23 ehh idk its big for sure but all buildings to me are just backgrounds don't have significance or cant enter them or lack of easter eggs. Even gta san andreas had more interesting buildings like in san fierro and creepy backwoods areas that felt haunted.
@@cacaman17 san andres was generic when it came to a lot of building's with each one being same with no way to enter them there were many Easter eggs in that game ,but it doesn't come close to gta v with ufos,ghost and zombies that's my opinion tho.
@@Pelican07.23 theyre boring secrets tho
@@weirdwalrus5757 how are they boring? if anything there some of the most interesting serects in a rockstar game.
This game is the reason I found love for the 80's culture. Hope we get to go back to Miami again.
Same here jilly
Omg me too
Yup, Same
Yup totally agree
yep, 80's nostalgia fuel for the 90's kids. lol
The only complaint I had was how tf Tommy couldn't swim.
Ridiculous to have a game set in Miami and not swim.
@Брандон Кeллeр Many people are also not gangsters who can survive jumping off a building.
And we needed a bigger map and more missions. They cut out the gator keys and some missions for Avery at least
sharks thats why
Because he white 😂🤣
My older sister introduced me to this game when I was about 12. She couldn't beat the RC helicopter mission and asked me to beat it for her. Needless to say, I ended up hooked and we beat the game together.
How'd lookin at candy suxxx go, lol
That aside though, this game is really great
Ironic how that mission isn't even required to progress
@@yobrethren Let's just say that there were certain parts of the game my sister did not let me play.
@@PewPewBeets hahah, yeah, i'd figured
You have a nice sister
Honestly that mission wasn’t as hard as everyone made it out to be. I got it in one of the other day. And I’m just playing the game seriously for the first time.
I’m not a native English speaker, but when I was a kid I played the shit out of this game and learned 80% of the cheat codes by heart. When I grew up and learned English, the fact that those cheat codes were actual words absolutely blew my mind.
Also, I was the one who all my friends called over so that I could complete the RC Heli mission for them.
Omg sameee and im so glad they actually make sense because it's a pain to remember cheats in San Andreas
Wait what do you mean they were actual words
yeah, learning that LE-AVE-ME-A-LO-NE (read in strong slavic accent) had meaning was crazy
What's your native language?
@@Rude_Boi Ukrainian
I still use the radio stations as background music and playlists to this day. Vice City and San Andreas have amazing soundtracks.
Agreed!
Gta 3 too
The commercials are good too.
San Andreas ads and such weren't as good as Vice City
san andreas had a fucking Horrible soundtrack wym. Vice citys was great but there is probably like 2 good songs in san
The 80s revival thing was still fresh when Vice City came out. Ray Liotta's voice work as Tommy Vercetti is unbelievably good. And the game's script is genuinely funny.
The funny thing about Liotta is IIRC, he said he only did it for the money. Yet still did a damn good job.
@@dksoulstice6040 The fact alone that you played as RL was friggin awesome. THEN the fact that just his acting alone put that game on another level. I admit, that last statement might be a little bias as I like his acting. Then the game was itself was awesome, not to mention ever other top tier actor in it!
I remember buying the game just because it was my first ever GTA game not knowing Ray Liotta was going to be in it, I was kneecap breakingly surprised.
He didn't just phone it in. He voice it like he was actually living it.
We are further from the release of vice city now than the release of vice city was from the 80s.
This was before 80's revival was a "thing" for sure. Like fuck, the 90s were barely over at this point.
"The game 'Grand Theft Auto Vice City' defined my childhood" isn't a sentence anyone wants to hear, but it's how I feel.
It turned me on to the idea that I should really pay attention to music from before my time, and as a musician I'm forever indebted to Rockstar
usually people site San Andreas but the game is way over rated,gta 3 and vice city had a different charm to them
@@Hunt4Yoshi San Andreas was to a lot of black kids what Vice City was to me. All love and no hate.
Metal Gear Solid defined mine. It's all good.
I owned 3 GTA games - 3, Vice City, and San Andreas. All 3 were significant for me. I liked the throwback element of the latter 2 games, and the cultural stuff, including but not limited to the music, made a big impact. In HS I loved old school hip-hop, so that backdrop was very welcome for me at the time.
