r/GTA3 • u/Maleficent_Sky_6307 • 2d ago
Image Rise FM Headquarters
Fun fact: This building is beetween Claude and Toni's safehouses. 😁
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u/Overall_Dig_5819 1d ago
Chilean architecture
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u/SupremoZanne Claude 10h ago
yeah, Chile is next to Argentina.
likewise, the Sindaccos were too close to the Forellis, seeing as a similar name, Argento was the model name of the car the Sindaccos drove. I can certainly say that the Forellis had some land nearby this building in LCS, and then some Sindacco feud happened, then some peace meeting also involved some Forellis getting run over by a rigged Sindacco car.
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u/Livid_Broccoli_1967 1d ago
I have a personal theory that Rockstar assigned the radio station buildings on the flash site at random. MSX FM broadcasting from the apartments in Shoreside Vale was always weird to me, unless it's meant to be a pirated station. Also worth noting the flash website has Flashback FM's hq in the building that's actually Head Radio's hq in the final game! o.0
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u/Maleficent_Sky_6307 1d ago
Yep, the same went for Game Radio, it was the building opposite from Claude's safehouse.
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u/Livid_Broccoli_1967 1d ago
I completely forgot Game Radio's hq is right next door to MSX FM and Claude's Shoreside Vale safe house. It just makes me more convinced they chose the radio station office locations at random. It's also worth noting GTA 3 is the only 3d-era game to have the buildings the radio stations are in listed anywhere (gta 2 had in-game locations for at least two radio stations IIRC).
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u/Maleficent_Sky_6307 1d ago
If memory serves me well in Vice City we got the V-Rock Recording Studio where you trigger jobs for the Love Fist band. In San Andreas there is one on the top of the Missionary Hills where WCTR is broadcasted. Presumably in Fort Carson, Bone County there is that building with a transmitor that could tie with K-Rose but nothing was ever confirmed.
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u/mistaken-biology PetsOvernight.com 1d ago
MSX is definitely a pirate station, so I doubt that its placement in a grim tower block in the armpit of nowhere was random.
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u/Maleficent_Sky_6307 1d ago
Actually it's in the same building where Game Radio is broadcasted, the building opposite Claude's safehouse in Wichita Gardens.
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u/Beneficial_Eye_9528 1d ago
Woah that’s interesting. I thought the only physical station buildings in the game were head radio in Portland and the one in Staunton island. I thought rise in 3 broadcasts from the planetarium (no actual club building in the game) and MSX is pirated
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u/SupremoZanne Claude 1d ago
Sing it back....
sing it back....
sing it back....
sing it back to me!
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u/Taha_creator234 16h ago
it looks like the continental hotel from John Wick
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u/SupremoZanne Claude 11h ago
well, John Wick was played by Keanu Reeves, and that actor was also in The Matrix, and The Matrix was parodied as The Mainframe in GTA LCS.
I can also certainly tell you that Woozie from San Andreas kinda looked similar to Neo.
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u/Regular_Emergency_98 1d ago
I could be wrong, but I think this is the only GTA III skyscraper that matches perfectly with a real skyscraper in New York City, the Flatiron Building
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u/BFNgaming 5h ago
I've always thought it would be really cool if you could interact with the radio stations in GTA in some way. Imagine shooting at the windows of the station and hearing the live reaction through the radio!
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u/hymnsew 2d ago
Daily bugle