Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

I just finished the game. Great ending. I only have 69% complete so I'll spend a bit of time trucking and being a paramedic and finding all the hidden sub-games I overlooked. I still haven't played basketball and i really want to! Every game should have a jetpack like this. Best jetpack controls ever.

So, V is taking place in Los Santos? Here's hoping CJ makes a comeback tho they'll probably go with a whole new character.

I really like the RPG elements in this, by the end you feel like you've done SO MUCH and you can see all the rewards of that hard work. Starting out with a nothing but a crappy bicycle and ending up with a mansion and your own personal helicopter.

The hydra disappeared from my airport but i read you just have to run around until it spawns. I want to try flying over restricted airspace and engaging in dogfights with heat-seeking missiles. That mission was just out of nowhere and SO much fun to play.

by the end you feel like you've done SO MUCH and you can see all the rewards of that hard work. Starting out with a nothing but a crappy bicycle and ending up with a mansion and your own personal helicopter.

I had forgotten about that sense of accomplishment and progress it gives you. Tremendous game.

They could do a level-by-level remake for the PS3 and I'd pay $120 bucks for it. Change nothing.

flying school. seriously, i will cry.

iirc some of the races and schools were made easier by rolling in first person? might be misremembering tho

dancing on the beach mission was the hardest thing i've ever had to complete in a video game. i hate dancing in the real world, never mind anywhere else.

it makes my shoulders ache just thinking about it.

This game is the greatest of all time. CJ is a brilliant character, missions were brilliant and the insane sense of accomplishment. All fantastic. Played it again on PS2 recently (finally finished missions). I missed aiming with mouse but other than that much prefer to rubbish old PC I played it on originally.

Catalina is such a fun NPC.

Grove Street 4 life!

would love to play this again but couldn't stand playing on pc. gta3 only just coming out on psn so this prob not in my immediate future.

dancing on the beach mission was the hardest thing i've ever had to complete in a video game. i hate dancing in the real world, never mind anywhere else.

it makes my shoulders ache just thinking about it.

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

the dancing stuff is made easy if you just tap your foot to a steady beat and hit the buttons to that beat, instead of trying to slam the buttons as soon as they appear onscreen. its all about rhythm!

reading this just reminds me of what a dud gta4 was

that's the secret to every rhythm game ever er xp

when i decided to do the ps2 back catalogue a couple years ago i never bothered with a gta, is this the one to go for

oh yeah

this is THE game to get for ps2

I'm playing this on PC and I got pretty used to the controls. Flying a plane (or especially a helicopter) is still a pain in the butt but I've managed to figure it out more or less. The helicopter camera sucks times infinity. Driving any car or vehicle is pretty nice, using WASD to steer and the right mouse button to break. The camera's a bit slower than VC on centering from behind the car but with a mouse you can swing it around and look over hills and curves you are about to hit, which is nice.

I beat the game, i loved the characters and the storyline and all that. Now I'm left with a huge world with lots of races i can enter. I don't think I'm going to get 100% because I just don't care and for the moment this game has entertained the crap out of me. Spending hours looking for those missing horseshoes sort of seems like it would take away from what a cool experience that was! I wouldn't mind going back and playing some of those missions over again but sadly you can't just scroll through a list and pick one out. I'd play the one where you hijack the Hydra and dogfight with other jets. Also the one where you ride a motorcycle onto an airplane.

Samuel Jackson was awesome in this. Peter Fonda too!

I still haven't seen any tanks in this, oddly enough. Mental note: buy a bunch of weapons, stake out the pirate ship, start blowing up cars and don't stop 'til I've gotten a tank for myself.

I just finished The Lost and Damned and it's weak, watery Methadone compared to this. Gotta get a PS2 and a copy of San Andreas. And Katamari Damacy.

ballad of gay tony is a lot of fun in what it adds, but the missions are mostly just more "duck behind a thing, waste 50 guys, run to next room, repeat". otoh there's helicopters that shoot missiles so.

L&D and gay tony were good but they reminded you how little life and creativity they put into the missions/story of the main game imo

<i>I still haven't seen any tanks in this, oddly enough.</i>

Fly south with your jetpack into Area 51 from the northeast, staying between the eastern fence and the row of garages. There's a tank in the last or second-to-last garage. Jack it, drive it to your hangar at the airstrip, then book it on foot to the tower to save your game & get rid of your wanted stars. Repeat until you have many tanks.

This works on ps2, no idea of vehicle spawns are different for pc.

doing the vigilante missions in a tank is hilarious and a piece of piss

I really liked the BoGT, but I thought the emphasis was on the characters & the dialogue, to the point where it took away from the sprawling fun of San Andreas.

I just hope in GTA5 they figure a better way to balance the two, or to provide the great interaction and a good city without constraining it.

