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Five years ago Carl Johnson escaped from the pressures of life in Los Santos, San Andreas - a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs, and corruption. Where film stars and millionaires do their best to avoid the mobsters and gangbangers. Now, it's the early '90s. Carl's got to go home. His mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart and his childhood friends are all heading toward disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of corrupt cops frame him for homicide. CJ is forced on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets. Let's jump into the world of GTA San Andreas.
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[@ColourShedProductions]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is simply 'the' game I've put more hours into than any other game I've played in the whole my life. I distinctly remember one playthrough where I got to I think 98.6% completion, but never 100%. And it's a tall order to say the least.

[@Gigaheart]

Witcher 3 would like a word with you.

[@toni5158]

Hey man I loved your reviews on gta games

[@tazinboor3913]

I love you dude I’ve seen lots of your videos again recently! Great to see you on this video.

[@hgdyicmg]

Hi

[@dylan9784]

beats my current 98.4% i’m stuck with now

[@MrSquaky]

I'd never thought he'd complete this game. Big kudos to the Compeletionist hes' a real one

[@kilomillensimus9379]

This dude is out here playing games I love in ways I've never been able to.

[@piotrstrukiel3479]

@@kilomillensimus9379 let's see him complete Arcanum (Steampunk crpg ;P)

[@gtaworld1808]

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[@gretelsgooch1676]

This is actually a cakewalk compared to most games he does

[@MrSquaky]

@@gretelsgooch1676 getting all gold in driving school is definitely not a cake walk.

[@lunch_trey]

Some of my favorite moments from this game include: - Base jumping off a skyscraper and opening my parachute at the last possible second - Parking my car on the Las Venturas Freeway and watching the ensuing pileup happen - Turning on the Infinite Ammo cheat, donning a jetpack and raining bullets from my dual SMGs down on the people below like a batshit super villain

[@lagginswag]

Jumping off Mt chiliad on a BMX bike and pulling the parachute too.

[@lindboknifeandtool]

Screenshot ting this for later lol

[@yasselb478]

I used to activate a cheat that bassicaly just boosts your bunny hops with a bike and I remember just spending hours trying to jump across buildings with the bike for hours. Was so fun

[@billyspencer7325]

I had a turbo button that I used for the sprint so you could go infinite and made you super speedy on the BMX haha

[@theoroderick782]

Did the 1 and 3 as well this game blew my mind with how open it was back in 2012

[@fcrfortes]

This is an amazing game that was never meant for completion, I think. Just for always having something to do whenever you played it. That was what made it so special.

[@codyvettori]

hours spent in the casino got me good at blackjack

[@andyspendlove1019]

I think this is the best way to put it.

[@laron1231]

My brother always hands me the controller when it comes to driving flying and boating schools which was annoying lol

[@bigsmoke4592]

yeah if you try to get all the sprays and clams and stuff to 100% it, it will be hell searching for them. they are something you find randomly while fooling around

[@coryhamilton936]

I highly disagree. All 3 games in the trilogy were meant for completion way more so than gta 4. Only playing the story you get a great game. Going for 100% completion you see every side of san andreas which makes it the greatest game of all time.

[@Jonkin715]

As a child who was a teenager in the 90s, this game was a dream come true when it came out. No matter the game's shortcomings, it will always has a special place in my heart.

[@JJMomoida]

Right there with you. While there are plenty of open world games to choose from nowadays, those kinds of games felt so rare to me back then, especially since I lived in a third world country, where genre selection was already limited. I remember San Andreas just blowing my mind with how much stuff you could do in it. I liked that you could change how CJ looked by eating a lot or working out or whatever. That kind of customization, while meager by today's standards, I imagine, really made the game stand out to me.

[@someonerandom8552]

I’m a 90s kid. This game was my childhood. Luckily my parents were pretty clueless as far as gaming was concerned (they thought it was all just “kids stuff.”) So they got it for me when I asked lol

[@co2_os]

Ur old haha

[@casedistorted]

Oh yeah it came out when I was in high school. Perfect game for that time. Too bad it didn’t age very well though.

[@casedistorted]

@@co2_os I am also old, 36 now. I was in Hs when this game came out. You’ll be old too one day ❤️

[@buggytheprophet1017]

I was born and raised in Brazil, 60% of my english knowledge comes from this game, no joke, thx to this game, I wanted to learn english so I could understand what they were saying, and experience the game understanding what they say

[@SkyChaser-]

Gta miranha edition?

