History YMMV / GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** When you fail the mission "In the Air Tonight", you can hear Music/{{Phil|Collins}}'s BigNo and a funnier version of the mission failed caption that says that "Phil really felt something in the air tonight".
** When you pass the mission "Domo Arigato Domestoboto", Armando shoots his robot, Domestobot (which looks like {{Creator/Nintendo}}'s VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy {{pastiche}}), unaware that it was controlled by Vic.
-->'''Armando''': Domestobot! [[YouHaveFailedMe You lousy piece of crap, you've ruined me!]]
-->'''Domestobot''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Do you require a light?]]
** During "Unfriendly Competition":
-->'''Dealer''': This is a private party, pal.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Victor]]''': Yeah, well this is a public execution!
-->'''Dealer''': Holy shit! Get him, girls! ''(runs away while all [[ThisIsGonnaSuck his girls aim their guns at Vic]])''
-->'''Victor''': ...Motherfucker!
** The whole opening cutscene of "Turn On, Tune In, Bug Out".
-->'''Lance''': (whispering) Keep your voice down!
-->'''Victor''': No. You can barely tie your own shoelaces and ''you tellin' me how to behave?''
-->'''Lance''': [[SuddenlyShouting WILL YOU SHUT UP, YOU STUPID GORILLA?!]] [[NoIndoorVoice THE PLACE IS BUGGED! THE DEA IS ONTO US!]] HAPPY NOW?!
** In one of the earlier missions, "Cholo Victory", there's Phil Cassidy's EpicFail when he tries to drive his pickup truck.
-->'''Phil:''' Let's go, YEEEE-HAAAAAR!!
-->''(Phil crashes into a wall)''
-->'''Victor:''' Maybe ''I'' should drive, man.
-->'''Phil:''' Damn stick shift!
** Performing stunt jumps with your vehicle ''catches fire'' earns you "''Flaming'' Insane Stunt Bonus"!

* FridgeLogic: Why is Barry Mickelthwaite Music/PhilCollins' manager? What happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Smith_(manager) Tony Smith]]? Admittedly, this may only be a FridgeLogic moment for Collins and/or Music/{{Genesis}} fans. Given Collins' [[PromotedFanboy personal involvement in this game]], this was almost certainly a plot necessity/plot device.

* BaseBreakerCharacter: Victor Vance has definitely gained a polarizing reception. On one hand, fans find him a breath of fresh air from the more psychopathic, cold-hearted protagonists seen of that of [[TheVoiceless Claude]] and [[BrooklynRage Tommy]] and like that they got a NiceGuy as a protagonist for once (especially with how tragic Vic's backstory is). On the other hand, there are also fans who felt that Vic's nice-guy attitude didn't blend well with the nature of the game and dislike how hypocritical Vic can be at times (saying he doesn't want anything to do with drugs yet doesn't bat an eye to build drug empires).

** Getting your vehicle caught on fire while performing stunts will award you "''Flaming Insane Stunt Bonus''"!

*** This is subverted to some extent, however, if you took the time to [[spoiler: complete the fireman missions, which make the boss' weapon completely useless]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Renni is depicted as someone who has sex changes for fun as opposed to legitimately feeling like a man/woman trapped in a women's/men's body. Cut to 2017 and Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn Jennfer, who many have accused of only transitioning for fun as opposed to actually feeling like a women trapped in a man's body, with some reports that she's even considering de-transitioning.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When you fail the mission "In the Air Tonight", you can hear Music/{{Phil|Collins}}'s BigNo and a funnier version of the mission failed caption that says that "Phil really felt something in the air tonight".

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The entire soundtrack.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Happens to some people. In contrast to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas GTA: San Andreas]], the story is very un-optimistic and is one of the few video games of the 3D era to have a bittersweet ending. It doesn't help the fact that one of the main characters (Lance Vance) is an incompetent, childish idiot who only causes problems for his brother.
* FridgeLogic: Why is Barry Mickelthwaite Music/PhilCollins' manager? What happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Smith_(manager) Tony Smith]]? Admittedly, this may only be a FridgeLogic moment for Collins and/or Music/{{Genesis}} fans. Given Collins' [[PromotedFanboy personal involvement in this game]], this was almost certainly a plot necessity/plot device.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Happens to some people. In contrast to GTA: San Andreas, the story is very un-optimistic and is one of the few video games of the 3D era to have a bittersweet ending. It doesn't help the fact that one of the main characters (Lance Vance) is an incompetent, childish idiot who only causes problems for his brother.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When you fail the mission "In the Air Tonight", you can hear [[PhilCollins Phil's]] BigNo and a funnier version of the mission failed caption that says that "Phil really felt something in the air tonight".

* FridgeLogic: Why is Barry Mickelthwaite PhilCollins' manager? What happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Smith_(manager) Tony Smith]]? Admittedly, this may only be a FridgeLogic moment for Collins and/or Music/{{Genesis}} fans. Given Collins' [[PromotedFanboy personal involvement in this game]], this was almost certainly a plot necessity/plot device.

