Colony | 2024 Vice City Community Video

[morbidxxx]

Well, first of all, good job to everyone involved in making this happen! This was such a pleasure to watch, I even got a little bit emotional while watching. The editing, scripting and everything made this video feel like a future classic, in the same vein as Connected and Yeah Baby, which really brought the community feeling together. Stunting wise I cant highlight anyone, because all stunts felt like a part from something bigger, and that made all of them awesome. Its really weird feeling that stunting has been around for so long. I joined the forums when I was 13 years old, and now Im over 30 already

Anyways, awesome job everyone! I will certainly watch this again and again.

[Ezraph2001]

colony review is up go watch here

[Jason]

https://youtu.be/sygX0Gv3FWE

[Dipper]

20 YEARS!

That's crazy! I still can't believe it.

I've grown up with this game and this community since I was a kid. Through my happiness or my sadness, it's still there. I'm thankful for anyone who's made this community alive to this day. Thank you so much.

R.I.P MaCi!

[GI JOE]

Crazy video, wish I'd come back sooner to participate.

Camera work was on point throughout and the editing was present, but not distracting. The way you guys edited Sport's lighthouse wallride was actually insanely well executed. The stunt quality was fantastic across the board, everyone's grind game was on point and Dannye...what the fuck man.

The effort and organisation of projects like this is a testament to stunting and GTAS as a whole, it's amazing to see that 20 years on, the magic is still there. Well done everyone.

[TurBo]

I'll try to assemble my thoughts about this into a coherent comment that does it justice:

Firstly, the heartfelt tribute was very tasteful and fitting and what an incredible joint effort by the community to produce this mammoth of a milestone video marking our 20th anniversary.

Secondly, Simon and Puzzle smashed it out of the park with their dedication and commitment to the project despite what I'm sure was an innumerable amount of obstacles and setbacks - credit where due, it does not go unnoticed. A mention goes out to Herb too for getting the ball rolling and conceiving this.

It's a delight and a marvel to behold some of the freshness and uniqueness of the ideas as well as the aesthetics of the execution in 2024. Notable stunts for me: sport's wr, dc's saivc double grind combo, box's double ledge and I cannot fail to mention dannye's unique approach to manipulating vc aircraft as well as the mouth-watering and elegantly executed palm boost by Vice Ninja [as a boosting aficionado, what a treat]. Everyone, though, had something of merit to contribute.
 
Finally, I enjoyed the thematic choice and the symbolism of a ''Colony'' as it fits the bill perfectly for this tight-knit community which has proverbially bound together from across the globe to explore uncharted territory.

[MV]

I can't react as I'm sick but just wanted to reach out to you guys who made this video come true and thank you for including my very mediocre stunt that did not deserve a main part spot & thanks puzzle for insisting on me landing something for the video. unfortunately I haven't really been motivated to stunt with a heap of projects, both in mapping and in real life, ahead of me but it's nice to be a part of this.

loved everything but the mags & smuts boat/car grinds were my favorites. maci forever.

[Artifex]

Wew, we got the GTAS yt account back?  .  Great job guys, it felt like a truly iconic gtas video. Great jobs everyone involved 

[Sport]

Thanks to everyone who is involved in this community in one way or another. When I was a child watching videos of GTA stunts, I couldnt even think that it would turn into a hobby that would stay with me for most of my life. Thanks to everyone who made the release of this video possible.

I will post a reaction later . upd: nevermind, the microphone cannot be heard in the background of the video...

I wrote the most interesting moments from the video for me: Interesting idea with an intro. I have a question about the chosen stunt, is it some kind of reference to one of the first stunts in VC or why was it chosen? Just curious. Its also nice to see that I am not the only one who has problems filming multi stunts, just kidding, gj .

All the guys tried to do they best, but I especially want to highlight: BoxXxs grinds, Jookers ramp2bonk2grind, MaXs construction stunt, DeathCobras double grind, Blazes bonk2spin2grind, Angle.Fires pole2grind, Hedgehogs bsm, SyperDimons saivc hotring stunt, and Dannyes finisher of fucking course .

A few more thoughts: The part with the cake is cute and at the same time scary for some reason . Cool idea with old gtas sites on billboards. When I landed my stunt in the lighthouse, I thought that the only way to capture it was from a top-down view or vice versa, inside the lighthouse itself, but what you came up with is simply unimaginable. A few more words about this stunt, initially I wanted to do a wallride to grind, but after several attempts I realized that doing a full grind would be very difficult, if not impossible at all. Then during these attempts I accidentally started doing a downward wallride, which turned out to be not particularly difficult. And in the end, I wanted to do a double wallride with leaving the lighthouse for a small grind outside, but it turned out to be difficult to get through the passage, so I gave up and left only the double wallride.

