How would you improve this game?

[The Eddo 1,047]

Ma Cipriani coming out of the restaurant and attacking Toni with a frying pan on rare occasions during any of her missions' cutscenes.

[jaljax 862]

How not to be a lapdog

[Grumpy Cat 80]

 i was mad too, you couldn't swim and climb in this game. hell it was released after san andreas, so why not at least climbing, so f**king weird, even more weirder is that before gta4 only black peoples can swim, CJ and Vic

[Jeansowaty 4,895]

Rewrite the whole story and center it around some worthwile, well-written characters, not a wannabe, self-centered Italian gang with a fetish for poorly sewn suits and an exuberant ego.

[ElPatron036 32]

If LCS had a PC port, should be like this

 

Storyline:

- More comedy, more out-of-style moments, more hilarious jokes.

- More Missions

- Restricting some missions till you meet some requirements like in GTA Chinatown Wars.

 

Game:

- More San Andreas Engine

- Toni's Ability to Swim and that there should be a barricade that prevents you to swim to Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale till you unlock them.

- Ability to buy Drugs

 

Gangs:

- Yardies not attacking Toni after completing "Night of the Livid Dreads"

- Toni being able to recruit the Leones after completing "The Made Man"

- Leones appearing at Shoreside Vale and Staunton Island

- The Sicilian Mafia appearing on the streets of Shoreside Vale and will attack Toni

- Bigger Role for the Southside Hoods

 

Vehicles:

- The inclusion of Greenwood, 

- Ability to use a Taxi to drive Toni somewhere

 

Characters:

- Luigi and Joey appearing in the game

 

Clothes:

- Leone Suit having a Black Tie

[Reyiz Kovan 96]

On 2/24/2017 at 5:03 PM, The Eddo said:

 

Ability to carry four weapons only like in Max Payne 3

Three

[The Eddo 1,047]

On 10/30/2018 at 4:33 PM, Reyiz Kovan said:

Three

Ah, yes, correct. Because I forgot, LOL.

[Jack Lupino 633]

Bumping this thread ,here is few things I would have liked to see in LCS

-Ability to recruit Leone gangs as bodyguards after 100% completion (like vice city)

 

- A little more expansion to the map so like having countryside in upstate liberty 

 

-Make the dodo flyable like GTA III

 

-Have more interiors other than safehouses

(There were more interiors in VCS so hardware limitations weren't an excuse)

 

 

[RegistaG 134]

First thing that comes to my mind are better cinematics. This game barely had any mo capped cutscenes

[LCLegend 475]

Think the game is fine as it is, however I'd improve little things like the Leones not shooting at you if you shoot them, similar to how GSF works in San Andreas, and also better cinematics like the user above suggested.

[Leone_Son 106]

I think this game could have been so much better if it has ability to swim, melee system of VCS or Bully, and ride helicopters.

[Duhillestpunk 321]

A great improvement would be having this game use the San Andreas engine. Since this games theme is based upon the mafia, you should be able to recruit members from the street and take over neighbourhoods. Another improvement would be to have more interiors. I would’ve loved to have been able to enter clothing stores, police stations, hospitals, etc

[Bartleby 1,615]

Maybe I'm too much of a GTA3 formalist, but have someone other than Toni Cipriani as the main character. To me it makes no sense that a sedentary high-ranking mafioso was running around like Fido blowing sh*t up and networking around the city just 3 years earlier. In the intervening time it looks like he gained 40-50 pounds (plausible) and 20 years (not so plausible). It messes with the canon a bit.

 

You can even have it be Toni's younger brother or whatever, to keep the Ma Cipriani stuff in there if you really want. But the differences in the Tonis between '98 and '01 don't make a whole lot of sense to me.

[Cjrememberthat 173]

With adding minigames and side missions no other gta games had, i know Lcs already had some but i mean a lot more

[Shred N Slash 131]

I'd make it a full out new title instead of a PSP side-game, that would be based on the San Andreas version of RenderWare. I'd expand the map to feature more of the state Liberty is in. I'd change the storyline so that Toni is a caporegime that just returned from jail instead of an associate who just came back from a 4 year long vacation in Vice City and acts like he's entitled to something. I'd make Vinnie the main antagonist instead of Torini. I'd change the reason for their conflict to be Portland Harbor.

Edited June 2 by HotlineVice19603

[Copcaller 358]

On 9/10/2018 at 7:35 AM, Grumpy Cat said:

 i was mad too, you couldn't swim and climb in this game. hell it was released after san andreas, so why not at least climbing, so f**king weird, even more weirder is that before gta4 only black peoples can swim, CJ and Vic

Not really vic and cj aren't from Liberty so they didn't have to deal with polluted water plus it seems weird to have a soldier who can't swim

[iiCriminnaaL 49 2,510]

GTA San Andreas and Vice City Stories being the only 3D era titles that featured swimming is very understandable to me, as by the time R* were developing GTA III and Vice City, they hadn't yet implemented it in the series. They did that with San Andreas, but what about Liberty City Stories? Well, being the first portable GTA title, their main goal was mostly to port an improved version of GTA III that can be played as a handheld title, with a prequel story, Vice City's engine improvements and some minor San Andreas assets (few animations, the ability moving the camera while in vehicles, and such). They didn't plan to make it that big compared to Vice City Stories, which introduced unique combat techniques and empire building, and of course reintroduced swimming.

