GTA:SA - favourite moments so far?
polycounter lvl 19
I know I have a thread about the game already - this post is for people, who have the game, to tell about stuff they've seen/done in the game (so far) that have stuck out in their minds.
I'll get the ball rollin':<ul type="square">[*] Getting in to the airport w/out having the proper flying skill, stealing the Dodo, and flying over the airspace of the other cities - only to get an immediate 4 star level and have *JETS* fly after me shooting missles and ultimately taking me down.
[*]Parachuting off the tallest building in the city you first start the game off in. Its a circular building and its the tallest in the downtown city. You can access the roof through an elevator at the bottom - the parachute is at the top of the building. Have fun!
[*]Modding my first car.
[*]Losing $500 in pool at "The Green Bottle" bar - only to kill the guy not 2 seconds later and get my money back. (The bar is at the end of your block in the first safe house you get).
[*]"Experiencing" the freeways for the first time. Go to one, get outta your car - leaving it in the middle of the freeway - and see how long ya last
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So lets hear your stories!
I'll get the ball rollin':<ul type="square">[*] Getting in to the airport w/out having the proper flying skill, stealing the Dodo, and flying over the airspace of the other cities - only to get an immediate 4 star level and have *JETS* fly after me shooting missles and ultimately taking me down.
[*]Parachuting off the tallest building in the city you first start the game off in. Its a circular building and its the tallest in the downtown city. You can access the roof through an elevator at the bottom - the parachute is at the top of the building. Have fun!
[*]Modding my first car.
[*]Losing $500 in pool at "The Green Bottle" bar - only to kill the guy not 2 seconds later and get my money back. (The bar is at the end of your block in the first safe house you get).
[*]"Experiencing" the freeways for the first time. Go to one, get outta your car - leaving it in the middle of the freeway - and see how long ya last
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So lets hear your stories!
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i didnt believe ya about the skydiving.... but i just tried it, and its freakin sweet. haha whats even better is not letting out your parachute until you get about halfway down or so
was doing some taxi missions tonight, and maxed my tip meeter by taking a sweet jump shortcut right when it was about empty. then instantly weaving around on coming traffic.
also, stealing one of the fast cars and riding against traffic on the freeways at night is a blast!
coming home from work to play GTA:SA every night til 2am since monday
new favorite thing: getting on the freeway with a cycle, and doing a wheelie from upper los santos to the coast line. its even more fun going againsts traffic
Didn't play it as much as I thought I would... though I did do an hour stint just before work and ended up being 5-10 mins late :P
*bounces and rolls*
Rick James is the host of Bounce FM.
Axel Rose is the host of the classical rock station.
Make sure you work out on a daily basis - you'll lose your muscle mass quickly if you do not. And eat regularily! Stick to the salad meals so you don't gain weight. Found this out the hard way.
oh.. and the Monster Truck OWNS ALL.. it just drives *over* anything in its path... have yet to try out whether it floats (just like the Big Foot does).. if it does, hats off to Rockstar. if not, still rocks.
i *seriously* hope this game comes out sooner than later for pc, cause damn, i wanna make some vehicles for this game... the specular highlights on the vehicles are awesome, and the general quality of the cars is top notch.
Also, bit of a bitch about the game - something more effective needed to be done to keep players from getting into those off-limits areas. If you jack a plane and fly up to San Fierro, I've got no problem with the four star penalty. But I crashed my tour bus (hehe) into one of the rivers and ended up swimming myself to the far shore, the SF side of this particular river. My reward for this perfectly typical action, just swimming, was to be assassinated by a fucking army attack helicopter. Goddamn strict swimming laws they have in Los Santos! I understand the gameplay issue here, but seriously, that was kinda lame...
The repletion is the one thing that stops me from playing. That is one thing that I wished that would change about the GTA series.
Leave the house. Find a car. Drive to that guy's house. Drive him to the action. Guy gets killed. Repeat.
And the DDR shit, I could do without too.
It really shows how the AI really isnt all that bright though...
verm, each of em has about 4-5 missions, after the house party one, things start getting better.You start getting income from territories you own, take over enemy gang territories, and also defend your territories from other gangs. Its freakin hard though, haha i havent been able to take a zone other than the first one. dudes with SMG's tear you up.
and about the military killing ya, i much prefer how closing of zones was handled in san andreas over other versions (although the hurricane in the Vice city was great). There isnt really a 'hitch' as to why you cant go anywhere else... which is kinda lame. but its better than a fence that says "sorry not open yet." but i guess there re those too....
Few questions for those who many know: In the city you first start off in, where's an ATV located? And flaagan where'd you get the monster truck?
WORST MOMENTS: all my mission-based conversations are f*ing up now, in some cases locking up the game..
