memorable characters, living in the memes to this day
relatively big map, with areas that are distinct in both style/esthetics and mission types, every some hours you get a change of pace preventing the game from getting repetitive
encourages bits or roleplaying and selfmade fun on the side
The story is pretty redpilled thematically, basically its subtext is that CJ's friends, particularly his brother sweet, are held back by the crab bucket mentality. the irony of Big Smoke is that his actions ultimately force CJ to grow well beyond the petty hood politics of Grove Street and undergo a heros journey that makes him his own man, Big Smoke is the opposite side of the coin, he hates the stagnation and petty bullshit of Sweets leadership and wants to grow as well. in the first act he is arguably the nicest to CJ because he empathizes with him for wanting to make something of himself in Liberty City but ultimately Smoke chooses to fully embrace the degenerate criminal way of getting ahead via the drug trade whereas CJ by the end of the game is actually running several legtimate businesses
i mean if you have fun with Black person simulator 2004 by simply playing it like that who am i to judge. its just that the game is obviously inspired by major themes in 90s hip hop (hell Ryder is just straight up a copy paste of Easy E) so there is something to be said about how that translates into the story.
the good thing about games released during the 00s is they were produced before twitter existed so even though i could see enjoyment in those themes, its not thrown in your face like a fricking brick and people who dont give a shit can quite easily just play the fricking game regardless
I've been crashing cars into the highway near Four Dragons Casino to get pedestrians to crash into each other and fight whilst I create a massive explosion chain of cars in the background lmao
You have to understand. Coming from VC, SA really opened up. >haircuts >clothes >tattoos >get fit/fat/skinny >bicycles >GFs >customizing your car >the memes >the gangbanger story which was the shit at the time
Maybe newer games offer more, but at the time, SA was a huge jump and amazed everyone. The only game, imo so far, that came close is SR2.
holy fricking shit I'm racist but I don't mind black people in media if it actually makes fricking sense. If it's not shoved down your throat. It made sense in san andreas and it was implemented well. Stop crying you fcuking poltards
It's literally the last GTA game that doesn't feel like a sluggish waste of time. On top of that, it encapsulates it's time period very well and besides Vice City, has the best soundtrack out of any GTA game. It's the only game where you can change the protagonist's physique and it offers tons more replayability than V or any game before it. The map is the most varied out of any GTA game, encompassing 3 cities and the countryside. It also has the most wacky missions in the entire franchise with jetpacks, gimpsuits, and VTOLs. It also has more side activities than many other GTA games, including optional romances, which while not as fleshed out as GTA IV's romances, are sometimes more plot relevant. Characters are far more memorable, and it easily has the best narrative in the franchise alongside IV.
On top of this, it's just a fun experience from start to finish and it's way better than GTA V in it's depiction of Los Santos. Being that the game surrounds one protagonist it allows the game to more thoroughly explore certain themes and plots, whereas GTA V had to juggle heists and air strip missions alongside Franklin's hood missions, so they didn't get the attention they deserved.
i haven't played gta5 since it came out but i played it in an episodic way due to work. for what it was worth it felt decent enough like tv show programming focusing on one character or another, or at least thats how i tried to pace it when i played it. While doing it i could tell if i was sitting down playing it in longer sittings it would not have nearly as interested me
San Andreas was the last GTA game to encapsulate the wild west spirit of early game development. They put a bunch of crazy and dumb shit in the game for no other reason than it was fun. After San Andreas Rockstar started to take itself too seriously and the result was GTA: IV, an absolutely fricking soulless drab game with virtually none of the spirit of older GTAs. And then GTA:V was the game equivalent of when a company that started in a dishevelled basement full of empty pizza boxes and beer bottles moves into a huge luxury open-plan corporate office with generic landscape art on the walls.
>Saints Row 2
Best character customisation ever and a fricking great game. And now look at the abomination Volition is going to dump on us. Fricking tragic.
The mods.
yeah that won't do
But...but bigfoot 🙁
it's the only GTA where you can get fat or ripped
nothing so far
The story is alright, the gameplay is alright. Its a solid game that has aged alright. solid 7/10 game to play in 2021
Gameplay is alright? Really? It had some of the worst outdated shooting mechanics I've ever seen
depends on if you're playing PC or console
console has that auto aim right?
The story is shit, it start fine but after it it's just you being the b***h of others
To experience a rainy night. It’s such a beautiful sight. To feel the rain on your face and the taste on your lips.
memorable characters, living in the memes to this day
relatively big map, with areas that are distinct in both style/esthetics and mission types, every some hours you get a change of pace preventing the game from getting repetitive
encourages bits or roleplaying and selfmade fun on the side
i thought this exactly.
