San Andreas absolutely blew my mind when I was a young adolescent kid. Starting out as a street thug was cool enough, and then I got to travel across different cities, be in ties with the Mafia, Triad, and some weird individual. Never had a great PC to handle open world games like Elder Scrolls so San Andreas basically became THE RPG for me.
This is why I prefer San Andreas to GTAV. In GTAV Franklin does one heist and he's living in a mansion in the hills. With CJ it feels more like a journey.
The essence of GTA SA is copied among other games if you look closely & that says a lot for a game that’s almost 20 yrs old. Back then there was no micro transactions so game were made much better & packed with content & better story lines
Most mind-blowing moment was booting up GTA 4 for the first time in 2008 after coming home from the midnight release. Such a huge leap in graphics/mechanics from GTA SA. Most unforgettable moment in my gaming life.
GTA 4 was such a huge leap on open world gaming that will probably never happen again. I was 13 when it came out so I don't think I truly appreciated how far ahead it was but looking back it's mind blowing it came out 14 years ago
GTA IV is one of the only games that I actually think deserves a 10/10. The story is probably one of the best in game history. The gameplay is so much fun I kept playing for years after release. Both the DLCs are top notch and feel like full games. It's honestly my favorite game of all time.
dude i 100% agree! i actually just bought gta 4 again like two months ago because i wanted to play TBOGT again and it was only $14, completely worth the money.
The most mind blowing moment for me in GTA was playing San Andreas (PS2) for the first time and finding out that I can swim and dive. Also, the Hydra jet.
@@Canon987able agree. I’m wondering ( never played 4) was that before or after SA? Just asking for a friend, because the graphics seem allot shaper than SA ( it’s Sunday and I’m on the couch with my dog and just can’t remember)
Honestly one of the most shocking moments IMO is finally getting to see Lazlo in GTA V. He was always this character you heard but never saw and then suddenly BOOM. He has a face.
Great list. Smoke and Ryder’s betrayal truly shocked me. And the game came back in 2004, when spoilers would only be spoiled if you had a buddy playing the same game as you. I did have a friend who was playing when I was playing SA, but thankfully, I was ahead of him missions-wise. He’s someone who can never keep spoilers a secret.
In my case I played SA after several weeks of reading its review and walkthrough in a magazine almost every day (I got into a hospital with a broken arm and one of my best friends gave me that magazine when visiting and that was almost the only piece of entertainment I could get for about 2 weeks) Watching the video made me realize how mind blowing some of the twists could have been if I knew nothing about the plot
@@gunawanputera6443 ryder was not supposed to be a traitor...the developers had some issues with Ryder's voice actor and so added Ryder in the Green Sabre mission and photo opportunity mission and finally killed him off with Tbone
@@gunawanputera6443 yeah if you notice in green sabre mission CJ wont mention ryder's name...also in the mission where CJ kills ryder , the dialogues ryder spoke were edited from earlier missions
GTA: SA was one of the best GTA games ever. Long after I'd completed it, I was still going on trips with the jet -pack together with seeing how long it would take to get from places using the tractor and drive-bying people. Ahh epic times and I'd give my left moob for a solid remake with new everything on a new engine!
I think it was a deeply impressive game but that's all the more reason why I think they could've pulled off including features that felt needlessly left out. Things like planes and bicycles as transport methods, also I wish the color palette of the graphics was a bit more diversified. But in terms of mechanics for cars, fighting, police pursuits etc it's a mile ahead of GTA V and that's something I'll never really get.
I'm old enough to remember when GTA 3 came out. It is really dated now, but at the time it was a huge jump from the old overhead view. I'd played FPSs on PC but this was an entire city instead of just hallways. Between that and picking up San Andreas on release day are my two happiest memories of the series. To this day, GTA SA is the only game I've ever preordered.
Adding up to the diamonds lore in gta 4 , what fascinates me is that when it first appears in the game intro on the chefs hands , they made so that the soundtrack had a little break of suspense where the diamonds are presented in the story. they clearly made every detail pointing to that lore in the most masterpiece way possible.
Ryder's betrayal felt like a last minute decision because in the fast food order mission Ryder is seen shooting but not smoke. And in the green sabre mission carl only mentions Smoke but not Ryder.
@@depression666 rumours he also hadn't been paid for the work he did and he left. You can really see it when his character is so big in the first chapter, but barely says a word after that until his demise.
@@DarthRevan182 the ironic part is MC Eiht later returned to rap some songs for the GTA V soundtrack and his licensed music made a return in that game. A better fate than Niko's voice actor at least.
Thanks for calling back to what made the series so great... Pointing out to all why we love GTA. It isn't anything online has given us, it's these hair raising moments in amazing stories.
Underrated moment, blowing up Fort Staunton in ‘Bringing The House Down’ in Liberty City Stories. You finally learn why Fort Staunton was a mess in GTA 3, and it was pretty crazy to see a part of the map destroyed thanks to your own doing.
Michelle’s betrayal was mind blowing to me man ! Lol . So was Lances , Ryders , and Big Smoke . Betrayal was always a great staple in the GTA games . As satirical as they were , they always found a way to make the story hit hard at those points .
I was lucky enough to play the Black Project mission knowing nothing about it. It kept blowing my mind right up to the reveal of the jet pack and the escape. Then later you find you get to keep it and use it at will. It flipped the game on its head.
I think you could throw GTAIII in itself as a shocking moment, when the game begun and you were let loose in liberty city, a fully 3D open city. To me it felt unreal back then. There were moments were I thought I imagined it and that no such game existed.
