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Article #697595Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2017?
From: Anssi Saari
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:03
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:03
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rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) writes: > Controls are the worst thing about the Grand Theft Auto games, at least > the ones I've played. It's always the reason why I can never play them > to completion. Grand Theft Auto III I played on the PlatStation 2 with > a PS2 controller and got stuck less than half way because I could never > manage to shoot anything. Uhm. GTA3 has auto aim on PS2 (or auto targeting?) As I recall, it mostly never targeted the people actually shooting at you but switching targets was fast and easy. > I played GTA: San Andreas on the PC with keyboard and mouse and got > stuck halfway trying complete the airplane tutorial mission. I > thought was going to be able to finish GTA IV (PC with keyboard/mouse) > but gave up after the final mission suddendly put me in the controls > of a helicopter on a collision corse with a skyscraper. I got a controller when playing Vice City. Haven't looked back. Sure driving a car was fine but the fairly early mission with the model helicopter carrying bombs into a building under construction was really hard. And no fun. Controller made it fun, likewise motorbikes, boats, planes. IOW, using a controller for vehicles and a mouse + kb when on foot was and is the perfect combination for GTA games.
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