I only spotted this now courtesy of IGN's Twitter, but it has a video attached and I thought it looks amazing.
GTA me if already a thread.
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Vice City has been modded into Grand Theft Auto V
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I only spotted this now courtesy of IGN's Twitter, but it has a video attached and I thought it looks amazing.
GTA me if already a thread.
Hey, that's my video!
Thanks for the share, also I highly suggest downloading this mod. It's a lot of fun exploring the map although it does make you realise how tiny the Vice City map really is.
Thanks for the share, also I highly suggest downloading this mod. It's a lot of fun exploring the map although it does make you realise how tiny the Vice City map really is.
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No problem, thank you for making me aware of the awesome mod!
From what I read there is only a handful of new missions and that's it.
The best GTA in the best looking GTA. Quite the achievement.
I'm assuming none of the original music is in this for obvious reasons. Spotify was made for this.
I'm assuming none of the original music is in this for obvious reasons. Spotify was made for this.
This.
I used to play GTA3 and Vice City by barely using the map and the navigation because the maps were small enough that you could just use your memory to navigate it. Now I can't do a mission or go somewhere in GTAV without having to use the nav and the map.
I have finished GTAV and apparently have about half of the map that has to be discovered by me and have very little interest in doing so.
I actually thought about it more, And GTA4 is basically the direction I'm thinking of. SA and V are the only ones that go bigger. Stay away from California R* lol
I just want R* to take GTA to another era again (to be clear: a hyper-realized version of what that era might be known for etc.), they can do whatever they want with the map and scale. I just found playing in the current time period way more boring compared to the 80s and 90s.
Been having a lot of fun messing around in it lately.
Yup, along with working traffic and pedestrians. I'd highly recommend anyone give it a try as it's probably one of the least buggy conversions out there. Just to note: you'll need to lower your texture detail to prevent crashes.
Oh wow, it's more built-up than I thought it would be. Street names, traffic, pedestrians, and "new" vehicles are a nice touch.
Unsure if the vehicles have been officially added to Online, and imported or made specifically for this mod.
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Oh, man, I want GTA6 to be Vice City in the 80s so badly. I am an old guy, and I'm all about the 90s hip hop so you'd think I'd like San Andreas, yet Vice City was done so well it remains my favourite GTA ever.
Vice City always had a very narrow focus. It knew what it was about. San Andreas was less of a scene change but more of an entirely new game. It really REALLY expanded what a GTA game was. So the thematic changes were lost among all the gameplay changes.
I'm almost certain you can still download that map and get it into GTA V, I've seen quite a few videos released not too long ago of people doing that.
Been having a lot of fun messing around in it lately.
Yup, along with working traffic and pedestrians. I'd highly recommend anyone give it a try as it's probably one of the least buggy conversions out there. Just to note: you'll need to lower your texture detail to prevent crashes.
This is definitely the direction Rockstar needs to take the next GTA in! This looks absolutely stunning, despite it being a port that was released nearly five years ago. I would show zero reluctance to be able to experience that area again with all of the improvements that have been introduced to the series since then. Refinements such as the improved aiming system, ability to swim, just to name a couple. Also, to echo what Cake Boss was saying, Vice City was so much easier to navigate due to its smaller size. Even after you progressed far enough to unlock the entirety of the game's world, it was still manageable from memory. That aspect made it feel more like a video game, and less akin to the moderately stress-inducing real world experience of driving with the assistance of your smartphone's GPS.
I really wish the new GTA was Vice. I've read rumblings that some south american places are being talked about. Would fit in with the Vice them as Tony Montana paid a visit to Bolivia etc.
Liberty Rewind is the best one currently available. Last time I tried it out it was pretty unstable and buggy but there was still fun to be had. The original project was being worked on by OpenIV's team and was looking to be the most polished port ever, but yeah Take-Two shut their shit down unfortunately.
Art direction in this is gorgeous. Imagine GTA6 with those vivid blue skies, bright pink flowers, etc.
It's funny how clearer graphics, longer draw distance, graphical fidelity, etc., makes these PS2-era worlds seem so much smaller. Playing Vice City at the time, the island wasn't huge but it was good sized, maybe smaller than GTAIII but because of the street layout it often felt larger due to the bottlenecks of the new bridges... But when you play it on a map that doesn't load in the middle, and you have modern drawdistances and environmental affects, it makes it all feel so much smaller.
This video was pretty good:
This video was pretty good: