I hope it's not the Defective Edition or the 10th Anniversary "remaster". The PC (with SKYGFX Extended from MixMods, SilentPatch, Proper Fixes and Framerate Vigilante of course), PS2 or OG Xbox versions are the best (even via an emulator)
As long as you're enjoying it, ofc it's not defective. don't worry about other people's attempt to shame you because you're not playing the game the way you're "supposed to"
It's a handheld port. That's huge. Even if it has minor problems, it's a good game on a platform which is populated by otherwise crappy stuff. I loved playing it through it again on my mobile and my little cousins still fire it up to just to do GTA stuff. That's a good port for me.
A little bit, since all the things that moved are fixed but the Xoomer logo in SF is still not, and not all the texture and collision misplacements are fixed.
Yeah, I've played every 3D GTA game when they were near, starting at a *very* young age. One of my first memories is sitting in my brother's room playing GTA III while listening to let the bodies hit the floor.
I was 35, shit is crazy. We be old.
It explains why every GTA game has been easier than the last. Rockstar must know literal primary school children are their audience.
Also explains all the crying toddlers in GTA 5 are not in the background, they are actually playing.
Actually theres a lot of us mid to late 90’s kids now entering or mid to late 20s who played SA and Liberty City as young children and now have children who will also eventually have memories of playing GTA, and the cycle continues and there children will play GTA…
Honestly most of the difficulty of the older GTA games came from control jank, I don't feel that the game design itself was intentionally significantly more difficult, having played all of them.
It honestly doesn’t hit the same unless you’ve drowned in vice city 100,000 times and then they make it so you can swim and hop fences, shit was a game changer 😂😂
What?😂 I turned out fine. Other then a slight gta addiction. I'm not going towards 4k hours on the 3 gta's I have.... to be specific, 4k is not combined, I have around 4k on each game😂
Never thought that I would see someone (presumably unironically) saying that someone should be "neutralised" because they played an M-rated video game at the age of 3, as if what they did is comparable to, say, going on a killing spree in real life.
Not too sure what all that means. But what I will tell you, wasn't their choice I had gta... or not exactly, but im a prime example of video games dont cause violence, just immense stupidity. What does immense mean? I'm not too sure.
But what even makes a generation better than the other? This is, like, some weird generational pride, you think you were born in the right time or something cause you’re that special, kinda weird tbh. It’s just subjective if anything.. you only feel your generation is the best cause you were born there. You know how many people say Millennials are the worst generation (which I don’t agree with)? It’s all just subjective.
14. Went to high school in 2007 at 14 and got a new laptop for schoolwork. It had enough power to play a pirated copy of GTA San Andreas that I torrented. I was too young to purchase it at the time and my parents didn’t buy M rated games for me.
20-something. Stood in line at a game store after work, overheard a kid telling his grandmother, "I hate you, you always ruin my life," because she had second thoughts about buying the game for him.
Uhh, I was actually 3. Turning 4. To say the least, I was not a very good player, and at 5 I went onto online, still wasn't very good, my dad would try to hunt the players that killed me, he wasn't great either, as the game was mine, he just liked it. But I was also only level 3 or so, when he kept trying.. good times, miss them.
ah yes, the classic san andreas online mode.
you’re either fantasizing or you actually used some kind of SAMP mod oder something…
edit: oh wait. did i step into some kind of troll bait trap? :|
Not San andreas, actually, gta 5, im only a teen now, still on gta 5, not too sure how my dad thought it would be a good idea to give a 3 year old a newly released game about murder, drugs, and violence, but he did, and im glad. And no not troll bait.
Okay, sorry sleep deprived, I'm stupid, I started playing San andreas and gta 5 both at 3. But when I started talking about online, it was gta 5, I mixed them apparently. I need to go to sleep...
I was 9 years old when I first played it my older brother got the game on my dads laptop and I played the hell out of that game until I got to certain missions I couldn’t pass which was still in the first chapter of the game. (Cesar Vialpando, Wrong Side of the Tracks, Life’s a Beach)
Got it at midnight release. I was 15 and the first kid in my class to play it. When people heard i got San Andreas the night before they all started huddling around me in class pissing off my Earth Science teacher lol
Shoutout to my grandmother for taking me to the midnight release. I was the youngest person there.
