The Official Off Topic GTA Thread

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I usually create my own little story in my head I guess, but I'm getting tired of San Andreas I guess. It's either I've overplayed the game, or it just doesn't suit my personality as well as Vice City.

It's still a great game, but I still think if Vice City or GTA III had the features San Andreas does, it would be a much better game from my point of view. But I guess it wouldn't sell as much.

 

[Small_Fryz]

I havnt played any GTA for a while, but soon i will, between Driv3r GTA SA and GT4 i always have a game to play .

Still have some racing records to aim for in GTA SA

As for VC or GTA3, i just cant be arsed to play it as for what i like doing GTA SA is better. Its bigger, more features etc. GTA 3 and VC had brilliant stories though 👍.

If only GTA SA had a mansion like VC. CJ sucks arse imho, he has barely any respect in SA, T.Vercetti was the man in VC, massive mansion, all the businesses, and king of the crime chains. Compared to TV, CJ is just a little guy.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I love the Mansion. You feel like you own the city. In San Andreas, the mansion doesn't even have a garage. There also needed to be people walking around everywhere or lounging on couches in the San Andreas Mansion. But still, I mean, it continues to be called "Madd Dogg's Mansion". You take over from "Diaz's Mansion" to "The Vercetti Estate". It's just massive, and your gang hangs around. You feel in charge and immune.

I love how you become THE man in Vice City. You take over the city, you become the big guy, you do missions for yourself, kill Sonny Forelli and re-instate your position as the top guy.

I like the fact you gain ownership of a fair amount of businesses, do a couple of jobs to make sure they gain enough money, and you're able to utilise some of the business's services. You can also rob stores, which I really missed. Ray Liotta's voice - what's not to love about that? The 80's music! Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, New Wave, Pop, Funk/Dance, 80's Hip Hop, Latin Music, Love Ballads and two chat stations - one being quite funny. The tropical island. Even though it's small, it's makes an isolated-from-the-rest-of-the-world feel, which gives you an even greater feeling of power. Love Fist! The Ruger! Acid Wash Jeans!

I'm probably giving some people reason not to play the game, but I love it.

Like my recent line of playing GTA, I'll probably only play it for a little while, but somehow, this game for me has more replay value than both of the others. I played Vice City easily hundreds of hours more than the other two games.

 

[Blake]

I havnt played any GTA for a while, but soon i will, between Driv3r GTA SA and GT4 i always have a game to play .

Still have some racing records to aim for in GTA SA

As for VC or GTA3, i just cant be arsed to play it as for what i like doing GTA SA is better. Its bigger, more features etc. GTA 3 and VC had brilliant stories though 👍.

If only GTA SA had a mansion like VC. CJ sucks arse imho, he has barely any respect in SA, T.Vercetti was the man in VC, massive mansion, all the businesses, and king of the crime chains. Compared to TV, CJ is just a little guy.

Read the rules in the first post. Jimmy, I think he deserves a warning

Blake

 

[Small_Fryz]

Driv3r has awesome crash physics, thats why i like it , end over end over end over end over end, flip twice, end over end. 👍 👍

I play it for the driving, not the weapons or killing people. Pure driving and police chases and awesome crashes .

 

[Slick Rick]

Haven been here in a while...
Is there any other way to get a monster truck without dating that girl...the mechanic and without cheats?

 

[Small_Fryz]

monster truck spawns just south of the trucker joint in a caravan (trailer) park. and also spawns outside the 8 track stadium in LS once you win that race.

 

[Slick Rick]

Unconfirmed:

Inside-out World;

Easter Egg: Inside-Out-Town

Note: This will corrupt your save file due to the cheat involved; for best results, pull out your PS2 memory card prior to your attempt.
-Go to the gym in Ganton
-Kill all 4 people inside.
-Use the jetpack cheat.
-Walk to the yellow marker with the jetpack, and fly straight up. You'll go straight up through the roof. Now, land on the roof.
-Fly 2 blocks east, and you'll see a yellow marker. Land right on/near the marker, take off the jetpack, and walk inside the marker.
-You'll enter the Angel Pine Motel building. Grab your jetpack (if you see it), or respawn it again with a cheat.
-You can now fly up, and around the interior universe.

