in a way i feel like the late 90s and early 2000s were the best time to grow up because we really got to see the internet explode. one of the biggest things we have ever achieved.
The 2000s was such a sweet spot between the 'manual' 80s and the 'automatic' 20s we now live in. I wish the technological advancements stopped by the 00s, so that we'd still be 'practical' while being 'modern'.
@@PoorDog69 I'm not talking about the iPhones. I'm talking about tech in general. Like all this tech has been shoved in our faces 24/7 365-days through social media and whatnot that it's been sooo hard to disconnect and recover our origins as 'practical' beings.
@@smansab59it’s not hard at all. People can just choose to use their phones way less and find practical hobbies. I do it all the time. Go outside, play music, read actual books, etc. There’s a lot to do and people can choose to do it if they wished
And to think that Rockstar was developing GTA 3 during this very period. I suppose it’s getting recommended to everyone due to GTA 3’s upcoming 20th anniversary.
I can't really explain it, but the GTA III theme straight up sounds like New York to me. Maybe it's the trumpets mimicking the sounds of car horns, but in general, the theme just perfectly captures the hustle and bustle of the city.
Rockstar has creating some truly amazing and genius soundtracks over the years. The Vice City one is incredible piece of music too. They were all great till GTA 5 I felt like that didn't have much character really at all.
This style is very much present in Michael Mann's movies , this feel is exactly what the developers at Rockstar intended to replicate in Gta 3 , the bluish hue and the ambient sound of traffic .
The best cops cars were the new crown victorias at the time, even some of the classic blue and white Chevy caprices could still be seen rolling around in pursuits
I traveled around in there 20years ago and I still cannot believe that I'm now watching those familiar sceneries on youtube with GTA3 theme. So nostalgic. Thanks a lot.
those were them days also sopranos was right around the cornor then the realease of the best and greatest console ever made ps2 no social media no nothing just pure badassery after 2012 everything went soft today everything is soulless i miss the old times bro
@@shoreZ I agree in part. 9/11 changed the life of the West more than any other event in the previous 20 years, but the world in the 1970s experienced the war in Vietnam or the cold war and then the war in Kosovo the 90's. In my opinion the atmospheres of the early 2000s derive from the charm of the new millennium.
@cuk There was phones, flip phones, slide phones, dial phones, house phones and pay phones wym? and there was social media but you had to have a camera with an sd card and have the sd card transfer photos to your apple mac or windows xp and upload the picture while using real slow dial up internet, trust me I grew up in the early 2000s and if I had the chance to go back, it be a normal for me
I think that the 2000s were a very particular time of transition, with all the good and bad that that includes, which makes many of us suffer from an irremediable nostalgia syndrome.
also says the guy who waited in game weeks while I jumped from a broken bridge to collect 100 little bundles of cocaine to get weapons and a million dollars.
This was absolutely the best time to be a kid. I was 7 years old in 2000 and that was easily the best time of my life. Late 90s early 2000 nyc is such a nostalgic vibe. Makes me wanna jam “Thank You” by Dido
Even though I was born in the UK in 2005, a part of me wishes I was born in something like 1988-1990. Just so I could grow up with all the things I appreciate from those times being brand new
@@CrewDrastically they attacked the towers, crashing two passenger planes, the buildings could not withstand the heat of the explosions and fell, those officially responsible were the terrorist group "Al-qaeda"
It feels like I've been searching for this video my entire life without even knowing it. My entire identity, the music that I love, my preferences, the aesthetic I base everything I do and make on in my life are entire based on everything you see and hear in this vid. The vibe, the aesthetic, the music, the colors, the camera quality, the lighting, the mood. I just love everything in this vid, and I'm glad this vid exists. I know it's a simple vid, but I love it and might be one of the best things I've ever seen on UA-cam. Even though I was only 5 back in 2000, this brings me back.
despite not playing any of the games, I think we can agree that the GTA III theme is the most chill/calm theme of any of the GTA games edit: guys please stop replying I don't care please
Having played the game myself, I totally agree with you. I sometimes deliberately decide not to skip the introduction part of the game so that I can listen to the theme a little longer :)
It was the vibe for that moment for NY, check out of different is GTAIV Even being on the same city but you can find this cool chill stuff on the radio also
As a kid, I thought GTA III was such a mature game for adults, and 20 years later, man, I'm just a big kid now, and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but this tune is so classy, and brings back lovely memories of me and my dad playing GTA III together. Miss you dad!
Never played GTA 3, never went to New York, but this video is so magical. The music perfectly captures 2000's Liberty City/NYC very well and this video proves that 100%.
Even if you didn't know that this was the theme of GTA 3 (and I barely played it so I barely know either), this still feels absolutely fitting, like this kinda music and vibe is the last time in human history where it barely still fits NYC of the time - or at least, how it was perceived. Also getting some really strong Last Window feelings from this, which I love.
