GTA: San Andreas

[GGKoul]

The only niggle I have is that people keep saying there are no loading times. That's rubbish!     I was doing the pimping missions (it takes about 30 to 40 minutes to complete) and about 10 mins from the end I got a message saying that I needed to eat as I was hungry.

"I need to finish this mission first! I've been doing it for half an hour!"  But no.... my muscle was dropping due to lack of food.  "I know.... I'll grab a burger!"

Jumped out of the car.... got a message saying "Get back in car within 20 seconds or mission over"   Ran in burger joint.....  waitied like 10 seconds or so for burger shop to load up..... then was told I had only 8 seconds left to get back in car!  Impossible to get back!  Even without eating!

No loading times my arse!   Half an hour wasted!

The claims is no load time when driving around.  When you enter a building, that's when there is a load time.  Besides, you can go on with out eating.  You just loose 1 or 2 muscle points and they are easily gained back via going to the gym for 1 session.

[rchadd]

vice city was all 80's in feel...too bad it didnt have classic gaming in it, lol

yeah they should have had an 80's arcade in it.

i loved the radio stations

whats the audio like in SA?

[Stingray]

Regarding load times. I'm playing the game installed on my hard drive with HDLoader. There's no load time anywhere that I've noticed. Even when entering buildings it's just a quick fade to black and then fade back in. Probably all of a second.

-S

[Santoro]

I don't even have the game but Opie and Anthony said on-air yesterday that you can (with a parachute) somehow ride your motorcycle off the top of a skyscraper and get a lot of points.

FWIW

[Stingray]

HAHAHA! Okay, that's it, I've got to try the motorcycle parachuting thing!

-S

[Jakobud]

GGKoul,  you will find a parachute at the top of the tallest skyscraper in Los Santos.  You can grab it and just jump off.  No, you don't need a helicopter to get up there.  Just run around near the base of the skyscraper and you will find a door to go in.  It's super fun!

Yeah you can't get in the airport up there just yet.  But there are other ways over the fence... you just gotta be creative

Driving a motorcycle off a skyscraper?  That would be cool, but I am wondering... 1. How do you get the motorcycle up there?  2. How do you get stunt points if you bail off the cycle in midair so you can deploy the chute?

By the way, there is another parachute that I found at the top of that HUGE mountain south of San Fierro.

[GGKoul]

Yeah you can't get in the airport up there just yet.  But there are other ways over the fence... you just gotta be creative

I know how to hop the fence.  But the helicopters were locked.

[krick]

Also, how where you able to fly the helicopters?

Right after starting the game, I drove to the water, jumped in, and swam around waiting for a speed boat to come by.  When one got close, I climbed onto it and stole it.  As soon as I went outside my "allowed area", I got a 3 star warning level.  When I was spotted by the police, it went up to 4 stars.  I spent an hour in the boat riding entirely around the edge of the map.   Most of the time I was being followed by police boats and helicopters.  At the very top center of the map, there is helicopter (with machine guns!) floating in the water by a dock.  I pulled my boat beside it, jumped in the water, then climbed into the helicopter and stole it.  I tried valiantly to fly it back to my save house but while en route, I was shot out of the air by sidewinder missles from an F16.

[Stingray]

Driving a motorcycle off a skyscraper?  That would be cool, but I am wondering... 1. How do you get the motorcycle up there?  2. How do you get stunt points if you bail off the cycle in midair so you can deploy the chute?

The building is pretty easy to spot from the air. It's really tall and is cylendrical. Once I found it from the air I marked the spot on the map and landed the plane. You enter the building just like any other building that you can enter (It's got the yellow entrance marker by the door). You can enter it while riding the motorcycle. I figured out that you don;t even have to use the parachute. You will survive the fall if you just stay on the bike and land right side up. You can doo all kinds of flips on the bike while you are in the air with the analog stick... I think it was the left one, but I'm not sure. Parachuting is pretty tame after freefalling off a skyskraper on a motorcycle.

-S

[GGKoul]

Driving a motorcycle off a skyscraper?  That would be cool, but I am wondering... 1. How do you get the motorcycle up there?  2. How do you get stunt points if you bail off the cycle in midair so you can deploy the chute?

The building is pretty easy to spot from the air. It's really tall and is cylendrical. Once I found it from the air I marked the spot on the map and landed the plane. You enter the building just like any other building that you can enter (It's got the yellow entrance marker by the door). You can enter it while riding the motorcycle. I figured out that you don;t even have to use the parachute. You will survive the fall if you just stay on the bike and land right side up. You can doo all kinds of flips on the bike while you are in the air with the analog stick... I think it was the left one, but I'm not sure. Parachuting is pretty tame after freefalling off a skyskraper on a motorcycle.

-S

Going to try this when I get home.