@@henok_gk Actually R* said a combination of cities. I think Chicago, Detroit, Jersey and a couple others alongside NYC were also used as inspiration. I think it was from that Q&A they did a while back
@@TheNotoriousNemo it's really weird how our mind used to think game like gta 4 look realistic at that time, i admit it still look good but it does look age now, now more and more game look like real life but i have a feeling in the near distant future that the next gen game will really look identical like real life
Man when I realized that I'm heading for the museum for that diamond deal when first playing GTA 4 Lost DLC, I was so surprised that I'm heading to the same place where I was playing with Niko. Then going back to the museum in gay tony DLC, I just realized how good the main story and DLC stuff really is. GTA 4 is still really underrated IMO.
GTA: SA is a masterclass of everything that has to go into an open world game, and to be honest, I would love if GTA6 has the RPG elements SA had like hunger, stayin’ in shape and martial arts.
San Andreas was probably the best game of the series you went from riding a bmx bike and doing drive-bys to robbing a casino to halo jumping into a rapper's mansion to steeling a harrier jet. The story was over the top while still being grounded especially the missions involving Torino using drugs to finance wars in Latin America
I remember leaving a few guys alive in the "Fly to Liberty City" mission, entering the cheat for super jump and exploring the area until you fall through the floor. Good times.
I might be biased since GTA 4 was my first GTA, but I absolutely think it's the best in the franchise for the marvel it was and still is after all these years. The music, the city, the scenery, the characters and their development, the ragdoll, and I am a diehard fan of the driving physics. Best in class and more attractive to me vs newer titles.
strongly agree with you, it has the most recognizable driving dynamics of any games and yes the euphoria system for the ragdoll works the best in IV out of all Rockstar titles, only in that game people can get hit by a car but still keep their balance or get shot but still keep shooting while failing back, or if it's shot on a specific place the person will hold their hand at the wound while still at the same time doing all of this (balancing, shooting with one hand, keeping hand at the wound),that actual system is calculating a bunch of mathematical stuff make it seem like a real person, it's the only system what makes interactive ragdolls where if a player enters a ragdoll you can still control the player, like when Niko is drunk you can actually give direction on where to go while he tries to keep his balance with his hands too without pre made animations, everything is calculated, it's amazing, I never seen that anywhere else, in Max Payne 3 euphoria makes it sure that when Max jumps in slow motion and starts shooting if you hit a wall in mid jump the animation won't stop, max will be hit by the wall hard but you can still control the shooting, meaning you can multi task without being interrupted, amazing tech, other Rockstar games have this too but it's more limited
What I love from the GTA 4 moments is that while they're not as crazy as the rest of the games they mess with your mind because at the beginning you're like "oh lol so this is the gf tutorial cool" or "damn what a nice intro" and then it hits you
One moment that I will never forget actually is in GTA V. The infamous torture sequence. In 3 generations of GTA V (Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X), I always dread doing that mission. I know when it is coming, and I know I am going to hate it each time. Almost nothing in video games bothers me. That is the 1 time I was uncomfortable doing a mission, since I started playing video games in 1979.
I liked the whole diamond story that it actually was involved in 3 different gta games! But the cool detail I like is the cook smuggled the diamonds off the ship in a cake and when Bulgarin kills the chef and sets up Luis he puts his head in the cake box that was next to the chef in that cutscene
This is a Gameranx video about GTA. Get that Morbius shit outta here. It's a dead meme and the fact you went that far to get very little internet points is honestly sad
Y'all should do another part to this. The way that Trevor just killed Johnny (a dlc protagonist) in V was something I wouldn't forget like I really didn't expect that to happen when they introduce Trevor. Kind of a badass way but sad for Johnny
I think the greatest moment in GTA is where Trevor is introduced and immediately kills the hard bastard lead character from The Lost and the Damned. Masterful story telling.
One regret in my life was not playing san andreas following the story on my first playthrough . I was not paying attention to the story and was just playing the game for fun, essentially speedrunning the game with cheats and shit. It took a couple of play-through for me to actually play the game following all the cutscenes and properly following the story. By that time most of the plot twists were revealed unknowingly already. But what a masterpiece of a game, its arguably one of the best games which has the most memorable characters in it, and a well written story spanning across the map with different areas and different storylines. Shame that with all the technical improvements in games we rarely get an openworld experience like san andreas
I did see Lance's betrayal coming when I played through the first time. I actually expected it sooner. So when we get to the final mission... I was like " Ah, there it is!". Though it does make saving him in that timed mission in the junkyard sting, all the more and make you wish you could've left him there.
I had already watched Scarface and with Vice City being a absolute parody of both that AND Miami Vice, it was obvious that they were gonna go the route of "ally of main character turns on main character last minute due to jealousy"
@@MyManJFKTV Apparently one was in the works--or at least planned--but the reception to the utter garbage that was the trilogy rework encouraged them to cancel it. They were also going to remaster Red Dead Redemption 1 in the process, but that got canceled as well. What a shame.
@@salchipapa5843 - I know, man. It’s a bummer, and Rockstar’s output of previous generations has been emasculated beyond belief. They’ve become the GTA and Red Dead Studio and put games like Warriors, Manhunt, Max Payne [although R* and Remedy are in the process of bringin’ Max back in a remake], Oni, Bully, Midnight Club, State of Emergency and more on the back burner.
@@salchipapa5843 that’s because the majority of rockstars buyers are children and they want gta5 and 6. Why do you think RDR2 hasn’t been fixed? They don’t care, they’re main audience is too busy on gta 5
What never made sense to me in GTA 4 was that the diamonds get thrown onto a garbage truck, but are then later found by the homeless gentleman in a trashcan...think about it for one second it makes no sense...a garbage truck would be going to a dump, not driving around offloading random piles of garbage into trash cans around the city. Anyway, besides that the GTA franchise is my favorite and I pretty much replay these games at least once a year!
