Grand Theft Auto - Vice City

Shannon757 · 25-02-2016 11:43PM

KungPao wrote: »

True!
We should tell Rockstar. Would be a class game.

I thought GTA 6 is to be set in London...

25-02-2016 11:45PM

I always assumed it was common knowledge that that game was the catalyst for the huge nostalgia for 80s music people that people had from about 2003 onwards. When I was a teenager playing that game I used to love the soundtrack for Wave 103.. getting nostalgic memories now too for GTA san andreas in late 2004 .. good times!

KungPao · 25-02-2016 11:50PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

I thought GTA 6 is to be set in London...

Didn't hear about it tbh. Rockstar are hard to second guess though, who knows really.

But I suppose a trip away from San Andreas state and Liberty City wouldn't be a bad idea. Freshen things up a bit.

Eutow · 25-02-2016 11:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I always assumed it was common knowledge that that game was the catalyst for the huge nostalgia for 80s music people that people had from about 2003 onwards. When I was a teenager playing that game I used to love the soundtrack for Wave 103.. getting nostalgic memories now too for GTA san andreas in late 2004 .. good times!

I don't think there was a bad station on Vice City. San Andreas, you could say was just as good in its on way. SF-UR and Radio Los Santos probably the standout.

25-02-2016 11:53PM

Also OP, I think that part of the reason for what you are feeling (and I feel the same way as you) *actually is* because the jump in living standards, technology, peoples behaviour, the "culture", the social norms and expectations etc. of the day *actually did* change much more between 1988 and 2002, than between 2002 and 2016. Hell, even between say 1993 and 2000, things changed HUGELY with regard to each of the above, in Ireland anyway.

smurgen · 25-02-2016 11:58PM

Driving around on a Faggio with Michael Jackson's Billy Jean blaring shooting pedestrians and pulling stoppies.good times!

KungPao · 26-02-2016 12:01AM

Eutow wrote: »

I don't think there was a bad station on Vice City. San Andreas, you could say was just as good in its on way. SF-UR and Radio Los Santos probably the standout.

K Rose was a favourite of mine...and I don't even like country music.

Schwiiing · 26-02-2016 12:01AM

:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:

Bulbous Salutation · 26-02-2016 12:04AM

I'm not much of a computer game player. I will be buying the sequel to Red Dead Redemption though. That game was extraordinary.

Agricola · 26-02-2016 12:05AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

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???

Yeah but the 80's had a very distinct look and vibe compared to the early 2000's. Miami Vice pastel suits, slip on shoes and that soundtrack were worlds apart from when the game was actually released.

2002 surely can't be that different from now though. There's been no massive fashion swing in those 14 years has there? The music is still shít now like it was back then. I have Tshirts from 2002 for god's sake. I refuse to believe this. No way.

Eutow · 26-02-2016 12:08AM

KungPao wrote: »

K Rose was a favourite of mine...and I don't even like country music.

Ideal music for the truck missions, or driving the sh!tty farm vehicles.

Schwiiing · 26-02-2016 12:14AM

The magic moment you jumped on a bike and it was the PCJ900. Sweet Baba Ganoosh it was a rocket.

Agricola · 26-02-2016 12:16AM

Got to hand it to Rockstar, the moment in the first mission where you jump into your first car and Billy Jean is on the radio.... Just fantastic.

Mint Aero · 26-02-2016 12:18AM

Shut up a second ok. 4 pages and no nostalgia for the mini gun?

jacksie66 · 26-02-2016 12:20AM

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Eutow · 26-02-2016 12:20AM

Agricola wrote: »

Got to hand it to Rockstar, the moment in the first mission where you jump into your first car and Billy Jean is on the radio.... Just fantastic.

Straight from one good tune to another - Self Control by Laura Branigan. "It is boiling in here". Used to just cruise around at night - with the odd drive by - to hear these come on the radio.

El Guapo! · 26-02-2016 12:22AM

What a game.

Sometimes I'd just drive around and listen to the radio. I'd stop at red lights and obey the rules of the road so the police wouldn't interrupt my cruising.

KungPao · 26-02-2016 12:22AM

Agricola wrote: »

Yeah but the 80's had a very distinct look and vibe compared to the early 2000's. Miami Vice pastel suits, slip on shoes and that soundtrack were worlds apart from when the game was actually released.

2002 surely can't be that different from now though. There's been no massive fashion swing in those 14 years has there? The music is still shít now like it was back then. I have Tshirts from 2002 for god's sake. I refuse to believe this. No way.

I agree.

I blame the lack of music movements that influenced fashion. The last significant ones were probably Grunge and Britpop...(hipsters don't count).
Since 2000 or so sh!t has got boring. When you look at videos of say 9/11, the people on the streets just look a little dated with baggier clothes, not hilariously different with massive sideburns or shoulder pads or something. Although they did like their 'taches in the US anyway, but still, not much different. Just crappier phones and Windows XP PCs with shag all RAM.

Eutow · 26-02-2016 12:22AM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Shut up a second ok. 4 pages and no nostalgia for the mini gun?

The mini gun on the PC version was better than the XBox version for some reason.

El Guapo! · 26-02-2016 12:24AM

KungPao wrote: »

I agree.

I blame the lack of music movements that influenced fashion. The last significant ones were probably Grunge and Britpop...(hipsters don't count).
Since 2000 or so sh!t has got boring. When you look at videos of say 9/11, the people on the streets just look a little dated with baggier clothes, not hilariously different with massive sideburns or shoulder pads or something. Although they did like their 'taches in the US anyway, but still, not much different. Just crappier phones and Windows XP PCs with shag all RAM.