...But ultimately, I'm with the last person who commented... The impact of GTA in my life was nothing to MGS
👣📦🔫🚁🐸🚬🦊
One underrated aspect of this game is how it really opens up once you have the mansion. Suddenly it’s not a semi-linear story about revenge, it’s now up to you to take over the city as a crime lord. You can keep doing the story missions and clamp down on businesses with Lance, or you can buy new assets and do those missions (Malibu Club, Film Studio and Print Works having the most interesting new story content) to generate cash, and if you’re bored of that, there’s a Love Fist concert that needs your help and a Haitian/Cuban gang war that you help start, participate in both sides in, and help finish off. And a lot of it is optional. I completely skipped the Malibu missions when I first played it because it was so expensive, and now I realize that I missed a big portion of the game.
Grand Theft Auto: Florida Man
Lol
Florida Man showers city with porn posters
Florida Man enters a building in a motorbike and jumps on top of buildings and switches spotlight into image of woman's breast.
Florida Man kills 30 taxi drivers in an empty compound.
Florida Man destroys glass panes at local mall.
Florida Man saves European band Love Fist from a car bomb planted by a crazy fan.
Florida Man kills 68 drug dealers using a BAR mounted helicopter.
Florida Men Disguises as cops and plants a bomb inside a local mall.
Florida Man jumps over a local Ammu-Nation store while riding a motorbike.
guys, keep this meme going.
@@sxcxoxrxn Florida man collects 100 mayan artifacts for a millitary-grade helicopter located at his friend's house
Florida man pilots a boat around the water to collect water-proof coke around Vice City
@@fleurdesaint Florida Man kills Italian Chef over phone
Florida man sells coke as ICE cream to 50 pedestrians.
I was 12, knew nothing about 80's back then. But fell love with the music and the surroundings, all the palm trees - loved it all.
I was the same age, and since VC i love 80s music, Just feel connected to it through this Game. It is funny when i say that too people that really lived in the 80s :D
@@just-fun-stuff6753 Well, as someone who lived through the 80's, I thought most of the music sucked then. Now after all this time.... I think it still sucks!
T. Riley Roo most the “80s” songs I like are actually from the 70’s. I like 80’s hip - hop though.
I became obsessed with the 80s
This game turned our whole gen on to 80s... before this it was still kind of corny. you're not alone my guy
I’d kill for a proper HD remake of this game; the music, the characters, the setting- it’s all there. It just needs to be remade!
GTA Online has enough cars that fit the Era of Vice City. Just lacking some 80's Utility Vehicles.
Nowdays it wouldn't be possible for sure. I really doubt I'll get the licenses for all that Spotless music catalog they had back then.
@@TheNewBerser They still sell the old games so the Licenses still count plus older songs have cheaper licensing. Or at least I presume they are not as costly as GTA VI/V
@@MadShadow_ actually the versions of the games on the PlayStation Store are missing songs such as Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, Kate Bush - Wow, among others.
I'd rather an _aesthetic_ remake - something that polishes up the models, effects, and animations to an acceptable level for all future releases. There's a reason many Japanese PS2 games don't need full remasters.
I was 6 when VC came out. This was a game that made even my dad nostalgic and he wasn't into video games but he loved watching me play them. It made him nostalgic for the 80's. I was there day one for 3 too. My dad always explained games to me. This isn't real life. This isn't how you act in reality, you don't do wrong things in real life. My dad was always there to explain to me. Our favorite movie is also good fellas. Scarface is. Close second. My point is, I'm thankful for my father. He's as pumped for the remaster as I am. I thank God we have the memories we have. I mean that.
Your Dad seems like a grounded type of fella, no point wrapping people up in cotton wool, educate them to deal with it.
Have a good day bud
Because it was pure freedom and epicness! I loved it soooo much. And so much details :D I still listen to radio emotion with Fernando Martinez and even the commercials on the radio station are awesome :D haha
The ads are epic
Haha du auch hier xD
Moin Kolja :D
Emotion radio was the fucking best! Always opening up with Foreigner!😭
coming to PSvita soon ;D
When a game captures the 1980's atmosphere SO WELL that even people who were born in the 90's and later loved it (not to mention being interested in 80's music), then you know it's good.
Well I mean... I watch films from the 1910's and still love them and I was born 1999, not all people automatically dislike anything that was made or set before they were born.
I agree though, this is a good game.
@Keksimus Maximus im 24 i love the 80s
As a Miami resident, I always found Vice City to be so charming. It's like a mini-Miami where all the landmarks are there, but the locations are way off, and everything is so adorably tiny. I think I have a small bias there in my love for this game.
The sky box is on point too even for a very old game.
Same here, lived here since the 80’s
@@TheLinkIsLost
Back when this game came out I was working my very first job in Miami Beach. It's incredible how the art team captured the feel of a place with goddamn PS2 graphics. Imagine going home after work after dealing with the causeway traffic, to go play... at work. Anyway, I also moved here in 80's when I was born.