I just got to the badlands and all my territories dissapeared (100%), so im not sure if you can retake them or not.... gah it was a nice source of income
killing your girlfriend is a good plan too.
i found a 4 wheeler in the mountains, it handles horribly though
the pimping missions are pretty fun, easy, and mindless
that truck is sweet, hahaha right on.
the worst bits are the fucking retarded missions, like the ddr one and the rc plane. the assclown who came up with them should be shot.
The most stupid thing I have done was base jumped off the skyscraper and landed on top of another skyscraper. The parachute is a one off, so I was stranded and had to jump to my death.
This has really been my first chance to play it. My favourite pedestrian than I built is an old Mexican guy - he's baldish with a thick black 'tache, a blue checked shirt and a white vest, with tattoos on his arms. I also built all the old fat wimmen.
Fun moments:
Doing what Rick did: landing on another building after teh base jump and having to suicide off of it.
Starting a gang war with 1/2 health and no weapons, AND SURVIVING! (ran around a corner, beat the first guy to death to steal his weapons to kill the rest, grab the health & armor pickups, etc).
Making a 19m shot in basketball (I was way off screen).
Noticing what the billboard says after you smash through it. (at the end of the mission that unlocks the next city)
Jacking a plane, flying over to "Vegas", bailing out while dodging rocket fire, pulling the shute at the last second, stealing a car, going into the Pay'N'Spray and finding out it doesn't work
I like the fact that while the other cities are locked off, if you want to look around you can, for a short while. Much better than just locking them totally.
As for the PS2 locking up... its been happening to me aswell. I went to load my game this morning and when it was Loading Ganton it just say there, and did nothing. So I reset the machine. Tried loading it up again. This time it says I cannot load the data off the GTA:SA disk. So I open the CD tray - with the game still going and clean the disk off, throw it in, and it worked.
Friggen thing.
BTW: How are yah Wharghoul?
or better yet, box big foot. now that'd be rad.
Oh yeah, HOW TO MAKE MONEY:
I started with $20,000, and got to $30 million in about 1/2 hour!
1. Save game.
2. Go to the horse betting parlor thing.
3. Place all your money on the worst odd's horse (usually 11:1 or 12:1)
4. If you win, go to step 1. If you lose, go to step 3.
It will probably take 4~5 tries, but sometimes more. I went from $20k, to $300k, to $1.8M to $30 million.
after taking it slow and betting between 1 and 3k, i eventually started making a shitload of money and got up to 1.8mil before i decided to end on a high note for the night.
its the same thing in MGS/MGS2 - save often, and if you are seen, reload, to get through the game with perfect stats. (i havent done much of that, but ive done it once). use savegames to beat teh system!
People with no idea of Scottish slang terms will not get this joke.
and chrissakes, i'm not even done with San Fiero.. this game is huge..
oh.. it's also scaring the bejesus outta me.. brome know's what i'm talkin about and can probably provide the link for it.
[*]Children laughing.
[*]Mystery ghost car parked.
[*]'Nother myster ghost car falling down ahill, no one inside.
[*]Something (no idea what) running through the forest.[/list]
The atmosphere is really different there. It gets foggy. It rains. You hear the wind blow. It's fucked.
There's actually a group of members from the GameFaqs.com messageboard exploring that are as much as possible to find out what IT is. There's something with that area, but no one knows what yet. Pretty scary.
one word says how much i love rockstar games right now...
Monster.
(and no, it's not what brome's talkin about).
I'm still pissed that your cars still dissapear from your garage!!!! I lost my Pimpmobile and my Monster truck.
I finished with a recorded 24 hours on the game stats, (But more like 30 hours of real time play, constantly re-loading saves) Playing the last mission is a PITA going through the first time, but after that it's easy as pie...
I love the hydraulics tho, bouncy bouncy
I hate gambling tho, I lost 10g's in minutes, so I beat the dealer up in fustration...
My fav thing to do is find a hiding spot in one of the better safehouses, and shoot the drivers while there driving, blow out there tires and shooting the gas tank.
Although I didn't get to explore the entire game (3 day game rental) that'll hafta wait untill the PC version.
I made a fortune in the bar( about 1000 dollars) by killing all the other dancers/clubbers and stealing their money. They keep on respawning. what fun!!!
liked the voodoo ray track and 'fools gold' by the stone roses
gonna see if there are any spare copies at work, which is where I got mine from, if not then I'll have to bite the bullet and get a new PS2 and SA
rockstar.. i love you guys.
and the time i tried to catapult snemmy off the back of a motorcycle over the gate of the airport.
and the time snemmy was hanging out the side of the car when i drove over the side of a 500ft cliff and we rolled all the way down
deperatly trying to figure out which button deploys the parachute the first time i base jumped... found it right before i hit the ground.
and yes we thought the catapault idea would actually work.....
I think the coolest thing now is the first time I opened up the Nitro boosters.
Has anyone done any pimping missions? Or the bike courier from the 24/7 near the orange sign near city hall?
the "hey, look at our cool vehicles" missions SUCK, goddamn hovercraft and go-karts