Tommy Vercetti

100.

Specs has gone from Kanye West to Tommy Vercetti.

10

gifted.

But... being able to go to that house in Vice City and go, oh shit, this is a reference to that movie or whatever.

Tommy Vercetti, the...

Shout out to Ray Liotta.

Ray Liotta, dude.

And eventually he got Vice City and watching him play it.

It was, there was a clear step up, right? There was the style.

There was Tommy Vercetti.

I remember going, doing the mission where you go to the golf course and being people up at the golf club.

Sly Cooper, Red Faction 2, Hitman 2, Silent Assassin, MX Superfly, and Dr. Muto, the very weird game I also don't remember that is heavily advertised across all the magazines at this time with a very confusing fake magazine layout advertorial thing.

one thing i think is like really illustrative of this time in games and like the the corporate environment that we're getting into is they're like really trying to push games with like broad appeal right more mass market casual appeal um and like so like you have stuff like uh character platformers right mascot platformers um on the disc but like if you look there's a little sidebar underneath the PlayStation underground logo.

Like there's a playable demo of wild arms three on that demo desk, which is the only game I would have been interested in.

Right.

being a camper is look down and basically this guy just goes on for like 400 words about how oh but in SOCOM he's a sniper not a camper so that's a moral there's positive moral valence on this right I don't know I did put in the script his final paragraph which if you want to read that I would deeply appreciate it

Sure, so, uh, JP Reaper Vaughn says, quote, To finish up, just let me say, I'm a sniper, not a camper, and I've got your head lined up on my scope.

So the next time your character drops down, dead, and there isn't another player anywhere in sight, check the messaging at the top of your screen, and you'll know that Reaper is on the opposing team, and I'm going to continue to take you out round after round.

J.P. Reaper Vaughn, VaughnJP at Hotmail.com, just published right there along with everything else.

But go- being able to go to that house in Vice City and go, "Oh shit, this is a reference to that movie," or whatever.

Uh, Tommy Vercetti, the-

Shout out to Ray Liotta

...

And he's the one that introduced me to GTA as a whole.

I remember watching him for the first time play GTA III, and being like, "Oh, this is interesting.

I can drive anywhere? W- when in the world is this?" And eventually, he got Vice City, and watching him play, it was, there was a clear step up, right? There was the style, there was Tommy Vercetti.

I remember going, doing the mission where you go to the golf course and beating people up with a golf club, and I'm like, "What is happening in this game?"

Is that, is that San Andreas or something?

That's, that's Tommy Vercetti.

Yeah, I only know it by San Andreas.

San Andreas was pa- was part of GTA 3, but GTA 3 was the original in New York.

Yeah, that's, that's Tommy Vercetti.

That's when it first went 3D.

Yeah.

That's the one that made the series a cultural phenomenon.

Tommy Vercetti, the neon, the radio stations, everything that came after built on that foundation.

So the modern Vice City is a full circle moment for you.

Yeah, that's why I'm more excited about it than I should be.

big block hands.

CJ and Tommy Vercetti look like fucking Roblox.

That's really when I was playing

GTA.