After Vice - Rediscovering GTAIII

[vat_man]

Co-worker of mine bought GTAIII for the PC - he'd had some trouble getting controllers to work, and he's been focussed on other games, so he leant it to me for a couple of months.

So, I've been rediscovering GTAIII. I bought a Nostromo Game Pad (basically a complete DS2 rip-off, except with a USB hook-up) which sets up beautifully.

It's gorgeous to look at on the PC, especially with a reasonable graphics card (128m GEForce 4, 4200Ti Asus). I turned trails off, and it's very clean looking - I'll probably never be able to play the PS2 version again!

A few observations:
- I really miss shooting out tyres and shooting people through windscreens. I keep forgetting!
- Don't actually miss the motorbikes that much.
- the violence is so much more 'de-personalised', I think because the central character doesn't talk. I feel much more inclined to drive on the footpath and run people down in GTA3 than in Vice, and that's the only reason I can think of. It's much more of a thug's game than Vice, which on reflection is probably what Rockstar was trying to acheive
- I miss becoming fireproof

 

[Shannon]

Yeah, I'll agree with you on the GTA3 more of a thug's game. Vice City is tame compared to GTA3. It just set a greater sense of gangster realism in the backstreets of Portland and such in GTA3. I wacked in the GTA3 disk the other day but found it hard because I miss all the stuff from Vice City. Maybe I should lend my Vice City to someone?

 

[Vasco]

Yeh, mate go here for some great mods:
www.gta3hq.com

I have really customised my PC version with some of those replacement cars...

 

[Acidman]

I have actually never played GTA: III in my life, so when i goy Vice City i thought i died and went to heaven

 

[RVDNuT374]

GTA3 has more of the gangsta quality than VC. *more dead people *

 

[Acidman]

Originally posted by RVDNuT374
*more dead people *

Over 70000 people dead? i don't think so

 

[Spock]

heh i play gta3 lots more than vice, and my favrite mod for gta3 is the real gta mod, that mod is soo frcken coll

 

[Shannon]

I'm going to buy the GTA3 PC version once I have the money.

 

[Vasco]

Hey Acidman, a guy called Fudpucker over at the GTF forums killed over 1,000,000 people on GTA III.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

I got the pc version of GTAIII. Its great. Much better than the ps2 version IMO. I also have that real gta mod but havent installed it yet.

 

[Acidman]

Originally posted by DODGE the VIPER
Hey Acidman, a guy called Fudpucker over at the GTF forums killed over 1,000,000 people on GTA III.

Yeah...... well......... pfft........ i have to go now *runs away crying*

 

[IntegraGS-R]

Originally posted by Acidman
Yeah...... well......... pfft........ i have to go now *runs away crying*

no, we must be strong.. we'll get there.. i'm almost to 78,000 people.. almost 1/10 of 1,000,000

 

[Shinez]

You can't forget the fact that GTAIII is a heck of alot more difficult..Well WAS a heck of alot more difficult than Vice City

 

[Shannon]

What? GTA3 is quite easy (Vigilante and Paramedic excluded). You don't have to do as much stuff to complete the game as Vice City.

 

[KieranMurphy]

Originally posted by Shannon
What? GTA3 is quite easy (Vigilante and Paramedic excluded). You don't have to do as much stuff to complete the game as Vice City.

The rampages in Vice City are SO easy compared to GTAIII.


KM.

 

[RVDNuT374]

Positives about VC:

motorcycles
6 helicopters
a flyable plane w/ wings
robbing stores
the ability to go inside buildings
buying properties
much better radio

Positives about GTA3:

more death and mayhem
bigger storyline
offroading in the mountains of SV while the fwd is flying over
better FBI/ Army AI
subways/ tunnels connecting the 3 districts
more hookers to get *a boost* from

 

[Vasco]

I just want to ask, I have an American version, how can I get hookers?

 

[Giancarlo]

I think the exact opposite, actually. Vice City's Tommy Vercetti seems more of a gangster/mafia man that Fido could ever be. In Vice City, you can gain power in lots of ways. In GTAIII, you just get all the gangs to hate you. And i dunno, jabbing someone in the face with a screwdriver is just much too much fun.

