Can we discuss how technically impressive this game was for its time?

It was, till I fucked it all up.

You picked the wrong game fool.

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>Rockstar games
what did you expect? I remember when saints row came out in 2006 for the 360 and it was still being compared to this.

Do we have to? I mean, it's something everybody agrees on anyway.

I mean, was it? The graphics certainly aren't very good.

>>385956091
I want to murder you dead until you're dead.

One of the greatest games ever made. Leaving Los Santos and chilling out in the countryside for the first time was so good. Mindblowing amount of content for a PS2 era game.

technically it wasn't any more impressive than GTA 3.

But, the amount of features they learned, and were able to add to the game was pretty impressive in comparison to their original release with that engine.

RPG elements, car customization, player customization, size of the map, the Pos/Neg dialogue responses, all the interior buildings.

There's no way a game could ever replicate the size of San Andreas, and play fluidly without a patch the way it did on release anymore.

SA is easily one of the best open world games ever made.

Another one is Bully.

>>385956185
This. getting Kicked out of LS was the game changer. It became less a GTA, more and Adventure. Completely lost and out of your element. I hoped GTAV could replicate that sense of immersion, but it failed.

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>tfw no new GTA with a Vice City sized map but with more interiors and shit to do/fuck around with

>Rose tinted glasses: the thread

>>385956804
oh man, it was hype as shit

I remember that shit

>tfw you finally get to San Fierro

>>385956892
I've gone back to play San Andreas a few times since I first played it as a kid, and apart from the graphics and clunky aiming it still holds up amazingly well.

>>385956185
the fucking countryside fucking sucked, specially after the gang wars part which was entertaining as fuck
san fierro was meh
the only good thing about las venturas was savescumming the roulette and making mad dosh
there's nothing like los santos and you know it

>>385957050
Considering it's only 4 years older than GTA 4, I think the graphics and driving physics suck ass.

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>>385956892
I played SA for the first time last year and enjoyed it a lot

>>385955714
>day it was released
>going down to GAME to ask random adults to buy it for you

GTA literally made you a criminal.

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Impressive but graphic wise driv3r looked better

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>technically impressive

>>385957050
Yeah but that is you youre talking about and nobody gives a sprinkles what a buttflap like you thinks about how hard you get when you think about san fuck my ass andreas

>>385956892
I bet you also think Mario 64 sucks now

>>385955714
That isn't Bully.

>>385956892
Feel free to disagree on anything *specific*, you superfag.

>>385956897
First time I got to SF it was the story mission after Burning Truths weed. I took the back roads, through the countryside and up and over Bunker Hill, coming down the hillside into the city as the sun rose. It's unforgettable.

>>385957267
Hahahahahahagahahaha consoled

>>385957459
Graphics, driving physics, framerate dependent physics (60 fps causes weird shit to happen) are weaknesses of the game IMO. That said I do think it's a great game, but I don't agree with people who say it holds up well. I think GTA 4 on the other hand really holds up when it comes to graphics and physics!

>>385957409
Get fucked, man. Both games were impressive for their time.

>>385957267
proof that graphics do not make a better game

>>385956013
No it wasnt

>take the time to take over 100% of all gang territories including the ones that only include like 10 m of street
>kicked out of LS
>do Badlands, SF and LV
>finally get back to LS
>gang territories are back
>take them all over immediately
>have to redo them a third time except this time also have to babysit Sweet
Jesus Fucking Christ that was more annoying than the damn train mission which gets memed to shit.

>playing cracked version as poor teenager
>doing all the spray tags in LS
>95 done, have to take a crap ASAP
>pause game
>take a crap
>come back
>unpause
>get on bicycle
>tap W
>screen freezes, game crashes
>last save was before I started hunting down tags
>less than 10 done

>>385957185
It got released on my birthday. It was the first GTA I owned, but I played/rented Vice City and 3 before. I was 12

>>385957292
Likewise anon!

>>385957718
>get in vehicle
>tap w
>game crashes

that's my experience with modding GTA SA.

Now I can't even get it to launch on my PC on the retail steam version, even in compatibility mode.

>>385957694
Of course it was. Just check virtually any review from back in the day.

>>385957240
driv3r was fucking awesome, those cutscenes man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDNX1ZD4bW8

>>385957172
It's also a generation apart, big jump in processing power

>>385956128
2004 was the same year HL2 and Doom 3 came out m8

>>385957409
replayed Bully 5 months ago. It really doesn't have much to offer. The game is too easy and constantly tells you what to do. Lessons end too early if you go often and after that it's just a l shallow GTA clone. Lots of side shit to do but any GTA completely shits on it. The game has charm and atmosphere but it unfortunately doesn't really go beyond that. A remake or a sequel would be great though. Just improve the combat and give it more depth/content and you'll get a fucking awesome game. Not talking about technical achievements, I was disappointed because I had good memories of the game.

>>385957932
It was only bicycles in my version, and only when sprinting on it instead of riding it normally by holding down W.
The vanilla Steam version should work fine though.

>>385956892
I finished it after playing through GTA5 and loved it more.

>>385958005
>2004 was 900 years ago

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>you will never experience your first gaming forum in it's prime again
>all that hype for san andreas

i miss you gamewinners

I would love an upgraded SA. Just remake the game witout changing the base. Same city, same layout, just more alive.

