Am I the only one that thought SA..

[Dolven]

1:You can go to gyms and get more stamina and muscle

Pointless, it’s a game not real life

 

2:You can eat and get fat

You can eat in Vice City and there’s a fat cheat.

 

3:Recruit Gang Members

You can do that in Vice City

 

4:Buy houses

You can do that in Vice City

 

5:Walk into normal everyday shops

You can do that in Vice City

 

6:Buy CJ some clothes

You can do that in Vice City and it’s quicker to change.

 

7: A big mountain that you can jump off

There’s plenty of things to jump off in Vice City

 

8: Ability to fly better aircraft

There’s not really any need for big aircraft because the map is much smaller and the helicopters are fine.

 

9: Forests

No comment

 

10: A desert

No comment

 

11: Deserted homes

No comment

 

12: Get tattoos.

I hardly ever use the tattoos.

 

Go up VERY high areas and skydive.

Well the aircraft can only go so high in Vice City and there’s no parachute so that wins.

Edited October 16, 2007 by Dolven

[Bad~Boy#17]

1:You can go to gyms and get more stamina and muscle

Pointless, it�s a game not real life

 

You are wright.

Driving cars is also pointless then, if It's a game and not real life.

Oh yeah! And guns...Who need's then. This is a game, not real life...

 

Some of us like it, if you have gyms and workout and learn new fighting styles and get more muscles to kill someone faster and have more sprint if you'r cars get's blown up in the middle of nowhere.

[james_root]

yes you are the only one that thinks sa sucks.

[AnotherSoulSaved]

I think the atmosphere was great, the features were great, the plot was pretty good - but the ending was crap. The problem was that the entire latter half of the story seems tacked on and sped up. Ten Penny's death was stupid, I mean riding around on a Fire truck and crashing off the bridge ..it was pretty dumb considering that you never really get to fight Ten Penny and the ending is basically still left open. In Vice they close it with Tommy basically taking over Vice city and killing his connection to the Mob, GTA 3 Claude / Fido walks away with redemption. He could have controlled Liberty City, but instead he decides to just leave things as they are.

 

The gameplay was great and that's the most important thing, but sure the plot/ending could have done with a few more missions to build up suspense / character development.

[60 Cent.]

sh*t radio. There were SO much better music in the 90's, and it was all sh*t music

How can it be that the music was 'SO' much better in the 90's, but it was all sh!t music?

You have contradicted yourself there my friend....

 

You misunderstood his point completely. What Killa said is that there was way better music in the 90s but R* chose the sh*t music for SA.

 

But if you have the PC version then that's what the custom sound track is for.

 

 

lol @ the SA fanboys.

[Rashon.]

 

lol @ the SA fanboys.

I thought I was the only one that noticed.

 

Anyway, The Killa's entitled to his own opinion. He thinks San Andreas sucks. It's his view on the game. There's no need to bash him and tell him how good San Andreas is. I think San Andreas is overrated (Again, don't get me wrong, it's a great game), that's my opinion. I don't like it when people bash Vice City but that's others' opinions and you can't control what people think.

Edited October 15, 2007 by Rashon.

[doogy300]

so its obvious that yes, you're

perhaps the ONLY one in a world

of GTA gamers who, for some really

odd, totally out-of-place reason, hates

SA. Fine. whatever.

 

if you hate it then fine. just please dont

bring your hatred into a place filled

with people who dont hate it. morale

goes down, you know. oh, and people start

sending you hatemail

[manofpeace]

I have to say, I agree with The Killa on all accounts. San Andreas never really got me pumped up like Vice City.

[Hmmm nice bike]

 

-sh*t atmosphere. Nowhere near as fun to screw around in SA than it is in the past two

I thought it was more fun to screw around in SA than the other two. Lots of areas to explore, nice hidden things, and overall more fun things to do.

 

 

-sh*t sound. Lots of audio glitches. Gunshots and etc sounded bad.

I thought the only thing that sounded bad was the pistol gunshoits. They just sounded bad compared to the III and VC gunshots.

 

 

-sh*t characters. NONE of them were as immersive and as entertaining as they were before. The only ones that I remotely even liked were Mike Toreno and Woozie.

I thought the charecters were fine.

 

 

-sh*t radio. There were SO much better music in the 90's, and it was all sh*t music, with the exception of a few songs. Commercials weren't that funny. Hell, I can't even remember any commercials.

I also thought they could have had some more songs from it's time (i.e. Nirvana). I thought the commercials were hilarious.

