To pass the time…
your stamina also increased over time in GTA3 iirc.
personally i prefer GTA3 over VC and SA bcuz the idea was fresh, and liberty city was fucking ridiculously awesome. also the city was small enough that you were never bored or hopelessly stranded, like i remember mad times playing SA where something would happen and i’d be in the red county or wherever the fuck without whip pissed as fuck…what’s that shit about? also missions shouldn’t take more than 10 mins and if it does it should be hardcore action packed, none of that cross country pilgrimage bullshit.
the one thing that SA had over the rest of the games in the series, besides weapons and cars/bikes, was the turf war shit. my favorite thing to do in that game was to just drive around and camp out with a motorcycle and kill ballas and chulos to see that “this hood is yours” message…i was pretty sad when the ice cube character got busted and i had to flee town, only to return with all of my hard fought territory no longer mine.
Like I said, it only takes a few days in game to get him into a stable state. Running was only really effected if you were too fat, once you get him toned and in a refined shape, he’s good enough to fly through the game with. You can probably get through 5 or 6 missions without having to do anything towards his physical condition. Also later in the game your deffence gets so high anyway, you don’t really need to go to the gym at all. In fact, I think I rarely went to the gym outside of the first city. It was easy enough to get him to a good level and I had nothing to worry about.
Imo, it’s not really a game destroying thing. It’s in no way destrotying compared to things like, Jimmy passing out in Bully, which to be honest, isn’t really game destrying anyway. It just sounds like you were too lazy to spend a minute every so often making your character stronger. But if that’s how you view the game I guess I have to respect that; it’s still lazy though…
It wasn’t lazy, I just felt I lost too much time feeling as though I needed to do other thigns to max my guy out before I could do the fun stuff. I’m a min/max guy - so I was working out once a day, eating when I’m supposed to, taking the wifey on a date or whatever when the time called etc. So I’d get thru like 2 mishes a day…yawn. I played up to about the time you go to the second city or some shit. I just lost complete intrest at that point. I aint knockin anyone that likes it, it just didn’t grab me.
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Makes sense. Personally I just got over the territory, dating, working out etc unless I really had to, and it worked out fine in the end.
Everything in this post is exactly how I feel. LC was perfect to me. Not too big, not VC small. Awesome missions, GREAT characters, never bored or stranded, plenty of easter eggs. I like the idea of you know being able to customize your character (they did take it kinda far with the eating and stuff, albeit being a great idea on paper). All the additions like motor bikes, helicoptors and such were great and I wish they were in 3 but they arent. No big deal to me. GTA3 is still my favorite of the series
Why would you ever want to just jump straight into a boat? Boats were pretty much useless in GTA3. Only used in very few missions and using a car was much faster.
I reserved this ish and I had no idea that the special edition was $90 fucking dollars. You pay $30 for some GTA swag, man wtf? I remember when reserving games got you extra shit for the same price, not extra.
Should I go for the midnight launch? Apparently one of the stores here is having some sort of party to celebrate it with other stuff.
Dunno if it’s worth it, to be honest I just want the bag and lockbox that comes in the LE. 
Not worth standing in line with geeks and nerds and shit.
I would go for a midnight pickup, but I reserved my shit in an EB in the mall, which closes before midnight.
I outside of a Halo 3 midnight party or whatever just for kicks, man serious nerd harassment. I almost got in like 5 fights.
Yeah, boats didn’t have too much use, except to bail you out if you ran off a cliff into water by accident.
I did have fun trying to jump from a flying bike into a boat though.
Try jumping the bridge early in 3, that shit is tense! I only made it once in a police car.
As much as I enjoy this franchise, I have no interest in buying this SE.
And I buy SE’s most of the time. The stuff just seems…useless. Give me a poster and a “making of” DVD and I will gladly fork over another $10 bucks or so. This is overkill.
Wiat…they are doing midnight launches?
I made the mistake of doing this with Smash Bros.
“Never again” I said. You’d swear these kids just popped out of Gamefaqs.
If I can find one, I’ll pick it up at midnight. Midnight being 12:30am.
So that occurs regularly?
The midnight launch for Halo 3 at my gamestop was horrible. I had to get a pre-order for a friend. It smelt fucking terrible, I shoulda known gamers never shower. :bluu:
Yea, I did that shit with Smash Bros, my wife and I both were sick the next day cause of the funk that came with midnight waiting. I wanted to smack some of the parents there though, how you going to let your fat ass son not shower, funk the place up, and you sit there and do nothing…
Man you guys must live where showering is unheard of. Only thing I smelled was beer when I went to the h3 midnight release. Fools behind me where fucking partying all through the fucking night. woot! I acctually think those midnight releases are pretty damn cool. I mean, I get to meet other gamers that live where I live. Get to talking with them and I go home with a few local gamertags. So now I have a few faces to go with the names on my friends list. So I get a dope game and I make a few gamer friends. Awsome!
I hear what your saying, but then again check the games. I went for Smash Bros, which most pre-teen to teen were out there with their moms. I suspect that you will see the same kids there for GTA, but also have some old folk as well.
Its only the game stores that seem to smell. If I go to places where normal people go, whether it be the mall, the grocery store or the dry cleaners theres no stench. The moment I walk into a place where video games are sold.
GGPO to my nose.
lmao @ people in this thread in denial about being a nerd. You are registered at a fucking video game forum where you post frequently. GG.
EVO regularly smelled like a dead fat person’s balls in enclosed areas.
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