Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

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Favorite GTA?

  • Grand Theft Auto

    Votes: 63 2.3%

  • Grand Theft Auto: London 1969

    Votes: 59 2.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto 2

    Votes: 113 4.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto III

    Votes: 222 8.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

    Votes: 785 28.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Votes: 1,105 40.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Advanced

    Votes: 14 0.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

    Votes: 81 2.9%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

    Votes: 77 2.8%

  • Grand Theft Auto IV

    Votes: 716 26.0%

  • Episodes From Liberty City (The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony)

    Votes: 218 7.9%

  • Grand Theft Auto V

    Votes: 400 14.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Online

    Votes: 98 3.6%

  • My Mother's My Sister!

    Votes: 327 11.9%
  • Total voters
    2,754
Rockstar acknowledged it, which given the chequered history they had, is a nice gesture. They didn't extend Burt Reynolds that courtesy, (but it seems their relationship was much worse).
 
Auntie Fester said:
Rockstar acknowledged it, which given the chequered history they had, is a nice gesture. They didn't extend Burt Reynolds that courtesy, (but it seems their relationship was much worse).
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Good on them, I thought they'd ignore it on account of GTA Online being their sole focus these days.
 
Wish Vercetti's story was more developed than what we have, to be honest.

Vice City is great and all, but the story kinda falls flat after you seize Diaz's mansion. It would have been nice if there was more development between him and the other characters like Mercedes, Rosenberg, Lance, etc.
 
I fucking love Cocaine said:
Wish Vercetti's story was more developed than what we have, to be honest.

Vice City is great and all, but the story kinda falls flat after you seize Diaz's mansion. It would have been nice if there was more development between him and the other characters like Mercedes, Rosenberg, Lance, etc.
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All we know about him is him and Sonny were childhood friends and his dad was a printer.
 
I fucking love Cocaine said:
Wish Vercetti's story was more developed than what we have, to be honest.

Vice City is great and all, but the story kinda falls flat after you seize Diaz's mansion. It would have been nice if there was more development between him and the other characters like Mercedes, Rosenberg, Lance, etc.
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I get the feeling Vice City had a lot of content on the cutting room floor or never really got the chance to be created due to time constraints. Swimming is probably the big one, and the amount of people who bitched about it was enough to get it into San Andreas, but I imagine a lot of story content probably got skimmed over too.
 
I fucking love Cocaine said:
Wish Vercetti's story was more developed than what we have, to be honest.

Vice City is great and all, but the story kinda falls flat after you seize Diaz's mansion. It would have been nice if there was more development between him and the other characters like Mercedes, Rosenberg, Lance, etc.
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There was a bunch of phone calls from Mercedes that got scrapped (all still on the game disc) and they paint her as being a clingy bitch. Lance had 1 or 2 scrapped calls that had Tommy calm him down or something.

 
Mr. 0 said:
There was a bunch of phone calls from Mercedes that got scrapped (all still on the game disc) and they paint her as being a clingy bitch. Lance had 1 or 2 scrapped calls that had Tommy calm him down or something.

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I always thought they probably intended the girlfriend thing for Vice City and may have cut it out.

IIRC the entire Bank job is set up from a scrapped phone call with Kent Paul who informs Tommy the VCPD have a slush fund stashed in the vault, which explains the lines about "the swat retirement fund" and Kent Paul asking for a cut in the game.

Lot of weird cut phone calls.
 
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ProblematicUser420 said:
That's the best part. You can make up what you want.

Not enough imagination in games anymore, yet somehow there is just as much shitty fanfiction as ever.
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Yep. That's part of the reason 3 is still my favorite one. Both in the story and execution of the missions, which are way more "open world" than V, which is basically an interactive movie.
 
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As always, I’m keeping the power level down on this one, because this is (slightly) personal:

Tommy Vercetti was the first GTA character right up to Claude from GTA III that made me want to play the GTA series initially. (Nothing against CJ, but back then he just was not as cool as him.) Tommy was the first fictional character that made me want to buy and wear Hawaiian shirts, even when most people did not think I‘d look cool in them. Now, fast forward to today, it’s because of that and the Scarface influence that now everyone wants to wear them for the nostalgic era.

My 9 year old self thought the game was amazing, even when the drug and violent references were too much for parents to take in. It would not be until my high school years when my mind was blown to find out that Ray Liotta of all people was behind the voice of this character, since I watched Goodfellas for the first time before begging my mother to let me play this game.

The real eerie part about this was that I was playing the Vice City soundtrack for the past two months this year, and it was today that I was going to go back and play this game before I found out about Ray’s sudden passing.

Overall, Vice City will end up going down as more than just a game to me. It’s a childhood relic that has stood the test of time, and it’s all due to Tommy Vercetti.

I’m sure both him and Avery Carrington are very pleased to meet each other again.
 
Sucks that he didn't live to Vice City's 20th anniversary.

I think we easily forget how big a deal it was to go from silent protagonist in III to a voiced character like Tommy and how still a big novelty it was to have Hollywood actors voice characters in games.
 
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Sucks that he didn't live to Vice City's 20th anniversary.

I think we easily forget how big a deal it was to go from silent protagonist in III to a voiced character like Tommy and how still a big novelty it was to have Hollywood actors voice characters in games.
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I remember posting on forums I was scared Tommy would talk too much and be annoying.

Boy was I wrong, he ended up being my favorite GTA character.
 
RIP King, definitely my favorite protag next to Claude.
 
ProblematicUser420 said:
Sadly, this is why the vast majority of Youtubers now just reupload streams or put zero effort in.
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Not to get political here, but this is why people get sick of corporate Internet. You can't have copyright music played, you can't depict video game violence, you can't cite actual characters cussing in a crime game, any effort put into a YouTube video is practically forbidden.

Yet GTA clickbait is aokay.
 
Every ending in the 3D era after Vice City was pretty awful. San Andreas felt off with everything ending with you in the ghetto, and the other two were such down endings because they had to be prequels.

With Vice City, it feels like you are on top. It's really weird how Dan Houser seemed to forget that's kind of a huge part of the fun of these games.
 
ProblematicUser420 said:
Every ending in the 3D era after Vice City was pretty awful. San Andreas felt off with everything ending with you in the ghetto, and the other two were such down endings because they had to be prequels.

With Vice City, it feels like you are on top. It's really weird how Dan Houser seemed to forget that's kind of a huge part of the fun of these games.
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I appreciated how they left SA's story self contained.
 
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