I've lived in South Florida for most of my life, since the early 70s. I remember playing this game with a friend and we were always shocked at how so many of the areas in the game perfectly captured areas in South Florida. The Fort Lauderdale strip and Boca Raton were areas we were very familiar with and we could even tell which streets (and back streets) were copied from real life.
Yes! Exactly! Plus the 80s era with the music and clothes were a huge turning point for Miami at that time. It was starting to go through a renaissance and eventually put back on the map in the notoriety sense.
That would be enough reason for me to start in the snow business. This city is like one big 🐱 just waiting to get F!
Simple Answer: Because it was set in 80's Miami
Cocaine reference?
Greatest decade ever
@@MrEOM41 well depending on what side of the law you were on 😂
I had to drive 8 hours after work last night and was blasting this soundtrack!
I once had VCPR playing on the office radio for like 3 days before anyone realised it wasn't a real radio station, and that interviews started sounding like they were repeating
@@vyl-za did you get in trouble? Lol
Luke Donaldson Lol damn
@@vyl-za that's funny shit lol.
@@brandon17760 haha na, they never figured out that it was me
I especially love how the rain storm looks at night in vice city. A lot of atmosphere
Dude, yes
And I love a rainy night
@Zinammo haha
@Zinammo I love to feel the rain on my face
The atmosphere when it rained was everything 🥵
How did I never notice that Ray Liotta voiced Tommy Vercetti? By the way, Goodfellas and Scarface are two all-time gangster classics! And I agree that this game has a lot of charm and character, and the 80's setting is what really draws me to the game.
The Godfather Trilogy: Am I a joke to you ?
@@joshuathomas2012 Nothing against The Godfather. In fact, the first one is my all-time favorite gangster movie. It's just that Scarface and Goodfellas were the movies he mentioned, so I focused on them.
@@joshuathomas2012 Godfather 3 is
this game deserves a remake or remaster, but this time Tommy should be able to swim
Also be able to climb ledges.
A Vice City remake (or just GTA 6 set in Vice City) would be nice, but Rockstar is 'too busy' milking GTA Online
@Austin King Oh wow, a guy who thinks calling people virgins is some sort of insult. What is this, 1986? Rockstar could make a GTA 6 with GTA Online and the 'godly amount of money' would still be pouring in. But keep talking about running a business means, I'm sure you've got an MBA and would love to flex on us peasants on TH-cam.
@@loganbigmo well everyone should remain virgin till marriage
@@pk417 No, that depends on each person's choice. Not everyone wants to get married.
my aunt bought me this game when I was in 5th grade. To this day if I ever get rich I'm going to make her rich too
Awwwww!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
Adowable
i swear bro i have 2 aunts and they always buy me stuff .. i wanna make them rich too .. god bless
You can become rich, just get a lot of money and thats it
@@rainbow2.086 are you sure?
That was my first GTA game.
lambert, lambert, what a prick.
Same
Same. The white admiral is the first car I drove.
That was my first ever game
Same here
I bought the complete soundtrack, it was a CD for every radio station. I think I still have them somewhere but it definitely had one of the best soundtracks of any game.
The thing I liked about Vice City is that the City felt alive and changed as you played. I remember the talk radio station would mention stuff the player did, or parts of the city changing as you completed missions.
This was absolutely the pinnacle of the series for me.
The music, the DJs, the setting, everything was just spot on. And the fact that Tommy is voiced by Ray Liotta is just incredible to me. That brought a level of authenticity to the game that was just so rare back then. Aside from maybe Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher, I don't recall many Hollywood actors doing voicework (well at least not as the main character, I know GTA III had a great cast as well). It's now commonplace, but at the time, it was pretty much unheard of.
I also really appreciate that the map is a reasonable size. That's one thing I didn't like about San Andreas and GTA V. They take forever to travel and driving feels like a chore. GTA San Andreas alleviates that a bit because of the music and the multiple cities. But I still don't enjoy having to trek through so much nothingness to get to my missions.
Na the annoying map is what made it great just like having to drive annoying distances in real life
gta vice city was boring with the same reppetetive missions and just meh. It's the nostalgia talking to you not that it was the peak. GTA is set for driving and shit like that but the map in vice city was so small that it you know everything after you finish the game and then theres nothing to do.
Unknown -Agario not true, I have all the fucking GTA games (and I mean all) and Vice City is still my favorite and the one that I play the most
@@shinakuma9 if you like it it doesnt mean its the best
Unknown -Agario same thing about San Andreas
I love this game so damn much. Played through it multiple times, theres just something magical about the atmosphere. Music is also 10/10.
