Why is San Andreas so beloved?

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It was really fun being a hoodrat ghetto nigga

vice city has better music however

Definitely

At the time of release it had an amazing amount of content. Also a lot of people play multiplayer mods on PC to this day.

Its villains were great. Ryder as the hypocritical little shit. Big Smoke as the corrupted traitor. Pulanski as the fat shit asshole cop. Samuel L Jackson as the big bad. Killing everyone of the motherfuckers was rewarding.

because its a fun video game

How about gta v? It gets boring after 2 minutes,also literally everything kills you unlike gta SA, that's why I love this game,you can make the chaos you want and take some hits,unlike in gta v,you literally die with everything,even if you use some invencible mod the chaos is boring

It had everything. Fun gameplay, great soundtrack, good story, likable characters, good graphics. Modern Rockstar has yet to make a GTA as good as SA.

Woozie best GTA bro

Yes
> IGN Readers 2005 Best Games Ever
> Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9th Place)
> The game is so huge, you would literally have to play a good 20 hours just to get started! And every hour is worth it. From missions, to exploration, to random club hopping, to eating, to playing pool and arcade style games in a bar...San Andreas has soooooo much to offer. If you haven't grabbed it yet, you really need to, as this game is very deserving of all the praise and accolades that it's received so far.

I dunno, man. Seems to me like you're outta touch.

I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda

I think you mean James woods.

It's a great nihilistic window on black hood culture without much glorification.

Arguable, depends on taste, really

What were the Other 9? Give us the List

It's fun. Imagine getting haircut and clothes options right after 3 and VC, plus all those side activities, and swimming, and planes.
It was definitely what everyone was asking for from the next GTA.

Fucking BASED unironically

>forcibly recruits you to do shady shit for the government, starting with a timed monster-truck race through hilly, flip-happy terrain
>leaves you to deal with the fallout of stealing a Harrier off an LSD
>threatens you with having your brother assraped in prison if you don't comply
>still somehow the most lovable character
LEARN TO FLY, CARL.

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there is so much to do. the amount of content to do actually got less and less as the series went on instead of getting more and more as technology got more advanced.

It just feels good to play.
Good responsive controls, unlike all rockstar games that came after, and the driving was good.

Off of the top of my head
>gameplay that's still decent 15 years later
>lots of good characters with memorable dialogue and god tier VA's like James Woods and Samuel L. Jackson
>was released during the early internet days where games had mysteries and could be discussed on forums instead of just being datamined (pic related, ghost car, and bigfoot for examples)
>huge map that contained 3 different cities
>first game that had swimming, adding more content
>exploring the map could find rare vehicles weapons in areas (it feels like later GTA games don't do this but I could be wrong)
>amazing story, seeing CJ go from gangster to business man
>the green sabre is one of the most kino missions in any game ever
>great soundtrack with music from late 80's to mid 90's
>sex mode that could've been modded in, leading to the biggest vidya controversy in the 2000's
>an RPG stat system that you could customize whenever you wanted, making CJ as fat or as fit as you wanted to
>said stat customization effects gameplay (fat CJ has different voice lines and runs out of stamina more)
>shit loads of character customization with clothes and hair
>fun side missions like Burglar and Beat the Cock

Fuck I love GTA San Andreas

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>still somehow the most lovable character
because dsepite all the shit he pulled he was still a man of his word.

No, you're out of time, tick tock motherfucker

The atmosphere, the music, the different towns you discovered and explored, the characters, the missions, the story, the controls, everything was perfect. There was nothing that came close at The time and even today most games have less combat than this gem.

>San Andreas
>Half-Life 2
>World of Warcraft
>Halo 2
>Far Cry
>Vampire: TM
>MGS3: Snake Eater
>Battlefront
>CS:S
>Fable
All released in the same year, just 10 years down the road we'd get games such as
>Alien Isolation
>Destiny
>Dark Souls 2
>Far Cry 4
>Wolfenstein: The New Order
>Titanfall
>Banner Saga
>Valiant Hearts
>Ground Zeroes

How has gaming advanced so fast in just 10 years? No other industry has advanced this far, so fast. Cars took 100 years to get where we are today, Phones took 50, The Internet itself took 45, but Gaming only took like 35 years, from Pong in 1972, in 10 years the NES released with instant classics, and every 10 years there was always a major improvement in technology.

How'd gaming do it? How did it advance so fast and not stagnate like other industries. What'll happen when it does stagnate like the Phone industry, and we don't see anymore improvements because none can be made on a technological standpoint?

It's the perfect "nigga simulator", also Samuel L Jackson is on it, and as always, he is a motherfucker.

>never finished it because of learning to fly mission in pc
I hate that mission

Get a controller and the GInput mod.

