Ah yeah, back in the days... Grove Street, BMX'ing straight through ballah turf, officer Tenpenny getting on my nerves...
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What first surprises me is how we had to keep the disc in the disc drive in order to freaking play the game. Man I remember why pirating was so damn popular ::)
Then, of course, I have to look through the cubistic graphics. I maxed out all the settings, which gives me a nice crisp view of the world, but most of the stuff is quite simple compared to the nowaday standard. Well, so much for the graphics. They always complained about the graphics in GTA SA, right from the start. But then the gameplay, man this world rolls so fluid, the controls are perfectly balanced. That's reality. When I see these cubistic gangsters move, they suddenly appear real to me. They move like real guys and act like true G's, with their cubistics limbs, okay but hey ^-^
That's why they were always on top. They deliver maximum immersion to a gameworld so convincing, although a bit dated 8)
And despite the cubistic design, they did a nice job on that little hooker, didn't they ^-^
I think I'll dig a bit deeper into the old.... let's call it game-archaeology :)
I'll keep you posted ;)
Cool. I only started with GTA IV so I can't compare the gameplay or story but I do see the graphics :-D They don't seem to be too bad, considering. What a rich colour, that last pic with an orange/yellow sunset sky :)
Nice retro, Binnatics, +1 :-X
Indeed +1 from me too. It's great to see pics and read stories :-X
A lot of GTA fans considered San Andreas to be the best installment in this series, even better than IV in terms of overall fun, activities, missions ...
I heard that, too. And now it seems that said fans consider GTAV to be even better :)
Yes, from what I heard, V has successfully dethroned SA as the new king of the series because it has all the positives from SA and IV as well as new ones (3 characters, revamped wanted system, heists ... ) :)
those heists are cool as they offer a choice of approach: stealth or guns blazing :-X
Indeed. If we're forced to do those heists in 1 way all the time, that'd be very repetitive
Well, from my aspect, the improved graphics is what sold me. I'm a superficial kind of guy, and as long as it looks good, it has potential. :-()
Thanx for the heads up guys, I'll keep playing and posting, was thinking of an entire playthrough with all that I might discover to do and do again along the way ^-^
Graphics are important for me too, PZ, that's the main reason why I try to keep my system in top form and am already looking for a future replacement of my GTX570 :-[
Future, because my current balance doesn't allow those kinds of shopping :-D
But once you ignore the dated aspects in the game and just go through, I bet anyone is going to fall for the gameplay. NOT if you already possess GTA V that is, then it wouldn't make any sense going back in time. Only just maybe for fun, to compare. But since I'm NOT in the possession of GTA V, I have plenty of time to fool around in the old Los Santos. ^-^
Durian, I remember the first feeling of disappointment when playing GTA IV not being able to use planes, bikes, explore countryside, but the good bits of that game united with SA world and abilities would indeed be Gamer Valhalla :)
The last GTA game I played was the original, top down scroller, everyone looked like ants as you beat them up and stuff. Can't remember if you could take the cars or just get run over by them. I didn't play it much.
I take it the new one is still third person? Can't play third person games, I just can't.
Yes, still 3rd person
I still have an almost new copy of GTA-IV that I might throw into the console just to see how it differs - if I ever get to play, that is - have been way to busy for my own good.
D_B, unfortunately it is 3rd person. (PZ beat me to it, lol)
I know you can drive cars kind of 1st person (hood view) but in GTAIV it was not exactly a joyride as the view would bounce up and down as if fixed to a front wheel suspension. I hope they smoothed that out in GTAV.
The vehicles seem to drive smoothly on suspensions that actually appear to w@&k. However, I've not driven 1st person - I did not know you could switch to that view. :-()
:-D should be like the predecessor: hit the camera view button to cycle through a couple of views. One should be some type of randomly switching external TV cams including a bird's view cam and another one should be a hood view of your ride. The others should be more or less distant 3rd person views.
