I secretly desire your console!

You're going to spend $800 on games? With that amount you might as well save for a new tv or something.

Seconding Vice City as hard as I can. Had I not of thrashed it for over a year and been totally sick of it after collecting 100 hidden packages, I'd probably still be playing it. The OST is pretty rad and the game is fun, but time consuming if you're going for the hidden packages and smaller aspects of the game.

SA was too large and filled with trash talking. Seriously you can't walk down the street without someone coming up to you, asking if you're "one of their boys", and shooting at you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I like Vice City mostly because:

1) It's in the 80's.
2) Most of the missions are fun.
3) There's a bunch of shit you can do once you've passed the missions.

I'm not sure if it applies to SA, but only specific parts of the town are available at first, and you need to complete certain missions before the rest of the city opens up.

Vice City has hispanics and cubans. That's pretty rough. If you have a kill ratio in favor of hispanics then you'll be shot at if you're on their turf, same applies to cubans. But what kept me going was the wheelies, stunt bonuses and other stuff (hidden packages are extremely time consuming, even with a guide) which extent the game's length into the 100+ hours.

There's nowhere I can't reach.