**OFFICIAL GTA:SA THREAD**

[trmiv]

This damn mission has zapped all the fun out of the game. This mission makes no sense either. I'm a frigging GANG BANGER for crying out loud! Wouldn't I just get my 9 out, pop a cap in the DJ's ass, and steal the fvcking van? Nooooooo!! Instead, I have a goddamn dance contest? Are you fvcking kidding me? Any other time I want a vehicle, I rip the driver out, beat him sensless with a bat, and then drive off in his car, running over his bloody body in the process. But in this situation, the game turns into the fvcking Soul Train on me. I swear I'm going to hire a 16 year old asian kid to finish this mission for me.

 

[drag]

Realy? I beat it on the second try, too, and I never played or cared about ddr games before.

do you have a little sister or something? Or go out and ask the neighborhood kids, "do you know what DDR, dance dance revolution, games are?"

If they say yes, then tell them you'll pay them 3 whole dollars to beat this part of the game for you.

otherwise I don't know what to say. You don't give much information. the thing that caught me the first time around is that I never think about the buttons themselves, I just press them. So even though I play the playstation for a long time, I didn't remember which button was the triangle button and such.

Also if you miss a move or whatnot, you don't have to do them in order, just skip the parts that you miss and try to simply just press the buttons right when they entire the middle of the circle.

 

[trmiv]

I've even recruited my wife to try it, she can't do it either. Closest she's gotten is 3500. There aren't any kids around here than can do it, they are all like 3 year old Indian children.

 

[jasonja]

okay.. how the hell do you pick up a hooker in this game? I stop by them and sometimes they say "you want to have some fun honey" but they don't get in the car. What's the deal?

 

[warcrow]

..make sure your car isnt banged up? Press right on the D-pad?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: warcrow
Press right on the D-pad?

Ding ding ding!! Winnar! Press right after they ask you .

Also, has anyone noticed yet that even though you can't drive to Los Venturas because the road is blocked, but you can swim across? And have you noticed that when you do, Rockstar has implemented a nice little restraint to try and keep you from getting too far into Las Venturas?

 

[Modeps]

I still havent bought the game... Probably a good thing, due to the fact Halo 2 is coming out Tuesday, and then Half Life 2 the following week. I think I may just have to take a day off of work.

 

[alm4rr]

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: warcrow
Press right on the D-pad?

Ding ding ding!! Winnar! Press right after they ask you .

Also, has anyone noticed yet that even though you can't drive to Los Venturas because the road is blocked, but you can swim across? And have you noticed that when you do, Rockstar has implemented a nice little restraint to try and keep you from getting too far into Las Venturas?

what's the restraint?

 

[syzygy]

Originally posted by: trmiv
This damn mission has zapped all the fun out of the game. This mission makes no sense either. I'm a frigging GANG BANGER for crying out loud! Wouldn't I just get my 9 out, pop a cap in the DJ's ass, and steal the fvcking van? Nooooooo!! Instead, I have a goddamn dance contest? Are you fvcking kidding me? Any other time I want a vehicle, I rip the driver out, beat him sensless with a bat, and then drive off in his car, running over his bloody body in the process. But in this situation, the game turns into the fvcking Soul Train on me. I swear I'm going to hire a 16 year old asian kid to finish this mission for me.

you are not going to like this . . . but there are other 'ddr' type missions in the game. there is at
least one specific side mission that involves the hydrolic savannah (after mod) or blade vehicles
where you need to use the right thumb joystick to push up, down, sideways, and diagonally to
dance your car (as you are sitting in it with a lady) to the beat of music.

your only solace is that this is a side mission, played for money through bets. cash gains are small
but i don't know what the larger rewards may be if you manage to complete a certain number of them.

advice : your mind and fingers are not in tune. break it down. look at the controller and memorize
(again and again) the location of the buttons. the issue is one of memory and psycholgy. you are
forgetting the location of the buttons as the stress builds.

i just reached san fiero. and i have a gripe ! !

when driving, there is an issue with the camera perspective, at times, when the camera will not
swing around to the driver's perspective but instead will linger in cinematic view, i.e. from the front
or by the side. this has happened when i'm trying to make certain turns, come up against a tight corner
where there's traffic, just jumped into a vehicle, and other moments. you're forced to make a manual
correction everytime.

 

[syzygy]

Originally posted by: alm4rr

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: warcrow
Press right on the D-pad?

Ding ding ding!! Winnar! Press right after they ask you .

Also, has anyone noticed yet that even though you can't drive to Los Venturas because the road is blocked, but you can swim across? And have you noticed that when you do, Rockstar has implemented a nice little restraint to try and keep you from getting too far into Las Venturas?

what's the restraint?

four star criminal rating that will quickly jump to five. they make your deviations as uncomfortable
as possible. i died in a fierce firefight on a casino floor. you haven't yet acquired the needed skillz
with 'em guns and wheelz to survive very long. so just follow the story linearly as required.

 

[syzygy]

quick question : does anyone know how to activate the nitro boost in the blade ? does it flick on automatically at a certain speed ? i haven't yet
purchased the nitro but in the event i do . . .

