What made it so much better than the other games in the series?

>retarded white kid drug dealer wannabe favorite game
i wonder op

>game is explicitly anti-drug dealing
>it's just for white kids who dream of slinging dope dude

There were very few open world games.

I played through it a couple months ago and it was still a great game. 'Muh nostalgia' brainlets need to stop posting.

>GTA IV has real driving
Is your car a tub filled with water

Way more customization and better story

Refined mechanics from previous games while having a better map, atmosphere, music selection and shitton of stuff to do than the HD games.

Unironic truth:

Niggers being actual niggers

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You literally beat up a drug dealer in the beggining of the game. What the fuck are you on about retard?

Not an Argument

"Realism" is what was Shit Shoved into the HD era for fucking Chode Normie Spectacle. How that relates to Actual Reality has fuck all on this conversation

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It wasn't. Vice City was far better. Actually had missions and things to do, instead of a ton of empty bullshit
>MUH GHOST CARS
>MUH BIGFOOT
>MUH ALIENS

the black protagonist

>Actually had missions and things to do, instead of a ton of empty bullshit
what is the second island

loads of content

Empty bullshit full of buildings you can't interact with

exactly

little haiti and little havana are fucking SHIT

How? HOW? How can you truly think this? As much as I love Vice City, SA was a step up in pretty much every. single. way.

It's Vice City with better gameplay and in a different time and setting, and with a ton of new features.

Funny, I didn't like it as a kid. I played SA again a year ago and loved it though.

vice city being better than san andreas is actually quite a popular opinion

Opinions are subjective, I get it. Although this is one of those cases where that opinion is pretty much objectively wrong. The only thing I can see you prefering in Vice City is the setting, the radio stations or the story although I can't really see why.

I'm not saying I agree with it, I'm just saying it's still a widely held opinion.

I've seen posts on here from people saying they hated the physics in San Andreas; one guy even said he would never play LCS/VCS because of it.

>We're going to SAN FIERRO
>30 minute boring ass drive
>Nothing to do
>Go to Las Venturas
>Nothing to do
>Go to the woods
>"Ghost cars"

I actually replayed both games recently. What you just said makes absolutely no sense. Firstly youtube.com/watch?v=Skb0D_vq-9w
the ride takes 2 minutes. Secondly, there's plenty to do in LV and even a wide desert area where there's an airport and area 51 to explore and fuck around in. The main city itself also introduces you to casinos with new minigames and some of the best missions in the game including the a robbery which some consider to be the best, or the one where you go to Liberty City. It also serves to just add some more variety to the environments.

You see the problem is you can't provide an actual solid and true reason why VC would be better and yet I could enumerate several things SA does better.

The general atmosphere of Vice City, of the time period and radio stations in particular could be considered better than SA.

As far as gameplay mechanics, particularly combat and driving, the amount and diversity of content, the size and detail of the map, SA is clearly superiour.

There are vehicle schools, races, demolition derbies, and collectibles in every city.

If you consider that there's nothing to do in San Fierro and Las Venturas in San Andreas, there isn't anything to do in Los Santos of V or Liberty City of IV either.

SA is a great game, but it's the RE4 of the series. 3 and VC were arcadey as fuck and didn't need all that bloated, unused space. They were also not riddled with terrible minigames that added 0 value. 3 and VC can be completed no problem if you play in top down mode through pretty much the entire thing. Try doing that shit in SA.

>VC
>top down mode

Peak humor

IV managed to be funnier while also having a more engaging story with more fleshed out characters. Literally the only thing SA has over IV is side missions.

it didn't try to be LE BIG EPIC CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE WITH LE SERIOUS EPIC STORY, they just made a fun experience and made a fun game.

they almost blew it with the last mission and the WE GOTZ TO STOP TENPENNY AND HIS EVIL REIGN but the game was fun AND pretty long so nobody gave a fuck about the last mission.

if its so much better why come this is not the #1 game on twitch and gta 5 is?

I'm unironically thinking on downloading the Battle Royale mod of the game.
Holy shit it seems fun as fuck.

youtube.com/watch?v=Le8eQXZXcNk

4 was a abomination.

t. Fag

Explain. Never played gta 4

4 holds up better than SA.

