Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Difference between revisions

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* [[23]]: This gem of a conversation between protagonist Carl Johnson and The Truth:

{{quote|'''The Truth:''' Induction of images, sound or emotion using microwave radiation. D'you know how many government satellites are watching any citizen at any moment?}}

{{quote|'''The Truth:''' Twenty-three. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon?}}

{{quote|'''The Truth:''' Twenty three. You see a pattern emerging here, man?}}

{{quote|'''CJ:''' Man, I'm seeing patterns all over the place! Get that smoke out of my face!}}

** Also, the name of the mission where this conversation takes place (Are You Going to San Fierro?) has 23 letters (counting the question mark), it's unknown if this is actually intentional or just a coincidence.

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Maccer's addiction to masturbation is the subject of numerous gags.

{{quote|'''Zero:''' No, no, I masturbate quite often, if that's what you're implying...}}

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** One of the radio ad parodies spoofs ''[[Harry Potter]]'', even though the first book wasn't published until 1997...in ''Europe''.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Completing some of the storyline and asset missions gets you some special outfits, which you may need to wear in order to progress through another mission. Also, achieving [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|100% progress with most of the girlfriends gets you an outfit related to their profession]].

** [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: The ability to dress as a cop returns from ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'', allowing you to enter police stations all over the state, so long as you don't draw your firearms while inside. You gain this ability by getting 100% relationship progress with [[Dating Catwoman|Barbara Schternvart, the only female cop in the game]], if not any ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' game.

** [[Dressing as the Enemy]]: The ability to dress as a cop returns from ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'', allowing you to enter police stations all over the state, so long as you don't draw your firearms while inside. You gain this ability by getting 100% relationship progress with [[Dating Catwoman|Barbara Schternvart, the only female cop in the game]], if not any 3D ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' game.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: You, the rest of Grove Street {{spoiler|(well, Sweet at least)}}, Cesar and Woozie.

* [[Area 51]]: Parodied with Area [[Double Entendre|69]], which {{spoiler|CJ breaks into to acquire a [[Jet Pack]].}} Trying to enter the area will earn you an instant five-star wanted level, and if you fly over, you will be brought down by SAM sites and Hydra fighter jets.

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* [[Broken Bridge]]: At the beginning of the game, the bridges had been damaged by an earthquake. Double subverted in that, although you can swim, boat, or fly across, you will get a four star wanted level for even trying, and you can't do anything at those points anyway.

** You actually can do a few things. The Courrier Missions on both Las Venturas and San Fierro, the NRG-500 Challenge, the Chiliad Challenge, any of the Vehicles Missions, and a few more. Only thing is that you have to do them with a 4-star wanted level.

* [[Burger Fool]]: OG Loc's parole officer lined him up for a job at Burger Shot as a "Hygiene Technician" (fancy talk for janitor). His uniform - and that of everyone else who works there - includes an oversized burger hat, which needless to say looks ridiculous. Not to mention the chicken hat that is part of the uniform at Cluckin' Bell.

* [[Burger Fool]]: OG Loc's parole officer lined him up for a job at Burger Shot as a "Hygiene Technician" (fancy talk for janitor). His uniform - and that of everyone else who works there - includes an oversized burger hat, which needless to say looks ridiculous. Not to mention the chicken hat that is part of the uniform at Cluckin' Bell, no wonder they're extra disgruntled and spiteful.

* [[Buried Alive]]: The mission "Deconstruction," a conga line of [[Disproportionate Retribution]], ends with pushing the foreman, who is hiding in a porta-potty, into a hole - and then filling the hole with cement.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: The first mission requires you to use a bike. If you "acquire" something else, the game ceases to show the people you are meant to follow on your minimap and the Ballas car continues to chase and shoot you no matter where you go.

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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The Cluckin' Bell worker clearly doesn't like his job.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Played for laughs on the news radio station WCTR...

{{quote|'''Leanne''': Staying in Venturas: it used to be a patch of desert, then it was a mob town. Now, it is the corporate headquarters of America. Richard explains from the streets.

