SimonH schrieb:

The same with me. The zero mission just didn´t work, even with lots of
GTA experience and VERY much attempts. I even lost my interest in
playing the game itself.

I didnt do the girlfriends "missions" either- I just didnt want to.
After finishing the main missions, I lost interest in the sideway
missions like driving school and so on.
From time to time I do insert the San Andreas Disc, just to start
flying over the city, landing somewhere, doing weird stuff. I´m not keen
on getting 100%.

I purchased Vice City Stories. Better than Liberty City stories. More to
do, lovely gang wars, a beautiful city.
Now I´m waiting for GTA IV to come to germany, just to have a look at it
and to decide if I should buy a PS3 or not.

Andreas, Braunschweig, Germany

I don't know if it's true of all versions of SA but there's a well
known secret that if you have completed the main story and have both
girlfriends Barbara and katie on 100% you can then start a brand new
game in which you will not lose your weapons or money when you are
hospitalised or arrested. To ensure it has worked it's a good idea to
grab a couple of bucks and a gun and get killed or busted quickly. If
you get hospitalized and lose your gun then katie isn't on 100% and if
you lose it when busted Barbara isn't on 100%. It's a nice advantage
to take into future games and as long as you have a saved finished
game and those two on 100% this will always happen to new games.

It's kinda hard to remember three years back, but I think I played SA
through the plot but not much more. Then probably did it again and
some of the side missions too, but never played to 100% or even close
on the PS2. Then it came out on the PC, played it there a lot, even to
100% in fall of 2005.

Now then, about a year and half later, in early 2007 I started playing
LCS, so of course it was interesting and fresh, even though it was
back to Vice City level of tech... But, it was interesting enough to
actually play to 100%.

Recently I've played VCS, but I seem to have trouble getting into it.
I guess one reason is that played loads of Vice City before San
Andreas came out whereas I never played much GTA3. I finished the
plot, but after that haven't had much progress. I think I'm still at
less than 50%. Haven't really done much beyond the plot missions other
than taking over the empire sites. I suppose the biggest problems in
VCS are the silly plot and your loser character.

I'm one of those guys who went for 100% and finally got it.

I'm an explorer.  I slowly (over weeks/months) explored every square inch of
SA in the jetpack and made notes about any interesting things I found (which
I posted once in this group, a long time ago).  Never found anything truly
wonderful -- no special pick-ups nor really well-hidden ones, no uncharted
off-shore islands, no really cool Easter Eggs.  I always wish that the
programmers had had a little time to "play" and add some unexpected stuff.
I can't shake the notion that there must be some REAL Easter Eggs,
somewhere, that nobody can ever find without inside knowledge.  (You know:
if it's a full moon and you're wearing the joke glasses and holding a
vibrator, a hole opens up in a hidden area on the backside of the hills
north of Bayside at midnight for 30 seconds that allows you to enter and
explore a special area.  Or a Yeti in the forested part of Chiliad under
similar conditions.  Something like that.)  It wouldn't take much effort to
create some strange treats, using existing capabilities.

Let's see.  I perfected my Brown Thunder talents and found that it IS
possible to do it endlessly, without starving CJ to death, and that's it's
possible to max out CJ's money at a dollar short of a billion in one long
run of several hours.

It's fun to do Vigilante missions in a tank, or on a police bike (if you
have infinite ammo. from 100%).

Otherwise, I just dick around.  Gang wars.  Stand-offs with the Law in
selected locations.  It's fun to hitch up heavy vehicles to a tractor and
sling them a few hundred yards (my favorite being a weenie-mobile).  It's
fun to take a tank to the Quarry, get into 3-star+ trouble, hoist the tank
on the crane, and use it to swat Cop Copters out of the air.  Stuff like
that. There's a place in LS where pedestrians spawn at the top of a utility
pole and fall to their deaths while you watch.  There are many places where
you can enter the Underworld in the jetpack (or even a helicopter) and mess
around.  There are a couple of places where you can dive into the water and
find an "air pocket" that allows you to walk around (or jet pack, if you
cheat-create one) anywhere under water (without drowning) as if you were on
dry land.  Um, let's see.  It's possible (but difficult) to knock out an
Andromeda (the huge, four-engine airliner) and follow the wreckage as it
slowly drifts through the air.  (In CJ's home, enter all keys but the last
to the Destroy All Vehicles cheat, then step outside.  If an Andromeda
appears (which it does right away, very often), blow it and immediately
enter the jetpack cheat and chase it before it vanishes.)  You know.  sh.t.
That's what I love about GTA games: you're free to try bizarre things that
test what they'll let you "get by with".

And of course there's are the Hidden Interiors to explore (which many web
sites can tell you about).  Actually, I haven't explored that aspect enough.

It's hard to get truly bored if you have any imagination.

--cleve

I'm at 91.98% I need to do the bicycle ramp/jump and the motorcycle
challenge. The game is great and I have till I die to finish. To bad
you got bored

Sam