What a fucking weird list for ten years later

It was a video game that perfectly replicated the gangsta rap era of the early 00's. If I remember correctly, it came out around the same time that 50 Cen't Get Rich or Die Trying came out as well. That time period of kids of all colors wearing oversized t-shirts, nike knapsacks, durags in their back pockets, merrily calling each other nigga will never come back.

You will never again ride bikes with your friends after school, go play some handball, roof the ball, get back home and watch the latest ep of DBZ then play some GTA. Now kids are getting sex changes. What the fuck happened?

Games have been stagnating since 2010.

No, Vice City is great across the board. San Andreas only has a dozen and a half good songs.

I was going crazy, completely out of my head before you came around to this thread.

I still play SA:MP from time to time. GTA:O is gay as fuck and full of mtx garbage. How's MTA? Is it as active as SA:MP?

It's 110% perfection. You fucking plebs wouldn't know a great game if it was blowing you. Fucking ignoramus.

>how is MTA
dead as fuck lmao

>That time period of kids of all colors wearing oversized t-shirts, nike knapsacks, durags in their back pockets, merrily calling each other nigga will never come back.

Sounds horrible

SOUL
>pic related
SOULLESS

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Great music, released on the best console, the PS2, giant ass map with like 3 or 4 different biomes, 3 vice city sized cities complete with airports, long ass campaign with 100 missions when V only has only 69 that has you doing vastly different objectives instead of go to X and kill like 20 people, a roster of memorable characters, protagonist that can swim, RPG mechanics like driving skill and being able to run longer by cycling, individual weapon mastery, ability to recruit gangsters into your party and get in your car with you (why the ever living fuck did they remove this from V?), greatest multiplayer mod ever, great music, I could go on.

Yeah, way worse than starting your hormone treatment in preschool and getting #metoo'd and canceled by 6th grade

GTA missions have always been dogshit. At least GTAV missions are almost playable or fun.

It was better than what we have now. You could call a gay kid a faggot and a nigger a nigga and literally no one cared because it was all in good fun.

There was always made up little games and diversions I could play. Before I dropped the game entirely, I would get in a rustler and start dogfighting with the hydras at the 6 star wanted level.

prefered vice city because i’m a boomer at heart

>not just making your own radio with your playlist

Noticed that black people love it. I've seen references to CJ and San Andreas by blacks, but I've never seen them reference Vice City or III.

>IGN
>best game ever
>9th place

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I think I hear a purple dinosaur in the distance

>I've seen references to CJ and San Andreas by blacks, but I've never seen them reference Vice City
There was a Dave Chappelle skit about Vice City

>Why is San Andreas so beloved?
right here

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idk what's about it but the size of the jumbo jet when i found it fucking scared me.

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Is Mike Toreno the most powerful gta character?

All those little one off things that weren't made to be part of a mission, and were just little hidden self contained goodies were so awesome. Nowadays it seems like every interesting vehicle or game mechanic has to have a mission or something introduce it, or give it purpose, and can't just exist to exist.

You definitely confirmed my suspicions. I couldn't place what separated San Andreas from the rest of the pack and I legitimately think it comes down to content. From character customization, collectibles, weapon mods, car mods, extra missions, and so much more. The game just gave and gave and gave.

In combo with everything I posted, the game oozed style. The orange glow achieved what the trail effect did for Vice City. The game seriously had a distinct to look to it. You could take any screenshot from San Andreas and instantly recognize it as such. I've basically got Los Santos committed to goddamn memory (also Portland from GTA3 because let's face it, that island was amazing). In San Andreas, the cities and surrounding areas were expertly laid out and given a sick amount of style that made even the most barren/rural of areas feel uniquely separate from everything else. Roaming the wilderness of San Fierro. Rolling on Grove in Los Santos. And gambling like a mother fucker on the Las Venturas strip. The game gave and gave and gave.......they don't make games like this anymore.

Games Like San Andreas. Not perfect comparisons, but games that gave and gave and gave to the player. Games that fucking spoiled you with the sick amount of content. I no particular order.
>1. Star Wars: Jedi Outcast.
Sick SP. Check. Sick MP. Check again. Built in cheats and command console manipulation. Check. Full mod support. Fuck yeah.
>2. Final Fantasy Dissidia Duodecim.
I know it's a PSP game, but the SP is long as fuck, the gameplay is a tightly crafted machine. The equipment, assist, summon components add unprecedented layers to the game. Fuck yeah.
>3. Pokemon Silver.
You stomp the Johto Elite 4, are alerted to a waterfall. You check that shit out, and then discover you're in Kanto. You stomp another 8 gym leaders. You think you're done. Pointed towards Mt. Silver. Face off against Red. Stomp his ass. Pokemon Champ 4 life!

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It’s peak GTA. No other game has dethroned it. There are aspects of other GTA/Open World Games I prefer to San Andreas, but in terms of being a total package there’s no comparison.