I could be wrong, but yknow that mission in Gta V, where you're supposed to extract that dude whos being interrogated from the FIB building, and theres a woman threatening to shove a flashlight up his bottom if he doesn't cooperate? Well I am pretty that woman is Michelle.
The Jetpack mission blew my mind. And then the Hoverjet mission blew it again. And by the time the Casino heist came along I had no more mind to be blown. GTA:SA BEST GTA EVER!!!!
One of my favorites not mentioned in the video, that got me jumpin' of my couch as a kid was in GTA : SA. You go racing in the mountains with the Japanese. In the cutscene after the race I think, CJ is having a fight with his crazy ex Catalina, while Claude (the silent protagonist from GTA III) is just chillin' in the background. I remember going "Oh brother, you don't know what you're getting yourself into". Also the the fact that he still doesn't say a word through the cutscene, cool times..
I also think that big smoke's betrayal was foreshadowed in the mission drive by, when cj asks how his mom was killed Ryder says that they were going for sweet. But smoke deliberately tries to avoid the topic and said that you don't know what people are like, even his tone sounded like panicky. So it makes sense to think that big smoke was involved from the beginning and Ryder was involved later on
IF you were lucky to own the edition that came with the bonus disc, there's the missing intro that shows the green sabre and the ballas doing a drive by aiming for Sweet, but got his and CJ's mom instead.
I remember 1st one and being well impressed thst you flew to a different island. But what gets me more, is how much better I remember the graphics looking than how they actsully looked. (On all games)
Lol. The brain does some crazy filling in for us. Still to this day I'll play a game think it looks great. Years later play the sequel or some other game. And all of sudden that last game just doesn't look good enough. I do love it though when I do take this into account. I end up think wow. The graphics where better than I expected. Not remember. Lol oh memories making us bias of the past. Atleats that it sometimes comes off to me.
I can't say Big Smoke's reveal as a traitor was such a big shock to me. There were clues, very early on, that there was something fishy going on with him. Just the fact that he seemed to be doing much better than the others (new car and new house) was a big red flag. He also seemed very interested in doing business or ripping-off other gangs behind Sweet's back, and Tenpenny magically appeared outside his house. And every time Carl asked him about any of those oddities, he always changed the conversation.
Flying to Liberty City is number 1 for me. As a high school kid, that was literally mind blowing. I got to go back to the city where my 3D adventure began! I couldn’t believe my eyes. 🤯
I remember waiting for release and reading a PC magazine article about San Andreas over and over again a hundred times as a child. I even used to dream that I'm in the game's world. And the best thing is that it did not disappoint.
Ah the best moments from the best games. I recently re-bought 1-4 and SA, so I'm now looking forward to playing them more than ever. It's great to look back on these things.
Ryder and Big Smoke at the top of the list! Those two were comic relief to me when I first started the game, but when Cesar called CJ, it did seem like something interesting was about to happen. This reminded me of that mission in GTA 3 when instead of returning to the big boss, you got a call from that prevented you from going there and getting not only betrayed, but killed as well. Unbelievable twists in stories are always good when done the right way. Thanks for the video. Very much enjoyed it.
Maybe I am just a spy nerd, but I saw Michelle being a cop really quickly. The type of questions, the amount of them. The apartment where everything is new.
You can tell from my UA-cam nerd name that my all time favorite moment was GTA V when you do a few setup missions and the final one is robbing a bank. Then when cops show you put on extreme heavy body armor armed with a minigun and you’re a Juggernaut for the last portion of the mission. So fucking epic! Time to face the music!
Let's not forget that Michelle reappears in GTA V in the mission where Michael has to rappel from the helicopter and break into the office building to get the guy that Trevor eventually tortures. I believe she threatens to shove a large flashlight up his toot hole.
Michelle disappears so that she can spy on other people, but the storyline didn't end there. She was spying on Niko to gather information about his criminal activities so that she could blackmail him into dirty-working for the man you mentioned, Bernard AKA the United Liberty Paper contact.
Didn't Michelle appear briefly in GTA V? I forget what the mission was called but I remember it has to do with Michael in the Helicopter sniping at the FIB building and she's someone you can shoot. I think it's even a mission challenge.
LOL, remember when I first picked up GTA SA I only got up to learn how to fly, was playing on PC, then years later got it for 360. Able to beat the game that time. But taking down smoke at the end was way easier than getting to him. Just throw a cocktail at him and just watch him run around like a mad man till he kills over.
In san andreas and on my first playthrough, 9 year old me used to jerk around the map and not do missions so much that it took me couple years to reach the green sabre mission but only weeks to finish the game from there. And as a result the betrayal shocked me a lot and i felt from that mission that im playing a different game due to how much time i spent thinking that ryder and smoke are cj's best friends...
GTA SA blew my mind with a couple mind blowing things: 1. The car customization (NOT at pay and spray) 2. The on couch co op 2 player you could have done! Sure it shared a single camera view for both players, with a distance limit. But WOW 3. The ability to workout.
Never had the chance to play multiplayer in GTA 4 with how busy I was with college and small jobs. Once GTA V came out with GTA Online, despite the very rough start, being able to wreak havoc with your friends in Los Santos still impresses me. Till this day my whole fam gets on and we play the 6 player missions, TDM 3V3, car racing, etc. It finally felt like we can share the experience we had playing GTA 3 and 4 together, especially with the heists.