** When you pass the mission "Domo Arigato Domestoboto", Armando shoots his robot, Domestobot (which looks like {{Nintendo}}'s VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy {{pastiche}}), unaware that it was controlled by Vic.

** IronWoobie: Victor Vance. Unlike all the other playable characters of the series (including [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas CJ]], who has been considered have more "moral" than most), Victor Vance in the background does not like to be a drug dealer or kill people, he just feels compelled to to. Adding to this, his mother is a drug addict, and his brother an [[TooDumbToLive idiot]], JerkAss, ManChild and a crazy for the money without seeing the consequences.

** The whole opening cutscene of "Turn on, Tune in, Bug out".

* FridgeLogic: Why is Barry Mickelthwaite PhilCollins' manager? What happened to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Smith_(manager) Tony Smith]]? Admittedly, this may only be a FridgeLogic moment for Collins and/or Music/{{Genesis}} fans. Given Collins's [[PromotedFanboy personal involvement in this game]], this was almost certainly a plot necessity/plot device.

** Ok, let's talk about High Wire now. You're basically pulling an EscortMission with cocaine crates using a huge magnet on the bottom of a helicopter for the first two thirds, and it seems like everything's normal, but then you hear this: "HELP! THE BIKERS ARE ON ME, I CAN'T GET THEM OFF!" and you must go after a moving car that has bikers constantly shooting at it with Sub-Machine Guns, making it move around erratically, in turn causing FakeDifficulty as you're attempting to drive down and collect the car. The [[SarcasmMode BEST PART of this]], you may ask? The car has an HP meter of sorts, and if the bikers hit it enough times(read:about 15 or so streams of bullets), it'll blow up and you'll have to start over from THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MISSION. Have fun.

** "Unfriendly Competition" is a MAJOR DifficultySpike compared to missions before it, it's not too hard until you get to the swimming pool, which is absolutely crawling with enemies and has very little cover, making it insanely hard to kill all the enemies without getting killed yourself, and if you somehow survive you have to chase down and kill the last two guys using a quad-bike, which is very awkward to control and it's hard to drive and aim at the enemies at the same time.

** Marty J. Williams is even more disliked by many fans due to how he abuses Louise and even threatens to ''beat down their baby child''.

* MoralEventHorizon: Marty Jay Williams crosses the line when he kidnaps his own wife Louise and tries to turn her into a prostitute.
** Jerry Martinez crosses this when he kidnaps, rapes and intentionally injures Louise.
** Armando Mendez absolutely crosses this when kidnaps and kills Louise.

** "High Wire". Picking up a few cargo containers of the backs of slow-moving trucks with a sky crane isn't too hard, even with the wonky helicopter controls. However, once you have to fly all the way over to the other island and pick up Diego's small, fast-moving car while he's being chased by armed bikers, those chopper controls will make you want to tear your hair out.

* TheScrappy: Lance, [[TheLoad BIG TIME]]. Even more so than in ''Vice City''.

** One of the final missions, "Light My Pyre". The mission begins with a highly annoying car chase that wouldn't be so bad, except you have to escort [[TheLoad Lance]], who is riding a motorcycle and seems to enjoy [[StopHelpingMe getting in your way (sometimes, even in your line of fire) and getting himself killed, which is a Game Over.]] Then, you have to fight through a small army of heavily armed, respawning goons to get around the back of a building and through a door. THEN, you have to fight [[spoiler: Armando Mendez]], who is wielding a flamethrower. If that weren't enough, you're forced to fight him in a disorienting top-down perspective -- not to mention, his goons storm in and fight you, as if a man setting you on fire with a flamethrower wasn't enough. (This part is made almost laughably easy [[GameBreaker if you have a minigun with you]], but if you don't...) And if you die? Back to the beginning. And if you do finish it? You find that [[spoiler: Louise, the woman you went through all this hell to save, is dead.]] [[SarcasmMode What fun!]]

* TheScrappy: Lance, [[TheLoad BIG TIME]].

* HarsherInHindsight: The White Stallionz mission, where the Vance brothers have a shootout with a gang of homosexual bikers in a bar. Then in 2016 (ten years after VCS was released), a mass shooting occurred at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

-->'''Dealer''': Holy shit! Get him, girls! ''(runs away while all [[ThisIsGonnaSuck his girls aim all the guns at Vic]])''

** Another funny moment is when you pass the mission "Domo Arigato Domestoboto", Armando shoots his robot, Domestobot (which looks like {{Nintendo}}'s VideoGame/RoboticOperatingBuddy {{pastiche}}), unaware that it was controlled by Vic.

** Another funny moment is when you pass the mission "Domo Arigato Domestoboto", Armando shoots his robot, unaware that it was controlled by Vic.