I'll need to play with it a bit more - I didn't know there was a camera view button :laugh:
I remember that top down view D_B! You could actually steal cars in that game. I haven't played it much either, it was too far from what I was gotten used to already... 3rd person :-D
Here's me getting comfortable with the gang life at Grove St. again :)
My garage, check it out PZ! A bit dark, but nevertheless big enough for a nice car ;)
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I love Pizza, Well Stacked ;)
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Tagging the Turf:
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A Police Bribe in an ally; the best way to lose your wanted lvl fast during a chase 8)
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Gaining muscle at the GYM:
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Earning money with horse gambling. The best way to cheat yourself into the riches :-D 8)
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Here, I buy some gang colours. Wouldn't want a Grove st. member see wearing yellow. Or even worse, Purple! ::)
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San Andreas is so full of different citizens, with different acting and, most important, funny quotes:
"That essee put dust in my weed!"
"On our first date, we sold guns to Ammunation*"
*Ammunation: The local gun shop ^-^
Exploring Grove St (CJ's home) in GTA V
Grand Theft Auto 5 - Exploring Grove Street (CJ's Home) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j4FZjOvyJo#)
there is a mission taking you exactly there. :)
Cool :-X
You guys are going to love the graphics in GTA-V
Sad to see the Ballas took over the Grove :'(
While drooling over the soon to be available stuff for online console play, sniff, I keep on busting the old s#!t :-()
I did some burglaries, some more horse betting, got myself 80.000$, fought with ballas and essees and even made friends with Kendall's boyfriend Cesar. He showed me how to bounce cars and join lowrider races. Great!
I even played around with a tow truck. Yes, GTA SA has them already ::)
Here's some pics:
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That's a good sized garage - is that your house to the right?
what made me wonder is the horizontal distortion (wide screen stretch..) does the game graphics not allow for preserving the aspect ratio ? Probably playing it windowed solves that?
The guys don't look too fat, so I'm thinking it is not wide aspect - likely just a bigger garage :-()
Well, I don't think there's something like a horizontal distortion. The perspective looks indeed a bit hard, but not stretched to me. Anyway, to my surprise the game let me choose for 1920-1080 resolution witch fetches exactly my screen side :)
guys, seriously? You didn't see the moon and the radar? Both should be circles but hey, they're horizontally stretched out into ellipses.
(pics by Binnatics)
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Hm, yeah, you got a point there. I'll refocus on the issue in-game. Try to see what's happening with different configurations.
looks as if objects (cars, houses, avatars and so forth) aren't affected, only some graphics like background and sky, and maybe overlays like the radar.
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I made it out of the city. Of course, our so called homies Big Smoke and Rider betrayed us, got my brother Sweat rotting in prison and I got thrown back into some dirty trailer in a place called Angle Pine. But damn, I rediscovered K-Rose:
K Rose - One Step Forward +Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-brQTFyFTo#)
^-^
And here's some countryside impressions:
Left in the dark by Tenpenny and his corrupt friends. (Btw, some excellent voice acting by Samuel Jackson there ;))
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Climbing Mount Chilliad
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Heheh, this police car must have had a heavy chase in the hills :-()
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I met this crazy Mexican chic that brought me on a trip to steal a truck-trailer
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Cruzin' through the hills ^-^
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Dr. Earnhardt's predecessor; The Truth
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Mourning damp....
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Hillside view over San Fierro and the local airfield
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Harvesting the ranchers (look at the tiny guy to the front-right :-D
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Bloody straw >:D
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Your new avy is much better :-X :)
agree :-D
and man, am I glad I don't have to listen to that hillbilly song any longer.