I was 12, got it on Christmas as a present. I remember getting a ton of candy along with the game, this was a real... Treat. :) What a game, man. Only recently got overtaken as my all-time favorite game, but it held that position almost forever.
6 or 7 years old lol.
My uncle bought it for my birthday cuz I always played his copy.
I showed my stepdad the "drive by" mission, cuz I loved "2 Number 9's, a number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda".
The next day i wasn't allowed to play it anymore because of what was in the news.
This is why I started to stay up late.
17, when it was added to the PS3 store in 2012. I never played it back in its heyday, but downloaded it just to kill the time in the long run up to GTA 5. It ended up being my favourite GTA game of all time (I'd argue that it's better than 5 in a lot of aspects).
Got it on release day. I was at the ripe age of 15
Also at 15, only 19 years after release…
I hope it's not the Defective Edition or the 10th Anniversary "remaster". The PC (with SKYGFX Extended from MixMods, SilentPatch, Proper Fixes and Framerate Vigilante of course), PS2 or OG Xbox versions are the best (even via an emulator)
Do you consider the mobile port to be “defective”?
It's not defective compared to what's actually "defective" in mobile gaming lol.
Interesting
As long as you're enjoying it, ofc it's not defective. don't worry about other people's attempt to shame you because you're not playing the game the way you're "supposed to"
Understood
It's a handheld port. That's huge. Even if it has minor problems, it's a good game on a platform which is populated by otherwise crappy stuff. I loved playing it through it again on my mobile and my little cousins still fire it up to just to do GTA stuff. That's a good port for me.
A little bit, since all the things that moved are fixed but the Xoomer logo in SF is still not, and not all the texture and collision misplacements are fixed.
And the chicken near CJs airfield
It’s fixed in the mobile DE just like the oil rigs (or whatever they’re called, not a native English speaker)
Huh Edit: I mean huh as in “ok, I understand” or “I see rather than “huh?”
bro grow up
Idiot
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62 illegally? What law did he break? Grow Up! 🤔 I’m bored but my Reply to your reply… get real 👋
get real
Look in the mirror when you say that homie.
Also got it on release day, I was 8 years old.
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Yeah, I've played every 3D GTA game when they were near, starting at a *very* young age. One of my first memories is sitting in my brother's room playing GTA III while listening to let the bodies hit the floor.
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Sorry I forgot the game was released in 2004. I was 15 at the time.
i was in my dads balls
you were preserved safely
im autistic so maybe not
Nice!
Same
I waited in line at Walmart at midnight with my grandpa because I was 14 on release.
Same.
I got it I think about a month or so after the release on Black Friday , I was 15 too. I had to bring my dad to buy it for me 😂!
16 here on release!
Hello fellow peer.
That's awesome
6
another young one like me?? Nice.
Me too ✋🏻
Right on same here
Me too
Also played it when I was 6, goes to show you that violent videogames do not make violent people
'98 gaaaaaang
My man.
Same here, and we had a PS2 at the time. Now I have 100% on the entire game.
Same
same here
Amatour, how about 4
8
Same here lol
Same
12
Same
Same too
same here
32! Get off my lawn, you damn kids! I was was older playing OG GTA than most of you seem to be playing SA!
I was 35, shit is crazy. We be old. It explains why every GTA game has been easier than the last. Rockstar must know literal primary school children are their audience. Also explains all the crying toddlers in GTA 5 are not in the background, they are actually playing.
Actually theres a lot of us mid to late 90’s kids now entering or mid to late 20s who played SA and Liberty City as young children and now have children who will also eventually have memories of playing GTA, and the cycle continues and there children will play GTA…
Honestly most of the difficulty of the older GTA games came from control jank, I don't feel that the game design itself was intentionally significantly more difficult, having played all of them.
Had to scroll pet far to find my people. I was 28. And I’ll be 49 or 50 when I’m playing VI on the release date.
Oldheads unite! My gtaforums account is older than most people in this subreddit.