 

 

-The game map was too big. 3 years playing and I still haven't even memorized Los Santos yet. That's not a good thing. Though I do give R* credit for being able to pull it off with minimal loading.

IMO, the map was fine, but they could have put the desert and forests to more use.

 

 

-Did I mention the atmosphere sucked? I honestly got headaches driving around San Andreas

Well, that was the atmosphere at the time for those cities.

 

 

[Benjimino234]

You get a lot more freedom in SA and just love the huge map. I think it's great. SA does bring the real "Street Gang" feeling from the story, characters, the plot and conflicts.

 

The end could of been better such as a A fist fight or full police squad versus the gangs

Edited October 15, 2007 by Benjimino234

[Algonquin Assassin]

SA far from sucked. Actually I thought the storyline was very good, but didn't really like the "gangsta" theme. Thankfully that went away in SF and LV. Though I think some of it was completely random, and not as to the point of III, and VC.

 

I feel more at home with VC, because it took place in the year I was born. (1986)

 

 

 

 

[Bad~Boy#17]

Did you noticed that TheKilla never replyed because of all this negative replys

[60 Cent.]

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

 

 

[Bad~Boy#17]

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

He didn't say nothing about the colour orange

[Lioshenka]

 

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

isnt LS orange??? hmmmm

 

 

 

orange enought for you?

Edited October 15, 2007 by ˸øåíüêà

[simkas]

SA was definitely worse than VC or III, but it still didn't suck. SA had a lot of good points, like:

-giant map

-loads of cars

-cool planes

-swimming

-climbing

-drive-by's

-parachute

But it also got kinda ruined by all the RPG style stuff that Rockstar decided to put in, like skills (needing to eat, having to go to gyms just to be able to hit harder and stuff like that just don't fit in a GTA. It's GTA not The Sims or some RPG game, for christ skaes), the thing where you have to go into the changing room and watch through the same anoying stupid animations of CJ looking at his whole body just to change 1 part of his clothes (the clothing system was the best in LCS and VCS), I hated the whole "gangsta" thing in the game (mainly because I hate hip-hop and all that gangsta crap) and the main character was a total retard.

[Bad~Boy#17]

 

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

isnt LS orange??? hmmmm

 

 

 

orange enought for you?

Yes, Its very orange :

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix82/1192463118.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix36/1192463122.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix21/1192463125.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix50/1192463145.jpg

 

 

Like you sead...

Everything in thoose pics is very orange.

 

-- Your images stretch the page for people with a normal resolution on their monitor. Either resize them or link with a thumbnail.

Edited October 15, 2007 by jllr

[simkas]

 

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

isnt LS orange??? hmmmm

 

 

 

orange enought for you?

Yes, Its very orange :

 

*pictures*

 

 

Like you sead...

Everything in thoose pics is very orange.

You know, only 2 of those pictures are from LS...

[Bad~Boy#17]

And they are from the GAME.

You will never experience that kind of "orange" in you'r game.

[simkas]

And they are from the GAME.

You will never experience that kind of "orange" in you'r game.

He said that LS is orange. Not the whole game.

[60 Cent.]

Exactly, simkas gets it. Read my whole post.

 

 

I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

Oh and for that smart one who posted those 4 pictures, half of them are not even in Santos. Fail.

 

 

I'm not taking away anything from SA, it's a great game, but imo, not the best in the series.

[Bad~Boy#17]

Exactly, simkas gets it. Read my whole post.

 

 

I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

Oh and for that smart one who posted those 4 pictures, half of them are not even in Santos. Fail.

 

 

I'm not taking away anything from SA, it's a great game, but imo, not the best in the series.

I know that all of my pic. weren't from LS, but those pic. ˸øåíüêà posted, you can't find them

in the final version. They were maybe made in Blender in Gimp to look more realistic.

[60 Cent.]

Those are what you call beta screens. They were pre-release screen shots from R* to give us a little

glimpse on how SA was going to look.

[Lioshenka]

the atmosphere is designed to look like california

in the early 90s. if you dont like it, then stay away

from california.

 

 

This post makes me laugh because of your ignorance. I live in Los Angeles. I was born around the time SA took place (1991) and from what I remember it wasn't f*cking orange all the time.

 

And honestly, driving around Santos gave me headaches sometimes.

isnt LS orange??? hmmmm

 

 

 

orange enought for you?

Yes, Its very orange :

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix82/1192463118.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix36/1192463122.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix21/1192463125.jpg

 

http://www.isarapix.com/pix50/1192463145.jpg

 

 

Like you sead...

