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GTA : San Andreas Gone Gold? 72

Posted by Zonk from the more-thugs-for-your-dollar dept.
Thanks to still_sick, who alerted us that GTA: San Andreas has probably gone Gold. From the Inside Gamer Article: "Arguably the most anticipated game for the Playstation 2, GTA: San Andreas is gold. In a report confirmed by Inside Gamer Online's own Steve Dotolli, GTA: San Andreas is finished and looking great. GTA: San Andreas is the latest in a series of Grand Theft Auto games that only became popular when GTA 3 came out for Playstation 2. "
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  • Uh huh (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:06PM (#10528218)
    GTA: San Andreas is the latest in a series of Grand Theft Auto games that only became popular when GTA 3 came out for Playstation 2.

    Clearly, GTA, GTA2, GTA3 (pc) and all their expansion packs on the PC are a clear sign of a failing product. Thank goodness for Playstation saving the series!

    • GTA3 came out on PS2 a long time before PC. Not to say the previous games were unpopular, but I'd say the major popularity of the series began with GTA3's PS2 release.

    • Re:Uh huh (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      GTA3 (pc) came out after GTA3 PS2.

      And there's popular and popular. You obviously don't understand that the best selling PC games sell 1/10 what the best selling PS2 games do. And GTA/GTA2 were by no means best sellers on the PC.

      While GTA: Vice City on PS2 has netted about a billion in revenues.

  • GTA 3 Started it all? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Plake ( 568139 ) <rlclark@gmail.com> on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:07PM (#10528239) Homepage
    Um, from the post it mentions that GTA was only popular since GTA3, I'd have to differ. I've been playing the series since it was first avaiable for the PC back around 98.

    Here's the quote I'm taling about: "GTA: San Andreas is the latest in a series of Grand Theft Auto games that only became popular when GTA 3 came out for Playstation 2."

    Also, here's the link to download GTA1, it's a classic game over at Rockstar now!
    GTA1 Download [rockstargames.com].
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

      • Re:GTA 3 Started it all? (Score:5, Insightful)

        by GamingEngineer ( 789145 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:39PM (#10528643)
        I'm thinking the poster meant more of a mainstream popularity. Everyone and their brother has played GTA3 / GTA4, and the mainstream media didn't really pay attention to the series until GTA3. GTA1/2 maybe have been somewhat popular amongst the "gamer" crowd, but fewer casual gamers were into it.
        • The mainstream media is neither qualified nor wanted by gamers to cover gaming.
        • Everyone and their brother has played GTA3 / GTA4
          WOW! You've played GTA4?! I didn't even know they started working on it yet!
          How's the graphics? Does it run well on the PS2 or did you get the pre-release of the PS3 also?

          Unless you mean GTA: Vice City...which was not GTA4, but more of a remake of GTA3 with a different setting (and much better story)

    • Re:GTA 3 Started it all? (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward
      it mentions that GTA was only popular since GTA3, I'd have to differ.

      Don't be silly. GTA1 & 2 sold thousands of copies. GTA3 sold millions.

      GTA1 was a game that everybody had heard of but nobody really played - besides the violence and running people over it - was completely forgettable. It had terrible controls and I found the directly-overhead view really bad - it was difficult to tell what was going on. It was a sub-par game that has only benefited from it's sequel's popularity.

      I played the demo a
    • I played it, you played it, and maybe a few other who enjoyed some fringe gaming. But the series wasn't popular back then. Really, the earlier GTAs probably get more sales now from parental buys who don't know the difference and think they're getting a sweet deal for their kids.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:10PM (#10528288)
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    • Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:13PM (#10528330)
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    • Re:Round 3, FIGHT! (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      As a devout christian i find it my duty to protest games such as this; However, i also find that the best protests are well thought out and researched and as such i have GTA: San Andreas pre-ordered and will be playing it extensively so that i can build my case to bring about the downfall of rockstar games and their satanic games.
      I guess with this new GTA comming out so soon i will have to put off my previous research that i was doing on Vice City, but i'm sure i'll get around to finishing that later
    • since the main character is a Black guy

  • Wasn't popular until PS2? (Score:5, Informative)

    by vasqzr ( 619165 ) <vasqzr@noSpaM.netscape.net> on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:11PM (#10528311)


    Hah. Lets look at this:


    The following Top 100 contains the most popular PC games at this time ...
    Internet PC Games Top 100 Edition 285 - Week 25 - June 15, 1998
    1 1 10 Starcraft
    2 2 7 Might and Magic 6
    3 3 37 Total Annihilation
    4 4 26 Quake 2/Add-on {!}
    5 5 35 Fallout
    6 8^ 3 Unreal
    7 7 13 Battlezone
    8 6 34 Age Of Empires
    9 10^ 82 Heroes of Might & Magic 2/add-on New World
    10 9 30 The Curse of Monkey Island
    11 11 75 Diablo
    12 13^ 29 Tomb Raider 2
    13 19^ 31 Grand Theft Auto
    14 12 20 Gag
    15 15 46 X-Com 3
    16 16 81 Master of Orion 2
    17 14 25 Wing Commander
    18 21^ 7 Forsaken
    19 20^ 81 Command & Conquer/Add-on
    20 26^119 Civilization 2/

    It was a pretty popular demo/shareware game. I'd be willing to bet the poster/submitter has never played it.
    • I'm willing to bet the original writer is about 14, tops.
      • Being 13th among PC games at that point is nice and all, but it's not quite the popularity 3+VC achieved. I prefer the earlier games myself, but the newer two are clearly MUCH more popular.

        • Ugh, playing GTA 1 & 2 was torture. You could see that there was a great, fun game in there, lots of great mission types, extra stuff to do around town, humor & writing. What really killed the enjoyment for me though was the forced top-down perspective... this really handicapped you when you got up any decent amount of speed, because you're almost guaranteed to wang into another car before you have time to react, even.

          Having hardware powerful enough to allow for a good-looking city from a 3rd pe

          • Absolutly right. However you have to appreciate GTA 1&2 for their heritage value. They were brilliant, I can remember only having the demo until i got the full game of GTA1 and it kept me entertained for days upon end.. Are you saying that when it came out you were like, Oh this is shite! I want a 3d environment with all futureistic stuff. I bet you were loving it like every one else! GTA 1 has to be the best of them all in its own right, without it we'd all be lost.

            • Nah, when it came out I thought it was a brilliant game that I really enjoyed playing... but I kept wishing for a better perspective inside the game world that would allow me to see further ahead.

              Basically, I'm saying that GTA3 kept everything I loved about the first two, added a whole ton of stuff that made it even better (better story, setting, real voice acting, quality radio in the cars) and addressed the one issue that hampered my enjoyment of the previous titles.

              I give full credit to the vision of t

    • Re:Wasn't popular until PS2? (Score:4, Informative)

      by TheBot ( 806046 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @06:32PM (#10529765) Journal
      I agree the first one was fun. And for it to be on a top 100 or top 13 chart like that is good. The kids these days may not realise it, but without that game there wouldn't be GTA3 or VC. So bow down to your king you children, GTA 1 was where it was at those days. 3 and VC do so well nowadays because of the different technology. They didn't have the greatest technology back then to run something like GTA3 or VC. So all you fan boys, don't give us older players your whining petitions that 3 and VC are the best. Because you wouldn't have nothing without 1.
  • I'll probably have to give this GTA a try just because my mom wouldn't want me to. Is it weird that I felt a little "bad" after bludgeoning skulls in the last GTA? I either mean that I felt bad in a good way, or good in a bad way. Not sure which. Not sure if there's a difference.

    And when will we get an updated RTS like Total Annihilation? Or TA2? That game kicked serious rear.

    • Re:My Mom, GTA and TA (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Klowner ( 145731 )
      Why do you feel bad? You made some polygons collide with some other polygons by pressing a button? Whatever man, whatever..
      • "Why do you feel bad? You made some polygons collide with some other polygons by pressing a button? Whatever man, whatever.." This man can read the matrix, visual representation has no meaning for him!
        • Right on. Guess if you're so disjointed as to not recognize the power of representation, then the matrix has your knob. or something. I'm almost as far from a censor or a softie as they come, but I'm still able to react to increasingly accurate imagery. Know what I mean?
          • Deffinatly, you can have full concept that its a machine displaying a lot of pretty colours. But when those colours come together to represent something, it triggers emotions and feelings that you would normaly experiance as if it was real. Its like art work, only with the ability to do as you please and satisfy the curiosity of doing it in real life. sorry to go on but i think that games like this would actually discourage violence as the need for it is released harmlessly in a virtual world. you know!
            • Sure enough. If I could use my mod points in this thread, I'd give you some modding. We're not talking profound crap here, but to deny the power of such a violent (and flarging awesome) game, is silly.

              It'd be an interesting option if you could play GTA as an altruistic cop... try not to hurt anybody, etc. I'll bet even the ultra violent wankers would give it a try just because it'd be different entertainment. And think of the new market such duality would open. When production houses eventually realize that

              • Ha ha ha, that made me laugh. True enough showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others in a computer game would be an original concept. As I look around at my game collection i cannot see a single one that involves helping someone! There is a very old one "Theme Hospital" but even thats to make a profit. strange yet addictive - but for how long! You could make a game that simulated baby caring or hospital work, but as soon as the player had access to tool, car, bin liner, nappy/diper or anything re
                • In todays world of creative, cutureistic, insightful, indicative and breakthrough thinking, why is there such a lack of originality? As the old saying goes i suppose, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
                  • I was joking about the polygon collision comment, although I'm not sure if it's better or worse that you feel bad about beating up a person in a game like GTA. One aspect is that the people walking around on the street are rather silly, and they're not developed characters, so the only emotional attachment to them is that they look like people, and make people noises. I've recently been playing Katamari Damacy and that game actually conveyed emotion to some degree, I roll my Katamari over a cat and it meowe

                    • Re:My Mom, GTA and TA (Score:4, Interesting)

                      by C0rinthian ( 770164 ) on Friday October 15, 2004 @01:47AM (#10532569)
                      When I was playing the Sims, I got bored one day and tried killing a sim off. I put them in a small room with no windows, removed the doors, and waited. That was one of the most disturbing video game moments I've experienced, and I never did it again. GTA (and most games for that matter) don't carry the same effect. The characters, while entertaining, are not realistic, and their interactions follow suit.

                      You kill someone in GTA, they hit the ground and money pops out.

                      Kill a Sim, and you watch them suffer and beg for assistance, until they finally die in a puddle of their own urine. Then their family mourns them.

                      Thats a significant difference in how death is portrayed. Blood != realistic. If anything, the deaths in the Sims is much more accurate than just about any game out there.
                    • I didn't mean anything brash when making that comment, so I apologise if I caused any offence. Hoever you are correct the triggering of emotions can be an exciting thing. I guess thats why people go an see a horror film at the cinema. The thrill of it all. PS. your a cat murderer....;)
                    • That is actually representing torture, a subject that has been in the news a lot lately, with the hostages being taken captive. Would you consider it to be a good or a bad thing that you actually feel bad when tourturing a Sim in the Sims or muging someone in GTA. Im not a violent guy, but there is nothing like beating the crap out of someone in GTA taking thier money, blowing up their car and making off in a passing ice cream van. - Does that make me a maniac??
              • The problem with altruistic video games is that games are fun because they let us do things we couldn't or wouldn't otherwise do in real life. I can't command huge armies, I can't use magic spells, and I wouldn't go around driving like a maniac and killing every cop I see. But, if I feel like being altruistic, I can do that quite easily in the real world, and it's much more rewarding.

                Another way to look at that is that since altruism is, by definition, making some kind of sacrifice for others, it's not goi

                • Ah, altruism. Maybe I should've used a different, less powerful "good" word ;) My favorite altruism dilemma... is a Buddhist monk altruistic? Even if while he/she's "good" or otherwise nice and cookie-cutter ethical all the time, he/she gets pleasure out of the sacrifices, and would conversely suffer by acting typically narcissistic?

                  Regardless, I don't think there'd be a huge market for any sort of one-sided "good" game, but I'm thinking of a variation or expansion (or more so adaptation) on/of the chr$ al

                  • Funnily enough I always wanted to create a game simply called "Life". I imagined it to take the prosective of GTA3 with its 3d environment etc, but crossbreed it with the Sims and add some more features to enable you to do as you will whenever you like. If you wanted you could get up, get a job, buy a car, go shopping all the normal things that you can do in real life, basically follow the path of altruism. Or you could become a thug get into drugs and mug people and steal for a living - with the obvious c
                • But not all of us can be cops, firemen, or defense attourneys. There is room I think for a game where (Even if there is some profit motivation to the character) you are helping people, because often in life you cant be that great hero. I think it could work as well as the Anti-Hero inspired gameplay (GTA series).

  • It's Okay (Score:3, Insightful)

    by thegrue76 ( 211065 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:47PM (#10528723) Homepage
    It's okay. We can all admit it. Here, I'll start:

    I just peed my pants in joy.

    Ok, go on. Your turn!
    • I'm not peeing on anything until they release the PC version.

      Sometime next year.
      • I played GTA:VC at my brother's on his PS2. When the PC version came out, I bought that...

        All went well until I got access to an helicopter -- I found it impossible to fly with a keyboard. So I bought a USB adapter for my PS2 controller. Problem is, GTA:VC didnt allow the helicopter controls to be mapped to it.

        So I had to borrow my brother's ps2 to finish the game. :(

  • C'mon, breathe with me.... mmmm.... Huhhhhh (Score:5, Informative)

    by The-Bus ( 138060 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @05:23PM (#10529109)
    Alright, calm down. You, with the "GTA #1" foam finger, calm it down. Sit down. Shut up. Be quiet.

    I'm directly going to be referencing (but not attacking) this post [slashdot.org] which shows the popular games from 1998.

    Alright, let's see Grand Theft Auto is in the top 20! Of course it is. So are other "classics" like... um, Gag! And, uh, Battlezone! Right, Battlezone. That's made a substantial, uh, impact on gaming today.

    Like it or not, Grand Theft Auto III was wildly, almost inconcievably popular, and not just amongst us Gamers, but in the general populace. It had incredible impact in the console world, still sold well last year (as an XBox version), and has made it on countless "Best of All Time" / "Most Influential Games" lists. It is similar to Pac-Man, Mario, Doom, etc. in that even non-Gamers are aware of it. Of course GTA was popular, as was GTA2. But that's like saying Unreal is as popular as Unreal Tournament.

    So, please, don't overreact. The poster was correct. That doesn't mean GTA wasn't known or popular, but it in NO way compares to what GTAIII is.

    (I am The-Bus and I approve this message.)
    • No no, its the fact that it has 'for Playstation 2' which has all the panties in a twist.

      See, if it just said 'With the release of GTA III' no one (myself included) would care.
      That little grace note has to many implications not to taste sour.
      • Yeah, but that's when it came out. When it was released, it was not for PC, not for Xbox, for PS2. That's when it became popular. The PC version didn't make it popular. The Xbox version certainly didn't make it popular. They added to its popularity, but it was well known by the time it ever came out on PC or Xbox.

  • In other "news" (Score:2, Funny)

    by Etone ( 627948 )
    In other recent "news", Halo 2 will "probably" sell a lot of copies and we have discovered that there will "most likely" be a presidential election in the US within a few weeks.

    -E-

  • violent computer games (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, 2004 @07:26PM (#10530232)
    In anticipation of the violence present in this video game, I have already killed six of my neighbors. Man, I can't wait till this sucker is out!

  • leak? (Score:3, Funny)

    by jlefeld ( 814985 ) on Thursday October 14, 2004 @09:08PM (#10530937)
    So will it be leaked in 3 days?
  • "Arguably the most anticipated game for the Playstation 2" I don't know about you, but I'm getting ready to play Gran Turismo 4. If you've got GTA 3 and Vice City, why would you want the same game in a different city?

  • GTA 5 (Score:3, Funny)

    by akwash79 ( 822130 ) on Friday October 15, 2004 @02:05PM (#10537658) Journal
    Grand Theft Auto 5-Nashville

    gone country

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