Aw, now I feel bad. I didn’t mean to say you were playing wrong… It’s entirely valid to maximize your time commitment to stuff you enjoy. But next time, grab a car for Steve by figuring out the clues and peering at the crappy cell phone picture he sends you. If you don’t spot something cool in the process, I’ll buy you a burger from Burger Shot!
-TomHey, I gots a question: I got my first car text message from Steve - a nice Infernus, I think, parked in one of those mobster-looking houses in north Alderney - and I found the car no problem. But I don’t know what to do with it after I steal it. Do I drive it back to Brucie’s impound at the docks?
Stevie’s garage is in Bohan, right off the East Borough Bridge. I believe it’s on Guantanamo Avenue. It’s marked with a car icon on the map.
-TomThe first thing you should do with it is drive it to your safe house in Bohan, so you can get 3-4 more of them spawned around the safe house. Grab one and park it in your save space =) then the garage is 3 block east of there…
I’m really looking forward to these missions. Just finished all the Brucie exotic collection, and came away mildly dissapointed that the auto-guides you to every vehicle. Was initially hoping the photo and neighborhood were the only clues I was given, and the rest was up to me to discover. Really happy at least -one- subquest in the game doesn’t devolve into following the GPS.
Shame too, the pidgeon hunt could have been devised to really take advantage of exploring the city, being perceptive to your environments and maybe having subtle clues guiding you(tying it to a unique mission from a certain NPC even ala homeless guy in Bully?), but instead they opted for something far less creative. Much like my dissapointment with flag collection in Assassin’s Creed.
I can’t believe how realistic/animated they made the hookers in this game. My, we earned our M rating with that one, didn’t we? Before it was just a shaking car while the characters sat in their seats. Now they have full on sex animations. They animated all that, huh? I thought hot coffee had burned them until I saw that.
My favorite thing to do in game right now is to load up a free roam multiplayer match and create little stories for myself. I’ll go into an interior and then get 3 stars (i.e. simulate a robbery gone bad), set a waypoint randomly and try to get there. Then I’ll try and lose the wanted level, drive around a bit, case out a place, and repeat. I wish you could rob banks/stores in this game. I watched the street fight in Heat this weekend and got inspired. Heck, they even modelled the bag slung over Niko’s back . . . why not put in out and out bank robberies? I can turn on the soundtrack to Heat off Media Center and rock out.
(Don’t spoil me if you rob a bank later in the game . . . I mean unscripted robberies).
Pretty much agreed. I adored Heat the movie and I would love an option to do big-time heists. I’m surprised they didn’t offer a multiplayer mode similar to Kane and Lynch either, co-op bank heist escape with AI cops chasing you all down just makes too much sense not to have. The airport escort one just isn’t the same.
Oh and I would also love to put Heat’s soundtrack on while playing this game, shame you can’t really though…
Are you on 360?
Buy soundtrack (or, cough, aquire it)
Open guide (center button)
Select music, navigate to soundtrack. Play.
Close guide, resume.
Viola!
I listen to all kinds of soundtracks when I’m doing something in game. For instance, I listen to the Batman Begins soundtrack when doing the “Most Wanted” missions. You can really change the atmosphere of the game with the right soundtrack.
A bank robbery co-op over LIVE where some people are in the getaway car and some have to rob the bank, then the police show up, would be all kinds of sweet. Come on DLC!
Also, I just found out you can’t do the co-op missions solo. WTF? That sucks.
Mild Spoilers:
Yesterday I played the mission in which you’re trying to kidnap someone and they keep grabbing the steering wheel. I was laughing so hard as they managed to get me to flip the car over. This is such a brilliant mechanic. I really hope Saint’s Row 2 steals this idea for their next iteration of taking random people hostage. A small percentage of them should actually try to get you to crash, or swerve, so that you slow down and have a better chance of being caught by the cops (or for the hostages to run away when you slow down enough). It might get annoying if everyone did it though. It’ll be nice if a small percentage of hostages tried to that though.
that mission is hillarious
I actually just finished that one. I spun out and crashed at one point because I was trying to test whether she went ragdoll after you knock her out, and was pleased to see that she does.
That’s fine - while wandering around Suffolk I met Hossan, so that was unexpected and cool. Although how I was supposed to locate the Swingers Club (location of a Comet) when neither the map nor the manual mentions it is beyond me.
Unfortunately, ‘unreadable disc’ errors may soon spell an end to my GTA playing. (Aside: shouldn’t the error be ‘cannot read disc’, with a few possible causes? Isn’t ‘unreadable disc’ an immediate assigning of blame?)
Provided you are still under warranty, send that sucker in. It only took me about a week and a half to get that fixed and sent back. By comparison they seem to hold RROD units indefinitely.
And if you aren’t under warranty, RROD it.
coat a towel in vaseline and put it on the 360s core. That should probably do something bad to it.
Yeah, and if you’re out of vaseline, turning it on and playing a game should have a similar effect.
Ohhhhhhh …
HEYO!
A surprising turn of events:
Edit: the disc hadn’t been out of the drive since purchase, and was free of obvious spots/scratches.
Unreadable disc errors have been a way of life with my xbox for some time. Very rarely is any disc cleaning required. 9/10 times, I simply eject and reinsert without even touching it and it works. Every now and then I need to rotate the disc a little. It’s almost like it has mood swings.