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Official Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas topic
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i never made serious money until i got to the casinos. playing video poker for $50k per hand did the trick. went from being in debt 6 grand to getting back to where i could bet $50k again, and caught 4 of a kind. that about solved my money issues.
anyone know if anything happens if you stay in debt? anyone hunt you down or anything? or just a simple once you get the money it just goes back to them?
anyone know if anything happens if you stay in debt? anyone hunt you down or anything? or just a simple once you get the money it just goes back to them?
WasabiKing
Member
bjork said:
That won't matter much once you get with Katie or Barbara. After that, you'll never lose your weapons.
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Do you guys generally not reload after dying or getting busted? Now I feel guilty 
Musashi, I do sometimes. But only to save time - there's only one Ammunation in San Fierro (RETARDED) and I hate having to constantly go there to re-equip myself. It might be considered cheating, but it doesn't hurt the experience for me or anything.
If you're talking about the Dating side quest, please explain/spoil. Otherwise, like if it has to do with a mission that I'll eventually encounter, nevermind.WasabiKing said:
WasabiKing
Member
Socreges said:
Yeah, it's a side quest. For the most part, the dating is useless. Get to 50%, you get to use their car, get to 100%, get a special costume. 2 of the 6 gals you can date are involved with the storyline. The two that I'm talking about, Katie Zhan and Barbara are useful because if you die (Katie) or get arrested (Barbara), you can get your weapons back. They're bonus sidequests, and you don't even need to take them in as dates, just meet them and you get those special attributes.
cybercrash
Member
I just saw an old mexican guy shoot down a few cops and then casually stroll away saying in a tough manly voice "porridge is for pussies"... :lol
christorama i just spent the last two and a half hours doing all the shitty quarry missions. AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE. Completely worthless. The reward is more of a slap in the face. Jesus fuck did that piss me off. The last mission is the worst thing I've ever played in this game. So goddamn frustrating. It's even worse than Supply Lines.
Eminem said:
Yeah, most of the asset missions seem to either pointless and boring (valet parking...ugh) or stupidly hard to appease the "hardcore" fans who blew through VC. They should have retooled them to make them more interesting and integral to the plot, and with less bullshit involved. And I still have no idea why R* thought it would be a good idea to force people to do perfect runs at the vehicle schools to obtain vehicles you can already find on the street
Littleberu
Banned
Man, 30 hours in the game, and I'm still discovering things. This game is teh shit.
SolidSnakex
Member
snaildog said:
The song names/bands are in the manual.
SolidSnakex
Member
Does anyone know where to find 4 wheelers? I've went all around the country side and can't find any.
RE: Dating in Las Venturas...
Oh also, can the girls ever dump you? Or does it just bottom out at 1% or something? I want to finish this up at some point but I just don't have the patience to sit around and wait for Denise to appear so I can take her out. Knowing that I can safely ignore her calls would really help -- I've totally avoided Los Santos purely because I don't want my meter to slip even further.
How high do I need to get the meter before Millie sleeps with you and hands over the keycard? 50%? 100%?
Oh also, can the girls ever dump you? Or does it just bottom out at 1% or something? I want to finish this up at some point but I just don't have the patience to sit around and wait for Denise to appear so I can take her out. Knowing that I can safely ignore her calls would really help -- I've totally avoided Los Santos purely because I don't want my meter to slip even further.
Fowler said:
On Dating in Las Venturas:
You need to get the progress with Millie to 35% before she hands over the keycard. For a sure fire way to make this happen, simply go to a safe house and change into the Gimp Suit. She will sleep with you automatically regardless of your progress with her and your progress with her with rise dramatically (25% the first time, 25% the second time, etc...). After you get your progress to 35% she'll call you on her cellphone and tell you to get the keycard from her house. Mission Accomplished. Alternatively you could invite her on a date and just shoot her in the head. Woozie will call you shortly thereafter and tell you to sneak into her house and get the keycard then.
I'm not sure about the actual dumping part, but I do know that if you get to a low enough level the option to continue dating them stops for a while or something, so I guess that's tantamount to dumping.
WasabiKing
Member
Sometimes, I find that saving the game then going to see your girlfriend will work fine...
BTW, Bullets can be found at the Burger Shot parking lot near Paradisio. License plate is CHUNKY, hehe
I used stealth most of the area 69 surface, sniping and stabbing many of the soldiers. I found that breaking into the facility via the air duct is much better than going through the front door
BTW, Bullets can be found at the Burger Shot parking lot near Paradisio. License plate is CHUNKY, hehe
radioheadrule83
Banned
Trying to do the "life's a beach" mission, I give a positive response to the girl, which I understand is meant to start a dance minigame. It doesn't.
Am I missing something here?
Am I missing something here?
radioheadrule83
Banned
Ah weird. I was doing that and getting nothing. Just saved/restarted and its worked just as you said.
Thanks!
Thanks!
How come they included the option in early missions to skip the 'Trips' (ie, useless rides to where the true mission begins), but it hasn't been used since? Maybe there are several that I completed on the first try that could have been skipped otherwise, but some I've failed initially and had to do the useless shit all over again, w/o the option of skipping it. Doesn't make any sense.
Man do I love the shit out of this game. Climbing mount Chiliad with a motorcycle was absolutely amazing. I got to the top just as a plane came crashing in to its side. I spent a few good minutes hitting the gas on the RV that regenerates up there and diving out before it hits a ramp and flies to the bottom of the mountain. Then I went off the ramp with my motorcycle and a parachute. This is all old hat already for most of you, but I still can't get over the experience.
I also contend that the freeway located at the very very bottom of the map that leads in to Los Santos is the best place for jumping on top of cars and shovelin' them to death. I was smashing a car so vigorously that it caught on fire and I jumped off right before it went careening off a cliff and exploded in mid-air. I only got to see certain remnants of the car as they flew upward. AWESOME pileups in this area, especially when it's raining.