[@Goatbeez]

São Paulo edition

[@qiff6667]

Same

[@AlexRodriguez0407]

@@SkyChaser- existia uma loja perto de onde eu moro que vende versões modificadas do gta san andreas Uma delas tinha um mod menu que dá pra acessar apertando L2 e R2 ao mesmo tempo Perdi o disco e nunca mais achei :(

[@andrewt836]

Culture victory.

[@williamking5506]

And to add the nostalgia you asked for: I was born and raised in the hood, and I lived through the late 80s/early 90s crack wars. Lost a brother to it. It's amazing just how well this game captures the feel of that time, especially for a game from it's generation.

[@rizzy7766]

Remember LA Riots

[@williamking5506]

@@rizzy7766 Very well. They weren't just in L.A., the outrage spread to other cities as well. My hood was under martial law for two days, I remember walking to my first job while the Nat Guard 'tanks' drove up the streets.

[@ThaMobstarr]

Daamn man! My condolences! I assume you are out of the hood by now? Also, may I ask how it was being a white guy in the hood? I assume you grew up with people from all kinds of marginalised ethnic groups in the hood. But also amazed to hear that GTA SA did it so well.

[@outphase78]

I understand how the game can come off as overwhelming nowadays but people have to know that back then, we didn't have the vast amount of video games as we do now. I feel as though today, we're so pressed for time to play and experience so much because not only games are bigger, we're full grown busy adults. When GTASA came out, many of us were kids, teens, and young adults who had the time to get lost in everything without the amount of distractions we have today. I believe the game was designed to just get lost in and you can come back to play whenever you want, definitely not to be completed in one sitting lol

[@ultramagnus1275]

👍👏

[@BigSleeveLess]

I was 23 when this dropped and I didn't have the time then to complete it

[@TheBlueboy7777]

Its really is an open world game.

[@rekyrro9669]

"Aw shit here we go again" this perfectly describes Jirard's journey through New Game Plus

[@kylekiene779]

Lol

[@oops6876]

“How should we draw Jirard as the main character for this one? We could-“ “JUST GIVE HIM A BIKE.”

[@drandescancelled2825]

They could've make him wearing a white tank top

[@xadow6467]

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on the PS2 was one of my first video games I’ve ever played as a kid growing up. All the characters were all so lively and memorable. I remember my dad and I going through the internet and writing down cheat codes on a sheet of paper so we can always have whenever we need it for fun. My dad and I spent HOURS together messing with cheat codes in that game which made it very memorable for me as well. Fast forward to 2019, in my early teenage years. I wanted to play that game I’ve always loved playing growing up, and I got it on the PS4. I played throughout the story, collected everything in game and completed all the trophies. It was an experience that was really pleasant playing it once again. Completing Grand Theft Auto San Andreas felt like I finally completed my own childhood itself.

[@betcheck]

Having only one copy of the game on PS2, after having played it intensely and frequently for 3 years, my cousins, my sister and I had to find a way to play all together and to pass the controllers between us a little faster. So we invented timed challenges to be completed in 2-player cooperation, the duo that managed to do so with the best time would win. For example, there was a challenge that consisted of entering zone 69 (4 stars), stealing a plane, landing on Mount Chilliad, and then reaching the San Fierro container ship, all without using any other code than the ammunition code. The good old days.

[@numbmind120]

I will never forget the winter of 2004-05 when me and my best friend James sat around beating this game. Got it as a gift from my parents when i got a PS2. The most fun i ever had beating a GTA game.

[@strategist9]

More and more this channel feels like a glimpse into Jirard's growing madness, as games become so bloated and time-consuming to complete often without much going for it in the end. Hope he can complete something else more rewarding next time.

[@eyasa9448]

This is why I quit being a completionist I just realized what was the point of completing something I don't enjoy? This is why these days I'll play the story and side missions for any game however I won't go out of my way to do collectibles anymore

[@TheDapperDragon]

I keep saying it, he really should drop the complitionist, as it often hurts his opinion of otherwise great games, and makes him think better of shit games. It makes complete it ratings more special when he choses to go out of his way to complete it, rather than complete it as fast as he can, crunching himself into oblivion

[@DarkbloomVis]

Yeah I can't see myself doing what he does, pushes himself to play a game so much he eventually hates it (which he does a lot). It defeats the fun of gaming, which is the entire point.

[@casedistorted]

I wonder how he has the time to complete all these games. They’re not small feats for each game

[@dubl33_27]

@@casedistorted i 100% gta san andreas a couple of times and it took like a week or 2 weeks maximum to do it so not that long

[@VegaGameplayz]

I can’t stress enough how cool this channel is. It’s like walking into a museum of video game history.

