Yakoob on 10/6/2012 at 19:11
So i just started my much delayed playthrough of GTA:SA and am just going through the initial tutorial missions. The game feels crazy dated tho, the graphics kind of blow and the controls are atrocious. I am using X360 pad and aiming is mapped to the start button... and you need to hold it down to shoot with one of the other buttons... which is nigh on impossible. Also half the functions are only accessible via keyboard (like actually opening up the menu / checking map) which is making me consider scrapping the pad altogether.
Thus i'm curious, any must-get mods / ini tweaks I should get before I proceed more into the land of drivebys and hookers? Mainly improving controls would be best, but I remember some crazy graphic tweaks in the past.
So far tho, It's GTA, pretty much what I expected from the enjoyable experience. I heard about the exercise/eating mechanic and can see it getting real tedious real soon. I am a wee bit disappointed the city is not as acurate charicature of LA as I hoped and so my living in the city is nigh on useless. But I do smile every time I see a nice reference - so far found the Pershing Square, Unity Station and the Vinewood sign. Also I found an easter egg already - if you go into the police department locker rooms your guy somehow gets equipped with a giant purple dilldo melee weapon :laff:
henke on 10/6/2012 at 19:43
If you can't get the gamepad controls remapped, KB+mouse should do just fine. And you don't have to exercise. Eating restores your health but beyond that there's no need to do that either, unless you wanna make your character really fat. Which you totally should btw, how many actiongames lets you be a fat guy after all? Um... actually now that I think about I guess Saints Row and quite a few other games that let you customize your character does, but when GTA SA first came out it was pretty fresh. Some people say the game was breaking new ground in letting you play a black character, but that had been done before, in Urban Chaos, Shadowman, and probably some other games as well. The real breakthrough was letting you play as a big fatass.
And yeah, the game's graphics were dated already on release since it uses basically the same engine as the several years older GTA3.
Yakoob on 10/6/2012 at 20:12
oh wtf I just found out that the the 3 savegames I made last night are now completely gone. ok?
june gloom on 10/6/2012 at 20:29
I just played through this a few weeks ago. You can and should remap the gamepad controls -- they're atrocious, and you still have to use the keyboard for certain things, but that mouse+kb advice is an out and out lie. Try flying a damn plane with just the keyboard, I fucking dare you.
It's funny how VC and III both have much better gamepad controls than SA despite coming out earlier.
Dunno what to tell you about the savegames.
Eshaktaar on 10/6/2012 at 20:54
Yeah, especially the plane/helicopter controls were atrocious compared to Vice City's. I remember getting rather frustrated during the RC missions in San Fierro.
Pemptus on 10/6/2012 at 21:25
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Try flying a damn plane with just the keyboard, I fucking dare you.
All the gold medals in the flight school with the keyboard, biznatch. No all that hard once you remap the keys properly and literally have no other choice because no gamepad.
The helicopter missions were a total bitch, though.
henke on 10/6/2012 at 21:51
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Try flying a damn plane with just the keyboard, I fucking dare you.
Allow me to answer that with this video I made back in 2006.
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I think KB+Mouse works just fine buddy. :cool:
PigLick on 11/6/2012 at 02:00
Yeh I did all my flying without keyboard only, wasd and arrow combination
Thirith on 11/6/2012 at 06:58
On the dated visuals: San Andreas is weird in that the actual graphics aren't good, but there are still moments where I'd drive around soaking up the atmosphere created by them, or I'd get out of the car and watch a sunrise or sunset in the game. Dunno whether that's the art direction or simply the world building.
I don't think I had any major problems with the flying missions, but the driving school nearly killed me - until I realised that with deactivated vsync certain moves were nearly impossible.
icemann on 11/6/2012 at 08:40
I played through this game last year I believe, on ps2 (via pcsx2 on PC) and its EASILY the best game in the series. Every game since has gone downhill.
The flying missions later on are SO MUCH EASIER with save states. Gah. And that remote controlled plane mission. Meh.
The fun stuff: All the missions besides the plane / flying ones, cruising around the block listening to early 90s gangster music (ooooh yeah), just driving around doing random stuff and the territory control stuff.
I found the ps2 controller controls to work just about perfect for the game for the most part. Especially when driving.