Great job everyone!

[Argy]

wow this is a heart-touching one, a new release in the offiicial GTAS youtube channel is something you dont see much often as morbidxxx said this had a warm oldschool feeeling mixed with crazy new ideas.

Im so glad I could participate ♥ HUGE thanks for making this possible, editors and everyone involved

[Enough]

happy 20th anniversary gtas

[jooker]

Was thinking about a live review, but I saw it so many times already it wouldn't make sense anymore.

So first of all, holy shit, THE gtas.net channel, so happy about it, seeing comments from old subscribers and stunters, who have left this site a long time ago was just heartwarming, they'd never found it if it wasn't for that channel.

The intro, the editing, the whole atmosphere of the video were flawless, the way those classic bars were sliding\sneaking in in the beginning of the first part was so cool, got me hooked instantly. The overall editing was fresh and clean, treated literally every stunt respectfully, all of them were clearly visible (the lighthouse part was top notch, beside the one of a kind stunt itself, perfection)

Great stunts also, the standouts were enough's huge psmgap2grind, DeathCobra's doublegrind, Rainbow's taxi preci, blaze's sexy bounce2kickorwhatever2grind and ofc Dannye's skimmer magic. My favourite was boxXx's psm2ledge2oneeighty2ledge it was executed perfectly, not sure what was the original idea, feels like you wanted something with the rails too, if not, hats off anyway.

I am also glad that I could be in video again with MaCi, especially on the official channel, truly amazing.

Great job everyone, thank you puzzLe, Simon and sheikah for doing this, this was way more epic, than I expected. 

[Dannye]

Massive props to Darkstar and puzzLe for taking this project on and nailing it with this fantastic video which has been super enjoyable to watch (and rewatch). Kicking off with that intro was perfect - stylish (man those neon lines and font were super slick) and nostalgic (with bonus points coming from the fact I was watching it on the classic GTAS youtube account!).

There were great stunt submissions all round, with some highlights for me definitely including Max's tank packer/tree to roof, both of boxXx's LC double-grinds (but especially that insane roof grind switch, heck yeah!), Haywire's bridge csm gap, and DeathCobra's wild spinning double grind. On top of that I also definitely enjoyed Rainbow's pizza bus shenanigans, Vice Ninja's zebra tree boost (really all of the taxi stuff in the vid!) and Sheikah's sabre turbo cop hit/roof.

As for the edit both of you did solid work, and chock full of lovely Replay Manager camerawork. Trying to pick an overall favourite section from the main parts, I think I'd go for 5:02-5:55 in part 1 (a great line of stunts with very satisfying cameras and editing), and ofcourse the Lighthouse stuff in part 2 (the semi-transparent front was a genius idea for how to show the stunt without being trapped inside, and a great stunt it was too, and it all fitting the music so perfectly! Ooh and leading into it from the smokestack was neat too). And to pick just a few other cool moments for me: the border lines getting drawn in via the neon at the start, the subtle camera roll used throughout the first part, the match-cut/transition from the boat to the road on the Smut-to-Ltab stunts, the transition into nighttime at the end of Ars' LC prec leading into Max's tank stunt, the use of in-game lightning as flashes on Enough's Grove St psm to grind, how boxXx's crazy rooftop grind was edited so perfectly to the music, the transition into Max's VC construction bump and especially that opening camerawork of it, the use of the secondary shot via the police heli of Khaimyk's voodoo roofing, the birthday flair of the borders in the credits, and lastly the colour swapping on Max's traintracks grind.

It's awesome that we can still be banging out great big community videos here twenty years on, and I'm very happy to have been able to be a part of it, cheers guys!

[bumpinghegehog]

What an amazing job you (Puzzle and Darkstar) have done here. The intro is fantastic, both the concept and the execution. The music choice and the fitting editing are genius. I know how much work you both put into this and how much effort went into it. Respect, and thank you! As for the stunts, my favorites are: 04:57 ARS grab precision, 05:13 Enough PSM to grind, 05:50 BoxXx double grind, 07:09 Puzzle ramp to grind, 08:07 Sheikah Sabre police car bump, 10:03 DC doub vc le grind, 13:07 Dannye s crazy ass one-of-a-kind high-speed skimmer freerunning stunt (especially this one was fantastic).

All in all, this gave me such a great community feeling. Truly beautiful, once again thank you for all your hard work, and thanks for keeping stunting alive, even after 20 freaking years. I am proud to be part of this. 

MaCi, forever in our hearts <3

[DeathCobra]

I am once again here with a botched OBS recorded reaction (but it's ok you just see the top left part).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpLHZ6IMdgw

Great effort everyone.