Poll: GTA San andreas - Why is it so unrealistic?
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Yeah, I see what you mean. But would you prefer the game was more like The Getaway? That game's police system felt so restrictive...
Of course it is. Remember Driver 1? You were in a car. The slightest hint you were doing over 5mph, or even considering braking hard resulting in a 3mm long skid and the 10 police cars were in the wait to pummel your car into oblivion.
That said, I do always find it weird that you never have to re-fill on petrol :3
That said, I do always find it weird that you never have to re-fill on petrol :3
Agreed.Flying-Emu said:
My favorite moment is over at my friends place, playing SA while he tapping the fence of the military base with a motor cycle and trying to survive the 5 star witch hunt that followed.
I also loved the highway of death, leaving a car in the middle of the road and watching the pile up grow and grow and grow...
Lol pretty boy lover? U sayin the SA guy wasn't pretty? Yo thats racist 0.oJaysonM said:
I agree that the free roam aspect WAS better, but they made it so you had to beat the most boring and longest of all the gta stories to unlock the best place in the game.
Dont get me wrong I LOVED some of the missions, but nothing will ever compare to the first 2 times around.
san a had more depth and more freedom, but the missions sucked.
vice city was the perfect combo of freedom and fun.
vice city was the perfect combo of freedom and fun.
For the record, San Andreas is the only GTA game I like. The others are more 'These would be kinda fun to me, but not enough.', even though Niko Bellic seems an alright dude.
NOW THEN, the fun part. All the snickery stuff I do in GTA: San Andreas, because I never even bothered with the plot! (I'm sure the plot is good, but I bought the game to screw around.) Ahem...
* Driving a car so fast that I flip upside-down and slide down a hill (in the rain) to the tune of Horse With No Name.
* Tossing grenades/plastic-explosives/dynamite at cramped highways to watch the cars panic, funnier when they try to ram through all the dead hulks that're there already, and watch all the lovely cascading explosions caused by this.
* Burning people. Just burning people. Gangers come by? Burn. Someone makes fun of you? Burn. Looking funny? Burn.
* Using the drive-on-water cheat to get to blocked-off places. Or jet packs. Or an actual jet. It's technically more fun to do it the illegitimate way and explore.
* Driving a motorcycle around at maximum speed...just to see how amusingly I can wipe out. To date, nothing beats the time I struck part of a bridge and fell all the way down into a river.
* Stealing vehicles and driving them places at max speed so I can dive out and use their fiery selves as missles against stuff for when they're about to explode.
* So, one time I took a helicopter and flew it really high, because I didn't really know how to control the thing. Then...I accidentally got out, and while I was figuring out what to do, CJ went "WHAT THE FU-" SPLAT!
* Spawning a jet and...then watching it slide down the hill and - Whoops - explode.
* Driving a hovercraft or an ATV! Seriously, this is screwed up, yo!
* Setting fire to the inside of a bar (I'm invincible, BTW.) so that you can watch other people - who can't LEAVE - panic about the fire (or being ON fire).
* I also enjoy pool. And when I lose, I beat the other guy to death for cheating me.
NOW THEN, the fun part. All the snickery stuff I do in GTA: San Andreas, because I never even bothered with the plot! (I'm sure the plot is good, but I bought the game to screw around.) Ahem...
* Driving a car so fast that I flip upside-down and slide down a hill (in the rain) to the tune of Horse With No Name.
* Tossing grenades/plastic-explosives/dynamite at cramped highways to watch the cars panic, funnier when they try to ram through all the dead hulks that're there already, and watch all the lovely cascading explosions caused by this.
* Burning people. Just burning people. Gangers come by? Burn. Someone makes fun of you? Burn. Looking funny? Burn.
* Using the drive-on-water cheat to get to blocked-off places. Or jet packs. Or an actual jet. It's technically more fun to do it the illegitimate way and explore.
* Driving a motorcycle around at maximum speed...just to see how amusingly I can wipe out. To date, nothing beats the time I struck part of a bridge and fell all the way down into a river.
* Stealing vehicles and driving them places at max speed so I can dive out and use their fiery selves as missles against stuff for when they're about to explode.
* So, one time I took a helicopter and flew it really high, because I didn't really know how to control the thing. Then...I accidentally got out, and while I was figuring out what to do, CJ went "WHAT THE FU-" SPLAT!
* Spawning a jet and...then watching it slide down the hill and - Whoops - explode.
* Driving a hovercraft or an ATV! Seriously, this is screwed up, yo!
* Setting fire to the inside of a bar (I'm invincible, BTW.) so that you can watch other people - who can't LEAVE - panic about the fire (or being ON fire).
* I also enjoy pool. And when I lose, I beat the other guy to death for cheating me.
I'm torn between San Andreas and Vice City. They both had their awesome over the top silly ways. I think San Andreas had more to do and more all round aweome sillyness, but vice city had an incredible atmosphere. They both kick IV in the ass anyway.
Hard.
At least they got the serious thing right in Red Dead anyway. IV just seems utterly pointless now.
Hard.
At least they got the serious thing right in Red Dead anyway. IV just seems utterly pointless now.
Before I answer; is that Dick Van Dyke in your avatar pic?tomhaigh7 said:
My favorite moment has to either be getting your own air-strip or jet pack or military jet. I can't decide, that's like one of my all time favorite games.
However I loved that game from the beginning. When I got into a random car by the gas station and found out that I could do pimping missions, I knew that game was special and the pimp missions help illustrate why.
There was so much to do in that one beyond the regular story missions that it was like a customizable story you made yourself. The variety of things to do made it the best GTA in my opinion.
The only way they could?ve made that game better was if the protagonist was Catlina. That would?ve made sense... At least the way I play. Also, she would've been a lot more fun to dress up in tight outfits.
I think R* needs to go back to this over the top/kitchen sink mentality. I hope the next gta has that same feel. The only other game that?s come close since then was Fallout 3.
I really don?t want to start a console war here but it seems that the only way they could make a gta this gen that?s that massive is if they put it on Blue Ray or made it a mandatory install with regular dvds. However they do it, they need to do it.
It's fun, I'll give it that, but it's not the best GTA. That would have to go to GTA 3. This is what made GTA games now, so you must all thank it. But by far San Andreas was the best for just fucking around.
I like SA and VC equally but SA is a better game objectively speaking. It has more stuff and you can have more fun with it. I just love everything about that game. The story has some absurd moments like missions you do for Toreno and The Truth. And absurdity of GTA universe is why people love the game. That's why GTA IV failed. It was too realistic. Rockstar forgot why other GTA games were so successful. Or maybe they didn't know themselves. Because it's not just because they are free roaming games. Like I said, it's because of the absurdity. GTA universe is a semi-realistic parody of American society.