[@glassfanatic6691]

Man this game brings back so many great memories. I don't even remember how my brother and I got my hands on this but we did and we enjoyed it so much. Even just biking around on the BMX. Unfortunately he passed away last year but thinking about some of the times we had blowing up cars and speeding away from fleets of police officers will always make me smile.

[@travissmith5739]

Sorry to hear, a friend told me that eventually u can bunny hop houses. I did not believe until I was bunny hopping houses!

[@klutz47]

I'm sorry for your loss, but atleast he's sleeping in peace, remembering times he and you had.

[@glassfanatic6691]

@@klutz47 thank you for your comment 🙏

[@ros9764]

I remember when i played this game as a kid i didn't speak English yet i still played it a ton and had fun because all i had to do was just run around and press random buttons most of the time. The hospital spawn street is cemented into my brain. I wasn't *that* type of guy but i remember having friends who'd just search for the cheat codes online and write down on a notebook their favourite codes. Great times

[@andreasottohansen7338]

same. this is one of the reasons my english is as good as it is.

[@D0omC0okie]

Right next to the skatepark with a free bmx? 👌🏾

[@vulpes6144]

To achieve true completion you need to order 2 number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, 2 number 45s, one with cheese, and a LARGE soda.

[@RECALLAUDITS]

I first played this game when i had to share a room with my older brother. He thought he was black, he liked rap/Eminem, smoked weed all the time with his mates, he had a collection of bongs on the window, so it was like having my very own Grove Street member in my bedroom 😂 I remember how he made his CJ, it would always be an afro, white tank top, green face rag, green pants, chains.

[@deebzscrub]

For what it's worth I don't like seeing you complete these monsters because I like seeing you suffer, but because I just find it extremely impressive that you're even able to do so. You the man Jirard.

[@homerman76]

I will always respect Jirard's willingness and ability to complete so many games. A lot of people question my own desire to complete games when they get to be frustrating and tedious, so it's always nice to remember that I'm not alone in that desire. As painful as some games are to complete, the feeling of getting that sweet sweet 100% is always great (even if sometimes that feeling is more of a sense of relief over getting it done 😂

[@karbengo]

I played the game on PS2 when it first released, It was a ton of fun back then, but kid me couldn't go past the couple of final missions, so I couldn't finish it. Today, as an adult, I played the classic PC version to 100% completion in december 2021. Over more than 100 hours of play, lots of highs, some lows, but I went trough it all, and I had an overall blast. Also, I am not a native english speaker, so re playing the game now that I am fluent in english allowed me to finaly enjoy tons of jokes and puns that flew by me as a kid. This game is a gem and i fully intend to play it again this year, with the addition of mods to further improve the experience. This game still holds up to this modern age, and if there are mechanics you feel are outdated, like for instance the lack of a weapon wheel GTA5 style, there is a mod to suit all your needs.

[@hostileenvironment6107]

After playing games like last of us pt 2 and RDR2 I know I need a heavily modded playthrough to really enjoy the game. IMO just so many dated mission types, Namely that motorcycle one when you are chasing buddy on the motorcycle. Glad I bought original SA on PC before cheap ass take two. Took it down.

[@Fnatic2010]

I am also in same situation. I played Vice City when i released but couldn't find a way to unlock more missions in the 2nd island. Also I didn't knew English back then so I remember nothing about the story. Hope to finish it one day after I finish my playthrough of Vice City Stories

[@DanielCarpenterMusic]

Honestly, this video kind of shows the shortcomings of the completionist mindset. What made the PS2 GTA games great was that there was something in it for everyone, and everyone had their own attitudes and playstyles that they could bring to it. They weren't necessarily made for you to see everything, but for you to see everything you wanted to, and for some people that *was* everything, but for others, it was just the main story, or just having random rampages, or doing tasks. It's 100% what modern Rockstar games are missing, they've kind of crawled up their own arse giving you a 'CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE', they've forgotten how accessible and how playable the games that made them big were *because* they didn't have a curated, cinematic experience. I feel like looking back and seeing Rockstar be the anarchic 'hey, let's put this thing in there and see what happens' company is kind of bittersweet for the industry as a whole, considering they're now the billion dollar corporation that works people to death to get the horse testicle physics right.

