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GTA San Andreas Sex Appeal

Does anyone remember in SA how when you were riding and just getting out of an expensive car your sex appeal would be higher than usual? I like how realistic they made these things in the game from real life as a women would really find a richer man with a nice car more attractive in real life, it is only natural for them and I think SA really taught me something about women when I played it at like 12 years of age. :smile:
Was this the same for anyone else?

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Everything about San Andreas was awesome. GTA 4 was a good game, it was a graphical leap forwards and did do a lot of new things but it seemed devoid of any 'fun'. It seemed to opt for realism over the fun factor that made Vice City and San Andreas so unbelievably good. It did take things to an exaggerated level to but that was only to make it fun.

It also taught me to beat people with purple dildos. :rofl:
I didn't realise that sex appeal in San Andreas was directly equivalent to your sex appeal in real life. Imagine my surprise walking out of the house the night after I decided to get CJ some threads from Didier Sachs, blonde cornrows and a Banshee.
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Original post by jvasos
if your getting life tips from SA then surely you should be robbing, running people over, car-jacking and sleeping with prostitutes....i get what you're saying though but what im trying to say is that most things in the game were extreme as thats what makes the game fun, dont think it was designed for users to take life tips from it...

cant wait for next GTA though


I get that you shouldn't of course follow the life style of CJ the game is really just escapism. But there are certain things that a young mind can pick up. Considering the amount of girlfriends you could have in the game and little side machines assigned to them I remember and picked up on the whole sex appeal thing in the game and what made you more attractive to women, ie money.
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They should definitely do a remake of SA for 7th-Gen consoles, ahhh that would be brilliant.
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No-one ever talks about how gamers have learned about the consequences of crime through GTA's justice system. Except Penn & Teller.
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It showed me that you can hire a prostitute then kill her to get your money back. It's a good life lesson.
Original post by Unknown?
Does anyone remember in SA how when you were riding and just getting out of an expensive car your sex appeal would be higher than usual? I like how realistic they made these things in the game from real life as a women would really find a richer man with a nice car more attractive in real life, it is only natural for them and I think SA really taught me something about women when I played it at like 12 years of age. :smile:
Was this the same for anyone else?


+rep for your unrelenting commitment to making ur point that women are gold diggers.
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Original post by Unknown?
I get that you shouldn't of course follow the life style of CJ the game is really just escapism. But there are certain things that a young mind can pick up. Considering the amount of girlfriends you could have in the game and little side machines assigned to them I remember and picked up on the whole sex appeal thing in the game and what made you more attractive to women, ie money.


I don't think your bank balance in the game had any effect on your sex appeal though, obviously an oversight by the developers.
Dam I thought you were on about the hidden Hot Coffee mode lol :wink:
Original post by Ape Gone Insane
Everything about San Andreas was awesome. GTA 4 was a good game, it was a graphical leap forwards and did do a lot of new things but it seemed devoid of any 'fun'. It seemed to opt for realism over the fun factor that made Vice City and San Andreas so unbelievably good. It did take things to an exaggerated level to but that was only to make it fun.

It also taught me to beat people with purple dildos. :rofl:


GTA IV had an absolutely mind blowing story though :smile:

I'd like to see the next GTA utilise the great story and mechanics of IV, but the arcade sense of cheekiness, exaggeration, and limitlessness that San Andreas had.
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I don't know about you, but I had fun playing GTA IV.

People complaining about GTA IV are generally the same ones who complained about San Andreas (because of overhype), but now look back fondly on it.

Poor San Andreas. The developers received a list of 50 or 100 or something requests from OPS2 Magazine, and they delivered half of them. The game was set in an entire mini-state. It even had a jetpack and casinos.

But because of the people themselves hyping themselves, and because the main character was black, people didn't like it until GTA IV came out.
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Original post by nonotrly
I don't know about you, but I had fun playing GTA IV.

People complaining about GTA IV are generally the same ones who complained about San Andreas (because of overhype), but now look back fondly on it.

Poor San Andreas. The developers received a list of 50 or 100 or something requests from OPS2 Magazine, and they delivered half of them. The game was set in an entire mini-state. It even had a jetpack and casinos.

But because of the people themselves hyping themselves, and because the main character was black, people didn't like it until GTA IV came out.


To be honhest I believe that San Andreas lived up to the hype, out of all of the GTA's that was the best. It had an amazing soundtrack I even loved just riding around the countryside for hours listening to Country Rose, the graphics were more cartoony but it was fun. Also the bookies was amazing I made 5million from $5000 the first time I went in.

GTA4 on the other was too realisitic and took the fun away from the grand theft auto series; it didn't have a good sountrack, there was nothing to do once you completed the story.

Guess i'm one of them people that just believes/thinks the opposite of what you said :colondollar:.
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Original post by Smilingsam
To be honhest I believe that San Andreas lived up to the hype, out of all of the GTA's that was the best.


Depends what your hype was, but for a lot of people it seemed to end up as being a disappointment unless it was Virtual Reality.

