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That said: there might be some girls out there that'll enjoy your flabby physique, Pash, so keep an eye out for 'em!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Is it the gurl in the driving school who likes fat men? I do recall one prospective date saying something about CJ not having enough on him.

I aslo noticed, when it was in idle/ogle/perve mode last night, that the female pedestrians' breasts jiggle up and down as they walk. Such dedication.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

There are a couple of girls that want some meat on their man (or, at the very least, less muscle) - I was too busy oiling my pecs to pitch that game, tho. I found some girl in the countryside shooting bottles off a rooftop that could possibly be The One angling for a little fat in the can.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

helen is the bottle shooting girl on the roof, she likes her men to have little muscle not sure about fat though i think she likes a bit.

michelle the driving school girl likes her fat men yes, i never got very far with her as she also likes a stylish man.

i've killed millie, been dumped by Denise, about to be dumped by barbara and katie, and haven't even had a sniff from helen or michelle.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

when i say little muscle i mean she doesn't like muscly men.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

but that whole girlfriend thing was horrible and too inadvertanly like real life for me. the dates were painful and long winded, with little reward at the end.

its worth keeping katie and barbara though, just don't bother answering the phone when they ring.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

YOU KILLED MILLIE!?!? WTF?

I'm so good, I don't even know anyone's names (aside from Millie, my ride-or-die ladyfriend). I have a helluva time showing Dildo Girl a good time, though - fuck a RATM soundtrack. Also, aside from showing the San Fierro Chick a good time by driving like a jackass, I dunno what else she wants.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

aside from showing the San Fierro Chick a good time by driving like a jackass,

yeah, to state the point again, I like how all the girlfriends CJ can get tend to enable his worst tendencies. Esp. the hispanic psychotic chick: "PEEEEEEEEEEEG"!

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Millie is the dildo girl, on Las Venturos. I killed her because it was the easiest way to obtain the key card.
ride or die girl would be Michelle? the one with the monster truck on San Fierro. Katie is the other girl on San Fierro who likes you to drive into other cars.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

The traffic pile-ups on the freeway are a/halriously twisted, warped and ott when yr observing them, and b/the biggest pain in thee ass in the entire game, if yr on a timed mission, or chasing someone and you get stuck in the middle of one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

yeah they're great fun. the worst time for them though was the quarry missions, the final level i think, where you had to cross the road with the dumper truck with the bodies in the back. almost tore my ps2 to bits over that one. on the xbox the freeway traffic is nowhere near as bad.

has anyone noticed how wildy the Vortex hovercraft can explode? It's a challenge just to stay alive if you end up upside down in one of these and have to get out quickly before the thing violently erupts and sends you hurtling to your death 100 yards down the road. Fun though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Didn't finish the quarry missions, that crane just pissed me off too much, could never get it to shorten it's reach or whatever.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

the view is annoying too

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, like a lot of times in GTA SA the camera angle makes a mission much more frustrating.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

"supply lines" GRAARGH. After abt 5 goes, I managed to strafe all the couriers, great I've won, but no "get my radio-controlled plane back to the shop, even though you've go about 1 pixel left on the fuel gauge" FUCKER. Even worse than that stupid mission in VC where you have to bomb the boats with the r/c plane!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

that VC mission is alright, i really like all those voodoo woman missions, especially the sniper one where you take the adrenalin pill first.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend who's way better at video games than me. So I called him for Supply Lines. That shit is sadistic.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 16 February 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I keep trying to find a Chevrolet Corvair Monza, which google tells me is called a Tampa in the game, so I can stick it in the garage. I've seen one twice - once when doing the learn to shoot mission right back at the beginning - you have to shoot the petrol cap off one, and once when one of those winter beater type cars that looks like a ford capri drove past the garage in doherty, with a "tampa" right behind it. This is super-sad, I know, but I love the shape of the Corvair, one of the nicest looking american cars ever:

GTA:SA "Tampa"

IRL Corvair Monza

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

From gamefaqs car locations faq.

Tampa

Parked Locations:

Spawn Locations:

*Bayside Marina Parking Lot, Las Venturas
*Parking Lot west of the jefferson hotel in jefferson/glenpark, Los Santos

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)

The Tampa is gorgeous, one of my favourites in the game, it's located in a small car showroom car park on Los Santos, next to the large orange motel where you do the large mission with Smoke and Ryder (next to the railway line)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD those remote control plane missions were GAH. I especially liked the 20 times I'd divebomb at a courier & end up crashing into the ground / wires / tree branch / building / the fucking courier.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I think I passed that mission via fortuitous high-alt divebombing - fuck accuracy, just get as high as possible, and then accelerate towards your target, firing the whole time, then pulling up and making another sweep. I forget if I did the "stop on the road & open fire" trick, too.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

i think i did the "stop on the road & open fire" trick for most of em, apart from the motorbike - that was a little bit more tricky.

the stop on the road trick is best for when you revisit the complete Zero missions and then its just a bonus timed mission with random appearing couriers.

i just laughed my ass off playing it at lunch time. i was causing chaos on the freeways again and was in bulk when i saw a car biff out and drive off at full speed with some guy still stood on his roof in a ready to fight stance.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:48 (twenty years ago)

You might hate me for saying this, but the RC mission would be a breeze if you first mastered that air race that I hated. I think the key to flying most of the planes, including the RC, is to NOT hold down on the gas!

