grand theft auto 3, classic or dud?

Just got IV. It's nice, and looks scarily real in parts, but yeah I miss hearing "Owner of a Lonely Heart" while cops chase my Ferrari down the beach.

San Andreas 4 life

GSF 4 LIFE

Head Radio and Lips 106 are now on Spotify, minus the DJ announcements.

http://open.spotify.com/album/6bJvflJ40TDElA6gURc78u

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-metro-police-officer-hurt-pursuit-20190228-story.html

Replaying on my phone. It took me about 30 attempts to pass “kingdom come,” the mission on Staunton island where you are in a parking lot surrounded by “spanked up madmen” with bombs strapped to their chests, laughing and saying “special delivery!”

Can’t find the entrance to the police station

if i'm thinking of the right game, get arrested and you'll get delivered there

Holy shit, this brings back memories. My wife's cousin got us a PS2 for our wedding present in 2002. I only ever bought two games for it: this and Gran Turismo 2.

My wife and I still call Staten Island Stauton Island.

Favorite vehicle anyone? Stinger, Rumpo, and Banshee. IIRC, when you got in a Rumpo, it was always tuned to the Jamaican station.

Police station on the middle island has that sunken car park iirc, there's a small side road off one of the main streets that slopes down into it? I may not rc, it's been a looong time.

Great mission late in the game, “bait,” where you have lure three Cars with 4 Armed Colombians in each around shoreside vale to a trap with 5 yakuza dudes who are on your side

does anyone prefer the original head down gta's to the recent ones?

15 years later but yes, GTA 1 was the best, used to do LAN games of this with my friends in college. Never got into GTA 3+ but 1 and 2 were my jam- especially 1. Classic.

I think if I'd known of the existence of GTA III's Ghost Town back then I would have spent a lot of time dreaming about it.

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

In the late-game yakuza mission “s.a.m.,” you are tasked to use a rocket launcher to shoot down a plane as it lands at Francis International airport. You must travel by yacht to the checkpoint, a buoy off the end of the runway.

When you arrive, you have about a minute to decide to either stand on the back of the boat and wait for the plane’s approach or to consider the possibility of another vantage point. A quick cruise around the vicinity leads to the discovery of a lone, belligerent Colombian gunman (“it’s no thing to kill you”)— as well as a gently sloped boat ramp, which conveniently leads up to the runway. With some speed you can gun the boat up the incline and get off onto the siding without fear of falling in the water.

At the top of the ramp there’s a Cartel Cruiser with 3 soldiers on guard, shamelessly brandishing their AK-47s. Blasting the gunmen with the rocket launcher from a distance seems like a safe bet. But that vehicle could come in handy, perhaps? More elegant is to snipe the three, then proceed gingerly up to the landing strip.

You’ll now have ample time to equip the rocket launcher and wait for the approach. The plane is quick; even with the advantage of a longer lead time down the runway, you’ll need to stay sharp to tag it. When it explodes, eight packages of drugs will fall to the ground, which you will need to collect with haste, as your wanted level spikes to four stars, drawing a police helicopter to hover overhead and take shots at you. Hope you brought your body armor.

Packages acquired, you’ll want the safety of that vehicle to help you get to your destination, the construction site in Staunton Island where the yakuza are hanging out.

The Cruiser is a slow car with a high center of gravity — make the best of it as you head the only way possible — down the runway. Don’t mind the other two gangs of Columbians that are parked nearby, or the random keystone kops that are now hunting you as you speed towards the exit under the wings of 747s.

As you emerge onto the street, you have a choice to take the bridge or the tunnel, both of which will bring you back to Staunton. The tunnel might sound attractive, as it provides natural defense against the helicopter. However, it’s tight; the reckless fuzz won’t hesitate to force you into the walls and traffic barriers. With limited room to maneuver, the environment is ideal for pile-ups and cars catching fire. So, instead, the bridge.

