Osho Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 (edited) CJ does a few things that seem quite unrealistic, but there's a reason too. That reason is "Sweet". And, pretty much why he's willing to take the risks too, throughout the game. CJ does a lot of things a "normal person" would go out of the way to protect their family. Also, there're parts into the story which are just interesting gameplay gimmicks for introducing a lot of surprises, and action ( incl. Area 69 ) to enjoy for us, the players. But, only when it comes to CJ, many people find it hard to maintain the the suspension of disbelief, yet the HD games, that purport to have realistic setting too feature unrealistic moments, and situations via. the protagonists you play. Regarding the flying part -- Mike Toreno does inform CJ, "Carl, Learn to Fly" and begin the flight school, by finally learning to fly. Fact is CJ has no "direct" and "easy" access to Hydra, jetpack, or even a mini-gun till the right time arrives. But, I don't know why people come with the same ridiculous and stupid reasons for hating CJ, with IQ levels so low, they are just not able to handle even the simple ideas of fun that you get to enjoy as CJ in GTA SA. Edited August 22, 2014 by Osho latigreblue 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Martini Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 Then some other people hate the game. Cmon guys, remember that SA had so much features (i hope I wrote it right because I always suck on it). Swimming, flying a plane, learn fighting skills, gym, new boutiques, food shops, and a lot of other things... It was all new, so let's not be hypocrites ok? Omega_Is_Here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin de santa Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 I hated him because his story was sh*t poorly voice acted poor side characters just a sh*t game overall IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfilmpjesmaker123 Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Did you even play the game? lol madeinbrazil123 and Red Hardbro 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trollsack Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 I like him in general; maybe it's because he's a gangster or he lets everyone else like Tempenny push him around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Byzantine Empire Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Because he is a very solid character. GTA San Andreas has its own RPG stuff and needs a solid man for "using" this RPG stuff. You can make CJ a gangsta or a stylish mafia boss or a hillbilly or a psycopath or a hip-hop star. But Tommy? Nah, he is not solid, he was born with that blue shirt, he is a 1980's Italian Mafia boss with bad style but "though guy" character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watersgta3 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Who said anyone hate CJ? If anything, a lot of people on this forum hate Tommy much more than they hate CJ, and those are for personal reasons too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigreblue Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I never really saw anyone from this forum hating on Tommy. Young Martini, OneManCrimeWave and inkoalawetrust 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyla Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Tommy's a big fat bastard with horrific taste in shirts. I bet he smells like pizza grease. Mould. Broken. Seriously though - I would've liked to have seen Tommy come up against someone like Tenpenny and then see him get the same amount of love. universetwisters 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theNGclan Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 CJ always was straight buster. lol232, inkoalawetrust, Reizov and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolleroz Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 He was a soft cock who let everyone push him around. Pretty much this. Compare him with Johnny in TLAD, what did Johnny do (along with Jim) when two corrupt FBI agents bullied him? he killed them all along with their backup. What did CJ do? let them bully him so we have to get through 100+ missions until we can kill their leader. Rafix2, Algonquin Assassin and inkoalawetrust 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gummy Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 CJ is still the funniest protagonist to date. Gtaman_92, TCA and OneManCrimeWave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA19somethin Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Tommy's a big fat bastard with horrific taste in shirts. I bet he smells like pizza grease. Mould. Broken. Seriously though - I would've liked to have seen Tommy come up against someone like Tenpenny and then see him get the same amount of love. Tommy's a video game character. Grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigreblue Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) Tommy's a big fat bastard with horrific taste in shirts. I bet he smells like pizza grease. Mould. Broken. Seriously though - I would've liked to have seen Tommy come up against someone like Tenpenny and then see him get the same amount of love. Tommy's a video game character. Grow up. There's no need for admonition - that comment was obviously meant to