And the fucking The Driver mission didn't get any easier every time, right?
Had more ppl killed then vice city had residents :D
Vice city was my life
I still remember it took half hour for me to install it on my p4 pc
I asked my friend why its taking soo long
He replied
Dude
Its installing an entire city on a pc
I was amazed by technology
The sound effects of vc
On a 5.1 speaker was such an amazing feeling
I played vc every day
For 3-4 hours
I can type cheats more faster on a keyboard than my own name
I think having a small map really holds the story back! Look at San Andreas since the maps so big you can tell multiple unique stories through the games.
Half an hour wasn't unusual for the time. Or maybe my PC just sucked.
@@CarrotConsumer even now that's not terrible time. I bought Payday 2 for my old shittier PC, that somehow managed to run it, took me almost the whole day. 10am to about 6-7pm.
The only reason my kid self that didn't speak English knew how to spell aspirin and what it is
TORTOISE
One of the best games of our childhood feels good to see a video of this again
-and i also clicked because of the tumbnail
"Anyone who tells you this game hasn't aged is either lying or delusional."
You calling me a liar, Frank? That what you calling me?
Grim Fandago rules
I'll take delusional, it's not that bad
What are the chances, i was reading comments with the video playing and i come past your comment and i read it in my head and in the video he said it in sync with me
@southpark 981 You can -mode- mod it on Pc.
you know what a hassa is frank? issa pig who don't fly straight
9:38 "The only difference is that Tommy survives his penultimate shootout. Tony, well we all know how that went"
Scarface 2006 video game says hi
Yeah, we need Gmanlives to review SCARFACE: The World Is Yours.
which is probably one of the best videogames made off a movie. alongside Riddick and Goldeneye, and the Scott Pilgrim one.
@@nevadaxelizabeth Don't forget The Warriors
The only game that really needs a remaster because without mods it's unplayable and even then it's a hastle. But damn is that game amazing.
If Rockstar made remakes, this game’s first in line.
I would pay premium for that
Same. It’s crazy that Mafia was remade before Vice City although I’d love a Max Payne remake
jacksonbear1 i mean mafia is not made by rockstar
Gta 4 and san andreas deserve a remake not this garbage
@@rainbow2.086 yes san adreas deserves a remake. because I can't play a game with that shitty graphics
I haven't finished original vice city, cuz i got bored quickly since i was playing it after GTA 4 and eflc probably. But my first GTA was vice city stories on PSP during elementary school years, that game was a blast for me when I didn't even know english at all and was trying to figure out what to do on the missions by myself and my classmates.
yo u r a gdash veteran and a gta playa, one of the true gamers out there
You're the legend, homie.
@@toesucker5741 You’re brothers a busta!
Vcs needs more attention
@@BloxCops vcs was amazing. Lcs just seemed like a gta3 expansion
"This is...Emotion..." then driving around listening to Crockets Theme.
You know, in the heist mission "The driver" , the Sentinel has actually a bigger advantage once you realize that car is based on a BMW 7 series, you know, the one that came with V8s and a V12 IRL, so ingame that car has better top speed and handling than Hillary´s Sabre Turbo.
It was Rockstar trolling non car guys by giving them a boxy car agains´t a car with a racing stripe... you know, the racing stripes give your car +20 Horsepowers.
i was stuck in that mission for days as a kid. recently i bought the ps2 classic version for ps4 and completed the mission on my 4th try. Once you know the route, it's not that hard
its the "all show, no go" attitude of those vehicles. good eye on that, i guess that mission was a bit hard cause Hilary was accurate on the driving.
I wish they'd do the same with gun guys. Instead they make the mini-30 an "assault weapon"
I just turn on flying cars and let Hilarry sail into the ocean
@@sureokk speaking of the Ruger in Vice City, it has oddly low rate of fire which used to bother me. Then I got into the world of guns and found out that the real-life counterpart of the VC Ruger is semi-automatic at best so now I'm assuming Tommy just taps the trigger fast enough to make it pseudo-full-auto.
It's still weird how Rockstar hasn't bothered with making recoil at least in form of random spread during continious fire while giving some NPCs hilariously large inaccuracy in form of the random spread cone being so huge they can't reliably hit you even from the 5 m distance.
UPD: fixed grammar.
I grew up in Miami in the 80's, so most of the games little details are right on. There's even neighborhoods called Little Havana and Little Haiti. I was even surprised to hear the police dispatcher's accent in the game.