I also contend that the freeway located at the very very bottom of the map that leads in to Los Santos is the best place for jumping on top of cars and shovelin' them to death. I was smashing a car so vigorously that it caught on fire and I jumped off right before it went careening off a cliff and exploded in mid-air. I only got to see certain remnants of the car as they flew upward. AWESOME pileups in this area, especially when it's raining.
WasabiKing
Member
Pileups in the Las Venturas freeways rock, haha. I've seen cars flip end over end. It's great when you
to cause mayhem...
ride your jetpack over there
I foudn the solution to the skinny problem on the gamefaqs message board after searching through around 20 pages of topics... Phew. It took me hours to do it... YOu have to keep on eating, preferably salads so you don't gain fat. Eat like 7 salads a day, then wait another day, eat 7 more salads. Repeat over and over and over until you're able to work out in the gym. Apparently, the game tracks how long you've not eaten and thus your energy level, and if you've skipped eating regularly, it builds up. I neglected eating damn near the whole game, so it took me around 20 or so days of eating salad after salad to get back to the proper level to work out in the gym again.
Hoped that helped some of yall. I would go back through the gamefaqs message board to find the topic so the guy can get some credit, but I've already come across too many spoilers. But finally! I can get back to regular form.
Hoped that helped some of yall. I would go back through the gamefaqs message board to find the topic so the guy can get some credit, but I've already come across too many spoilers. But finally! I can get back to regular form.
deadhorse32
Bad Art
http://www.ps2-scene.org/forums/showthread.php?t=28584&referrerid=46014
Spoilers found in the preceding link
Spoilers found in the preceding link
WasabiKing said:
Hell yeah, it's amazing the see the cars pile up. So fucking cool. I'm clocked at 40 hours and I still haven't beat the game... this is like RPG level playtime.
After playing Halo 2 (which is an awesome game btw) I can securely say that GTA:SA is, by far, my GOTY if not one of my favorite games of all time.
Now bring on Manhunt 2 and test some more shit for GTA PS3.
Yeah, pileups are great, and one thing I love about SA is how that shit happens now without any input from you. Seeing cops chasing other maniacs and gunning them down while innocent ol' me stands there is a great new addition to the immersion of the game, as is seeing accidents and fights randomly break out.
There's that one highway that leads west from your airstrip where ALL the vehicles are doing mach 3. I was on a chopper and I was *barely* keeping pace with the vans and rigs on that road, it was insane how fast they go on that strip. It's almost impossible to jack a vehicle there, but while trying I saw a semi rear end a Pony van and that thing was punted over another van coming the other way at least 100ft in the air with probably 3 full flips. :lol
There's that one highway that leads west from your airstrip where ALL the vehicles are doing mach 3. I was on a chopper and I was *barely* keeping pace with the vans and rigs on that road, it was insane how fast they go on that strip. It's almost impossible to jack a vehicle there, but while trying I saw a semi rear end a Pony van and that thing was punted over another van coming the other way at least 100ft in the air with probably 3 full flips. :lol
Just thought i'd share my little story because yesterday i realised again why this is one of the best game i've ever played:
I'm still in Los Santos with the game. I'm done with the missions of the first 3 guys and i decided to explore the city before the game transport me elsewhere. I was at the airport and the plane section is blocked. It says "you need blablabla pilot level to go there" or something. I said to myself "screw this". I took an ambulance, climbed on it's top and i did cross over the wall to the plane section. There i founded some similar as in Vice City small jets. I did press triangle and OMGWTF the character is getting on it. Amazing. I take the thing to flight and (first time flying for me here) i realised how nice and high we can fly in this game. The i though "Mount Chiliad". I flight over there with the police (or army) having JET FIGHTERS shooting SEEKER MISSILES at me. Amazing. I dropped on top of the mount Chiliad and reached my goal whatever. Then i say some pick-up over there: The parachute. I took it (while helicopters were trying to shoot me down) and i drop from the Mount Chiliad sky diving. Amazing. Got caught by the police after that though.
GOTG (game of the gen)
I'm still in Los Santos with the game. I'm done with the missions of the first 3 guys and i decided to explore the city before the game transport me elsewhere. I was at the airport and the plane section is blocked. It says "you need blablabla pilot level to go there" or something. I said to myself "screw this". I took an ambulance, climbed on it's top and i did cross over the wall to the plane section. There i founded some similar as in Vice City small jets. I did press triangle and OMGWTF the character is getting on it. Amazing. I take the thing to flight and (first time flying for me here) i realised how nice and high we can fly in this game. The i though "Mount Chiliad". I flight over there with the police (or army) having JET FIGHTERS shooting SEEKER MISSILES at me. Amazing. I dropped on top of the mount Chiliad and reached my goal whatever. Then i say some pick-up over there: The parachute. I took it (while helicopters were trying to shoot me down) and i drop from the Mount Chiliad sky diving. Amazing. Got caught by the police after that though.
GOTG (game of the gen)
I never eat. It's a waste of my time. I personally don't like that aspect of the game, though that's fine that they included it for those of you that might. But I've actually died before from starvation, which was weird. I was driving at the time, so CJ bailed from the car and died. Apparently he was so hungry that he became delusional. And I rarely use hand-to-hand combat, so muscle isn't important to me. Especially since working out is in itself pretty unfun. So, my character is a puny little thing. The few times that I have gotten into fights were fucking marathons.kevm3 said:
Property of Jumpship
Banned
Hey, I finally took over all the territory in Los Santos (says 100.00%), took 5 freaking hours. Anyway, I didnt get anything for my trouble......should I have had.