Let's be honest. As a little kid, when your parents finally let you play GTA, it would be like God coming down to confirm that it should be fine to play for a short period of time
@@dushandvr5765 Damn the world often be so small sometimes. Of all comment i could' ve pick to read i chose these ones. Couldn't have described me better (but instead of a small town, a city) phew at least i was born at early 2000s (the same year to be exact) i gotta be proud i played the trilogy prior turning 13, that i knew from since 6/8-10 years
I absolutely love this video. I get weirdly nostalgic for NYC circa 1997-2001 even though I was 2 when the towers fell.... and I've never been to New York and the crowds would drive me crazy.. Add the vibe of the GTA III theme to it and it's literally perfect.
You were 2. I was born in april 2001 and still remember bush talking to the people by mic after twin tower attack. I only remember from first 4 years of life
I'm born in 1998 and never been to america, but i can 100% relate to tht weird special nostalgia feeling for the late 90's/early 2000's nyc vibe that you described, like completely i can feel you
Was just listening to the gta 3 theme and found this, well done! It gives you nostalgia and that feeling when you miss something you didn't even take part in, those were the times man
Whenever I watch old videos from the late 90's to mid 2000s, I feel truly depressed. I just miss the good old days. Wish I could go back to relive those days. Beautifully crafted video, man. Thanks for creating and sharing it! Put some tears in my eyes, not gonna lie...
it just gives a weird nostalgic vibe. I was born 8 years after 2000 and never even went to America but it just feels calm and nostalgic. And gta 3's theme is just so relaxing for some reason Edit: why does this have 219 likes?
@Radical Larry that's a great way to look at that game. if you go in expecting a basic, outdated, brutally difficult game then GTA 3 is going to be a blast. but if you go in expecting red dead redemption 2 style story and GTA 5 style gameplay and content then you aren't gonna like it.
I got GTA 3 on release day in October 2001 , 8 years before you were even born , sorry that you grew up in this tiktok generation , but boyyyy did we have some GREAT times in the 90s & early 2000s !
Is it just me or did everything seem more colourful, vibrant, alive, moving, interfering with eachother.. I feel that today everyone is in a moving stagnation, just there greyed out, present but phased into something else. This looks so much more like a place I would love to visit.
More military conflicts, riots everywhere in the world, new communist dictatorships, rainbow haired people spreading even more hate and addiction to technology being the norm. Ironically, we're apparently living in the most peaceful time of human history so far. Quite crazy.
back when people thought world is gonna end at the year of "2000".. some years later they thought its gonna end in "2012".. now no one knows but we got a global pandemic disease
@@misterbuklau4053 world will end when we all day, to say that world ended in 2001 it's rather poetic... But in reality this will end one day. Seriously.
Crazy how much development we had with technology within those 10 years we went from Flip phone to keyboard phones and Ipods to Touch screens phones and tablets now wireless earbuds. Let alone gaming from 2001 gta3 to 2008 we got GTAIV and man did that game look so real
I never visited New York , but i know the map of liberty city more than my city . This video bought all that together again . I had many adventures with Claude , Toni , Niko here . Those early 2000 vibes came again . Oh why can't I time travel to 2001 again , where I could again have the joy of seeing the graphics of the game for the first time . Time passed so quickly .
I miss my home in the Bronx... I used to travel to manhattan whenever I got the chance and I will never forget my time living there. The nostalgia is therapeutic.
@@SuperSoylaleche it was really good, had a lot of good memories there growing up. There were the downsides obviously like crime was more likely and getting robbed etc, but as long as you knew how to be aware you were good. I miss those days. I miss my friends, but it’s okay because we talk from time to time. So overall. It was great.
@@Aisthetes24 That sounds really good, thx for sharing your experience of those past days! 😁but we have so much to enjoy in our lifes from now so, we have to keep making more wonderful days :D
Imagine how I feel. Im 26 now… So I was a kid back when we had payphones, landlines, desktop computers, payperview, Cable TV. Now im an adult and a 7yr old kid I met asked me what a Landline Phone was. Blew my mind.
@@Crayolapup same. I'm 26 too, a couple of years ago my niece asked me "what is the point of a landline? Why would you use a phone thats stuck in one place?" The idea freaked her out. Made me feel like a dinosaur, i remember using payphones 😂😂
Things didn't change in 21 years. Heck it changed rapidly in 1 year. The country, let alone the city, was never the same after that drastic day in 2001
" I know a place just on the edge of the red light district where we can lay low,but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother" EVERBODY RAISE YOUR BOTTELS FOR GTA 3 THAT TURNS 20 THIS YEAR! ❤
Even tho I was born in 03, seeing 90s and 2000s NYC with all of the old crown vics and buses and old screens everywhere is always fascinating for some reason, like with how it's modern yet simpler in some ways
If the internet was one gigantic hotel, this would be that small quiet lobby on the far side of the building overlooking the city, but not too high up with few guests just chilling on their keypad phones. I love it.