Edited June 3 by iiCriminnaaL 49

[Cjrememberthat 173]

On 6/3/2019 at 6:28 AM, iiCriminnaaL 49 said:

GTA San Andreas and Vice City Stories being the only 3D era titles that featured swimming is very understandable to me, as by the time R* were developing GTA III and Vice City, they hadn't yet implemented it in the series. They did that with San Andreas, but what about Liberty City Stories? Well, being the first portable GTA title, their main goal was mostly to port an improved version of GTA III that can be played as a handheld title, with a prequel story, Vice City's engine improvements and some minor San Andreas assets (few animations, the ability moving the camera while in vehicles, and such). They didn't plan to make it that big compared to Vice City Stories, which introduced unique combat techniques and empire building, and of course reintroduced swimming.

To me biggest problems were cutscenes, even though i like the game so much, i'd rather have 50 missions instead of 70 with better cutscenes, this game coulda been better than gtaIII like really but no, it ain't

[Corndawg93 1,038]

Make a more exciting last mission, chase a helicopter over the sea, that sound fun

[MysteryDriverX 214]

BY MAKING A PC VERSION

I can't wait for the final version of that LCS PC mod that has its own thread in the modding section.

 

Apart from that I guess the music could have been better imo. It should have had more famous 70's disco and 90's pop songs instead of made-for-the-game songs (although those "fake" songs were kinda nice).

Edited June 23 by MysteryDriverX

[tranceking26 1,229]

Helicopters of all kinds.

 

Swimming and climbing.

 

Better ways to earn money. It seems so far I've earned more  money delivering cars than by doing missions! 

[Matsukine 67]

After Love On The Run, there should be walls around Fort Staunton and a few entrances to get the hidden packages in the destroyed area and the tank, also around the destroyed neighborhood, cars would drive around and pedestrians would walk without any danger, like in GTA III:

 

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After Munitions Dump, Yardies shouldn't be hostile towards you.

 

I'd change Diablos quotes from Afroamerican to Spanglish.

Spoiler

Examples of quotes:

• Let's get some chicas, tio
• Diablos hasta la muerte!
• Imma kill you, parguela
• Don't f*ck with the Diablos
• Give some of that porro (weed) you have
• Hey do you have some perico (coke)?
• Let's get borracho (drunk)

 

Maverick spawning in the Francis International heliport (west side).

 

Make Hellenbach, Thunder-Rodd, Angel and Avenger spawn on the streets (mostly on middle-class areas).

 

Add Stinger and Cheetah to the Car-Azy Give Away list.

 

Bikers' riding Angel bike on the streets of Liberty, also Avenging Angels riding Avenger' bikes as well.

 

Make shoppers drive vehicles (like in GTA III)

 

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From the left to the right

 

Fat shopping girl:

• Vehicles: Sedans and hatchbacks (Manana, Kuruma and Sentinel)
• Radio station #1: Head Radio
• Radio station #2: Flashback FM
• Spawns in: Newport, Bedford Point and Torrington

Old shopping lady:

• Vehicles: Low class vehicles (Idaho, Esperanto, Moonbeam, Stallion and Perennial)
• Radio station #1: Double Clef FM
• Radio station #2: LCFR
• Spawns in: Fort Staunton, Newport, Bedford Point and Torrington

Blonde shopping girl:

• Vehicles: SUV's (Blista, Patriot and Landstalker)
• Radio station #1: Rise FM
• Radio station #2: Lips 106
• Spawns in: Fort Staunton (at day), Newport, Belleville Park (at night), Bedford Point and Torrington

Black executive girl:

• Vehicles: Upper class vehicles (V8 Ghost, Banshee, Cheetah, Stretch, Stinger, Infernus, Phobos and Deimos) and SUV's (Blista, Patriot and Landstalker)
• Radio station #1: Lips 106
• Radio station #2: LCFR
• Spawns in: Newport, Belleville Park, Bedford Point, Torrington, Francis International and Cedar Grove (at day)

 

 

Improvement on LCS soundtrack, especially Lips, Head Radio (using real-life artists) and Flashback FM (I don't have nothing against Giorgio Moroder' music but I believe Flashback would be good with more variety of 80's artists), the other stations would have a small addition of songs. Also including new stations as well; a station like Radio X but focusing on Brit, Indie, Noise and Shoegaze, a classic rock station, a soul/r&b station (probably Liberty Soul FM (beta station in III) appearing in LCS) and a latin station to Diablos and Cartel.

Edited August 14 by Tyche

[Duhillestpunk 321]

Rockstar should’ve released this game on PS2 first so it could have more features than it did on PSP. That’s why there’s nothing in this game, the PSP can’t handle much whereas the PS2 could handle a bit more. It could handle San Andreas couldn’t it?

[KGBeast 311]

On 7/12/2017 at 10:22 AM, SabreGT said:

Make the Sicilians more memorable antagonists. outside of that, nothing! Liberty City Stories is a masterpiece & shall remain the same.

 

Exactly this. Almost 14 years later and the complaints about this game are as unreasonable and uninformed as ever. Seeing people after all these years still crying that LCS isn't like SA is a reminder of why I love this game so much.