"Supply Lines" is the worst GTA mission ever, but thankfully Zero's missions were optional and not related to the Story and advancing the campaign.
Let's look back: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
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Delicious Waffles
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Vice City is my favorite GTA but SA is 1A. I still have my copy which, I think, has Hot Coffee on it.
There was so much to do. I loved the side mission where you were the truck driver and had to deliver cargo to a particular place in time. Sometimes, the police heat would be ridiculous. I also loved the train missions. Going super fast and launching it off the tracks was always enjoyable. I remember, somewhere near the Vinewood sign, there was a parking lot next to a beach and Paint N' Spray. I would grab a monster truck from the country area, drive it over to the particular parking lot, and run over all the parked cars. If they exploded, I'd drive a bit and return once they respawned. I spent a lot of time doing that.
I remember playing it so much in high school that my friends would ask me where to go to find a particular place and I can tell them where to go by where they were starting out from (go straight here, make a left followed by a right type instructions). They found it amazing.
There was so much to do. I loved the side mission where you were the truck driver and had to deliver cargo to a particular place in time. Sometimes, the police heat would be ridiculous. I also loved the train missions. Going super fast and launching it off the tracks was always enjoyable. I remember, somewhere near the Vinewood sign, there was a parking lot next to a beach and Paint N' Spray. I would grab a monster truck from the country area, drive it over to the particular parking lot, and run over all the parked cars. If they exploded, I'd drive a bit and return once they respawned. I spent a lot of time doing that.
I remember playing it so much in high school that my friends would ask me where to go to find a particular place and I can tell them where to go by where they were starting out from (go straight here, make a left followed by a right type instructions). They found it amazing.
Dark Octave
Banned
I got pretty far but never finished even though it's my favorite GTA. Too many mandatory racing missions.
Tell us how you really feel.
Nope. I remember all my white friends telling me I was racist for prefering Vice City, though!
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Finally got 100% in the game earlier this year. Such a huge pain in the ass, but still such a great game.
Stuff like food and weight are still gone but they're bringing back the skills. Stuff like driving, stamina etc. Each of the 3 guys has a skill they specialize in too, like I think Trevor is the flying guy.
Nah, the skills are more like:
Michael - Bullet Time
Franklin - Bullet Time Driving
Trevor - Rage mode (double damage, more health)
Never forget.
I don't get why people had such a hard time with this. These missions weren't hard at all.
Nice I have something good to watch tonight!
I have said it before and I'll say it again: Can't believe they didn't make a SA Stories.
ComputerMKII
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br0ken_shad0w
Member
I don't get why people had such a hard time with this. These missions weren't hard at all.
Even Rockstar admitted Supply Lines was glitched and fixed it on the re-releases.
VC has a good soundtrack... A great soundtrack... The best, even.
But SA has it beat on every other level (plus VC has aged pretty badly). And so if you want the best GTA experience to date, you'll stick with SA.
What's that supposed to mean?
Anyway, my only complaint about San Andreas is that the empire building aspects brought over from Vice City didn't really fit into the game. Other than that, SA is the best of the GTA series by far.
So much fun.
Dog fighting the military in jets
Gangfights with a jet pack
ATVing over the back country
It made it easy to see why we are doomed to the same looking and acting main characters in videogames though. It's either stubbly faced, dark haired white male or a customizable blank slate. with no real character of it's own.
Dog fighting the military in jets
Gangfights with a jet pack
ATVing over the back country
It made it easy to see why we are doomed to the same looking and acting main characters in videogames though. It's either stubbly faced, dark haired white male or a customizable blank slate. with no real character of it's own.
eternaLightness
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My favorite GTA after GTA III. There was just so much to do in the world, and I loved the 90's vibe to it. There were a lot of crappy missions but overall I thought the game was excellent.
Spehornoob
Member
I'm a little perturbed by the fact that everyone who prefers the other settings to the "hood" setting at the beginning of SA is being labelled a racist.
The whole "I can't relate to thug life/a black person" thing is stupid, but there's nothing wrong with preferring one setting stylistically to another.
The whole "I can't relate to thug life/a black person" thing is stupid, but there's nothing wrong with preferring one setting stylistically to another.