@@lol-ih1tl already did but some idiots don't and keep the virus spreading it anyway 😐 They just won't listen and keep pinpointing at conspiracy theories.
And due to the year this video took place, no worries of terrorism or living in constant fear after what happened that day in September, just one year later
This is depressing. We can never go back to those good, old days... We're stuck with what we've got now. I mean, I was born in '96 and my memory is a bit foggy and lots has happened and I'm sure not everything was perfect but all I know is that I hate what we've got now and it didn't really exist back then or at least I wasn't aware of it (didn't really have access to the Internet until I was in my teens). I was happy and I wanted to live, that's all I know.
Legit I couldn't imagine living there today constant retards recording themselves dancing alot more bad stuff but definitely social media took a toll on uss
This gives me memories of driving down to teterboro airport with my grandfather her I in the 2000s and listening to slow jazz as we pre-flight the airplane and wait for the celebrity personal he flew. No social media, just the technology that was relevant at the time. Simple handheld games, no smart phone. CDs in the car
I'm sure it's obvious to anyone here, but I can't help it, I just get carried over the creativity of my brain creating whatever atmosphere it can from this video. I don't know what I'd give to experience this, I've always loved the dark skies in urban areas, street lights and buildings lighting up the city to embrace you.
Ah, yes. The early 2000s.
A sweet spot of digital technology before 2010s social media takeover.
When it was like, "Oh! This is so cool, I get to make videos and post them online!". Now it's like, "Ugh, why is this so slow?".
2010 was cool. Even though I was like 5
completely agree
in a way i feel like the late 90s and early 2000s were the best time to grow up because we really got to see the internet explode. one of the biggest things we have ever achieved.
Mid 2000’s social media was so much better.. myspace.. NEOPETS 🤣
Crazy to think that the 2000’s are now the new 80’s.
I think the zeros are still the zeros for me…. and the eighties are still the eighties
Ah yes the Bush years. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
So the 80's is actually just a term to describe what things where like a couple of decades ago🤔 hmm I never thought about it that way
@@AutoAndChillThe let's invade Iraq because they have weapons of mass destruction years. (spoiler: they didn't)
@@stondMakes about as much sense as sending hundreds of billions into Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia. Crap foreign policy for decades.
Oh hell yeah
very specific vibe...
Yeah love the vibes with this video
Blackpanthaa?? I didn’t know you watched this 😮
Verified people resisting the urge to leave the most simple comment ever and still get a bajillion replies:
Surprised this comment is not like 7 years old its recent
How I wish I could turn back the clock...
Be homura
@@rajanon7113 no one gets the unfunny anime reference
Time machine
@@thecool1ne85 Bruh I wish
@@turbocavalli death mage who doesn't want a fourth time, im not an otaku my friend told me about it the boi travel around time and dies xddddd
Meanwhile Claude is somewhere in the city blowing up everything
....
-Claude, 2001
Nah Claude must by walking weird some
Where
Yep
@@SiddarthSenthilMurugan Oh no......
The 2000s was such a sweet spot between the 'manual' 80s and the 'automatic' 20s we now live in. I wish the technological advancements stopped by the 00s, so that we'd still be 'practical' while being 'modern'.
Hey, iPhones weren't prominent until the 2010s. After it was released in summer 2007
It wasn't a gradual transition from flip phones to iPhones back in the late 00s. That's just baloney to believe.
@@PoorDog69 I'm not talking about the iPhones. I'm talking about tech in general. Like all this tech has been shoved in our faces 24/7 365-days through social media and whatnot that it's been sooo hard to disconnect and recover our origins as 'practical' beings.
@@smansab59it’s not hard at all. People can just choose to use their phones way less and find practical hobbies. I do it all the time.
Go outside, play music, read actual books, etc. There’s a lot to do and people can choose to do it if they wished
You described it perfectly.
I love this tiny corner of internet
Same
Count me in ✨
Me too.
Yea
Yea me too
And to think that Rockstar was developing GTA 3 during this very period.
I suppose it’s getting recommended to everyone due to GTA 3’s upcoming 20th anniversary.
Has to be it, it's a great video though
Rockstars definitely doing something big. They said that there would be stuff in GTA Online and OTHER Surprises.
Gta advance too :')
Fact
Indeed
I can't really explain it, but the GTA III theme straight up sounds like New York to me. Maybe it's the trumpets mimicking the sounds of car horns, but in general, the theme just perfectly captures the hustle and bustle of the city.
It's Miles Davis inspired
GTAIII setting was in liberty city which pretty much says it was in New York. Vice City was basically Miami.
Rockstar has creating some truly amazing and genius soundtracks over the years. The Vice City one is incredible piece of music too. They were all great till GTA 5 I felt like that didn't have much character really at all.
I associate it with the sound of Salvatore's mafia
Admit it
This is how we saw GTA 3 while we cruised down the city
True
im also getting some Driver Parallel Lines vibes
Played gta3 on release never thought it looked this realistic
@8A Kenny Aristyo R y not
GTA was revolutionary as an open world game where you could do so much. Liberty City still looks fantastic today
This video was so much better than I thought it would be.
