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[LTTP]: San Andreas
Karn
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So last week I finally got around to buying SA for the PC. This is easily my favorite GTA game so far, far surpassing Vice City. The size of the game area is incredible and I've had a lot of fun dicking around with a 100% save file I got.
However, I am currently playing the game, without cheats, and I have hit my first snag. The damned DDR lowrider mission. Is this mission going to be necessary for me to pass or what? Is there a trick or easy way to get around it?
Additionally, are there any save files or methods of cheating that open up the stores and whole map, without having all the other perks of having completed the game? I usually use the 100% save I have just to cause mayhem, but being infinitely rich, and having maxed out stats is kind of lame in a way.
Anyway, I am pretty sure I am going to face much more annoying missions in the future. What missions in the game were your least favorites? Any little special tips and tricks you'd like to give me that I might not know?
However, I am currently playing the game, without cheats, and I have hit my first snag. The damned DDR lowrider mission. Is this mission going to be necessary for me to pass or what? Is there a trick or easy way to get around it?
Additionally, are there any save files or methods of cheating that open up the stores and whole map, without having all the other perks of having completed the game? I usually use the 100% save I have just to cause mayhem, but being infinitely rich, and having maxed out stats is kind of lame in a way.
Anyway, I am pretty sure I am going to face much more annoying missions in the future. What missions in the game were your least favorites? Any little special tips and tricks you'd like to give me that I might not know?
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DDR missions are easy...just practice. The FLIGHT missions...oy. I found they were easier on the PS2 and tough as hell on the PC, and the exact reverse for the damned RC plane missions.
You can always sit down and pop in San Andreas, and even though you've already gotten 100% on the game, you can still have loads of fun for hours. For me it's all about playing the "ridiculous dates" game. Chick calls and wants to go out? Time to put on my bowling shirt, khakis, and spiked motorcycle helmet and fly my harrier jet over, land it in front of her house, and then spend the date blowing up people's cars and then rocketing straight up into the air and ejecting without her. Good times. Good times.
Showing up in boxers on a quad makes for the perfect "redneck date" too, btw
And CJ's right - Millie Perkins is the perfect woman :winky:
Game tips though? Well, it wasn't exactly the hardest game, but I was always a fan of collecting all the various items to get a house full of powerups way too early in the game. Then missions that are all like "find this guy driving around town and blow him up" magically involve rocket launchers
And basically, there's a lot of ways you can go about each mission. Like that stupid "you and Catalina have to hijack the truck" mission - just go around the corner, find where the people who will chase you are already parked, and give them all four flat-tires before hopping in the truck. (Or maybe I grenaded them? I can't remember). Anyway, a once challenging mission can become a cakewalk after being all cheesy like that.
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I remember that some french or european guy did a total facelift of about 90% of the textures in the game and made them much sharper and grittier. I can't seem to find that pack anymore, it made the game look less like a comic book and more like a city.
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Goddamn, the end portions of the game made me hate CJ's brother.
Is this it?
http://www.gtanetwork.fr/SRT3/
Thats the one man. Thank you very much.
I reccomend this texture pack to anyone, its just fantastic.
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This was the first GTA I ever finished(second I ever played), and the ending was just... meh.
The story got me at first, then it just went downhill from the Yakuza segments.
I loved the characters, though.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Third city spoiler:
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It just got too long and tedious and boring. I liked Vice City a lot more. Played both on PC if it makes a difference.
I hear the new Mercenaries will have online co-op...
The gang wars portion was the highlight of the game, and I hope they base the multiplayer mode off of it.
No-no! I need like "join a huge gang, then run around in other gang's area shooting shit up!" kind of action
There was this one spot in GTA3 that really inspired me to want to play such a game... If any of you have beaten GTA3, go here and just shoot around with the AK47 or shotgun as this area gets nuts. Right in the red zone, Yakuza march around who are your allies, Cartel spawn with crazy ass weapons, and from time to time, the Yardies will come down and cause shit too. Now factor in cops, traffic, and shit blowing up everywhere, constantly... That is what I want... from dodging crazy ambulances to having shootouts in between major traffic jams and cops going apeshit and shooting everyone up. My mouth waters for such a game....
Vice City: Not much, but the first time stepping into the Hunter Apache, the radio kicks in with Megadeath, Peace sells (but who's buying). Just the perfect opening to coincide with the rotor's slowly kicking up.
San Andreas: This is the one that will always stand out. The Catalina missions. Can't remember exactly what it was, but it basically ended with a police chase through the country. So we're driving a pickup truck. We're driving in the middle of hick country bumpkin land with the county police on our heels. And Catalina is being her psycho-bitch self throughout the chase. The song playing throughout this?
We get together every time we can
The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
There's too much love in the Mississippi heart
Too much love in this Louisiana heart.
That's hilarious, re: Catalina. My song that cropped up during that EXACT same one? Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream.
fuck that motherfucker
edit: and yes, the ending sucked. Vice City and 3 both ended better.
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Seriously though I got to the lowrider race mission and started having flashbacks to the street race from Vice City. The memories were bad enough that I was never able to beat the mission. Added to that the fact that the game seemed almost eager to present me with oblivious victims for the throat slice from behind animation? I never even had a chance :P
I just had my own moment, though it wasn't the perfect song or anything.
For me the key was that I was free to dress CJ up in a way that was totally out of line for inner city gang culture and that the latter stops cropping up after the first city, except for CJ's brother towards the end but everyone hates that idiot. In my case I went with an afro and clothing that looked like 70's era stuff so CJ looked like he had stepped out of a Shaft movie instead of Boys in the Hood. As clothing choices got fancier, he eventually looked more like Jules from Pulp Fiction.
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Yeah, it was even scarier when it did that for every major mission on the PC... when I was using custom soundtracks.
Too many awesome songs to say.
Hit me up if anyone's interested, or better yet, start a game on thread if you want. I can't