GTA IV was the first game of the series on a new generation. This usually doesn't mean much for a game, but if the PS2 is anything to go buy they're just going to experiment before making the complete version near the end of the consoles' lives. GTA III was getting used to a 3D city, Vice City was trying out adding in some extras (like indoor environments), then there was San Andreas.

Saw something similar with GTA IV's series. There wasn't much more to add, but (considering the 'reality vs. fun' complaint of GTA IV) in Ballad of Gay Tony the emphasis was definitely more on fun (whether it be parachuting off buildings or Omid Djalili blowing up stuff in a helicopter without getting any hassle), but they were still trying out realism things like a believable (albiet small) club.

Perhaps in the next GTA of this generation, we'll see more of that and a properly sized club to go with it.
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Original post by AMorgan26
I don't think your bank balance in the game had any effect on your sex appeal though, obviously an oversight by the developers.


your sig is absolutely disgusting please change it
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Original post by Smilingsam
It had an amazing soundtrack I even loved just riding around the countryside for hours listening to Country Rose.


Probably the first and only time we Europeans willingly listened to country music.

The best open world "fun" game has to be Just Cause 2. Nothing beats grapling hooking onto accelerating cars, blowing stuff up from their roof, grapling hooking to the police helicopter and stealing it, then freefalling to 10 m to the ground only to grapling hook to it and not die due to Physics 2.0
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Original post by lubus
The best open world "fun" game has to be Just Cause 2. Nothing beats grapling hooking onto accelerating cars, blowing stuff up from their roof, grapling hooking to the police helicopter and stealing it, then freefalling to 10 m to the ground only to grapling hook to it and not die due to Physics 2.0


If that's the best game, you make it sound very repetitive.

Original post by lubus
your sig is absolutely disgusting please change it


You're on the internet and it's a guy eating messily that needs changing and is absolutely disgusting? Relatively speaking, that's about 10% disgusting. He's not gonna change it, and you ain't seen nothin' yet.

It's 'cause he's black though, isn't it?
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Original post by nonotrly
If that's the best game, you make it sound very repetitive.



You're on the internet and it's a guy eating messily that needs changing and is absolutely disgusting? Relatively speaking, that's about 10% disgusting. He's not gonna change it, and you ain't seen nothin' yet.

It's 'cause he's black though, isn't it?


Just Cause 2 is far from the best game i've played , and perhaps my description was not the best, however i just cant stress enough how much fun the grapling hook is. Did I mention you also have a parachute at all times that can be deployed and redeployed as much times as you wish, and use in conjunction with the aforementioned grapling hook? Head over to your preferred p2p site and download it, its only 2gb ish, or get it on steam for around 5 quid, its really worth it. It's probably not better overall than San Andreas, but some of the situations that arise in it are so ridiculously insane that you cant help but laugh.

As far as the guys sig goes, im currently eating my breakfast and have 0 tolerance for **** like that. However, the guys expression, visage, complexion, food falling out of mouth combine to make an incredibly annoying , disgusting and repulsive gif. In some ways, whilst i could ignore the usual bees over spider or gay sex closeup, his sig is even worse.
Original post by nonotrly
Depends what your hype was, but for a lot of people it seemed to end up as being a disappointment unless it was Virtual Reality.

GTA IV was the first game of the series on a new generation. This usually doesn't mean much for a game, but if the PS2 is anything to go buy they're just going to experiment before making the complete version near the end of the consoles' lives. GTA III was getting used to a 3D city, Vice City was trying out adding in some extras (like indoor environments), then there was San Andreas.

Saw something similar with GTA IV's series. There wasn't much more to add, but (considering the 'reality vs. fun' complaint of GTA IV) in Ballad of Gay Tony the emphasis was definitely more on fun (whether it be parachuting off buildings or Omid Djalili blowing up stuff in a helicopter without getting any hassle), but they were still trying out realism things like a believable (albiet small) club.

Perhaps in the next GTA of this generation, we'll see more of that and a properly sized club to go with it.


I never got any of the expansions I can admit only because the first game seemed to realistic It was like being forced into a reality of adult life when you just want to be a kid. It has advanced over the series but one of the main things that I used to love about GTA was the tank which was removed in 4 got to say felt disappointed.

To be honest I have no idea where they will take the series but hopefully it will get more fun added into it, whilst obtaining the reality just not overdoing it this time.

Original post by lubus
Probably the first and only time we Europeans willingly listened to country music.

The best open world "fun" game has to be Just Cause 2. Nothing beats grapling hooking onto accelerating cars, blowing stuff up from their roof, grapling hooking to the police helicopter and stealing it, then freefalling to 10 m to the ground only to grapling hook to it and not die due to Physics 2.0


I can shockingly admit that I was open to country music way before san andreas with my family coming from the Rhonda Valley. So was listening to david alexander, daniel O Donald and others before. :tongue:

I have played just cause 2 still got it but as much as it was amazing there seemed to be too much to explore you would end up traveling for mins just to get to another part of the map. Although was freaking insane, for the story it's got to be GTA for open world I've gone from Mercenaries straight to just cause and going to stick with it. :biggrin:
Reply 19
A remake of San Andreas would be one of the best things Rockstar could do.

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