To me one of the most mindblowing things was functional cabrio cars. I love things that transform, so I have always been fascinated by moveable roofs. I still think GTA 4 would be the best GTA if it had the option to operate them yourself (like in GTA V). Alas, only NPCs can open or close the roofs and no mod exists (that I know of) that adds the option to trigger it yourself.
My older brother loved the GTA games, and after he passed I started loading bowls, and when I played it, I was stuck on it for so long, the story was awesome, and I felt like my life wasn’t so bad
That flight to Liberty City is to this day one of the most amazing times in gaming. Where YOU had to do the WORK to get somewhere. As you rightly said this is a forgotten art with many of todays games choosing the immersion-breaking "fast travel" . Why play nice open world game only to teleport around!
Imagine the girl who spies on Niko in gta4 gets to be the protaganist for gta 6 and we learn about how the government agencies in gta world deals with shady stuff and maybe she gets to travel to diffrent gta maps as well
I love your videos ❤️ Btw i think you forgot to mention that Michelle actually appears in GTA V in the mission where you have to rescue a witness from the FBI building, she is torturing that guy with other agents it's pretty funny!
Most mind blowing moment in my GTA history is discovering and unlocking the Hydra and listening to kdst while doing crazy stunt under the bridges and dogfights with other jets.... Also discovering how to fly the DODO in GTA III was an wonderfull experience bit frustrating but wonderfull
San Andreas absolutely blew my mind when I was a young adolescent kid. Starting out as a street thug was cool enough, and then I got to travel across different cities, be in ties with the Mafia, Triad, and some weird individual. Never had a great PC to handle open world games like Elder Scrolls so San Andreas basically became THE RPG for me.
Funniest part is when they kick you out of Los santos and you end up in the village . The nostalgia
This is why I prefer San Andreas to GTAV. In GTAV Franklin does one heist and he's living in a mansion in the hills. With CJ it feels more like a journey.
@@robg5161 it's great to see Gamers like you. I love the little details in games.
The essence of GTA SA is copied among other games if you look closely & that says a lot for a game that’s almost 20 yrs old. Back then there was no micro transactions so game were made much better & packed with content & better story lines
From a street thug to a military base infiltrator!
Most mind-blowing moment was booting up GTA 4 for the first time in 2008 after coming home from the midnight release. Such a huge leap in graphics/mechanics from GTA SA. Most unforgettable moment in my gaming life.
Same for me. I knew EVERY detail of information prior to the release. It was the only game I was completely hyped for
GTA 4 was such a huge leap on open world gaming that will probably never happen again. I was 13 when it came out so I don't think I truly appreciated how far ahead it was but looking back it's mind blowing it came out 14 years ago
GTA IV is one of the only games that I actually think deserves a 10/10. The story is probably one of the best in game history. The gameplay is so much fun I kept playing for years after release. Both the DLCs are top notch and feel like full games. It's honestly my favorite game of all time.
dude i 100% agree! i actually just bought gta 4 again like two months ago because i wanted to play TBOGT again and it was only $14, completely worth the money.
That's how I felt loading GTA 3 on Xmas morning after growing up with Top-down view GTA2
The most mind blowing moment for me in GTA was playing San Andreas (PS2) for the first time and finding out that I can swim and dive. Also, the Hydra jet.
And climb!
Hail Hydra!
triangle, triangle, square, circle, X, L1, L1, down, up
@@CharlieFoxtrot I read this and that sound effect literally played in my head when you activate a cheat. Lol nice.
GTA 4 will always be my favorite, The story and the world building was second to none, The radio content was the best in the series
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@@gameranxTV 👍
San Andreas will forever be the highlight of the gta series.
@@Canon987able agree. I’m wondering ( never played 4) was that before or after SA?
Just asking for a friend, because the graphics seem allot shaper than SA
( it’s Sunday and I’m on the couch with my dog and just can’t remember)
@@seymourlove4788 SA was before 4
Honestly one of the most shocking moments IMO is finally getting to see Lazlo in GTA V. He was always this character you heard but never saw and then suddenly BOOM. He has a face.
And turns out he's a prick
With a small prick..
Forgot that part
I loved Chatterbox fm
You mean chattersphere
@@JoeSmith-sx5gw NO....I mean chatterbox fm in gta 3...this was my first time hearing Lazlo
Great list. Smoke and Ryder’s betrayal truly shocked me. And the game came back in 2004, when spoilers would only be spoiled if you had a buddy playing the same game as you. I did have a friend who was playing when I was playing SA, but thankfully, I was ahead of him missions-wise. He’s someone who can never keep spoilers a secret.
In my case I played SA after several weeks of reading its review and walkthrough in a magazine almost every day (I got into a hospital with a broken arm and one of my best friends gave me that magazine when visiting and that was almost the only piece of entertainment I could get for about 2 weeks) Watching the video made me realize how mind blowing some of the twists could have been if I knew nothing about the plot
I was suspicious with smoke when played gta sa, because he moved from Grove Street, and few times seen with crash, but ryder was shocking for me
@@gunawanputera6443 ryder was not supposed to be a traitor...the developers had some issues with Ryder's voice actor and so added Ryder in the Green Sabre mission and photo opportunity mission and finally killed him off with Tbone
@@_.Ash.._ ooooh that makes sense that why i was like how he tratior when he mention green sarbe,
@@gunawanputera6443 yeah if you notice in green sabre mission CJ wont mention ryder's name...also in the mission where CJ kills ryder , the dialogues ryder spoke were edited from earlier missions
GTA: SA was one of the best GTA games ever. Long after I'd completed it, I was still going on trips with the jet -pack together with seeing how long it would take to get from places using the tractor and drive-bying people. Ahh epic times and I'd give my left moob for a solid remake with new everything on a new engine!