[@nenevader25]

Amén

[@thefanman2912]

underatted comment

[@stellviahohenheim]

I've put hundreds of hours into GTA:Sa and never even once did i think there's too much stuff to do in the game. He just doesn't like GTA he said so at the beginning, why force youself to review it then?

[@TheBlueboy7777]

​@@stellviahohenheim atleast he admit he doesnt like it but just to prove he is a gamer and real a completionist~ its hilarious to watch him to complain lol

[@killthemovieX]

This is my second favourite game of all time, but seeing Jirard suffer through it all really makes you think about how much a game changes when you go for 100% completion. Respect dude ♥️

[@shanemacbike2]

Whats your favourite?

[@killthemovieX]

@@shanemacbike2 Batman Arkham City

[@ThaMobstarr]

@@killthemovieX Brrruh! It's the other way around for me. :D GTA SA is my favourite and Arkham City is my second favourite game of all time. :)

[@jdawg6389]

So much more RESPECT for him after seeing everything he did in this game.

[@edelgardian]

Completing this game really is a nightmare, which is a shame because I had such fond memories of the game growing up. My nostalgia has been warped trying to complete it.

[@garuelx8627]

You never realize how rewarding 100%ing this game is until you pick up a minigun with infinite ammo. I basically wiped the Ballas and Vagos off the face of the Earth.

[@dspsblyuth]

You needed a minimum to take out those busters?

[@garuelx8627]

@dspsblyuth nope, but it sure was fun turning the remainder of them into slurry with it.

[@chuck600]

@@dspsblyuth it's extremely useful for gang territories, 14 can be done in less than 15 minutes

[@Cenatcenat902]

Story and Voice Actors are the best part about this game I don’t think any game till this day has better voice actors

[@Zeitta7]

I didn't own this game, but my best friend at the time did. So I would go over to his house every day, and we would go to town, beating the story, playing side quests, blowing up everything we could before getting wasted, and most importantly the cheat codes. THAT IS WHAT MADE THIS GAME MAGIC, everyone had a note book filled with cheat codes, it was built in hacks, it gave people a god complex.

[@rompevuevitos222]

That one friend with a printer who could get the cheats with the PS2 controller icons The rest of us just had to write them down The magic of booting up the game and taking out the sheet like if it was a real document

[@ryz8]

i had the cheats memorized. i actually can still remember a few of them. the jet pack was an incredibly useful cheat for travel haha.

[@agayweirdo5404]

I owned the game myself and it helped me from not killing myself from the ages 10-12.

[@tximinoman]

Whenever a friend was over at my house (or I was at some friends house) and we were playing this game, we used cheatcodes to make it more fun. I memorized the guns and health cheats as well as the jetpack one, just from using them. About two or three years ago, I plugged in my old PS2 and played GTA: San Andreas for the first time in probably a decade. I still remembered the cheats. But the weirdest part wasn't that I remember them, is that I can't write them down because my hands remember the cheats but my brain doesn't.

[@amd1273]

The game is so much more fun without cheating. Escaping a high 4-6 star wanted rating without cheating was an accomplishment, it's lame just putting in a cheat code. Same thing with weapons, just find all spray tag locations and you will have weapons at your safehouse. That's just me though, I like a challenge

[@MrDrBoi]

I will always remember the commercials for this game with Welcome to the Jungle by Guns n Roses playing in the background. Such an amazing game that is so much more than its memes!

[@johnoneil9188]

San Andreas is the game that made me fall in love with open world games and one of the games that formed a big chunk of my childhood and my modern tastes. Even if I have to admit that I never finished it due to some reason or another. I spend so much time just driving around the map listening to KDST until I could sing all the songs and knew the state better than my own home town.

[@SleepyGraugans]

Mad respect for going through with this. The schools were an absolute nightmare. The incredible precision needed for the gold medals almost destroyed me, back in the day. I don't think I ever managed to get all gold medals in all schools. Bikes and cars, maybe boats. But never in flight school.

[@keithdeibert2978]

This game completes so naturally. Some of the collectathons are better than the mid game story

[@TheCaWaLa]

Rockstar’s open worlds are generally great fun to 100%, often as you’re actually playing the story

[@themadtitan7603]

The earlier Rockstar games had weaker plots so completing the open-world content a lot of the time was more fun than the story missions.

[@liamhealy4511]

@@themadtitan7603 not San Andreas. The story is the best in the series

[@WhoopsISuck]

Makes it all more the pity that the gang warfare is locked out for that middle, tho. Mid game is perfect ‘pop on a podcast and cruise’ gameplay

[@themadtitan7603]

@@liamhealy4511 I said weaker not weak and I think GTA IV might have the best story personally or at least the most consistent, because you don't go from a grounded crime story to stealing a jetpack from Area 69 all of the sudden.

