Why is GTA: San Andreas so overrated and why is it so idolized? i think i know.

So why does GTA SA have such a large fanbase? why does everyone idolize it so much? is it because of the story? let's see. so basically, it follows the average GTA format. you start big, you climb to the top by doing missions. there was nothing special or distinguishing about the storyline, so no, it's not because of the story. is it because of the expanded map? maybe. it has a pretty large map, but how about other games with large maps, like just cause 2? that game isn't nearly as idolized as san andreas, so no. is it because of several RPG elements added such as eating, clothing, gym and character development? i don't think so, i've seen plenty of people barking on how san andreas is the best, but i've never seen them bark about the RPG elements. so why is it so special?
I see 2 options:

1. In this game, you are a gangster. Apparently this generation LOVES gangsters, kind of like Atari LOVING space, so naturally, this game yielded a lot of Gangster-wannabes which are the people barking about how GTA san andreas is the best of the series.

2. People are just jealous that their computer cannot run GTA IV, now this option may seem like trolling, but i've seen plenty of videos out there that demonstrate pathetic attempts to integrate endorphin (AKA ragdoll physics), attempt to apply new textures, new cars, and other things into San Andreas. So you are saying that people hate grand theft auto IV, and think san andreas is so much better, but yet they try to turn their favorite and idolized game into that other game they dislike? hypocrites.

What do you think, everyone? did i get it right?

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

simardbrad

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

simardbrad

Vice City was the best 8)

Vice City was the best 8)

Daytona_178

yes it was.

san andreas = jack of all trades, master of none

Vice City was the best 8)

Daytona_178

Vice City was the best 8)

Daytona_178

Here's your answer from a gamer who played ALL GTA games ( from the first overview one years ago ):

1. The only uniteresting thing about GTA:SA was the gangster theme and storyline. It felt less epic than the previous storyline (Vice City).

2. GTAIV is technically great. The driving controls and physics are good (though a bit too heavy), going on a kill spree was a lot of fun. But other than that there was ZERO things to do. The GTAIV world felt limited and empty.

...Which gets me to why GTA:SA is the best GTA yet. It has a HUGE immersive game world with tons of things to do. I would take a bike and go cruising around all three cities. Along the highway I would find a rest stop, go inside and play pool. I could go to las vegas and play many gambling minigames. Outside the city there was a good variety of airplanes, not just helicopters. I could steal a jetpack from a military installation. I could go swimming underwater. I could ride a truck and break into people's homes at night and steal stuff.

It's been a long time since I last played it, there are tons more things you could do. But mainly it's the feeling of freedom you had, which doesn't exist in GTAIV.

I'm a huge GTA fan, I've played every single one and completed III, VC and SA 100% and San Andreas is completely fantastic. The best GTA game, (and my favourite game ever), is GTA Vice City but San Andreas is in my top 5 best games. The story was great and the sheer amount of content was amazing. The best thing about it was the world though. When I played it I went on long drives all over the place and it was so good. I truly love that game, so many great memories of it.

• I have modded both GTA IV and Crysis to hell and back on my rig., so one of your points that you made is gone, as far as i'm concerned. My rig is capable of maxing out any game, i do have a job, so having a high end PC is no problem for me.

• Why i love SA? Because i had more FUN in SA. The missions have fantastic variety, i don't care about the story. I care about my entertainment in a GTA game. And IV failed big-time for me. I kept IV because i like modding games.

• I used ENB series( better visuals) & Project OblivionHQ (much much more foliage) to make SA look a hella lot better then vanilla.

• I'm playing it, right now, with them mods ^.

Stop being mad that people love a game you dislike. It's called human diversity. And that states that any game, no matter how loved, is going to get some hate from someone out there. Accept that people love this game, and move on. If you like IV more, that again is perfectly understandable. But don't judge what other people like.

[QUOTE="simardbrad"]

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

dakan45

^I love your posts so much! Can you post a screenshot of your modded SA, I was thinking of getting it for PC and putting a lot of graphics mods on it.

EDIT: My post was directed at Lucianu.

It has one of the largest game worlds,it has a large soundtrack and top notch voice acting,it has a large variety of missions,large selection of weapons,some role play elements,large modding community.I mean the world in Sa is just waiting to be explored

Because San Andreas was still a GTA game. It did not take itself too seriously and just provided heaps of content while making fun of everything including itself. Granted, not all new features were as well implemented, and the game actually is buggy as hell at times, but I still managed to get a good 300-400 hours from it, as opposed to GTA IV, which I quit playing shortly after finishing the main storyline.

