Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

CJs brother has a playable bball hoop in his yard

cant remember is name?

Sweet

San Andreas fans would be recommended to also try out Saints Row 3

lol after my first date with Denise i didn't bother with her for a day or two and somehow my relationship rating went up. Absence making the heart grow fonder...

CJ playing some TPUA game there

The drivers in this game are WAY more aggressive than VC. Except when you get out to the country, which is kinda nice and funny and sort of true in a real-life kind of way.

The cops are way more aggressive too. Sometimes I will just be spraying a tag and a cop will start shooting at me!

The first time you meet Peter Fonda's character he offers you DMT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkP8SvHvaU

Really, all this music is making me heavily nostalgic for that time period. I may have to look up MTV's programming that summer and rip appropriate music videos from youtube.

Oh yeah i was like 12.

The first time you meet Peter Fonda's character

Forgot about this. <3

I just replayed some GTA 3 on an iPad and it was awesome. Will they do the same for San Andreas?

Holy crap. So I was helping Peter Fonda destroy his weed crop with a flamethrower with a police chopper overhead, the screen getting shaky while more and more of the stuff burns. Then he hands me a rocket launcher.

Really, this game just keeps getting better and better.

Thank God they made the 50 taxi missions cumulative. Don't have to do them all in a row! Between valet, trucking, driving school, shooting practice, b-ball, pool, etc. it's one of the mini games i won't miss.

Yeah, any game that forces you to marathon that shit is one that ensures I don't play that aspect.

the best place, I found, to do the paramedic missions, was the desert town where you meet the cop girlfriend. the missions cover a smaller area than most other places.

Have you reached the missions for the toy store guy yet? Man they were brutal.

oh yeah those were hellish

the only thing in this game i don't look back on fondly and being reminded of them now settles in my head the gta:san andreas vs. red dead redemption battle for my fave video game all time.

Yeah i just met up w David Cross's character. I still have to buy his store to unlock those missions but from what I've heard I'm not exactly jumping at the case. Plus, I'm a few thou short, so I've been just driving around, shooting people, picking up paper, etc.

I tried doing a truck mission (number 2?) and there were cops on me from the start and they just destroyed my cargo! Have no idea how I'm going to pull that one off...

and getting gold in the driving licence missions. oh dude i have to replay this game.

Uff, getting gold in the "spin reverse directly onto this spot" is near the top of the "10 things I am glad to have done in a videogame that I am equally glad never to have to do again"

yeah the sheer brutality of some of SA missions was quickly mirrored in the vast satisfaction you got from completing them.

but i guess that's just true of any challenging game.

would like to re-brag about how I one hundred percented this game btw.

Me too!

As regards bits of computer landscape that have embedded themselves into my brain (and caused occasional real-not real confusion), this is second to GTA3, though.

a buddy of mine and I 100%ed this sucker over a couple years. It is a source of great pride and shame.

Andrew, same here. What's even more confusing is when you then play Liberty City Stories to death which has a slightly altered map of gta3. Then go back to play gta3. mind fuck.

i won one of the "Beat the Cock" races last night and i was so freaking happy

i too, have done 100%

fucking shells

- My driving experience level tends to go up right when I am crashing into everything around me.
- Started dating Katie, now if I die i keep all my weapons. Nice! I just have to remember not to get busted and I can basically do whatever I want. A shame gang wars aren't active right now.
- Also i installed Hot Coffee, so i can see what that's all about eventually...
- David Cross isn't that annoying, he's kinda funny, in an insufferable prick kinda way. His first mission w the mounted Gatling gun was fun!
- Pimping is the best way right now for me to make a bunch of $$$ quickly.
- No way in hell i am going through driving school.
- No way am I doing those car/bike-in-a-giant-bowl time trials where you have to run through red circles and stuff. I am not a good driver in this game.
- I really love MC Forth Right, have been keeping mostly it at Playback FM and Radio Los Santos. The German DJ on SF-UR is hilarious.
- Being a valet was fun! Plus i now own the hotel! Or something!
- At first I really hated driving between the islands, but I'm getting used to it now. I just wreck a lot of cars.

- The OTT radio commercials remind me a lot of Robocop, which is a good space for this game to exist.

- The random plane crashes in this game are insanely entertaining.
- Ended a firefighting mission w my truck laid over a median on the highway, couldn't go anywhere, so i jumped out. Cars started ramming into it, piling up. Pretty soon there were over a dozen. I ran a good distance away, climbed up a hill, and pulled out my rocket launcher. Fireworks!

- Driving through the countryside is best on a bike with "Freebird" on the radio.
- The radio sounds different on different vehicles. Motorcycles have less bass.

This is currently on sale on Steam for 7.50. If you hurry, you can grab Saints Row 3 for like $12 too.

The social satire bit went waaaaaay down in GTA4, unfortunately.

- K Rose at night and DST during the day for country driving

- This Willie Nelson song sounds AMAZING

krose my first exposure to Jerry reed's "Amos Moses"
banger

- Yes, play "Crazy" while i am driving a burning convertible off the side of a mountain.

Only time the muscles/fat thing ever required my attention was once i started dating & driving that girl everywhere LOL So i've taken some me time off to run around and shoot things, taking full advantage of the respawning guns. Right now I'm at the country club doing drive-bys in a golf cart.

OK you can beat people to death with flowers.

I was driving back to San Fierro and hit a car cos i was going really really fast and fell off a bridge and into the ocean. I jumped out and started swimming, and after checking the map decided to just swim the rest of the way instead of getting back on the road. I noticed a NPC car that had crashed in the water, and it was neat that you could swim all around it. Then I turned around and saw a dolphin! We looked at each other for a minute but I came up for air and lost him. I guess he just went off on whatever swimming patterns he's programmed for.

More than anything this is just an incredibly detailed world. The countryside is beautiful and the lighting when it goes from 3am to dawn is eerily dreamlike. Graphically, this thing is just beautiful, particularly when you hit the nitro and you are going really fast down the road. It looks like a CGI movie in many parts.

There must be so much primitive AI running here, you could probably just let it run and watch all kinds of crazy things going on.

:D

reading yr posts is like rediscovering it for the first time all over again. but i've been playing a lot lately too, trying to get my hundred percent on even tho i am never going to gold out the fucking driving schools.

also i've cheated at the oysters/horseshoes/tags and looked at maps, sorry i'm not that hardcore

I seem to remember you only need bronze for 100%. There were quite a few other things you didn't need for 100% too (unique jumps, girlfriends, beat the cock)

Reading this just reminds me how boring GTA4 was. One thing I REALLY missed was skydiving/basejumping/parachuting.

The best way to make money is gambling on the horse race machines if I remember rightly. Way better than 100% ROI on those suckahs.

Oh yeah. Easy way to more cash than you'll ever need.

I always forget about the gambling sections. There's so much to this game. Think I recall making a lot of money on the poker slot machines.

Did anyone ever become bankrupt with the Mafia casino? They send out random gangs in black cars to come kill you.

gtaIV was pretty, and had an interesting map. not much else unfortunately.

i got deep in the hole with the casino and had to use a kinda cheat to get back to solvency cos i couldn't get resprays or eat food or anything else

GTA5 (set in Los Santos) just got two new screenies released today, via Rockstar's blog:

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/36881/asked-answered-max-payne-3-and-grand-theft-auto-v.html

1) Cop chopper: http://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames/img/global/news/upload/newswire_1342100433.jpg

2) Boardwalk chillaxin' http://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames/img/global/news/upload/newswire_1342100464.jpg

Also, Red Dead Redemption II is coming, if this quote is any evidence:

Stay tuned for further announcements about the future of the Red Dead series.