jonhyosbourne Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Today 22th October GTA III celebrates 21 years! Earthbound, Rolf Wiedeke, Ivan1997GTA and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthbound Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 It would've taken 20 minutes to download this trailer back in 2001...and I'd have been super impressed by it. Rolf Wiedeke, Krymefull, Stahli and 4 others 5 1 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072003108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolf Wiedeke Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 (edited) To this day, I still don't understand why they made the copcar so ugly in the final release. A simple color swap on the original paintjob would have looked much better. Edited October 23, 2022 by Rolf Wiedeke Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072003812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
universetwisters Posted October 24, 2022 Share Posted October 24, 2022 Happy birthday GTA 3 you're old enough to drink!!! 20 hours ago, Rolf Wiedeke said: To this day, I still don't understand why they made the copcar so ugly in the final release. A simple color swap on the original paintjob would have looked much better. Prob because that paintjob in the final is more generic and helps make Liberty City feel like it could be anywhere and nowhere specific imo Rolf Wiedeke and jonhyosbourne 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072004680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant remember Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Who else remembers those first actual gameplay clips from E3 filmed over someone's shoulder. The longest and best quality clip had someone drive a yellow van (with a lot of detail missing from the van's final version) while escaping cops and then stealing a red stallion from blue shirt guy. jonhyosbourne 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072005222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthbound Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 On 10/25/2022 at 8:00 PM, cant remember said: Who else remembers those first actual gameplay clips from E3 filmed over someone's shoulder. The longest and best quality clip had someone drive a yellow van (with a lot of detail missing from the van's final version) while escaping cops and then stealing a red stallion from blue shirt guy. Yeah, found the clips on MattJ155's YouTube channel. Kid Named Finger, jonhyosbourne and Majin13 2 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072006304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stahli Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Every year in October I am surprised how old this game is and I still have a lot of fun with it. There were probably a few years in between when I didn't play it, but it was always present. It also shows me every year how quickly time flies. It's been over 20 years since it was released and still so many people are still enthusiastic about it. We are still looking for more information from the pre-release phase and interesting things keep coming to light. These are always great memories for me. I used to run to my buddy to download some mods for GTA III. My parents only had a 56K modem and his parents already had ISDN (128k). Which reduced the download time by more than half. yeah yeah the good old days... jonhyosbourne and Earthbound 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072006330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rise FM Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) I will never forget that feeling of Christmas day 2001 when i finally got to unbox my fresh PS2 bundled with GTA3... A long time fan and Player of GTA 1 & 2 I always dreamt of a day where i would see GTA in a fully realised 3D universe... man that day was probably the best day ive had as an avid gamer. Proper watershed moment for me personally. Looking back, was GTA3 the most polished game... of course not, it had many flaws and limitations but.. at that moment in time it sent me to a place I had only dreamt of gaming wise and thats why it will always be my No.1 GTA game end of. And to be honest no game has ever made me feel that way since. Which is also the reason i detest the 'new' defective edition so much... Edited February 10, 2023 by Rise FM 44Orca, Exsanguination and jonhyosbourne 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072087847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhyosbourne Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 13 hours ago, Rise FM said: I will never forget that feeling of Christmas day 2001 when i finally got to unbox my fresh PS2 bundled with GTA3... A long time fan and Player of GTA 1 & 2 I always dreamt of a day where i would see GTA in a fully realised 3D universe... man that day was probably the best day ive had as an avid gamer. Proper watershed moment for me personally. Looking back, was GTA3 the most polished game... of course not, it had many flaws and limitations but.. at that moment in time it sent me to a place I had only dreamt of gaming wise and thats why it will always be my No.1 GTA game end of. And to be honest no game has ever made me feel that way since. Which is also the reason i detest the 'new' defective edition so much... What a good gold days friend! And yeah for me this new "definitive edition" it was a lack of respect for the GTA community & franchise deserved so much better! But anyway... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072088074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grtt Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 one of the better games, it is playable even after 20 years 44Orca, jonhyosbourne and Ivan1997GTA 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072089324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exsanguination Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 I still remember playing it for the first time… I owned GTA 2 on PSX but when I first drove that Kuruma down the Callahan bridge that did it, I was hooked and GTA was “my game” from there forward. It really is one of the best video games of all time and brought such a revolutionary immersive experience. jonhyosbourne, Bloodless and Ivan1997GTA 3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072094187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
44Orca Posted March 15, 2023 Share Posted March 15, 2023 I haven't played this along GTA Vice City and San Andreas in 2004, it was around 2007 that I did play GTA III for the first time. For some reason I thought it "looked boring" and "old" and I didn't bother buying it with the others. I want to start playing the definitive edition of it but that has to wait until I finish few other ones, including San Andreas DE 100%. jonhyosbourne 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072105688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil empire Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 GTA 3 is old but still definitely worth playing and enjoyable, especially with some mods. jonhyosbourne 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072112300 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthbound Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 17 hours ago, Evil empire said: GTA 3 is old but still definitely worth playing and enjoyable, especially with some mods. Absolutely. I usually point people to these two resources to help make GTA3 a little nicer to play alongside more modern titles. Updated Classic: GTA 3 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=921813268 Grand Theft Auto III: Definitive Edition https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=720574899 Stahli 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072112741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stahli Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 On 3/28/2023 at 5:19 AM, Earthbound said: Updated Classic: GTA 3 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=921813268 Updated Classic looks like a very interesting project. Their "small" changes really add value to the city. Earthbound 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072119293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodless Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 (edited) Have it really been so long? Those first lines on the Head radio when you get into the car still rings inside my head like it was few weeks ago. "...and two senators". And the sirens from those two police cars. I've only been out of the house two times throughout the summer when GTA III came out for the PC. When I came back to the school in September, I was so white from the lack of sun that classmates nicknamed me cottage cheese. It was the best summer of my first 30 years of life. The real sun was the one that shone down on Bedford point when you crashed your Banshee through the windows of TW@T. Edited May 9, 2023 by Bloodless Stahli 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/986507-today-gta-3-celebrates-21-years/#findComment-1072135875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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