[@thecinematicmind]

The memories of this game in 2004 was unforgettable.

[@Moe_GC94]

What is crazy to me looking back at it today is that this game already has SO much content, Story elements and atmosphere, and yet - it could have been nearly double in size, Story length, features and mechanics - proven by the amount of cut content left in the games coding and files. That's insane!

[@calamorta]

And nearly 20 years later of hardware improvement we still have open world games that feel smaller and less vivid than GTA SA.

[@OmegazeroX20]

Freaking love the completionist opening it always gets me pumped up and ready to complete a game of my own

[@matzmilan7780]

This was my favorite game. There were a lot of mysteries and urban legends. I remember my friends from school telling me how big foot appeared on some places of San andreas. Playing with my best friend at the time multi-player was epic. I loved everything, comleting story, or just traveling through the map. Finding new places while traveling...the feeling of discovery that I have never felt with other game.

[@doomzilla3568]

Aw sh*t, here we go again! And this time, Jirard is taking in the biggest entry of the gta trilogy and my personal favorite growing up, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas!!!!

[@Sandman_Slim]

The most frustrating of the pentology.

[@mfirdanhb]

@@Sandman_Slim but ain't repeatable

[@GeneralMcNuggs]

It is unimaginable that they were able to go from GTA3 to that in under 4 years.

[@Gbonne1PSN]

So during the train mission you can actually stay on the right side of the tracks (on the outside) and Smoke shoots all the Vagos pretty easily. I love this game and I love completing it. I'm so glad you did this! The thing I hate is that you can actually get a lot of unique vehicles that either look amazing or have special properties. It is soooo much to keep track of if you're trying to get most, if not all of them.

[@turkicnomad5632]

Rockstar knew the stories that they wanted to tell right off of the bat. And they were dedicated enough to build the engine for it. That’s the artistic drive I live for.

[@paulbell3682]

Rockstar did not build the RenderWare engine. Criterion Games did.

[@Duuu93]

This ps4 version is the definitive edition for GTA San Andreas. It keeps all the stuff that only has in the original ps2 version with a bump on the resolution.

[@BlowWord.]

Everything he said was what made the game the most realistic & honestly a contender for greatest game of all time

[@Wowwhut]

The madness towards the end is what I'm watching this channel for. Thank you for not disappointing in what I'm sure is one of the most maddening adventure yet. Keep it up big guy

[@hankthetank8039]

My god, that rant near the end was palpable. I didn't know if you were describing video games or life for a second there. 😆

[@thomasbruce4990]

Jirard, you are an example of humanity. You are so sweet and so smart. And you make us feel like old friends. That being said....you said it at the top of this video, your best videos are the ones where you are suffering. I feel intense guilt at enjoying your pain! I'm so greatful to G4 for introducing me to you. Thank you for the Completionist and I thank G4 for finding you.

[@thomasbruce4990]

#Drpepper #Pizzahut

[@VitZ9]

Well he is a human, so I'd hope he is an example of humanity.

[@travisspencley-smith7905]

I would stay up late on school nights and weekends for this game. So much value in this game. My whole childhood!!!!

[@Leron...]

Jirard's commitment to what he does is absolutely inspiring

[@TetraSky]

To think it was released only 2 years after vice city... and these days we get GTA 5 re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release every year.

[@ufc3459]

I just love how drastically different your competition experience is from mine. In fact I thought Vice City was the worst to complete and San Andreas was the easiest out of the trilogy. Its probably because everytime I did play before I completed it I was always finding something new that I enjoyed doing. Like the missions you unlock after you do the driving school. The only reason I even knew those existed was because of a guide I got with the game but didn't really use until way later. I didn't even have much of a problem with the ambulance missions. With Vice City those missions were just terrible for me. But in San Andreas I found that if you start the mission in one of the smaller towns north of Los Santos it does two things. The first thing is most of the people you need to pick up would already be just right there in that small town. The second is if they did spawn out of town it didn't matter because the game gave me so much time and I didn't have to enter the city which meant I could just go off road if I wanted to to finish it even faster.