Must have been awesome living in the real VC world Back in the day :)
Bullshit you’re from a loony bin in Romania
Journey awaits how dare you say that to agent 47
@@Journey_to_who_knows Very funny lol
@@gatorhunter1 you must be old lol.
The color palat was actually one of the main appeals for me, this game offered alot more color than many other PS2 games which tended to be very green, grey, and brown.
Yep
Characters: Rosenberg from Carlito's way, Carrington: Senator from Godfather; Baker: Waingrove from Heat; Danny Trejo, is Himself; that one guy is Lebowski.
I was suprised GGG never mentioned Rosenberg being from Carlito's Way. I watched that film for the first time a few years ago and was like ohhhhhh shit it's Ken.
Which guy is Lebowski?
Killing carrington in LCS was kind of sad.
@@stevepoolosaur1721 - GGG also mixed up Lance's brothers. The brother who is gunned down was Lance's little brother while the character you play as in VCS was his older brother.
You rarely find a talented cast like this in a blockbuster film.
And there is a heavy dose of Miami Vice
Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one
But the kid is not my son
She says I am the one, but the kid is not my son
More updates soon.
Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure now I shall reign in blood!
😁😂😂😂👍
Papito quieeres una manzana
Then I crashed off my scooter
Vice city looked so real when I first played it.
Dude listening to that opening brought tears to my eyes. The feelings are real.
Vice City was my first GTA experience and even though it may not be the best , the soundtrack and putting in the cheat code for a tank, will forever hold a special place in my heart.
Nah, it's the best
@@DW-nb2zc i agree
Honestly for me back when I first got it and the news I heard about it I thought it was going to flop, especially after the news about the struggles rockstar had with working with the voice actors * cough cough Ray. But point being it has done a great send off to people who grew up in that time. Equivalently it has done an ever better job to introducing kids-teenagers to a nostalgic time they never did live but instead heard of from their elders. But as I said anything from the atmosphere and music, it was a massive staple in gaming same as GTA 3 was when it first came out.
Ray was a garbage person.
What did ray do?
@@diamondice7261 Ray was a huge ass to Rockstar employees when he voiced the game.
Notably they said sometimes he was perfect and into it, and other times he really didn't care and in general he underestimated how HUGE games and GTA were in 2000-2002.
Even one of the heads of Rockstar at the time had to TELL HIM OFF because he was being so obnoxious to not only the people with him in the VO booth, BUT EVEN OUTSIDE OF IT.
@@Sheridan2LT wow, didnt know that, thanks!
@@Sheridan2LT Damn...That's no surprise for Ray...but was it that bad?!
This was the best in the series. I remember playing this in high school. It really set a high bar.
High school? You dont look a day over 20!
@@asee818 And here are some of us who look 40 in their 20s haha
Vice City really is a classic and Vice City Stories too 💯
Its not the best in series take off nostalgia googles, gta5, gta san andreas, gta 4, gta vcs are way better than this
@Cristiano dos Santos Gomes its not the best, gta vice city is like a drop of water when compared to gta sa
The soundtrack, story, and that 80's Florida aesthetic make it my fav GTA game.
Imagine vice city with 2020's graphics, Aaah, i remember those PSP days with Patapon and Various other GTA shit
I think it's a very relaxing game despite its theme of drugs and violence. The sunny beaches and 80s music make the city a very pleasant place to be in. That's why VC and VCS are somewhat more special than any of the other GTAs.
Yeah, I used to just ride around VC, listening to the awesome soundtrack. Good times.
I like your music videos Claude
Are somewhat more special TO ME* than any of the other GTAs
PD: San Andreas clear
gta vc was abouthe the vibe, gta sa was about the gameplay
This is a proff that graphics are not all the game.
and size doesn't matter lol
Well at the time those graphics were pretty damn good
@@Mr69hammertime yup, yet this game still nuts in todays standards, not the graphics but the story.
Cyberpunk 2077 looking at you
@@thefreemonk6938 yeah it's a buggy mess but it's still a beautiful game
Love the 80 vibes. GTA: Vice City looks like my kind of Playground
The good old days of watching my older brother play on his ps2. I remember every time he would leave me in his room, telling me not to mess with his game.
*I always did it anyway*
X D
He was letting u. Teaching u about good games in his own way Lmfao
Still can't overcome the PTSD from Demolition man mission.
Fuck that little bastard helicopter
It ain't that hard xdd
that mission was only hard when we were kids, tried it again recently and completed it with loads of time to spare and no issues lmao
@@smolpp585 i still can't control it on pc lol
The train mission in san Andreas is worse
K-Chat was my jam. Sometimes I'd just listen to K-Chat in the pause menu while doing other stuff
I still listen to the old PS2-era GTA radio stations from time to time. They're all on YT.
