I played Vice City on the PC quite awhile after it was released and loved it, sure the graphics were dated at the time.
Several weeks ago I got San Andreas for twenty bucks through Steam and after adding a few graphic enhancing mods, I think it's an excellent game. Not that the eye candy matters, it's a well designed and fun game in my opinion.
I wish someone would make a full-blown RPG like these games.
I've had bad experiences for the most part like anyone else with console to PC ports and generally avoid them 99% of the time, but Rockstar seems to put in a massive effort.
I could complain and nitpick about a few controller issues with the port, such as flying with a mouse (don't do it, reconfigure your keyboard) but all in all, they've done about the best job you really can in allowing you to remap controller keys to the mouse and keyboard.
I'm quite willing to buy GTA4 and look forward to it. As I don't know anyone with a console except for my buddy that has a PS2 and San Andreas (which I've never seen in action) I don't really care how late it is.
I'd rather have a fun game that does justice to the PC controls than worry about some PCHP guy that played it SEVEN months ago on a console that I have no interest in.
Thanks Rockstar, for your attention to detail.