Agreed
I could not relate more to this comment
It makes me quite nostalgic for a time and place I have never experienced
1K LIKES! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very relaxing with that nightlife and music in the background.
This style is very much present in Michael Mann's movies , this feel is exactly what the developers at Rockstar intended to replicate in Gta 3 , the bluish hue and the ambient sound of traffic .
"Get this thing airborne!"
-Catalina's last words
then gets rocket launched down by claude :D
She probably called cj before she died 🤣🤣🤣
CJ getting tinnitus after Catalina kept yelling at him from behind.
@@Hamzaxx369 "Aw, yes Claude, kill me with a rocke-"
"Hello? Catalina? Damn, i gotta change my number."
@Lepond No shit.
“I know a place on the edge of the red light district where we can lay low, but my hands are all messed up, so you better drive brotha”
R.I.P Keith Elam
@@OutlawedPoet I believe Keith Elam was the voice actor who voice Eight-ball? Yes?
@@easygo1477 yup. he passed all the way back in 2010
@@OutlawedPoet RIP to him
8 Ball was a cool dude.
America before 9/11 was so different
Better
We're still feeling the effects. 9/11 ruined us more than we know.
@@i-CrimsoN3 two towers fell, literally just that????
@@lluuukkaaaa I'm referring to the political ramifications. The PATRIOT Act and similar "anti-subversion" policies.
@@i-CrimsoN3 alright then
Twin Towers, those weird Impalas, the atmosphere, that Lumina police car. 2000 was the most 2000sy year of the decade.
@@lol-ih1tl I thought that extended until 2003
Edit: I always thought this type of era stretched from 1996 to 2003
@@lol-ih1tl For me 2000's culture ended in 2014.
@@lol-ih1tl 2000's ended in 2011 for Americans. For me and my people, it ended in 2014.
and it wasn't even XXIst century yet
The best cops cars were the new crown victorias at the time, even some of the classic blue and white Chevy caprices could still be seen rolling around in pursuits
Just try and find me...
@Adam Aiman Hello.
How are you even speaking?
@@epicgamer-iz4ok He is typing not talking
@@sebastianlaborde8567 oh, ok
Maybe you are in a Silver Car or in a Bus?
I traveled around in there 20years ago and I still cannot believe that I'm now watching those familiar sceneries on youtube with GTA3 theme. So nostalgic. Thanks a lot.
Man I miss the early 2000’s crazy to see how much has changed in such a short while and knowing most of us lived through it
Ssme man
I was only a few months old
the good old times when everything was still badass , Sopranos was around the corner the Twin Towers were still standing 👊🏼
i was born in the mid 2000's so i didn't get to experience much
@@D34D_WestlandsOfficial same here my i was born in may
Los Angeles in 1992 with GTA SA’s theme
Search for a crips or bloods documentary from the 90s and play the theme in the background. profit lol
nah boring
*The Rodney King Riots in the background*
@@phaseshift943 depends on what clips are used, it can be awesome if someone does it right
@@phaseshift943 You're boring
I love how no one's on a phone and there acting like human beings R.I.P. the better times
2001, a time when body on frame cars still ruled the streets of Manhattan
those were them days also sopranos was right around the cornor then the realease of the best and greatest console ever made ps2 no social media no nothing just pure badassery after 2012 everything went soft today everything is soulless i miss the old times bro
@@hiphop90s98 Sopranos was already out by then. It debuted in the late 90s
Crown Vics and Towncars as far as the eye could see
Ol' legendary ladder frame
@@Chilibendrix There will never be another car with as much class and prestige as the Executive L
Early 2000's are so magic.. i dont't know why. Great video
2001 was the last year the world was innocent. After 9/11, things changed drastically
@@shoreZ
I agree in part.
9/11 changed the life of the West more than any other event in the previous 20 years, but the world in the 1970s experienced the war in Vietnam or the cold war and then the war in Kosovo the 90's.
In my opinion the atmospheres of the early 2000s derive from the charm of the new millennium.
Maybe because it was the start of a new century
because many of us were teens, kids or just younger we feel it magic
@cuk There was phones, flip phones, slide phones, dial phones, house phones and pay phones wym? and there was social media but you had to have a camera with an sd card and have the sd card transfer photos to your apple mac or windows xp and upload the picture while using real slow dial up internet, trust me I grew up in the early 2000s and if I had the chance to go back, it be a normal for me
I think that the 2000s were a very particular time of transition, with all the good and bad that that includes, which makes many of us suffer from an irremediable nostalgia syndrome.
I think you might be into something
let him cook
_"Experience has taught me that a man like you can be very loyal for the right price."_
*~ Donald Love (GTA 3)*
who would imagine Donald Love would become president!