Love that stuff.
R.I.P. RAY LIOTTA aka HENRY HILL aka TOMMY VERCETTY the GREATEST PROTAGONIST IN GTA HISTORY. HE WAS THE first protagonist with the voice (Claude didn't speak 😁) and it was PHENOMENAL ROLE. I hope Rockstar gives him respect and tribute in the next GTA 6.
When you get Diaz's mansion, the fun begins.
agree,the cab/printer/malibu missions are SO FUN,even better than some of the nowadays GTA V type of missions
You mean Tony Montana's mansion 😂
Damn, it’s Blue. How do you feel losing to a mute kid?
Chad Vercetti and Chad "CJ" Johnson vs Simp de Santa.
well CJ kinda simped for Catalina for a while
@@gandalainsley6467 for the money though
@@lenny578 well, it only ended because he got cucked , and i just now looked up definition of getting cucked and well (When his wife took her lover in front of him, he knew he had been cucked) and well something similar happened to CJ ,on the upside , when Catalina wanted to CJ to fight with Claude , if they would have fought CJ would beat his ass ( a while back i analyzed which is the strongest their universe protagonist and well , Claude would lose even to James Earl Cash because they are similar in fighting skill ( more or less ) but James has much more physical strength , (he and Victor are only ones that could break necks )
CJ was pretty whiny tho
San Andreas is my favorite game in the series but CJ is the least chad protagonist, sorry.
Vic Vance and Niko (and maybe Trevor) are still my favorites, i confess i never really liked Tommy, something about him just rubs me off the wrong way lol
"The last stance for Lance Vance" still hurts me to this day. He was boy and he just double crossed me like that.
The hardest virtual betrayel Back in the day we went through :'(
Such an unnecessary part of the story, this game is overrated imo
@@BabyKobeeee nah it ain't
babyKobe You only play GTA 5? You’re probably used to terribly written stories and terrible slow gameplay.
@@saltyinc.2762 which is why GTA 5 has been ported over to everything 😂😂 you're way off here buds
Born in '86 too! Lots of fond memories staying over at friends places over the weekend to all-nighter this game as much as possible before having to head back to school on Monday, day dreaming about how we could have handled the last mission better..
“Ran by a bunch of wimps at the time”
*LOL that’s never changed*
@@jank85 That is literally the opposite are you fr?
Loved the vice citty soundtrack
@@jank85 yeah because a billion dollar capitalist company is definitely feeding you marxist propaganda, what is your definition of "marxist" exactly?
@@shemsuhor8763 Good. Our roots were barely acceptable at the time and progress is happening whether you like it or not.
GTA3 was the tech demo, GTA: Vice City was the realization.
That would be san andreas. Vice city more like refined version of the tech demo
Gta 3 a tech demo.....
Wow
@@rastas_4221 That's like saying San Adreas is VC but with bicycles.
You could land on the roofs of buildings so I'll agree on that.
Yes they did originally intend for Vice City to be bigger. They were planning to add in the Florida Swamplands and mentioning of it can still be found in the game files. Supposedly there's an area in the game where you can tell it was supposed to begin. I think the channel that investigated it was called Vadim M or something.
Yeah Vadim M has some good GTA stuff worth a watch.
J.J. It's the area near the airport where there is a boat hanger and where a road breaks into two. One part goes towards a cargo hold building and other goes past the boat hanger and abruptly ends to nowhere. That's where the entrance to the swamplands could have possibly begun.
i remember buying this game when i was 15 in 2003. i immediately fell in love with it. i always loved the atmosphere of the 80s that we see in movies and tv shows, and at that time i was starting to get into metal and hard rock, so having a game that combined both of these aspects really blew my mind. it will always be my favorite gta of all time, even though the sequels are objectively better games, gameplay-wise. but the atmosphere of vice city will always have a special place in my heart
Why do people talk like the game's gone? It's still a great game.
I picked it up shortly after launch because of all the authoritarian hate it received. Been a fan ever since. And yeah, best soundtrack of any of the series. Went and got 3 afterwards, but 3 didn't have the charm. Was a young adult when Miami Vice was aired, so definitely understood the vibe - Freeze Pal! Miami Vice!
Because the graphics and gunplay are outdated, and yes, I still have my PS2 copy tucked somewhere with my PS2 and I also bought the trilogy for PS4. Still fun to play though.