I'm hoping the sanandreas vr port is actually good.
If it had gta5 graphics I think it would be the best currently. Gta5 never even had a jetpack (excluding online)
I spent hours looking for bigfoot..... bloody trolls
@@thorium3737 - I think most people did for the first few years until the code was analysed and there was no Bigfoot. Utter bar stewards! 😂
@@e420man3 - I'd prefer a remake with the GTA6 engine, once that is delivered. I'd give *BOTH OF MY MOOBS* for that!! 😋
Gta 4 is my favorite. The sand box, map, story and everything is just perfect. The physics are the best in that game
I think it was a deeply impressive game but that's all the more reason why I think they could've pulled off including features that felt needlessly left out. Things like planes and bicycles as transport methods, also I wish the color palette of the graphics was a bit more diversified. But in terms of mechanics for cars, fighting, police pursuits etc it's a mile ahead of GTA V and that's something I'll never really get.
I'm old enough to remember when GTA 3 came out. It is really dated now, but at the time it was a huge jump from the old overhead view. I'd played FPSs on PC but this was an entire city instead of just hallways.
Between that and picking up San Andreas on release day are my two happiest memories of the series. To this day, GTA SA is the only game I've ever preordered.
Michelle was in gta 5 she was interrogating Mr. K when Michael had to rescue him from the helicopter
Huh I guess yeah
Adding up to the diamonds lore in gta 4 , what fascinates me is that when it first appears in the game intro on the chefs hands , they made so that the soundtrack had a little break of suspense where the diamonds are presented in the story. they clearly made every detail pointing to that lore in the most masterpiece way possible.
Ryder's betrayal felt like a last minute decision because in the fast food order mission Ryder is seen shooting but not smoke. And in the green sabre mission carl only mentions Smoke but not Ryder.
It kinda was, the voice actor of Ryder MC EIHT was too busy with real life shit to complete the voice lines so rockstar killed him off.
@@depression666 rumours he also hadn't been paid for the work he did and he left.
You can really see it when his character is so big in the first chapter, but barely says a word after that until his demise.
Such a shame. Ryder's chemistry with CJ is one of my favs in all of GTA
I think Ryder as a character was added later while developing the game. That could be the reason CJ never mentions him in some missions.
@@DarthRevan182 the ironic part is MC Eiht later returned to rap some songs for the GTA V soundtrack and his licensed music made a return in that game. A better fate than Niko's voice actor at least.
I always liked how they connect characters and their stories.
Thanks for calling back to what made the series so great... Pointing out to all why we love GTA. It isn't anything online has given us, it's these hair raising moments in amazing stories.
Underrated moment, blowing up Fort Staunton in ‘Bringing The House Down’ in Liberty City Stories. You finally learn why Fort Staunton was a mess in GTA 3, and it was pretty crazy to see a part of the map destroyed thanks to your own doing.
Vice City really connected with me because I was big into the 80s growing up and Loved Miami Vice
Love fist 🏴
I had just watched Scarface and was all about it
Michelle’s betrayal was mind blowing to me man ! Lol . So was Lances , Ryders , and Big Smoke . Betrayal was always a great staple in the GTA games . As satirical as they were , they always found a way to make the story hit hard at those points .
I was lucky enough to play the Black Project mission knowing nothing about it. It kept blowing my mind right up to the reveal of the jet pack and the escape. Then later you find you get to keep it and use it at will. It flipped the game on its head.
The days before the Internet and Wikipedia took over. It sucks getting old.
Jetpack cheat felt like God mode to me as a kiddo
i was not suprise since i use to use the cheat rocketman
I think you could throw GTAIII in itself as a shocking moment, when the game begun and you were let loose in liberty city, a fully 3D open city. To me it felt unreal back then. There were moments were I thought I imagined it and that no such game existed.
Yup, same. IIRC it was one of the first 3d games with 3rd person view. It being set in New York no less makes it even more mind-blowing.
@@henok_gk Actually R* said a combination of cities. I think Chicago, Detroit, Jersey and a couple others alongside NYC were also used as inspiration. I think it was from that Q&A they did a while back
Yeah gta3 graphics leap was huge to me, my little brain thought it was real life.
@@TheNotoriousNemo it's really weird how our mind used to think game like gta 4 look realistic at that time, i admit it still look good but it does look age now, now more and more game look like real life but i have a feeling in the near distant future that the next gen game will really look identical like real life
Definitely remember that awe-inspiring experience playing GTA III for the first time; revolutionary.
Man when I realized that I'm heading for the museum for that diamond deal when first playing GTA 4 Lost DLC, I was so surprised that I'm heading to the same place where I was playing with Niko. Then going back to the museum in gay tony DLC, I just realized how good the main story and DLC stuff really is. GTA 4 is still really underrated IMO.
Gta 4 was the peak of this series! I really hope everywhere has the same feeling when it's released
GTA: SA is a masterclass of everything that has to go into an open world game, and to be honest, I would love if GTA6 has the RPG elements SA had like hunger, stayin’ in shape and martial arts.
Same here. I miss all those features from GTA:SA.
Every time I’ve replayed GTA San Andreas and I get to the Green Sabre mission, I still can’t believe they would betray CJ and Sweet.
How Rockstar always manages to make such dynamic and complex games, despite technical limitations is truly amazing
San Andreas was probably the best game of the series you went from riding a bmx bike and doing drive-bys to robbing a casino to halo jumping into a rapper's mansion to steeling a harrier jet. The story was over the top while still being grounded especially the missions involving Torino using drugs to finance wars in Latin America
I remember leaving a few guys alive in the "Fly to Liberty City" mission, entering the cheat for super jump and exploring the area until you fall through the floor.