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* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: Ok, you've completed all the [[Gotta Catch Them All|collectibles]], [[An Entrepreneur Is You|bought all property]], [[Sidequest|completed all side missions]], [[Badass Driver|you're a proven master of vehicles both on the land, water and in the air]], the grove street gang's territory is bigger than it has ever been and yet when your brother is freed from jail due to 'your connections with the government' he still treats you like a noob, chewing you out on leaving Los Santos behind again. Sweet's behavior is justified, since he has been in jail all the time without any contact to outside, and he has no way of knowing about your various exploits, or your reasons for leaving. Given this situation, it makes sense for him to react this way. Nevertheless, the sudden shift in mood can be a bit perplexing for the player.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Jizzy specifically refers to CJ as this, repeatedly (apparently the game is assuming you've been working out). He's ''wrong'', but CJ was trying to get on his good side so he could snap at him when the opportunity arose, so whatever.

* [[Dummied Out]]: The sex minigame had to be removed in order to avoid an AO rating, but deleting the code for it would've required delaying the game by a few months to fix the girlfriend system. So Rockstar, to meet their release date, simply buried it under layers of code. The result was the Hot Coffee scandal. The "Second Edition" version, however, did get rid of the code. Also, lots of other stuff was coded, but never implemented. A [[Game Mod]] by Deezire restores a crap ton of content, including cutscene dialogue that fills in so many plot holes you'll wonder why the hell Rockstar never bothered to activate it.

* [[Dummied Out]]: The sex minigame had to be removed in order to avoid an Adult Only rating which will prevent the game from being ported onto consoles, but deleting the code for it would've required delaying the game by a few months to fix the girlfriend system. So Rockstar, to meet their release date, simply buried it under layers of code with plans to release them later in an AO version. The result was the Hot Coffee scandal. The "Second Edition" version, however, did get rid of the code. Also, lots of other stuff was coded, but never implemented. A [[Game Mod]] by Deezire restores a crap ton of content, including cutscene dialogue that fills in so many plot holes you'll wonder why the hell Rockstar never bothered to activate it.

* [[Easter Egg]]: So, so many. Including a sign in an exotic location reading: "No Easter Eggs here, go away." Also many audio Easter eggs on the various radio stations.

* [[El Spanish-O]]: In one mission, Big Smoke is trying to negotiate with some Mexican gangsters, before he loses his patience and demands, "Cough-io - up el weedo - before I blow your brains out all over the patio!"

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* [[Freudian Excuse]]: CJ will sometimes mockingly say that he had a bad childhood when killing random people. That and "[[Society Is to Blame|I blame society]]!"

* [[Friendship Moment]]: Cesar has one with Carl when he shows Carl {{spoiler|that Smoke and Ryder are betraying the Families.}} This is what leads to his [[Lancer]] status.

** CJ learning about ~~Wu Zi~~'s {{spoiler|blindness}} also qualifies, as the two become noticeably more buddy-buddy afterward.

** CJ learning about Woozie's {{spoiler|blindness}} also qualifies, as the two become noticeably more buddy-buddy afterward.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The infamous Madd Dogg glitch. A glitch in a mission where you had to save him from his own suicide attempt by positioning a truck full of hay under him before he could jump off a building would become Unwinnable because he would jump off the building before the cutscene ended. This glitch also made the ''game'' [[Unwinnable]], and this is compounded by the fact that no one is certain what triggers this glitch; it seems to be completely random. Many suggestions have been made, the most commonly accepted "cause" being that it's caused by cheating extremely often, or using common cheats. This is discredited, since many people who never cheated once the entire game still had the glitch occur, while some that cheated extensively never saw it. One cause is the "pedestrians riot" cheat (which cannot be turned off), causing everyone to become hostile to each other. This mission is affected because Madd Dogg's character attempts to run to the nearest NPC to fight them, and in doing so, runs off the roof and dies. This is made even worse by it being one of the last missions in the game, meaning that if you get this glitch, you're screwed and have to start all over and pray you don't get the glitch again. Though, mercifully, it seems as though it never happens in two new games in a row.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: The infamous Madd Dogg glitch. A glitch in a mission where you had to save him from his own suicide attempt by positioning a truck full of hay under him before he could jump off a building would become Unwinnable because he would jump off the building before the cutscene ended. This glitch also made the ''game'' [[Unwinnable]], and this is compounded by the fact that no one is certain what triggers this glitch; it seems to be completely random. Many suggestions have been made, the most commonly accepted "cause" being that it's caused by cheating extremely often, or using common cheats. This is discredited, since many people who never cheated once the entire game still had the glitch occur, while some that cheated extensively never saw it. One cause is the "pedestrians riot with golf clubs" cheat (which cannot be turned off), causing everyone to become hostile to each other. This mission is affected because Madd Dogg's character attempts to run to the nearest NPC to fight them, and in doing so, runs off the roof and dies. This is made even worse by it being one of the last missions in the game, meaning that if you get this glitch, you're screwed and have to start all over and pray you don't get the glitch again. Though, mercifully, it seems as though it never happens in two new games in a row.

