I have a dreaded feeling that GTA: San Andreas won't be on Gamecube as usual. But why not? Why can't nintendo have the games Xbox and PS2 has? And if the answer is to keep its kiddie image I think I will be sick...

Here's a barf bag, buddy.
You are, for the most part, correct in your assumption. Nintendo has always prided its systems on being "family-friendly", althugh now we are starting to see some Rockstar titles on GBA (including a GTA title). Too bad because most of us GCN owners probably want some of these titles-I am known to be one of those who really wants DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball for GCN. (those of you who want to say it should STFU instead)

Sony's gonna take their GTA games to the grave with them. It was a big step letting their old ones be released in a pakage on the Xbox, and not so big a one letting one get released for the GBA, but porting it so soon, and to a system that RockStar hasn't traditionally liked is rather out there. But ya know, we didn't buy GameCubes to drive over hookers.

Also, the controls wont be as good because the cube has 2 buttons less than the PS2, all of which are used in the PS2 version. For the game to be playable with a GCN pad you would need to incoporate some nasty button-combinations to do the functions of the missing buttons. Either that or make some functions only available in the start menu (like the VIEW function, which is currently on the SELECT button).

Add to that the fact that most of the buttons on the PS2 pad are pressure-sensitive, and on the GC pad only 2 of the shoulder buttons are, and you will get less control over your vehicle. Unless they completely change the control system so that you use the shoulder buttons to break and accellerate. Which will suck.

Grand Theft Auto should be on the GC. Family-friendly my butt. If games like Thirteen and BloodRayne(1) can be released, no one should make a big deal over this. I actually like running over hookers and crack dealers. It's hilarious to me.

It could work. The PS2 version misused the left stick so that the guy could look from eye view () instead of the glorious PC version style of able to look around 360 degrees.

Maybe I just stick to get the PC version....

The shoulder buttons of the GCN are analog, whereby the only analog components of the PS2 controller are the analog sticks, which the GCN has a replacement for. The D pad has 4-way functionality as has been shown with many FPS titles. Here's how it breaks down, barring analog sticks and the Star functions:

GCN: 11: D-Up, D-Down, D-Right, D-Left, R, L, A, B, X, Y, Z
PS2: 10: R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, X, Triangle, Square, Circle

If you reall wanted to stretch it and throw the Select button into the works, then you break even. Conversely, the fully clicked R and L buttons for the GCN have, in the past, provided a second function to merely depressing it but not clicking.

quote PrincessRyo

Grand Theft Auto should be on the GC. Family-friendly my butt. If games like Thirteen and BloodRayne(1) can be released, no one should make a big deal over this. I actually like running over hookers and crack dealers. It's hilarious to me.

quote Sonic Flash

The shoulder buttons of the GCN are analog, whereby the only analog components of the PS2 controller are the analog sticks, which the GCN has a replacement for. The D pad has 4-way functionality as has been shown with many FPS titles. Here's how it breaks down, barring analog sticks and the Star functions:

GCN: 11: D-Up, D-Down, D-Right, D-Left, R, L, A, B, X, Y, Z
PS2: 10: R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, X, Triangle, Square, Circle

If you reall wanted to stretch it and throw the Select button into the works, then you break even. Conversely, the fully clicked R and L buttons for the GCN have, in the past, provided a second function to merely depressing it but not clicking.

I hadn't heard of many games using the D-pad for anything that wasn't already a function. Those buttons don't seem very analog to me...

I think it's unfair that people who want to play Grand Theft Auto and have only got a Gmaecube can't; it just seems unfair. The good thing is for me it isn't because I've got an Xbox as well as a Gamecube.

It seems that us GC owners miss out on a lot of quality games because developers don't want to take a risk. I'm sure GTA would sell loads on the GC. Heck, why not just release GTA3? At least we'd get a GTA. However, I wouldn't trade in my GC just to get those games. Mario, Pokemon and Zelda are too playable.

It's a proven fact that mature games don't sell as well on the GameCube as the do on the Playstation 2 and the XBox. Every time a mature game is released on all three consoles, GC sales of that game are always the lowest. And because of that, Rockstar and other developers don't think it wouldn't be worth the trouble to make a GC port.

As for GameCube owners "missing out" on great games from other consoles, there are also many GameCube exclusives that they don't get. But I have a GameCube, XBox, and PC - so there are very few games I can't get.

While I haven't played San Andreas, I own GTA 3 & Vice City. I must say they are great games, but also very overrated.

i doubt we'll ever see a GTA on the cube, rockstar thinks its too risky. if you're really desperate though, just play GTA Advance on the Game Boy Player.

Do you reckon that GTA will be come a thing of the past on Gameboy aswell since the PSP is coming out?