San Andreas delayed by one week.

Davoren · Post by **Davoren** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:17 pm

Take2Games has today announced as part of its financial results that GTA: San Andreas will ship one week later than expected, to allow for final testing of the game.

The game will now be available on October 26th in North America and October 29th in Europe. It is not yet known if release dates will change for other territories, such as Australia/New Zealand, where the original release date was the 28th of October.

However, a small amount of good news comes in the form of a release date for the PC version of the game:

Additional products planned for fiscal 2005 from Rockstar Games include Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PC in the third quarter, as well as two new console titles based on proven brands from Rockstar's internal studios, in the third and fourth quarters. Rockstar also plans to release Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in Japan in fiscal 2005.
-- Take2Games Third Quarter Financial Results, 9th September, 2004

We're not joking, unfortunately, so PS2 owners can expect to be playing this October, and PC gamers will be having the fun sometime in April, May or June 2005.

Update: To silence a few rumours, Take2Games just confirmed that the price of the game will be $49.95 in the USA. Preorder numbers are "significantly higher" than Vice City's numbers at the same time in 2002. The Game Boy Advance version of GTA will carry an "M" rating from ESRB in North America.

One week isn't at all bad, I'm just glad I hadn't booked the 22nd off work yet! Still, it makes you wonder how complete the game really is...

Redlimit · Post by **Redlimit** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:58 pm

Pray that this dosent become Half-Life 2 style delays. It all started with "delayed by one week as well" - its been a whole year since then....

Reiji · Post by **Reiji** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:56 pm

Aw shit, looks like my birthday present will be one week late. :x :boo

Shinji Hiryu · Post by **Shinji Hiryu** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:05 am

You graduate yet by the way reiji?
UH is so screwed. I think I'm stuck here for 3 more years...

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TheStrife · Post by **TheStrife** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:27 am

One week is nothing. Hopefully they get most of the annoying glitches and bugs (that plagued VA

) out of it with that extra week.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:39 am

But randomly falling through the ground was so fun!

Reiji · Post by **Reiji** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:54 am

Shinji Hiryu wrote:You graduate yet by the way reiji?
UH is so screwed. I think I'm stuck here for 3 more years...

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Yup, but I'm still hanging out on campus as an unclassified grad...and for the gym and other benefits of being a student

And don't worry, UH likes to think it's a 4-year college but in reality it's a 5 year college.

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:06 am

Is this the only game that exists to you Davoren?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:16 am

I've made sure I'm unemployed for at least the next year.
I hear this is a BIG game!

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:18 am

I got my day off work to play this game for 10 mins!

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:09 pm

There is going to be delays for many games this fall, I think mostly because if greater competition is going to be released around the same timeframe it will decrease the possibility of the title being bought, even if they know its going to sell big.

Davoren · Post by **Davoren** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:10 pm

Joei wrote:Is this the only game that exists to you Davoren?

No, Metal Gear 3 exists. As does Resident Evil 4. Everything else can go to Hell.

(edit) man, my rank is disturbing...

fire2ash · Post by **fire2ash** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:30 pm

lol it will go away soon, I remember when that was my rank, I felt so worthless.

Reiji · Post by **Reiji** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:32 pm

Let's get back to the game:

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/544/544428p1.html

New screenshots of the countryside.

Still waiting on visuals for the Las Vegas mockup.

I didn't forget the "h", I'm just in a habit of deliberately breaking links

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:57 pm

Joei wrote:Is this the only game that exists to you Davoren?

it's one of the only games I care about right now
vice city was fucking awesome, and this looks fucking awesome times ten

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:57 pm

I want this game too.

The city looks so amazing and it's just so..huge. I can't imagine how long it'll take me to beat it.

But the thing that hits me over the head the most is that it's just not 3 cities. It's 15.

j0hn Ayanami · Post by **j0hn Ayanami** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:36 am

I'm kind of wary about it - I didn't care for Vice City so much, but everything you can do in this game is relieving my fears a bit. Hopefully the missions and story will be better this time around.

