A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged gta
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Mar 8th
A good few more missions done.
I was having fun until I got to an annoying one that involves stealing a helicopter from a military base, which made me growl.
Still, I seem to have played for five hours since I restarted the game last night, which is quite something.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Mar 8th
The wait for GTA IV got too much this evening, so I had to start this up for the first time since 2006. Three things shocked me most -
1) The graphics look jaw-droppingly horrible for the first two minutes. This new generation of HD gaming has spoiled me. Luckily, within a few minutes I’d forgotten the technical deficiencies entirely.
2) The aiming on the Dual Shock stick is completely awful. Didn’t really notice until I tried a shooting mini game in an Ammunation, but, ugh.
3) I can remember huge amounts of the map. Gun locations, safe houses, Cluckin’ Bells, etc. I don’t know all the map, but I’m sure I shouldn’t remember the layout quite so well two years after I last played.
Anyway, it still plays brilliantly, it’s great and while the aiming was never good and the years haven’t been kind to the graphics, everything else has stood the test of time immensely well. I was worried I was going to destroy some precious memories, but I didn’t. Yay.
And I completed the mission I’d been stuck on when I last played. Hooray!
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Jun 18th
Ten months since I last visited. I’ve just spent a good couple of hours doing bugger all. Mainly just cruising round the map listening to K-ROSE. Killed a few people and got wasted a few times, but that’s to be expected.
It really does look a bit a shit these days, but who really cares?
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 21st
I failed a mission! I was runing from the cops and my car blew up. I got out, but my passenger didn’t. Ah well. I went exploring instead. Found a sniper rifle, so had a nice MWA HA HA HA HA moment and then went home for my tea.
As you do.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 20th
This is odd. I’m normally rubbish at missions in GTA games, but I’ve done loads now and I’ve had to redo one of them, as far as I can remember. I’m sure the difficultly level will ramp up soon, but it’s been fun so far.
Just protected a casino from a rival game, which I just managed to scrape through. Okay, so it’s been designed so you can only just manage to scrape through it, but still. I’ve quite enjoyed the missions so far, actualy, rather than finding them necessary evils.
Most of them have been in-car missions, mind. On foot, things just get random.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 20th
Wow. Actually did some missions.
I ‘whacked’ some people ina construction site, then helped someone collect money from his ladies of the evening (which involved beating a couple of pimps to death with a baseball bat) and then rescued some of the family from a gas station hold up that had gone horribly wrong.
And people say these games are violent!
Only playing because the batteries in my DS decided to die and because I’m feeling to lazy to play Shadow of the Colossus. It’s a good filler game.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 14th
Yes, it’s easy to be a bit sniffy and point out the flaws.
But there’s also no denying that starting vigilante missions when you’ve got a three star wanted rating results in some of the best fun it’s possible to have with a video game.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 14th
It’s great!
But the blurring and the second-long pauses when it searches for sound effects!
Oh!
I mean, it is great fun, but it has problems. The blurring’s probably the worst thing, I reckon. Sometimes it can be really difficult to actually see what’s going on.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Nov 9th
Another half hour or so of pissing about.
Fun, but very familiar fun. So much so that I found myself driving to the old GTA3 save point just now.
The two hidden packages I can see but not get are annoying me greatly.
I should do some missions at some point, I suppose.