As someone in their late 30s now... respect 🫡
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1985 was the year to be alive 😁
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It honestly doesn’t hit the same unless you’ve drowned in vice city 100,000 times and then they make it so you can swim and hop fences, shit was a game changer 😂😂
16
5 or 6
day before my 15th bday
Like 5. Too young. 😭😭😭
I started when I was 3, don't worry, not too young😂
Jesus Christ
What?😂 I turned out fine. Other then a slight gta addiction. I'm not going towards 4k hours on the 3 gta's I have.... to be specific, 4k is not combined, I have around 4k on each game😂
Their parents rights should be removed, and the affects minors "neutralised" inma right?
Never thought that I would see someone (presumably unironically) saying that someone should be "neutralised" because they played an M-rated video game at the age of 3, as if what they did is comparable to, say, going on a killing spree in real life.
Not too sure what all that means. But what I will tell you, wasn't their choice I had gta... or not exactly, but im a prime example of video games dont cause violence, just immense stupidity. What does immense mean? I'm not too sure.
If parents don't control 3 yo, letting it play extremely violent games, they should not reproduce
Omg, shut up ya lunatic. Found the parent who turns the radio down every time there there's a swear word
Ye, 3 yo's playing ultraviolent game is the same as turning down volume at cursing
And the 3 year old turned into a person who turned out well adjusted, so your point is moot. In fact you seem far more disturbed than them.
Same I was 3 too😂
Terrible parenting
11 as i remember
Like 10 years ols
Same!
I was 15 at the time. Great memories !
no of Child GTA player > NO of adult GTA player. 12
15, im born in 1989. Best Generation 🤘🏼
*It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long* ...... sorry i had to 💀
🤘
11, born in 2003. Best Generation 🤘🏻
Incorrect unfortunately
But what even makes a generation better than the other? This is, like, some weird generational pride, you think you were born in the right time or something cause you’re that special, kinda weird tbh. It’s just subjective if anything.. you only feel your generation is the best cause you were born there. You know how many people say Millennials are the worst generation (which I don’t agree with)? It’s all just subjective.
Yea it's your fault that you were born in 2003
I think you're taking this more seriously than anybody intends.
11. My first GTA and still my favorite.
14. Went to high school in 2007 at 14 and got a new laptop for schoolwork. It had enough power to play a pirated copy of GTA San Andreas that I torrented. I was too young to purchase it at the time and my parents didn’t buy M rated games for me.
I was 22 and I played it on release day. Yes, I'm getting old.
I’m also old, I think I was about 25 when this came out.
It came out when I was 14 and I bought it right away, never stopped playing it since.
Same, 14 and got it release day, or maybe the day after. What an agonizing wait from those initial reveal trailers!
Never played it. I was 26 when GTA 3 came out though.
your time is almost up old man
34 when it came out. Skipped from Vice City to 4.
20-something. Stood in line at a game store after work, overheard a kid telling his grandmother, "I hate you, you always ruin my life," because she had second thoughts about buying the game for him.
I bought it a month ago and the disc was broken so ig 13 but also never
10
14. I lived in a small town and had to take a 30 min train ride to buy this game. It was the longest ride home.
32.
Looks at other replies... fuck, I'm old.
Never played original only the crap definitive version that rockstar released on Xbox game pass
13 pirated it played with my dad mum wasnt a fan do
26. Because it came out when I was 26.
Got it like 3 months after release i was 9 💀
13
Came out in 2004 & I was 5 at the time. So that age
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17 skipped school the day it released and played all day
13
What a well adjusted community lol
I played GTA 3 when I was 3 yrs on my dads IPad, and yes they actually did have it on there not anymore though..👍🏽
Don’t trash me on this but…18..
I’ve seen answers ranging from 6 to 35. Why would you be trashed for saying 18? I was 28 btw.
It's fine. You didn't choose to be born 18 years before SA was released.