More trucker missions.

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Name a game with comfier sunsets.
Protip: you can't.

>>385957692
but half-life 2 WAS a better game

>>385958373
dude.. I could not read enough about GTA SA.

Like, literally my boy Kyle and I we would spend all fucking night playing Diablo 2, reading San Andreas leaks, and taking turns playing Vice City.

>>385958713
>physics test

A fuck ton of games were technically impressive gen 6, it was the gen of technology

Why did they make GTAVs map so shit? SA actually feels like an adventure when you're going to new areas on the map and shit but V feels like you just have one city that you do everything in along with a road that goes around empty mountains and desert.

>>385958005
Maybe I should have been more specific:

I want to murder you dead until you're dead because when someone says "X was technically impressive", you hear "X was graphically impressive".

>>385955714
Yes the 20 FPS that the game ran at was certainly amazing.

>>385957694
Yes it was, moron.

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>>385958590
Try harder.

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>>385957056
>Not save scumming with the horse races in Los Santos

>>385958808
but dude jumps lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOzcbtsw_pQ

This trailer sold a million PS2's.

If you didn't see it at the time, you'll never understand just how fucking hype it made people. It confirmed o much that had only been a wish beforehand. Car modding, a desert, a forest, planes, trains etc.
It just opened up the world.

>>385958031
Played it for the first time the other week (bought the Scholarship Edition during the summer sale) and I was more than impressed. I honestly can't think of too many games with better executed "open worlds". Bully's is fairly small, but detailed as fuck. All those different NPC routines alone are incredible. In this regard, the game really does take a huge shit on most recent open world games (with only a handful of exceptions).

>>385957056
i agree. It kicked us out way too soon to the gang wars, and lost some of its momentum. LS still ends up feeling like home after you come back though. It established itself as the hub city

>>385958005
Graphically impressive ain't the same as Technically impressive. San Andreas looked very good for its scale back in the day.
I would say the same about GTA V on 360 and PS3, it's a feat how that game looks on those consoles for its scale and how old those machines are.

>>385959082
The GTAV version of the trailer was good too but missing something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXRpcl1NIV4

>>385958590
is that the ps2 lighting or is it a mod

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>>385959004
Vigilante missions in the heli were my favorite way to make dosh.

>>385956091
>Graphics
Fucking neo-gamers. Graphics are more important than gameplay.

Nevermind the fact that no game has ever had a jetpack before or since San Andreas - nooooo we get more polygons now! Don't you love polygons!

>>385957984
https://youtu.be/5RvNtzE_FAA

>>385955714
Yeah, incredibly impressive. The fact I cannot use my mouse at all makes me so happy.

>>385957267
It's almost as if they were built for different systems.
Really boggles the noggin.

That mission where you give Maccer and Paul a ride home from the desert.

I REALLY FANCY A FIRED EGG SANDWICH ARE P!

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>>385959572
>tfw GTAV doesn't have vigilante
>or firefighter
>or pizza boy

>>385959624
>before
>duke nukem 3d
>>385959746
MGS3 was also built for the same system as SA

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>>385957056
>>385959004
>>385959572
Out of my way, plebs.

>>385959624
>Nevermind the fact that no game has ever had a jetpack before or since San Andreas
Let's not go full retard, now.

>>385959797
>>385959827
Talking about the GTA games obviously.

>>385959915
Never mind, then.

>>385959797
MGS3 is also a different game. Seriously why is everyone so obtuse today? it's like you are pretending that both games are of the same scale and therefore the fidelity of MGS3 could be applied to SA, the development time is probably different too.

>>385957056
>gang wars
I hated it so much, it kept me from replaying it so many times.

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>>385958373
>you will never experience your first gaming forum in it's prime again
Fuck that. The school lunch table was the real hype colosseum.
>skipped an entire week of school when San Andreas was released, beat it, then going back to school discussing it

>>385955714
Unfortunately, it still ran on the old outdated engine. The game was too big for that engine, and it showed.

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>>385956892
(You)

Replayed the game tons of times over the years, last time I did it was a couple months ago. It's still great.

>>385959082

I remember seeing this on TV. I'd pretty much stopped reading gaming mags or forums at that point, I had no idea this game was coming out so it completely took me by surprise.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning and there's a trailer out for GTA VI and someone you had no fucking idea it was even in development. It was surreal, like I'd been in a coma.
I remember when I got the game and fired it up and sat there for like the first 2 minutes thinking 'holy shit this looks like shit, is this really happening? Is this really the game?' and then within 10 minutes I was totally engrossed in San Andreas and stayed that way for about 3 days straight until I finished it.

What a game.

>>385957984
that game is really old
i remember playing it the same summer it was released

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>>385956091
>an open world game made in 2004

It's comforting to know that this game still has more players than most games on Steam.

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>>385958713

>>385955714
I'm not even completely sure i understand what that means but if it means what i think it means then i'll have to disagree
SA despite being one of the best video games since the end of the 90s still wasn't all that "technically impressive" not even at it's release(at least that's how I remember it)

>>385958713
> Half life 2
> Good

Pick one.

>>385957407
As someone who played and beat SM64 only last year, I can say it still holds up.

At the time it was probably a 10/10. As of today? Still a solid 8.