Willz __ that is so true holy shit
@ millenials are literally 30 years old lol
Flimpeen Flarmpoon he means zoomers
The soundtrack was no joke. I have all the music stations on a USB drive in my car. Driving around on a hot day with the windows down and Espantoso blaring is bloody glorious.
I did have to edit the ads out though. That high school humour hasn’t aged well.
This, along with Vice City Stories, was responsible for getting me into '80s music. Before those games, I wasn't familiar with the musicians of the '80s and only grew up listening to '90s music. But those two games were the ones that made me do more research on not just '80s music, but the '80s in general. Overall, while not without its flaws, Vice City definitely had the best storyline of the III era series.
Glad you discovered and are enjoying 80s music. The early 80s were pretty good with so many new and exciting genres coming on the scene. New wave and synth stuff was always my thing. It did start going a bit rubbish later in the 80s though. Great decade though, but I would say that being an old fart now who was 16 in 1985.
Yes...agreed
The 80s were awesome i was born in 94 but the 80s was definitely a Free spirited decade
Did you just say vice city has a better story than san andreas?
@@unknown-agario4115 I'm pretty sure he did.
This game actually had the best storyline (Apart from GTA IV) entire connection in this game was so amazing to experience
The old gta are the real gems💎 well VC and SA are the ones that will live on in my heart forever. Such a good childhood playing these games.
19:36 you cut out the best part of that dialogue
"Dios mio, he shot him! T-there's blood and pubic hair all over the studio!"
This wasn't mentioned. The console versions of the game have trails, which which superimpose currently rendered frames over previous ones to emulate motion blur, and light trails which give the city a more vibrant 80s look, drastically changing the lighting from looking flat. The Neon lights pop out a lot more and reflect, and the sky has more different shades, such as purple to dark purple gradient skies rather then dark blue at night, and a more natural 80s looking miami blue sky, and a beautiful yellow tint on things during sunset. The smoke effects are more apparent. Even the cars in the distance have a little sunlight effect. There's a mod on the PC version that emulates the effect from the console version.
Ah yes, the good old days when they used to take their time and put effort into the little details when making a game, because they couldn't just patch it, and the discs would be used for years, so it would have to hold up.
I still remember when there were no microtransactions. Good times.
Too bad corporate greed is rampant these days.
The console version was soooo beautiful
yup SA also has visual improvement on the PS2 aside from very short render distance
Is it the Vice Cry mod on PC?
I liked trails, but it hurts my eyes after a while.
Played the defenitive edition,
TOMMY STILL CAN'T SWIM
This game is amazing and just an amalgamation of 80's movies and TV. Scarface, Miami Vice, Carlitos Way. Even Friday the 13th when Tommy wears the hockey mask with the chainsaw haha.
And it inspired the scarface game which is awesome on it's own right
Here's my perspective why it was so popular back in the day:
- Cheat codes (Yes! Believe it or not, it made the game so much more fun to play and watch)
- It was installed on every computer in all internet cafes (not as many people had their own PCs back then that's why internet cafes were so popular)
- It's open world (GTA series were pretty much the only game series that allowed you to steal and drive any car you see around the map and you can also kill pedestrians and police can start chasing you and you get the idea)
- It had a pretty good soundtrack.
I agree with everything but with one note - a "pretty good" soundtrack? I would say it was absolutely phenomenal.
*Legendary Soundtrack
Pretty good soundtrack? PRETTY GOOD!? My fuck, kids these days are so spoiled. Back when Vice City released, the only game with a licensed soundtrack that even came close to it was Gran Turismo 3: A-spec, and the open world concept was only unique in terms of 3-D graphics. Ultima, Fallout, and Baldur's Gate did 2-D open worlds in the 80s and 90s, respectively.
@Shaman Xeed Sim City is a sandbox game. The aforementioned CRPG titles were 2-D open world games.
Yeah man, cheating makes all games funnier!!
It was the perfect mix of gameplay, music and sandbox freedom !
Gameplay and gameplay. Got it
And asset missions.
That sums up a lot of games
@@TheTrailerCREAT0R Yes but it was one of the first to do it and probably one of the best at that too.
I prefer Saints Row 2's design for sandbox gameplay and missions. It splits the story with fun activities and it makes the city much more fun to explore over doing in game missions like in Vice City that feel like some activity from Saints Row 2.
The soundtrack was so good. I was mostly listening to music and just playing the game in the background. It nailed that feeling of Miami Vice playing "In the Air Tonight" while driving down the streets of Miami. By far, my favorite of the series.
i listen to 80s music everyday since the first time i played vice city.. this game has become a part of my personality
“I do like In-N-Out Burger, and I’d like to go In-N-Out of Jessica Alba.” Clever, man. Didn’t expect that.