Experience has taught me wishful thinking only leads to disappointment
" "
~ Claude Speed (GTA 3)
reference to Toni isn't it?
- The political cannibal
3:05 It's so sad that this was the last year the twin tower stood tall. RIP.
yeah, just only a year before it all went wrong. RIP to all those souls
what do you mean? it's 11th september 2001, 8:40 am and i am chilling in the tower
wait... what is that comi-
@@NotArie you're being so disrespectful man, my uncle was there.... well, he was a pilot, but anyway
@@NotArie now say that to the face of every veteran from the war on terror
@@ZaYn.91 this is just sad bruv, at least we should be thankful that not a large number of people died. May they all rest in peace.
1:27 that cop is living the dream
The 2000s have such a weird aesthetic. I love it
I can 100% feel the feeling you described, idk why there's something special about it.
So weird yet so cool at the same time
I know. It's really weird and gritty.
It had that beautiful transition from the 90’s modern-day aesthetics.
It didn't... you just think that because of low quality video
"My hand are all messed up so i think you should drive"
Say the guy who opened car door with broken hand
Lmao
Lol
also says the guy who waited in game weeks while I jumped from a broken bridge to collect 100 little bundles of cocaine to get weapons and a million dollars.
"I know a place at the red light district where we can lay low but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother" That's how it goes
8 ball did bit of trolling
This was absolutely the best time to be a kid. I was 7 years old in 2000 and that was easily the best time of my life. Late 90s early 2000 nyc is such a nostalgic vibe. Makes me wanna jam “Thank You” by Dido
you’re so real for that bro that dido song is amazing
Even though I was born in the UK in 2005, a part of me wishes I was born in something like 1988-1990. Just so I could grow up with all the things I appreciate from those times being brand new
I'm the same age as you and you're completely right
This comment almost made me tear up a bit ;)
ditto
Insane, nostalgia.
seeing the twin towers a year before their demise really dose something to ya
Yeah same for shows like Friends
what happen to twin towers?
@@CrewDrastically they attacked the towers, crashing two passenger planes, the buildings could not withstand the heat of the explosions and fell, those officially responsible were the terrorist group "Al-qaeda"
@@CrewDrastically 9/11
@@CrewDrastically gone, reduced to atoms
Watching this just gives you this uncanny feeling 😢 just makes you feel different, like looking at a different world that is gone.
Ayo Claude what are you doing here, thought you are mute
I can type with my fingers
It feels like I've been searching for this video my entire life without even knowing it. My entire identity, the music that I love, my preferences, the aesthetic I base everything I do and make on in my life are entire based on everything you see and hear in this vid. The vibe, the aesthetic, the music, the colors, the camera quality, the lighting, the mood. I just love everything in this vid, and I'm glad this vid exists. I know it's a simple vid, but I love it and might be one of the best things I've ever seen on UA-cam. Even though I was only 5 back in 2000, this brings me back.
I'm glad my creation has touched you
yo, i was 5 back in 2000 too, we are 26 now, this is crazy, i cant believe 911 happened almost 20 years ago.
@@playstation1331 and that nyc’s essence is practically ruined with not much hope of return.
@@ITBETHESUN whenever I look at New York I think to myself.
No matter what it's a beautiful place and I hope that one day I'll set my foot there
true
despite not playing any of the games, I think we can agree that the GTA III theme is the most chill/calm theme of any of the GTA games
edit: guys please stop replying I don't care
please
Having played the game myself, I totally agree with you. I sometimes deliberately decide not to skip the introduction part of the game so that I can listen to the theme a little longer :)
It was the vibe for that moment for NY, check out of different is GTAIV Even being on the same city but you can find this cool chill stuff on the radio also
Please go and play them! You're denying yourself an amazing experience
What, you haven't played any of them, you should play them, start with gta 3, then vice city, San Andreas, iv and then v
@@-Tony-Gunk-more like start with GTA V then GTA SA then GTA IV then GTA vice city then GTA III. It easily makes u be a pro at GTA games
Funny how our mind relates the camera quality to that time of period.
It gets harder and harder to imagine these scenarios again but in HD
Just realize GTA3 is something from 20 years ago, time flies.
This is actually great wtf
Why,the video looks so cool
A year before disaster.
Everybody gangster until you see Claude cruising around.
You'll know him by his wooden baseball bat
im waiting for toni to show up xd
@@aizakkutheweeaboo6429 he's with Salvatore.
And toni cipriani eating food in the mom's restaurant with leones
In an extra loud Sanchez
As a kid, I thought GTA III was such a mature game for adults, and 20 years later, man, I'm just a big kid now, and I still have no idea what I'm doing, but this tune is so classy, and brings back lovely memories of me and my dad playing GTA III together. Miss you dad!
It's insane there were only 7 years between GTA 3 and GTA 4, feel like different eras not just graphically, but culturally
Ah, so nice...
*Hears gunshots from Claude*
So nostalgic-wait a minute...
