Grand Theft Auto Grieving Thread - Yep, I've been drinkin' again...

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Favorite GTA?

  • Grand Theft Auto

    Votes: 63 2.3%

  • Grand Theft Auto: London 1969

    Votes: 59 2.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto 2

    Votes: 113 4.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto III

    Votes: 222 8.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

    Votes: 785 28.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Votes: 1,104 40.1%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Advanced

    Votes: 14 0.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

    Votes: 81 2.9%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories

    Votes: 77 2.8%

  • Grand Theft Auto IV

    Votes: 716 26.0%

  • Episodes From Liberty City (The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony)

    Votes: 218 7.9%

  • Grand Theft Auto V

    Votes: 400 14.5%

  • Grand Theft Auto: Online

    Votes: 98 3.6%

  • My Mother's My Sister!

    Votes: 327 11.9%
  • Total voters
    2,753
Anachronistic said:
I don't think I ever "mastered" the Dodo, but I have gone for a couple flights in it, visited the Ghost Town, etc. I never went to Kenji's penthouse though for some reason.
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I've always wanted to see the stadium in Aspatria. I tried climbing up with a truck, nothing.
 
Oh man, that Dodo exploit takes me back. Controlling that thing sucked though.

Thinking back to shit like that, it makes me remember how absolutely fuckhuge the marketing push for GTA III was back in the day. I remember seeing the first commercial for it during wrestling, either RAW or Smackdown, and begging my dad to get it for me.
 
The Last Stand said:
Old hate review of GTA3.
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I can't tell you where I read it or who said it, but I remember back in the day there was some Q&A thing about GTAIII for a magazine I think. The Dodo being absolute shit to control was brought up a lot, and the answer was basically "You're a street criminal, not a pilot."

It just makes me laugh considering what GTA Online is now.
 
ProblematicUser420 said:
I can't tell you where I read it or who said it, but I remember back in the day there was some Q&A thing about GTAIII for a magazine I think. The Dodo being absolute shit to control was brought up a lot, and the answer was basically "You're a street criminal, not a pilot."

It just makes me laugh considering what GTA Online is now.
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They evidently took that criticism to heart considering how easy helicopters were to control in Vice City, and San Andreas having the whole flight school thing.
 
White Devil said:
They evidently took that criticism to heart considering how easy helicopters were to control in Vice City, and San Andreas having the whole flight school thing.
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I remember reading that they made the plane mechanics in 3 a total pain in the ass because they were worried that there could be hitpiece articles about people crashing planes into the skyscrapers. Can't seem to prove that but it felt plausible since Rockstar did tweak the game because of 9/11, notably making the Liberty City Police insignia different from the NYPD's.
 
I'm pretty sure that they never intended for the Dodo to achieve actual flight (I mean, shit, it's in the name). The physics of taking off are so wonky and feels like it was either something implemented very last minute or was a quirk with the engine. The fact that flight time is recorded in seconds as well as there not being any actual rooftops to the buildings in Liberty City make me think this too.

I like to think that extended Dodo flight is a testament to gamer autism.
 
Cardenio said:
I remember reading that they made the plane mechanics in 3 a total pain in the ass because they were worried that there could be hitpiece articles about people crashing planes into the skyscrapers. Can't seem to prove that but it felt plausible since Rockstar did tweak the game because of 9/11, notably making the Liberty City Police insignia different from the NYPD's.
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Debunked.

Rockstar says:
Because we were making a driving and shooting game - even that, as a combination of core gameplay elements, was very, very radical at the time. The Dodo was never meant to be flown very much at all, and it certainly wasn’t grounded as a result of 9/11 – it was just a fun thing that people then went crazy with when they figured out various bugs that let them fly it!
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ProblematicUser420 said:
The Dodo being absolute shit to control was brought up a lot, and the answer was basically "You're a street criminal, not a pilot."
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That's true. An IGN article. If I can find the exact one, I'll link it.
JamesFargo said:
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You could take airplane flights in San Andreas between the states.
 
JamesFargo said:
And have no way to leave the airport without jacking a baggage carrier. (It's a lot like LAX.)
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Nah the planes you bought tickets for would deposit you outside the terminal.

Who lands the planes you actually fly in that game anyway?
 
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