+1 and still the best GTA for myself
I miss Las Venturas and driving around Shady Creek at night.
just pirate it and see for yourself moron
or are you one of those idiots that think it will ruin their computer?
you need to be over 18 years old to poast here
I dont know that it's garbage but it seems to me like most sandbox games don't have anything that I personally value going for them
>afraid of torrents
you're the child here
You get to play as a Black person and experience Black person privilege.
no, it's boomer garbage
play gta online instead
The story is pretty redpilled thematically, basically its subtext is that CJ's friends, particularly his brother sweet, are held back by the crab bucket mentality. the irony of Big Smoke is that his actions ultimately force CJ to grow well beyond the petty hood politics of Grove Street and undergo a heros journey that makes him his own man, Big Smoke is the opposite side of the coin, he hates the stagnation and petty bullshit of Sweets leadership and wants to grow as well. in the first act he is arguably the nicest to CJ because he empathizes with him for wanting to make something of himself in Liberty City but ultimately Smoke chooses to fully embrace the degenerate criminal way of getting ahead via the drug trade whereas CJ by the end of the game is actually running several legtimate businesses
you're overanalyzing a Menace II Society parody game, it's just hood Black folk doing hood Black person shit
i mean if you have fun with Black person simulator 2004 by simply playing it like that who am i to judge. its just that the game is obviously inspired by major themes in 90s hip hop (hell Ryder is just straight up a copy paste of Easy E) so there is something to be said about how that translates into the story.
the good thing about games released during the 00s is they were produced before twitter existed so even though i could see enjoyment in those themes, its not thrown in your face like a fricking brick and people who dont give a shit can quite easily just play the fricking game regardless
>monkeys making story
If you don't see the value of GTA dickery across any generation then you're entirely lost, zoomer.
i did this a lot in GTA IV, i always found neat seeing the police cruisers stop and arrest the people
> that jump
yeah, thats why you dont play old gtas without fps limit
I just sped it up to fit the webm
I've been crashing cars into the highway near Four Dragons Casino to get pedestrians to crash into each other and fight whilst I create a massive explosion chain of cars in the background lmao
This nearly 2 decade game has more soul, detail, plot, activities, etc. Then most modern single player games. Don't reply to me
i will reply to you, to say you're right, the jump from SA to IV really showed how much of a downgrade it was
>he had his head spun by customization overload and half coded mini games
get a life
this HAHA
Still the best open world game out there.
It's one of two good GTA games, the other being IV. Worth a shot.
Is the single best hoodrat sim ever made outside of maybe Saints Row 2
>pander to Black folk or pander to white suburban kids
>theres literally no possible way to do any media about blacks in america at all without me seething at the very mention of their existence
now you're getting it
>pander to chinks
You have to understand. Coming from VC, SA really opened up.
>haircuts
>clothes
>tattoos
>get fit/fat/skinny
>bicycles
>GFs
>customizing your car
>the memes
>the gangbanger story which was the shit at the time
Maybe newer games offer more, but at the time, SA was a huge jump and amazed everyone. The only game, imo so far, that came close is SR2.
That's true for sure, for the time that it came out it was very amazing
holy fricking shit I'm racist but I don't mind black people in media if it actually makes fricking sense. If it's not shoved down your throat. It made sense in san andreas and it was implemented well. Stop crying you fcuking poltards
>holy fricking shit I'm racist but
kek that was a funny way to phrase it
>is there any value to this game
no
its shit
It's literally the last GTA game that doesn't feel like a sluggish waste of time. On top of that, it encapsulates it's time period very well and besides Vice City, has the best soundtrack out of any GTA game. It's the only game where you can change the protagonist's physique and it offers tons more replayability than V or any game before it. The map is the most varied out of any GTA game, encompassing 3 cities and the countryside. It also has the most wacky missions in the entire franchise with jetpacks, gimpsuits, and VTOLs. It also has more side activities than many other GTA games, including optional romances, which while not as fleshed out as GTA IV's romances, are sometimes more plot relevant. Characters are far more memorable, and it easily has the best narrative in the franchise alongside IV.
On top of this, it's just a fun experience from start to finish and it's way better than GTA V in it's depiction of Los Santos. Being that the game surrounds one protagonist it allows the game to more thoroughly explore certain themes and plots, whereas GTA V had to juggle heists and air strip missions alongside Franklin's hood missions, so they didn't get the attention they deserved.
God the three protagonists thing was such a fricking mistake
i haven't played gta5 since it came out but i played it in an episodic way due to work. for what it was worth it felt decent enough like tv show programming focusing on one character or another, or at least thats how i tried to pace it when i played it. While doing it i could tell if i was sitting down playing it in longer sittings it would not have nearly as interested me
yes like a lot
still one of the gold standards for open world games unfortunately
eh it's alright, writing's pretty good, ending sucks ass
> but we don't talk about online
It's a pretty good Grand Theft Auto clone, if you like that sort of game.
Generally feels like a real adventure
It's fun
San Andreas was the last GTA game to encapsulate the wild west spirit of early game development. They put a bunch of crazy and dumb shit in the game for no other reason than it was fun. After San Andreas Rockstar started to take itself too seriously and the result was GTA: IV, an absolutely fricking soulless drab game with virtually none of the spirit of older GTAs. And then GTA:V was the game equivalent of when a company that started in a dishevelled basement full of empty pizza boxes and beer bottles moves into a huge luxury open-plan corporate office with generic landscape art on the walls.
If you're a zoomer you won't appreciate San Andreas because everything it did has been done a million times by the games that copied it.
The same way that DOOM isn't impressive to anyone who's played a FPS before.
That said, the GTA games are among the best of its kind. No other is as iconic and soulful as the trilogy, except maybe Saints Row 2.
>Saints Row 2
Best character customisation ever and a fricking great game. And now look at the abomination Volition is going to dump on us. Fricking tragic.