Good times.
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or playing multiplayer (SA:MP here mostly) and exploring it throughly in custom missions
I might be biased since GTA 4 was my first GTA, but I absolutely think it's the best in the franchise for the marvel it was and still is after all these years. The music, the city, the scenery, the characters and their development, the ragdoll, and I am a diehard fan of the driving physics. Best in class and more attractive to me vs newer titles.
I played and finished them all many times, Gta Iv is by far the best gta.
strongly agree with you, it has the most recognizable driving dynamics of any games and yes the euphoria system for the ragdoll works the best in IV out of all Rockstar titles, only in that game people can get hit by a car but still keep their balance or get shot but still keep shooting while failing back, or if it's shot on a specific place the person will hold their hand at the wound while still at the same time doing all of this (balancing, shooting with one hand, keeping hand at the wound),that actual system is calculating a bunch of mathematical stuff make it seem like a real person, it's the only system what makes interactive ragdolls where if a player enters a ragdoll you can still control the player, like when Niko is drunk you can actually give direction on where to go while he tries to keep his balance with his hands too without pre made animations, everything is calculated, it's amazing, I never seen that anywhere else, in Max Payne 3 euphoria makes it sure that when Max jumps in slow motion and starts shooting if you hit a wall in mid jump the animation won't stop, max will be hit by the wall hard but you can still control the shooting, meaning you can multi task without being interrupted, amazing tech, other Rockstar games have this too but it's more limited
Ur new to the gta scene then lol I remember playing the original and gta London add on lol
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@@Die-Angst Do you not know correct grammar?
What I love from the GTA 4 moments is that while they're not as crazy as the rest of the games they mess with your mind because at the beginning you're like "oh lol so this is the gf tutorial cool" or "damn what a nice intro" and then it hits you
One moment that I will never forget actually is in GTA V. The infamous torture sequence. In 3 generations of GTA V (Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X), I always dread doing that mission. I know when it is coming, and I know I am going to hate it each time. Almost nothing in video games bothers me. That is the 1 time I was uncomfortable doing a mission, since I started playing video games in 1979.
when i was 17 i was uncomfortable but after going though life for a few more years when i was like 22 i played though it again and enjoyed it
Did you ever play Modern Warfare and the airport mission?
@@stevorules1820 I shot them all like finally the game lets me shoot innocent NPCs😂
@@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx you're twisted lol. Says the guy that goes on rampages in gta running over and gunning pedestrians in GTA.
@@stevorules1820 IK thats what you did we all have bloody hands 🤣
I liked the whole diamond story that it actually was involved in 3 different gta games! But the cool detail I like is the cook smuggled the diamonds off the ship in a cake and when Bulgarin kills the chef and sets up Luis he puts his head in the cake box that was next to the chef in that cutscene
I will never forgot the day when Tommy from Gta Vice city said "its Tomming Time" definitely one of The Gta Moments ever
That was absolutely legendary. That’s why tommy is the best protagonist from rockstar
💯 one of my favourite genders
When did he say that. Can't remember that🤔
@@omermasovic6018 morbius pun?
This is a Gameranx video about GTA. Get that Morbius shit outta here. It's a dead meme and the fact you went that far to get very little internet points is honestly sad
San Andreas really offered so much too the series and still stands up to this day I play it through once every couple of years.
Really becoming addicted to your daily videos keep up the good content !
Make a top 10 worst deaths in video games.
Thanks for your suggestion
Omg yes that would be agreat video please do it.
Ps. Great idea dude🔥🔥
@@omermasovic6018 thanks !
It will just every murder from manhunt lmao
@@SteakBoss1 if not it might at least top the list lol
Y'all should do another part to this. The way that Trevor just killed Johnny (a dlc protagonist) in V was something I wouldn't forget like I really didn't expect that to happen when they introduce Trevor. Kind of a badass way but sad for Johnny
Johnny went out sad, man. But it introduced Trevor as an absolute loose cannon
Wish we could of has a mission or two with Johnny before Trevor killed him
Reminds me of Abby and Joel 😙
They also bring her back in GTA online for one of the heist DLCs. She indirectly mentions Nico too
Games that’s just stacked with amazing moments, are really rare to come by nowadays…
The San Andreas trailer with Welcome to the Jungle backing it up will always be legend.
I think the greatest moment in GTA is where Trevor is introduced and immediately kills the hard bastard lead character from The Lost and the Damned. Masterful story telling.
I fell in love with Big Smoke after his food order!!! The betrayal hit hard after that lol!
One regret in my life was not playing san andreas following the story on my first playthrough . I was not paying attention to the story and was just playing the game for fun, essentially speedrunning the game with cheats and shit. It took a couple of play-through for me to actually play the game following all the cutscenes and properly following the story. By that time most of the plot twists were revealed unknowingly already. But what a masterpiece of a game, its arguably one of the best games which has the most memorable characters in it, and a well written story spanning across the map with different areas and different storylines. Shame that with all the technical improvements in games we rarely get an openworld experience like san andreas
I did see Lance's betrayal coming when I played through the first time. I actually expected it sooner. So when we get to the final mission... I was like " Ah, there it is!".
Though it does make saving him in that timed mission in the junkyard sting, all the more and make you wish you could've left him there.
I'm always surprised that people didn't see it coming.
I was probably 13, I didn't see it coming and was shocked. How could Lance Vance do dis to me 😔
I had already watched Scarface and with Vice City being a absolute parody of both that AND Miami Vice, it was obvious that they were gonna go the route of "ally of main character turns on main character last minute due to jealousy"
Now I feel like playing GTA 4 again. Masterful game.