Pics look good, Binnatics :)
Here's another ^-^
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-brQTFyFTo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-brQTFyFTo#)
seriously? well, as long as you enjoy listening to it, OK, but I don't mind staying FAR AWAY from it myself :-D
Well, you might want to take a look here: GTA V radio stations poll (http://www.openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=3334.0)
Plenty to choose from ^-^ :-X
seen it :) I can't choose yet.. will have to wait for the PC version :(
Well, there IS some stuff available already :)
GTA V Rebel Radio **Hank Snow - I Don't Hurt Anymore** (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YT2sS9JDo#)
:-D :-D :-D
As far as I know that Rebel Radio is a hillbilly music station and this time I'm really, really glad I can't listen to it because of GEMA. :-D
:-D :-D ;)
Great stuff Binn! +1 :-X
Decades ago I knew a guy that looked like that old hippy :-()
... called him "Ace the space case" - he was a member of the Hells Angels in San Diego
San Diego... San Fiero... could be a coincidence :-D
Yay!!!!! :) :)
that is probably related to me currently downloading GTA:SanAndreas, courtesy of Binnatics. :-D +1 :-X
:laugh: :-X
I wouldn't have done it, no way I'd get a game from 2008 these days, but now that I know a) all GTA fans liked GTA:SA best and b) San Andreas being part of GTAV again.. there was only one logical decision: get it, while waiting for GTAV. :)
^-^ :-X
This feels almost like the outcome of that famous Portal 2 contest :-D
almost :-D
Quote from: Art Blade on October 04, 2013, 01:12:42 PM
I wouldn't have done it, no way I'd get a game from 2008 these days, but now that I know a) all GTA fans liked GTA:SA best and b) San Andreas being part of GTAV again.. there was only one logical decision: get it, while waiting for GTAV. :)
Very reasonable logic
and it's fun, too. :) Man, the map is BIG and I only have access to about 1/3 so far ??? :-X
Here's some more pics:
Burning down the green... looks familiar ;)
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NRG 500: The fastest accelerating bike in the series. Can't be beaten by the newer ones in GTA IV either.
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Ambulance missions....
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My new ride
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My new look 8)
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been working out in the gym a lot it seems? :-D
Indeed Bin looks really cool with that pink hair :-X :laugh:
I have been working out, too :-D Where ever I land a punch, not even grass will grow back. >:D
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and this is my whip. :-()
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"Sorry I stepped on you. Featherweight bitch-a$$ punk motherfucker!" :-D
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Quote from: Art Blade on October 05, 2013, 07:32:44 PM
"Sorry I stepped on you. Featherweight bitch-a$$ punk motherfucker!" :-D
Uh, PZ, we should w@&k on our censorship :angel: :-()
ask GEMA for help. :-D
Welcome to Los Santos.. with Afro and Bonanza bike. :-D
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Pink hair? Blonde Mohawk and purple dildo! >:D
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Some creamy screenies Art :laugh: :-X
Thanks :)
here the red sunglasses, counterpart of your blue shades
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Just don't drop your soap in that shower ???? :angel:
what do you mean? :-D
Because you do not want to inconvenience the guys that would want to pick it up for you ????
riiiiight :-D
Officer Tenpenny enjoying a bong, tsk tsk tsk -- made my Mohawk pop right off my head. :-D
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Does Officer Tenpenny have ties to Fallout3? :angel:
I don't think this one owns a building named after him. The only building he can be associated with is L.S. Police Station :-D
:-D
Using a remote control aircraft "The Red Baron" to shoot down some badguys
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I desired this one for a long time... to be able to steer it >:D
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If any of you suns of bitches, got anything else to say; I collect your fucking head!
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The pu$$y Wagon ^-^
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The Sultan, modded at Wheel Arch Angels
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Same Sultan, with red smoke coming out if its exhausts 8)
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you had one more pic with you and that katana which looked awesome; the one above isn't recognisable unless you know what you're looking at. Why don't you upload the other one additionally? I'd like to see it here. :)
Nice pic with that red baron :)
I renamed and moved this topic so everybody will find it :)
Impressive; what a massively open world :-X
I renamed and moved this topic back again so that Binnatics's original idea is restored: this topic is "exactly related to the new release of GTA V, the lack of a PC version for that game and the direct reference to its prequel; San Andreas."
Good point, and with "back in the day" plus "GTA San Andreas" in the topic's subject as well as an entry in the "other games index" linking to this topic, we have a solution that meets all interests.
