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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: ITT:fanboys talk about their favorite GTA missions |
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Heh, I was surprised to see Asbury Park's ruined casino in GTA4... my family has a house a few blocks from it. (Also it didn't make it into the real life/ gta version photo albums i had seen)
Anyway, the last third of GTA4 seems to have WAY WAY WAY too many "slowly advance into a structure and kill every goon". It made me think about the levels in GTA3, GTA:VC (my first) GTA:SA and this one that were superior.
I guess the stand out level for me will always be the "steal a cop uniform, blow up the starbucks, escape from the mall" one in GTA:VC. That was my first time really having to learn to cope with a high wanted level.
GTA3... helping your buddy with the sniper as your buddy invaded the boat was keen... see realistic-ish interplay between friendly and hostile NPCs was cool.
GTA3 had that fun little mad bomber RC cars, and VC had planting bombs via mini-copter...
Few missions of GTA:SA really stand out, though the sand box war game was kind of nifty. And in general, sky diving. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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parkbench .
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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GTA:SA
The train level with the jetpack.
Trying to scare that guy tied to the front of your car. _________________
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purplechair .
Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Throwing boxes of grenades off the back of a train and into the hands of your homeboys, in San Andreas.
My favourite mission in GTA IV was the one with the thug in Middle Park. It was like a parody of all the other chase missions. |
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 996 Location: Super Magic Drive
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: |
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The missions where you get to kill all of the Haitians. _________________
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: |
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purplechair wrote: | Throwing boxes of grenades off the back of a train and into the hands of your homeboys, in San Andreas.
My favourite mission in GTA IV was the one with the thug in Middle Park. It was like a parody of all the other chase missions. |
The gay-basher-bashing one?
They haven't overdone it, but I think the emphasis on "vague plausibility has taken away one of the groups of most fondly remembered missions and replaced it with "slowly go into this place and kill everyone there".
As an experiment my gaming buddy and I immediately fired up GTA:VC after. I'm not sure if it was just the immediate contrast or bad 360-emu-of-Xbox, but it was terrible, it felt all speeded up, and the place just looked empty and flat... all in all more like I "remember" Playstation games looking like, not PS2, though I understand that all of this is relative. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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JamesE .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 168 Location: Straight Up, Straight Down
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Most of the James Woods missions in SA are very memorable - like the one where you have to ride a bike onto a jetplane, then parachute out as it explodes (I think that one was actually an Enter the Matrix parody). _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:26 am Post subject: |
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Oh, yeah that was a good one. _________________
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Mr. Mechanical Friendly Stranger
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:06 am Post subject: |
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I still have fond memories of that one mission from San Andreas where you're in Las Venturas and you have to intimidate a guy who is strapped to the hood of you car by driving really fast on the wrong side of the road.
edit-Oh cycle already mentioned it.
The mission in 3 where you kill Salvatore is mentioned quite often. Did anyone play Liberty City Stories or Vice City Stories? There was a mission in Vice City Stories where you took control of a domestic cleaning robot in this guys house and had to crack an electronic lock on a safe. You also had to contend with dealing with the homeowner's beck and call though, so trying to explore the house to find the safe was interesting because every so often the guy would call you to clean up some mess or something like that.
There was a mission in Liberty City Stories where you had to plant demolition charges in a subway section below Staunton Island and level and entire neighborhood. That area was what become the construction site in GTA3.
GTA4 was kind of lacking in really memorable missions yeah. After the heist mission of Three Leaf Clover it doesn't really manage to top itself. Though I did enjoy the Alderney mission where you have to steal a truck and end up grabbing the back of it and climbing up over the top while it's driving off, and then make your way up to the passenger side door. _________________ Mr. Mechanical |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Mr. Mechanical wrote: | I still have fond memories of that one mission from San Andreas where you're in Las Venturas and you have to intimidate a guy who is strapped to the hood of you car by driving really fast on the wrong side of the road.
The mission in 3 where you kill Salvatore is mentioned quite often. Did anyone play Liberty City Stories or Vice City Stories? There was a mission in Vice City Stories where you took control of a domestic cleaning robot in this guys house and had to crack an electronic lock on a safe. You also had to contend with dealing with the homeowner's beck and call though, so trying to explore the house to find the safe was interesting because every so often the guy would call you to clean up some mess or something like that. |
Yeah, it was kind of an embedded time management simulation.
Jacking a tank in GTA:VC from an army convoy was kind of a trip.
It's funny that a lot of the stand out missions are essentially one-offs, that throw in a different gimmicky mechanic: a toy car or copter, a robot (because of the change of PoV this is probably one of the biggest breaks), a guy-on-hood or your-guy-on-truck minigame.
Quote: | There was a mission in Liberty City Stories where you had to plant demolition charges in a subway section below Staunton Island and level and entire neighborhood. That area was what become the construction site in GTA3. |
Yeah, did that also explain the broken road segment on the initial starting city block in 3?
You wonder if it was pre-planned or happenstance (i.e. they decided to put a broken patch of road there just 'because', or to block an easy route) I've heard some rumors that said, in effect, 3 has its continuity with VC, SA, and the stories, and that 4 will have likewise... dunno what they'll do for numbering. Still, it's fun to try and guess where Rockstar seems to be leaving connecting points open... the sympathetic way Packie is portrayed, along with references to his family's former halcyon days, made me thinking that it might be about those brothers, but then again the brothers got a LOT of play this time around so maybe not. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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Mr. Mechanical Friendly Stranger
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Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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kirkjerk wrote: | Yeah, did that also explain the broken road segment on the initial starting city block in 3? |
You mean the bridge from Portland to Stauntan Island? I'm pretty sure they showed in the opening cinematic that it was the Columbians (or whoever it was that broke you out of that armored cop truck) tossing a bomb out that blew the bridge. _________________ Mr. Mechanical |
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kirkjerk .
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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Mr. Mechanical wrote: | kirkjerk wrote: | Yeah, did that also explain the broken road segment on the initial starting city block in 3? |
You mean the bridge from Portland to Stauntan Island? I'm pretty sure they showed in the opening cinematic that it was the Columbians (or whoever it was that broke you out of that armored cop truck) tossing a bomb out that blew the bridge. |
Bridge? Don't think so... it's on the other side of the block your first safehouse is on, IIRC, down the street from the first place you get missions and kind of catty corner from the first pay and spray. _________________ =/ \(<D)_/
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