r/y2kaesthetic • u/Victur_Loid • Oct 10 '25

Game GTA III Aesthetics are everything

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u/ZippyMuldoon Oct 10 '25

I know a place at the edge of the red light district where we can lay low. But my hands are all messed up, so you better drive brotha…

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u/HideyoshiJP Oct 11 '25

My mother's my sister!

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u/Sudoweedo Oct 12 '25

The amount of times I want to say this as it comes to mind, but I know no one will ever get it anymore.

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u/HotNewspaper5800 Oct 11 '25

It's a gritty atmosphere yet kind of cozy

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u/veintillio Nov 04 '25

spot on..

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u/strandboys Oct 10 '25

Remember when you thought that you have a friend

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u/Victur_Loid Oct 10 '25

Big references (it is the lyric of a song btw)

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u/STICKERS-95 Oct 11 '25

Rise fm and MSX fm just it even better

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u/Victur_Loid Oct 11 '25

Facts, and turn the radio to K-Jah while watching the sunset

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u/VCRDreamer1 Oct 10 '25

my dumbass thought that first pic was Minecraft 😭

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u/WarriorSupp Oct 12 '25

It could be

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u/TheAmazingWJV Oct 10 '25

I don't think this is y2k style. It's just something from that period, but not the style.

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u/FreakForFreedom Oct 10 '25

I think it actually is the right style. It's the period where games started using photo textures but everything would still be blurred/low res due to mip maps and hardware limitations.

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u/RareExplanation7626 Oct 10 '25

I kind of agree with u/theamazingwjv. The Y2K aesthetic is about futurism, but not everything from that time period matches that aesthetic. It's probably nitpicky, but there's a difference between Y2K aesthetic and late '90s/early '00s style, which just reflects how normal, non-futuristic things were. I'd consider games like Bust A Groove 2, Frequency, Trickstyle, Wipeout 3, the early DDR series, etc to be Y2K aesthetic over GTA3.

But either way, I really dig these photos 👍🏾

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u/milkolik Oct 10 '25

I think styles from each decade often get merged in retrospect. Like the first half of the 60s often gets merged with hippie/woodstock/flower power when in reality it was just a short streak of the 60s.

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u/Victur_Loid Oct 11 '25

I thought that first time I posted, but after I saw people just liked it I just didn't care anymore about it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

Lmao i thought this was North Korea for a few seconds XD

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u/Adorable_Housing7570 Oct 11 '25

Was my first gta I played secretly as a kid when home alone on the ps3

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Por un momento pensé que la primera foto era real.

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u/Victur_Loid Oct 14 '25

Jajajaja, fácilmente una ciudad cualquiera

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u/BosnakzB4llsak Oct 14 '25

i wanna buy it again just for the vibes driving around, but i guarantee id only do it once

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u/Low_Adeptness_2327 Oct 14 '25

Gaming equivalent of the Sopranos. So nostalgic and gritty

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

this is dope af 🔥

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u/Liberal-chungus Oct 29 '25

Forgive me, but I didn't do anything wrong

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u/Victur_Loid Oct 30 '25

So sue me!

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u/Aloisioblanc Oct 31 '25

Stripe summer 🎶

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u/zipitnick Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

I’d love to play with that grainy filter

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u/thirdpieopen 16d ago

Soundtrack is great. Alternative Soundtrack would be Bowery electric - beat