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Is San Fierro the lamest place in San Andreas?


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Nah nah nah Gta 6

I'm not a fan of the atmosphere, It felt boring and the whole city didn't have many interesting places to goto except Doherty, The docks and Bayside, and Angel pine if that counts.

 

The countrysides' road layout is f*cking awful though, pain to navigate in missions.

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San Fierro is one of my favorite cities. mostly because my family used to always take trips to San Francisco when I was growing up...

 

it feels empty though because there isnt much emphasis on the activities that are available in SF compared to LS and LV. LS had the ever exciting gang wars and LV had the Gambling in large luxerious casinos, where as SF does not really have any defining gameplay aspects.

 

I have always wanted a mod that focuses on reworking and restructuring the city of San Fierro in GTA SA. I released a mod that reworked the gang influence and control of San Fierro. but I wish someone would take the time to bring the city up to par with Los Santos & Los Venturaz

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Of the Three Primary Cities, San Fierro was the least developed, in my opinion. Around East of the Hospital, there's various Collision bugs in that Area.

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Of the Three Primary Cities, San Fierro was the least developed, in my opinion. Around East of the Hospital, there's various Collision bugs in that Area.

I think that too.

 

Also I thought San Fierro was the first city created for SA, which would explain why it's so... "different" from LS and LV.

 

I don't think so, the first city in the development was Los Santos by obvious reasons. If you look closely Los Santos has a lot of details like props, bridges, buildings with beacons, a big freeway with his intersections around the city. The previous things is present in San Fierro and Las Venturas but in a less amount, for example only a few buildings has beacons in San Fierro and the same thing with Las Venturas if I remember correctly while in Downtown, Los Santos a lot of buildings has beacons. In a few words Los Santos is more detailed than the others cities in the game.

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I actually liked all three cities about equally. My favorite and least favorite usually depend on my mood at the time.

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What, Lamest? Nooo..

I honestly think its the best out of three cities in the game. I absolutely love to cruise around the areas of San Fierro. Its a lot atmospheric than LS and LV. Now, I haven't been able to visit the real San Francisco to understand the differences, or to do any justification here. You may be right if you actually have a strong reason to believe that the game didn't match the real SF in comparison, but even then to me, I don't think it matters much how real SF looked, since the SF in game still managed to capture my attention for the lovely immersion it offers.

So, if that's just lame to you then I wonder how absolutely amazing would the real SF be to experience.

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For me it's alright. My favorite city is LS, probably because I know it so well. LV felt way emptier

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I hated San Fierro. The city was boring, the missions felt like filler etc.

 

LS had a much better atmosphere.

 

SF is probably the worst city in a GTA game, really hope they don't do a HD remake for that one.

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I agree about the missions and way they showed San Fierro off. If you don't do anything more than the story in SF, then it's just a toilet made for leaving the sh*thole that is Whetstone.

 

San Fierro is gorgeous if you go sightseeing though. Most of it's more beautiful than the best parts of either other city. Gardens, parks, vibrant hashbury, the esplande, and the bridges over the bay on a foggy morning, go see it all, it's why they assign the camera pickups there!

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I think LV was the lamest city with all those corny ass black elvis peds, those dudes annoyed the sh*t out of me. But if it was any place I'd live, itd be SF. LS is too violent and LV seems to loud and over crowded.

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It seems to me that the SF in the game gets the "flavour" of the basic San Francisco, as much as LV gets Los Vegas. The Los Venturas just has more well known "Landmark" structures than does SF. Many LS buildings go unnoticed because few know about them.
Los Santos and the surrounding environs covers just as many Stereotypical structures and geographical representations.
It is a game, with representations of Real places compressed into a few square miles. And, is not intended to Exact representations of the real world.

 

'http://gtaforums.com/topic/457125-gta-sa-vs-real-places/

 

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CaptainMental

CJ ain't no homophobic busta'!