+1 :-X for you, Binnatics. Keep up the good w@&k :)
-1 for you for moving it away and +1 for moving it back ;D
accepted. Alright, we got it sorted, how about getting back on topic now :)
Quote from: durian on October 10, 2013, 02:38:00 PM
-1 for you for moving it away and +1 for moving it back ;D
Good point, Durian ^-^
Art, getting back on topic here: I still owe you the picture of Snakehead's Katana in action:
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I hope this was the picture you mentioned. I showed the other picture first, because I liked to show the decapitated corpse of the previous owner >:D
cool, yep, that's the one :) Looks awesome :)
??? *drool* Meow!
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Catalina is a phenomena :) :-X
I got called recently on my cellphone and I thought it was another mission call. Nope; "Catalina, is that you again?!!" ~click~ Bitch :-()
I remember she keeps on calling you from time to time, even long after you completed the entire story 8)
:-D She hates it when you drive not "like a man" but she passes rather fond comments when you hammer down a hill and then chuck your car off a cliff (as long as you don't wreck the car) :laugh:
Oh man, just passed all 12 tests in the advanced driving school. Some of them were ridiculously hard and geez, it's more a stuntman training than driving school. I'm so glad I got that over with :-D
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Oh man, just passed all 12 tests in the advanced driving school. Some of them were ridiculously hard and geez, it's more a stuntman training than driving school. I'm so glad I got that over with :-D
I totally agree on that. How did you like the wheely contest? I think I've tried that one the most before succeeding. And even worse was the one where you had to roll in mid-air while jumping over a pair of vehicles. Man, it took forever until I found out which buttons to use to get the car to roll faster :D
Problem is, your wingmen will keep complaining about you driving skills, no matter what. Funny phone call by the way when Jethro suggests you go have lessons there. :)
Meanwhile, I've been fooling around with the Wheel Arch Angels mod garage. I found out that there are at least 6 different cars moddable over there. Here's the list:
The Stratum:
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The Jester
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The Elegy
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The Sultan
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The Uranus
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The Flash
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The biggest garage available
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but it only lets you store four cars :-\\
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What shall I call it:
"Tarmac Dive", or
"Vertical Parking" :-() Happens when you're having fun with a 'Monster' 8)
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Today My eye caught a funny wall decoration:
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Don't mind the ho, I'm focussing on the bird on that huge poster: It's most definitely a pigeon. Or as they use to say in Liberty City; A Flying Rat. After killing 200 pigeons in GTA IV I find it funny to see this poster drawing attention on that same bird. Wonder what the bridge got to do with it. ????
The wheelie contest? I guess you mean the 360° turn inside a ring of traffic cones? It was the first test and I was not reading properly, it said "press W.." which I did.. and failed, and failed, and failed.. until I read it again and saw "..and S" :D :laugh: I actually got that one right at the first "official" try :)
The barrel roll over two parked cars was my nemesis, too. Like you, I found out late that one needed extra keys to speed up the roll, at least I guess it helped to press left or right (depending which way you rolled). I don't know how many times I tried to accomplish that. Most of the tests I only passed bronze, and a few silver. All I cared about was to get it over with :-D
And yes, Jester's weird call was the reason why I did all that.
No idea about that flying rat, either.
Nice pics, Binnatics :) I like "vertical parking" :-D
I added this car to the Wheel Arch Angels modding list:
The Flash:
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I've also learnt flying at the flying school :)
Check out some cool pics:
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Stole a Boeing
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and bailed out ...
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... just in time ^-^
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Nice :)
Now that I can compare GTA:SA with GTAV, I realise how many things of San Andreas have returned to GTAV that had been missing in GTAIV.
re: Katana and beheading.. >:D
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finally! I unlocked the special car tuning shop :)
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Nice! :-X :)
Cool massacre with the Katana. I did the same with the chainsaw yesterday >:D
The Vegas Chainsaw Massacre
Las Venturas A young black male suspect was seen yesterday going crazy at the corner of the Four Dragons Casino. He was carrying a Chainsaw with which he cut up innocent pedestrians enjoying a night out at The Strip. Given the dresscode of the suspect he's probably from Los Santos. Where the guy got the Chainsaw from is a mystery. The Police is still searching for the fugitive and has announced to use maximum force to trace and arrest this psychopath, who even laid hands (chains) on an officer at the crimescene.