Doom · Post by **Doom** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:06 am

It's going to take a lot to genuinely impress me with this, but I won't rule out that possibility.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:45 am

didn't care for vice city? you crazy mothafucka

http://www.sensitivitycheck.com/erik/re ... _city.html

oh well it sounds like in this game you'll be able to drive down from the top of a half mile high mountain!

HKK · Post by **HKK** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:27 am

yeah, that is just so fucking badass...

if rockstar pulls this off, this is just going to be CRAZY.

And I hope the mission variety are just as good as VC's.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:54 pm

I wonder if they delayed it of a week to put the Hot Coffee mod in it?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:33 am

I never finished this game but did love it

...and not just because it has niggaz and swearing in it

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:59 am

Can't believe it took another 9 years for this to finally come out.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:56 am

Hahaha. WTF?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:48 am

WTF this delay is unacceptable why would they do this rockstar sucks they hold no candle against squrare enix the best company on the planet

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:26 pm

XINE ERAU QSSI DLRO WEHT

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:54 pm

Was that one of their slogans?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 2:50 am

It will probably be part of a puzzle if FFVI ever gets remade

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:45 am

That would be very sad. I'm not even sure whether I mean ruining the pun or milking the franchise by making even more remakes of the same games.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:21 am

smeared ink wrote:It will probably be part of a puzzle if FFVI ever gets remade

The puzzle will be $5 DLC.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Nov 08, 2013 1:18 pm

I'd be ok with them milking the franchise if they made it the same way they did the FFIII/FFIV DS remakes. I really like the art/graphics style in those.

Of course, they won't, because the time for that has sort of come and gone.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 1:11 am

For the KoTR Materia, please pay $10.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 5:10 am

Honestly, as much as I hate that idea, $10 is kind of a deal over all the chocobo breeding and racing you need to do...

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:29 am

smeared ink wrote:I'd be ok with them milking the franchise if they made it the same way they did the FFIII/FFIV DS remakes. I really like the art/graphics style in those.

Of course, they won't, because the time for that has sort of come and gone.

You getting Bravely Default then?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:25 pm

Probably, if I have a thing that plays it!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:21 pm

Get a 3DS man!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 11:29 pm

I probably will at some point!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:48 am

New Zelda is also out this month.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sun Nov 10, 2013 2:30 pm

I know and it looks sweet

I don't have time to play it though.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:26 pm

San Andreas is coming out on phones next month. Imagine if we could sent that news back 9 years

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 12:43 am

Then we would think.... why would I want to play this on my phone instead of a real game machine? Because that's pretty much what I still think about phone games.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:30 am

Damien wrote:San Andreas is coming out on phones next month. Imagine if we could sent that news back 9 years

Wait it won't have buttons?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 5:54 pm

Yeah how does that work by the way? Do they put buttons on screen or do they just expect you to do everything through specific kinds of taps and such a la The World Ends With You.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:07 pm

You can buy controllers to clip around your phones now. There are invisible/partially visible overlaid buttons on the GTA ports I've played. I've never managed to get along with them though.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:15 pm

Still doesn't solve the biggest problem with phone gaming. It still drains the battery too much. If I'm going to have to bring exta stuff to game on the phone, I'd rather bring a dedicated gaming machine.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 7:16 pm

There are certain types of games that I think are well-suited to phones, and 3D action/adventure-ish games are not among them.

However, I think phones are the perfect platform for something like Advance Wars, especially since they are also ideal for asynchronous multiplayer.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:11 am

smeared ink wrote:ideal for asynchronous multiplayer.

Is this a fancy way of saying games where you take turns?

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:43 am

It sounds way more grown up than taking turns.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 12:16 pm

Presumably it was coined to put a positive/fancy-sounding spin on "you can't both play at the same time."

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sun Dec 22, 2013 1:24 am

Whatever. That happened ages ago with like Super Mario Bros and like lots of other stuff too. I don't think they needed a fancy name back then. They just didn't call it coop.

Although some games you play at the same time aren't coop and I suppose some games you play at different times could at least potentially be coop... but that's not the point. The point is that 2 player mode of the original Super Mario Bros. was played by taking turns and was most definitely not coop.... whereas Super Mario Bros. 3 was played mostly taking turns, but also some simultaneous play, and maybe was kind of coop but also partly competitive. Category defying game!

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