 

CJ loves San Fierro and all that it has to offer...Katie, Michelle, Gaydar Station and, of course, Jizzy's Pleasure Domes!

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I hated San Fierro. The city was boring, the missions felt like filler etc.

 

LS had a much better atmosphere.

 

SF is probably the worst city in a GTA game, really hope they don't do a HD remake for that one.

Well, in an HD remake, they could just learn from their mistakes and make SF exciting.

 

If this was the case, I want the protagonist to contantly get prank calls.

 

"The yay's leavin' San Fierro!"

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SmokesWithCigs

san fierro has a completely different variety of peds, driving school, photo snap side quest locations, a courier motorcycle side quest near the hippy shop, more shops than los santos different side activities like valet the toy and hobby shop that you buy for the zero missions which also has an interiour an auto dealer ship on the north east side its smaller than ls but it seems like there is more to do. i haven't reached las venturas yet but san fierro is fun.

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SF felt like liberty city in GTA 3. It was ugly, depressing and spooky and thats why i loved it so much. I also loved the mission ice cold killer.

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Exactly like TheDamnTrainCJ says! It was moody, foggy and depressing but probably the most atmospheric city in SA, and it's also beautiful, the bay, the bridges, Chinatown, the port, everything. And it felt really different from ther other two cities. And in my opininon the mission were allright too. I loved to work for the Triads, especially loved Amphibous Assault and The Da Nang Thang. And the Wang Cars missions were cool too. So after all, It's probably my 2nd favourite GTA city after LC

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To me, San Fierro is the forgotten city of San Andreas since the only thing it has exciting to me are the Triads. Las Venturas on the other hand had a bunch of casinos and Salvatore Leone lived there for a while, and Los Santos was like L.A. with all of the gangs and stuff.

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Lame? Not at all.

 

The lamest place in San Andreas title should go to...

 

OG Loc's House

 

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I love it there, I've spent most of my time in SF after I beat the game. It has such a cozy atmosphere to it along with Bayside. So I don't think that place is lame at all, it's my fav city of all the GTAs tbh.

Same here!

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Clearly the worst city out of three main cities. When I went to SF for the first time I was like "Why is this city looks so weird and empty? ". I just don't like the atmosphere all around the city.

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Clearly the worst city out of three main cities. When I went to SF for the first time I was like "Why is this city looks so weird and empty? ". I just don't like the atmosphere all around the city.

 

Poor San Fierro. :(

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Clearly the worst city out of three main cities.

On textures, yes. PS2 and PC have different textures for the roads (and some buildings too) but on PC are awful, have some kind of mix between PC texture (black color wtf R*?), resolution (512x512) and some PS2 textures on it (more noticeable in the airport), looks so ugly and rushed as well. This madness of textures into PC version are present on the other cities too but less noticeable.

 

 

Los Santos:

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San Fierro airport

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I personally really enjoyed SF. It felt quite scenic and was always nice to drift through the hills on that map. I always felt like LV was a hassle to get f*cking anywhere and it used to take me forever to get into the airport.

 

join the 11%

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i kno rite damn me for appreciating good map design

 

join the 11%

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Also,there is no Blaine County in GTA SA,only in GTA 5.Rural areas in GTA SA are Red County, Flint County, Bone County, Whetstone and Tierra Robada.

You get more in SA than V, huh?. :pp

there is more than V
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It's actually my favorite city out of the three. :)

 

Same here tbh. Seems to offer the most variety out of the 3/4 main areas of the game.

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I prefer Los Santos and Las Venturas for obvious reasons, and San Fierro is my least favourite place. However there is somehow I do like about SF, it's good to get away to a city that's extremely different in every way to the next. I just like the fact that it's a small city, and much less chaotic, more relaxed and peaceful in atmosphere than LS or LV. It's got this feeling of a unique and mysterious serenity about it, and the best thing about that is I can use Carl, an LS gangsta to come through the place bring mayhem, tear the place up and set it on fire !!

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