be sarcastic, facetious, a joke even. Lighten up. In every GTA, there is an adversary who cannot or will not be killed until the end. Tenpenny is CJ's nemesis in SA. He's the one fulfilling this role. Also in every game there are people that you work for (willingly or not) that ultimately, you're going to have to pop a cap in. Edited August 25, 2014 by latigreblue inkoalawetrust 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tycek Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) There are three points why I don't like him as protagonist, which is in fact one of the reasons I don't like SA that much. 1. As mentioned above CJ is extreme push around, being poked and dragged by absolutely everybody. It doesn't matter if it was almost retarded Ryder, manipulative Big Smoke, controlling Toreno or childish Zero. CJ had to do everything for everyone, without even a word of dislike for the job. Maybe it was his idea for life, doing everything and going with the flow, but it was something pissing me off. He never told Tenpenny to shove off, he begged Catalina, being almost grounded and he frontally attacked top secret military base for some hopped up hippie, he met week ago. Yes, you can say all GTA protagonist were doing something for other people, not having much in return, but at least they were showing some kind of dislike for this job: "How many errands I have to run Cortez," "I'm not coming back," " I did this for you and you pay sh*t," "Who am I, your f*cking dog?" The series from the beginning was about being dirty job guy, but some kind of personality is good to show that we are playing as a badass and not some whiny guy, waiting to get smacked for a single mistake. 2. CJ is extremely whiny, talking all the time and usually moaning about world around him. Living in his pants and walking or driving around was really tiring, with his constant comments about other people driving and attitude. 3. CJ is inconsistent. In one missions, he plays the pussy role and in another he tries to be the boss pushing people around (Construction Yard mission). It's really hard to play with protagonist, who changes his attitude and mind so often. Edited August 25, 2014 by Tycek Rafix2, CriminaL277, lol232 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osho Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) He was a soft cock who let everyone push him around. Pretty much this. Compare him with Johnny in TLAD, what did Johnny do (along with Jim) when two corrupt FBI agents bullied him? he killed them all along with their backup. What did CJ do? let them bully him so we have to get through 100+ missions until we can kill their leader.Just like Niko Bellic doing the errands for many, but yeah, he has a reason, so even CJ too. > DLC featuring 22 missions = GTA SA's, full-fledged campaign? > Johnny was ALREADY leading the gang, unlike CJ who returned from LC and had to start afresh, and to know the rest of the reasons as to why CJ ( the player ) was forced to play through 100 missions, then pay attention through the story, and you'll understand. Seriously, you're making a fool of yourself, if you really think CJ and Johnny's circumstances share a lot of similarities. Next time come up with less stupid reasons, okay? It's really hard to play with protagonist, who changes his attitude and mind so often. SA was supposed to have multiple protagonists Edited August 25, 2014 by Osho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigreblue Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 @ Tycek, that is the difference between flat and round characters. In Tommy and Niko, you get flat characters who do not change during the game. They are fully formed. In contrast, CJ is a much younger character who does change by the end of the game. This is not inconsistency, this is growth. Houser can't and should not be making the same character all the time but giving him a different name. Clearly, CJ goes out of his way to help friends and family, sometimes to his own detriment, but the story clearly points to him trying to atone for the events that lead up to him having to leave SA in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tycek Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) He was a soft cock who let everyone push him around. Pretty much this. Compare him with Johnny in TLAD, what did Johnny do (along with Jim) when two corrupt FBI agents bullied him? he killed them all along with their backup. What did CJ do? let them bully him so we have to get through 100+ missions until we can kill their leader.Just like Niko Bellic doing the errands for many, but yeah, he has a reason, so even CJ too.