Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

[SuitcaseNuke]

GTA2 is celebrating its' 25th anniversary and it seems that for this occasion, as Colin Anderson, the guy behind GTA radio stations, has put it on Xitter, the original GTA2 radio songs have been put up on YouTube, and they're finally here in all of their uncompressed glory for the first time:

The GTA 2 soundtrack is severely underrated. The Suzi and pizza cake adverts. Chefs kiss

 

[Adash]

tweaking SkyGFX

My personal SkyGFX settings is everything PS2 except shadows since they show up a bit broken if you do select the PS2 versions (i.e, shadows from a car show up under a bridge)

 

[The Last Stand]

Just want to say the best part about Sam Andreas is West Coast Talk Radio. Even when not playing the game, I’ve laughed out loud far more when I’m on the road than actually listening to the podcasts and radio stations that are being given to me in real time.

Peace and chicken grease.

 

[Breadquanda.]

Did anybody else here ever play the SAMP server LSRP (Los Santos Roleplay)? So much ridiculous drama including all sorts of things. I suppose it's unlikely or some of it would have probably been mentioned here already, particularly an incident from 2014.

On another topic, I don't remember playing much of Vice City Stories but I recently discovered (or rediscovered, maybe) the Flashback FM radio station and not only is the music quite good (I would say much better than the Vice City equivalent of the same name, though Call Me by Go West is sadly missing from Stories), the DJ chatter is absolutely hilarious. Sad to think that the series will never have such humour again; I assume it has already been mentioned here countless times how they stripped 'transphobic' content from GTA 5 a few years ago.

 

[D.Angus]

Did anybody else here ever play the SAMP server LSRP (Los Santos Roleplay)? So much ridiculous drama including all sorts of things. I suppose it's unlikely or some of it would have probably been mentioned here already, particularly an incident from 2014

No, I was a NGRP (Next Generation Role Play) sped and I stopped playing around 2012 or so.. NGRP had plenty of beef with everyone back in the day, I think most of it lapsed and most members migrated to Horizon RP. I'd love to hear some more, not sure how everyone else would feel though.

 

[The Last Stand]

The myth community of GTA is dead thanks to datamining, the Internet, and clickbait. How exciting it must've been for SA to theorize that Bigfoot was roaming in the countryside? Especially since San Andreas was the biggest open world to date at the time?

 

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The myth community of GTA is dead thanks to datamining, the Internet, and clickbait. How exciting it must've been for SA to theorize that Bigfoot was roaming in the countryside? Especially since San Andreas was the biggest open world to date at the time?

Good riddance
"The myth community" is a bunch of retarded children and grifter ""content"" ""creators""

 

[Breadquanda.]

No, I was a NGRP (Next Generation Role Play) sped and I stopped playing around 2012 or so.. NGRP had plenty of beef with everyone back in the day, I think most of it lapsed and most members migrated to Horizon RP. I'd love to hear some more, not sure how everyone else would feel though.

Oh, I remember NGRP. I messed around on it a few times but I never really got into it. It had a really high population and was the only real competition to LSRP in that regard, I think. It always felt so chaotic to me, but sometimes I liked that it was less 'stuffy' than LSRP. I wasn't aware NGRP had any drama at all, but then I didn't pay much or any attention to its forums.

 

[Green Man]

The myth community of GTA is dead thanks to datamining, the Internet, and clickbait. How exciting it must've been for SA to theorize that Bigfoot was roaming in the countryside? Especially since San Andreas was the biggest open world to date at the time?

It was fun to speculate about on forums back in the day right after SA's release but ultimately became fodder for YouTube clickbait. I was significantly younger then and spent hours in co-op multiplayer [the half-assed one on the PS2] with a friend scouring the map for Bigfoot, aliens, Leatherface, etc. It probably held a lot more mystique to people playing on consoles since you couldn't just go through the game files. Another fun time to be present on gaming forums was when the Hot Coffee shit happened with SA, that was quite a clusterfuck.

 

[Adash]

Did anybody else here ever play the SAMP server LSRP (Los Santos Roleplay)? So much ridiculous drama including all sorts of things. I suppose it's unlikely or some of it would have probably been mentioned here already, particularly an incident from 2014.

On another topic, I don't remember playing much of Vice City Stories but I recently discovered (or rediscovered, maybe) the Flashback FM radio station and not only is the music quite good (I would say much better than the Vice City equivalent of the same name, though Call Me by Go West is sadly missing from Stories), the DJ chatter is absolutely hilarious. Sad to think that the series will never have such humour again; I assume it has already been mentioned here countless times how they stripped 'transphobic' content from GTA 5 a few years ago.

No, I was a NGRP (Next Generation Role Play) sped and I stopped playing around 2012 or so.. NGRP had plenty of beef with everyone back in the day, I think most of it lapsed and most members migrated to Horizon RP. I'd love to hear some more, not sure how everyone else would feel though.

I literally couldn't play any GTA RP servers simply because they were all located in the US or EU and i'd have enough ping to be kicked out of the game. All the ones in my country sucked.