It wasn’t filled to the brim with shit mini games or WACKY MISSIONS

>video with ADHD Editing

No thanks.
But I wish I could play SAMP or MTA but last time I checked all the servers were either Brazilian or Russian. There don't seem to be any western servers left anymore. Bummer.

It was the best until V was released.

>V
>good

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Good thing i'm BR myself :)

Are you european? I'm pretty sure SAMP never hit hard in NA anyway. Last time I played SAMP I did it in a czech server. Main chat was english only though, and the server was good.

Is it an American thing to glorify nignog culture?

it's very very adaptable.
The multiplayer is still very active to this day, even if it is full of russians.

Based as usual

-Combination of classic revenge story + from zero to hero with good twists
-Unique atmosphere
-A lot of interesting characters
-Earning money was actually rewarding compared to IV and V
-Mods and cheat codes

Yes, I'm European. Lucky you, the servers I checked out all had their chats in Portuguese, Russian, Polish or some other languages I couldn't speak. So I deinstalled the game again.

It was also the first game to try incorporating RPG and simulation elements, both of which are extremely cancerous and antithetical to the point of GTA. It clashes horribly. For example:
>drive around an ambulance to increase you life bar with successful rescues
Video gamey but that’s ok.
>mash buttons at the gym for minutes on end to simulate the act of lifting weights
What the fuck? Either pick realism or fun. GTA went from “action sandbox game about crime” to “sandbox citizen simulator where you can commit crime” and San Andreas was the turning point.

and those extra things like getting your character fat, casino etc

peak balance of series progression
beyond the entry, things got too serious and "realistic"
before the entry, things weren't fleshed out deeply enough and you'd die from touching water

probably the life-sim elements of eating, working out, dating, etc.
also the harrier

Yes because we all know every nigger would be an undercover double agent and CEO of a Las Vegas hotel if the LA police weren't always keeping them down.

I never disliked these elements, although I understand that some could find them tedious. Having to lift for half an hour or "expand your lung capacity" for half an hour and then never again wasn't good game design. But I liked that you could customize CJ more than before, if you cared about it.

Gta 1 is the best GTA

>Earning money was actually rewarding compared to IV and V
Most of that shit goes to guns and clothes, just like every other GTA

youtube.com/watch?v=BC868dwd2Eo

At least we can agree that 5 is the worst of the 3D ones.

You’ve never driven a car before if you think 4 has realistic driving mechanics, it drives like if you had 4 flats irl or if your car was struggling with weight

4 is definitely worse, but they're both awful

They're both great games, and IV is better than V, and IV is the best the game in the series.

Nah, IV is infinitely better just because of Niko alone.

4 at least has characters and a story I cared about.

For me, it was the fact flying a plane actually took you somewhere instead of just being a novelty. That, and the RNG events like a moterfucking WWII fighter crashing into you during free roam.

It was still very videogamey and didn't get ruined by realism.

even 4 had better multiplayer

How was CJ a double agent? He just worked and did what Toreno demanded from him. It was Toreno who was both acting against his offical enemies and other government agencies.

SA>VC>>3>

SA>VC>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>5

>San Andreas was the Last Time Grand Theft Auto actually had a "Video Gamey" Feeling to it.
Did you forget about LCS and VCS?

>VC above anything

The realism did really hurt IV and V in a fundamental way. The way how your character moves is so sluggish and unresponsive, you don't feel really in control of your character.

Internet wasn't as big back then, so the game had this feel of mystery and infinite replayability solely by the fact that there weren't big youtubers talking about the easter eggs, so yeah, i was underage.

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Plus the long ass animations.
>In pursuit of some assholes
>Hijack car, drag one out of the car
>Dude on shotgun seat shoots at me and kills me before I can even control my dude again
Yeah, fuck that shit. I have never died or failed missions in a GTA as often as in 5, just because of the shitty controls.

>Not an Argument
ok yes but is your car a tub filled with water?

this desu
I loved watching videos about myths & legends of GTA SA with the X-Files theme done with that Microsoft video maker.
Nowadays all videos like that have some stupid fuck who can't stop talking

They both suck. Ran like shit on PSP

this unironically

>unregistered hypercam2

fpbp
It's still a solid game, nonetheless.

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