Or — to a pay-and-spray. There’s one just up the way in Shoreside Vale, past a couple of hastily placed police van roadblocks. Once you’ve got your new engine and paint job, “the cops won’t recognize you,” and you can proceed safely back to Azusa.

I finished this game, and yet, I don't remember any of these missions.

I believe I have have played every GTA (except for that Brit spinoff version of 2) and have played quite a lot of most GTAs but I have yet to finish a GTA.

I remember that s.a.m. mission being really hard, trying to escape from the cops at the end

grew up on many gta games but gta v was totally fucking horrible, gameplay and story-wise. absolute dogshit. i got extremely smitten with rdr2 though. their swan song? somehow it had actual heart instead of the usual misanthropy and cynicism. was very well done. i dunno if dan houser departing the studio bodes well or if it means they descend into 15 hour campaigns and constant online add-ons etc

can't see how R* are encouraged to build a new engine for next gen since the one they have been using for 20+ years has worked out pretty well for them! extra dire that gto/gta v is going to be a launch title for the ps5 lmao. they have the resources, skill, talent, and vision to take things to a new place but i don't think they will do it because they have no motivation to do so

https://i.imgur.com/pW5S50E.jpg

Different vantage points of the chopper in the last mission, “the exchange.” https://i.imgur.com/w38A6uU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/PSgjxhs.jpg

The toughest part of this mission is finding the entrance to the dam.

the storyline for gta V was dogshit and i am tired as fuck of their shit - in terms of plot, dialogue etc. - at this point but I honestly really enjoyed the gameplay and thought, at the time, that the rendering of LA/SoCal was amazing - lots of "wow I've been here" moments for me. I would absolutely lap up gta 6

I don't remember GTA 3 missions at all. I seem to remember that compared to vice city and San Andreas it really wasn't that great but it was so long ago - 19 years! - it's hard to say

I kinda think GTA3 had the best mission design of them all

I didn't play GTA3 at the time - I didn't own a PS2 until after Vice City came out. I absolutely loved Vice City and San Andreas, my housemates and I would spend hours playing it communally, but when I went back and had a go at GTA3 it already felt too primitive compared to its sequels. Not being able to get into water without dying was a deal-breaker.

Calstars you should play Liberty City Stories too (not the gtaIV dlc), I'm not sure what platforms it's available for though (I got if for ps2 and vita). It's a truly great tribute to GTA3 in my opinion, using the same map with some alterations here and there.

And it has an absolutely obscene amount of side missions / collectibles

Played it back in the day, in fact bought a PSP to do just that as I believe that was the original platform it came out for.

Yeah, I'd rep for GTA3, the other two of that generation were great too, but something about the balance of discovery vs storyline pulls me in.

Not being able to get into water without dying was a deal-breaker.

It's a game - one of the rules of the game is don't fall in the water.

It was a shit rule. I remember a PS2 Spider-Man game having the same infuriating rule.

It's a game - one of the rules of the game is don't fall in the water.

But it's a game that was revelatory in how it created a living, breathing world, and only reminded you you were playing a game when you fell in the water and suddenly OMG DEAD. If you came to GTA3 from the later iterations that were published only a year later, that difference is jarring.

[hang on, was it San Andreas that introduced swimming?]

The Vice City water is pretty, but deadly.

Anyway to distract from me forgetting you can't swim in Vice City either

Oh MY GOD

My housemate has just revealed to me that for the past MONTH he’s been taking notes of all the things I say to myself whilst playing GTA ...

and turning them into Rupi Kaur poems pic.twitter.com/gIEpTvTrEi

— Reb Day (@reb_day) September 6, 2020

I even picked up my aborted attempt to replay GTA Vice City at the start of lockdown, and the shittiness of the controls when playing it on 360 prevented me from even getting close to any water IIRC

oh PSP, yeah not Vita.

The water being forbidden was one thing, but not being able to climb was my biggest frustration with GTA3.

I mean it was fine back then but returning to it you can really get frustrated with the restrictions, particular the 'not able to rotate cam' thing.