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

In the original PS2 release at least, the fuel still went down even if you didn't hold down on it. I think they changed it in some later versions. The fuel did stay still if you parked the plane somewhere and waited for the courier to get near to you though.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

i found that the only way to beat the rc plane mission was to never land and always get the target on the first pass AND to plan your route accordingly. Once you do that, the thing is pretty doable every time.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

the trick with supply lines: i thought it was unwinnable until i realized that when you shoot at the two couriers who abandon their vehicles, they will chase after you on foot. those two couriers are also the ones closest to you when you start out!! so just quickly fire at both of them and continue west to take out the third courier. after you make him explodey, you literally turn the plane around and the two couriers on foot are lined up, waiting to be mowed down. if it all goes well you should mos def have enough time to get the other two and still get back to the red corona.

-- \(^o^)/ ([email protected]), December 9th, 2004 10:15 AM. (Adrian Langston)

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Friday, 17 February 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Leee absolutely correct, he's not talking about how to save fuel, it just makes control a lot easier if you're not pressing down on the gas all the time. and it's the same for all the other planes. i only ever apply the throttle if i'm climbing (or diving like a madman into traffic)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 17 February 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

currently having good fun with cop chases through the countryside. Although long lasting when on the Sanchez there is something immensly satisfying when doing it in a car you manage to land upright after a series of back-flips and rolls.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 17 February 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Controlling the thing was never a problem with me though, it was always running out of fuel. Adele's method seems pretty clever though.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I have never liked a single GTA as hard as i've tried. I always feel as if i am in the matrix or somesuch and am playing the code. Hold X, press left on d-pad, etc. etc. i can never actually dissacoiate myself from teh mechanics and actually enjoy the game.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I got through "Supply Lines"!! Third go last night.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 February 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

i revisited Vice City last night, hooking the playstation up to my housemate's 5:1 system (it wasn't in 5:1 but still sounded impressive). god damn, i was surprised at how much i *missed the place - i almost wet myself when the first green cop car cruised past.

but its not as good a game as SA, especially in that saving a game does not kill yr cop rating.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

"Flying School" argh not fun at all.

OTOH, parachuting out of that black ops C-5 was quite something.

The desert scenery up around verdant meadows is the best bit of the game so far for me.

I remember when you could fly helicopters in Vice City, it was amazing to see how small the location actually was, and how cleverly it was laid out, to make it seem bigger than it actually was. Not the case in San Andreas though, eh? I got up in a Lear Jet lookalike, and Wow, the size of the place. I tried to fly the learjet under the garver bridge, and of course crashed it into the sea.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Be strong my son. Be strong. Great things come to those who wait when it comes to flying!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

I remember when you could fly helicopters in Vice City, it was amazing to see how small the location actually was, and how cleverly it was laid out, to make it seem bigger than it actually was.

yes! i enjoyed causing much hysteria on ground level, achieving a five star rating, and then sneaking into the chopper on top of that skyscraper and taking off and landing it back at the vercetti mansion, just kind of guessing my way along...

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

fucking flying school. i gave up at that point. well, i let it go for a while. i play these games wrong anyway. both vice city and san andreas were all about property for me. mug and rob until i can afford the next house. i was done with vice city when i got the apartment with the regenerating helicopter. that was rich enough for me.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Pash, I hope you're not making the same mistake I did during flying school - I tried the damn thing 50 times before I realized I was forgetting to retract my landing gear.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

snicker

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

No! It was that fly the plane in a circle, then the fly the plane in a circe and land it. PURE TEDIUM. After I'd got through those 2 bits, the rest of the flying school challenges were pretty easy.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:58 (twenty years ago)

It doesn't help that the training plane SUCKS.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

True dat. Barnstorming still a bitch.

Tried last mission this weekend and fucked up at the same place again. I have put this game on hold indefinitely.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Played this for the first time in a year and it was fun but man the graphics are kinda bad.

I can't seem to get into the GTA games when I don't have plot to get through. Everyone else seems to dig driving around and collecting horseshoes and killing grandmothers for fun but it doesn't hold my interest for very long.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

This is true. Once I beat the game, I lose damn near most of my interest in playing again. It's like the narrative framework of the game helps the immersiveness of it, like CJ's world is populated with actual folks who have actual relationships w/ him, etc.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Or, when you beat the game, you've really got nothing else to do. Except maybe Beat the Cock.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Once you beat the game (100%) you get infinite ammo, surely you can have some fun with that?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 09:42 (twenty years ago)

You've so much ammo so early in the game that I actually regret getting near the end. I'd go back and max out stats again early in game if it wasn't for the time I.Saved.Over.My.60%+.Game.

::shudders with rage::

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Favourite thing at the moment = BAILING OUT. IE, if you want to get somewhere quickly, go to the nearest airport, jack a plane, fly there, and when you get to your destination, jump out! Left mouse button opens the parachute, and you can watch the plane spiralling out of control. Also, when you jump out, sometimes CJ goes OH FUUUUCK!!! which is good for a larf.

Best one was bailing out of the little helicopter whilst above the clouds over the triad casino, watching the heli dropping down & vanishing through the clouds was actually strangely unnerving. It's amazing just how into this little world you get.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I remembered yesterday that GTA games have all kinds of crazy cheats, for flying cars and riots and stuff like that. I've not tried any of them since the original GTA3 (I remember turning on pedestrians-have-rockets and pedestrians-are-aggressive and feeling like I was suddenly in 'nam or something!), but thought I might boot up san andreas again later on (since I doubt I'm ever going to get round to finishing it, now) and give some of them a go. Anyone got any recommendations?

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 2 March 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of doing the same after reading this thread! A friend and I used to play GTA3 with "Pedestrians hate you", "Pedestrians hate eachother" and "Pedestrians have guns" switched on. It was excellent for a two-player games of who-can-survive-the-longest. I imagine it'd be even better on San Andreas, with the countryside, freeway and what-not. Infact, I might just fire up the game and do this in a minute.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

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