Current Events > I don't care for the story of San Andreas when you get to San Fierro

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Currently playing the "definitive edition" and now I remember how my interest in the game took a dive after getting to San Fierro. The city itself is fine, lots of ramps/hills to launch your vehicle off of etc but the plot shits the bed to me.

I don't care for the characters you meet here and beyond. Never liked Mike Toreno and the flying school bullshit etc. Wu Zi, The Truth....meh. I'm at the horrendous flying school right now and my desire to continue is fading.

Los Santos is the best in my opinion. I just want to shoot Ballas and do gangsta shit etc and the game takes you away from that until the end. Spoiler, also what is up with Ryder? You kill him in a boat chase in San Fierro and that's it....his story arc completely fizzles out. Anyway that's my two cents

Revocation68 posted...

Never liked Mike Toreno...Wu Zi, the Truth

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Flying school is the worst, but passing it is one of the best feelings of relief in all gaming. The fact that you now get an airplane and can finally fly anywhere anytime is icing on the cake. Also the fact that now any you time you enter a plane you get a parachute so you can eject without worrying about landing the plane on solid ground

I do love Los Santos starting out as boyz in the hood type story. But I'll always love how video gamey San Andreas is for expanding that into you doing all this crazy awesome stuff like going to military bases, owning casinos, diving to sneak on board ships, so much cool shit.

God I love gta sa. Wild how much I dislike 4 and 5 by comparison.

One of my favourite missions is acquiring the harrier jet. Afterwards, I parked a jet in every garage that can hold it. Nothin's more gangsta than a fighter-jet landing in suburbia. Also completing Mike's missions unlocks the most powerful heavy weapons in the game (they spawn at his cabin).

The countryside part before you get to SF is the low point to me. It's still fine, but I try to get through it quick. To me, it picks up when you get to SF.

pegusus123456 posted...

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This. Best characters right here.

Cesar giving CJ lip about sleeping with his cousin when Cesar himself is sleeping with his sister made me so angry as a kid why CJ would just take that like a punk and not be like shove it Ce.

The yay leaving San Fierro?

For me it was Venturas.

The country part was a ok, because it was starkly different to the cities you were stuck with in the previous games and you could just offroad/roam. Plus the mountain. Fierro was ok, but somewhere after that it became either silly/over the top, or maybe it's just long in the tooth.

By the time you got that far you'd have played for a long time I guess, and it wasn't really that special, tbh.

Zero's bullshit was the only thing that I didn't enjoy

I spent so much time in the mountains looking for Leatherface, Big Foot, and UFOs.

I didn't like it, mostly because Sweet is a loser and ruins any scene he's in. Should have left him in Los Santos.

Also, I don't think there were as many hints at Ryder being a traitor, compared to Big Smoke. Maybe more was planned, but it felt like it came out of no where.

I remembered liking flying in San Andreas, other than:

El_Marsh posted...

Zero's bullshit

Probably failed driving school with the Super GT

I can agree with that. I replayed the game about a month ago and I don't remember it dragging as much as it did during my first playthrough several years ago. It felt like CJ had little reason to be doing a lot of the missions outside of Los Santos. The game also has significantly more missions than the previous two games so they could have been integrated better.

El_Marsh posted...

Zero's bullshit was the only thing that I didn't enjoy

This.

The rest gave you a bit now everything. Still the best GTA in my mind, and that's also driven by 90's west coast nostalgia. There's a lot of inaccuracies and exaggerations, but they captured the general atmosphere very well imo

Southernfatman posted...

The countryside part before you get to SF is the low point to me. It's still fine, but I try to get through it quick. To me, it picks up when you get to SF.

The race missions you have to complete are the bane of my existence. Ok, actually the flying school missions are the bane of my existence but the country races are right behind them

Southernfatman posted...

The countryside part before you get to SF is the low point to me. It's still fine, but I try to get through it quick. To me, it picks up when you get to SF.

Honestly I kind of like those parts, where you're just suddenly thrown into an unfamiliar place far away from where you were just into some heavy shit.

SA did it, GTA V did it, RDR2 did it, and I enjoyed it each time

Remember getting stuck in the mountains with no vehicle in sight, and that annoyed dread of being stuck, then you finally see a vehicle! And... it's a tractor. That barely goes faster than your running speed

saspa posted...

I do love Los Santos starting out as boyz in the hood type story. But I'll always love how video gamey San Andreas is for expanding that into you doing all this crazy awesome stuff like going to military bases, owning casinos, diving to sneak on board ships, so much cool shit.

+1 , well said

RoosterGold posted...

I spent so much time in the mountains looking for Leatherface, Big Foot, and UFOs.

Man... just remembered those nights camping out waiting, just waiting. I think what sticks to me is the tension. At least the 'ghost cars' were unsettling in their own.

I like it myself. Your old pals betrayed you, you are left with nothing but your new pal Caeser helps you out and you eventually realize you don't need to be dragged down by LOS Santos BS no more.

Then Sweet comes back and is like HOW DARE YOU BE SUCCESSFUL MAN, THATS MOM'S BLENDER and you are dragged back to a rather repetitive cleansing of Los Santos.

Returning to Los Santos after doing San Fierro and Las Ventrus does have a bit of a "prodigal son returns" vibe to it though, so while Sweet is hella annoying true, and LS is small time in comparison to our epic exploits, it just feels good to come back after having become a millionaire, owning a mansion, so many guns, a one-man army with so many weapons and bullets I can take down entire territories myself no backup.

saspa posted...

Remember getting stuck in the mountains with no vehicle in sight, and that annoyed dread of being stuck, then you finally see a vehicle! And... it's a tractor. That barely goes faster than your running speed

This right here is one of the reasons GTA V's character switching mechanic was so great

One of the things I loved most about San Andreas was the car customization, and how many garages you could have.

On one of my first playthroughs, maybe even my original file, I bought every property with a garage and loaded them up with cars that fit the neighborhood. I had low-riders in Los Santos, a pickup truck in the country, fancy cars in San Fierro, etc. I also filled my airplane hangar as full as I could with decked out sports cars.

Aiming/switching targets is worse in this compared to the PS2 version. It has to be. Did they change the car physics in this? Vehicles don't seem to flip over as much but at the price of feeling like they are bolted to the road. Running over people feels different too. They felt easy to plow over and "squishy" etc now it feels like you're trying to run over a statue and more difficult etc. NPC driver aggression seems increased.

I can't be imagining this? It also seems like there are less cops chasing you when you have a two star wanted level and above. I did a mission with a 3 star level and had a couple cops on the road at most.......I don't remember the game being like this

I never got past the first area because I got completely walled during the forklift mission.

Kisai posted...

I never got past the first area because I got completely walled during the forklift mission.

That mission and the train mission are like, Either you get it pretty easy, or they feel impossible. And then you attempt it again, and it's like "Why was it so easy that time?!" after losing dozens of times.

One of my favorite things to do in the game is beat the "Burglary" side mission early on. If you make I think it's 10k from that mission, you get infinite sprint.

MisterPengy posted...

That mission and the train mission are like, Either you get it pretty easy, or they feel impossible. And then you attempt it again, and it's like "Why was it so easy that time?!" after losing dozens of times.

The only trick to the train is that you have to be the right distance away. Most people will try being right next to the train. Smoke will still fire, but he doesn't have the angle and will miss entirely. If you stay on the right side of the adjacent track, he flatlines them with no issue.

^all you have to do is follow the damn train!

Intrusive thoughts ftw!

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I cannot be the only person that didnt wait till flying school to fly a plane. One of the first things I would do would be to break into the Los Santos airport, jack the jet, and fly around until my flying skill was maxed out.