[@gavfitzpatrick]

Same here I thought SA was the easiest completion of the trilogy, if you got bored of doing something you could always start something else and come back and finish it later. unlike GTA 3 where you had to do the ambulance mission before you even started playing the story missions at the very start of the game. Same with the rampages, every time you got to a new island you had to do the rampages before starting any missions on that Island

[@Tepiloxtl]

I think this is in part in how Jirard (and me, too!) are completionists to the core and from the bone marrow. I think while 3 and VC are the great game to "tick off activities" in, San Andreas just shines in just what you said, fluid gameplay where you leisurly jump from activity to activity and always find some hidden shiny gem, until you finish it off, hundreds of hours later. This to put bluntly, one could write a long discourse about it. Despite that, I still find San Andreas to be the pinnacle of game design of its time, and to this day, one of the best of titles ever made, and I come back yearly to finish the whole trilogy all over again. Over 20 years later, and its still as captivating and great as it was at release. I've put a reservation on Steam Deck, and I can't wait to take it on a spin with these games when I get my hands on it, this or next year, I can't imagine how it will play "on the go" (except I can, because of PSP releases of LCS and VCS, and later Vita ports of original trilogy!)

[@pearlydewdropsfall]

Playing the GTA games back in the day with my best friend who was also my neighbor are some of the greatest memories of all time. So many hours spent just doing nonsense, crashing into pedestrians, exploring the cities, getting in high speed chases…. Unforgettable.

[@jseeker1867]

God, I wanna take Jirard to a park and just...let him vibe there for days on end. I think he deserves it.

[@1YoungRoyalty1]

This games definitely seems like hell for a completionist, but if you don’t necessarily care about completing everything, especially in one sitting, the amount of player choice and realism is fantastic. To me at least. There are so many features from San Andreas that I wish was in GTA V

[@catfishandbass8680]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas... The most content of ANY game I have EVER played in my LIFE. 10/10 game. Not even an exaggeration.

[@CreepyUncleIdjit]

I got to agree with you there. One of the biggest reasons GTA IV was such a disappointment to me was that it was a huge graphic upgrade but a major feature downgrade. Like the song on K-ROSE says, one step forward and two steps back.

[@dunkelstevenson4413]

@@CreepyUncleIdjit I was so disappointed with the missing vehicle customization, the lack of character customization, the fact semis couldnt carry trailers, and not having any fun rural areas, my least favorite gta map since the 2d games

[@CreepyUncleIdjit]

@@dunkelstevenson4413 I think I had more fun playing Liberty City stories than GTA IV.

[@amd1273]

GTA 4 had some moments. One thing I absolutely hated was the friendship dynamic where you would repeatedly have Friends calling you to hang out or girlfriend's. If you declined the whole"like scale" would go down. It was one of the stupidest things I'd seen in GTA games. Plus it irritated me the platinum was unobtainable do to online trophies that were no longer possible to get

[@amd1273]

@@dunkelstevenson4413 vehicle customization was the best part of San Andreas. GTA 4 just didn't make sense, no customization, no property to buy, money was useless in that game like GTA 3. I like the story but other than that I found GTA 4 just disappointing. Could have been better

[@robskittalz1844]

Well done Gerard. Thank you for all the work you put in to bring us this content. Big love.

[@HakeemKaree]

Thank you for mentioning the rc helicopter stages, always gave me more trouble than the infamous train level

[@victorpanunzio6043]

I remember playing this for hours in the cyber café with the cheat codes sheet by my side... Such a goat status game, really glad you did this awesome review!

[@GameHeroEats]

Ive been waiting for this video for a long time

[@respawnstationpodcast]

this video was streets ahead, great job jirard and team!

[@EmperorsPath]

I felt all of the pain during this video, and I never even completed the story. I got so fed up with the long travel between missions, mission starts, mission objectives that I gave up in the end. Well done!

[@lovesbela]

I absolutely loved this game, so. many. hours. playing this. the customization, SWIMMING! the map size, the story, was so interesting to me when I was younger when I wanted to just chill id take CJ on a motorcycle and just ride.. mainly in the "back o beyond" and up the mountain, listening to "dts" or "radio x" then dating the different girls, going to the casino? everything is so much fun. there is so much to name but for me, this was and is one of my favorite games to play.

[@TurdApocolypse]

First played this in my friends basement in the mid-2000s. He had a sheet of lined paper with about 20 cheat codes on it. We didn't care for the story at all. It was all about the cartoonish levels of violence we could get up to. Flying tanks and rocket launchers. It was pure bliss

[@aboutsoundandvision]

Always a good time watching at 35 minute video on classic GTA

[@rob_4227]

Dude your reviews keep getting better and better.

