David Cross comments on playing his own mission in GTA:SA
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darkwing-buck
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Fuck that mission.
Zombie James
Banned
I actually got some Pain 100% salsa last week and I really like it. But yeah, that San Andreas mission was something else.
Revolutionary
Member
I never thought the mission was that bad. Did it first try.
I remember my cousin calling me over to his house to do it and I did it on my first try there as well.
I remember my cousin calling me over to his house to do it and I did it on my first try there as well.
Later versions of the game had the mission difficulty greatly reduced.
I believe the PC and Xbox versions always had the fix, and later printings of the PS2 SKU did as well.
hannuraina
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this and smough and ornstein remain my most difficult videogame accomplishments
Silver Arrows
Banned
Weren't the Zero missions completely optional and not needed for 100%?
EDIT: Optional for the storyline, but mandatory for 100% and to own Zero's store as an asset apparently.
EDIT: Optional for the storyline, but mandatory for 100% and to own Zero's store as an asset apparently.
Silver Arrows
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The train mission wasn't that bad, it's about giving Big Smoke enough room to shoot at the guys on the train. Most people just rub up against the train, hope for the best.
Pathfinder
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I could never complete that mission. To be honest, I never completed San Andreas. That is exactly the point that I stopped.
MonkeyMan29
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Pretty much sums up how I feel about this. Pretty bad when the guy who plays the voice in the game is just like, "Fuck it."
Godawful controls
Pathfinder
Member
Shitty controls and lack of sufficient time to complete ridiculous mission tasks.
At least the controls in that mission don't suck so you'll get it eventually.
MaximumSpider
Banned
CURSE YOU, BURKLEY!
VeryGooster
Banned
The RC plane control was pretty terrible and the "fuel gauge" is really a timer so even if you have to course correct or get your bearings you're wasting time.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Dont think I had much of a problem with that one. Only one I remember is that one we all know about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KTYqiQWoU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KTYqiQWoU
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Like the poster above said the controls weren't very good and the fuel gauge, due to a bug or something, acted like a timer in the original PS2 version and so you almost had to do a perfect run to complete it, it was really fucking hard. Later versions of the game fixed it and made it a ton easier.
that has nothing on the race against hilary to try and get him to join your bank heist crew. no GTA mission from any of the games has frustrated me nearly as much as that one single race.
LelouchZero
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Oh man, those RC missions were quite cool. I'm having a hard time recalling the difficulty though, it's been soo many years and I'm not even sure I completed them.
Depends whether you played the game at launch or the Greatest Hits version.
This mission, and others like it, is one of the reasons I don't like San Andreas as much as most people seem to, and I played it on PC, which I guess is the "easy" version.
Pretty much any mission involving flying anything was a nightmare for me. Even the "damn train" mission wasn't that bad in comparison. I think I only had to retry that one once or twice.
Pretty much any mission involving flying anything was a nightmare for me. Even the "damn train" mission wasn't that bad in comparison. I think I only had to retry that one once or twice.
After spending enough time flying the Dodo in GTA III, flying anything else in a GTA game feels like a piece of cake.
*Eye twitches*
I don't think I ever even bothered.
KyanMehwulfe
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I know GTA SA gets looked back on with a lot of nostalgia, and even I miss its role play features a lot as I play GTA V. But this video sort of reminds me.... damn were its gameplay controls bad. I mean, every GTA before V was... but the side missions in GTA SA really emphasized just how bad they were. Sometimes I feel when folks praise GTA SA over GTA V, it's sort of with rose tinted glasses of nostalgia for the exploring and role playing (which are still the best in the series) but forget just how crippling the gameplay controls were lol every time I wanted to do something it felt like the controls were holding a hand behind my back.
Even though I put hundreds of hours into GTA SA but I barely even made it to Las Venturas haha I couldn't stand the shit missions. I just free roamed all the time. And even though I actually did beat VC...
It was mostly in spite of the missions and story haha GTA V was the first time I actually enjoyed the gameplay AND story of GTA missions -- pre V the series for me was basically just free roam and shoot cops
Even though I put hundreds of hours into GTA SA but I barely even made it to Las Venturas haha I couldn't stand the shit missions. I just free roamed all the time. And even though I actually did beat VC...
It was mostly in spite of the missions and story haha GTA V was the first time I actually enjoyed the gameplay AND story of GTA missions -- pre V the series for me was basically just free roam and shoot cops
dragonbane
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Fucking beat that shit on the original PS2 version, but it took at least 30 tries. Fuck that. Goddamn that mission was brutal and perhaps slightly buggy too lol
GTA is one of my absolute favorite series, I've been playing them since the first one, and I completely agree.
GTA1 through SA were punitively difficult, I had no qualms about cheating my way through them. IV and V are the only ones I've finished without cheating.
Bony Manifesto
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It's a PS2 GTA game - the on-foot controls always suck!
McMoneyman
Member
God that was annoying. Especially when you had to escape.
IdreamofHIME
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Never found the mission that frustrating compared to the infamy it has obtained for the last decade.
It took a few tries, but compared to the awful train chase earlier in the game or the fucking broken RC chopper bomb mission from Vice City, it was just a hard mission...not a hair tearing one.
It took a few tries, but compared to the awful train chase earlier in the game or the fucking broken RC chopper bomb mission from Vice City, it was just a hard mission...not a hair tearing one.
I think GTA V was the first game where both shooting and driving felt right to me. The first person view may have contributed to that, I didn't play it until it came out for PC.
GTA3 is probably my favorite of the bunch due to its simplicity and minimal story, but that shotgun was so goddam useless.
I feel like the older GTA games probably weren't playtested very well, I have no way of knowing that, but they just had sudden difficulty spikes which were way out of line with the rest of the game. Somehow I manged to beat San Andreas without cheating just before GTAV came out, but it took me 60 hours and I'm pretty sure it wasn't worth it, lol.
Especially all of it!
GTA III will always be the best, just because it has Chatterbox. None of the talk stations have ever been as funny as that, though I did like JB Smoove's "Chakra Attack" in GTA V.
It was weird what they did with Lazlow, though. In GTA III he was like the one voice of sanity amidst the entire city of ridiculousness, but in GTA V he's just this weird Ryan Seacrest parody.