Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Announced

(also ruined: MY LIFE)

but yeah just blast away as ken says

Aw, that's the worst, and I do it too - take out game frustrations on other people in real life. These days I try to make sure I take a bit of time in a room on my own after any GTA session, just to make sure I don't start spazzing out at people who don't deserve it.

I almost cried.

take her to the diner just down the hill. she loves that.

well I'll be working on Katie at the weekend anyway, I seem to be able to please her quite easily now and I know where her special 'place' is.

i just turn up to millies in the gimp suit and suddenly i don't have to take her out anywhere!

Him - "Where are you going? Get in the fucking car!"

Me - "I'm trying to!"

Him - "What the fuck are you doing! Shoot him!"

Me - "I'm trying to!"

Him - "Turn left! Left! Hurry up!"

Me - ......."I'm trying to!"

(Tom playing)
Tom: oops, haha.
Me: FUCK! THE FUCKERS! YOU DIDN'T DESERVE THAT! SHIT!
Tom: haha.

Or

(Me playing)
Me: AAAAARGH! FUCK! SHIT!
Tom: haha.
Me: FUCKING SHUT IT!

"FUCK SAKE JUST GET IN THE CAR AND STOP FUCKING AROUND WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT"

I think Tiger Woods 2005 is much better for his kind of temperament.

This game ... At least it keeps me off the streets. The literal ones, anyway.

i'm stuck on OG Loc, mainly because i keep trying to ride the bike up walls. should get there with a bit more practice / care but the way it's the third part of a three part mission means it takes a while to get into a position to retry.

the other thread open to me is lowrider racing but a) it tells me my driving skills suck and b) i need a lowrider and i totalled the only one i've seen.

You saw that thing where as soon as the mission starts (at Sweet's house), you can hit right on the D-pad, and it'll skip to the start of the motorcycle bit?

It is a great mission in the sense that I kept getting further and further into it, and each time I'd get to the new bit and think "You're kidding! What a great game!" and then fuck up completely. This was missing from EG Wrong Side Of The Tracks. Also, as is always the case with everything, It took me ten retries to get as far as I did on my first attempt.

I'm still pretty remedial - still stuck in Los Santos, have to get past OG's first mission, though I haven't played it much.

(still not lovin' police)

haha yeah, that OG loc mission is really frustrating. the real epiphany came for me when i realized you can't actually gun the dude down while he's on his bike... just follow him as close as you can and try not to crash, eventually he'll get off and you'll be able to cap him. helps to have a decent bike skill lvl, of course. mostly i'm finding myself pleasantly surprised at how accessable this game is, the only missions that have given me real trouble so far were Just Biz and Reuniting the Families, and i only had to redo those a couple times (and it was fun!). just for the hell of it I popped in GTA3 today and was mortified by how prehistoric and unintuitive it was, I think the refinement of the gameplay mechanics from there to vice city to SA has made things much much more playable - the game is still challenging, but not like abusively HARD.

GTA:VC should also be platinum if you don't have that.

i wasn't a fan of the first (got about 10% into it) and haven't played Vice City so we'll see how i get on with SA (it was a present - i'd've bought ratchet and clank, much more my style...)

i find it odd that i will quite happily go on a tri-state killing spree and shoot anything that moves, mow down pedestrians with a fork-lift etc but i stick to my vegetarian diet in all the food places...

PP, your pain is my pain.