Worst Radio Station in Each Game.

[Dom.]

On 4/19/2023 at 4:07 AM, B Dawg said:

Nah channel x is sissy, amateur sh*t and isn't comparable to LCHC. That being said, they did a really good job with LCHC, hell they even managed to find a good Bad Brains song because imo most of their songs suck. The only bad addition to the station is Murphy's Law - A Day In The Life, but every station in every game suffers from at least 1 or more bad additions.

Channel X has great artists, but pretty sh*t songs. It's disappointing.

[Carbonox]

GTA V: Still Slipping, Music Locker, Motomami, and whatever else belongs in the same category. Where exactly is the appeal? It's just noise.

[Pistol Bobcat]

GTA III: MSX, has a few good tracks but definitely my least favourite in this game

 

GTA Vice City: Espantoso I guess, their best songs are the ones playing at the Ocean View Hotel.

 

GTA San Andreas: Playback FM, literally never tune into this one.

 

Liberty City Stories: Double Cleff FM

 

Vice City Stories: Espantoso

 

IV: Massive B

 

GTA V and Online: Blonded, and everything added to Online since then

[Puzzled32]

III - MSX FM

 

Vice City - K-Chat

 

San Andreas - Playback FM

 

Liberty City Stories - LCFR

 

Vice City Stories - VCPR

 

IV - PLR, Integrity 2.0, WKTT Talk Radio

 

EFLC - Self-Actualization FM

 

V - East Los, WCTR, Blaine County Radio and Channel X

Edited October 6, 2023 by Puzzled32

[Jezus Holy Christ]

III: Flashback FM. It's a decent station but feels out of place. I liked the original material on other stations more.

 

Vice City: Fever 105. It's not bad, but I liked other stations more.

 

San Andreas: K-DST. Again, like Fever 105, I don't hate it but it's not my favorite.

 

IV and Episodes from Liberty City: Liberty Rock Radio. Yea yea it's ironic, it's sarcastic, it's supposed to be outdated. I don't care. It's still a painful listen and pisses me off everytime it comes on. It's serving its purpose, I suppose.

 

V and Online: Lots of unmemorable streaming service automated-playlist-type stations in these games, but iFruit Radio takes the cake. The worst radio station in the entire series.

Spoiler

The radio stations in V and Online are generally terrible because most of them are painfully pedestrian, like, they play stuff you'd hear on real radio stations, and there's no "edge" for the lack of a better word. Everything is so smooth and most of the songs are perfectly happy with being background music. Even in the biggest hits of any year you could find some oddball songs, like Japanese Boy in Vice City. V doesn't have that, maybe a few in East Los FM and Motomami but that's it. It has agreeable picks, like the thousand Kendrick songs in Radio Los Santos that were already all over the charts and playing everywhere when the game came out. There are some stations based around one artist or producer's work, unfortunately I didn't like any of them. And many stations lack cohesion. You can't depend on them. You switched to Non-Stop Pop expecting some glitzy glamorous late noughties pop? Syke! Have some '80s throwback.

 

I don't have any strong opinion on the other games. The 2D games were very different from the later ones so there's no point to include and compare them. I also haven't replayed LCS, VCS, and Chinatown Wars enough to remember the radio stations, but my point about Flashback FM still stands when it comes to LCS.

[nikolagta]

III - MSX

Vice City -wildstyle (pain to my ears) 

San Andreas - playback fm

LCS - MSX

VCS - FRESH FM (another pain to my ears) 

IV - beat

V - the lab

[KarimNTerr]

On 5/25/2023 at 1:10 AM, UserInvalid said:

blonded los Santos 97,8 FM, Los Santos Underground Radio [LSUR], iFruit Radio and MOTOMAMI Los Santos [On wiki this is missing, but in game available] there is also available in GTA V story mode, but all the other new radio stations:

Kult FM

Music Locker Radio

Still Slipping Los Santos

FlyLo FM [New GTA Online songs]

WorldWide FM [New GTA Online songs]

Radio Los Santos [New GTA Online songs]

West Coast Classics [New GTA Online songs]

Media Player

 

Only available in GTA Online.

MOTOMAMI was in GTAV, but recently got removed, maybe you didn't update the game?

Edit: I replied to an old post 

Edited December 11, 2023 by KarimNTerr

[Lapson Derek]

GTA3: MSX

GTAVC: All talk show

GTASA: WCTR and master sounds

GTA4: Almost all the stations are bad, but I hate The Journey

GTA5: sh*ts like worldwide fm, flylo fm, and east los fm

[Copcaller]

won't call them the worse but never really cares for the latin style music  stations. 

[Thejeffster]

in 4? I didn't really care much for Liberty City Hardcore, none of it ever caught my ear. Same goes for Vladivostok FM. Every other station at least had one song I liked or could tolerate.

[handy_fox]

Here we go again...

GTA1: The Buckner Show has only 1 song

GTA2: Lofi

GTA3: Double Clef

Vice City: [Haven't had the chance to play it. Like really.]

San Andreas: KJAH West

LCS: KJAH

VCS: [I really couldn't tell you. When I beat this game twice, I mostly played Fresh 105. I haven't payed attention to all of the stations so I don't want to take a guess.]

4: [Couldn't tell you. Every time I get the game I lose my save and I can't get it to run well on my 2016 laptop]

5&6: Any station with trap music.

 

Why yes, this is how I choose to spend my days off...

[Guest]

i dont have complaints about the radio stations, i loved the in house from gta 1 to gta 3, very creative trio of games. i would have to say all of liberty city stories, there's maybe 1 song that is okay, but literally all of the songs in that game are so awful, i just cant listen to any of it

[LowTierDude]

I wasn't particularly a huge fan of the reggaeton/modern latin stations like San Juan Sounds, MOTOMAMI and East Los. I'd scratch it up to not really liking those genres I guess.