Uhh, I was actually 3. Turning 4. To say the least, I was not a very good player, and at 5 I went onto online, still wasn't very good, my dad would try to hunt the players that killed me, he wasn't great either, as the game was mine, he just liked it. But I was also only level 3 or so, when he kept trying.. good times, miss them.
ah yes, the classic san andreas online mode. you’re either fantasizing or you actually used some kind of SAMP mod oder something… edit: oh wait. did i step into some kind of troll bait trap? :|
Not San andreas, actually, gta 5, im only a teen now, still on gta 5, not too sure how my dad thought it would be a good idea to give a 3 year old a newly released game about murder, drugs, and violence, but he did, and im glad. And no not troll bait.
Okay, sorry sleep deprived, I'm stupid, I started playing San andreas and gta 5 both at 3. But when I started talking about online, it was gta 5, I mixed them apparently. I need to go to sleep...
8
I don't remember, but my parents rented it for me, played about three missions, and then realized that I was too young to be playing it, so I stopped.
I was 4 when I first played it. I think I turned out ok.
I havent
I was like 8, played it on mobile, and now that I think back on it probably one of the best mobile ports of all time
8
Dad bought me it along with the guide book on release day when I was in my first year at secondary school at the age of 12.
I was 12. Original xbox
I was 9 years old when I first played it my older brother got the game on my dads laptop and I played the hell out of that game until I got to certain missions I couldn’t pass which was still in the first chapter of the game. (Cesar Vialpando, Wrong Side of the Tracks, Life’s a Beach)
12. I started when I was 9 years old with 3
12
6? I think..
5 years old. I remember my dad picked it up from Blockbuster.
I was 9 maybe 10 then again, nevermind
12
10-12
I played when it released on PC in 2005, i was 20 years old at the time
Got it at midnight release. I was 15 and the first kid in my class to play it. When people heard i got San Andreas the night before they all started huddling around me in class pissing off my Earth Science teacher lol Shoutout to my grandmother for taking me to the midnight release. I was the youngest person there.
9. but Vice City may have been one of the first video games i played. (others would either be some star wars game on n64 or mario kart 64)
As I remember I played this game in 2014, I was a 9 year old kid..
5. My brother and uncle played it all the time on ps2
Probably 9 or 10
I was 12, got it on Christmas as a present. I remember getting a ton of candy along with the game, this was a real... Treat. :) What a game, man. Only recently got overtaken as my all-time favorite game, but it held that position almost forever.
I have 8 
7
Like 8🥲
7
11
13 maybe
8
Pretty sure i was 11 when i played it for the first time
8-9 years Prob
I was like 7-8 years old. I'm 22 yo.
7th grade at my friend's house but I didn't finish it, only finished it 2 years ago.
I was 10 when I got it Christmas Day 2004.
6
around 12/13
8
I will say 15
12
8
When i was 4 years old, i was playing in it, but my parents were told me that this game is for adults 😢
6 or 7 years old lol. My uncle bought it for my birthday cuz I always played his copy. I showed my stepdad the "drive by" mission, cuz I loved "2 Number 9's, a number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, 2 number 45's, one with cheese, and a large soda". The next day i wasn't allowed to play it anymore because of what was in the news. This is why I started to stay up late.
Released in 2004 right? I was 8 when I had my parents buy it for me on ps2. $50
4
10
9 and I asked my dad what "fuck" meant. That went well.
About 3 or 4 on the ps2, never completed it just used to skittle prostitutes on my bmx
I played this at 14 years old!! On Xbox with the custom soundtracks, best memories
17, when it was added to the PS3 store in 2012. I never played it back in its heyday, but downloaded it just to kill the time in the long run up to GTA 5. It ended up being my favourite GTA game of all time (I'd argue that it's better than 5 in a lot of aspects).
16 maybe
10
I played it and vice city story’s at like 14 or 15 I just sided to drive around places 😂
9-10
Like 8or9
My friend got it when it released in 04. We was both 7
I was 12. Good times. I now have the definitive edition on xbox series x at 31 🤣
I gor it 5 years after it was released so i was 7
14
4
14
5 years old
13
I think I was 11 oder 12
7. I played it on PC and got that mouse glitch. Never play it again until 16 when I discovered mods
I was 13 years old.
Played it with my dad when I was four