I tried that. I killed the people, flew up but then when you fly east i cant find a yellow marker and then i cant find the gym and then i get lost!

Thats all i see!! It goes on forever and ever it never ends!!

 

[GrandpaLonghair]

Anyone finding it hard to stick to playing San Andreas? I went back to GTA III, and now that I have Vice City back, I'm playing that a hell of a lot. Love that game.

No sir, not at all. I completed SA three times on PS2, & once on XBox but started a new game on XBox yesterday. If SA didn`t exist, I`d still be playing VC, guaranteed. Contrast this with GT4( ), which was fun for about three weeks. I`ll NEVER play GT4 again, guaranteed.

 

[PS]

GTA: VC was the classic of the bunch. The environment, the storyline, the replay value, the sense of accomplishment, it was a stroke of brilliance on Rockstar's part. The game is just...so...amazing.

 

[Blake]

Compared to SA which has very little replay value IMO.

Blake

 

[PS]

Exactly. I spent almost a year playing VC and 2 months on SA.

 

[McLaren]

I usually create my own little story in my head I guess, but I'm getting tired of San Andreas I guess. It's either I've overplayed the game, or it just doesn't suit my personality as well as Vice City.

It's still a great game, but I still think if Vice City or GTA III had the features San Andreas does, it would be a much better game from my point of view. But I guess it wouldn't sell as much.

I like creating my own stories or objectives in SA even if they have no point.
For one instance, I riot the city with guns and use fire helicopter or the big one you get at LV Airport and land in different spots just seeing if I can make it out.

My last one was very successful.

Take my 2 cars from LS all the way around on a Packer to LV going through SF.
Fantastic journey really.

My Cheetah and NSX variant (forgot name) made it all the way safely. 3 hours.

 

[Slick Rick]

One of the reasons i love VC is Tommy Vercetti. Hes got the right look, he says the right things and hes got the voice. I do hope he comes back in another GTA like Ken Rosenberg did. Also the storyline was excellent.
The storylines in SA were good but didnt really stand out. The main storyline about CJ's family, his mum etc...i didnt like though.

 

[RVDNuT374]

I'm starting to think the next GTA will once again feature CJ, but this time it'll be back in LC where he went for 5 years after his brother died.

 

[PS]

One of the reasons i love VC is Tommy Vercetti. Hes got the right look, he says the right things and hes got the voice. I do hope he comes back in another GTA like Ken Rosenberg did. Also the storyline was excellent.
The storylines in SA were good but didnt really stand out. The main storyline about CJ's family, his mum etc...i didnt like though.

It would be awesome if he were a boss you had to take out--like a really hard boss--and he'd go out Scarface-style!


Tommi Vercetti has to have a kickass death...if he ever dies. I'd say he's the one most likely to take over the 3 cities.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

It's just that Tommy rules the whole city. Like PS said to me, you get so much more of a sense of accomplishment with finishing the game.

GTA III didn't have enough extra things to do. San Andreas had too many extra things to do. GTA III's storyline was too underworked. San Andreas' storyline was too overworked. Vice City was perfectly in between.

In GTA III, you were a guy with no past, no real emotion, and nothing to really drive you but to get back at some chick that took your share of the cash at the start. In San Andreas, you started off working your gang to the top of the city, and that was well constructed. Then all of a sudden, you get too sidetracked and the story loses credibiity. In Vice City, you've been sent down to do a job for your old boss. You get screwed over, your boss isn't happy and you start off getting the money back, and trying to find the guy who screwed you over. You find him, kill him, and feel a sense of power. You have the money and the stuff, but you also have the city, and Tommy decides to hit back at his old boss, who's fault it was that you went to jail for 15 years anyway.

There's the mix of emotion and pure revenge from both games. It's also realistically unrealistic. It has realism, but not to the extent that replaying the game again and again becomes tedious and therefore boring and frustrating. I've played Vice City at least twice as much as I've played GTA III and San Andreas put together.