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LOL :laugh: +1 :-X for story and layout :)
The " $ " rims will return in GTAV. :)
Uranus
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Nice mods!! :)
Which one is it? Is it the Uranus?
thanks, yes.. you seem to have checked it before I edited the name in :laugh: the 2nd one is a Flash.
Here a sunset from the cockpit view of a helicopter over the third island. Actually.. it is 5AM.. it is a sunrise :D :laugh:
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Here's some atmospheric impressions of the desert:
A chit chat with Toreno on the Abandoned Airfield
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The Truth, sneaking up in the darkness
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Thermal goggles in the secret military lab
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Sandstorm
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And last but not least; A weird car incident. I decided to call the cops :-D
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:-D
infrared imaging and scopes return in GTAV, too :)
just by the way, I shot the moon 4 or 5 times with a sniper rifle so it finally is small in the sky, not like a giant :-D
It is a "secret" in GTA:SA.
see previous post
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Nice pic. Looks kinda weird actually, such a small moon :-D
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What a short fat guy :-()
yep, it's the lack of a correct 16:9 or 16:10 resolution for sky and mini map images.
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some of those missions are insanely difficult. The most recent one was a timed event during which I had to steal four police motorbikes and drive each of them onto a moving packer which was circling the city. Basically: Find the target, steal it before the cop drives away with it (costs time), find the packer on the highway circling the city, drive onto it while it is still in motion (not that difficult), get off the packer, find any vehicle to get back into the city to find the next target bike, rinse and repeat. All that at 2-star wanting level and traffic and only 12 real time minutes of gameplay. Took a while until I figured out it was best to "collect" and deliver clockwise (following the route of the packer) and that it was best to arrive at a bike in a car so I could run over the cop before he took off. I did manage after a few trials.
Before that, another mission, the game design tricked me at first until I found a simple solution. I had to drive to a mining site and steal four packs of dynamite which were packed in some nearly indestructible crates scattered over the site. I needed "something heavy" to destroy the crates which turned out to be a bloody huge truck with which I had to drive over the crates, get out and collect the dynamite, find the next crate, rinse and repeat. Only problem: four minutes of time until the rigged dynamite set off. The solution I found was simple (after I figured out the problem was the time until.. someone.. had to push the button to blow the stuff up). I killed the foreman who couldn't push the trigger any more >:D timer stopped, all the time in the world to get the mission over with. :-()
Gah, and another one: "New Model Army." One of those blasted Zero's missions.
Timed event, again. Two bases at the respectively opposing end of a narrow but lengthy terrain. Zero's Model car starts off his base and tries to get across a model terrain (no man's land) while Berkley (Zero's rival) tries to stop Zero by using model tanks, barrels that block Zero's path, and river crossings without planks for bridges. You control a model chopper with a magnet hanging from it and need to fetch stuff like a plank from Zero's base and drop it onto the crossing so Zero's toy car may pass. Berkley's tanks actually shoot and can destroy the model car which means Zero will have to use his two remaining cars from his base and start all over while the time keeps ticking away. Meanwhile Berkley controls a mini chopper that keeps dropping barrels on Zero's path while I need to remove those obstacles, place planks to build bridges, stop tanks by either grabbing a bomb from the base and drop it onto the tank or use barrels lying around and drop those onto the tanks which also causes them to blow up. What sounds like fun isn't, the timer at 8 minutes is relatively short. Mostly because that toy chopper you need to manoeuvre around (it is supposed to be an RC chopper) is so F@#&%$§ difficult to control. Of course you don't control it like one of those choppers you can fly around with in GTASA, no, of course not. The camera doesn't follow properly which means you watch the chopper turn around and stuff but you need to use both of your hands to control the chopper and if you want to control the camera you will have to let go of the chopper control and back and forth switching between camera and control and being precise with it (dropping or picking up stuff) isn't exactly a joyride like that. Sod this §#&% >:((
Oh, I see you posted another mission report, will catch up later,. First I wanted to respond on the earlier post about the quarry mission with the dynamite and the other with the police bikes. I figured you started the real "San Andreas Heist" in Venturas, heheh ^-^
The mission with the police vehicles is too long ago for me, haven't yet done it on the current playthrough to know the best way to do it. But killing the foreman is an excellent solution to the matter at the quarry. I had not any problem getting all the dynamite in time, because probably I was a bit more comfortable with that huge truck you mentioned.
btw, how did you like the flying school?