Everything in thoose pics is very orange.

 

-- Your images stretch the page for people with a normal resolution on their monitor. Either resize them or link with a thumbnail.

very clever, now get the fcuk outta here!

 

LS is not supposed to be orange all day, and of course you will get other types of weather. Although half of your pics are not from LS at all and one has got orange-ish houses and pavement at the bottom. Fail.

[Bad~Boy#17]

LS is not supposed to be orange all day, and of course you will get other types of weather. Although half of your pics are not from LS at all and one has got orange-ish houses and pavement at the bottom. Fail.

Super hint :

 

That was orange because of the lights and that wasn't even LS.

[Lioshenka]

LS is not supposed to be orange all day, and of course you will get other types of weather. Although half of your pics are not from LS at all and one has got orange-ish houses and pavement at the bottom. Fail.

Super hint :

 

That was orange because of the lights and that wasn't even LS.

pic number 4 isnt from LS?

 

of course it is not dear sir

[Protonkid]

OK, so you don't like it, but I will always think it's the best machinima engine yet.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuLfERQbWk

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r66BQ6VQaaQ

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSRkpldQmU

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CjsHwniYc

[Bad~Boy#17]

LS is not supposed to be orange all day, and of course you will get other types of weather. Although half of your pics are not from LS at all and one has got orange-ish houses and pavement at the bottom. Fail.

Super hint :

 

That was orange because of the lights and that wasn't even LS.

pic number 4 isnt from LS?

 

of course it is not dear sir

You cant even see the pavement in Pic. 4

[badjab]

SA was definitely worse than VC or III, but it still didn't suck. SA had a lot of good points, like:

-giant map

-loads of cars

-cool planes

-swimming

-climbing

-drive-by's

-parachute

But it also got kinda ruined by all the RPG style stuff that Rockstar decided to put in, like skills (needing to eat, having to go to gyms just to be able to hit harder and stuff like that just don't fit in a GTA. It's GTA not The Sims or some RPG game, for christ skaes), the thing where you have to go into the changing room and watch through the same anoying stupid animations of CJ looking at his whole body just to change 1 part of his clothes (the clothing system was the best in LCS and VCS), I hated the whole "gangsta" thing in the game (mainly because I hate hip-hop and all that gangsta crap) and the main character was a total retard.

i completely agree, except i kinda liked the gangsta theme, it was really big in the 90's but it could have been done much better, and cj could have been alot smarter.

[TheDude5000]

For atmosphere, you can't beat Vice City in the 80's. So it'd be best to play SA without wanting to experience a similar atmosphere or else you'll be disappointed. If you want to get in the mood for the SA atmosphere..well the atmosphere is early 90's LA, where you had some great action movies. Terminator 2, Falling Down, Speed, Lethal Weapon 3, and of course the "hood" movies like Boys In The Hood and Menace II Society. If you like/watch those movies, you'll like the feel of Los Santos/SA more. Try watching Casino, or Fear & Loathing for Las Venturas...maybe Nash Bridges or a few Dirty Harry movies for San Fierro. I think if you can find movies or shows that encapsulate that era/location, when you go play SA you'll enjoy it far more.

 

The map is either love it or hate it. I know SF, LS, and LV, I have them memorized, same for Bone County and most of Red/Flint counties. You also have the option to go to any airport in the game and purchase a plane ticket to fly you to any of the cities, if you don't like driving far. Or you can spawn a hydra and get across the map in no time.

 

As for characters, that's purely opinion. Audio..well I do like the gunfire audio, and I've only had audio bugs on PC. I do agree they are quite bad, because all SFX except for the radio will dissapear, but other than that the audio is fine to me.

 

The Radio...there's so much to choose from I don't know how you could be disappointed. The big early 90's music scene was Seattle, and you have a few bands from there on Radio X, and a few similar sounding bands like STP and L7. For 80's rock, you have some GN'R, and tons of things on K-DST, even some 70's rock. So you have like a 3 decade span of rock, and like two rap stations, a 70's soul station, Funk, House...I mean there's a sh*tload to choose from. And I thought WCTR was hilarious, same for many of the commercials. And if you don't like the soundtrack, just use the MP3 Player and put your own tunes in, SA even has the option of adding it's in-game commercials between your songs so they would fit in perfectly.

 

Well that's all I can think of, at any rate. I think SA gets underrated by many people who were expecting Vice City II: 1987 or something.