Should've said Scar Jo, Jessica Alba is old news.
Clay3613 There’s only a three year difference between the two of them, and it’s not like she suddenly got ugly or anything.
@@piotrgrzelak2613 We old bruh.
It's kind of what someone's Grandad blurts out during Christmas dinner.
*SCHWACKED*
Your ability to make a strong statement followed by a related in game moments is honestly an art.
The vibe, the map, the missions, those awesome radio stations, the vehicles and the main characters... These are some of the things that made GTA Vice City a very good and enjoyable game. I remember that I never in my life had to install a single mod for that game to enjoy it, that's how much I loved it! I love GTA IV, GTA San Andreas and GTA V, but Vice City is just very special to me. Damn, I had a good childhood...
Tommy is the most likeable character GTA has ever deployed. Also, the ost is so phenomenal. The plot is awesome, even though is heavily inspired on the Scarface movie. The atmosphere is just bliss, the dialogues are well put together. Yeah, GTA 3 may have been the inovartor and the template, San Andreas has the memes, but to me, Vice City and IV has the best characters and plot. I really fekg invested in both Tommy and Nico's story.
I also agree GTA 3 GTA VC and GTA4 are the best GTAs of all time the only reason 5 did good because it was riding on the coat tails of GTA4
Tommy is kind to his allies, the kindest ive ever played. But fierce toward his enemies
@@tylercouture216 Same for me. GTA V was a pile of shite. It's gone too far away from the original spirit of the games, there is no thrill anymore in most of the missions.
No that's niko.
Getting the Apache made you feel like a god.
This was my childhood. Such good gameplay, good music, the 80s vibe, this game is the best!
It was so good because of the atmosphere, the music, the characters, the story, the acting, the gameplay, just everything came together to make it the nutz.
I haven’t bothered with another GTA after this one and Vice City Stories but I’ve been told by people that grew up during the 80’s that those games really feel like a time capsule. Really wish Rockstar would take another shot at that time period or at the very least remake those games.
GTA SA evolved in gameplay, graphics, and map... But GTA VC will never be matched in story, characters, and setting; not even to this day.
I think the GTA VC graphics are better. It reflects the 80s very well
The game was fantastic. SA perfected the formula and did the 90's Cali scene very well. They both did their respective settings excellently.
gta 6 has to be in 80s vice city
SA is a bit Overrated VC is the best
Character sucks
gta sa story and gta 4 story is wayy better than vc, take off nostalgia googles now
I’ve always preferred Vice City over the other two games in the GTA 3 trilogy. It was always more fun and had the best written story out of the three games. I’d even call it a masterpiece. Hell, it’s even more of a masterpiece than any of the other titles in the series.
Clayton Luce I agree with you
Naw man. The soundtrack and nostalgia are what's driving this opinion. San andreas had better gameplay, a more involved story, gta iv was all about realism the original trilogy dreamed of having, and gta v is the best overall package in every category.
@@buhshmuh Doing things better doesn't automatically make it the better game, the RE2 remake does a lot of stuff better than the Original, but the Original is still the better game, also no one plays GTA for realism.
@@Puremindgames re2 remake is way better than the original, that's not even debatable. The controls in the original are shit, the graphics suck as they were that weird ps1 awkward 3d era, and the new one has superior gameplay overall. Realism made gta iv unique but yeah not my favorite either. Vice city was the awkward entry with growing pains in the series
@@Puremindgames Dude, RE2 Remake shits all over the original game, to the point that the original isn't even worth playing anymore.
Can u just say, this games facial animations kind of slept on. They look awesome! I never noticed it because when I played it I was like 7 and it was on a crt.
"I do like In and Out Burger,and i would like to go In and Out of Jessica Alba"
-GGGmanlives,July 2,2020
A True American
Tomorrow on Twitter : Jessica Alba accuses Gman of sexual harassement, Gman's channel is immediately deleted and his life ruined.
Words to live by
Wise words
"I love In-n-Out Burger and I'd also love to go in-n-out of Jessica Alba..." = SUBED.
ah, i see you're a man of culture as well
That was the most American thing ive ever heard. And I lolled
I'm sure you would.
As someone who lives in Florida, I can confirm that the land around here is very, very flat. A lot of the hills we have are man-made.
Florida man mad at flat land, makes hills.
20:11 I remember being so sick of this mission as a kid that I put on the 'Cars Fly' cheat.
It was pretty funny seeing him fly away and crash into things.