> DLC featuring 22 missions = GTA SA's, full-fledged campaign? > Johnny was ALREADY leading the gang, unlike CJ who returned from LC and had to start afresh, and to know the rest of the reasons as to why CJ ( the player ) was forced to play through 100 missions, then pay attention through the story, and you'll understand. Seriously, you're making a fool of yourself, if you really think CJ and Johnny's circumstances share a lot of similarities. Next time come up with less stupid reasons, okay? It's really hard to play with protagonist, who changes his attitude and mind so often. SA was supposed to have multiple protagonists @Osho I heard these rumors, yet it's hard to judge the game for what it isn't. I can only judge the final product and that inconsistency coming from the CJ was one of the reasons that pushed me off a bit. @latigreblue I am aware that CJ was evolving, thus I didn't said anything about his change of personality in the latest moments of the game (like CJ taking control in the Home in the Hills, or fighting for the hood in the end). That was actually very good feature, showing his evolution achieved by the journey around whole state. I mostly meant the Construction Yard missions, where CJ out of nowhere turned into bloodlust killer, who took out the workers, because they called his sister a hooker (despite she was looking like one). Other missions in SF are still portraying him as a easily controllable person (Toreno's missions, Zero's missions, etc.) If the said mission happened around the end of the game, when CJ was fully developed I believe it would be more plausible. Edited August 25, 2014 by Tycek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFunkyBunch Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 (edited) Cj was Alright IMO not Nearly as much of a Douche As Tommy His Family where the Ones i really hated and to be fair he was in a Pretty Bad Story. Edited August 25, 2014 by TheFunkyBunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA19somethin Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 CJ shouldn't be hated on. The person in this game that should be hated on is Sweet. I mean I understand his loyalty for the gang, but who really wants to waste their life in the hood? Who wants to spend the rest of their adult life as a gangster who would either wind up dead or in life-time prison as he gets older? Don't take this the wrong way, but Sweet was way too provincial and parochial, two attributes are signs of immaturity. CJ is actually growing, while Sweet is regressing. inkoalawetrust and watersgta3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Martini Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 Who said anyone hate CJ? If anything, a lot of people on this forum hate Tommy much more than they hate CJ, and those are for personal reasons too. So far I only saw like 3 people hating Tommy.. Not so much eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigreblue Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I guess it's a matter of perspective. It's a weird situation in the first place because you are dealing with criminals in this game. I actually know a lot of people who live in ghetto areas. They are well-educated, have good jobs and are not nor have 'bastard children of unwed mothers'. I am convinced that Rockstar making Franklyn so and moving him out of Chamberlain Hills was Rockstar's way of making him more palatable to a certain sector of players. From the times of Irish and Italian gangs have become a way of life for those who feel socially disadvantaged. From the early gangs with the Irish and Italians, they haven't really gone away, many of them have evolved. You say that he's immature, I wonder if he felt he was being responsible for not leaving his community. About your comment that he will die or end up serving a life sentence in prison, well, based on the nature of the game that's true - Vic died, Claude is supposed to have died, Johnny got killed and all the rest do run that risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iam2fresh Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) i don't hate him but hes such a bitch and doesn't act like a damn gang-banger. why does he let tenpenny push him around, why is he stealing jetpacks for hippies, why does he just politely do what-ever sweet ask him to. he also completely forgets about looking for the ballas that killed his mom i like cj but grow some damn balls. Edited August 31, 2014 by iam2fresh Algonquin Assassin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reameb Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Just some id**ts or racists, or just noobs who have only played gta V and thinks that every other GTA is sh*t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeansowaty Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I hate him because all he had to do, was follow the damn train! inkoalawetrust, lol232, Reizov and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reameb Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) I hate him because all he had to do, was follow the damn train! Edit: a meme is not a proper reply on these forums.{lw. Edited September 16, 2014 by lil weasel cautioned for meme response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroBrineR007 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I hate him. No i don't lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Elvis Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 What killed CJ's character for me is how he achieves so much, yet lives like a gang-banger again because Sweet's dream was to lead that lifestyle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payne Killer Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 He was to soft and let people push him around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneManCrimeWave Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Well, I don't hate CJ. He's my favorite protagonist (besides the V trio). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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