I would have really liked a remaster of that game
@@MyManJFKTV Apparently one was in the works--or at least planned--but the reception to the utter garbage that was the trilogy rework encouraged them to cancel it. They were also going to remaster Red Dead Redemption 1 in the process, but that got canceled as well. What a shame.
@@salchipapa5843 - I know, man. It’s a bummer, and Rockstar’s output of previous generations has been emasculated beyond belief. They’ve become the GTA and Red Dead Studio and put games like Warriors, Manhunt, Max Payne [although R* and Remedy are in the process of bringin’ Max back in a remake], Oni, Bully, Midnight Club, State of Emergency and more on the back burner.
@@salchipapa5843 that’s because the majority of rockstars buyers are children and they want gta5 and 6. Why do you think RDR2 hasn’t been fixed? They don’t care, they’re main audience is too busy on gta 5
What never made sense to me in GTA 4 was that the diamonds get thrown onto a garbage truck, but are then later found by the homeless gentleman in a trashcan...think about it for one second it makes no sense...a garbage truck would be going to a dump, not driving around offloading random piles of garbage into trash cans around the city. Anyway, besides that the GTA franchise is my favorite and I pretty much replay these games at least once a year!
I could be wrong, but yknow that mission in Gta V, where you're supposed to extract that dude whos being interrogated from the FIB building, and theres a woman threatening to shove a flashlight up his bottom if he doesn't cooperate? Well I am pretty that woman is Michelle.
1. It's the IAA building and yes she is Michelle/Karen
I love the fact you guys mostly used the cutscenes of the og versions of the 3d games instead of the trashfinitive edition's
I mean, arriving to San Fierro for the first time was also mind blowing
The Jetpack mission blew my mind. And then the Hoverjet mission blew it again. And by the time the Casino heist came along I had no more mind to be blown. GTA:SA BEST GTA EVER!!!!
I always thought San Andreas jet pack was just a cheat code, so when I finally got to that Area 51 mission later on in life my mind was indeed blown
The jump from san andreas to gta IV was the craziest shit i'v seen in my life, the work that was put into gta 4 is fucking amazing !
Billy's betrayal in 'the lost and the damned' was another good mind breaker
One of my favorites not mentioned in the video, that got me jumpin' of my couch as a kid was in GTA : SA. You go racing in the mountains with the Japanese. In the cutscene after the race I think, CJ is having a fight with his crazy ex Catalina, while Claude (the silent protagonist from GTA III) is just chillin' in the background. I remember going "Oh brother, you don't know what you're getting yourself into". Also the the fact that he still doesn't say a word through the cutscene, cool times..
Hell the fact that you had a Lowrider shop in someone’s garage, the normal shops & then a specialized tuner shop was awesome
wish i could go back in time to play these first time again. So many good memories.
I told my friend if he flew far enough off the map with the helicopter in GTA Vice City he would end up in Liberty City. He was extremely disappointed
I remember the first one when that objective to fly to liberty city 😂 I was blown away with the snow
I also think that big smoke's betrayal was foreshadowed in the mission drive by, when cj asks how his mom was killed Ryder says that they were going for sweet. But smoke deliberately tries to avoid the topic and said that you don't know what people are like, even his tone sounded like panicky. So it makes sense to think that big smoke was involved from the beginning and Ryder was involved later on
IF you were lucky to own the edition that came with the bonus disc, there's the missing intro that shows the green sabre and the ballas doing a drive by aiming for Sweet, but got his and CJ's mom instead.
Love how the list is filled with VC, SA and 4.. Proves that those 3 games are the best of the series for a reason..
"You never go to another place in an open world game."
"Am I a joke to you?" - Skellige
Keep up the good work (nice upload scheduele-also sorry if i mispelled anythibg im Serbian)
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Michelle/Karen Daniels from GTA IV is actually featured in GTA V as the IAA interrogator who is beating Mr. K with a flashlight
That jet pack was insane, one of my favorite parts of that game!
For sure. The jet pack takes the game, to a whole new level.
I remember 1st one and being well impressed thst you flew to a different island. But what gets me more, is how much better I remember the graphics looking than how they actsully looked. (On all games)
Lol. The brain does some crazy filling in for us. Still to this day I'll play a game think it looks great. Years later play the sequel or some other game. And all of sudden that last game just doesn't look good enough. I do love it though when I do take this into account. I end up think wow. The graphics where better than I expected. Not remember. Lol oh memories making us bias of the past. Atleats that it sometimes comes off to me.
What about on San Andreas, when you do the car races and you see the main character on GTA 3
I can't say Big Smoke's reveal as a traitor was such a big shock to me. There were clues, very early on, that there was something fishy going on with him. Just the fact that he seemed to be doing much better than the others (new car and new house) was a big red flag. He also seemed very interested in doing business or ripping-off other gangs behind Sweet's back, and Tenpenny magically appeared outside his house. And every time Carl asked him about any of those oddities, he always changed the conversation.
Nothing can beat Ps2 and San Andreas.. Absolute masterclass
Flying to Liberty City is number 1 for me. As a high school kid, that was literally mind blowing. I got to go back to the city where my 3D adventure began! I couldn’t believe my eyes. 🤯
I remember waiting for release and reading a PC magazine article about San Andreas over and over again a hundred times as a child. I even used to dream that I'm in the game's world. And the best thing is that it did not disappoint.
Really makes you appreciate the storytelling and ambition these games have. Should’ve mentioned GTA5 DMT Aliens
Yeah the whole liberty city mission in San Andreas is awesome. Best believe I got out of that map barrier. Explored all I could and loved it.
