Comment on GTA: Vice City's writing was "awful," Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says, but acting icon Ray Liotta "made it sound good"

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• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even if avoid discussion about subjective versus objective, there is also context.

  Ray Liotta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino did a great job.

  The soundtrack/score (remember the intro scene) was also very good and has only gotten better with age.

  The film is also very stylish.

  That covered for the writing, which is its own thing.

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  • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It had an all star cast who could make any dialogue sound Oscar worthy.

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The main thing I remember from Vice City was the excellent sound track.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eh, it mostly just riffed on popular crime movies and TV, especially Scarface. San Andreas was funny, but it wasn’t until GTA4 that I’d say the writing was actually good.

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  • Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GTA2 has under-rated world-building (there is not much writing), it was humourous in many ways, but also subtly dark and dystopian in a way that I don’t think we’ll ever see in GTA again.

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  • Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey Niko, it’s Roman. Let’s go bowling!

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