** Also, if you attempt to play basketball in Madd Dogg's mansion, all basketballs on the world map will be deleted from the game, meaning you can't play it again in that particular save. This one is minor, since basketball is not needed for [[100% Completion]], but another glitch involving the mansion that you should worry about involves saving there, which corrupts your file.

** There's one in the Woozie mission "Mountain Cloud Boys" (reported to occur in at least the PC and [[PlayStation 2]] versions). After you take Woozie around the block to the {{spoiler|ambush}} Triad meeting, once you get out of the car and the cutscene plays, you won't be able to control CJ, the camera, or do ''anything'' except go to the pause menu. Fortunately, you can defuse this one by stopping at the target before Woozie stops talking about the Vietnamese gang, thus preventing the cutscene from running.

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* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: The name of the town El Quebrados is gramatically incorrect - it should be either "El Quebrado" or "Los Quebrados".

** Also, "Los Flores", the correct form being "Las Flores".

** '''Varrios Los Aztecas''' is misspelled Spanish for "The Aztec Neighborhoods", the correct word is "Barrio", or "Barrios" in plural. Probably [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|misspelled to be stylized]] since in Mexican Spanish, the sound of B and V are basically pronounced the same way.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: One of the most common questions seems to be: "Where do I find this 'Euros' car for the export list?" And rightfully so, since it only spawns in one specific location and only when it is wanted for the export list (and you need to know what it looks like, to boot). Fortunately the exporting of cars is optional for completing the ''storyline'' of the game, but for those playing for the coveted "100% completion" awards, you gotta grin and bear it. Or find a walkthrough.

** In addition, for 100% completion CJ has to locate 70 photo locations, spray 100 gang tags, track down 50 oysters, and 50 horseshoes. The San Andreas map is so huge and complex, and many of these items/jump sites are in hidden locations, that the only practical way to find them all is with a walkthrough or guidebook (although subverted by the [[Brady Games]] official strategy guide that gives incorrect locations or unhelpful directions for many of these).

** In addition, for 100% completion CJ has to locate 50 photo locations in San Fierro, spray 100 gang tags in Los Santos, track down 50 oysters in the waters of San Andreas, and collect 50 horseshoes in Las Venturas. The San Andreas map is so huge and complex, and many of these items/jump sites are in hidden locations, that the only practical way to find them all is with a walkthrough or guidebook (although subverted by the [[Brady Games]] official strategy guide that gives incorrect locations or unhelpful directions for many of these).

** Oh and there are also 70 hidden unique stunt jumps, too, though these aren't required for 100% completion. Many of these jumps are obvious (why else would a jump ramp be placed in the middle of trailer park?) but some - especially those that require the player to jump off a cliff or some such ( {{spoiler|one jump actually requires CJ to launch a car from Red County, hope it flies high and fast enough to cross a bay, and land on the San Fierro Airport tarmac}}) - are not intuitive and need a manual to locate/become aware of.

** And without a guidebook, many players likely complete the storyline portion of the game unaware of things like the hidden courier challenges, the bicycle and motorbike challenges, the mountain biking races, and the two triathlons that are only accessible on certain days of the week! Although also not needed for 100% completion, several of the women available for dating are not located in obvious places, either (one is hidden in a park in San Fierro that CJ is not required to visit for any mission or item pick-up).

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* [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: CJ has to enter a burning house to rescue a girl. From fire he caused in the first place.

* [[Hit So Hard the Calendar Felt It]]: Invoked when a guy called The Truth gets something CJ stole from a government base, he says "They shall call this [[Year Zero]]".

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Zero. For instance, he quips [[Star Wars]] during his rooftop defense mission.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Zero. For instance, he quips [[Star Wars]] as well as [[Winston Churchill]] (albeit poorly for the latter) during his rooftop defense mission.

* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: A silenced 9mm pistol is available and used during some stealth-based missions. It makes the classic ''fwip!'' sound and does not alert moderately distant guards.

* [[Hufflepuff House]]: Varrios Los Aztecas. Their leader, Caesar, could be considered a [[Supporting Leader]].