Righteous Monkies
I have now upgraded San Andreas from 640x480x16 to 1600x1200x32 with full anti-aliasing, and it is pretty. I've been playing it a little bit and am now about 10 missions in, running around in a green hoodie, camo trousers and a leopard-skin cowboy hat.
I'm not a fan of playing until I am done and then saving - if I die or am arrested, I will reload my saved game and continue; as we all know, freedom comes at a price (God Bless America and all who sail under her, by the way), and I don't like losing all my guns. However, the problem is that the first time you are killed or arrested, you have to sit through a long un-skippable explanation of what just happened. So, anyway, to avoid losing all the weapons I will pick up on my way through, I decided around mission 5 to let myself get arrested and killed. I feel dirty.
And it's a bit of ridiculous game, too. You have to dress and feed your player, work out at the gym to build your muscles, and get a haircut and tatoos. That's nice, but I think it's taking the interaction to a bit of an extreme. In a way I'm playing a game to escape the mundane day to day things of real life, and have a bit of fun driving around doing missions and having shoot-outs with police. If I wanted a real-life simulator, I'd buy the sims. But then Rockstar do have a habit of encorporating other games into the GTA range just for the hell of it - that taxi game, Dance Dance Revolution, and I'm guessing I'll come across some more swallowed games as I play on through. Having said all of that, it is a lot of fun.
Back in the real world, I can't figure out what to buy. I want some neato shiny goodness. I am thinking perhaps a video camera and editing software, or maybe audio sampling software, but then I don't have time to do my work, let alone start a new time-consuming hobby. So perhaps I should just get the replacement servers I've been meaning to get for ages. If you have any suggestions, let me know!
Ooh, only 192 days until Christmas!
Comments
Oh i'm still playing my keep playing until done. You do know the game gives you the tools you need for each mission that or tells you what tools you'll need. It's great i no longer start missions, fail because i dont have the right gun and have to buy it before trying again. Now you get given what you need if you dont have it. I couldn't give a shit about keeping guns.
I play when I want to do missions, and when I want to mess about. I could do the missions easily enough, but if I don't have a gun when I load, then it limits my ability to drop in and mess about :)
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