Never played GTA 3, never went to New York, but this video is so magical. The music perfectly captures 2000's Liberty City/NYC very well and this video proves that 100%.
You should play GTA3 it’s such an amazing game
@@easygo1477 maybe then but 20 years later?probably better off playing a newer game
@@thepotisnothot34 Nah it’s never too late to play an old GTA game
@Tommy GTAIV is definitely *not* a remaster of III. It’s just set in the same city but they’re two different games.
@@thepotisnothot34 its not a perfect game but is still really fun
Even if you didn't know that this was the theme of GTA 3 (and I barely played it so I barely know either), this still feels absolutely fitting, like this kinda music and vibe is the last time in human history where it barely still fits NYC of the time - or at least, how it was perceived. Also getting some really strong Last Window feelings from this, which I love.
"That's My Bush" sounds like a TV show that would exist in the GTA Universe, but I do remember it.
or Lil Bush
Lol I thought it was referring to the US President at the time, George W Bush. Sort of like NY endorsing him in a weird way 😂
@@zarakdurrani7584It was a George Bush parody comedy done by the creators of south park.
Let's be honest. As a little kid, when your parents finally let you play GTA, it would be like God coming down to confirm that it should be fine to play for a short period of time
I know that feeling, i fought 3 straight years with my dad to let me play GTA SA it was worthy i can say.
Thankfully my mum saw the cartoon-ish artwork on the cover of GTA III and said, "It can't be worse than anything on TV."
" know a place on the edge of the red light district where we can lay low, but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother."
It's amazing how this feels nostalgic even though I was born in 2003, grew up in the country side of a small town and played GTA 3 once 6 years ago
Of course you were 12 and just a kid, now you are 18... it's still your childhood game.
@@dushandvr5765 Damn the world often be so small sometimes. Of all comment i could' ve pick to read i chose these ones. Couldn't have described me better (but instead of a small town, a city) phew at least i was born at early 2000s (the same year to be exact) i gotta be proud i played the trilogy prior turning 13, that i knew from since 6/8-10 years
@@dushandvr5765 couldn't relate more* grammar 💯
@Vitorio i was born in 2003 too. My first GTA game was San Andreas
Its just the vibe
I absolutely love this video. I get weirdly nostalgic for NYC circa 1997-2001 even though I was 2 when the towers fell.... and I've never been to New York and the crowds would drive me crazy..
Add the vibe of the GTA III theme to it and it's literally perfect.
You were 2. I was born in april 2001 and still remember bush talking to the people by mic after twin tower attack. I only remember from first 4 years of life
I'm born in 1998 and never been to america, but i can 100% relate to tht weird special nostalgia feeling for the late 90's/early 2000's nyc vibe that you described, like completely i can feel you
I wasn’t even conceived when the towers fell. I was born two years after the fact.
I was 6 when they fell.
& we lived in the Bronx NYC.
I absolutely remember, how I couldn't sleep in September 11th because I was too scared. Man...... Hectic times
Towncars, Vics and boxy Caddy looks so integral and harmonical on the streets of NYC.
Was just listening to the gta 3 theme and found this, well done! It gives you nostalgia and that feeling when you miss something you didn't even take part in, those were the times man
Names Elroy, What's up man?
@@Gunner98 all good my guy take care and good luck with your videos its quite impressive how you managed to make cj invisible🙏🏽⭐
Whenever I watch old videos from the late 90's to mid 2000s, I feel truly depressed. I just miss the good old days. Wish I could go back to relive those days. Beautifully crafted video, man. Thanks for creating and sharing it! Put some tears in my eyes, not gonna lie...
Yeah I wish their was a way to get rid of that feeling but the only way would be to forget which I never want to do either
Edit: grammar
Smile because it happened. Some will never experience it. You did.
Seems like it was very interesting period. I wish i could live a day like this.
Yeah I'm gong on 39 this year. Was a teen in the early 2000s, and a kid in the 90s.. So glad to experience it.. feel bad for my kids a bit.
@@Nighthawk268
Can we go back to those 90s & early 2000s days?
Gta IV map with GTA 3 theme
This gives me more Midnight Club vibes than GTA but still worth it
Midnight Club Street Racing 🔥🔥🔥
It’s cool they still have the WTC in that game
Thinking the same thing
Ah yes, Midnight Club. One of the best game series rockstar might've ever published
"Yep, I've been drinkin again"
"My mother's my sister"
"More money, more problem."
“I got a date with a cheeseburger deluxe!”
"You're dead big boy!"
"Alright dropdown!"
There's just something really weird and surreal about late 90s and early 20s as a whole
Wasn't even born yet, but this video is hitting me hard with nostalgia.
it just gives a weird nostalgic vibe. I was born 8 years after 2000 and never even went to America but it just feels calm and nostalgic. And gta 3's theme is just so relaxing for some reason
Edit: why does this have 219 likes?
@@realMrHudson if you end up playing GTA 3, especially on a console, god help you is all I have got to say.
