God, what a game.
Thanks to an extended xmas vacation, I was finally able to finish GTA:SA yesterday morning. After 130 total hours, I finished the final mission and got 100%.
Of course, that doesn't mean it's time to stop, it means it's time to start playing with cheat codes! XD
The pedestrian riot/weapon/hate you codes were a hoot as usual, and I was getting ready to set up a game of The Accident-Prone Tourist, when I noticed a really interesting code that gives you the ability to jump really high with the bmx bikes. Really high.
So I got it into my fool head to try and make it on top of the tallest building in Los Santos on my bike without using the stairs.
Several hours of ridiculously unrealistic extreme stunts later, I finally figured out a route from rooftop to rooftop that would take me there. A couple hours later, I found a second distinct route with even more ballsy jumps. As the ledges and roofs got progressively narrow and the jumps got increasingly wide, the risk of plunging all the way to the street below and having to start all over really added some hair-raising tension and vertigo to it, which was a lot of fun. Finally making it to the top with that last jump was excitement on par with the time I managed to parachute onto an ascending police helicopter. You guys should try it!
Tonight I'll do my tourist thing, which I'll start with the following ruleset:
1) Make a big list of landmarks/sights in each area (LS, SF, LV, countryside/Chilliad, Desert) Pick two random landmarks from the list to visit in each area.
2) Turn on only these cheats: aggressive traffic, peds have weapons, peds riot, peds hate you
3) Pick an airport as a starting point, and take a flight into that airport to begin. At the time that flight arrives, the week's vacation begins. One week of game time later at that time is my deadline when I have to return to catch a flight out.
4) As a tourist, the only transportation I can use are either taxis or buses.
5) I must get a good snapshot of each landmark I visit. Style points for getting exploding vehicles or psychotic pedestrians in frame.
Hopefully this should be sufficiently fun and challenging, if not, I'll either up the number of landmarks to visit, reduce the time limit, or find some other alteration of the rules that works.
I also saw a neat idea on GameFAQs where you re-enact The Warriors by taking a gang of Families into Las Venturas, turn on the ped codes, then try to get back to Grove Street on foot alive with at least one homie while hitting every train station along the way. If you are lucky enough to catch a train in a station, you can take it, but only as far as the next station. I'll definitely have to give that a try.
I also had fun turning on the faster gameplay cheat, getting in a Hydra, and doing some superfast barnstorming. Another cool thing once I had infinite ammo from getting 100% was to slap about twenty satchel charges on a bmx bike, select the detanator, hop on, go full speed at a group of peds or vehicles, jump off, then quickly hit the button for some mad bomber action. The best part is that the invincible bike can be recovered to repeat the process! XD
So there's some fun challenges out there for you GTA:SA fans, if you care to try.
Thanks to an extended xmas vacation, I was finally able to finish GTA:SA yesterday morning. After 130 total hours, I finished the final mission and got 100%.
Of course, that doesn't mean it's time to stop, it means it's time to start playing with cheat codes! XD
The pedestrian riot/weapon/hate you codes were a hoot as usual, and I was getting ready to set up a game of The Accident-Prone Tourist, when I noticed a really interesting code that gives you the ability to jump really high with the bmx bikes. Really high.
So I got it into my fool head to try and make it on top of the tallest building in Los Santos on my bike without using the stairs.
Several hours of ridiculously unrealistic extreme stunts later, I finally figured out a route from rooftop to rooftop that would take me there. A couple hours later, I found a second distinct route with even more ballsy jumps. As the ledges and roofs got progressively narrow and the jumps got increasingly wide, the risk of plunging all the way to the street below and having to start all over really added some hair-raising tension and vertigo to it, which was a lot of fun. Finally making it to the top with that last jump was excitement on par with the time I managed to parachute onto an ascending police helicopter. You guys should try it!
Tonight I'll do my tourist thing, which I'll start with the following ruleset:
1) Make a big list of landmarks/sights in each area (LS, SF, LV, countryside/Chilliad, Desert) Pick two random landmarks from the list to visit in each area.
2) Turn on only these cheats: aggressive traffic, peds have weapons, peds riot, peds hate you
3) Pick an airport as a starting point, and take a flight into that airport to begin. At the time that flight arrives, the week's vacation begins. One week of game time later at that time is my deadline when I have to return to catch a flight out.
4) As a tourist, the only transportation I can use are either taxis or buses.
5) I must get a good snapshot of each landmark I visit. Style points for getting exploding vehicles or psychotic pedestrians in frame.
Hopefully this should be sufficiently fun and challenging, if not, I'll either up the number of landmarks to visit, reduce the time limit, or find some other alteration of the rules that works.
I also saw a neat idea on GameFAQs where you re-enact The Warriors by taking a gang of Families into Las Venturas, turn on the ped codes, then try to get back to Grove Street on foot alive with at least one homie while hitting every train station along the way. If you are lucky enough to catch a train in a station, you can take it, but only as far as the next station. I'll definitely have to give that a try.
I also had fun turning on the faster gameplay cheat, getting in a Hydra, and doing some superfast barnstorming.
Another cool thing once I had infinite ammo from getting 100% was to slap about twenty satchel charges on a bmx bike, select the detanator, hop on, go full speed at a group of peds or vehicles, jump off, then quickly hit the button for some mad bomber action. The best part is that the invincible bike can be recovered to repeat the process! XDSo there's some fun challenges out there for you GTA:SA fans, if you care to try.