Ah the best moments from the best games. I recently re-bought 1-4 and SA, so I'm now looking forward to playing them more than ever. It's great to look back on these things.
I always loved when you were able to buy properties in Vice City, I thought that was epic!
Ryder and Big Smoke at the top of the list! Those two were comic relief to me when I first started the game, but when Cesar called CJ, it did seem like something interesting was about to happen. This reminded me of that mission in GTA 3 when instead of returning to the big boss, you got a call from that prevented you from going there and getting not only betrayed, but killed as well. Unbelievable twists in stories are always good when done the right way. Thanks for the video. Very much enjoyed it.
Very nostalgic.
Maybe I am just a spy nerd, but I saw Michelle being a cop really quickly. The type of questions, the amount of them. The apartment where everything is new.
My childhood franchise❤️
Thanks for taking my advice, Falcon, and not sounding so monotone in your videos. 10 years in the making.
You can tell from my UA-cam nerd name that my all time favorite moment was GTA V when you do a few setup missions and the final one is robbing a bank. Then when cops show you put on extreme heavy body armor armed with a minigun and you’re a Juggernaut for the last portion of the mission. So fucking epic! Time to face the music!
Let's not forget that Michelle reappears in GTA V in the mission where Michael has to rappel from the helicopter and break into the office building to get the guy that Trevor eventually tortures. I believe she threatens to shove a large flashlight up his toot hole.
Michelle disappears so that she can spy on other people, but the storyline didn't end there. She was spying on Niko to gather information about his criminal activities so that she could blackmail him into dirty-working for the man you mentioned, Bernard AKA the United Liberty Paper contact.
Michelle should have been taken out. She got away for no good reason.
That flying to Liberty City was really mind blowing. Just awesome.
Didn't Michelle appear briefly in GTA V? I forget what the mission was called but I remember it has to do with Michael in the Helicopter sniping at the FIB building and she's someone you can shoot. I think it's even a mission challenge.
Yes, that was her in the building interrogating someone.
@@MrHammerhead08 ahh Thank ya for confirmation bub. Wasn't sure I remembered it right.
LOL, remember when I first picked up GTA SA I only got up to learn how to fly, was playing on PC, then years later got it for 360. Able to beat the game that time. But taking down smoke at the end was way easier than getting to him. Just throw a cocktail at him and just watch him run around like a mad man till he kills over.
In san andreas and on my first playthrough, 9 year old me used to jerk around the map and not do missions so much that it took me couple years to reach the green sabre mission but only weeks to finish the game from there. And as a result the betrayal shocked me a lot and i felt from that mission that im playing a different game due to how much time i spent thinking that ryder and smoke are cj's best friends...
You are by far the best teacher for soft soft . It's very complicated at first - overwhelming, actually - but, you make it doable for
This is the feeling I’m never going to get back from another Gta game 0:49 to 0:52 the music the atmosphere just unbelievable
GTA SA blew my mind with a couple mind blowing things:
1. The car customization (NOT at pay and spray)
2. The on couch co op 2 player you could have done! Sure it shared a single camera view for both players, with a distance limit. But WOW
3. The ability to workout.
Never had the chance to play multiplayer in GTA 4 with how busy I was with college and small jobs. Once GTA V came out with GTA Online, despite the very rough start, being able to wreak havoc with your friends in Los Santos still impresses me. Till this day my whole fam gets on and we play the 6 player missions, TDM 3V3, car racing, etc. It finally felt like we can share the experience we had playing GTA 3 and 4 together, especially with the heists.
The OCD kicks in hard seeing you fly with the landing gear down 😂
GTA V, the LSD trip / slow fall while hearing the people in your life complaining about you
To me one of the most mindblowing things was functional cabrio cars. I love things that transform, so I have always been fascinated by moveable roofs. I still think GTA 4 would be the best GTA if it had the option to operate them yourself (like in GTA V). Alas, only NPCs can open or close the roofs and no mod exists (that I know of) that adds the option to trigger it yourself.
2 players (co-op) with jet packs,pure comedy.
San Andreas is still a brilliant game even now. For its day it was mind blowing.
My older brother loved the GTA games, and after he passed I started loading bowls, and when I played it, I was stuck on it for so long, the story was awesome, and I felt like my life wasn’t so bad
Where I learned to feel
Museum Peace with the different perspectives were already done in the Getaway games on PS2. Both games are amazing.
That flight to Liberty City is to this day one of the most amazing times in gaming. Where YOU had to do the WORK to get somewhere. As you rightly said this is a forgotten art with many of todays games choosing the immersion-breaking "fast travel" . Why play nice open world game only to teleport around!
at this point. I think San Andreas deserves a Netflix Documentary. like how did they pull this off. I want to hear in depth from the team who made it
This video made me remember playing gta4 as a young teen and thinking the graphics looked like real life 🤣
Number 10 made me wish the first Pokémon game I had wasn’t emerald, it musta been so dope to see the og map in the Pokémon gen 2 games
Imagine the girl who spies on Niko in gta4 gets to be the protaganist for gta 6 and we learn about how the government agencies in gta world deals with shady stuff and maybe she gets to travel to diffrent gta maps as well
I love your videos ❤️ Btw i think you forgot to mention that Michelle actually appears in GTA V in the mission where you have to rescue a witness from the FBI building, she is torturing that guy with other agents it's pretty funny!
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Most mind blowing moment in my GTA history is discovering and unlocking the Hydra and listening to kdst while doing crazy stunt under the bridges and dogfights with other jets....
Also discovering how to fly the DODO in GTA III was an wonderfull experience bit frustrating but wonderfull