What do you guys think about it?

For me, this is tied with GTA IV for the best Grand Theft Auto. San Andreas’ story, world and characters are great.

  • mercano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    5 days ago

    Such an upgrade over the previous two. Three whole cities to explore, plus the countryside. They managed to stream the world data from the disc as you moved about, so no more loading screens between islands like III and VC had. This was the first GTA where you could swim, so water was no longer a death trap, and the first to introduce skills, so you could swim further and faster as you got better.

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    5 days ago

    Ah shit, here we go again.

    But really, I place it second after GTAV, but I’m biased. I was born and raised in LA but I was too young to fully get San Andreas references. But V? I live where Franklins from, work where Michael lives, and have relatives where Trevor lives. It’s not satire, it’s a documentary.

  • Crafter72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    Still remember playing it back on ps2… Imo one of finest R* release and for open world genre.

    But what elevates me most is the PC release with countless mods resulted off it. Did have good time playing SA-MP & MTA SA back in 2012-2015 on and off… Basically custom SA Multiplayer client that lets you connect to server and play with dozens or even hundreds of ppl within a server, met couple of friends and joined Clan that still connected to this day.

    Also this game was the game that introduce me to game modding and also as game modder (made dozen of stuffs for SP and MP maps).

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I’m still a bit mad about the trains in grand theft auto games. The early ones had trains you could actually properly interact with rather than them just sort of mindlessly going around the map being indestructible juggernauts.

    I want to be able to derail and steal it.

    There are indie games that support derailing trains, so it ain’t hard

      • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Ok. Pretend you are my father. I am your son. You are teaching me how to work the Nostalgia factory, and you have already taught me about the production maintenance and cost of the job. Now the next item on the checklist is what to do in case of emergency and specifically how to stop the production of cargo.

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    coworker took a weeks vacation t when this came out to play it. came in with the map games used to come with and got it laminated lol.

    was the most pirated game for at least a decade.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I mean, I played all of them as they released, at least from 3 onward. I picked up GTA2 for PS1 from a discount bin way before 3 was even announced which is what had me so hyped for 3 in the first place. Though for 3 I waited until it was on PC as I didn’t have a PS2 then; but by VC I had a PS2 and had SA on pre-order (I still have the bandana bonus from it somewhere).

          My recollection of when things happened is fuzzy AF though lol

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    5 days ago

    to me the best grand theft auto is 2.

    I was dumbfounded when playing 3. in the game series that was unlike any other I’ve played before in terms of throwing me in the middle of an open world full of action to be experienced any way I want, some dipshit I don’t care about was holding me by the ear dragging me around town to do shit I don’t want to do. I quit playing in an hour.

    now every AAA game is like this. thanks, GTA, for ruining games for me.

  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    I currently doing a playthrough funnily enough, didn’t realize it was so close to an anniversary.

    I’ve been spending more time exploring and doing side activities this time around, just driving around and taking photos. It ended up being quite a surprising experience. I was surprised with how easy the game is, how fast the story moves or how empty some parts of the world are (makes sense considering when it released). Taking the world in a more touristy way was an interesting change compared to how I experienced those games before. It’s also a way of playing I’ve been trying to move towards more and more recently (doing the same with Cyberpunk as well).

    I still think it’s a great game but IV and, to lesser extent, Vice City are probably my favorites as far as mainline games are concerned. IV especially as it had a nice grounded approach to gameplay with weighty movement, interactions and driving, as well as the story - it sucks most people hated this as GTAV ended up being a rather mid experience for me.