I really dislike timed events. I realize these kinds of missions are designed for the run and gun gamer, but I prefer finesse.
Hahahahaha :laugh: :laugh: ^-^ :-X
Love your struggle with the RC chopper in that fucked up setup where you have to finally destroy the sucker. Good description though, it is a tough mission indeed. Once you get a hang of flying the chopper it is not hard anymore, but I had a weird problem being the game to crash every time I 'just' completed that struggle. And I hadn't saved in between the other RC bandit struggles, the one where you have to chase guys through the city with a RC chopper with a minigun equipped ::) so I ahd to complete all these darn :D :D missions again to get the asset there. Finally I put myself to save after every bit of mission and got the asset. Never returned to collect the money though :angel:
Flying school was a chore because of the way the plane reacted. It was as if it had a delay between telling it what to do and it actually doing what I told it to do. Like, flying through those auras, I can't count the times I got lost and had to fly around trying to find the next aura (like a loop you need to fly through). Then, I clearly saw it ahead, "aimed" for it, steered towards it and it looked as if I was a little too low so I corrected the path but it kind of didn't react and then overreacted which meant that, starting the maneouvre like only 10 yards away from the loop, I managed to miss the loop completely, overshot, and had to fly back. Took quite some time to learn the track and perhaps five trials later I managed to finish it. The chopper was a little easier although the target practice was horrible, too. Took me forever to control the chopper so I could destroy ground targets. The funniest bit was the parachute jump which I failed the first time (landed in the outer ring rather than in the centre) but managed to get it sorted the second time through. The missions that required me to fly a chopper or a plane and to jump off with the chute, however, were flawless -- I enjoyed the chute precision landing at the dam, landed right on the spot :)
The crate and dynamite was stupid but killing the foreman was a simple solution so once I figured that out it was easy enough although I can't count how many times I fell off with the dirt bike when I had to escape the mining site. Kept missing jumps and had to drive all the way back and again up those conveyor belts, jump, blah.. :D
The toy army mission with that RC chopper is currently killing me. WHAT A F***ING CRAP MISSION!!! >:(( Ahhh finally managed. You don't destroy the sucker, all you need to do is reach his base. Still, one of the shittiest missions, ever. >:((
At least I have always saved after every achievement or mission. :)
Cleaver choice, to always save in time. Glad GTA V made that not necessary anymore :)
The shittiest mission I've ever played is the one where you have to chase a train so that Big Smoke can shoot off some ballas on top of it. There's not one playthrough were I made it at once. It always costed me at least 3 or 4 tries. Not to mention the first time, which took me at least.... an entire night to get it straight :-D
:-D
all the chores of GTASA have been eliminated, GTAV is polished in every aspect. Timed events aren't even half as bad but twice as funny as before. :)
I'm glad I didn't play SA, otherwise I'd have thrown the controller to the wall or my TV :-()
:-D
After missions like those mentioned before, I usually go on a rampage in SA with my katana slaughtering everyone in reach, and pet animals if I could find any.
just checked my stats, 97 missions completed, 138 missions started. which means, I had little to no problems with most missions but a few needed a LOT of retries until I got them over with, most recently I had to steal that hydra VTOL fighter jet (vertical take-off and landing aircraft), take out 3 pursuing enemy jets in an air to air combat and then take out 5 (or so) ships and finally safely land that thing on the abandoned airstrip. Took forever to get the controls sorted, even longer chasing those jets and taking them out (geez, I guess I spent 10 minutes chasing them before even getting a lock-on let alone taking them down with rockets) and survive all that. There was a similarly horrible mission with another plane (looked like a spitfire) which I had to fly all across the map and back, staying under the radar all the time. I crashed so often into terrain that you might see the crater field from the moon.
