Well, a week ago, I whipped out Vice City again and started playing through it. I've had nothing to do the past week, so Vice City is all I've done.

Well, last night, I had the weirdest dream. I dreamt I was driving a taxi, transporting people here and there. I quickly glanced at my left hand mirror and found the oddest thing while I was taxiing (is that a word) someone: a timer displaying 0:20. From my Vice City experience, I knew that I only had 20 seconds to deliver my paying customer.

So I sped up. Faster and faster I went, weaving through traffic. At full speed, I collided with a moped rider. By some weird act of physics, I flew out of the taxi and into a nearby body of water. I couldn't swim! I flailed my arms, but to no avail. Soon, everything turned to white. When I finally came to, I was standing outside a hospital. Then I woke up.

Perhaps I should go do something for once. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

Anyhow...Post your favorite Vice City/GTA 3 pasttimes, tricks, etc.

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Throwing some Black Sabbath on the mp3 player, getting in a Corvette and running over as many people as I can find...

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Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.
:wq

Stuffing a chainsaw down my pants.

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"He's a dead man! I'm not havin' a dead man in my cemetary!"

BWAHAHAHAH!!!! LOOK AT ME IDIOTS! I'M IRON MAN!!!!

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"His Will Was Set, And Only Death Would Break It"

"None knows what the new day shall bring him"

Doing the trick down by the cargo boat where you can drive past, dive out of your car and into the coastguard boat - that and other awesome stunts like going up the flight of stairs by the North Downtown Ammunation on a bike and then jumping backwards off of it back onto the staircase!

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The Soviet Bunker - (That's my forum...)

"Thou shalt not steal. (Because the government doesn't like competition!)"

I do that all the time, I love watching the bike take off!

I like to get my wanted rating up to 4 or 5 stars. Then I go to my condo and grab the helicopter, and then nose-dive it directly into the police road blocks.

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I like opening up the savegame that I use for cheating, and i enjoy spawning a tank and shooting everything that moves. The cops try to kamikaze into my tank, but they just bounce off and explode.

I try to see how long I last this way before being captured. However, its strenge that a cop can pull out his gun, point it at the tank when ou're going slow, and you're suddenly busted despite the fact that the tank was bulletproof before.


I also like doing vigilante missions in the tank, b/c I can shoot the car I'm chasing for easy money. I take the tank into the airport landing area, and I do a vigilante mission in there. Easy money.




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Usually he opens the door first, doesn't he? Unless the door has fallen off, which happens frequently.

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Blown away by the force of the word, woken up by the sound of the siren. It's genocide.

BTW, what is everyone's favourite GTA VC car?

I love the infernus. Great shape, and it's extremely fast.

However, when going by coolness factor, I'd have to take the voodoo. I like to drive around pumping those hydraulics. It's a shame that its only available in that dark red color, though.

However, i'm still stuck on that rc helicopter mission. Could someone ftp a savegame that has that mission beat? Thanks.

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When VC first came out I bought it right away and put more time into it than it deserved, but the funny thing was when I stepped outside for the first time I noticed all the nice, fast cars and wondered if they were unlocked.

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"I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over my lips, my hands."

I once went to the airport, found the biggest ramp. Went as far as I could in the other direction. So I was going as fast as humanly possible on the pcj whatever bike.

At the perfect moment, I did a stopie on the ramp. I did 2 complete front flips on the bike, and I LANDED IT!!!!

I didn't even fall off which is amazing cause every other time I tried to flip on the bike, he would fall off when upside down.


It was probably the greatest stunt I've ever done cause I went super far.

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"Did you just say.....Birthday Party?...."

Mine favorite car is the Deluxo.



Best. Car. Ever.

And a tip for the RC helicopter mission: plant the bombs highest up in the building first, and work your way down after. And if you can, slice the workers with the rotors from the helicopter. It's actually pretty easy if you can get the hang of the controls. GO OUT AND BUY A GAMEPAD.

All else fails, I can send you a save game, but it'll be nearly complete and you'll miss out on a bunch of missions.
Or I could start a new one... email me at andydesrosiersIALREADYGETENOUGHSPAM OVER AT hot malez dott comiez.

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how about if I send you my game (It's right at the helicopter mission) and you beat it and send it back to me? (I'm assuming you have the PC version)

I can't really afford a gamepad right now, and i'm afraid that if i try again i'll end up snapping my keyboard in half out of fustration .

btw, where do you get the deluxo at?


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Ok sounds good. Send it to me quick and I'll get it done tonight.

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When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars.

Mmm. Sexy.

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You don't have to worry about spam bots with that-- it took ME a second or two to figure it out. btw, the savegame you want is the four-iron one.


I sent my game to andydesrosiers[at]hotmail.com.

did I get it right?

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I love that jump.


Another jump i love doing is in ocean beach and you start in an L-shaped alley and drive up a flight of stairs. You can jump across several streets with this trick.

look for the alley near the washington beach mall. you will see it on your map when you get close to it. I recommend using a fast car like a cheetah or infernus for this, or better yet, a pcj motorcycle if you can find one.



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It's PCG I'm pretty sure. It looks like PCJ because it's handwritten. So nyah har

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"Dalton, that pie just moved of it's own accord."

"You must be mistaken, Tess. A pie can't move."

