VC made a bigger impression on me than SA, probably because it's the first GTA3-generation game I played. I really felt bad for the blond moustached cops. I had a story I was going to write from the perspective of one of them that doesn't realize he's in a game. Hence, all the people throwing themselves under cars, all the senseless violence around him makes no sense. I was most likely going to have him die in a shootout with Tommy, the kind where you just get bored with the missions and start butchering cops around your mansion and refilling your health until you get sick of it. From the little bit I had actually written, he lived with his mother and had a bunch of turtle figurines on a doily on his TV. That he would write little poems about.
Anyway, I've made headway in SA for the first time in months. Where was it that you were stuck? Was it flight school? Basically anything with a plance was fucking terrible, but I'm proud to say I did pass flight school in a couple days. The circling the base part was the worst, but I persevered.
Then, when I did pass it, there was the goddamn staying below the radar mission. It was the best when by the time I did manage to get to the fucking corona and back, I'd explode on landing. And speaking of exploding on landing, how about that Liberty City mission! Minutes upon minutes of pointlessly flying the plane, a fairly easy slaughter, then minutes upon minutes of pointlessly flying the plane back, only to kill myself when I try to land. Some time before this mission I had resigned myself to using cheats, since I just did not want to waste a bunch of time dating people etc. So I just used the faster gameplay cheat and flew that plane over and over until at one point it managed to explode only *after* I got out of it.
And what did I get for all my trouble? A jetpack. Big whoop. If I'm playing by the rules I can only get it at the air strip, so it's not like it's going to help me travel much more efficiently. And it's slow. Bikes are probably faster, even with environmental limitations taken into account. Aaaand, it won't even get me to a height that's actually fun.
In the mission where you had to blow up an airplane for Toreno and parachute out, I felt for the first time like any of the flying stuff paid off. Here I was, looking at this landscape I usually had no wade through, but I was above it all. A great feeling. The sort of feeling games should inspire. It should always be a design goal to take something familiar and make it amazing. But, you can't go that high with the jetpack. I mostly cheat to get it and speed up gameplay if I really want to use it to travel, which I usually don't. It's just so stupid you can't have it in every safehouse, though. Again, it's a matter of wasting time. You could have it wherever you wanted, if you could be bothered to fly there from the air strip.
That's what's great about PC games. There are a bunch of Half Life 2 mods that change minor aspects of gameplay without affecting it too much overall. So if you've played it once, you can play it again with this particular annoyance removed. I'd totally make the jetpack like three times faster, with different heigh limitation and available anywhere.
The missions themselves, more and more, are becoming exercises in futile repetition devoid of any fun or challenge. See the Liberty City thing above. There has so far been one mission, one mission in the entire game, where you can skip a trip you need to make if you've made it before. That should be in every mission where there's a long, pointless trip to make!
I didn't plan to exceed the comment lenth limitation with this, but oh well. Anyway. Where was it that you got hopelessly stuck with a plane before? And if I remember right and you passed it, where are you stuck now, if at all?
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Anyway, I've made headway in SA for the first time in months. Where was it that you were stuck? Was it flight school? Basically anything with a plance was fucking terrible, but I'm proud to say I did pass flight school in a couple days. The circling the base part was the worst, but I persevered.
Then, when I did pass it, there was the goddamn staying below the radar mission. It was the best when by the time I did manage to get to the fucking corona and back, I'd explode on landing. And speaking of exploding on landing, how about that Liberty City mission! Minutes upon minutes of pointlessly flying the plane, a fairly easy slaughter, then minutes upon minutes of pointlessly flying the plane back, only to kill myself when I try to land. Some time before this mission I had resigned myself to using cheats, since I just did not want to waste a bunch of time dating people etc. So I just used the faster gameplay cheat and flew that plane over and over until at one point it managed to explode only *after* I got out of it.
And what did I get for all my trouble? A jetpack. Big whoop. If I'm playing by the rules I can only get it at the air strip, so it's not like it's going to help me travel much more efficiently. And it's slow. Bikes are probably faster, even with environmental limitations taken into account. Aaaand, it won't even get me to a height that's actually fun.
In the mission where you had to blow up an airplane for Toreno and parachute out, I felt for the first time like any of the flying stuff paid off. Here I was, looking at this landscape I usually had no wade through, but I was above it all. A great feeling. The sort of feeling games should inspire. It should always be a design goal to take something familiar and make it amazing. But, you can't go that high with the jetpack. I mostly cheat to get it and speed up gameplay if I really want to use it to travel, which I usually don't. It's just so stupid you can't have it in every safehouse, though. Again, it's a matter of wasting time. You could have it wherever you wanted, if you could be bothered to fly there from the air strip.
That's what's great about PC games. There are a bunch of Half Life 2 mods that change minor aspects of gameplay without affecting it too much overall. So if you've played it once, you can play it again with this particular annoyance removed. I'd totally make the jetpack like three times faster, with different heigh limitation and available anywhere.
The missions themselves, more and more, are becoming exercises in futile repetition devoid of any fun or challenge. See the Liberty City thing above. There has so far been one mission, one mission in the entire game, where you can skip a trip you need to make if you've made it before. That should be in every mission where there's a long, pointless trip to make!
I didn't plan to exceed the comment lenth limitation with this, but oh well. Anyway. Where was it that you got hopelessly stuck with a plane before? And if I remember right and you passed it, where are you stuck now, if at all?
Also, to end on a lighter note:
How do pilots like their pizzas?
Plain.