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Grand Theft Auto - Vice City

  • 25-02-2016 10:47PM
    #1
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭


    Ok shutup a second ok. This game was released on PS2 in 2002 and was set in the 1980's. I played this game as a teenager and loved it. I thought cool the 80's, wow olden times.

    Ok shut up. That game was released 14 years ago now. When it was released, 1988 was 14 years ago....from 2002. You get it?

    So that means they could release a game now set in 2002 and today's teenagers would have the same feeling of being transported back in time to a different world of olden times???

    2002 was yesterday....what the f*ck brick d*ck is happening?


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  • #2
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Prefer the medieval setting of Ocarina Of Time myself


  • #3
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭valoren


    That soundtrack. Brilliant.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Any time before you were born seems long ago, any time after you were born seems like it was only yesterday.


  • #5
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    That is quite a thought. I was 12 at the time playing that, the 80s seemed so alien.


  • #6
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    valoren wrote: »
    That soundtrack. Brilliant.

    Yeah I found the soundtrack was as much a part of the experience as any other part of the game if you get me, it was outstanding.


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  • #7
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I know the exact answer to your post, but you told me to shut up!



    Twice!!!


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I liked it because I remembered all those songs.

    This thread makes me feel old.


  • #9
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs


  • #10
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Luiz Guzman was the star of that game. Ricardo Diaz, what a guy.

    Outstanding soundtrack.

    III, VC and SA were the peak of GTA imo (notable mention for VC stories). Just magic. Still play them the odd time.


  • #11
    One More Toy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Time for the Lance vance dance


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  • #12
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    TPD wrote: »
    That is quite a thought. I was 12 at the time playing that, the 80s seemed so alien.

    I felt like that playing it also. I didn't like the feeling at all tbh, the terrible fashion and hairstyles and some of the music just really turned my stomach.


  • #13
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    2002 was yesterday....what the f*ck brick d*ck is happening?

    You're dying.


  • #14
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I felt like that playing it also. I didn't like the feeling at all tbh, the terrible fashion and hairstyles and some of the music just really turned my stomach.

    Made you feel...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rg3sAb8Id8

    (2002)


  • #15
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I felt like that playing it also. I didn't like the feeling at all tbh, the terrible fashion and hairstyles and some of the music just really turned my stomach.
    GTA III was set in present time, that would be easier for someone who's 12 or whatever. But of course their target market was probably 18-30. I was 20 when VC came out, loved it. I remembered a lot of the music and loved the vibe. The whole Scarface/Miami Vice thing was great fun.


  • #16
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    TPD wrote: »
    That is quite a thought. I was 12 at the time playing that, the 80s seemed so alien.

    I lived through them and thought much the same. It was the hair and the day glo gloves, I think.


  • #17
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    terrible fashion and hairstyles and some of the music just really turned my stomach.

    That can't be what teenagers think about the late 90's early 00's now?


  • #18
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,131 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Gold by spandau ballet always reminds me of vice city. I don't really remember much about the game besides the music tbh.


  • #19
    GAAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    That can't be what teenagers think about the late 90's early 00's now?

    I coach 14/15 year olds, yes it is! They think we were practically the Flintstones due to not having smartphones etc


  • #20
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    Being chased with a 3* wanted level, mow down 20 pedestrians, 20 more with a drive by shooting, plough a couple of cops down while you're at it, eventually get pulled out and arrested by a Cop, and hear.....

    "Tommy Versetti is an innocent man!"


  • #21
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    GAAman wrote: »
    I coach 14/15 year olds, yes it is! They think we were practically the Flintstones due to not having smartphones etc
    One thing that ages Breaking Bad (season 1 released in 2008 ) is the distinct lack of smart phones. All flip phones!


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  • #22
    GAAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    Joeseph Balls wrote: »
    Being chased with a 3* wanted level, mow down 20 pedestrians, 20 more with a drive by shooting, plough a couple of cops down while you're at it, eventually get pulled out and arrested by a Cop, and hear.....

    "Tommy Versetti is an innocent man!"

    You got taken alive?? Wimp!

    :pac:


  • #23
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    That can't be what teenagers think about the late 90's early 00's now?

    I think there was just something kitsch about the 80s culture that I didn't like, things like electro pop and big hair rock. I thought 1970s were cooler, there was something dark and edgy about that decade. I would love to see a GTA set in that time.


  • #24
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Doing the ice cream route was good craic. :o Taking out the police helicopter with the rocket launcher, oh yas.


  • #25
    duffman13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,280 ✭✭✭duffman13


    Laszlo on chatterbox radio was class, his phone in on vice city was hilarious. What a game!


  • #26
    topmanamillion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭topmanamillion


    Great game. Only played it for the first time a few weeks back. Bought a bundle of 5 GTA games on steam for E10.


  • #27
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    GAAman wrote: »
    You got taken alive?? Wimp!

    :pac:

    Sometimes you gotta take it on the chin.
    I was out the next day anyway..


  • #28
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I think there was just something kitsch about the 80s culture that I didn't like, things like electro pop and big hair rock. I thought 1970s were cooler, there was something dark and edgy about that decade. I would love to see a GTA set in that time.
    A 70s San Francisco (San Fierro) GTA would be amazing actually. Have a real Dirty Harry/Kojak vibe going on. But then are you a bad guy, a detective who goes by his own rules or a dirty corrupt cop on the take?


  • #29
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    KungPao wrote: »
    A 70s San Francisco (San Fierro) GTA would be amazing actually. Have a real Dirty Harry/Kojak vibe going on. But then are you a bad guy, a detective who goes by his own rules or a dirty corrupt cop on the take?

    Why not all 3? They had 3 characters in the last game.


  • #30
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    Why not all 3? They had 3 characters in the last game.
    True!
    We should tell Rockstar. Would be a class game.


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  • #31
    Eutow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭Eutow


    Nerd alert - Did anyone else deliberately wait till it was raining at nightime to complete the Juju Scramble mission? This was one of the Auntie Poulet missions to retreive three stashes of drugs.


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