Caltrops - Gamerasutra - VC controls, keyboard, film studio

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by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/02/2003, 5:49pm PDT

laudablepuss wrote:

Sorta along these lines, I was surprised and quite pleased when the mission to kill the delivery boy turned out to be a simple case of running over his suped up faggio. When I got the mission, visions of the Armored Van of Death came to mind. But that kid was a chunky smear in no time flat. Gotta love it.

This was my experience with that guy:

First Sortie: The game flushed my car from the cache or whatever after it got back from the cutscene. GHRRRAAYYYRRAARGH. So I'm sitting there next to the payphone with no wheels. For literally the next 16 or 17 seconds there wasn't a car or bike to be found. Everyone in Vice City apparently decided to pack it in for the night in order to catch "Empty Nest" or "Soap" or whatever the fuck was on TV back then. I eventually found a cab, picked out the delivery boy on the radar, and had visions of running him over with triple-cheese flying everywhere when he got off his motorcycle to make a pizza delivery. Only, of course, he doesn't do that -- it's just another shitty timer. I did smack him once and then got out of the car to shoot him, but he got back onto his bike before I could finish him off and then the timer expired. It was stupid of me to get out of the car. So aside from VC deleting my car and all nearby cars, it was my fault.

Second Sortie: My car wasn't flushed (?????), I immediately caught up to him and knocked him off his bike, then ran him over until that ear-splittingly loud success music and "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" thing flashed. Then I shot at his bike until it caught fire, in response for Sortie #1. (If it wasn't the Faggio I would have taken it: I love the other motorcycles in the game.)

laudablepuss wrote:

It's a terminal keyboard. It looks cool. I like it. And for every single game ever made, it's perfectly fine, except for this one shitty fucking mission. I love how you can't just remap the goddam controls.

Yeah, along the same lines, I think "The Thing" didn't allow me to map the numeric keypad when I tried to play it. I use the keypad rather than WASD, so I was pretty much fucked there. The other dumb rods kicking about in The Thing start bitching at you, too, so not only am I screaming at the game for having aggressively frustrating controls, but Arctic Snake and his Merry Band of Christmas Clowns are yelling right back at me for my poor leadership qualities.

foogla wrote:

I have found another mission (though not a plot driven it seems). The second Film Studio (wonders what you find while aimlessly driving around with a pcj600) mission sucks asssssssssssssssss.

I had high hopes when I heard that there was a Film Studio mission a few months back. I was hoping that it was going to be as good as "Movie Set" in Duke Nukem 3D. I haven't been to that mission yet, but after seeing what a disappointment the first mall level was (it made State of Emergency look almost tolerable by comparison) I'm going to have real low standards going into it.

the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey