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GTA : San Andreas Gone Gold?
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. "
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!
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.
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Uptight soccor Moms, start your petitions......
Finkployd
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 spelled soccer wrong, let's just pretend I said "non-American Football" and leave it at that.
Finkployd
Originally, it had a release date of 10/19; I have the reservation ticket to prove it, but at last report, the date was 10/26. As far as I know, that hasn't changed, but a friend of a friend of a friend (yadda yadda) inside Rockstar has mentioned that it MIGHT get held back another two weeks.
Informatus Technologicus
That'd be really, really bad for me. I'm switching jobs, and I set things up so that I left my current job the 26 to start working the 8th, giving myself plenty of time to finish GTA!
Note to self, do not set up your life around projected release dates
It's okay. We can all admit it. Here, I'll start:
I just peed my pants in joy.
Ok, go on. Your turn!
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 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.
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Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
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.
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since the main character is a Black guy
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!
Why do you feel bad? You made some polygons collide with some other polygons by pressing a button? Whatever man, whatever..
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!
So will it be leaked in 3 days?
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.
Grand Theft Auto 5-Nashville
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