TheBrain76
Member
Never forget.
I have a friend who gave up and never finished the game because of that mission.
Loved the game, it had a nice variety of missions and I really loved it for it.
Much better GTAIV where every mission is just drive some charachter around for 20 minutes and get into a lame shootout afterwards.
Hopefully that's all fixed for V but I doubt it. Whoever did the mission design from the old games must not be around anymore.
Much better GTAIV where every mission is just drive some charachter around for 20 minutes and get into a lame shootout afterwards.
Hopefully that's all fixed for V but I doubt it. Whoever did the mission design from the old games must not be around anymore.
Muffdraul
Member
Those are their unique special abilities, but (according to I read somewhere at some point) each character has at least one stat that they excel in over the other two. e.g. Michael and Trevor can never surpass Franklin's driving skill stat.
Didn't they unlock something cool though? I can't imagine that I'd put myself through that for nothing
Blue_Barry
Member
Thats exactly what I loved about it.
You just get income at zeros shop. Goddamn that was a hard mission to do on a xbox 360 controller.
Ahh well, a decent compromise. But to confirm, will I be able to level up my, running, bike riding, shooting with a specific gun -- stuff like that? I have no idea why they went away from it.
Misterinenja
Member
I was really LTTP on this one. Amazing game but...
PC version is so weird control-wise. Controller doesn't work right, and neither does the kb+m. I usually switch between those depending on what I'm doing.
I quit playing because I couldn't proceed with a mission because my swimming skill was too low. I can't for my life figure out how to dive in this game on PC.
I mean I was able to to complete this but raising the swimming skill is impossible.
PC version is so weird control-wise. Controller doesn't work right, and neither does the kb+m. I usually switch between those depending on what I'm doing.
I quit playing because I couldn't proceed with a mission because my swimming skill was too low. I can't for my life figure out how to dive in this game on PC.
Never forget.
I mean I was able to to complete this but raising the swimming skill is impossible.
bigboss370
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Lord Phol
Member
Gangsta rap and all that stuff. It's not my style.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
So much better than IV. Hoping V can bring back the fun!
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Use San Andreas Advanced Control. It makes using a controller in the PC version a totally viable option. Just configure it right and it's practically flawless.
I swear to God my xbox version required them to advance.
santeesioux
Member
My favorite GTA, hopefully V can bring the fun back to the series that was lost for me.
The Albatross
Member
That thread is great. That's what every forum was when GTA:SA was announced. I wonder how many of those people, years later, were the people who fondly look back at SA and long for it after IV came and went.
What's great about it too is that.. page 1 and 2 .. like 80% of those posters have been permabanned. That's madness.
That's actually the worst thing about San Fierro. You need to do that mission for Woozie where you swim under the patrol ships and sneak on board the tanker... But you have to increase your lung capacity to do it. The first time I played SA I had no trouble, and just got right into it, but every other time I played (because I never swam in those other play throughs) I had to increase my lung capacity and swimming ability.. ugh. It was such a chore. Basically just an hour of diving into the water, going to the last breath, swimming up, over and over again.
Actually, Derrek is right. While those guys all have their own special abilities, individual characters have their own skills as well. Not only does Franklin have the "bullet time driving," but he is also a better drive in general. Trevor is also better at flying planes.
From CVG overview of the May 2nd preview:
This also extends in a smaller format to NPCs that you hire to complete heists with you. One may be better at firing a gun, which is valuable for a "loud" heist, but also he might demand a higher cut.
Do the controls change when you go from on foot to driving? That's always been my biggest issue with the game on PC and dealing with these programs.
So just the music stations then?
RoadHazard
Gold Member
You can configure the on-foot and driving controls separately with that tool and get them just as you want them. You don't change anything in the game (except set it to joypad controls), the tool handles making sure your button assignments do the right thing in the game.
I've never heard of this mod before, I might just replay SA now
SolidSnakex
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The Ballad of Gay Tony has already shown that Rockstar still has what it takes to make a San Andreas. That in some ways was like a mini-SA. The characters and mission variety were something like you'd expect from the series last generation.