But I find that once settle in and invest time in the game, you get used to it pretty quickly.

I played GTA3 like mad, finished it then planned on going back to do it again with a walkthrough so I could get all the hidden packages but never did.

Vice City I never loved as much, and I got stuck on two missions at once, one of which I think involved flying a remote control plane and other other tearing around getting three things done in some time limit. Anyway, I gave up.

I’m guessing the first one you mentioned is the infamous “demolition man” mission in which you have to pilot an RC helicopter 🚁 to plant four bombs on four different floors of a construction site — with a time limit. The RC controls are difficult to get used to and the copter is slow and unresponsive. There are also construction dudes with hammers and security guards with pistols that chase you around the site — luckily you can tear them to shreds with your main rotor blade if you get close enough to them.

I remember attempting that mission multiple 10s of times before completing it.

The 100 package locations in VC are ingrained in my head - playing that game was all me and my flatmate did for about 2 years.

In GTA3 if you want to 100% it you have to be careful not to kill one of the guys who still has missions for you. Also don't upset the mafia before you've done all the rampages in their area - they basically one shot you with their shotguns.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/3933o7ko43o839/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-and-more-coming-so

In honor of the upcoming anniversary, today we are excited to announce that all three games will be coming to current generation platforms later this year in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and the Rockstar Games Launcher on PC. Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will feature across-the-board upgrades including graphical improvements and modern gameplay enhancements for all three titles, while still maintaining the classic look and feel of the originals. We’re extremely excited to share more about these groundbreaking titles in the coming weeks — stay tuned!

psyched

Will def be happy to revisit Vice City again. Although I hope there isn't too large of a gap until this actually gets released, since...

To prepare for launch, we will begin removing existing versions of the classic titles from digital retailers next week.

shut up and take my money moment.

although i have neither a console nor a pc.

Lol at this being the reason to get a ps 5

Anyone playing this?

or a kitten in a box

access to the original games a big hint that this is not gonna get super fixed

I mean the actual project was so fundamentally unambitious, it's hard to see what would've been £55/$60-worthy about it even if it had successfully cleared the low bar they set for it. It is a bummer given how many good remasters there have been in recent years

Astute observers will have noted that I am describing as very poor value for money a compendium I have also posted several firsthand gameplay experiences from. I quite simply woke up from a nap on Sunday and found that it was installed on my hard drive. It's crazy

I got 97 hidden pacakge!

but now i'm at the point where my mind is playing trickseez, "did i already get that one?" "did the game save properly after finding those ones?" and trying to remember all the locations and falling for the trap of false locations where there never was a package. Fucked if I know where these last 3 are. will continue tomorrow...

Console update out

Fixed an issue where the game would restart from the beginning when selecting to retry from the last checkpoint on the Mission High Stakes, Low Rider

I would have raged so hard...

https://i.imgur.com/EhvCFsp.png

Honest mistake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rd2huQTNh0

Yeah cannot 100% Vice City due to that Gun Runner mission being totally fucked

https://www.mixmods.com.br/2021/11/vcde-fix-gun-runner-softlock-missao.html?m=1

This purportedly fixes it, though I think by auto-completing the mission at a point before the bug rather than actually letting you do it properly

They also have a mod that puts all the removed songs back in that works fine

https://i.imgur.com/JL7xlMK.jpg

Lol

Do the new versions let you play your own station by putting mp3s in a folder, like the original?

just curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKDn-jOq-E

Coolest way to kill Salvatore

this game was so immersive. the 'fake pop' songs on the stations were such hits! it's weird to get nostalgic for in-game landscapes... cruising around the second island, sunset, lips 106...

“I hear the lead singer just got out of rehab and is ready to date your sister” -dj Michael hunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7FqNa5rD0

No lie, I think the majority of my time playing GTA3 was spent in a tank with the gun reversed, trying to blow myself up hills.

The Trashmaster is the poor man’s tank

always complete the Paramedic missions before you piss off any of the gangs

https://i.imgur.com/9yVvhFL.jpg