@Radical Larry that's a great way to look at that game. if you go in expecting a basic, outdated, brutally difficult game then GTA 3 is going to be a blast. but if you go in expecting red dead redemption 2 style story and GTA 5 style gameplay and content then you aren't gonna like it.
I live very close to NYC, the first time I visited was back in the 2010s
@@ThatNickYouKnow4010 Good for you lucky dude!
I got GTA 3 on release day in October 2001 , 8 years before you were even born , sorry that you grew up in this tiktok generation , but boyyyy did we have some GREAT times in the 90s & early 2000s !
Is it just me or did everything seem more colourful, vibrant, alive, moving, interfering with eachother..
I feel that today everyone is in a moving stagnation, just there greyed out, present but phased into something else.
This looks so much more like a place I would love to visit.
It was more like this than today.
Idk why I’m so obsessed with this video I’ve watched it like 4 times. Makes me sad thinking I missed out on this time.
Glad you liked it. Check out my newest vid
This deserves more views
And should be saved to our playlists if we want to come back to this video again.
If you’ve ever been to NYC, you could almost feel the smell by watching this video. It takes me back for sure. GTA 3 was my childhood.
Ah, the beginning of a new century and a new millennium.
Seemed so promising. Times have changed. Not the same anymore.
Good Times ❤
- Claude Speed, 2001 from New York City
@Don Cantelopi dark ages*
More military conflicts, riots everywhere in the world, new communist dictatorships, rainbow haired people spreading even more hate and addiction to technology being the norm.
Ironically, we're apparently living in the most peaceful time of human history so far. Quite crazy.
@@shadowmaster452 most peaceful time would either be be 2004-2011 (end of Iraq invasion and before isis) or fall of Soviet union to 9/11
Yeah what a sweet time to live in was it?
I can see how people like Niko would want to come to America and New York it's beautiful especially at night but it's not perfect no city is
@@robtz759 And that's the sad truth that New York is depressing
@@robtz759 I wish the media would actually show outsiders to America how it truthfully is but I know they won't they're the fucking media
@@robtz759 I guess
Why do I get the feeling y'all haven't lived there.
@@valtheemokid4005 New York isnt depressing lmao
Always thought of GTA 3 looking at old nyc street footage. sweet upload
back when people thought world is gonna end at the year of "2000".. some years later they thought its gonna end in "2012".. now no one knows but we got a global pandemic disease
The world ended in 2001
@@misterbuklau4053 Nah it ended in 2012.
We've been on the decline since then
@@mixwb Makes total sense
@@misterbuklau4053 world will end when we all day, to say that world ended in 2001 it's rather poetic... But in reality this will end one day. Seriously.
@@misterbuklau4053 That idea just occurred to me.
The Mayans were really intelligent there has to be a reason why they predicted it that way
If we listen closely we can hear "In The Navy" from the old man 😂
or "and the winner by knockout is" from the Triads
if you listen even closer you can hear "My mother's my sister" from the same man
"my mother told she hate me"
Crazy how much development we had with technology within those 10 years we went from Flip phone to keyboard phones and Ipods to Touch screens phones and tablets now wireless earbuds. Let alone gaming from 2001 gta3 to 2008 we got GTAIV and man did that game look so real
I never visited New York , but i know the map of liberty city more than my city . This video bought all that together again . I had many adventures with Claude , Toni , Niko here . Those early 2000 vibes came again . Oh why can't I time travel to 2001 again , where I could again have the joy of seeing the graphics of the game for the first time . Time passed so quickly .
I'd say GTA IV is more like 2003-2011 rather than the 1998-2002 GTA 3 era
I really want to see a version of rainy NYC in the early 2000s with MGS2 theme.
Ah, a man of culture.
How can I be so nostalgic for a place and time I never experienced
I miss my home in the Bronx... I used to travel to manhattan whenever I got the chance and I will never forget my time living there. The nostalgia is therapeutic.
@Ratul Mondal You are correct!!!!!
@Ratul Mondal And I have one new cursed tank vid on the way soon
How good was NYC in your experience on those years? i've never been in NYC :'(
@@SuperSoylaleche it was really good, had a lot of good memories there growing up. There were the downsides obviously like crime was more likely and getting robbed etc, but as long as you knew how to be aware you were good. I miss those days. I miss my friends, but it’s okay because we talk from time to time. So overall. It was great.
@@Aisthetes24 That sounds really good, thx for sharing your experience of those past days! 😁but we have so much to enjoy in our lifes from now so, we have to keep making more wonderful days :D
can’t describe how this makes me feel, what a time to be alive
Life was simpler back then... it's impressive how much things have changed in just 21 years.
Бог курил крэк когда создавал китайский народ?
i wouldn't call it simple, but it was certainly different. things are changing fast
Imagine how I feel.
Im 26 now…
So I was a kid back when we had payphones, landlines, desktop computers, payperview, Cable TV.