However, now into the final missions, back to the hood, and another gang wars challenge which is a lot of fun. :)
Quote from: Art Blade on October 21, 2013, 10:05:17 AM
...There was a similarly horrible mission with another plane (looked like a spitfire) which I had to fly all across the map and back, staying under the radar all the time. I crashed so often into terrain that you might see the crater field from the moon...
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I had the same problems with that mission. I kept crashing into those huge pine trees near the village where the drop zone was. I still have that mission left to do with the hydra. Hope I don't have as much problems as you had, but I guess it won't be that hard. I'm still used to the controls now that reconfigured my keys a dozen times ::) but I do remember controlling the hydra was somewhere in between steering a jet and a helo. So it could all be very different again :-D
I reconfigured my keys several times, too :-D
The hydra needs additional controls, numpad 8 and numpad 2 in order to change the attitude of the jets to either fly like a plane or to ascend/descend like a lift. plus handbrake (space in my case) to lock on a target. fire 1 and 2 for rockets and countermeasures.
Hehehe >:D
[smg id=6403 type=preview align=center caption="boyz in the hood"]
That looks like some serious hardware :-()
yep, a mini gun (or, portable Gatling gun) which is also available in GTAV :)
Looking forward to getting that one - cops beware >:D
:-D I'm not sure whether shooting cops with a mini gun in GTAV is a good idea or not. Beware of a 5-star wanted level 8-X :)
Yeah, but it sure would be an exciting way to go >:D
I'll need the PC version, and an unlimited ammo mod >:D
>:D >:D >:D
If you complete the game 100% (GTA: San Andreas) the game will mod itself to unlimited ammo. Plus the biggest guns will be delivered at your safehouse. Plus a tank, a hydra and more of these funny things to have around. ^-^ ^-^
Speaking of the minigun: I know something very funny: If you destroy a boat, it usually won't sink, it collapses and keeps floating on the surface. You can stand on it. It won't sail anymore though. But if you shoot at it with the minigun, the bullets will push it forward. Since there's no such thing as recoil, you can push yourself forward and thus navigate the sunken boat with your minigun >:D ;)
Just for fun and giggles of course 8)
nice. :-D
Yesterday I nearly finished the game, last mission of the story, but screwed up catching Sweet (he sailed over me), cool, can save that car and retry from when the fire truck chase starts.. only I screwed up again and worse: after catching him our car blew up during the chase.. hospital, all weapons gone.. since I don't want to lose my weapons (haven't dated Ms Zhang yet) I had to resort to a savegame. Which means, start the mission over. I'll get my Uzi up to hitman level so the chase won't be too annoying.
Good idea, heheh ^-^
Remember that SWAT tank? I don't remember if it is called N.O.O.S.E. already, but anyway; it's a one timer. You will only be able to get it in that mission, although you have to fail it probably to get it saved in one of your garages ;)
I saved a go-kart :-D
Haha ^-^ Cool :-X But I know a place where you can find one always, probably after completing a mission or something, but near the Las Venturas Arena there's a spot where always a go-kart will appear 8)
:)
I'm through, finished :) Was a nice game considering it's from 2005
Quote from: Binnatics on October 22, 2013, 07:03:25 AM
If you complete the game 100% (GTA: San Andreas) the game will mod itself to unlimited ammo...
My problem is that I've never finished a single game to 100% - not even close on any of them - even FC2 :-()
Me neither (except FC2 and HitMan:BloodMoney) -- until I met Binnatics. He made me finish quite a few with 100% :-D
:-D
And I had never modded before... Art finally made me do that in GTA IV, which was hilarious ;D
:-D
Especially "coop," the drifting and the races up and down that massive main street through traffic in sick armoured high speed cars :-D
:-X ^-^
:laugh: :-X