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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)

Go for the ninja one, the super punch, the float away cars, the super bunny hop, getting the hydra (type jumpjet), perfect handling. There are a few more I do when very frustrated but I can't remember.

I found all these all over the place. They're fun but unfortunately there's no invinvibility, that would r00l!!!11!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Cor, there's thousands of them!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

"All Pedestrians Are Elvis"!! haha!

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I murder the Elvis dudes on sight anyway, that would be a bloodbath.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

The RIOT mode I used to play for hours. The first time I tried it, I had yet to have discovered the rocket launcher normally. I was simply walking across the street when wham-Wham-WHAMN, this fucking fireball came out of nowhere and knocked about a dozen of us back. I was in awe.

I used to go up to that hotel place where the Russian mission takes place in Los Santos, and get into sniping mode while the riots were goin' on. Littering the streets with exploded helicopters while watching out for hookers with bazookas could go on forever.

It was so engrossing that when I would turn off the game, I'd actually feel a sense of relief that it was all, in fact, "just a game". That I could turn the game back on, and everything would be back to normal.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

WOW. This is fun.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 2 March 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I finally found my last tag! but a warning to all you other hunters..

my tag was actually already done. my housemate decided he'd had enough of me whining about not finding it and he printed off a tag-map to check all mine. he couldn't find any I hadn't done.

so i went around and targeted with the spray can all my tags, luckily after only about the seventh one it bleeped and gave me the "all tags sprayed" message.

so i'd been searching for MONTHS for nothing, ah well at least a lot of people got killed along the way.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Ste. My hat goes off to you. Never have I seen such dedication!

Have you any oysters or Horseshoes still to go?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 March 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I still, un-bloody-believably, still have 4! horseshoes to find. I think I managed to get 49 on the xbox version but I cannot remember where the new ones were.

only a couple of oysters to go i think.

I think I'll still be searching for these when I'm 80

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Am now back in los santos, running the ballaz and the vagos out of town, fuckers. Pleasant to see og loc get his comeuppance, though thet mission w/the hovercraft and the go-carts wasn't a lot of fun.

I think a couple of Las Venturas missions have vanished somehow. Aren't you supposed to do some kind of robbery on the mafia casino?

I now have a fleet of brightly-coloured Corvairs, all with nitrous injection at my disposal "unsafe at any speed" haha.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Are you done w/ the plot part of the game? The mafia casino thing shd still be there, if you haven't actually done it yet. In my game, I stopped @ the mission where you have to steal cop cars, and I still seem to be able to go back to the casino to give it another go, should I desire to do so.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Not quite done with the plot bit, I completed "beat down on b dup" or whatever it's called last night.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

thet mission w/the hovercraft and the go-carts wasn't a lot of fun

oh the amount of times i landed the fucking thing on the pier!

There is indeed a mission for the mafia heist on LV, have you obtained the key card from Millie yet though? just shoot her in the face, and then you can rob her house for it.

my 'brightly coloured' cars always lose their paintjobs after I've reloaded my game.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Customising is for suckahs! Takes too much time IMHO.

NRG 500 fo life y'all! They are my babies. Once you go bike you never go... um... back?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

You certainly never go backwards.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

the lowriders and the street-racers are pretty good customized, I like the subura lookalike with its similar rally counterpart customization.

but they just get trashed too soon and I end up just keeping them in my garage.

Mind you, doing laps around San Fierro airport is quite fun in a race circuit type way.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

The only accessories I got is my blunt and my gat...

so rat a tat tat ::MAKES GANG SIGNS::

and some flame decals whenever I get a lowrider near accessories. CHildish but FUN

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

wtf j00 talkin bout kv_nol??? sanchez pwnz teh nrg!!! even teh bf-400 is teh better! It's got so much more muscle than the NRG, even if it's not as fast, it feels like it's got better handling and it's a TEH MAN'Z BIKE, NOT A GRRRLY BIKE LIKE TEH NRG, MANG.

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

4 teh visual comparisonz:

LAME PUSSY NRG
AWESOMENESS BF-400

― c(''c) (Leee), Thursday, 16 March 2006 20:44 (twenty years ago)

christ, who's dressed Carl in those pics?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Are they pedal-pushers he's wearing?

NRG for concrete, Sanchez for countryside.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

bf-400 looks like old batbike know what I'm sayin foo'?

I'd forgotten the sanchez. Fun but not as AWESOME AND FAST AS THE NRG!

Favourite car: the tank. I wonder if you can bring it out on dates. Think of the jokes about big cannons that could be made. A real way of filling those awkward moments...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

http://t-c.servepics.com/bat/bat010u.jpg - Batbike yo!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I present to you the real King of Bikes - The FCR900
http://www.gtagaming.com/images/sanandreas/cars/FCR900%20copy.jpg

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that's bigger than I thought

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

That's what she etc.!

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 20 March 2006 18:13 (twenty years ago)

last night: exploring the carpark under the police station in (i think) san fierro, accidentally came across 2 cops brutalising a suspect, instantly scored 2 Stars of trouble, and was attacked by said cops... had i spooked some cops from their illegal brutalisin???

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 27 March 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

sometimes you'll find your old vehicles parked at the back there.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

I started all over again. It was that or study. Didn't know that about all the old vehicles.

Dud: getting stats back to max. So much time. Not to mention tags etc. Much easier now that I know what I'm about though.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Hot tip for getting around! Hijack a train and do the two R3 Train Missions~! You'll get free rides all around the world, plus you get to skip the actual ride and go straight to the station!

Or! If getting to just one place is made easy by going to the airport and using a plane!

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

WTF @ NRG hate.

The NRG is KING for unique stunt jumps! Especially the one at the montgomery intersection, which rocks.

^^^^ Keeping it real, not like you fake-ass motherfukcers ;)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Word Pahmina. Punks jump up to get beat down ya hear?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Unique jumps is for suckazzz!!!

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 3 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Mainstream jumpz be fo' chumps foo'!!!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i watched Ghost Dog again last night, and was thinking how great it would be if the next GTA had a real strong mystical martial-arts theme going through it, if it approximated that same clash of noble warrior and gritty street trash.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Sad moment at work: Boss asks me what tune I was humming ("Walking through Darkness"). I told him that he wouldn't know it as it was off the Ghost Dog soundtrack. Hurt at this assumption he is now determined to prove his youth and with-itedness and pushes for an answer. I explain about the sample of "across 110th street" etc, he demands (positively demands) to know the lyrics because he's sure he knows this. I have to sing the chorus at him: "Let's get drunk. Let's get drunk and high. Yeah!" He didn't know it. Blushes all round.

I love where I work sometimes!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

here it is, kids!

http://www.rockstargames.com/grandtheftauto4/

now get ready for NO MORE INFORMATION FOR ONE YEAR

― antexit (antexit), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I have heard (from what I consider to be a reliable source) that this game is going to be both smaller than San Andreas and online.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I like that :( I loved the sprawl of SA and the way you could walk away for a couple of days. I don't want to share my CJ, I ain't no hood rat!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 08:15 (twenty years ago)

surely it won't be solely online, I don't mind the size thing though. I still love Vice City and thats tiny compared to San Andreas

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:17 (twenty years ago)

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