And I'm finally starting to realise why everyone loves the Vice City soundtrack so much more. Even though I would never listen to half of the songs outside of the game, they become background music, therefore less repetitive. And there are some very cool 80's Pop and New Wave tracks that you can't help but like. Gary Numan's Cars? Classic!

And Tommy Vercetti is by far the best character in the entire series. Like somebody has already mentioned, he's smart and very charismatic. The guy is a psychotic genious.

Not liking this game is very difficult, at least for me.

 

[McLaren]

Stop it!
You're starting to make me regret selling Vice City....
Purely enough with GTA, I adapted to setting my own goals and doing [U[what I want[/U] in the game, not what the game wanted.

I could never go back to VC and 3 and it was that way with VC. There were to many things in the sequel I liked.

After SA, I felt constricted with VC and GTA3 due to the size and amount of things to do.

But Vice City definately had the best story line. If you wanted to, you could say Vice City was the best Movie-to-Game title. I mean c'mon, you can clearly see Vice City took many things from Scarface, and I think that was R*'s goal. To make a game where you could play like Scarface, had you seen the movie, while making sure not to stick to the movie's storyline.
And yes, VC's V-Rock was the best station out of all 3 games. I even went out and bought the CD.

 

[PS]

You bought the Vice City soundtrack CD!?


Ahaha. You really do have more money than brains.


...but it's still a sweet CD.

 

[Slick Rick]

You bought the Vice City soundtrack CD!?


Ahaha. You really do have more money than brains.


...but it's still a sweet CD.

Ive got the wildstyle CD....its good 👍

It would be awesome if he were a boss you had to take out--like a really hard boss--and he'd go out Scarface-style!


Tommi Vercetti has to have a kickass death...if he ever dies. I'd say he's the one most likely to take over the 3 cities.

Hell no. I would hate to have to kill Tommy. Maybe work for him though....
Like you said, he would have to be really hard to kill if you were gonna kill him.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I wouldn't do it. Well, maybe I would to complete the storyline. But I wouldn't look!

 

[Slick Rick]

Do you think SA will make it to platinum?
Im not sure because that 'hot coffee' patch means the rating is going to be changed from 18 to adult which will seriously damage sales.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

...and also remove a lot of copies from stores. It will most likely reach platinum, but not reach the heights of GTA III and Vice City.

 

[McLaren]

You bought the Vice City soundtrack CD!?


Ahaha. You really do have more money than brains.


...but it's still a sweet CD.

Because I couldn't find the cds containing the other songs, and its better buying that 1 shot than a bunch of other ones.

 

[PS]

This place has been so dead lately. What's the deal?

In other news, I can't get Kim Wylde's song "Kids In America" out of my head from Wave 103 (I think) in Vice.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

Awesome.

Yeah, I guess GTA isn't being played often enough. I've been playing Vice City, but I haven't got anything to post really. San Andreas is past it's prime, so noone's posting records.

Remember people, there is a Vice City Record Book and a GTA III Record Book!

I've been trying to get online more often though, and I think I've been on more often than in the recent past. Even so, I've been more involved in the Music Forum as of late, seeing that Music is probably the biggest part of my life ... other than my beautiful girlfriend, Ahmie (that was a brownie points plug)!

 

[TwinTurboJay]

Just started a new round of GTA III. I am loving it already !

 

[Slick Rick]

Just started a new round of GTA III. I am loving it already !

Tried that already. Give it a few days and you may get bored. The missions are a bit repetitive.

 

[PS]

Awesome.

Yeah, I guess GTA isn't being played often enough. I've been playing Vice City, but I haven't got anything to post really. San Andreas is past it's prime, so noone's posting records.

Remember people, there is a Vice City Record Book and a GTA III Record Book!

I've been trying to get online more often though, and I think I've been on more often than in the recent past. Even so, I've been more involved in the Music Forum as of late, seeing that Music is probably the biggest part of my life ... other than my beautiful girlfriend, Ahmie (that was a brownie points plug)!

...and she plays GTA. Win-win-win situation.



Bastard.

 

[PS]

Who knows where A) a sniper or B) a bazooka is in GTA 3???? I'm stuck on the mad man mission and really don't feel like running around with an Uzi.