 

[Meth Dick]

The myth community of GTA is dead thanks to datamining, the Internet, and clickbait. How exciting it must've been for SA to theorize that Bigfoot was roaming in the countryside? Especially since San Andreas was the biggest open world to date at the time?

The myth that all my friends "totally saw!" was if you went into the Johnson House at a certain time of night you could see the Ghost of CJ's mom walk down the steps, blood trail following her.
It was total bullshit but it was fun to make shit up as 11-12 year olds. Just like saying Piggsy from Manhunt was somewhere in the game.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Good riddance
"The myth community" is a bunch of retarded children and grifter ""content"" ""creators""

Those faggots weren't even born when the bigfoot hunt was on. Content creators weren't even a thing until ~2012, when GTAV hype was in motion.

We wuz tinfoil hatting on GameFAQs and Gamespot forums then and spending hours watching videos like this:

There were many forums and blogs detailing searchs for him, speculating his existence and often just trolling. I even recall a magazine talking about it and adding fuel to the myth.

The myth community of GTA is dead thanks to datamining, the Internet, and clickbait. How exciting it must've been for SA to theorize that Bigfoot was roaming in the countryside? Especially since San Andreas was the biggest open world to date at the time?

It was a different time. We were all more naive, the Internet was more niche and seemingly nobody had the know-how or motivation to dig around the gamefiles and fully prove/disprove his existence. (Or maybe they did and nobody took notice). In any case it was a lot of fun. I used to look for him. Spooked the shit out of myself after finding the ghost car, a beat up Glendale that spawns on a hill and rolls down it, making it seem as though it's driving with nobody inside, spawns somewhere around here:



Unfortunately the ghost car and the chainsaw shack were the only real things of note out there.

I blame the normie-fication and subsequent whoring out of Youtube and videogames media in general.

 

[Meth Dick]

I remember not believing in friends when they told me there was a ghost in GTA V because I remembered all the myths and shit from San Andreas, Vice City, and IV, so when I actually found this spooky bitch it freaked me out for a bit.

Spoiler: 3spooky5me

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

I remember not believing in friends when they told me there was a ghost in GTA V because I remembered all the myths and shit from San Andreas, Vice City, and IV, so when I actually found this spooky bitch it freaked me out for a bit.

Spoiler: 3spooky5me

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Yep. The Ghost of Mount Gordo; she's actually got a bit of backstory, for those that don't know:

Spoiler: Identity and History of the Ghost

The victim's name was (is?) Jolene Cranley-Evans, and she was the wife of the actor/stuntman-turned-politician Jock Cranley, whom some of you might recognize as the commentator for the Arena War. In the 1970s, when Jock and his wife were still living in Blaine County, he got a gig in Los Santos to become a stuntman; however, his wife disapproved of this, as they would have to move to Los Santos for the commute. In order to make sure he got the gig, Jock took his wife on a hiking trip up Mount Gordo, where he promptly pushed her off the cliff; the cops did arrest the guy, but he was able to get away with the murder due to a lack of evidence, and he was released immediately afterwards.

Couple of connected easter eggs in the game confirm it was a murder; for starters, that blood puddle that Jolene's floating over in the pic above? That's JOCK written in blood; if you approach her, Jolene will disappear and allow you to get a better look - identifying her murderer well after her death.

Also, there's a campsite down at the base of the mountain, normally occupied by several pedestrians; if you go down there at the correct time, around 4-5 AM or so, you'll hear her eventually falling and screaming all the way down.

It's also possible to hear the actual struggle between Jock and Jolene, with the latter begging the former not to kill her. Don't know how to trigger that dialogue, though; I think I heard it's supposed to play when you get near the ghost, but I don't know for sure.

Neat little easter egg, that's for certain.

Also, got a question for everyone; GTAV is going for pretty cheap right now on the PSN, only $9.99. Anyone think that's a decent price, or not?

 

[Meth Dick]

Also, got a question for everyone; GTAV is going for pretty cheap right now on the PSN, only $9.99. Anyone think that's a decent price, or not?

Considering it's been 60 bucks for over a decade, I'd say yeah that's a really good price.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Also, got a question for everyone; GTAV is going for pretty cheap right now on the PSN, only $9.99. Anyone think that's a decent price, or not?

Cheapest I've ever seen it so if you want to play it, yes.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Is there a reason why 4 seems to be in the process of being memoryholed by Rockstar?

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Is there a reason why 4 seems to be in the process of being memoryholed by Rockstar?

..... oh God, they might be making a remake.

 

[Meth Dick]

..... oh God, they might be making a remake.

I saw recently that Max Payne will be getting a Resident Evil 2,3,4 style remake.
I really dug RE4 remake so I'm interested in that.
But much like Resident Evil 5 remake, we probably won't be getting a GTA IV remake.

 

[Breadquanda.]

I would be very upset if they mutilated GTA IV and EFLC (especially TBoGT); they are my absolute favourites. Oh well, we will always have the originals.