[@Let6me6in6]

YES!!! My favorite influencer completing my favorite game! I spent my whole senior year in High School playing GTA SA. I love this game and it will always hold a special place in my heart. Awesome video man! Love ya man and keep the videos coming.

[@ArkhBaegor]

Please don't insult him by calling him an influencer

[@peighnesshonourchign9164]

"Influencer" Lmmfgdao

[@quag311]

Saturday afternoons and Completionist uploads go hand in hand. I’m scrubbing toilets in the bathroom while watching Jirard suffer though games that were never intended to have to player get 100% completion, however when the games do get the rating of Complete it!, it feels like victory for the gaming community.

[@mikailvandartel]

Bro your comment got stolen by a spam "verified" account named "L"

[@shanayshukla6672]

@@mikailvandartel yep. Fecking thief

[@RPGtourguide]

San Andreas was a fun time back in the day. I remember my brother’s friend brought his copy over and we goofed around on it all the time. Plugging in cheat codes, seeing how long we could survive with max stars, daring each other to do random things. It was a good time. It would be a long while after that when I even touched the actual story. I can imagine taking the completionist route to this open a game would be frustrating. Well done for taking on that challenge!

[@shannonwilliams7249]

Your best writing ever. Mature, very funny, loved it. Thank you!

[@nullbyt]

Jsrf soundtrack on point

[@toni5158]

My favorite game of all time I have completed it twice this is gonna be interesting to watch

[@kevinprettyman1367]

I would love to see coverage on Manhunt from Rockstar

[@DeenIsaiah]

The ending had me morally obligated to comment this time around xD amazing video as always

[@themadtitan7603]

Correction: GTA 3 came out in 2001, 3 years before San Andreas and Vice City came out 2 years earlier.

[@mikeyb0121]

Platinumed this last year on the ps4, the longest most annoying trophy was the one where you have to deliver the cars for export in San Fierro

[@WhoopsISuck]

That’s definitely one of the ‘just grab the Internet guide’ missions. I didn’t fold on much when I played through, but that was *absolutely* one of them.

[@mikeyb0121]

@@WhoopsISuck definitely

[@rompevuevitos222]

It also has a gamebreaking bug that affects 5% of saves And the PS4 version is.... broken, to say the least In case the steam version wasn't bad enough, you got the new gen console versions taken straight from the Android port

[@nobodyspecial1080]

Subbed. Your enthusiasm is contagious and inspiring sir.

[@Mrpartyallnight101]

This is one of the first games i got on release day. I was in 7th grade but i got it thanks to my uncle. countless hours playing and heck i use to ditch school just to play lol. One of my fav games without a doubt and I still come back to it to this day. super nostalgic....

[@Pod207]

1:18 speedrun till he makes it about himself, world record

[@michaelschwartz8730]

San Andreas is still one of my favorite games. And I wouldn't recommend completing it to my worst enemy

[@someonerandom8552]

Lol same. I’ve completed the story like god knows how many times. But I wouldn’t complete it. That shit should be against the Genova convention or something lol

[@miguel480ac]

Let’s go I’ve been waiting for this!

[@arcane5413]

GTA SA is definitely my favorite out of the 3D trilogy it has so much content (That even Gta 4 or 5 didnt/dont have) and a part of why GTA SA is great to me is because it was one of my first video games i remember playing. I remember getting into a car listing to ice cube rap and running over pedestrians just to spawn at the nearest hospital. Using cheat codes that i still somehow remember today I was able to make GTA SA mine to run around and cause chaos in

[@ZerkUWU]

Oh yeah, here we go again with other of your great videos! :D

[@chrisrichfield8906]

Back in the day this was for sure a "Complete It". It was the best sandbox game you could ever ask for, there was no competition.

[@Total2Gamerz]

It s insane how many things they packed into this game. Before i got internet at home i had no idea about a lot of side activities and finding every collectible was downright impossible , and trust me as a kid i really tried to complete these things, not because i didn t have any other game to play, but i think what drove me to complete these things is just not knowing what the reward was. But the gta where i sunk the most hours is definitely vice city stories on the psp, damn i played through the story of that one for tens of times , but never actually managed to complete it because i couldn t find the last 9 baloons , and i tried for hundreds of hours literally bombarding the city with the attack elicopter. Man completing these games would have been a whole lotta easier nowdays

[@kelbychristopher7080]

Ugh the JetSet Radio music in the background gave me the best kind of chills.