Also, ten bucks says they actually hide Sasquatch in the forest this time.

Also, I like the run of protagonists who are relatively self-aware that they're psychopathic killers surrounded by idiots and who remark on the bullshitness of their situations.

now try MTA

THANK YOU! Tank vigilante coming up!

I also LOL at CJ's date dialogue, which is either "Oh, wow!" and "That is so interesting, I'm just gonna listen."

saints row 3 is the closest i've come to experiencing gta: san andreas joy since san andreas. i think it's relatively cheap now too. great game.

GTA4 is so underrated now. It's weird.

Gta4 is an amazing game in its own right. But from a purest gta player it sold out on a lot

The main thing that turned me off IV was the constant social maintenance. I hate using a phone, checking emails, etc., in real life as it is.

I feel like you guys were playing it wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax36Rct3W5I

i just remember being outraged at how un-interactive the game world was, it was like this huge sprawling city with three open businesses, two of which were identical

Yeah that bugged me too.

I missed the leveled power-ups that came with doing certain things. If I'm going to drive a cab or fire truck or ambulance, I want stat bumps or gear for doing so much of that. Same with collectibles; give me new shit if I grab 50 whatzits for doing so much.

Waitamin, there weren't even ambulance/firetruck side quests in IV, were there?

no there weren't. Vigilante missions but you got NOTHING for completing them.

GTA IV was incredibly unrewarding compared to San Andreas. Also far too po faced.

Even though i beat the game, there is still plenty to do, as I only have 78% completed. Finding the missing horshoes and stuff will be a pain, but i just found SAMA. San Andreas Mission Analyzer. AWESOME!

What is it?

Reads your savefile and gives you a rundown of your completion status on all missions in the game.
Shows you the unique jumps that haven't been done on a map. Optionally also shows landing zones and camera positions for the jumps.
Shows you the gang tags, snapshots, horseshoes and oysters that haven't been done on a map.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=220426

I have one missing horseshoe in my saved game. The pay off is brilliant but I refuse to go all around again finding them. Very frustrating.

I likely already mentioned years ago in this thread that I had 99/100 gang tags. I went around one night with a jet pack and checked them all out, and every one of them was there, meaning that one was likely half-completed.

And damned if I'm really going to try to spray paint each one again to find out.

I was racing the Chiliad Challenge and having a rough time of it, and I just kept respawning the jet so i could fly up to the top of the mountain and try again. I just did so and jumped out of the plane, and it dropped like a rock, landing on the top of the mountain, and sliding down the bike path. When i started the race, the ground was on fire and everyone ahead of me crashed into the wreckage!

Ugh i fell off the mountain too many times, came in 2nd by a FRACTION of a second. Unlike other racing games, if you lose here, you can pull out a chainsaw or rocket launcher and go nuts. Very satisfying.

The racing is fun too! I didn't think it would be this fun but it is. I think there are more races here than there are in many dedicated racing games.

Found it very frustrating that if you lost a race in Episodes from Liberty City everyone just rode away at top speed before you could get a shot in. GET BACK HERE AND LET ME HAVE MY VENGEANCE.

I just did the BMX Challenge, and it was hella fun biking in the skate park. I realized you can hold down jump (CTRL on computer) before you release it to make him jump really high and it made it WAY easier than otherwise.

Even the busy work of finding these photo shots is fun. Oh no, I have to fly my jetpack to the top of a skyscraper.

Oh man, the jetpack. That was the greatest thing.

OTM! I loved that thing. The other thing was the helicopters. There was one that was ideal for the horsehoes - one with floats - the Sea Sparrow:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090506124553/gtawiki/images/a/af/SeaSparrow-GTAVC-front.jpg

I didn't realise it was in VC as well.

I've had GTA V on pre-order @ amazon since Nov 1 2011. WHat the hell.

Yeah, Amazon jumps the gun on pre-orders like that. You'll be sitting in something for years. I think they're as bad as GameStop that way.

Good Lord, autocorrect fixes the GameStop capitalization.

On a semi-related note, I got a ps2 emulator working on my desktop, and so was finally able to play the first few chapters of Red Dead Revolver until it started crashing repeatedly at a certain point.

GTAV is taking place in Los Santos here's hoping it feels as big as the one in San Andreas.

man so i'm back trying to get 100% and doing (the absolute cunt of a mission that is) quarry mission #7... got a good time going thinking ok finally this is it, just in the winch putting the body in the dumper when suddenly the screen's shaking and i hear boom boom boom explosions MISSION FAILED DOZER DESTROYED huh wtf?? i look back across...

http://i.imgur.com/p3lOz.png

motherfucking random plane crashed into my shit offscreen? ffs!!