Grand Theft Auto fans have been losing their collective minds over a Vice City Online domain name that developer Rockstar updated earlier this year. The site – GTAViceCityOnline.com – was registered by the company all the way back in 2009, a year after the release of Grand Theft Auto IV. However, the address was updated in March of this year, fuelling speculation.
In fact, some imaginative aficionados believe the studio may be plotting a Resident Evil Village trick, with the purported title stylised Grand Theft Auto VIce City Online – effectively making it GTA 6. Of course it’s all pretty unlikely, as the organisation has already announced Grand Theft Auto 5 – and, subsequently, the lucrative GTA Online – for the PlayStation 5.
More likely is that the domain is simply an instance of Rockstar retaining rights to its intellectual property, so it doesn’t have to deal with pesky squatters in the far-away future. As for the update to the domain? Well, it probably just needed renewing, like any domain name. All that said, we’d love to return to the world of Vice City at some point in the future, as it was one of PS2’s best games.
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I’ve been playing Vice City on and off for a few weeks now and I’d like to enjoy it but I’m stuck on one bloody mission, Death Row, and I genuinely have no idea how you’re supposed to do it. I beat GTA 3 last month and that was pretty good but I’m kinda tempted to just skip over the rest of VC and replay San Andreas because that really is the best one in the series.
Vice City was the best GTA and it wasn't even close. Top down with Flock Seagulls blaring. Ah the days. If GTA was returning to Vice City I'd be all over it.
Vice City is easily the best GTA location. The vibrant and sunny locale along with the excellent soundtrack does help turn it into something special. I'm not going to get my hopes up until there's an official announcement, but GTA VI being set in Vice City would easily get me hyped.
@nessisonett If that one mission is putting a damper on the game for you, then it might be worth looking online for a walkthrough to see if there's some way to cheese it. Vice City is my favourite of the series, so I'd argue it's worth pushing through.
Vice City was incredible. Best GTA imo. It was so stylish. Would be nice to see rockstar find a location they havent touched before though
@crimsontadpoles @LemonHaze Even with walkthroughs, I’m getting severely tempted to just spawn a tank and cheese it. It’s a horrible combination of time limit, number of enemies and the general jank getting in the way. The PS4 port is odd too, GTA 3 looked way better for me on PC despite being an older game because the PS4 ports are straight PS2 emulation with everything that entails.
The only GTA i liked. 😆 👌
Vice City would look amazing with that modern Rockstar touch. If it was set in the eighties again then that would be a guarantee of a good soundtrack too. No. Mumble. Rap.
it's the GTA we need, a full proper remaster I'd be all over it
Gta vice city.liberty stories.etc.all the gta are masterpieces.word up son
Would love a San Andreas Remastered on PS5. In fact all of them lol
Imagine if gta 6 went back to the 80's in vice city. It wont happen, but one can dream
GTA III is my personal favorite cause nostalgia but I wouldn't mind a Vice City in the 80s. The online part does kill some of the buzz for me cause it will be another 10 years of constant milking, but I will save my complaing for when that time comes 🙂
I don't think they can really go back to the past for GTAVI, it's already hard enough adding new things in 1899 RDRII online. How would they be able to add flying motorbikes, all the latest vehicles in a 80s setting and keep things interesting Online? Forget it. Yea it could be Vice City but current not the 80s.
We won't get another GTA for years still. With GTAV coming to another gen, Rockstar will milk GTA online further and have no financial gain to make a new one.
I've given up all hope of even seeing a new GTA next gen... With Crystal Dynamics making Avengers for what seems like the next decade as well I just miss good developers making good games. I hate to sound old but gaming really was better even 10 years ago
"pesky squatters " God I just love them scamps getting up middle classes noses.
'Michael Jackson - Billie Jean' the first song on the radio.
@vegeta11 The do we need to say more i loved the setting and music so much.
@TheArt Still the best GTA the rest was utter garbage besides 3 and San Andreas which wasnt for me because i didnt like the setting. GTA 4 terrible, GTA 5 terrible the top down games jawn. 😆
@playstation1995 Dont agree one bit the last two were terrible. 😆
@Flaming_Kaiser You're not a GTA fan then, I love'em ALL, except maybe the liberty city, vice city stories spin-offs.
VICE CITY IS THE GOAT GTA! 80'S BABY!
@TheArt For RDR online they could easily add cars and air plains. They could add some cars like the one in RDR 1. Also, the first airplane got created in 1903 so they could add that too. But unfortunately they are too lazy for adding new stuff to RDR online.
@TheArt. Hes drunk and a hater dont listen to him.all gta games areamazing.and the best video games franchises ever.i guarantee you the games that he pick are 🗑 trash.some people on this site are hypocrites.dont pay him no mind .gta 5 is the best game on ps3 when i play it.word up son
@Flaming_Kaiser. Its better than the trash games that you like.gta 5 is the g.o.a.t.and 4 was incredible.so what you saying.i guarantee you the games that you like is trash 🗑.i had more fun in gta 5 than all the games.you been a hater is on point.haha.gta 5 is the g.o.a.t 👑.word up son
@playstation1995 😆😂 @Flaming_Kaiser is a top R* troll, I'm used to it.