Now im an adult and a 7yr old kid I met asked me what a Landline Phone was. Blew my mind.
@@Crayolapup same. I'm 26 too, a couple of years ago my niece asked me "what is the point of a landline? Why would you use a phone thats stuck in one place?" The idea freaked her out.
Made me feel like a dinosaur, i remember using payphones 😂😂
Things didn't change in 21 years. Heck it changed rapidly in 1 year. The country, let alone the city, was never the same after that drastic day in 2001
" I know a place just on the edge of the red light district where we can lay low,but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother"
EVERBODY RAISE YOUR BOTTELS FOR GTA 3 THAT TURNS 20 THIS YEAR! ❤
Even tho I was born in 03, seeing 90s and 2000s NYC with all of the old crown vics and buses and old screens everywhere is always fascinating for some reason, like with how it's modern yet simpler in some ways
the fact that GTA IV and 3 could recreate New York city so well
What a masterpiece by you congrats
As u can see the graphics have improved a lot and our physics engine has been upgraded.
the question is: can we play above 30 FPS without broken physics?
@@OutlawedPoet yes u will and u r a dead man right
@@lazymonster2784 nope. I didn't actually betray tommy, it was all according to our plan
@@OutlawedPoet nice try snake
If the internet was one gigantic hotel, this would be that small quiet lobby on the far side of the building overlooking the city, but not too high up with few guests just chilling on their keypad phones. I love it.
It feels like it’s been 10 years since we had that freedom without any worries of catching a stupid virus.
@@lol-ih1tl already did but some idiots don't and keep the virus spreading it anyway 😐
They just won't listen and keep pinpointing at conspiracy theories.
Covid is not so bad. I enjoyed the pandamic lol
@@M.sami12 For youngsters, like us do, it's not so bad. But for old people, they're at big risk. I don't want my grandma die yet :(
@@dava_arvarabi
No i didn't mean this. I don't want people to die either. I meant lockdown and masks are not so bad.
And due to the year this video took place, no worries of terrorism or living in constant fear after what happened that day in September, just one year later
I could never feel this wonderful experience, because I wasn't even born in 2000. 😭
Bro yu missed a lot in 2000 I was 6. TV was sooooo good back then so much to watch
I was 7 years old. Gaming and TV has evolved so much since then. The word today truly is a different and much darker place.
@@lowkeylaflare I was 5. I so much miss the early 2000s
@@GhostRangerr we are officially OGz my brother………….OGz 🥺
Me too 😔😭
This is depressing. We can never go back to those good, old days... We're stuck with what we've got now. I mean, I was born in '96 and my memory is a bit foggy and lots has happened and I'm sure not everything was perfect but all I know is that I hate what we've got now and it didn't really exist back then or at least I wasn't aware of it (didn't really have access to the Internet until I was in my teens). I was happy and I wanted to live, that's all I know.
The Lumina Police car made me click, wasn't disappointed.
Same! I love those cars and the NYC Crown Vic taxis.
Same.
@@royale7620 agreed!
No one could ever understand the nostalgia this gives you unless you’re a true new yorker from here born and raised, no one can. Shit hits different
The year 2000 seems so cozy
fantastic
Glad everyone likes it
Is that a car from gran turismo 3??? 😳
@@chainingten3819
Hmmm
@@TealKuruma hmmmmmmmmmmm
@@shahnoorsyed6769
hmmmmmmmmm
The video we never wanted,but always needed
Exactly how I left it... the 90s-2000 in NYC were a vibe that is simply undescribable... you just had to live it.
New York in 2000 was more modern than the city I live in now
Legit I couldn't imagine living there today constant retards recording themselves dancing alot more bad stuff but definitely social media took a toll on uss
This gives me memories of driving down to teterboro airport with my grandfather her I in the 2000s and listening to slow jazz as we pre-flight the airplane and wait for the celebrity personal he flew. No social media, just the technology that was relevant at the time. Simple handheld games, no smart phone. CDs in the car
Yeah...
Seeing the NYPD Impalas and the yellow Crown Vics on the streets with this song, just gives me peace.
" I know a place on the edge of the Red Light District where we can lay low,but my hands are all messed up so you better drive brother."
Yep! Mind blown when I realized Guru of Gangstarr said that! Straight up NY
Greets from Croatia!
I'm sure it's obvious to anyone here, but I can't help it, I just get carried over the creativity of my brain creating whatever atmosphere it can from this video.
I don't know what I'd give to experience this, I've always loved the dark skies in urban areas, street lights and buildings lighting up the city to embrace you.
This was one of the best videos I’ve seen on YT in a min- this type of thing is right up my alley!
I miss the early 2000s.
Please take me back...
Ah simpler times I was in my moms stomach and everyone was in the moment. Wish I actually got to live and experience that era. Beautiful.
The world we were all born in no longer exists. Videos like this show what we used to have and what they took from us 😢
Yep😢😢😢😢
That's some fine nostalgia there, sir. Really miss the times!