Play GTA Vice City in the Browser
63 points by rzk 3 hours ago | 28 comments
bastrich 59 minutes ago
I opened the link from the mobile, and when I pressed PLAY NOW, some scam links opened and initiated Apple Pay payment on my phone.
I'm pretty sure this is not what you intended but still it does what it does.
replyweird-eye-issue 27 minutes ago
There is a full screen interstitial ad that appeared right after clicking play now so if you double pressed or lingered a bit or maybe some sort of bug triggered the click then it happened through clicking on that ad
replycbg0 43 minutes ago
My ublock origin blocked ~20 elements on page load so I'm pretty sure that's intentional.
replycsomar 12 minutes ago
Yeah, it side tracked from what is otherwise a surprisingly functional game.
replybonoboTP 18 minutes ago
For me the cars and people didn't load in gta3, just the shadow of the car is seen, but you can drive it.
replymettamage 41 minutes ago
Here is to hoping that GTA 6 will at some point be ready for VR. If any employee is reading this, I would be first in line to play the VR version!
replyembedding-shape 18 minutes ago
If not at console launch (which seems unlikely, unless it's a "And one more thing..." feature), it'd be there by the blood and sweat of modders after the PC launch.
replyxpct 54 minutes ago
Could someone shed some light on what's the legality of publishing emulated abandonware? I remember not too long ago Half-Life 2's web port got posted, is that still online?
replytgsovlerkhgsel 32 minutes ago
Unless they've gotten a license to do it, it's a crystal clear copyright violation, generally done under the assumption/hope that an entity that has abandoned selling the game has also abandoned caring about enforcing its copyrights against such projects.
replyd3Xt3r 2 hours ago
Relevant: https://dos.zone/
replyDaOne256 2 hours ago
What the kids call "DOS games" nowadays... Half of the games on this list are for Windows 95 or later.
replyThe site should call them PC games.
Okay Boomer...
embedding-shape 2 hours ago
At one point during it's usage, words just stop accurately describing what it is, and starts communicating a vibe or something instead. Just like "DOS Games", "MIDI" which is just data in reality, but people started associating it with chiptune, so somehow some people now mix the terms and call chiptune "Midi Music", yet chiptune have nothing to do with MIDI the protocol/.mid the fileformat.
replykalaksi 41 minutes ago
In technical contexts it's often still important to use words accurately so in that sense it might not lose it's original meaning completely. I've come to accept that everyday language can be messy and inaccurate and one can't always get it right especially if they're not familiar enough with the topic. You can still get the meaning across well-enough.
replyoctochamp 32 minutes ago
It's funny how frequently we point and shout at semantic drift when we see it, when it's such a natural part of how we use language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
replyembedding-shape 19 minutes ago
Apropos:
reply> Fun - [...] earlier "a cheat, trick" (c. 1700), from verb fun (1680s) "to cheat, hoax," - https://www.etymonline.com/word/funny
CLuse101 2 hours ago
Absolutely fucking amazing, thank you. This tapped into the memory of how I remembered playing GTA III in terms of visuals. Thank you so much, I love this game and the person who made this happen!!
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