@Ah-Void RDRI is in the later years thus we had Marston sit in that car with the Pinkertons plus they even complained about how unreliable it was when it broke down. It just wouldn't fit or make sense if they started adding cars to RDO. They are FAAAAARRR from lazy looking at the constant updates to both GTAO & RDO all these years.
@TheArt I mean flying cars with jet engine or flying motorcycles with rocket lunchers haven’t invented yet but we have them in gta online and there is no problem. Usable cars and airplanes came out only few years after RDR 2 and I think adding them will not make any problem. Yes they will look silly in the story mode but not online. I am bringing all of this because transportation is one of the main problems in RDR online and it takes sooo much time to go from one place to another place with a horse.
@Ah-Void Mm, most of the horse trails or paths in RDRII weren't designed with cars in mind, it just wouldn't fit. They see the need for variety in transportation that's why I realized they added buying wagons in online. With GTAV being current, they're free to add any inventions they think plausible because they know flying cars or bikes can easily be made now though it won't work with roads or the aviation systems IRL, it'd work in a GTA world.
A modern Miami would be great and the city pretty much never left the 80s anyway so it would be able to keep that theme and mix it with some modern music and styles.
The GTA VIce City title seems too good to pass up as well. Maybe a little obvious?
It would make sense to pick another time period though as the world is pretty much a parody of itself as it is at the moment.
The only thing that worries me is that all the original creatives has pretty much left now, maybe that's why the whole thing has shifted to online. They realised the party was nearly over so they created a perpetual money spinner before parting ways...
...and with that thought I've made myself sad.
Seems like a weird idea to me. Why go backwards?
Gta 6 is suppose to be a travel between cities game and GTA online is GTA online not gta 5 so id say this will be the 1st city they add to GTA online when gta6 drops
@ nessisonett,
Death Row mission: Park a helicopter outside the Malibu, fly to and land inside the junkyard, use Python for one shot kills, save Lance, and then use the helicopter to fly Lance to the hospital.
That's how i have it done since 2002 after many fails using a car. Sometimes i fail and some times the helicopter is trashed so i can not use it to fly Lance to the hospital. I always make a save just before attempting.
Always a bugbear that we never saw GTA VCS/LCS make their way across to the ps2 classics range like the other 3D era games.
As much as I'd love a Vice City return or better yet 80's era set game, (PC modders have given a good idea what it'd look like), with the creative departures from Rockstar I fear any "GTA VI" nowdays will be a MMO/online based game with single player demoted to a few training missions.
Every promise of single player content has come to naught with GTA/RDR 2, heck Take-two are too cheap to even renew music licenses on the old games!
It wouldn't shock me a future game being set there, but it'll be an online mtx live service one.
As long as the soundtrack is just as good and we have the return or Maurice (or however you spell it). Vice city was pinnacle gta for me. Such great memories
@pip_muzz but there are so many great games coming out over the past couple of years. Persona 5, red dead 2, GOT, GOW, resi 2 remake, marvels spider man just to name a few
@TheArt He's a R* hater and you are a R* fanboy, sounds like a good idea for a sitcom 🤔
@Ah-Void You can fast travel in Red Dead Online via signposts, a bit like The Witcher 3. But I prefer to gallop to a destination holding the metal detector to make muneh on the way.
Personally I can’t see the next one taking place in vice city again, scarface and the amazing sound track really helped it out. They still haven't Explored las venturas or san fierro on their own so i’m kind of hoping you start in one of them and maybe if they another city then they can use vice, or another entirely new one.
If they could make your character control less like he's taken a dump in his pants that'd be great
@nessisonett
I remember reading that there's a shotgun exploit. If you fire with it then change weapon and change back, it's far quicker than reloading the shotgun normally. No idea which mission you're on but might be worth trying it out? Apparently using that makes the final mission a lot less painful.
Could we see GTA online for nearly every city from past games, Liberty City there was rumours that would be adding that city to the online of GTA5. Be full of shark cards though
@playstation1995 I like Horizon Zero Dawn, GOW, Spiderman, GoT, Persona 5, Yakuza, Shadow of the Collosus, Resident Evil, Demon Souls, BLOODBORNE, Days Gone better then GTAV oh and GTA Vice City is also better ilve that setting so much more.
Plus i have a really big Backlog so there will be a few in there i will like better plus i left out the older generations. Maybe i should not say terrible games because they are not but i really dont have any love for them.
@Juanalf Well it does create some funny moments that for sure. I just really dont like GTA5 en GTA4 and i wont be shy when not saying i dont think they are the best games around.
@Flaming_Kaiser. Yakuza is not better than gta 5 or 4.i play yakuza.gta 5 is amazing 👑 the g.o.a.t.best game ever along with god of war.word up son
@playstation1995 I may get up in the moment when i say those things but i just cant agree. And im sorry but i love too disagree with theArt. 😆
@vegeta11 yep agree vice city was the best for me too. What a soundtrack!
@Juanalf Yep, I'm a BIG ROCKSTAR FANBOY. I can't help appreciating quality upon quality upon quality in all their games.
Honestly I could see Rockstar announcing both a Vice City remaster/remake and GTA 6.
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