 

[trmiv]

I ended up having my wife pass that ridiculous dancing mission for me. She practiced at the club, then went and passed it. That was the most ridiculous mission so far in the game. Just plain stupid for anyone not into that stuff. I was so tired of it, I didn't want to practice it.

It's funny, after I passed that mission, I flew through all the combat related missions after that, including all the gang war stuff, without being killed once. I just can't do the dance stuff, but I'm good at the rest of the game. Now I'm in San Fiero.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: syzygy
quick question : does anyone know how to activate the nitro boost in the blade ? does it flick on automatically at a certain speed ? i haven't yet
purchased the nitro but in the event i do . . .

Well if I had the sony controller in front of me I could tell you.. but I don't remmember the layout of the buttons...

Well you have the X on the bottom, and the triangle on top, right? Well then the nitro button is the right button. The square? I think. To lazy to look it up, you get the idea.

Also after it's activated then you'll get blue flames out of your tailpipe, and the price of the nitro increases with the time that it's activated. Like the most expensive is the "10" nitro... that will stay on for 10 seconds after you press it. You can't shut it off, but if you let up on the gass then it won't boost you anymore, still runs out.


Also I figured out that you can take almost any car to get lowrided and different cars have different cosmetic options... Also nice cars make you "sexy" rating go up.

That and there is a crop duster airplane just south of the airport, on top of a hill on the other side of the small body of water. It's next to a barn, and inside the barn there is a rifle. Also you can take a car and jump across the small body of water and land ontop of one of the airplane hangers. Inside the airport there is a helicopter you can steal and there are other jets and stuff. You can try to steal them, but they are locked....

Hope those aren't considured spoilers...

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: drag
Well you have the X on the bottom, and the triangle on top, right? Well then the nitro button is the right button. The square? I think. To lazy to look it up, you get the idea.

That and there is a crop duster airplane just south of the airport, on top of a hill on the other side of the small body of water. It's next to a barn, and inside the barn there is a rifle. Also you can take a car and jump across the small body of water and land ontop of one of the airplane hangers. Inside the airport there is a helicopter you can steal and there are other jets and stuff. You can try to steal them, but they are locked....

Hope those aren't considured spoilers...

You were close, as the layout of buttons is X on the bottom, triangle on top, circle on the right, square on the left.

As for the crop duster, in which city is this? I've yet to make it out of Los Santos. The controls in this game are frickin' horrible, just as worse as Vice City. It takes me a few tries to get past some missions.

 

[drag]

Once you get access to the next city you can get to it. San Fierro.

If you look at the map of San Fierro there is a airport, the main drive thru it is a big black circle with the roads leading away towards the SW (lower left). If you put the crosshairs on that circle and go straight south you'll cross over one black road and then directly south of that is a S shaped brown road (dirt road) that starts at the bottom and ends in a little brown square at the top. The duster is up on top of that hill were the little dirt road ends.

Carefull when you get to that. I tried to land on the aircraft carrier and I guess that pissed them off because I got 5 starts and they shot me down with a stinger missle.

Also around that airport there are some boats you can steal, coast gaurds...

 

[warcrow]

God, what a fvcking incredible game! I'm in San Fiero now. This game has the coolest missions. Wait till you guys work your way out of Los Santanos and start doing some missions in the country side. The freedom to go anywhere really makes you just want to explore. Anyways, hope everyone is enjoying this game as much as I am! I have much more I'd like so say, but I have a game to play.

 

[Supermercado]

I hate flight school. That is all.

Edit: Okay, I lied. Where the heck is the horse race betting place? It's marked on the map that came with the game but I can't find it for the life of me.

 

[blurredvision]

I unlocked the Badlands and San Fierro early today, and it's a nice change of scenery. I stole a taxi and climbed Mt. Chiliad in it. Took atleast 5 minutes to get to the top!! Fun as hell coming down too .

As for the story twist, I saw one half of it coming, the other half I didn't catch. Interesting, although I don't think it was fleshed out enough. I didn't quite understand what exactly was going on.

 

[eigen]

Two questions:

Where is the club so that i can practice for the ddr crap ( give directions part of town)

Where is the van so that I can start burgualry ( I already completed the mission requird I just dont no where to get the van)

 

[drag]

I havent' had to use the DDR stuff since the beach party....

And I just got to the last city, and noticed something. The radio wctr changed slightly....

 

[trmiv]

I got that crop duster! I took it and flew to Las Venturas, and promptly got my ass shot out of the sky! So then I got it again and flew to the airport in the first city. I was able to steal a lear jet, but crashed before I could get off the ground.

 

[Rankor]

I bought the new ps2 just to play GTA: SA.

I'll be buying it later on this morning along with a couple of other games:

Pacific Assault
Halo 2

I've out of the country for two weeks and I'm just starting to catch up.

 

[Modeps]

I finally got my copy (yeah, the day before Halo 2). Why didnt you bastards tell me that Eazy-E was actually IN the game? I would have bought it when it came out!