I have long history with this game. It was my first exposure to this series, when my brother was playing this on PC. I was too young for this but I didn't care, I was too busy immersing myself into Los Santos with cool cars to steal, big buildings, clothes to buy, activities to do like racing, people to kill plus cheat codes to mess around with and among other things. It was unlike anything I've seen when it came to video games.

I didn't pay attention to the story and the missions, like all other kids back then so I had no idea there were 2 other cities as big as Los Santos but I still had fun exploring the city and messing around, as well as downloading mods to further entice my experience.

Now, after 15 years I decided to come back and give this game a proper finish, play it's main missions and see it's story to the end while doing most of the game's activities. It isn't a 100% playthrough but I wanted to see the most of what the game offers, while doing the main missions in between.

After 40 hours of ingame playtime and having a 76% completion as of writing this, this proper playthrough has solidified San Andreas as not only my most favourite GTA in the series but also my most favourite game of all time. It wasn't how I started playing video games but San Andreas showed me that there was more in games than just playing platformers and very simple children games.
(yeah the gap between educational games and a fucking GTA game is ludicrous but I only remember playing 2 or maybe 3 of those so whatever)