[@VGMLucifier]

Worth a replay, but is there anyone who hasn’t actively fully completed a GTA game before? The “most” I’ve ever done was GTA IV, not 100% but around 80%, takes a lot of patience, but I’d imagine GTA SA is a lot easier than that, especially the controversial remakes/upgrades we’ve seen in the past 10-20 years. I’m just in it for the story, mayhem, and cheats. 😎 Also light amount of multiplayer whenever possible.

[@r0b3rt_959]

My best score is 90% on GTA V

[@toxenzz]

I literally have never fully completed a GTA game. GTA IV has numerous online only achievements and the classic games have monotonous glitches and coding errors that I refuse to subject myself to.

[@Lucky2000Zx]

I have fully completed GTA III and VC plus platinumed them since their isn’t much extra in them. I have 100% plus platinumed SA but not to the extent Jirard has with the extra stuff not required for 100% and for GTA V I just 100% and not the extra stuff for the story since lots of the trophies are based on Online and will take many years at a natural rate. I’m going to be playing GTA IV for the first time pretty soon and intending on just 100% it

[@quentinparhiala9415]

This is an awesome episode of the completionist and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is a great video game on Playstation 2

[@zidarose]

Serious props for completing this game. It is a massive game.

[@robobob408]

I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this video. This game has a special place in my heart, and oddly and unfortunately enough was one of my first experiences of wanting to complete a game 😅 you hit EVERY POINT that I just knew you'd hit. The accuracy of some of the most daunting tasks, with a good lot of them having little impact on the traditional "completion" requirements. And yet, in a weird classic Rockstar fashion, the level of immersion takes over and is a spectacle to get lost in, despite how FRUSTRATING IT CAN BE. TO DO. EVERY. LITTLE. DAMN. THING. THE SCHOOL LESSONS. THAT WACKY RED BARON. FOLLOWING THAT TRAIN. MAINTAINING STATS. All in the name of completion. It's a completion masochism. So interesting and hilarious at times, yet so infuriating and impossibly dragged out at others. Brilliant video as always.

[@metalheadballer3398]

As someone who played this shortly after release, this was the BIGGEST single player game ever. The number of options for the player were simply unheard of and went far beyond the 3d platformers we were used to. When we played this back in the day it truly felt like you could spend the rest of your life playing this game and still not seeing everything. I've been playing this game for about 17 years so I guess I was partly right.

[@cecillewolters1995]

What was or were the most mind blowing things during those 17 years? :)

[@MrSmaaaaaash]

Fuckin love this game. I never thought you'd complete it because it's so big.

[@dirtyxhippynerd8038]

Im new here and That intro was not what I was expecting lol I dig it

[@danielhergert7446]

the grumpy lobster staring over the shoulder during the rant was some great comedy while Mr. dragonrider was falling apart

[@ericwashington960]

The train mission was so messed up for me as a kid but really all you have to do is just stay somewhat far to right of the train and its over in a minute

[@CreepyUncleIdjit]

15 years after I first played the game, I was very happy to discover that strategy. Spending an hour on that single mission damn near made me rage quit.

[@CQchaos7474]

I know that mission is a meme for how difficult it is but I've never had an issue with it. The rc plane level on the other hand...

[@powerhound]

I hope you took a break after completion of this. Sounds very exhausting.

[@sketchasaurrex4087]

Dang! Never knew there was so much to that game. That's a monumental task to complete. Impressive, most impressive.

[@soyeons.vegetable.supplier]

This video is exactly what I needed to see.. I'm about 100 hours into my first playthrough of the game, getting close to the end, and feeling weird about how much stuff I'm skipping as someone who tends to be a completionist (not dating all the girls, not finishing the trucking missions, races, etc.). Glad to get confirmation that I can, in fact, skip some things and move on with my life and not feel guilty fomo anxiety about it. Thank you for all your pain and suffering

[@mgiebus1869]

I used to spend hours getting my garage and outfits right. Then I'd give a pedestrian the camera and have em take pictures of me. Shout out to Jirard for playing the real game and not that cash in definitely not edition

[@electricoj2765]

It’d be really cool if he went to complete Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories too. The games are available on the PS2 even though they were also on the PSP, so the game is relatively small and kinda easy to 100%, at least VCS, I still haven’t gotten to 3 and LCS since I’m currently working on completing San Andreas

[@jordanb.4514]

I just thought recently that you'd probably never do this one! No way! I'm excited to watch

[@NeverBeBored08]

That ranting monologue with all the GTA theme songs playing in the background is gold!! lmao