Yep, that's right.

Mission accomplished

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When guitars are outlawed, only outlaws will have guitars.

thanks. however, I kind of wanted the second one changed, not the first one, b/c the second game has most of the diaz missions finished. Oh well.

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Sitting on the second floor of the buidling under construction in Vice City (where you fly that toy helicopter through), and shooting people until the army comes out. Then hop on the Ninja I have sitting next to me, and shoot outta the building at 120, fall one story, and take off running from the cops.

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I just sounds so awesome



You have to buy the car dealership then complete the car list. I think it's the first one you get (out of four)

I know I've been playing GTA too much when I'm driving and I think I see cop cars every where. It freaked me out the first few times it happened.

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yeah, i know. I was at uni after playing for about an hour and a half and as I was walking through the parking lot, I subconsciously kept looking for good cars to steal.



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lets keep this thread going:

what gang(s) do you enjoy going after the most?

For me, it's the security guards (p.i.g.s.) on the first island and then the haitians on the second island.

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I love going after the pigs.

Also, I never figured out how to do a stoppie or pop a wheelie. Can anyone advise me on this?

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get a motorcycle (PCG or sanchez is good, besides why would you want to ride a faggio? ) and on some bikes it can't be done (the angel and the freeway come to mind) , and then while going forward, push 6 on your numpad to do a wheelie, and 9 to do a stoppie. when doing a wheelie, you can't do it for too long or oyu will fall on your a**.

motorcycles are fun, but you fall off way too easy unless you're riding an angel or freeway.

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Awesome, thanks. And I've mastered cornering with a PCJ or whatever it is. Now off to GTA:VC

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Many people seem to forget that GTA 3 was not the first GTA game. Before 3, there was GTA, GTA Director's Cut, GTA London, and GTA 2.

There was this really great thing you could do in GTA 2. You could spill oil from your car, so that any cars behind you would lose control. What I would do, is find the busiest, most populated corner I could, and make atleast 10 oil puddles. You would not believe how many people would die from this. It was total mayhem. The best part was always when the cop would try to arrest me, and get run over by his own car.

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Because you're as bored as I am
"This world is made of love and peace!"
"Let's live today, let's live tomorrow, and let's live the day after that, even if it means living in eternal pain."
- Vash the Stampede

Well GTA3 and VC were the first 3D ones, with actually easily accomplished tricks and a really interactive environ. That's why most people talk about them most.

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Am I the only one that thought of Dave Chappelle?

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Kieran: The reason I put a link to it is because she is in underwear and I know the admins are touchy on that.
Yecti: Jaiph will touch himself for hours if he so much as smells a woman's underwear

I also enjoy when I climb up the Empire State Building, leap off, and just before hitting the ground, web sling to safe...woops wrong game.

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they're making a new GTA, San Andreas. That should be interesting b/c its set in california
(san Francisco) and Nevada. (Viva Las Vegas!!!)
If that game is as open as the others, then the ammount of space you can presumably roam is mind-boggling. In GTA3 and VC you get to roam a city. In san andreas, you get to roam an entire state.


check out the graphics:




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It's LA, San Francisco and Vegas, esentially a state rather than a single city. In the game, you can also ride bikes I think. The game will be open ended (You gotta think how God awful it would be to play GTA without open ended?). I am looking forward to it.

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I live in cali, so I would be really interested in how accurately they reproduce the california/nevada landcape and atmosphere.

Also, LA had better not look anything like liberty city (which is derived from NYC)b/c i can tell the difference, as could any californian.

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since its a state, I'm hoping that they will have a real freeway that you can speed along connecting the cities.

That's the one thing i miss in GTA3/VC, but I can understand the absense b/c logically, its pointless to have a freeway contained within a single city.



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In my city, Arlington, there is a freeway that begins, and ends, in my city. When it ends, it branches off onto another freeway with another name, and goes into a new city.

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It's supposed to have a gameplay area 4x the size of either 3 or VC. Just wow.

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I've been having problems playing GTA3. It freezes randomly, and the system just stalls and i have to cut the power to reboot. every time this happens, i cross my fingers and hope that I didn't suffer HD corruption) i've found that not looking at explosions or anything like that helps, but freezing is inevitabvle bno matter what i do.

I've heard the game is extremely buggy on the PC port b/c they rushed it. (I have the Myth version). Strange, b/c Vice City uses the same (if not a slightly enhanced) engine, and it never crashes.

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I just got 100% complete in Vice City a week or two ago.

I like get a bunch of police chasing me, make my way over to where I can drive my car into the water, then jump out at the last second and laugh as all the cops get their **** ruined.

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yeah, the cop AI is pretty bad.

Once, I was in the pizza place (forgot which one, but i think it was the one in vice point) and there was a cop inside. All of a sudden, the cop tries to chase this guy outside on the street, but keeps running into the window. Priceless.

the cop ai is very simple from my observations: cops will simply try to run to you if they have direct LOS and you have a wnted level. I can lose cops by running around corners. FBI guys are pretty much the same, only they have mp5s that can make life much more difficult than regular cops can.

also, did you know that if you get the hunter, you can shoot down the plane that has the banner behind it? The banner slowly falls down, too. It gives you an instant 3-star wanted level. This is strange b/c i was able to fly through this plane in the regular maverick helicopter.


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