GTA IV tries to be some kind of real-life simulator and fails miserably at trying to find a balance between the gritty realism of this gen and the quirky ridiculousness of previous GTA games. Its critique at American society is laughable at times, and the humour is just not up to par with previous games (the talk radio stations in IV are really, really unfunny).

I do think GTA IV is the best game in the series as far as gameplay and missions go (which is not hard, seeing as the gunplay in previous GTAs was balls), but in the end it tried to be something it's not.

If people 'idolise' San Andreas like you say (in my experience, the game that gets idolised to this day is in fact Vice City), it's because they long back to the time when GTA was still GTA instead of a game that can't decide what it wants to be.

Here's your answer from a gamer who played ALL GTA games ( from the first overview one years ago ):

1. The only uniteresting thing about GTA:SA was the gangster theme and storyline. It felt less epic than the previous storyline (Vice City).

2. GTAIV is technically great. The driving controls and physics are good (though a bit too heavy), going on a kill spree was a lot of fun. But other than that there was ZERO things to do. The GTAIV world felt limited and empty.

...Which gets me to why GTA:SA is the best GTA yet. It has a HUGE immersive game world with tons of things to do. I would take a bike and go cruising around all three cities. Along the highway I would find a rest stop, go inside and play pool. I could go to las vegas and play many gambling minigames. Outside the city there was a good variety of airplanes, not just helicopters. I could steal a jetpack from a military installation. I could go swimming underwater. I could ride a truck and break into people's homes at night and steal stuff.

It's been a long time since I last played it, there are tons more things you could do. But mainly it's the feeling of freedom you had, which doesn't exist in GTAIV.

Majd_Abdulqadir

1. In this game, you are a gangster. Apparently this generation LOVES gangsters, kind of like Atari LOVING space, so naturally, this game yielded a lot of Gangster-wannabes which are the people barking about how GTA san andreas is the best of the series.

I fail then to see why every gangster related game has not sold as well as SA did. Your generalizing the people into certain catagories according to how you view it. turns out your completely wrong in your outlook on life. That means everyone who plays jrpg's are japan-phile weeaboos, or like how every 13 year old kid plays halo and cod.

2. People are just jealous that their computer cannot run GTA IV, now this option may seem like trolling, but i've seen plenty of videos out there that demonstrate pathetic attempts to integrate endorphin (AKA ragdoll physics), attempt to apply new textures, new cars, and other things into San Andreas. So you are saying that people hate grand theft auto IV, and think san andreas is so much better, but yet they try to turn their favorite and idolized game into that other game they dislike? hypocrites.

lol if a quad core, 9800gtx, 8 gigs ram has a hard time runnind GTAIV at launch, then something wrong with the game. there should be no reason for the amount of bugs that GTAIV came with did, and no reason for game devs to not optimize and allow people with dated hardware to run the game.

What do you think, everyone? did i get it right?

no

lolpingu

As much as i like to think so, my opinions are hardly ever right, especially when not backed by any facts and are made up on the limited knowledge you possess about society. I think its idolized b/c its fun, but who knows maybe I am wrong in that assumption, your obvious pHD level education on global societies and trends must know more than me.

^I love your posts so much! Can you post a screenshot of your modded SA, I was thinking of getting it for PC and putting a lot of graphics mods on it.

EDIT: My post was directed at Lucianu.EddieTheHead84

• I have modded both GTA IV and Crysis to hell and back on my rig., so one of your points that you made is gone, as far as i'm concerned. My rig is capable of maxing out any game, i do have a job, so having a high end PC is no problem for me.

• Why i love SA? Because i had more FUN in SA. The missions have fantastic variety, i don't care about the story. I care about my entertainment in a GTA game. And IV failed big-time for me. I kept IV because i like modding games.

• I used ENB series( better visuals) & Project OblivionHQ (much much more foliage) to make SA look a hella lot better then vanilla.

• I'm playing it, right now, with them mods ^.

Stop being mad that people love a game you dislike. It's called human diversity. And that states that any game, no matter how loved, is going to get some hate from someone out there. Accept that people love this game, and move on. If you like IV more, that again is perfectly understandable. But don't judge what other people like.

Lucianu

[QUOTE="Lucianu"]

• I have modded both GTA IV and Crysis to hell and back on my rig., so one of your points that you made is gone, as far as i'm concerned. My rig is capable of maxing out any game, i do have a job, so having a high end PC is no problem for me.

• Why i love SA? Because i had more FUN in SA. The missions have fantastic variety, i don't care about the story. I care about my entertainment in a GTA game. And IV failed big-time for me. I kept IV because i like modding games.

• I used ENB series( better visuals) & Project OblivionHQ (much much more foliage) to make SA look a hella lot better then vanilla.

