Mar 24 2011
Return to Vice City
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I guess today’s art day here on Unreality, between my custom made skateboard, my comic and a few DeviantArt offerings. Well here’s one more for you.
I can’t get the artist out of the JPG link, but I’m sure someone will yell at me about it soon enough. In any case, it’s a look at what it might be like if ’80s legend Tommy Vercetti came back to the city that made him famous.
Many people call Vice City their favorite GTA game, but I’m not sure how. Was it just nostalgia? I don’t remember much outside of the plot being awfully close to Scarface 80% of the time and and urban legend that Jimmy Hoffa was buried somewhere on the map. What was so great about Vice City over the other games?
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Nostalgia plays a part (Flock of Seagulls!). It’s also the last GTA game where I felt the world wasn’t too big or too full of random bullshit. It still had that “huge” feeling while you still had some purpose.
The name of the artist is patrick brown, this is the link http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/
Nothing better than cruising down the stretch at night, in a Comet, listening to Jan Hammer. Best GTA by far.
I completely agree. The nostalgia of the 1980′s was heavy and the whole mood was perfect. Its the only one that perfectly captured a time as well as a place. Its also the only GTA where I felt the need to download some of the great forgotten songs on the soundtrack. GTA: San Andreas tried to repeat Vice City’s feel, but it was just a little off, especially when you escaped South Central San Andreas. It just got too big.
Vice City Stories for PSP was also a winner.
VC was/is the best GTA game ever
SA takes second place, it was just a little too big..
Vice City rocks, and you better believe it! It’s the expansion to THE most revolutionary sandbox ever, and it tripled the amount of content of GTA 3.
When you think about it, VC added more fresh stuff to the game, than GTA IV.
you can see niko belic on the railing haha
vice city’s fame lives mostly just on nostalgia (i played it again just 4 weeks ago) and now im playing san andreas again.
and GTA:SA is by far more content/better made then vice city but maybe the setting isnt the best for every one and vice city is 80′s stuff and honestly who doesnt love the 80′s
The fact that I was just content to sit in the car listening to some Flash FM, whilst watching the sun set is more than enough to give this game the credit it deserves.
First five minutes of the game..you get in a car, and Billie Jean is playing on the radio. That is how you start a game!
No other game save the starting of Half Life 2 has ever managed to suck me into a game the way Vice City did. The places the people, the cheesy dialogues everything about it was just right. I’m too young to have experienced the 80s so no nostalgia here.
Even GTA IV with its supposedly great script was pale in comparison.
Vice City introduced new functionality over GTA 3 that added to the gameplay (e.g. motorbikes and forward-firing on them)… the later games tried to take this too far in a way that made them ridiculously clunky… San Andreas was actually absurd in way that you had to waste time going on virtual dates, going to the virtual gym etc.
GTA 4 was also pretty clunky. To be honest, I was just bored of it.
VC was also bright and fun. And just to echo what everyone else says – the music made it awesome!
I think Vice City had the best atmosphere and overall feel out of all the GTA games but San Andreas was so much bigger and there was so much more you could do. I was really disappointed that GTA IV actually removed a lot of the fun stuff that was in San Andreas.
Did anyone play Scarface: The World Is Yours? Anyone that liked Vice City should definitely play it. There’s a lot in there that makes you go “why wasn’t this in Vice City?”
This was my first experience with the game: walked out of the hotel to the waiting yellow Oceanic, realized what a p.o.s. that ride was, crashed it into a topless fat guy on the Strip, and jacked a passing bike just as “Cum on Feel the Noize” came on the radio.
Epic. Just writing that out shows me how much fun you could have in like 30 seconds in VC. Best game of all time.
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