Except they're all covered in ash.

Hammer89 · 26-02-2016 12:27AM

My favourite thing to do used to be beating people to death with a hammer.

Anyways, I've never played Vice City or any GTA game so I've got nothing meaningful to contribute.

Agricola · 26-02-2016 12:28AM

KungPao wrote: »

I agree.

I blame the lack of music movements that influenced fashion. The last significant ones were probably Grunge and Britpop...(hipsters don't count).
Since 2000 or so sh!t has got boring. When you look at videos of say 9/11, the people on the streets just look a little dated with baggier clothes, not hilariously different with massive sideburns or shoulder pads or something. Although they did like their 'taches in the US anyway, but still, not much different. Just crappier phones and Windows XP PCs with shag all RAM.

Yeah I think you have to leave technology out of it because that's always going to be a chasm of difference when you're talking about 15 odd years. Sure we were nearly in the Star Trek holodeck back in 2002 playing VC from the point of view of 1988!
But yeah as far as fashion and (facial) hair goes, 2002 doesnt really seem that alien. But then I guess you'd have to ask someone who was just filling nappies in '02 for a true perspective. I'm sure they'd say it was ancient history!

KungPao · 26-02-2016 12:39AM

Agricola wrote: »

Yeah I think you have to leave technology out of it because that's always going to be a chasm of difference when you're talking about 15 odd years. Sure we were nearly in the Star Trek holodeck back in 2002 playing VC from the point of view of 1988!
But yeah as far as fashion and (facial) hair goes, 2002 doesnt really seem that alien. But then I guess you'd have to ask someone who was just filling nappies in '02 for a true perspective. I'm sure they'd say it was ancient history!

Just an anecdote, but my niece and nephew were born in 99 and 2000. A while back I showed them a video of Nirvana playing at the MTV awards, and instead of them thinking it was like watching Status Quo or something else from aeons ago, they actually loved it, and couldn't believe that a real band were rocking it on MTV.

Said nephew adores GTA VC and San Andreas too, so maybe they are just weirdos and most people of that age think 2000 and the 90s were 'whack'.

nullzero · 26-02-2016 12:47AM

Love fist.
Fist till morning.

dasdog · 26-02-2016 12:47AM

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.

I've been hoping for a 70's era one ever since Vice City. Phone booths, hippies, anarchists, Vietnam vets, blacksploitation, muscle cars, kung fu, smack dealers, cults, funk/soul/rock, flares, medallions and other ridiculous fashion. Set in the crumbling districts of NY and the sunshine of post 60's California.

LDN_Irish · 26-02-2016 12:52AM

KungPao wrote: »

K Rose was a favourite of mine...and I don't even like country music.

Introduced me to Free Bird... Bit of a choon.

KungPao · 26-02-2016 12:55AM

LDN_Irish wrote: »

Introduced me to Free Bird... Bit of a choon.

A lot of a tune! But I think that was K-dst?

DJ90 · 26-02-2016 12:58AM

I used to play this game when I was 6 anytime my brother was out of the house because it was the only time he was away from it. I'd no idea what to do so instead I'd steal a bus and drive around the map in it for hours pretending to pick up people and I was happy out!

Arghus · 26-02-2016 02:13AM

Brilliant game. Best GTA, if you ask me. The ones that have come after it have been extraordinary on a technical level, but just simply not as much fun. Vice City got it right: great story, great characters and just the right amount of silliness to help make every visit a joy. It was simply cool being Tommy Vercetti.

I found San Andreas too huge and unweildy, with a central story that didn't grab me.

I appreciated IV, at least they tried to do something new, and I'll never forget my joy when I first discovered you could bounce pedestrians ragdoll style off the front of your car, "now that's progress", I thought; overall, though, the game was too grim and that cousin was too annoying - CAAAAHSSSINNN!!! - for me to really love it. Though The Lost and The Damned: Excellent Game.

V was a work of Art, if you think of all the effort it took to put it together. Despite that, I couldn't warm to it: The characters were douchebags and being in their company eventually got on my nerves. I know that GTA has always been as much a satire on our culture and our media as it is a video game, but I thought with V it had kind of become a parody of itself: the endless cynical referencing and piss-taking of everything made it all seem hollow and nasty, as opposed to chaotic and cool.

KungPao · 26-02-2016 02:36AM

Arghus wrote: »

Brilliant game. Best GTA, if you ask me. The ones that have come after it have been extraordinary on a technical level, but just simply not as much fun. Vice City got it right: great story, great characters and just the right amount of silliness to help make every visit a joy. It was simply cool being Tommy Vercetti.

I found San Andreas too huge and unweildy, with a central story that didn't grab me.

I appreciated IV, at least they tried to do something new, and I'll never forget my joy when I first discovered you could bounce pedestrians ragdoll style off the front of your car, "now that's progress", I thought; overall, though, the game was too grim and that cousin was too annoying - CAAAAHSSSINNN!!! - for me to really love it. Though The Lost and The Damned: Excellent Game.

V was a work of Art, if you think of all the effort it took to put it together. Despite that, I couldn't warm to it: The characters were douchebags and being in their company eventually got on my nerves. I know that GTA has always been as much a satire on our culture and our media as it is a video game, but I thought with V it had kind of become a parody of itself: the endless cynical referencing and piss-taking of everything made it all seem hollow and nasty, as opposed to chaotic and cool.

You'll love this so!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMLVlspD1Y

Grand Theft Auto - Vice City

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