 

[KieranMurphy]

It's kinda weird. I played GTAIII on my PC from a loan I had from a friend. I played it solidly for 3 months and got about 10,000 kills and c. 85% complete or something. I was totally addicted.

But when Vice City came along, it just blew GTA3 away. It was the same basic but BETTER. More vehicles, more missions, rampages that could be realistically achieved, motorbikes and helicopters, gangs that didn't explode your car every time you drove past them.

But still, my brother now has it on PS2. And every so often I play it for a half hour or so just to remember Liberty City, just to go on a killing rampage from some of the old spots I remember. And to remind myself.

I'm like that, months after I've completed a game, I get nostalgic and play it again. I've completed Resident Evil II on my still working N64 about 100 times. I can't help it. It's a nice way to spend about 3 hrs on a Saturday afternoon.

That's probably while I'm also addicted to emulators and the old Amstrad/NES/SNES/MegaDrive/Amiga/Arcade etc. games I can relive from my younger days.

KM.

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
I think the exact opposite, actually. Vice City's Tommy Vercetti seems more of a gangster/mafia man that Fido could ever be. In Vice City, you can gain power in lots of ways. In GTAIII, you just get all the gangs to hate you. And i dunno, jabbing someone in the face with a screwdriver is just much too much fun.

The purpose of Grand Theft Auto is to simulate gangster life according to Rockstar. In Vice City there are only 2 gangs and you don't really to jobs for gangs in VC either. It's more of a property tycoon/crooked way of getting money game (Vice City). In GTA3, it feels more of a gangster life simulation, with all the dirty backstreets of Portland and such.

 

[RVDNuT374]

*bump*

I've actually stopped playing VC completely for the past few weeks and have gone back to GTA3. VC got boring too quick after 100%.

 

[Shannon]

I went back to GTA3. I got up to Shoreside Vale and that stupid Purple Nines glitch occurred. Those Purple Nines aren't there now so I can't complete the game.

I'm not going to restart again, so it's back to Vice again...

 

[RVDNuT374]

GTA3 will offically 0wn my PC! *once i figure why the frame rate skips horribly *

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by RVDNuT374
GTA3 will offically 0wn my PC! *once i figure why the frame rate skips horribly *

Your anti-aliasing settings are probably too high.

 

[RVDNuT374]

I don't even have anti-aliasing on.

 

[F1man]

Originally posted by RVDNuT374
GTA3 will offically 0wn my PC! *once i figure why the frame rate skips horribly *

Damn! I gotta get a new motherboard for my 400 MHZ computer, so I can have 800 MHZ and I can play GTA 3 and Vice City on me computer.

 

[Vasco]

800 MhZ? Is that even past the minimum system requirement on GTA II?

 

[F1man]

Errrr Screw the MHZ. I'm just gonna get Vice City for PC anyway and put it on my 400 MHZ computer and hope it will work

PS. Hell I just got GTA 3 last night and I'm already atleast 40% done. (in 6 hours )

 

[Auzzie_Playa]

Hmmmm i reckon the best thing about
GTA 3 was that the main character never spoke even wen someone was talkin to him hed jusss nod and walk off, he had a more serious role, so wen GTA:vice city came out i was like
DAMN this guys a ***** lil faggot!!!

I like GTA 3 and i hope that they make a sequal to it!... it would be kool if they set it in compton in california that would be so ****ing kool cuz thats were most gangstaz live and all tha rappers came straight outta there like dr dre, ice cube, Eazy E(RIP) and many more!!!!!!!!

 

[Shannon]

Originally posted by Auzzie_Playa
Hmmmm i reckon the best thing about
GTA 3 was that the main character never spoke even wen someone was talkin to him hed jusss nod and walk off, he had a more serious role, so wen GTA:vice city came out i was like
DAMN this guys a ***** lil faggot!!!

I like GTA 3 and i hope that they make a sequal to it!... it would be kool if they set it in compton in california that would be so ****ing kool cuz thats were most gangstaz live and all tha rappers came straight outta there like dr dre, ice cube, Eazy E(RIP) and many more!!!!!!!!

Um, Vice City is the sequel to GTA:III.

Also, do you mind using proper english and not so many smilies?