• I'm playing it, right now, with them mods ^.

Stop being mad that people love a game you dislike. It's called human diversity. And that states that any game, no matter how loved, is going to get some hate from someone out there. Accept that people love this game, and move on. If you like IV more, that again is perfectly understandable. But don't judge what other people like.

lolpingu

[QUOTE="EddieTheHead84"]

^I love your posts so much! Can you post a screenshot of your modded SA, I was thinking of getting it for PC and putting a lot of graphics mods on it.

EDIT: My post was directed at Lucianu.Lucianu

[QUOTE="EddieTheHead84"]

[QUOTE="lolpingu"]

Cool story bro.

lolpingu

@EddieTheHead, no problem.

ENB series 0.075 version

Adds: adaptive bloom, shadows, pseudo reflections, ambient occlusions, depth of field, motion blur, color correction, water.

Here's a little tutorial for P. OblivionHQ and SRT3 (SRT means SanAndreas Retexture Mod, it retextures everything in hq, but i never used it, i'm not familiar with it)

There are a LOT of things around the net about Project Oblivion...

Oh yeah, this site and this site shall be your main guidence to make SA look like the next GTA 5 game, hah.

[QUOTE="lolpingu"]

[QUOTE="EddieTheHead84"]Cool story bro? That's really the best you can do?

Animatronic64

His comment was directed at me , no? it would be very unfortunate if the comment he worked so hard on (with images and everything!) would go unreplied.

lolpingu

Took me like 3 minutes to write. All my imagines are in my bookmarks.

[QUOTE="lolpingu"]

His comment was directed at me , no? it would be very unfortunate if the comment he worked so hard on (with images and everything!) would go unreplied.

Lucianu

Took me like 3 minutes to write. All my imagines are in my bookmarks.

[QUOTE="Lucianu"]

[QUOTE="lolpingu"]

His comment was directed at me , no? it would be very unfortunate if the comment he worked so hard on (with images and everything!) would go unreplied.

lolpingu

Took me like 3 minutes to write. All my imagines are in my bookmarks.

[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="simardbrad"]

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

Animatronic64

Vice City was the best 8)

Daytona_178

[QUOTE="Animatronic64"]

[QUOTE="dakan45"] Also because the missions and story are death borring. Gta iv was actually interesting.dakan45

[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="Animatronic64"] Opposite for me.

Animatronic64

[QUOTE="Animatronic64"]

[QUOTE="dakan45"] I fail to see how dating girls and gettind drunk are interesting.dakan45

I was being constructive, he was discussing personal matters that nobody gave a **** about. Once again with the balloon metaphore, i was building a wall of bricks, he was inflating a balloon.

By the way, are you like his buttbuddy now or something? i think i'll take a cyanide pill if a "friendship" has arisen because of me.lolpingu

I fail to see how stating that humans have diversity, and that logic dictates that a game you may like, will get some hate from another person, because it's natural -> has anything to do with personal matters.

Why you mad, son? Are you mad because you just discovered that a opinion regarding the game =/= fact? Or are you mad because you're just to sensitive regarding someone contradicting you. Do you know what a forum is?

I hope you didn't get suspended... i wanted to have more fun with you.

[QUOTE="lolpingu"]I was being constructive, he was discussing personal matters that nobody gave a **** about. Once again with the balloon metaphore, i was building a wall of bricks, he was inflating a balloon.

By the way, are you like his buttbuddy now or something? i think i'll take a cyanide pill if a "friendship" has arisen because of me.Lucianu

I fail to see how stating that humans have diversity, and that logic dictates that a game you may like, will get some hate from another person, because it's natural -> has anything to do with personal matters.

Why you mad, son? Are you mad because you just discovered that a opinion regarding the game =/= fact? Or are you mad because you're just to sensitive regarding someone contradicting you. Do you know what a forum is?

I hope you didn't get suspended... i wanted to have more fun with you.

Once again, cool story bro.lolpingu

Thanks, brother.

It's a good thing you didn't get suspended, you can get suspended around here for the most minuscule thing.

People, how can you not see the troll possessing him?

I didn't care about the story. I played a few missions and gave up. I kinda liked the characters though, they were funny and CJ had a good voice.

Then I downloaded a 100% savegame and just fooled around. The '90s atmosphere was amazing. The cities were beautiful and I liked exploring the countryside. It had so much variety! And chasing trains never got old.

I hate GTA4.

The episodes are better than either anyway.

It's popular because it's the only GTA game to have a lot of things you can do besides the main storyline. GTA IV gets boring fairly quick because once you beat the game, there's nothing to do.

Also there are two multiplayer systems for San Andreas that make the game really freakin awesome.

simardbrad