Current Events > GTA Vice City literally has the best soundtrack in a video game ever >_>

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It's what got me into 80s songs and I've never looked back. It's absolutely unreal how many bangers they got on this soundtrack

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yeah

You gotta be starting something

Emotion 98.3 > Flash FM > Fever 105 > Wave 103 > V Rock > Wildstyle > Radio Espantoso

Anyone who does not at the bare minimum like the music in Vice City hates music, period.

Dont forget Rock Box - Run DMC

I'd take Tony Hawk's Underground 2 personally.
There's probably a Guitar Hero/Rock Band game out there that nothing will ever be able to compete with.

it's the best for me definitely

THPS2 soundtrack literally changed the entire trajectory of my life.

Flockaveli posted...

THPS2 soundtrack literally changed the entire trajectory of my life.

It's good, but it ain't even close to Vice City

It's alright if you like 80s music

DipDipDiver posted...

It's alright if you like 80s music

https://imgur.com/7o5k5f0

At least use an 80s gif man

Dance hall days, love

DipDipDiver posted...

At least use an 80s gif man

https://imgur.com/EkkrAuu

I connected more with the San Andreas soundtrack

party_animal07 posted...

I connected more with the San Andreas soundtrack

But they also use a bunch of songs from the 80s too lol

The only thing it lacked was the Scarface OST.

Foppe posted...

The only thing it lacked was the Scarface OST.

Yeah, it's kinda funny that they had Push it to the Limit in the previous game, but not in Vice City

Vice City was amazing

GTA and THPS introduced me to so much new music. VC definitely got me into 80s music of all kinds.

Foppe posted...

The only thing it lacked was the Scarface OST.

It was in GTA 3.

It really was absolutely stunning for its time. It was the first time such a huge library of certified classics came together for a soundtrack. Not only that, but the radio stations were designed in such an amazing realistic but satiric way to get you immersed. To top it off the formats perfectly fit with the location and sort of things you got involved with in game.

San Andreas was just as amazing in terms of the music involved, but a lot of the stations in that game had older non-90s music which took away the charm of Vice City which was pretty strictly 80s except for some of the Latin jazz music.

If Rockstar ever does the 90s again I hope they go all out. It needs to include actual 90s pop music station, eurodance, adult alternative, techno, trance, drum n bass, house, gangsta rap, grunge, alt metal, new jack swing, contempary r&b ballads, pop punk, neo-traditional country, pop rap, etc...

wesastro911 posted...

It really was absolutely stunning for its time. It was the first time such a huge library of certified classics came together for a soundtrack. Not only that, but the radio stations were designed in such an amazing realistic but satiric way to get you immersed. To top it off the formats perfectly fit with the location and sort of things you got involved with in game.

iirc, Lazlow wrote all the radio dialogue for all the radio stations in Vice City

NeonOctopus posted...

Yeah, it's kinda funny that they had Push it to the Limit in the previous game, but not in Vice City

The whole Flashback FM was made of Scarface music.

Brutal Legend

One of the Rock Band or Guitar Hero games

i mean... no need to change any minds when you're right! >_>

wesastro911 posted...

San Andreas was just as amazing in terms of the music involved, but a lot of the stations in that game had older non-90s music which took away the charm of Vice City which was pretty strictly 80s except for some of the Latin jazz music.

If Rockstar ever does the 90s again I hope they go all out. It needs to include actual 90s pop music station, eurodance, adult alternative, techno, trance, drum n bass, house, gangsta rap, grunge, alt metal, new jack swing, contempary r&b ballads, pop punk, neo-traditional country, pop rap, etc...

Yeah, I think I get what you mean. San Andreas had a fine selection of music, but many of the radio stations felt more like they were more of a love letter to hip hop culture than plausibly accurate representations of the music of the era. Granted, the two rap stations, SF-UR (house music), Radio-X (grunge), and CSR (new jack swing) did reflect the era, but the country station featuring mixture of everything from 1950s honky tonk to 1980s country pop was such a broad selection that it seemed unfocused.
Of course, can't forget K-DST, the "classic rock" station. Why the quotes? Let me explain: a majority of the songs were from the 1970s, but Eminence Front and White Wedding were from the early 1980s, and Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream is from 1989 if memory serves me correct. A song barely five years old as of 1992 doesn't really meet the criteria of "classic rock" in my mind. For 2004, when the game was made, yeah, then it's more believable to think of it as classic rock, but err, some of the songs on Radio-X were at least as old as Running Down a Dream... I mean, Welcome to the Jungle is from 1987. Which isn't grunge. It's hard rock, I think. But I digress.

The greatest "offenders"and I don't mean to call the music bad; it wasn'twere K-Jah, Master Sounds, and Bounce FM. They primarily featured 1970s songs that many rappers sampled or were inspired by; these stations were anachronisms that ddidn't really fit the time period.

However, what San Andreas truly lacked (in terms of music) was a contemporary pop station; a 1990s equivalent of Flash FM, if you will.

Balls deep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dMJyA9dyvY